#needed to make fun of magolor a bit. so here you go

[ultimadmt]

The Gang Plays Mario Kart

this idea was dumb but i needed to bully magolor some more and needed to make use of the fact my gijinka of him is a little manlet whos barely child height. i also just wanted to draw dumb expressions cuz its my specialty

so heres the dynamic

(this comic is also rough asf dont take it too seriously LMFAO)

[dokidokitsuna]

Slowly, I think I’m getting a handle on this…I tried studying the character art from my favorite dead MMORPG, Maple Story 2, and I think it helped me find a style for the shading and rendering that’s more dramatic but still sort of cartoony.

Plus, I’ve been doing a bit of script writing, which always helps me figure things out. ^^ So please enjoy the additional work I’ve done on these character concepts.

-Between these two, Magolor definitely needed the most work: you can tell because I basically drew a full character design sheet, which is something I almost never do because I don’t like repetition. XP But it doesn’t feel repetitive when I’m totally lost to begin with. ^^; I think I got a little too abstract that first time I drew him, so my focus here was to figure out the specific shape of his body and rebuild outward from there. In stark contrast to my usual Magolor designs, he’s very tall and muscular, with an imposing silhouette (especially with his cape on). Yes, he IS hiding something under all those purple bandages, but we won’t talk about it today. ;)

-I also like that his outfit gets darker the further inside you go, from the solid white cape and glittering chains, to the silver armor and gray scarves, to the skintight navy blue fit underneath. Symbolism??? Perhaps~

-Blade’s design was already pretty solid, so I just adjusted her cape a little, and then dove straight into the Rainbow Malady concept art. ^^ Phase 1 has her sprout a second eye and wings on one side of her face. Her head catches fire, as the power of the Rainbow Sword attempts to ‘burn away the darkness’. In this phase, Blade is already in a lot of pain, but remains fully conscious and can even speak, when she isn’t coughing up multicolored blood. She can recover from this on her own with a day of rest. Phase 2 is much more serious, forcing her organs outside of her body, and growing star-shaped welts over the rest of her skin. At this point, she can no longer recover without Magolor’s help-- essentially, he uses magic to shove all her organs back where they belong and stitch up the open wounds. It’s like setting a bone after it’s broken-- just as painful as the injury itself (if not more), but necessary for proper healing…which takes about a week.  Phase 3 is the last and worst, transforming her arms into elongated wings and her whole body into burning plasma, on top of all the issues from Phase 2. Thankfully, she can’t really remain conscious in this phase-- she’s usually delirious from fever, blood loss, and her brain literally burning away. ^^; Storywise, she needs about a month to recover from this, so she doesn’t use it too often…of course, as the 'player', you can put her through it as many times as you want. =T

-Fun fact, I guess: So the primary love language between these two characters is food. ^^ I was musing about what I could do with a protagonist arc centered around worsening illness (which is…surprisingly rare), and I thought, “so what do you do for sick people? You put them to bed, you manage their symptoms, you clean and comfort them…and most importantly, you feed them.” And then ^that little doodle basically came to me in a dream, and from there evolved the idea of Magolor showing kindness to Blade by cooking for her.

Most of the time, the little affection Magolor shows to Blade is…basically performative. Think of it like a hammy supervillain petting their cat-- it’s more of a character stim than anything else. ^^; The way Magolor talks to Blade (and especially the way he talks about her…) makes it clear that the hand-holding and headpats don’t mean much.

But on the other hand, giving Blade food and watching her cutely devour it, especially during the times when she’s bed-ridden and he doesn’t see her as often…I like to think that might genuinely endear her to him a little, enough to make it a sort of stand-out gesture. Like, if he strokes her forehead when she’s sick, that’s whatever; but when he spends 5 hours making a Maxim tomato consommé for her to eat, that’s him trying to say he cares. Maybe it’s just a tiny bit, maybe it’s just in that moment, but a small part of him truly wants her to be happy.

[tennco]

now that im awake, kirby's return to dream land deluxe was fun. again im not sure if it really needed the switch treatment i think the original was just fine, and the added features don't really make up for it imo. but, aight, it looks nice i guess. i hadn't finished the original back then so this was a good opportunity to actually complete the game in its entirety.

magoland was a nice diversion, i usually don't pay much mind to minigames and such but the added missions made me want to play through them. some were better than others of course, and i do think that there's such a thing as way too many minigames. im sure they're more fun with others but, yeah, not much else to say. it's required for a 100% file so there's that.

magolor epilogue was surprisingly fun, it kinda reminded me of milky way wishes in a way, the way you unlock more abilities as you go through it, 'cept here you also get to boost them and make them more powerful. the focus on combos is a good concept, though at a certain point i just almost exclusively used the dash because it's busted lol. hits like a million times and does really good damage. it's a nice bonus for a remaster i guess. the new music is nice, though i wish the bosses were more than just remixed versions of the vanilla ones (except for the final boss of course). which leads me into..

the true arena adds in those new bosses, separate from the extra versions, which i feel bloated up the list a bit. it got kinda long for a boss rush. i'm not sure if the supply of healing items is different from the original, i would assume it is? even then i had to use some maxim tomatoes from magoland and, i feel terrible about it but i'm not doing it again for now, maybe in another playthrough.

the new abilities, sand and mecha, are really fucking good and really fun to use, that was really the highlight for me. borderline busted at times, both cover a lot of options and sand has the added benefit of having an invulnerable block (though you can't sidestep out of it). they also come with their own ability challenges which, are fine, mecha was a bit frustrating but overall not that bad. that was also my pick for the arenas btw and it performed fairly well (outside of my ability to dodge).

finally, though this is a complaint about the original game tbh, extra mode is just lame. half hp doesn't really matter when you still get a shitton of lives, it just makes the process longer on occasion, and the bosses aren't really that different from their normal counterparts. i get that they couldn't do a different character since, those are coop here, and i know extra is a thing in other kirby games too but, yeah it just isn't that different from the normal experience and felt more like a chore to get 100%

overall i had fun with it. i still think you can play the original wii game and get basically the same experience, this is not a superstar/superstar ultra situation where one is clearly the superior version, i really think they could've done a little bit more with it to make it its own thing if that was the goal. if it was just meant to be a simple remaster uh, again sure, it is what it is, it is the definitive version in that sense but again, not by much.

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 09/03/2024

Fiddling with my meat and balls

Season 8 Featured on: The Joke-Explainer 7000™'s Highest Quality Rips: Sunrise

Ripped by Heboyi

Tentative rip name: ICastHaste encounters a wild Chicabo

It seems to be a running theme with the posts of Season 8 thus far to talk about all the possible new jokes that are growing in prominence on the channel. Magolor's Shoppe Fusion Collab covered a whole boatload of them in a medley nostalgically blending the old and new, while Willievan Afton Polkka was a deeper delve into one joke in particular, Stuck Inside. (By the way, a funny addendum: just a few days after KnightOfGames commented on that post saying there were more Stuck Inside rips to look forward to, we got another one - once again by KnightOfGames - mixing it with fucking PPAP of all sources. The guy knows no limits.) But anyway, in that aforementioned medley rip, there's one particular joke featured that stuck with me. A joke that, though its been featured in the back half of Season 7 already, I am vocally advocating for becoming the crowning jewel of Season 8. Because in case you weren't aware, 2024 is the year of the meat - The year of rips just like Fiddling with my meat and balls.

Amidst the vast sea of internet personalities, IShowSpeed is certainly one of the loudest: a 19-year old streaming video games shirtless in his bedroom seemingly blew up overnight for his erratic, over-the-top reactions and genuinely fantastic knack for the dramatic and improvised comedy. As a result, the guy is an absolute goldmine of funny clips and bits, and much like someone like Jerma985 and Going Somewhere Jerma?, it was bound to inspire some rips by proxy. Hell, I'm half convinced it was IShowSpeed's infamous stream of the Talking Ben game that inspired the use of Talking Ben as a source in Mad Mew Mew Becoming Uncanny: as far back as Season 6, Speed's influence was spreading onto the SiIvaGunner channel. Yet he was missing that...X-factor, that special sauce to make his legacy one to be remembered for all time. He was funny, sure, but was he stuck in people's minds yet?

And then, in late 2023, in a frantic response to being jumpscared by Chica in a Five Nights at Freddy's game, he accidentally "showed his meat" to his entire stream. A new legend - IShowMeat - was born.

On the one hand, I am incredibly out of touch with whatever Speed gets up to - most of what I'm telling you here is only my take on things from the small snippets I've seen online. But the meat incident truly escalated like nothing I've seen in recent times - the absurdity of the reaction that resulted in its reveal, Speed's own reaction to what he'd done, and of course - the tounge-in-cheek song released by Speed's own dad making fun of the incident, I Show The Meat. This was the last thing needed to make Speed a regular on SiIva, as rips using I Show The Meat and various IShowSpeed clips together have become a recurring trend - one that, due to all that I've talked about and the genuinely fun qualities of I Show The Meat as a song, I'm absolutely enamored with.

