Ok, I'm not sure if I'm missing something here, but to me fierce deity link and who he actually is is all but a mystery to me.
The first thing i noticed, is that he heavily resembles the sheika. For one, his tall stature. The adults in majora's mask are up to his shoulders at best, he is not the same size as adult link from OOT. His white hair, the face paint, all trademarks of sheika. So the first conclusion i came to is that fierce deity is perhap's links sheika ancestor who protected the royal family in the past.
Another theory i had, which kind of disturbed me. It bounces off of another theory since the game never specificially states this.
(From the game)
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it is an accursed item from legend that is said to have been used by an ancient tribe in its hexing rituals. It is said that an evil and wicked power is bestowed upon the one who wears that mask. According to legend... the troubles caused by Majora's Mask were so great... the ancient ones, fearing such catastrophe, sealed the mask in shadow forever, preventing its misuse. But now, that tribe from the legend has vanished, so no one really knows the true nature of the mask's power...
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Majora's mask is able to incarnate itself at the end of the game, it gives itself a body. I think it's safe to assume that "Majora" is an entity on it's own. It wasn't always a mask, maybe a godlike creature. The standing theory states this:
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There are two theories about the origin of Majora's Mask. One theory is that a very powerful, perhaps godlike, entity was sealed in Majora's Mask (or his essence was). This wicked godlike person did much evil, so he was sealed in a mask. Perhaps the Four Giants did this, or a tribe of powerful protectors - the "ancient ones." This theory explains how the mask is able to act on its own: the mask contains an essence so strong that it can act on its own, and control the wearer. And as Link battles the mask, the entity inside it is cast out, and forced to incarnate itself.
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So majora, was an entity, or a being, by this theory, sealed into the mask. "
Perhaps the Four Giants did this, or a tribe of powerful protectors - the "ancient ones.""
- Here's an alternate idea. What if, who we know of as fierce deity link, or oni link,
IS this person who originally sealed majora inside of the mask? Perhaps, he is the link from
that time period.
Now, seeing as though these events in question (majora being sealed into the mask) must have happened a great deal of time before the events of OOT (since the word ANCIENT TRIBE is used, after majora is already sealed in the mask, and seeing as how MM only occured 1-2 years after OOT)
So given that Oni/Fierce Deity link (by assumption) sealed Majora into the mask, and given that these events happened before - presumably several hundred years before the evens of OOT...is it safe to say
That Fierce Deity link, is the original hero of time?
Could the sealing of Majora into the mask be the first step of a multiple timeline-theory?
Another fact that supports this idea is that Fierce Deity link, by far, is the most powerful version of link in any of the games.
This brings up more interesting points. Although it's accepted by almost everyone that there is more than one link, most people assume that the OOT link is the original hero of time, and the events in the wind waker supports this. Although this link may have been the original link to save hyrule and defeat ganon, he was the second to defeat Majora.
Perhaps, all of these links, are the decendants of the ancient fierce deity link. Perhaps, the original quest, of the original hero of time, was the sealing of majora into the mask.
The idea that the fierce deity mask is an unlockable in the game, right before the fight with majora's mask also supports this. How seamless is the idea, that majora's incarnation is defeated once again, by no other than the original hero who sealed it in the mask in the first place?
Discuss, i like the idea. Perhaps not very innovative or plausible to you, but something to think about nonetheless.