For a few days I’ve been raving about some of the little details added to Hyrule in the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, like this new dialogue in Castle Town and new clarity on the fate of the Zoras. But last night I came across another deeply silly addition that I just have to tell you about. This is a controversy! Scandal! Confusion?
What’s going on between Honey and Darling?
If you don’t know who Honey and Darling are, you’ve probably seen them before. This is the perpetually dancing couple who appear in the central town square of Hyrule Castle, then move to the top of the hill behind the windmill in Kakariko Village in the adult era. In the original Ocarina of time, they are not named, but Majora’s Mask canonized their alter egos as Honey and Darling. Ocarina of time has them using these same nicknames for each other, so for the sake of clarity, I’ll also refer to them here as Honey (the woman) and Darling (the man).
Honey and Darling are iconic and insufferable. In the original game, they sit there and gush over their love for each other, with Honey comparing Darling to the handsome King of Hyrule and Darling saying that Honey is more beautiful than Princess Zelda. They keep shooting over and over into the night, day after day. In Kakariko, they are still spinningnot offering Link any useful information when he speaks to them, but instead calling him “annoying” and accusing him of “violating” their “personal space”. If you approach them while wearing one of the game’s many masks, they still express nothing more interesting than irritation at you for daring to exist. Rude! I just wanted to chat!
From all this you can hardly interpret that Honey and Darling are obsessively in love with each other, take some sort of pleasure in publicly displaying that love, and are still together despite their mutual insufferability (or perhaps because of it) seven years later. Very good, nothing remarkable.
But in the remake! This couple is back, seemingly the same as ever, but with even more dialogue that has each of them gushing over their respective partners. Nothing to see here, right? Fake. Put on that mask of truth!
The Mask of Truth is an item received during the Happy Mask Salesman side quests which, once put on, allows you to read the minds of most characters. Unlike the original, here you can wear masks as a child And Adult Link, which gives you twice the opportunity to see what’s really going on in people’s heads. The Mask of Truth’s dialogue adds a lot of humor and context to many of the game’s interactions, but in the case of Honey and Darling, it completely confused me. Get a load of this:
It’s darling speaking! What! What is this, man?! You don’t even know this woman’s name and you walk around this square declaring your love for her for how long? How many other women do you see? Shh! When paired with Honey’s dialogue posted above (“If he hurts me, I’ll never forgive him…”), it suggests something a little worrying about the future of their relationship, doesn’t it?
So, let’s go see them in Kakariko village, seven years later. Still dancing, still obsessed with each other. Except…
Excuse me?! It’s Honey speaking this time! The youngest twin of Who?! As far as I know, Honey never considered having a twin. Unless… okay, I’ll put it together here. Darling is dating two twin sisters. He knows they’re twins, but he can’t keep their names straight. Honey (and Honey 2, I assume) are also aware of this arrangement and don’t care, but the younger of the two seems a little dismayed that Darling can’t tell them apart.
I tried to do journalistic work all day, searching both cities for a duplicate of Honey hidden somewhere, but came up empty. I’ve tried Mask of Truthing with everyone around to see if anyone knows anything about what’s going on here and would comment on it, but it’s no good. I’m left with only theories about what kind of bizarre relationship exists between these two, maybe three people. You might say, “Reb, it’s none of your business!” » To that I say, darling and darling and darling do it was staring at me when they started dramatically parading their romance in the town square. For the sake of all of them, regardless of their numbers, I hope that each member of this relationship is aware of the presence of every other person within it. Otherwise, I predict that a serious scandal will arise Majora’s Mask time.
Gn tech