I had a vast array of options available to me for this post, to forward 2024 as The Year Of The Meat. Yet as Big Sus Chocobo showed all the way back in the blog's beginnings, I have a very exploitable soft spot for fun uses of Final Fantasy's Chocobo theme, and Fiddling with my meat and balls thus became the one meat rip I kept returning to. That is also, of course, because the rip is just genuinely well made and funny - I Show The Meat's simple but recognizable beat already infuses a new energy to Fiddle de Chocobo, and the song's vocals are done to absolute perfection, utilizing parts from another Daddy Speed song in I Love Bowling. It becomes a sort of call-and-response dynamic, with the Chocobo theme's main melody utilizing I Show The Meat and the breaks and segments inbetween using I Love Bowling - yet the two songs sound so similar that it flows from one to the other incredibly seamlessly. Despite the completely different melodies of all three songs, the lyrics are edited just enough to fit whilst still being completely audible: In other words, it's the kind of rip that is incredibly easy to sing along to. Plus, yknow, there's just something incredibly funny about hearing a song about showing one's meat layered on top of such a silly fun-time melody as the Chocobo theme!

IShowSpeed only appearing this prominently on the channel due to a big embarrassing incident sort of reminds me of the Minecraft YouTuber Dream, with rips like Five Dreams at Night 1.16 and his entire event during Season 5 effectively poking fun at him for something that was...quite harmless, in the long-run. SiIvaGunner touches upon and references a big number of YouTubers, and I think this kind of playfulness is the perfect way to go about things. Because even though I'm not much of a fan nor much of a detractor of Dream or IShowSpeed, it is absolutely hilarious to follow the creative ways that their infamous moments have been used for laughs by the SiIva team. Fiddling with my meat and balls digs deeper into Daddy Speed's list of songs to make something yet funnier, but still remains completely understandable to goobers like me who just think the phrase "I Show Meat" is incredibly funny. In my eyes, having that flexibility whilst remaining funny is a telltale sign that the joke is here to stay.

(Real quick, as I couldn't find a way to properly fit it into the text - I really want to shout out i show rottytops my meat (Consensually) by circunflexo of You Are Book Smart fame as another incredible meatpost of Season 8. I may write a post about it in the future, but put simply: its incredible in its own ways, using the Talking Ben sample just like Mad Mew Mew Becoming Uncanny and a track with a crazy fun energy to it. Go listen to it after Fiddling with my meat and balls - they're like two sides of the same juicy steak.)

[starsandnoodles]

Let’s talk about Magolor finally (for the 100th time)

Every time this question is asked I have to like take a deep dive into my past and admit to my autism on the internet I swear to god lmao

So here it is: the full finally complete explanation but shorter than last time for those with very little time

The Too Long Don’t Wanna Read:

When I was like 6 Kirby’s Return to Dreamland came out and I was given the game for my birthday. Little me got so obsessed with Magolor for a mix of reasons (design, his whole little story, etc). From there he basically changed my brain chemistry lowkey and I still love the guy. That’s basically the idea though there are details left out that I will explain below

The full explanation (below cut):

The Logical “It’s His Character” Reason Everyone Who Likes Magolor Can Get Behind:

If you ask a Magolor fan why they like Magolor it’s likely a mix of these three things:

Design

Character Arc

How Relatable He is

Which, I can agree with. These are all things I also enjoy about Magolor! However I will mainly be going over design seeing as other reblogs (mentioned a specific one later in the post) talk about the other two things listed above better than I think I could!

We will start with design simply to get it out there. It’s the more info dumping section of the 3 and makes it easier for me not to bring up his design in later segments. Then we’ll move on to his story, what (at least to some extent in my opinion ) makes him an interesting character… then finally we’ll talk about how he is relatable to some from the way he presents himself to how his story can be seen as something very innately human.

Design

To begin, I’m including here a picture of Magolor for reference as it makes my life personally easier.

Now, the first thing I want to point out is the shape of him. He is a very welcoming and friendly shape and you can get a lot of information about him and how he carries himself based solely on the shapes used for his design!

His main body is an oval which while being why he is called an egg actually leads you into more of a security. This is due to something in character design called Shape Language!

Here is an example of this made by Pikatl on Twitter using specifically kirby! ( Link here as well as on Pikatl’s name cuz I’m careful ):

Now, applying this to Magolor… his rounded shapes are supposed to give off this weight of him being harmless and a little helpless. His very design supports what he claims to be while hiding hints at his true nature (the rounded triangular ears, etc ). Even the gears based in his design tell you a lot about him with and without shape language! You can just tell so much about him from how he is shaped alone!

A small writing after thought that I needed to include here specifically that I forgot to mention at all in this bit was how his mouth is purposefully covered. You can’t see if he’s smiling or frowning or what he is truly feeling. You can only tell through the eyes which you can manipulate into displaying whatever you want if you know how to do it. I only bring this up as an after thought because I was going to bring up the use of Magolor’s mouth later and forgot to even mention it here!

Another thing about this design that I see as very important is the colors used for him because in my opinion there was a heavy use of symbolism and color psychology used when he was created.

To begin, color psychology has all to do with how the brain perceive different colors and how we psychologically associate them with different feelings and things each (example: People often see Kirby as a girly series of games even if that isn’t true because Kirby is pink )

With Magolor there is a specific use of Blue and Yellow (which fun fact the yellow was confirmed to be a reference to Christianity but we will get more into that when we talk about the character arc of Magolor ). Blue in this particular case is meant to provide a sense of security. It being a main color of his palette heavily benefits him to appear more trustworthy to a player who has never seen the game play out. Then the secondary color he uses most heavily being yellow compliments that psychology by bringing a hopeful and happy feeling to his design. Another thing that heavily compliments the blue is the white of his cape and scarf which makes him look far more innocent than he is while the grey of his belt buckle shows that he can basically hold it together.

Finally, the purple of his design, my favorite piece of character design foreshadowing ever.

Purple is the color of royalty and mystery. At first it could easily be more associated with Mystery or even left unnoticed to those viewing his design but once the cutscene on Halcandra happens and he gets the crown? It all clicks. He has the color of royalty in his design because ultimately his goal is to be the supreme overlord of the universe.

Which brings us to Traitor Magolor (Pictured below)

The first thing to note is how triangular his body is. He’s supposed to be overlord of the entire universe and this design definitely carries that idea with the way they make his body less defined and more almost wispy. Not only that but one of the biggest things to notice is that despite being more triangular he is far more rounded still, in fact the most triangular and pointed thing about this design is the master crown because it’s the actual threat here (specifically to Magolor).

Next is the color. The other’s I’ve already discussed above however, the one to point out here is particularly the addition of Red to his design. Magolor in this form is dangerous. Not only that but angry. He’s trying to actively shoot Kirby out of the sky at any chance he gets and is rather annoyed with how our heros are not giving up their pursuit of him. It’s a nice little addition. It’s also very enjoyable how the purple is added more significantly in this design! It’s not a big thing but a good touch given that he’s crowned!!

Speaking of, let’s talk about Phase 2 Magolor from Normal Mode!

I really did mean it when I said I was leaving no Stone unturned.

I won’t dwell too long on phase 2 Magolor for the sake of everyone’s sanity because in my opinion when compared to Magolor soul this design tells you so much less about the crowns influence. There’s heavy proof that Magolor to some extent despite being held in the crowns grasps that it’s still him. That’s actually one of the few details I do enjoy of this design. You’re forced to be aware that even as the crown is forcefully holding him hostage that is still him you’re fighting. The Crown is the main focus of the design and it’s warped to show you how it is the thing in control here rather than Magolor. Outside of that though, there isn’t much to talk about… which brings me to Traitor Magolor EX…

To open this up, in the EX doesn’t he is a tad more pointed than he was in the original. Specifically down on the body. It looks as if he’s a little more torn, and there are more holes within his form creating both a awesome visual effect and a physical show of how the crown his slowly wearing down what’s “Magolor” and what is itself. The crown also loses its golden shine and starts to fall into its true nature of something more sinister. Though, outside of the palette changes and noticeable few physical changes he’s still far too similar to the original Traitor Magolor to truly go on a tangent…

Which brings us to the Crowned King himself… Magolor Soul

Immediately what struck me about this design was the use of the colors green, turquoise, and black. Not because of any character psychology but because together they create an almost grimy look as if Magolor or.. what remains of him is coated with a thick substance likened to tar holding him there.

The use of triangles are all particularly coming from both the crown and Magolor’s hands. These are the only times we see triangles unrounded in his design this much. The fact that there are spikes in the crown tells you how dangerous it really is as it digs into him and holds him there forcefully.

