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drew king dedede

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we love you ryunosuke!!! 🎊

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[2023] Gijinka design for Miracle Matter. I'm not even gonna be subtle about this one, I popped off with this design and I'm right. I'm based as hell for this.

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Coming back from the dead to share... uhh Kirby gijinkas?

This took way too long to draw ugahhh

Closeups and yapping below the cut

main inspo I tried sticking with for all of them was something that wouldn't be too out of place in a kid's magical girl anime, specifically pretty cure. I just think its vibes mesh so well with the kirby universe that if kirby were to have another anime it'd probably be like that. So basically bright colors and shapely silhouettes.

I think the magical girl thing mainly shows in Kirby's design with him being full of frills, glitter, and a comically large bow. Those things just feel so Kirby and its not like he hasn't dressed up as an actual magical girl before lmao. I made sure to make it so he's got a lot of roundness to his silhouette which I think was a short coming of a previous design I made which I hate now dw Fun thing about the black tights on the arms and legs my thought process for those was to act as a stand-in for negative space between Kirby's arms and legs because game Kirby does not have those things!

Bandee is pretty vanilla as far as gijinkas for him go. I wanted them to have the look of someone who can move around a-lot, at least more than Kirby looks. I am very inspired by headcanons that place Waddle Dees as a species as being like the kirby version of monkeys (shout outs to Key Dees and Grand Dees) and I wanted to give a nod to that by giving Bandee animal looking legs.

Meta Knight probably took me the longest to nail down funnily enough the first thing I did settle on was giving him the world's doofiest shoes. Not the easiest thing in the world to make a knight whose whole deal is being cool still look full of whimsy. Some of my first sketches had all sorts of detail going on that I had to snap away because it just made Meta look like he had way too much going on. The big cloak is a call to the softer aspects to MK and it does good with giving him more shape. If close at his and Kirby's hair you can see a little star effect i splattered in there tee hee

Dedede, despite being the most no-brainer to design and draw is actually the one that I will probably go back to the drawing board with. Not completely, but was kind of at my wits end with this drawing 32 whole tracked hours n all, and I was ready to get it done.

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You just can't imagine how much I ADORE him! (But I still have to learn to draw him normally)

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Parmesan cheese

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My Favorite Puppet

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I've talked about MechaGodzilla in the past, but with a franchise as old and long as Godzilla's, it's inevitable that the character has changed over the years. He's gone from a tool of conquest to a defender of humanity to a raging mech turned against its masters.

But if I had to highlight my favorite iteration of the character, I have to go with the Millenium version that debuted in Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla and appeared one last time in Godzilla: Tokyo SOS. Aside from having arguably the coolest design, this MechaGodzilla (also known as Kiryu), actually does have something that the others don't: he has a character arc and isn't either a threat to be conquered or a tank.

The only problem with Kiryu is that talking about him runs the risk of sounding like a mad man. So disclaimer: everything down below is real. I am NOT making this stuff up. At all.

So our story starts in 1954 with the original Godzilla.

By now you should know the story. Baptized in the fires of the hydrogen bomb, the original Godzilla went on a rampage in Tokyo and completely leveled the city, killing countless. He was only stopped when the brilliant scientist Dr. Serizawa reduced him to a skeleton with the Oxygen Destroyer. Anyone who's familiar with Godzilla lore knows the story.

Well, in the continuity of the Kiryu duology, that skeleton becomes extremely important.

When a second Godzilla appears in 1999, the Japanese government knows they did some kind of superweapon to defend themselves (especially since conventional weaponry won't do jack). Taking a page out of Pacific Rim's book, they decide their best chance is a gigantic mech to fight the monster. But even then, Godzilla's vicious enough that even a conventional robot might not enough.

And here's where things get...interesting.

Thanks to recent developments in robotics and bioengineering, they're able to use the bones of the original Godzilla to build MechaGodzilla. The reason being that a robot that uses organic DNA will be able to react faster than a completely automated one. Plus, thanks to those aforementioned advancements, Kiryu would be able to fight as effectively and viciously as when it was Godzilla while remaining under the JDSF's control. Think of it more as a cyborg than a true robot.

So to reiterate, they built a mech out of the bones of the original Godzilla. It's also able to fight just as well as its organic counterpart. Something like an EVA from Evangelion.

