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This is how Magolor, Taranza and Susie are all collectively going to feel after they get victimized by new OC villains that are reflections of their past selves in my "The Horrible Gift That Keeps On Giving" AU:

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In my "The Horrible Gift That Keeps On Giving" AU where the Wave 3 dream friends get victimized by new OC villains who are basically reflections of their past-selves, there's an extra spicy element to it.

It's established in the fanfic I've been making for the AU. The fic isn't entirely complete just yet, as there's one more chapter that needs uploading, but what's uploaded so far already showcases the extra spicy element I'm talking about.

Not only does Wave 3 get tastes of their own medicines, but they also lose things that are precious and dear to them.

Magolor loses his theme park. Crypton (the name of the new OC twist-villain that manipulates and betrays Magolor) usurps Merry Magoland and destroys it. He turns Magoland into a horrific death trap that gets some people killed.

Although Crypton does receive karma for his actions, as he gets beaten by Kirby in a fight, and then gets sent to Another Dimension as Magolor opens up a portal and throws Crypton in it as an act of revenge for the things he's done, but Merry Magoland is still left as a destroyed horrible mess afterwards, and Magolor has to grapple with it.

Taranza loses his mementos of Queen Sectonia. When the abettor of Floralia's new tyrant (Her name is Ophelia, and she serves Queen Zenithia) breaks into the Royal Road castle, which is Taranza's home, they have a fight, and Ophelia recklessly breaks countless items in the castle during their fight. Among these items are all of the Sectonia mementos, and they all get broken and incinerated by Ophelia, and then she kidnaps Taranza afterwards.

The new tyranny in Floralia does get resolved, as Kirby comes in, saves Taranza, and eventually finds himself having to kill Queen Zenithia after she goes off the deep end, but then Taranza is left having to grapple with all his Sectonia mementos being gone now.

Although he doesn't actually hold a grudge against Ophelia and has no intention of getting revenge on her, as he feels too bad for her to do so after watching her get thrown under the bus by Zenithia, but still.... ouch on what he lost because of her.

Susie loses her new home and revived company that she worked so hard on. For context, in this AU (and also true for my normal Kirbyverse), Susie made a new home post-KPR in the form of settling on a formerly empty planet that she would shape up for her liking. The planet becomes mechanical by choice as Susie revives the Haltmann Works Company and places its headquarters on this planet.

She quite literally poured her blood, sweat and tears into building her new home and company, and then she loses it all to new invaders. A group of militaristic aliens called the Xtra-Terrestrial Army (led by General Draxon, with his son Naxor being the secondary general) come in and take all of her technology away from her, and Naxor forces Susie against her will to cooperate with transferring her technology to the army.

Even when Kirby comes in and stops these invaders as a favor to Susie, her home still suffers an awful fate. Draxon, the leader of the invader army, deliberately blows up Susie's planet out of spite after losing to Kirby. Susie lashes out and kills Draxon in revenge for doing this, but then she's left having to grapple with the heavy destruction done to her new home and company. Her home planet has been devastated by what was done to it (especially by being struck by that massive explosion at the end) and the HWC is destroyed a second time.

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In my "The Horrible Gift That Keeps On Giving" AU where the Wave 3 dream friends get victimized by new OC villains who are basically reflections of their past-selves, there's an extra spicy element to it.

It's established in the fanfic I've been making for the AU. The fic isn't entirely complete just yet, as there's one more chapter that needs uploading, but what's uploaded so far already showcases the extra spicy element I'm talking about.

Not only does Wave 3 get tastes of their own medicines, but they also lose things that are precious and dear to them.

Magolor loses his theme park. Crypton (the name of the new OC twist-villain that manipulates and betrays Magolor) usurps Merry Magoland and destroys it. He turns Magoland into a horrific death trap that gets some people killed.

Although Crypton does receive karma for his actions, as he gets beaten by Kirby in a fight, and then gets sent to Another Dimension as Magolor opens up a portal and throws Crypton in it as an act of revenge for the things he's done, but Merry Magoland is still left as a destroyed horrible mess afterwards, and Magolor has to grapple with it.

Taranza loses his mementos of Queen Sectonia. When the abettor of Floralia's new tyrant (Her name is Ophelia, and she serves Queen Zenithia) breaks into the Royal Road castle, which is Taranza's home, they have a fight, and Ophelia recklessly breaks countless items in the castle during their fight. Among these items are all of the Sectonia mementos, and they all get broken and incinerated by Ophelia, and then she kidnaps Taranza afterwards.