His mouth his noticeably forced into a smile as well. This is one of the few times we even see his mouth and this is the most effective of its uses. It shows how truly in control of Magolor the crown is. Not only is dark matter’s eye in his mouth but his mouth seems to be almost forcefully opened to the point where some of him is still connected right over the eye.

I also find it worth noting that Magolor’s actual eyes being white shows how he was naive to the true nature of the master crown. He didn’t know what it would do and is now retroactively paying for it…

Magolor’s Epilogue - The Wet Cat “oh fuck” design

If you were to ask me what do I think is the most important part of the changes in this design from his very first one I would say the lack of the buckle. The main true to design square in his design that showed stability being removed shows exactly what kind of a state Magolor is in during epilogue. The lack of colors is a symbolistic cleansing of who he is which was stripped from him by the master crown but the removal of the only true Square that was not part of his gear design and replacing it with a knot that had to be tied to not fall out is so important to me. The way his once elegant outfit has become a tattered mess… just.. everything about this design is wonderful. Though there isn’t much to talk about on it other than those above. In all honesty a lot of the appeal of this design needs the story line to support it but general speaking this is when he looks the most like a wet cat.

Microtransagolor

Now, generally speaking the shape language here is the same. I think the importance of this design comes in the use of yellow in said design. Magolor is much happier when he hits this point. He went through hell and back, survived, and got a cool new outfit. The buckle also makes a return!!! His stability is back along with his joy! Of course he’s green both because of money but also because of how green is a color of nature, of growth. Etc etc.

I won’t go into Merry Magoland Magolor because I might make a whole separate post about that in the future so I apologize to any Manager Magolor fans

Character Arc and Relatability

I personally was going to make a section on this but I think @desultory-novice said a lot of what I was going to say here and worded it a lot better than I can so I’m going to heavily recommend you check out their reblog since I don’t wanna just repeat what others have said.

I thought it was worth mentioning desultory novice’s reblog because I heavily agree with everything said within it and I think that it’s worth the read if you like deep dives into Magolor! ^^

The Personal Part

This is where we get into my own personal history with Magolor as a character. Particularly I will be expanding on what I said in comments in the past.

Basically when I was 6 years old I was given Kirby’s Return to Dreamland. Magolor was a quick favorite if we’re being honest. I loved everything about him form the start and felt a kind of sympathy for him I haven’t felt since. I was obsessed with the game, cursed in the heart whenever Magolor betrayed everyone.

Still he kept coming back to mind and I kept playing the game over and over again. I got a plush of him in 2020 before Covid in New York City and he’s become a comfort character of mine and was part of the driving force that made me realize I was transgender

So basically it was just the autism and everything else mentioned above

Anywho, thank you to anyone who went and read through this post! I shall leave you all with a Magolor gif!

Honest question for Magolor Fans, why do you like him so much? I wanna hear your opinions.

[crownednova]

I’ve only seen love directed towards RtDLDX, and while I think that’s lovely, I’ve always had several issues with it that I haven’t seen many else talk about. So that’s what I wanna do… talk about it. This was originally gonna be in the form of an essay, but I wrote the first draft half asleep, there is no saving that, and I think more of a point form, individualised analysis would get my point across better. This also means there isn’t going to be much for positives. Pretty much anything I don’t mention should be assumed I am either fine or happy with. Despite that though, I do still think the negatives are enough to cause me to not enjoy RtDLDX, at least not as much as I wish I could. But enough preamble.

New White Wafers Dialogue

Let’s start off with the two least impactful gripes. In fact, I’m just gonna get this one out of the way before getting onto the actual topic. Ability Stars look so much worse now. I get they’re 3D models now, but man, they just look so flat. Where are my RtDL Ability Star fans at? Okay, now to actually begin. All the other changes to Story Mode are great, but wow, I do not like his “Such Easy Targets” line. It feels like a betrayal of his facade. I’ve said in the past that RtDL has my favourite Magolor, which is why this stings. This isn’t like any of his other new/changed dialogue, while his Extra Mode dialogue also stands out, it still feels closer to how he acts. Not to mention, this is him finally being honest. He’s allowed to drop the facade here, it makes sense. But in White Wafers? I just can’t see him saying that. In the original, he does come off as shady, and he does mess up his story, but in a completely different way. I feel a similar slip up is when he calls Kirby a Hero in Cookie Country. At that time, he isn't supposed to know that. He also changes his story from “Just Crash Landing” to “Being Attacked by Landia.” Those are his brand of slip ups, I can’t imagine he’d mess up that badly as to say “Man I love scheming. Oops I mean crocheting ☺️” It’s also a lot more relaxed than what I expect from him. I always interpreted RtDL Magolor as having this stress to his dialogue. His ship is in shambles and he needs to keep up a lie. He still goofs around, but it’s in a completely different tone, it still has undertones of panic. This however, reads more like one of his upgrade lines in the Epilogue. Some may find that appropriate, but Magolor is never written consistently, and trying to add connections only makes things worse. Also, forgot to mention, this is just a straight up spoiler. Sure, the game is 11 years old, but Forgotten Land introduced so many new Kirby fans, people who know nothing about the series, to reveal your biggest twist, especially in a way that feels like a betrayal to the character you’ve written, I just can’t understand the idea behind this change. Because what is the point? I keep asking myself this and I genuinely can’t comprehend it.

Extra Mode Changes

Extra Mode got a glow up in RtDLDX, that’s obvious from the first stages, so then why do I find myself preferring the original? It’s consistent. 1-1 is probably the most fun I’ve had with RtDL in years, so to be greeted by that, only to be met with the exact same mode I’ve played countless times, it’s crushing. It feels like it was set up to get you excited, just to pull the rug from under you. I could get it if it was deliberately there to convince you to buy the game, but if you’ve made it this far, you already own it. So why? While this inconsistency ruins the mode for me, I can’t help but have a more, sympathetic outlook. The original mode is a clear sign this game was rushed, while most of the game, you wouldn’t even be able to tell. I don’t know if those who worked on it were happy with how Extra Mode turned out. Maybe that’s presumptuous of me, but DX was their chance to fix this, but they didn’t. If it isn’t obvious, I think Extra Mode was once again rushed. 1-1, while maybe a bit unfair, still felt like there was love put into it, as much love as the bosses. And 2-1 and 3-1 also got noticeable attention, but much less. The fact the first levels got this attention, makes me feel like they were just developing the levels they could, I can’t explain it as well as I’d like, but it still stands out to me that way. But, while I appreciate the effort, it only makes it feel more unfinished than the original. I’m just so sad about this because this was their only chance to fix the original, it just stands out compared to all the other Extra Modes from the games after. Even something simple like letting Player 1 be Dedede, Meta or Bandee would have done so much for this mode. And, as I’ll soon say, Magolor Epilogue does nothing to circumvent  this. Magolor Epilogue Part 1 - Gameplay That’s right, a two parter! This is gonna be hard though, as I don’t know where my biases begin, and where they end. While this is obviously all subjective, I still would like some ground to stand on. So, I’m gonna start with what I like and what I think works. Let’s start with the bosses. Besides the marketing, which really should have its own section, they’re pretty cool! They innovate on the original bosses, Electicky Dooter is my favourite boss from this game. But it does suck they aren’t more original, or the fact the minibosses are still the same ones from Story and Extra Mode. It just makes the fact all the world bosses were spoiled for us hurt all the more. Next are Ordeal Doors. I love them. They work around the required upgrades so perfectly. Being able to know what the player will have means they can make memorable and fun stages. The regular stages are the exact inverse of this. They’re bland, forgettable, they have to work around the fact that you may never upgrade your abilities. I often see people praise the freedom the upgrade system provides, but I only see the inverse. It’s restrictive. The most the regular stages can do is play around with the boss abilities. However, those are often so weak, done so much better in the Ordeal Stages, or aren’t intuitive for movement that they can’t stand out. The combo system is much more interesting as a mechanic, and the game can properly play around with it, but the upgrades encapsulate everything I dislike about how it feels to play. No, everything I dislike with this whole Epilogue. Magolor Epilogue Part 2 - Tone and Story

