#implied darkroach

[wonderful-magician]

DAROACH HEAD CANNON RAMBLING???

More likely than you would think my friends.

Ok so I worked on the drawing above for maybe 10 hours and I'm very proud of it! And I felt like this post would be a good transition into elaborating MY VERY LONG LIST OF HEAD CANNONS for this rat.... Since he has very little backstory canonically similarly to most Kirby characters who have like a sentence of backstory. And unlike Meta knight or King DDD who have a general concept or idea. We know nothing about the silly rodents!! Nothing!!

( NOTICE THIS IS ONLY FOR MY GIJINKA VERSION OF HIM!! )

So I'm here to basically write a whole damn book for these guys. But specifically daroach because... I'm biased. Lmao. SO I decided to give him something! The life of a poor child from 1920!! ....woohoo?

I believe I've said this before, and I don't think it's that crazy- but I enjoy playing with the fact these characters are for the most part from different planets and have different cultures and experiences because of this. And I love to write little things about it. And just like many others. We have no idea where daroach is even from in the first place.

I like to think the original species of squeaks/squeakers originated from the forgotten land. But at some point they all moved to different planets and locations. You can find them on different planets, and they have a unique culture to each other. The only thing they all share is the bells! Which I shared on my post all about the bells!!

Anyway I figured I would have two bulletin lists about the fun head cannons of mine! But put both of them here for simplicity. And I hope this is coherent and doesn't come off too ... Wow! Tragedy! Daroach is really a chill, happy guy despite some of the things that happened to him in my personal canon...

Despite the events I list here, Daroach actually has a very positive attitude and outlook on life! Despite how his homworld has shitty living conditions and child labor.

Daroach lived with his father until he was ten, when his father was drunk and shot by an officer for being openly against the current mayor.

Daroach never met his mother. But he worries about it little. He cared about it more when he was younger. He also has no known extended family.

Daroach had to live in the streets for a while because of this. Working as a newspaper boy.

He met Storo during this time. The two quickly became good friends. As Daroach was fast and Storo was ... Big. Even as the two were only 10-12 year olds.

The boys became familiar with a lot of the adults in town. Knowing the baker or the locals well. Storo liked to speak to a specific man named doc, quite often.

One harsh winter. Daroach gets sick. And Storo starts to feel under the weather as well. Storo, worried for their well being. Begs doc for help one morning. Doc, after seeing the full conditions of the two boys. Let's them stay with him.

While this was originally temporary, doc ended up enjoying their company. And the three live together like a family. But none of them want to call it a family.

Daroach starts working at a factory and so does Storo. Doc trying to revive his career as a scientist. ( and failing.. miserably. ) around this time doc also takes in spinni. Who's only 7.

Daroach starts to become a more intense thief. While he was always good at it, he did live on the streets for two years after all. But he gets... Very good at theft. For he learns how to float and teleport.

As they all get older. They form a early version of the squeak squad. But it's more like a group formed against the current situations and political climate. As a civil war is occuring in the country and the city is very divided.

Daroach gets himself into a lot of fights. But is both loved and hated by the press. For his hatred to the government but attractive looks by squeak standard.

After daroach is wounded in a fight. They get money, and leave on their newly made airship. Never to return to this planet. As it's just miserable there.

Ok that was a basic outline of his story on my end! Time for more basic head cannons that can be applied much easier !!

Daroach has been smoking since he was like 13. This was normal for his planet. But nowadays he mostly understands his mistakes. But he still smokes, even if he's polite about it and smokes outside it matters little. Meta knight likes to absolutely mock him for this...

Daroach hates being hatless for an extended period of time. It's just ...weird...

Daroach is the only squeak/squeaker to stand on his tiptoes constantly.

Won the triple star in a bet with a certain wizard who plays star stacker.

Used to have a alcohol problem, as his father originally did. But he did actually recover from this.

Dated meta knight for a couple months before they broke up with no explanation.

Nobody but them and galaxia know why.

At the age of 11 he developed a limp and still to this day he doesn't even understand how he got this mysterious limp.

Owns like three of the same outfit and does his laundry often. Pure comfort

Hates not being formal. You won't find this man in public wearing slides and a T-shirt. Must be a poet shirt. Or something alike that.

Totally not weird that he dated meta knights reflection. When he broke up with the real thing.

Okay this better post correctly 🙂

[veinsfullofstars]

“I. Am going. To kill that rat.” “What was that, Boss?” “I said, BACK TO YOUR POSTS NOW!” “Y-Y-Yes, sir, right away, sir!”

(ID: Kirby series fanart comic, four borderless panels featuring Dark Meta Knight, Mirror Axe Knight, and Mirror Mace Knight, in which the latter two comment on their leader’s interesting new battle scars, much to his restrained dismay. Transcript below the cut. END ID.)

Good thing his minions aren’t the brightest bulbs in the bunch - otherwise they’d’ve found out about all the friendly hugs he’s been getting in his off-time.