The new tyranny in Floralia does get resolved, as Kirby comes in, saves Taranza, and eventually finds himself having to kill Queen Zenithia after she goes off the deep end, but then Taranza is left having to grapple with all his Sectonia mementos being gone now.

Although he doesn't actually hold a grudge against Ophelia and has no intention of getting revenge on her, as he feels too bad for her to do so after watching her get thrown under the bus by Zenithia, but still.... ouch on what he lost because of her.

Susie loses her new home and revived company that she worked so hard on. For context, in this AU (and also true for my normal Kirbyverse), Susie made a new home post-KPR in the form of settling on a formerly empty planet that she would shape up for her liking. The planet becomes mechanical by choice as Susie revives the Haltmann Works Company and places its headquarters on this planet.

She quite literally poured her blood, sweat and tears into building her new home and company, and then she loses it all to new invaders. A group of militaristic aliens called the Xtra-Terrestrial Army (led by General Draxon, with his son Naxor being the secondary general) come in and take all of her technology away from her, and Naxor forces Susie against her will to cooperate with transferring her technology to the army.

Even when Kirby comes in and stops these invaders as a favor to Susie, her home still suffers an awful fate. Draxon, the leader of the invader army, deliberately blows up Susie's planet out of spite after losing to Kirby. Susie lashes out and kills Draxon in revenge for doing this, but then she's left having to grapple with the heavy destruction done to her new home and company. Her home planet has been devastated by what was done to it (especially by being struck by that massive explosion at the end) and the HWC is destroyed a second time.

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Taranza: *Starts screaming*

Susie: Joins in*

Magolor: *Also joins in and makes it a harmonised tune*

The other Star Allies: What the heckkkkkkkk?

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Chapter 3 of "The Horrible Gift That Keeps On Giving" is now available to read!

As Magolor and Taranza have gotten tastes of their own medicines by new OC villains, now it's Susie turn to go through that!

In similar fashion to how she herself was involved in a mechanical invasion on Popstar, she now deals with a foreign invasion on her own home planet.

Mecha Star is the name of the planet that Susie lives in, as she made it her new home as she was reviving the Haltmann Works Company. But now, it's all in big trouble as new invaders come in and try to take all of her valuable technology away from her.

She tries to fight back, but she loses, and then she finds herself getting put through stuff that similar to what she herself did to Meta Knight.

It's up to Kirby to come to Mecha Star and save her.

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For Father's Day, I believe that Susie Haltmann would do one of two things.

She'd either A: deliberately sleep through the day and hope it ends quickly or B: pretend like Father's Day doesn't exist and just go on like it's a regular day without anything out of the ordinary.

What do you think?

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Chapter 2 of "The Horrible Gift That Keeps On Giving" is now out!

The previous chapter of the fic was Magolor getting a taste of his own medicine, now it's Taranza's turn for that to happen to him.

He, the former tyrant enabler, gets kidnapped by a new tyrant enabler as a new dictatorship starts taking place in Floralia, making the country suffer tyranny again.

Hope you enjoy. The next and third chapter will be Susie getting a taste of her own medicine, finalizing all of Wave 3 getting tormented like this.

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Who would be the most unhinged when they get really mad and lash out?

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Magolor is so fucking funny.

I've always thought these lines were hilarious ever since RTDL DX came out. Like what do you mean he's not actually from Halcandra?!? Bro just admits he lied about being from there.

And then THESE lines in particular:

I can never get over that he said this LMAO.

There is something so wrong with this man, I love it.

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@moonmacabre01 I 100% agree with this.

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Can I be honest about something?

I yawn whenever I see people argue about whether or not Kirby is actually 8 inches tall.

Because I genuinely believe that the sizes of Kirby and the other characters of his franchise aren't really meant to be taken seriously.

Some official sources say that he's 8 inches tall, but this is literally just all tell and no show. This is never actually demonstrated anywhere. If Nintendo and/or HAL were even remotely adamant about Kirby being 8 inches tall, you'd think they'd whip up a size comparison and show him being super puny compared to the likes of Mario and Link, but they haven't. And so as far as I'm concerned, it's just completely arbritary. It's not relevant and never has been.

It's also extremely easy to gloss over when you play Kirby games. It's not like Olimar who's actually shown to be tiny in the Pikmin universe. Kirby isn't shown to be tiny in the universe of his franchise, so someone most likely wouldn't ever guess that he's 8 inches tall if they hadn't read any of the official sources that state it beforehand.

You could, of course, argue that Kirby characters in general are tiny to scale with 8 inch tall Kirby, and argue that Popstar is much smaller than Earth, but this isn't ever actually proven anywhere. It'd even be easy to believe otherwise because of the existence of Adeleine. You could argue that she's fictional and not truly a human, but she looks enough like one for someone to think she'd scale perfectly to them.