I get it’s Kirby, but Kirby has done good and serious stories, so then why is Magolor Epilogue such tonal whiplash. The intro and tutorial capture it perfectly. Magolor almost died, he basically did. He lost his friends, his magic, he’s alone. Good thing he can think uppity thoughts! That’s unfair, I love his upgrade dialogue, I don’t want them to take away the humour, but there has to be some sort of middle ground! Make it clear his jokes are a form of coping, make the pause screens talk about his thoughts rather than vagueing towards Grand Doomer being the final boss 4 times in a row. Give us a look at how he actually feels!!! This is worse in the ending, we never see him actually feel guilt for what he’s done. We’re just told he’s redeemed now, we’re told that on a pause screen that’s not even accessible for 30 seconds!! It’s not even a case of show don’t tell, because they don’t even tell us anything! What I find worse is that he doesn’t even have to confront Kirby to apologise, not really, he literally gets to start living out his dream, stalling until the whole situation blows over until he just gets to show up on Pop Star, somehow, where there is barely any tension left. He gets off easy, he dies, and he gets rewarded for it. LITERALLY TOO!! I’ve never liked his Star Allies moveset. It was so clearly busted, that it felt like he’s stronger without the Master Crown. So in response to this, they canonise this moveset and it’s even more busted. It all comes back to the fact he’s constantly rewarded for his betrayal. He loses nothing. And it’s infuriating, because how am I supposed to expect him to be redeemed when he didn’t have to suffer for anything he did. Sure, he cries at the end of the mode, too bad we never know how he’s feeling anywhere else. They didn’t even answer how he got back to Pop Star, instead answering how he got to the Dream Kingdom. Idk about anyone else, but I just kinda assumed he got there with the Lor, the “real” answer doesn’t feel satisfying at all. He doesn’t even do anything interesting in the Clash games, nothing, not unless we get another Clash sequel. I just, I just wanted him to apologise to Kirby, but instead, it feels like HAL is doing everything in their power to make sure he doesn’t. The worst part is that I’m still hoping for that Clash sequel, I’m waiting for them to execute what they’ve set up, but I just don’t think it’s happening. I just wish I could see what everyone else sees in Epilogue, but I just can’t.

Merry Magoland

I guess I should wrap this up with Magoland. It’s not that bad, but I think it suffered the most from feeling slapped on with no real purpose. I like the Minigames, but I’m more talking about the park itself. I don’t like how it looks. It might just be because I’m not a fan of Magolor’s ego, or at least never saw it being this kind of ego, but it doesn’t work here for me. From what we’ve seen of Magolor’s work in the past, it’s always had this sort of child like aspect to it, like it was made with crayons and cardboard or building blocks. It created a nice aesthetic, albeit, a rather disconnected one, Drum Dash and Dream Collection look nothing alike. But to see them completely ignore what those two set up for a boring DisneyLand parody? Especially one played so positively? Idk, maybe I’m expecting too much asking for another “Capitalism is Bad'' metaphor, but still, Disney is very well known for being a garbage company so???? It’s funny how a place meant to look as innocent as possible is immersion breaking for being as innocent as possible. In reality, it’s not that bad, Manager Magolor acts nothing like Story Mode Magolor, but that’s a consistent thing with all his appearances so whatever I’ve grown to accept it. I just wish Dream Collection and Drum Dash got more love. Especially since Last Land of all things was referenced back in Dream Buffet, I still love that btw. Some sort of visual link might have helped, but even without them, I just think gaudy isn’t Magolor’s style? Like it totally is, but this brand of it doesn’t feel like him. However, I don’t write for him, idk his “true” personality, his “true” taste, maybe he likes Glitter and I can’t stop him. It just serves to make the new stuff feel out of place juxtaposed to the more natural, magical and mechanical settings of Story Mode.

And I guess that’s it, I never want to do this kinda thing again. Being this negative, although my true feelings, is just exhausting. I hope no one agrees with my issues, but if you do, hope it’s nice to see someone talk about it lol. I’m not giving up on this game though, I want to come back in a few months and see how my feelings have changed. I doubt it’ll fix everything, but I hope I can gain a new appreciation for this game, critiques and all. I guess thanks for reading as well, it means a lot to know people care about what I have to say.

[parttimepuff]

Is Magolor taking them to the murder room

"What the actual fuck is wrong with you guys. Leave him alone." Beep growled, standing up for her friend. "Contrary to popular(?) belief, I don’t have one of those…>" Lor added, somewhat upset that they had thought so. The Halcandran's ears flicked back for a moment, though he was glad that Beep hadn't knifed the anon this time. "Geez… And no, like I said, they're training rooms. Here, lemme show ya." Magolor floated over to the nearest door, one with a water symbol, and it opened. Inside was a different room than was expected. A large swimming pool took up the majority of the space, varying obstacles to swim around were placed throughout it. "See? This one's for water-based training." Magolor elaborated, gesturing inside. The Matter's eye widened. "You have a lake in your Lor…" Beep mumbled, awestruck. "Ha, bit smaller than that, but yeah!" He agreed. Sticking his head in the doorway, Reverie whistled. "Whoa! You just have your own private pool??" He asked, stunned. "Lor's capable of holding a lotta cool stuff." The Halcandran replied.

"What else does she have?? How did you get a lake IN here?" Beep asked, fascinated by it all. "All kinds of things! And, that was really tough, actually. Took a lot of troubleshooting. I may have gotten soaked a few times." Magolor chuckled. "Have you ever heard of a sad meow meow->" Lor teased. "…what’s a meow meow?" The Matter asked as the Halcandran glared at the ceiling. "Lor-" He warned. A monitor on the wall lit up with a simple :3 and he sighed heavily.

Sensing she wasn't going to get an answer, Beep tried something else. "What’s your favorite place in here?" She asked. "I guess my favorite spot is just my room. It's cozy." Magolor thought, aware it wasn't a very interesting answer. "You get a whole room to yourself?" The Matter pressed. "Yup! I don't really need nearly as many as Lor can make, but it's fun to have the option." The Halcandran explained. Plus, it made it possible to try out new designs before he implemented them in things he built for others.

"I guess the cave is kinda like a room, huh, Rev?" Beep mused, turning to her father. "Uh, yeah, it is. More or less. It'd be nice to have doors." Reverie half-joked. Attaching doors to the cave would make it stand out more and they couldn't have that. Spinning back to her friend, she got a mischievous look in her eye. "So, in theory, you COULD have a murder room." She pointed out. "If I wanted to make one, yeah>" Lor responded, the Halcandran sputtering. "W-well, technically? That would definitely get me on a watch list." Magolor figured. Well, another one, that is.

"And I don’t want to make one, so, easy solution>" Lor concluded, done with the idea. Beep snickered, but dropped it in favor of another question. "Do you have a practice room for swords?" She asked. "We do, actually! I touched up the design recently." Magolor replied, happy to change the subject. The Matter summoned a knife at the confirmation, bouncing up and down excitedly. As he'd already seen her stab two people, and unstab one, he wasn't particularly fazed by it. "Here, I'll show ya to it!" The Halcandran continued, floating over to the next door.

[sour-star-galaxy]

Ok ok so my brain kinda went off on this tangent of “hey, Taranza and Snatcher have been through similar circumstances, but had very different outcomes.” which eventually devolved into...

A Kirby AHIT crossover AU!!!!pleaseclap!!!

My friend helped me with some of the ideeas lmao. also this is gonna be a bit long, so a whole bunch of ideas and concepts are under the cut!

ok but anyway: Dark Taranza is Snatcher, Sectonia is Vanessa. 

Ok ok hear me out here, yknow how Snatcher used to be the prince? Well Taranza would be the prince in this, and his weird transformation of idk becoming a weird grumpy ghost man who’s a stickler for legality is his soul becoming Dark Taranza or whatever. Much different than kirby lore as DT and Taz arent the same person, but! it! works!

Kirby would be Hat Kid, Bandee would be Bow Kid. 

it just makes sense. 

Also instead of time pieces it would be little stars i guess? I’m thinking maybe either Kirby is trying to reform the Star Rod..? The spaceship would just be like some wierd star-shaped ship reminiscent of that thing he was in in the cartoon but just. bigger I guess.

OH ALSO, so yknow how getting yarns gives you new hats that give you different abilities? weeeell, you also know those like copy ability orbs? Well, Instead of yarn, Kirby collects shards of those to piece the orbas back together to get new copy abilities!

This might be a bit of a shocker as the rest of this is all game-related, but Tiff as Mustache Girl. 

Just. think about it. In the cartoon iirc she’s the one to always get angry when nobody does anything and just Lets Something Bad Happen. and that’s a lot like Mu! 

To go along with this, Mafia Boss is King Dedede! 

Kinda fits with how he used to be a tyrant, but also involved the cartoon a little bit because iirc, he kinda just. showed up and claimed he owned the place? and that was kinda what MB did????

(all the mafia goons are rlly mean waddle dees lol, not quite sure what this means for Bandee tho. actually, where did Bow Kid even come from? Is that ever said or am I missong out on lore? Maybe Bandee just saw how much of a tyrant DDD was and wanted to get away for a while and spend time with his new friend Kirby) 

Cooking Cat is Chef Kawasaki. 

i dont need to explain this

Magolor is DJ Grooves, Marx is The Conductor. 