...everyone still with me? Good. Cause it gets stranger.

Kiryu does turn out to be as good of a fighter as they needed. While he isn't as powerful as some of his other iterations, he's able to fight the new Godzilla on equal footing. He's able to fight Godzilla to a draw in the first film inflicting grievous wounds and even defeated him in the second with the help of Mothra.

There's just one problem. Remember how I said Kiryu was a cyborg brought to life by the original bones of Godzilla?

During his first scuffle with Godzilla...Kiryu remembered who he was when he heard Godzilla's roar. And when a monster realizes he's been brought back to life by those that gave him painful mutations, turned him into a living weapon, and made to fight one of his own...

He goes berserk.

Yeah, once the reality of Kiryu's state comes to mind, there's some serious questions on whether or not creating him was a good idea in the first place. For one, how exactly can anybody rely on a machine that thinks like a monster? For another, what are the moral implications of even creating such a thing and forcing him to fight what is essentially another of his kind? Or even bringing him back to life and thus playing God? These are actually given a ton of weight in the film as the ethical lines behind Kiryu's creation are blurred. Especially when MechaGodzilla being brought online is what's triggering Godzilla's rampages in the first place.

But the interesting thing here is Kiryu himself. There's a lot of hints that he's a lot more self-aware and in control than most people give him credit for. For one, he seems to have an affinity for his first pilot Akane and one of his technicians, Yoshido. His eyes almost seem to glow when Akane is in danger and flat out says farewell to Yoshido on a computer in Tokyo SOS. The implications are that he seems to sympathize with Akane's feelings of worthlessness and appreciates Yoshido treating him like he was an actual being despite essentially being a robot.

And then there's his relationship with Godzilla. Thing is...he doesn't want to fight one of his own. While he runs out of power in the first film before he can kill Godzilla, Akane speculates that Kiryu genuinely didn't want to fight anymore. While he'll certainly fight Godzilla to stop the monster's rampage (all the more impressive since this is technically the original Godzilla we're talking about), killing him is another matter entirely. Which creates a bit of conflict since his purpose is to kill Godzilla.

And he gets his chance in Tokyo SOS when he grievously wounds Godzilla...but then stops dead in his tracks when his "brother/son" cries out in pain. He then lets the Mothra Larvae to wrap Godzilla in silk and effectively bring the exhausted dinosaur to the earth, giving him an opportunity to finish the job. Hell, the pilots and mission control are basically ordering Godzilla's execution at this point.

Instead...he doesn't.

He gives off a roar that sounds like the original Godzilla, disobeys every command to finish the fight, and gently embraces his organic counterpart before taking them both out to sea where no one can reach them. Godzilla is able to live, and Kiryu (and by extension the original Godzilla) is finally able to rest in peace.

This is why this version of MechaGodzilla is my favorite. His whole arc to me was about choosing for himself and wrangling with his relationship to both mankind and Godzilla. About whether he should kill his own or let innocents get hurt. Or even just learning to move on past his grudge against people. Those are things you don't typically associate with kaiju movies. Cause in the end, Kiryu isn't just another mech or monster. He's got character to him as well. Something I think the Godzilla movies do well.

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this was supposed to be an “Athena Cykes autism post with her noise cancelling headphones”but after I put the tarot Sun border I found on Pinterest I now HAVE to create one for Simon too. However I can’t really picture him jumping HELPPP

Also, this will be my last post of 2024, I think! Happy new year!!

variations under cut

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Sad I got cold feet to participate in the kirblr secret santa :pensivecat: tho i probably wouldnt have had the time to draw anything for it enyway with how SLOW i was with the secret santas I made

Always next year though!

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forgotten kirby facts 128 - dedede has been portrayed as playing santa claus for christmas in dreamland in the official twitter.

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another installment of "I listened to all of the final boss themes and needed to draw them within the duration of their theme" ignore that I forgot dark nebula's name and excluded dark from mirror taranza's name

i couldn't fill all the empty spaces with Kirby's, sorry for that

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It seems there's a new lawyer in town!!!

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saykolohiya/sikolohiya

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R A I N B O W

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A small comic about a thought I had on why humans are so itty bitty in Kirby