Not to mention that Samus, an actual undeniable human, and a character from another Nintendo franchise, appears as a cameo in Kirby's Dreamland 3, and she's only shown to be twice as tall as Kirby. You could easily say this is irrelevant because it's little more than a cameo appearance that only exists for a heart star mission, but one could also reasonably use it to disregard the notion of Kirby's universe being tiny. There's also Forgotten Land's world where Kirby doesn't look too small compared to the cars and buildings.

And here's another reason why I don't think Kirby character sizes are meant to be taken seriously: They're inconsistent. King Dedede is the foremost example when it comes to this. In some games like Triple Deluxe, he's only twice as tall as Kirby, but in other games like Forgotten Land, he's like three or four times taller than Kirby. Dedede's size is inconsistent alongside his designs. I cannot bring myself to believe there's a confirmed set-in-stone size for him, and we could say the same for the rest of the characters in the franchise.

My point is, it doesn't really matter. You can either believe that Kirby is 8 inches tall, or not. You can either believe that Kirby characters in general are tiny, or not. If you ask me, whichever notion you should believe just depends on which one you'd prefer to believe.

Kirby could be 8 inches tall, or 2 feet tall, or 3 feet tall. Just pick whichever size you want him to be. If you actually prefer him being 8 inches tall so you can hold him like a burger, go for it, but if you think it makes more sense for him to be 2 or 3 feet tall, then go for that.

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I headcanon that Marx has pranked literally every other Dream Friend numerous times.

Here are some statistics:

King Dedede is the one that gets pranked the most often as Marx considers him to be a primary target. Meta Knight, Bandee, Magolor and the Animal Friends are also frequent prank targets.

The one that's the most unfazed by the pranks is Gooey. He's just happy to be there and Marx couldn't really get under his skin even if he tried.

The one that's the toughest to trick is Susie. Marx has had to get quite clever and creative with the pranks he pulls on her, as she doesn't fall for the usual ones that others are more likely to fall for. Daroach is the second toughest one to trick after Susie.

The one that gives the most violent reactions to the pranks is Dark Meta Knight. Marx doesn't see him very often because he spends most of his time in the Mirror World, so he's not a particularly common prank target, but when they DO cross paths, Marx can and will make Dark Meta Knight go ballistic.

Some of the Dream Friends are willing to prank Marx back, and the one that does it the most often by far is Magolor. It's sort of a thing between Marx and Magolor to prank the shit out of each other. They're best friends though so it's often in good fun, but it can sometimes get a bit competitive because of Magolor's ego.

The one that's been able to embarrass Marx the most is Daroach. One time when Marx tried to prank Daroach, Daroach outmaneuvered him and snatched his hat off his head, and this freaked Marx out because he does NOT like having his hat taken off like that!

Oh and by the way, Marx does still prank Kirby sometimes, but more lightly compared to the others. This is because Marx respects Kirby enough to not go too hard on pranking him. He'd rather not provoke Kirby to give him another severe ass-kicking.

Everyone else, however, gets to face the full brunt of Marx's mischief.

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popstar has an evil laugh competition

bonus colored version because they are just the cutest little guys ever

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This might be a hot take, but I'm not a fan of the notion that the Mage Sisters and Hyness just simply have a happy reunion and ending after they get saved in Heroes in Another Dimension.

I feel like it... just sort of erases Hyness' actions? And that it basically pretends like nothing ever happened?

This man was literally an abusive father. What he did to the Mage Sisters during his boss fight was legitimately fucked up. He drained the life force out of them, used their bodies as weapons, and then sacrificed them (and himself) to Void Termina.

In my opinion, there should be acknowledgement of that in their relationship post-HiAD. There's a reason why I headcanon Francisca and Flamberge having hang-ups with Hyness. Zan not as much, because the lore has talked about how insanely devoted she is to him, but one can easily say that her devotion to him is unhealthy despite the fact that he saved her and the other two from death.

Yes, Hyness wasn't in his right mind as he was corrupted by the Jamba Heart, but that doesn't change the fact that he, uh, still did all of that. It was still him. It was still his body doing it. He still effectively abused them. He's still culpable and responsible for his actions. Which is why "Oh, the Friend Heart uncorrupted him, everything's all good now!" just doesn't do it for me.

I'm not against him being redeemed. This is the Kirby series, after all. But I think he doesn't deserve to be entirely absolved of his sins. I don't mind letting the Mage Sisters still care about him to an extent, but I'd think their relationship should be permanently altered because of what happened, and I'm all for letting these women grow and discover their own worth outside of him.