Imagine DJ Grooves but if he was a lot more shady. Lying to Hat Kid about her chance at stardom. Every time he calls her “darling” is an act to try to her her to trust him so he could use her to bring him to the top. THAT wwould be magolor >:) a real bastard but he tries to be way too nice about it so you believe he really likes Kirby and not the fame he’s bringing him with his movies (he does grow to care by the end of the chapter though)

Yelling, swearing, wanting everything to be under his control and everyone to listen to his every word, ambition, recklessness that still follows a loose plan; minus the swearing I really think Conductor and Marx are alike lmao, if anything Con’s just much more grumpy but who cares. If The Conductor was much more enthusiastic, I think it’d make things more fun anyway. Marx’d be blowing things up out of sheer excitement and lust for destruction.

Alpine Skyline would take place on Ripple Star 

iirc, Alpine Skyline’s plot had a lot to do with a growing darkness making life dangerous for it’s inhabitants as it slowly took over. Sound familiar? haha dark matter go brrr. Ribbon would be there or something. I don’t remember any significant NPCs in AS. 

Badge Seller would be Susie. 

I have nothing good to explain this we had nobody else if you have other suggestions please help me.

Now for DLCs:

Nyakuza Metro would be. uh. Squeakuza Metro. Daroach would be Empress I guess. 

I know nothing about Clawroline so I cannot make her play that role 

I know almost nothing about Empress but. she runs a gang. and uhhh is fabulous

kinda funny that the cat becomes a mouse i guess idk

Seal The Deal would take place on the Halberd, Walrus Captain would be Meta Knight

I dont know anything about Walrus Captain sorry if this sucks

The seals would be various meta knights I guess? idk i feel like the meta knights are more competent than the seals but who am i to say i dont remember anything about STD

AHAHA WAIT NO THAT MEANS SEAL THE DEAL SDFGHJKAFGH im not deleting that i cannot i just was re-reading and it clicked in my mind

[guynamedultimax]

What if Kirby had a traditional fighting game?

Listen, I know I should’ve done more “FNF fighting game characters” but i doubt anyone cared for that, and even then I lost a bit of interest, so if you actually cared sorry about that, you can still come up with whatever you want for the characters I didn’t talk about!

That being said, I think all Kirby fans here know Kirby Fighters 2. Personally speaking most of it was just the same as Kirby Fighters Deluxe BUT there were five playable Dream Friends. FIVE. Priority to the Copy Abilities a bit too high, isn’t it HAL? Sometimes it feels a bit barebones if you ask me. So I’m here to discuss what would a non-platform Kirby fighting game be.

THE GAMEPLAY

It’s the same as any basic fighting game, there isn’t really that much that the Kirby franchise can offer to make the genre a bit more varied, and that’s mostly due to the fact that Kirby makes friends wherever he goes and combat is pretty much straightforward in these platforming games, the crazy stuff comes from learning specific moves with each copy ability/character in the games and that’s also true for this game.

THE PLOT

I have quite a few ideas for how this can go:

-It’s a “what if” re-telling of Kirby Star Allies where Hyness’ ritual (somehow) also causes space-time rifts across the entire universe to be generated, pulling in Kirby villains from previous games but also allies, which would ALSO explain Dream Friends in the game’s canon a bit more properly.

-It happens in an AU. Plot would basically be Kirby Battle Royale’s but instead of shooting a loadshit of Kirbies onto Kirby, Dedede would just call upon all of their friends to fight for that cake before things escalate and Dedede loses control of the tournament to greater evils, forcing him to work with Kirby to stop the threat, be it old or new.

-Another AU idea but this time it’s original/based on Milky Way Wishes. Galactic NOVA appears every thousand years above Pop Star’s skies, and everyone tries to fight for the right to get the wish. Villain wouldn’t necessarily be ONLY Marx though, most of the Kirby villains could easily win against him if they get to NOVA and get their wish granted. Which means yes, all plots happen at once and Kirby has to deal with everyone at once.

-The least interesting idea: it’s Kirby Fighters 2′s plot but without tag team duos and with all Kirbies replaced with the roster.

THE ROSTER

Now we’re about to have some fun.

RETURNING CHARACTERS: The Dream Friends (and Kirby, of course)

-First up, all Dream Friends are coming back. You don’t even need to change their movesets that much, just add/tweak things, but just for funsies (and for a specific reason too) we’ll also give them specific copy abilities or more than one to categorize them.

-Kirby is the specific reason. He has the same moveset as his Smash Bros incarnation, although he incorporates more copy abilities (and also super powerful stuff like the Star Rod that he usually uses in endgame fights) in it now due to being a traditional fighting game. And yes, he still has his inhale. Using it will have the inhale be replaced by another move in-game, the closest one to a “neutral special” in the opponent’s arsenal. His copy ability is therefore, Smash Bros. And since the game has multiple super moves, we can make his gimmicks from the Kumazaki games the super moves: his level 1 would be a random Super Copy Ability from Return to Dreamland (cutscene is random everytime but damage is always the same), his level 2 would be using the Robobot Armor to stomp foes around, ending with a giant ground pound/fist to the ground and his level 3 is Hypernova Kirby due to the inhale being one of his most unique properties.

-Meta Knight and Dedede will also have heavy Smash influences but they’ll also use techniques from most of their boss fights, such as Meta Knight splitting himself in four clones temporarily for an attack or Dedede actually pulling out an axe instead of his hammer for some attacks based on his Triple Deluxe incarnation. Their copy abilities would formally be Sword and Hammer but with heavy Smash Bros inspiration. Meta can also call in for the Meta Knights to help him in one of his unique super moves. They’d all be there except for Sailor Dee and Captain Vul (one’s an alternate costume and the other is never seen outside of dialogue text).

-Bandana Waddle Dee’s moveset incorporates both Spear and Parasol, but due to the Spear being his most used tool he’ll be categorized with that.

-Marx is the first character with Unique as its own copy ability due to his arsenal being entirely based on his boss fight. Inhaling Unique characters doesn’t always allow Kirby to get copy abilities but when it happens he usually has their most basic move replacing the inhale. Gooey is in the same situation, but i have no idea what would Kirby get from him as an ability since he’s technically player 2 in the Dark Matter trilogy’s first 2 games. Rick, Kine and Coo would technically be categorized as Unique only because they have Fire, Water and Wind in their moveset. You could say they’d be stance characters while Marx is a zoner and Gooey a rushdown character.

-Dark Meta Knight is categorized as Mirror, and Adeleine (with Ribbon as an assist of course) is Artist. Daroach would be Animal, which is missing since its debut in Squeak Squad, as far as I can remember, but he naturally still retains his moveset of calling the Squeaks to help him.

-It’s pretty easy to categorize Magolor as ESP, and Taranza as Spider, while I have no idea what would Susie’s ability be even. Spark? She is mostly around in the Robobot Armor to be fair. The Three Mage-Sisters would be treated equally to the Animal Friends

THE NEWCOMERS

-NAGO, CHUCHU & PITCH: The other set of Animal Friends. I theorize a moveset revolving around the Cleaning ability like in Star Allies would be easy to make, although it can also incorporate moves from other abilities that have been in Dream Land 3.

-CHEF KAWASAKI: I think it’s safe to say this one is pretty easy to do just like the returning Dream Friends. He has a unique moveset in comparison to Chef Kirby that also has him use Kirby’s Final Smash from Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

-LOLOLO & LALALA: Aside from pushing boxes and Gordos they can be the Ice Climbers of the game, and most importantly one of their super moves could have them fuse into their original form in the anime to reference that further.

-SHADOW KIRBY: A clone (in terms of moveset) for Kirby that lacks the inhale ability and has more attacks based on his appearances in Amazing Mirror (and also on Kirby’s unique ability to split in four in these games) and the Kirby Fighters spinoffs. Simple as it is.

-THE MIDBOSSES: They all play the same as their fights too, so doing a paragraph for each of them would be a bit redundant. I chose to add minibosses in because most of them are pretty iconic among Kirby enemies and some of them are also technically friends of Kirby’s. I picked Bonkers (whose coconut throwing and some special moves could make him different enough from Dedede if you ask me), Mr. Frosty (also because we don’t have an Ice-based character in the game), Buggzy (which I can see being the ultimate grappler), King Doo (because we don’t actually have a Waddle Doo in the roster and he’s technically not only their king but also the most unique of them) and Grand Wheelie (look, I like Wheel as an ability ok? it’s like playing as Sonic in a Kirby game)

-KNUCKLE JOE: Taking stuff from both his Star Allies moveset and his Assist Trophy from Ultimate PLUS a few references to the anime and you have the ultimate Shoto character in the Kirby franchise. Ryu mains, this is the character for you.

-GIM: Look, my three favorite abilities are Yo-Yo, Wheel and ESP, in no particular order, so I HAD to include him and the Grand Wheelie. Magolor covers for ESP enough. This lil fella looks more unique than most of the generic Kirby enemies and even among the copy ability ones he’s always been a bit of an oddball due to being a robot. The trickshots you can do with this copy ability make Gim perfect to camp, so he’d be a pretty good zoner as well.