(… this isn’t too much, is it? Stars, I hope not. I tried to keep it vague enough that it doesn’t have to mean anything spicy. Maybe it was just a very competitive game of tag. Or maybe DMK couldn’t quite reach an itch between his wings and Daroach got a bit overenthusiastic trying to help. Basically anything that could ruin his “big scary cool toughguy” reputation. As long as DMK is too embarrassed to admit to it in front of his crew, they’re all viable options, haha.)

Started 12/25/23, finished 12/28/23, updated 01/04/24, updated for color correction 11/02/24. NOTE: This was originally posted on my deleted account on 01/04/24. | Kintsugi AU Masterpost

—

Transcript:

Panel 1

*DMK walking forward towards our left, M!Axe and M!Mace passing by in the opposite direction, M!Axe waves cheerily to DMK, who glances at them over his shoulder*

M!Axe: Oh, Boss, there you are! Hey, how was the fight? Didja win?

DMK: Hm? What’re you talking about?

Panel 2

*reverse shot of DMK, still glancing over his shoulder, several pink scratch lines can be seen on his back and the base of his wings, each in sets of three*

M!Mace: Got some new scratches on your back, Boss. Nasty ones, too, by the look of it.

M!Axe: (laughing, impressed) Ha! Musta been one heck of a scrap to leave marks like that! I’d hate to see what happened to the other guy, haha!

Panel 3

*front shot of DMK, his eyes shrunk to dots in realization, as a thought bubble hovers over his head - a simple headshot of Daroach, grinning roguishly beneath the shadow of his hat, showing off his claws as they glint sharply*

Panel 4

*front shot of DMK, sweating and glaring fixedly off to the side, eyes still shrunk, a vivid blush inside his visor, while M!Axe and M!Mace stand where they were before behind him, heads tilted in innocent confusion*

DMK: (strained) … … … Yes. … … A fight. … That’s what happened.

[artist-heart83]

Baby girl

[vee-of-the-stars]

I can't provide context for this one lol

[just-a-sicko]

So i try to do some Darkroach sketch (and Marxolor too) BUT U KNOW IN THESE DAYS I CANT DO TOO MUCH WHY I RIP PAPER ON PAPER QVQ

[quotes-of-dreamland]

Any rare pairs the mods have? Or just any random character(s) with like no personality or screen time they absolutely love?

Mod Susie: Okay so when I was trying to think of one I thought of Parallel Susie, but then I remembered. That I’m writing a fic from the perspective of a Jammerjab. And have a ton of Jammerjab headcanons. And as a result of writing that fic, have a Jammerjab OC.... so if you wanna hear any headcanons about them feel free to ask-

(also SuZan..? Is that ship rare? I was under the impression it wasn’t rare but here it is anyway, to noone’s surprise)

Mod Skirby: Brow prince... Mirror boy... hold hands sometimes,,... Hi CEO of Skirfluff here-

Mod Taranza: both of y’all hold my beer bottles full of sprite cranberry. Queen Ripple being gay/queerplatonic with Nova, there’s also PartiRanza, Gryllberg, Sailorcissca, polyamorous ship between Taranza, Magolor, and Marx, Morpho2, MetaMorpho, AND.... the big one...

Morpho x Taranza. Gay bugs for the win!!!!

*coughs*... also uh... Gryll is cool.. and the Concept Magolor Girl who I’ve lovingly named Merissa...

Mod Lor: Hello I’m the CEO of NovaStarcutter,,, it ain’t just a rarepair, it’s a critically endangered pair. All jokes/shipping aside, I desperately want more content of Nova or Lor that isn’t made by me, but I understand that’s a lot to ask of people.

I at least wish more people would acknowledge them as characters and not just MacGuffins. Nova canonically shows emotions/reactions and Lor is pretty heavily implied to be sentient both in acting by herself after Magolor gets uhhh Deaded™️, and through some Magolor dialogue. Basically they aren’t just inanimate objects, and I wish others would stop portraying them like they are...

Oh that was quite the tangent,,, oops

Mod Galacta: For characters, basically all of the Meta-Knights, and sword people in general like Galacta and DMS.. I just., [holds gently] i lov them so much. I desperately need to start working on writing down my characterizations for them ‘cause I want to write stuff for them! As for rarepairs uhhh.. skirfluff magochilly, and marxochilly!! there are so many more characters and ships i have been dragged into this hell against my will for the love of god please help me Edit: ... add Rock Kandi to this gdi Mod Ribbon

Mod Ribbon:

i really like the helpers, just in general and whenever i see content of them i go !!!, same goes for the patchland court tenants. they’re all funky lil dudes. in terms of rarepairs i’ve got quite a few that i like (marxochilly, darkroach, ripple x 02, dootwife etc.) 

rock kandi (fluff x kirby x ribbon) is the biggest one though!! it’s supremely cute and fluffy and i like it very much. kirb has two paws for a gremlin fairy and a lasso prince n i’m always open to talking about it pspspsps 🥺👉👈