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[Jermungandr]

This is going to sound rather random, but I just had the realization of a literature reference in Majora's Mask.

And perhaps I am an idiot and everyone already knows about this, but I did a Google search for this and didn't come up with anything, so maybe this is a reference not widely recognized?

Anyways, you remember the two fairies Tatl and Tael right? Specifically, remember their colors:



Tatl, the girl, is white; and Tael, the boy, is purple.

Now look at this quote from Chapter 17 of Peter Pan (1911 version):

"There are always a lot of young ones," explained Wendy, who was now quite an authority, "because you see when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are."

Interesting! And it certainly explains Tael's strange choice of coloration.

Granted, you could make the argument that Tael is clearly a deep purple whereas mauve is generally a lighter, paler hue, however (a) an actual shade of mauve would have easily been mistaken for pink, and there are already pink fairies with roles as healing items in the game, and (b) it could be a translation thing, as I doubt Japanese has a word for the specific color "mauve" and they likely read it as "purple".

Incidentally, Navi might also be included in this reference. This might just be poor memory on my part, but I don't believe that Navi's gender is ever mentioned in the game? Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't recall any gender pronouns being applied to Navi, which would fit in with the final line of the quote about the blue colored fairies.

Anyways, maybe I'm just being dumb but I thought it was an interesting enough discovery to share.