-TAC: He’s been a Helper in Super Star where he also has an unique moveset. Expanding on it and on Tac being generally a copy ability thief could mean more copy abilities can be implemented in a moveset, probably even more than what Kirby can do. Also his design just screams potential to me.

DLC FIGHTERS

WAVE 1: Spinoff Dream Friends

Cuz these guys have been done dirty by Star Allies’ devs. Elline would be the other Artist character in the game and call for Claycia’s assistance in specific attacks. Prince Fluff would play mostly just like Kirby himself did in Kirby’s Epic Yarn and implement specific transformations in some attacks, ending with the tank one from the end of that game. Then we have Gryll. If you know how to make a Tetris/Puyo Puyo based character in a fighting game then good for you, I absolutely don’t know how. What I KNOW however is that she has a float like Peach’s in Smash Bros and I-No’s in Guilty Gear.

WAVE 2: Dream Villains

These guys would all play exactly like their boss fights. Hyness and Sectonia would remain mostly unchanged while Haltmann in terms of moveset is the same as Susie, just without every non-Robobot move that she has.

WAVE 3: Clash of Blades

THAT’S RIGHT, IT’S ALL ANIME SWORDFIGHTERS. They all pull from their boss fights, but Morpho Knight is gonna be a bit more unique compared to Galacta, Dark Meta and Meta Knight, having in the swordfighter equivalent of Akuma’s Raging Demon. Meanwhile, Dark Matter Swordsman and Galacta Knight are completely faithful to the source material, but they’d probably be a bit nerfed due to Galacta’s universe-breaking powers. (you can bet that if we get the remaining legendary heroes who sealed Void Termina in future games they’d be their own separate Wave 5 DLC pack)

WAVE 4: Revival of Old Faces

Nightmare and Drawcia are back and they’re here to stay! Their movesets don’t really need that much changes. Void however is an entirely different beast. He’d be a mix of Kirby, both Zero incarnations and Dark Matter. His design wouldn’t just be giant orb that switches between Kirby and Dark Matter faces, he’d be Kirby-sized and with legs and stubby lil arms like the pink puffball. And you can bet your ass he’d be broken as fuck.

SKINS

If a character’s appearance changed across the series’ history (like Marx Soul, Girl Blob Gooey, Shoppe Magolor, Mecha Knight, Dark Taranza/Taranza in the Super Kirby Clash games, Masked/Shadow Dedede, Anime!Knuckle Joe, Parallel/Pres. Parallel Susie, EX versions and so on) they’d just be an alternate skin/palette swap for the specific character. Multiple characters of the same species with little changes (like a normal Waddle Dee or Sailor Dee, or literally all Kirby colors including Keeby) are the same. I’m also debating on how Dark Mind would be a skin for Nightmare or if there’d be a skin inspired by him for the Dark Matter Swordsman. Zero and Zero Two would probably be turned into palette swaps/outfits for Void (imagine a white Kirby cosplaying as Zero Two that’d be so cute lol).

ATTACKING ASSIST CHARACTERS

Characters who appear in other characters’ attacks. Like the aforementioned Squeaks, Meta Knights and Claycia. Normal Dark Matter would appear in DM Swordsman’s attacks in some capacity outside of the eye laser and the Gordo Throw would return from Dedede’s previous Smash incarnations alongside the Waddle Dee Throw from Brawl. And naturally Magolor can call in the Lor Starcutter for one of his super moves. I am actually considering giving Tac the ability to throw random items/enemies at opponents, with the Bomber being one of these. It’d be a very RNG attack with the Bomber being the best outcome, blowing on the opponent’s face.

HELPERS

All characters in the game can be called on for an Helper attack, that can help you in some form against the opponent by either damaging or tampering with the opponent or by having you get healed or with some buff. Outside from the playable roster enemies that give you copy abilities would also be Helpers, but the specific ones I’m not so sure on.

BOSSES

Characters you can fight in Arcade mode, in Story mode or in a specific Boss mode. There’d also be a Ganon’s Fury (Hyrule Warriors) inspired mode where you’d play as the bosses pitting them against each other. I specifically picked Dyna Blade, Whispy Woods, Landia, Star Dream, Kracko, Great Edge, Pyribbit, Ice Dragon, Fire Lion, Masher, Grand Mam, Metal General, Kibble Blade and Pon & Con.

STAGES

There’d be quite a lot of stages, but I haven’t thought out specific ones except for Green Greens, Butter Building, a Ripple Star stage, one for Dedede’s castle with stage cameos by Tiff, Tuff and Escargoon from the anime and every final boss’s fighting arena.

THE MUSIC

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is gonna be nothing compared to this one. We’re getting all the important music from all pre-Kumazaki games, all music from Kumazaki games and spinoffs, and online arrangements with focus on orchestral (Desolo Zantas), metal (GaMetal, of course) and EDM (Acid Notation, Qumu and various others), including stuff like Itoki Hana’s vocal arrangements. We’re going all out on this one.

Aaaaand that’s it. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Stay hydrated.

[phoebelovingcare]

So for the character meme, how about Marx?

Maruku! This got long so it’s actually going under a cut

Favorite thing about them:

oh no you want me to pick one. uh. uhhh. I love Marx don’t do this to me. Uh. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... wings. The wing reveal is fuckin sick, and the odd shape of them compelled me to draw him, and the result of me learning to draw those wings means I’m here answering this ask today!

Least favorite thing about them:

fanon. See also the unpopular opinion section later

Favorite line:

“Got a plan? Glad to help!”

...ONCE AGAIN gonna break my trend to talk about WHYYY I like this line. It’s not a part of his victory speech. It’s not a part of his convincing spiel. THIS is the lil bit of dialogue for his pause screen in Guest Star. And I like it because of it’s ambiguous nature and implications! Kinda goes with what I imagine I’ll ramble about in the headcanon section, but it reinforces that Marx isn’t RANDOM, he’s PLANNED. Choreographed! No improv, he’s only willing to help if they have something planned for him to execute. I love it. Mwah.

brOTP:

BANDANA DEE. Oh I’ve never talked about my Marx backstory online have I- okay so Marx WAS King Dedede’s court jester, and as such was in the castle with Bandan. The two of them were really good friends, and while everyone is well aware of Marx’ tricks and danger nowadays, they still kinda are. They’ve both known each other for so long that Bandan can tell when he’s pulling some bs, so it all works out!

OTP:

Fun fact, when I was first learning about Kirby lore the only two characters I knew about were our token traitors. Then I watched a thirty minute video on the lore, and the SECOND they said that it was implied that Magolor may have known Marx well enough to refer to him as “a good friend”, I immediately went “oh they’re gay?” That is the ONLY time I have ever shipped something with zero outside input saying they were cute together or anything. I simply Always Have.

nOTP:

Each to their own but you guys DO know that he fucking dropkicked them right /j. Anyways my Marx is an adult and my Kirby is not. No shade to those who ship it, but it’s not my cup of tea (even if your headcanon has no age gap)

Random headcanon:

Here is my character guide for Marx, that kinda shows his personality... but of course that’s a post I’ve already made, so here’s one I’ve literally never said out loud that a lot of my friends will immediately know why: Marx still hangs around with the revived Nova! His wings contain a similar capacity to the power stars, so he doesn’t need to gather them up to summon her. Nova can only grant one wish per person, so Marx basically just talks to her a bunch and then leaves. He has a special interest in ancient tech and magic, so he likes asking about what makes her tick (hehe) and just being around her in general. He Just Thinks She’s Neat!

Unpopular opinion:

YES, HE IS AN ASSHOLE, STOP SAYING HE DID NOTHING WRONG HE FUCKING DROPKICKED A CHILD. Make your Marx manipulative!! Make your Marx a little shit who teases people about things they’re sensitive about when he’s bored!!! Marx is a BASTARD, so act like it!!!!

Song I associate with them:

...I have a Marx spotify playlist. Lemme grab a handful: Sweet Tooth by Scott Helman, Snobbism by Neru, Let’s Face It I’m Cute by 11 Acorn Lane, Wild Things by Alessia Cara

Favorite picture of them:

this one

[quotes-of-dreamland]

ok hopefully this doesn’t end in warfare but out of all of the kirby characters, who would you guys date/who would you be most attracted to?

Mod Susie: I’m aroaspec, but i’m love womens... I might have to go with Zan. Pretty thunder lady. I like her voice and I draw her as a human the most. I am NOT a susie kin do not EVEN start I just like her general aesthetic deal, y'know? Flamberge is also a good choice because she's fun and valid (unlike Zan, who is cancelled) and I like the fluffy hair. Just gimme a mage sister I guess!

