I’ve been playing a lot of Sims 4 lately. A lot. Like Zelda, The Sims is a series I’ve been fond of for quite some time and I have made some fun crossovers of the two in the past. However, in my most current self-made challenge, an unexpected crossover unintentionally made its way into my game with a cat named Majora.
A few months ago, I purchased the Spellcasters expansion pack for my game and started a little challenge I call the “Wizard Legacy Challenge.” For fans of The Sims who indulge in challenges, this is fairly similar to the standard Legacy Challenge. For those unfamiliar with this challenge at all, essentially, the goal is to play as one family and live out 10 generations of Sims. My challenge is basically the same thing but they’re wizards, thus it is better.
With my love of all things fantasy, I had to get this pack and I had to do something grand with it. I created my starter wizard, aptly named Ripley Wizardio, and begun the challenge. After a mishap with marrying a sage who couldn’t move in with my Sim and a run-in with a vampire, I finally got things started. Ripley found himself a wife, but he still had much wizard training to do before he was allowed to have a child to become the next family wizard. With just the two of them in the house, things got a bit lonely, and so I decided to put my Cats & Dogs expansion pack to good use and find them a pet.
I decided to adopt them a cat because they’re generally easy for me to take care of and I didn’t know how wacky things were about to get once Ripley and his wife, Robin, would start a family. Ripley dialed his phone and I was given a list of cats to choose from. I went down the list reading off each name and then I came across a very familiar-sounding name in the ear of a Zelda fan. Majora.
Well of course I had to pick Majora! She was a little white kitten with greenish-yellow eyes, much like the mask that a certain Skull Kid wears. It was too perfect. A fellow Zelda Universe member happened to be watching that very livestream in which I adopted little Majora. He and I joked that I’d better watch out as this cat was going to be a little troublemaker — and as it turned out, she was.
It was very apparent why she was given this name. She coughed up hairballs all over the place, constantly wandered outside the house leaving for hours at a time, she attacked house guests (including Ripley’s best friends), and she would not get off the ding-dang counter! I lectured and lectured and still she would not obey me. At a certain point I honestly was expecting the moon to fall from the sky with all the chaos this little kitty caused. Still, I loved her.
She was exactly what I expected from a cat named Majora and I regret nothing. She was obnoxious and chaos incarnate, but I loved her. Even though she was finicky, she quickly found love within the Wizardio family, especially with Julian, the firstborn son of Ripley and Robin. Majora stayed with the Wizardio’s for quite some time, but nothing in Sims lasts forever — especially in a generations challenge.
Majora reached elderhood somewhere in between my third or fourth family heir and I was grief-stricken when she passed on. I tried to give her an immortality potion and when she died I tried to raise her from the dead. The dumb thing about Sims is that you can’t use these special effects on animals. Or toddlers. If this was the real Majora, it could have been done with ease! Probably. What would I do without my poor, psychotic Majora?
I got the family a dog one in-game week after Majora’s passing to help them through this hard time and, in keeping with the Zelda theme, I named it Zant. Then I realized the puppy was a girl and renamed her Midna. Then I had another realization. In Sims, pets can come back as ghosts.
Majora was not truly gone. She continued to “haunt” my family and ride the robot vacuum cleaner in her ethereal state. Instead of jumping on the counter, she would possess them. I could not bring my pet back from the dead, but she was thriving in her afterlife, causing the destruction of my appliances and giving the occasional ghost-kitty cuddle to my living residents.
It was strange to see a cat named Majora in a game like Sims. Of course, the game does give its fair share of references and homages to the series, such as a fairy in the Spellcasters pack named “Hey!” While I’m not sure if Majora was a direct reference or a pure coincidence, I am certainly glad she was the Wizardio family’s first animal companion. She truly lived up to her name.
