I’ve been thinking about how Dedede and Meta Knight, as the two main characters, would navigate the puzzles Mouthful Kirby would do in canon. Here are some of my ideas for Combo-Mode: different ways the King and Knight would combine their abilities in creative ways to solve their problems and get around faster!!
…also a lot of them involve Dedede carrying Meta Knight which is lots of fun.
This will be the first concept for my roleswap AU. Characters remain their personalities and relationships, but are influenced by their new roles.
Meta is now a way more serious and strict guy, bound to his duties and routines as a king. And Dedede is a smug and somewhat troublemaker knight, a rebel soul who's always ready for a fight.
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Here are the rest of the ideas I had for how the King and Knight would navigate Mouthful Mode puzzles! I didn’t do stair-mouth, arch-mouth, or scissor lift-mouth since I think Super Dedede Jump and Meta Knight’s flight would solve those, and I covered them in Part 1.
Please enjoy this installment of, “Sworn Partners navigate a Forgotten Land!”
(Jeebus, finally finished these two artworks after 3-4 days)
It's been a while since I posted about this AU, but not only I posted a 2nd oneshot and organized it and the first one in a series ('tis here!), but I finally settled on swapping Magolor and Ribbon's roles and, to an extent, their plotlines.
More elaboration under the cut!
Even though they swap roles - down to Magolor being a sincere ally and Ribbon turning out to be a traitor and the final boss - they carry their OG plotlines (Magolor escaping from Landia, Ribbon escaping from her wrecked home), only with the necessary tweaks (only elaborating a bit because the one-shots about these two are on the works and I don't wanna spoil too much, but in a nutshell, Magolor needs help to gather the shards of The Master Crown, and Ribbon needs the now-five shards of the Crystal).
Magolor is a boastful space pirate and aspirant for theme park owner, with a penchant for talking with slang (the "Totally Radical" slang is sincere this time around). Appears to be THE annoyance, but when the chips are down, he proves his worth and genuine courage.
Ribbon, watching the Fairy Queen be corrupted with ease, sincerely believes that things will be better in Ripple Star if she takes over. She knows to a degree it is a bad idea, but is committed to it. ...which turns out to be the very thing that sets her against the ones who helped her free her people in the first place.
Personality-wise, the "Return to Dream Land" gang keeps the same dynamics. The "64" in a nutshell, though... is basically Adeleine trying to play peacemaker between Meta Knight and Magolor's egos, Bandee's sass when it comes to these egos, and then-newcomer Kirby's childlike wonder.
Ribbon x Kirby is still a thing! ...though, the "Return to Dream Land" plotline equivalent will not be merciful to either of them.