Mod Taranza: hoo boy. As a person who is polyamorous, panromantic, and has traits they admire in most if not all characters, this is tough. But if I have to narrow it down, I’d say my top four are Meta Knight, Taranza/Morpho, Magolor, and Zan Partizanne. I’ll elaborate on why once I get back into ranking the characters

Mod Gooey: I’m aroace and I don’t do the romance thing, but if you were threatening my life I’d have to go with Claycia. Claycia is a very talented artist (like me :3), has a pleasing colour palette, seems like she’d give great hugs, and her laugh---Have you heard her laugh?

It’s adorable! And (spoilers) Claycia also seems brave, smart, and kind-hearted too, putting herself between Elline and Dark Crafter, and thinking quick when the real villain attempts to make a smooth getaway.

Honourable mentions include that one NPC who yeets Gordos in KDL3, and Taranza.

Mod Lor: So anyone who knows me from the original quotes blog already knows one of my answers is Nova, and I am in denial over that still so I’m not even gonna try to defend myself. So I’ll share my other answer which is Lor(big surprise I know). Sure, she’s a boat and has no canon personality or anything that’s important, BUT: what Kirby character exists that doesn’t require a little bit of headcanon to become fleshed out? And yeah sure Lor needs a lot of headcanons to become what I imagine her to be like, but whatever, I have time and weird taste so that doesn’t matter. What does matter is her objective benefits. Lor can take you just about anywhere, so long as it isn’t indoors. Who hasn’t wanted to go to space before? Lor can let you live that dream. And, for the people like me who don’t like hugs or making eye contact, that problem is irrelevant here. Need a safe environment to exist in for a little while? Lor has you covered. Wanna visit friends that are far away? Distance isn’t a problem when your partner can warp wherever you guys want. And, lastly, it’s free minigames.

Mod Galacta:  i am questioning if i'm aro or ace spec but, uh, i guess it'd be neat to hang out with mk, gk, taranaza, or bandee?  -meta has dad energy and chill vibes when not fighting for your life against him. -galacta knight (at least my version of him) is still very competitive though after spending many years in the crystal prison, only being released to fight rarely, decides to get more non-fighting based hobbies and relax more after getting released. probably be very nice to hang out with when (again) not being challenged to a fight.  -i don't now that much about taranza but he'd probably want to talk about gardening, play games and drink tea? honestly very good friend vibes.  -bandana is just friend shaped and i love them,, they deserves every good thing that comes their way

Mod Ribbon:  i actually had a HUGE crush on Ribbon when I was little, appropriately enough lmao. i'd also have to say MK is very cute/handsome and Dedede is EXTREMELY sexy and they both deserve many kisses. Sectonia is also stunning (bonus for magic and swords and being generally cool) but I don't think I'd ever want to date her because on top of the blindingly obvious caveats I am e x t r e m e l y spheksophobic

[dreamybandee]

Rules:  Don’t reblog, repost. Reply as muse talking. Tagging:  Ahhhh anyone who hasn’t done it and wants to do it! Tagged by:  @sternenteile​! Thamk you Nikki. Sending big love ;v;

► NAME ➭   “Hello there! I’’m Dee! Bandana Dee! I’m uh...I’m sure you can guess why I’m called that. I can’t wait to answer these questions!” ► ARE YOU SINGLE? ➭  “Yes! I’m a single waddle dee among MANY Waddle Dees! There’s so many of us! You can ask Waddle Doo at the castle! He even says there’s a lot of the-...OH. Oh that’s not what you meant...But I guess I’m single in that way too! So yes again!” ► ARE YOU HAPPY? ➭   "Oh yes! Very! Thank you!” ► ARE YOU ANGRY? ➭   "Wha? Oh no. Not at all! I’m happy, after all! Wait...can you be happy AND angry? Is that possible? Oh man, I dunno!” ► ARE YOUR PARENTS STILL MARRIED? ➭   "Oh, well I...I don’t know...I don’t even know...my parents. I haven’t for a long time...Well, if they’re out there, I...I hope they’re happy. Having a good life...in a good spot...I wonder...Ohh. I’m sorry. Please continue!”

⚡️ NINE FACTS! ► ‘BIRTH’ PLACE ➭   “Dream Land! Just like every other waddle dee! I mean, I think. I don’t remember anything about it, but I’m pretty sure it was Dream Land I was born in. I just...I just don’t know where in Dream Land. I’ve been at Castle Dedede for so so long now? ...Wait, do you think I was born there?” ► HAIR COLOR ➭   "No hair here! But my bandana is blue! And I’m not taking it off to show you my head. Sorry!” ► EYE COLOR ➭   “Brown! Like um...Like chocolate! Milk chocolate! I love chocolate. Oh it’s so sweet...Oh! That wasn’t part of the question...Whoops.” ► BIRTHDAY ➭   “Oooh, uhm...I’m not...entirely sure? I don’t know when my actual birthday was. His highness told me he didn’t really know either...But November 7th is kind of a special day! That’s when I joined the army! I guess THAT could be considered a birthday, right?” ► MOOD ➭   “I’m feeling pretty good and pretty happy! Starting off the day on a good note!” ► GENDER ➭   “I don’t really do that! Sorry!” ► SUMMER OR WINTER ➭   “Summer! Oh yes! Perfect for walks, picnics, and picking apples! I love being outside in the warm sun!’ ► MORNING OR AFTERNOON ➭ “I have to go with afternoon! I feel so tired in the morning and mornings are really early for me too.”

⚡️ EIGHT THINGS ABOUT YOUR LOVE LIFE! ► ARE YOU IN LOVE? ➭   "Always! I love the friends I have and the friends I’m going to meet! They mean a lot to me!...Oh wait...That’s not what you meant, was it? Well, no. I don’t think so anyways.” ► DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT? ➭  “I, well....I dunno! I think you should get to know people at least a little bit before you love them! It’s like an apple! I could look really clean, red, and delicious on the outside, but you gotta check if it’s rotting or has critters on the inside!” ► WHO ENDED YOUR LAST RELATIONSHIP? ➭   “Huh? You mean...someone didn’t want to be my friend anymore? Well, I don’t know who’s done that, but that’s up to them and...not me.... If they don’t wanna be my friend then that’s sniff th-that’s o-okay and sniffle sniff th-that’s their decision...” ► HAVE YOU EVER BROKEN SOMEONE’S HEART? ➭   “Oooh, oh I sure hope not! I really don’t want to hurt anyone or their feelings!” ► ARE YOU AFRAID OF COMMITMENTS? ➭  “Yes! Well, I mean- no? Yes and no? I don’t want to break anyone’s promises or let them down! Making people happy doing those things? It feels...it feels really good. Makes me really happy too! But some things are really hard to do! I’d never tell people that, of course...I’d hate to trouble them or make them feel bad...So....Yes and no I guess!” ► HAVE YOU HUGGED SOMEONE WITHIN THE LAST WEEK? ➭   “Yes! I’m always there for hugs when people need them! I like them. They’re warm and friendly...” ► HAVE YOU EVER HAD A SECRET ADMIRER? ➭   “Well k-kind of?? I get an awful lot of nice notes from fellow waddle dees and other people telling me that I’m a good rep for them! Even a role model! I don’t even know where some of these notes come from, but I’ll do my best for all the great people who sent them!” ► HAVE YOU EVER BROKEN YOUR OWN HEART? ➭   "You...You can do that? I didn’t really know...M-maybe I did? Ooooh, I have no idea. This isn’t....isn’t really fun to think about. I’m sorry.”

⚡️SIX CHOICES! ► LOVE OR LUST ➭   "Love! I don’t really know about that last one.” ► LEMONADE OR ICED TEA ➭    "I’m thinking...Tea! I like tea both cold and hot! I love Lemonade too, but sometimes it can be soooo sour. It leaves a really weird feeling! But you know what is good? Lemonade in some Tea! It’s so sweet and good! You should give it a try! I can make some if you want!” ► A FEW BEST FRIENDS OR MANY REGULAR FRIENDS ➭   “I-well...I have both actually! Is that okay? I love all my friends very much! The waddle dees, the dream friends, other people in the castle, even some people I’ve met these last few years! But I’ve had more time with different people, y’know? Kirby, Meta Knight, his highness, people at the mansion, they’re all so amazing. I love my friends...” ► WILD NIGHT OUT OR ROMANTIC NIGHT IN ➭  "W-wild? What does ‘wild’ mean? I mean, I don’t think I’m romantic, so maybe the first one? This is so confusing!” ► DAY OR NIGHT  ➭   "Oooh, I like both! Night is so pretty with the stars and the cool air! But it’s so dark! I like the warm sun and I like seeing. Both are great!”

