Happy Mask Salesman

"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?"

- Happy Mask Salesman to Link

The Happy Mask Salesman, also known as the Happy Mask Shop Owner, is a mysterious traveling merchant and collector of strange, rare, and unusual masks.

Opening Up Shop
The Happy Mask Salesman opened up his shop in Hyrule Castle Town. His shop soon became popular with the local children, due to his mask lending policies and his jovial demeanor. Though other shopkeepers were suspicious of the Happy Mask Salesman, due his strange behavior and lack of interest in profiting. Regardless, his only main concern was spreading happiness across Hyrule.

Assisting Link
While shopping for food, he encountered a young boy named Link, who was attempting to infiltrate Hyrule Castle. To assist the boy, he gave him a stone mask, in an attempt to enter Hyrule Castle undetected. Link was skeptical of this, but the Salesman assured him of it's power, and told him to believe in his strengths. To his surprise, the mask worked and Link had successfully sneaked into the castle.

Finding Majora's Mask
During Ganondorf's attempted coup on Hyrule Castle, the Happy Mask Salesman took advantage of the attack to sneak into Hyrule Castle's Underground Vault while the guards defended themselves against his minions, using his special masks, he sneaks in completely undetected and found an entrance to the vault. In his search he discovered Majora's Mask. Upon picking it up, he gazed upon the mask's sinister eyes and giggled.

Leaving Hyrule
Three days after finding Majora's Mask, he closed up his shop and left Hyrule Castle Town in the middle of the night. The customers at his shop were disappointed and confused by his sudden departure, though some of the residents of Castle Town assumed that his business model led him to financial bankruptcy and left in shame.

Majora Revealed
During his travels, he began to suffer frequent nightmares of a cataclysmic event destroying everyone and everything including himself. He realized that the dark power from Majora's Mask was triggering his nightmares and came to regret stealing it from Hyrule, as he could sense the doom of a dark omen brewing. One night, he attempted to destroy the mask by throwing it into the campfire. Sensing this, Majora used her powers to paralyze him, rendering him completely motionless. At that moment a young imp known as the Skull Kid, and his two fairy companions, Tatl and Tael discover the mask. The Happy Mask Salesman attempted to warn the trio, but his paralysis rendered him unable to speak. The Skull Kid, consumed by Majora's influence slowly placed the mask against his face, causing six red tentacle arms to wrapped themselves around Skull Kid. Unable to do anything, the Happy Mask Salesman can only watch in horror as the mask began possessing the poor imp as he screamed in pain, rendering him nothing more but a mobile puppet.

He woke up the following morning dazed and confused. Though he was no longer paralyzed, he was horrified to discover that mask was gone along with the Skull Kid and his two fairies. He tracks the trio to another dimension known as Termina, so he heads there.