⚡️ FIVE HAVE YOU EVERS! ► BEEN CAUGHT SNEAKING OUT ➭  “W-well...I....yeah. I guess...I guess the king caught me a couple of times. I really wanted to see how Kirby was doing and just get out of the castle a bit, y’know? But...work should ALWAYS come first, I guess. I’ll try and be a little smarter from now on...Oh, and please, don’t tell the king I said that! I-um...I don’t really know if I should have told you that...” ► FALLEN DOWN/UP THE STAIRS ➭   “Y-yeah, but stairs are so big and hard to step over! I hate walking on them when I’m holding stuff! I can’t see them! And I end up dropping everything all over the place? Ooooh, I don’t like stairs. I wish the castle wasn’t so high up! Then we wouldn’t have that many stairs!” ► WANTED SOMETHING/SOMEONE SO BADLY IT HURT? ➭   “Yes!! That cake Dedede had for the battle Tournament he made. Those fights were scary and they definitely hurt! But with Kirby’s help, we made it! It was worth it! The best cake I’ve EVER tasted!”

⚡️FIVE PREFERENCES! ► SMILE OR EYES ➭    “Smile! I’m so jealous. I can’t smile. I have no mouth. But seeing people’s smiles? It’s nice! I love seeing people happy! I love seeing that! I wish I could feel and show that for myself...” ► SHORTER OR TALLER ➭    “I like seeing people when talking to them! It feels weird to be looked down on. Soooo maybe shorter? I MEAN if other people were shorter! I myself would love to be taller! It’s so hard to reach everything! I hate asking for help too.” ► INTELLIGENCE OR ATTRACTION ➭   “You mean how smart? Or how nice looking they are? B-but...What about how kind they are? I mean- both are of those things are good, but I think being nice is even more important!”  ► HOOK-UP OR RELATIONSHIP ➭   “...What’s a hook-up?”

⚡️ FAMILY! ► DO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY GET ALONG ➭   “W-well I um...I kinda told you I don’t have a blood family so...Oh! But what about the other waddle dees? I hang around them a lot! Yeah! Okay! We get along a lot! Sometimes anyways. Sometimes I have to fight against them though. I don’t really feel good about that...” ► WOULD YOU SAY YOU HAVE A “MESSED UP LIFE” ➭ “Messed up? Oh no! Not at all! I know life has it’s fair share of ups and downs, but that’s okay. I’m happy with it. I’ve learned so much and gotten so far. And most of all, I’ve met so many great people! I think I like my life the way it is.” ► HAVE YOU EVER RAN AWAY FROM HOME ➭   “Yeah! A couple of times, actually! Monsters and all sorts of bad guys have taken over Castle Dedede or even destroyed it before! I think the other dees and me were lucky we made it out okay!” ► HAVE YOU EVER GOTTEN KICKED OUT ➭   “Once again, yes! Those people who take over the castle aren’t very nice! His Highness has even dismissed me a couple of times...but mostly when weird things are happening! Oh, please forgive me, your majesty! I didn’t mean to sound so rude!”

⚡️ FRIENDS! ► DO YOU SECRETLY HATE ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS ➭   “Wh-what? Oh no no! Not at all! I love my friends! I love Kirby, his Highness, Meta Knight, Sailor Dee, and oh! All the friends who helped in our recent adventure! Gooey! Adeleine! Ribbon!  M-...Magolor...S-Susie... and M-Marx and...and...I-I mean...I know they’re not all perfect b-but...we’re friends now, right? H-hating them would make me....make me a bad friend...” ► DO YOU CONSIDER ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS GOOD FRIENDS ➭   “Y-yes! I...I guess? I mean, some of them were bad before, but they’re good now! I mean...I sure hope so...” ► WHO IS YOUR BEST FRIEND ➭    “All my friends! I love them all very much in their very own ways! Sailor Dee and I have known each other for all our lives...Kirby is so strong and cool, and I want to be just like him...And the king too! He’s such a great leader! And Meta Knight always has our backs! And-and....! Oh! S-sorry about that. I guess I kind of...Kind of got lost in my thoughts there. Uh-heh heh...” ► WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU ➭   “Well...I don’t know if there’s anyone out there that knows absolutely everything about me, really. There’s still so much I want to show people! And so much I want to learn and do! I don’t think I even know everything about myself yet. Can I be as strong as my friends? Where am I going to go in life? How can I be better and stronger? There are a lot of things I’m still trying to figure out I think...”

“Oh! That was it? Gosh. That felt so quick, answering all those questions. Thank you for doing this with me! Come and find me at the castle if you have any more, okay?”

[gigilalaka]

Kirby HCs part 3

So here is part 3 of my Kirby hcs. Hope you enjoy.

-Kirby is at least somewhere between 100 to 500 years old when he crashlands on Popstar. He was pretty much a newborn in his species term, which was one of the reasons why Meta was NOT HAPPY with Dedede wakeing the child up. Too early indeed.

-Kirby has inherent Meta’s stubborness and strong will. Which has ended up in the both of them getting on eachother nevers and caused a few fights and yelling here and there. They do in the end makeup and say sorry, but it can take a few days if its really bad.

-Kirby has a natural talent in makeing friends wherever he go’s. It dose not matter if your the good guy or the bad guy, he will make you his friend. However over the years, Kirby has been a bit more careful in who he wants to befriend. Getting betrayed or hurt every now and then has thought him a few lessons in that.

-That said, when someone do betray him. Its not easy to get his forgiveness, as Susie, Magolor and Marx can say with 100% certainty. Even if he does forgive you, you still need to expect the cold shoulder ever now and then.

-There are a few copy abilites that Kirby has sort of been banned to use by Meta Knight, Tiff and Dedede. Said bane of abilities has been lifted over time has his gotten older though. It mostly comes from that the kid find it either hard to control said ability or its power ( like the Crash ability), that his body is not yet ‘ready’ for said ability ( his Mike ability fits this very well, it was only after puberty that said ability did not turn anyone instantly deaft or worst) or could right out kill someone without him meaning to ( hello Poison ability).

-However, there has been times when the kid have had to use the banned abilities when he’d have no other ability to use or when either of his uncles, not knowing these abilities was banned for good reasons, trys to help him train his copy abilities and other skills. All three uncles have some major regrets from those mistakes. Galacta Knight as well have some regrets when he tried to help Kirby with his Poison ability, despied Meta warning him not to, the end result was not pretty.

-Kirby learned to cook from Galacta and baking from Meta. His very good at it too and loves to surpries his dads, husband and friends with their favorite foods and desserts on special days or whenever he wants to cheer them up on a bad day.

-Kirby loves it whenever his grandfather Arthur gets to babysitt him. The old veteran commander would take his grandson on trips around Cappy Town and parks that Dedede has build over the years, tell him storys, play with him, take naps together and teach him some nice little tricks here and there. He allways has a great time with Arthur and would often ask his dads when the next time grandpa gets to watch over him.

-Falspar has manged to teach Kirby a few dirty tricks to use whenever the kid got in a bind, which he did, when he was in his teen years. Those tricks as over many years helped him come out of some really hair tin troubles.

-Kirby as also gotten the chance to meet his great aunt Bella Mare, Galacta’s aunt, and have fun times with her whenever Meta and Galacta has time to visits her or she comes over herself. The old woman has over the years taught Kirby many card and puzzle games and they both have become masters at them. She also loves takeing photos and has many photos of Kirby which she show to her friends with great pride.

-When Kirby hit his teens, he went through a really bad and awkward time. Just like any other teenager did, with some rebel time mixed as well. Though when his wings started to grow, he was very glad his dads was there to help. That hurt worst than hell.

-Its rare, but sometimes Kirby will holde a grudge at someone for some time. It most often happens whenever Marx or Dark Meta dose something that leaves long lasting damage or just turns the whole week sour.

-Kirby has a at least, by accident, destroyed Dedede’s castle and the Halberd a few times whenever he gotten a cold or the flu. The inhalling ability becomes more of a burden when this happens since no puff can propely control their lungs when they get sick.

-Kirby’s house ended up in the care of Bandana Dees familiy when Rick became too old to look after it and had to move to the house of the eldery. For the next 16 000 pluss years the familiy took great care of the house. Kirby would often come over to check and help around when he has the time. He was very happy when he got it back in his teens. Sometimes, liveing on a flying ship can become very small and as a teenager, you need your own space at times.

-When Kirby realised that he was going to out live many of his friends, the puff became heartbroken and very sad for a while. Meta, Galacta and Dedede had a hard time getting Kirby to eat or sleep for some weeks, before Bella found a way that worked most of the time, and neither of Kirby’s dads, uncles, great aunt or grandpa did not leave him turing that time. He was very greatful for the support that they gave him.

And thats it for now. I’ll be makeing a part 4 for Meta Knight soon so stay tuned. A part 4 of Kirby might be on its way as well. Once flu seasons is over. Yay.