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It'd be feasible to interpret that Dark Meta Knight, Galacta Knight and Parallel Susie participate in the racing matches because of their presence as alt color options for Meta Knight and Susie.

And if Taranza still somehow doesn't manage to become a playable, then it'd be funny to imagine him being all mad and pissy about DMK being qualified to participate in the races but he himself isn't.

Not gonna lie, I think it'll be fun to adapt Kirby Air Riders into my headcanon Kirbyverse.

You know, I really do genuinely expect that Marx and Taranza will be playables and that they're just not confirmed yet, but if for some strange reason they don't ever become playable, then imagine the comical headcanons that would materialize as a result.

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Not gonna lie, I think it'll be fun to adapt Kirby Air Riders into my headcanon Kirbyverse.

You know, I really do genuinely expect that Marx and Taranza will be playables and that they're just not confirmed yet, but if for some strange reason they don't ever become playable, then imagine the comical headcanons that would materialize as a result.

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I've thought to myself wondering if the reason why Marx hasn't been confirmed to be playable in Kirby Air Riders is because maybe they're intending to make him an obstacle/boss. After all, Sakurai did turn Marx into an unhinged boss battle in Smash Ultimate, so it wouldn't be off to assume he'd make Marx a boss again.

But I'd think even that still wouldn't stop him from being playable. Who's to say he couldn't be both a playable and a boss?

I didn't play the original Kirby Air Ride, but I've seen how Dedede is a boss that you then unlock as playable after beating him. Theoretically, the same thing could happen with Marx in Air Riders.

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My guesses for unconfirmed playables in Air Riders

Likely: Marx, Taranza, Sir Kibble, Poppy Bros Jr., Chilly, Burning Leo, Bonkers, Bugzzy, Mr. Frosty

Moderate chance: Daroach, Elfilin, Adeleine, Ribbon, Beetley, Birdon, Bio Spark, TAC, Broom Hatter, Rocky, Gim, Driblee, Vividria

Unlikely: Animal Friends (all of them), Mage Sisters, Captain Vul, Clawroline, Jammerjab, Awoofy

Background NPCs at best: Sectonia, Haltmann, Hyness, Gorimondo, Sillydillo, Leongar

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As I do legit feel like we've yet to see the complete roster for Kirby Air Riders, I believe that these three are among the most likely candidates for yet-to-be-confirmed riders we may end up getting.

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Well, I don't believe we've seen the full roster intended for Air Riders, but I doubt we'll see every single Dream Friend.

I'm thinking that the Animal Friends and the Mage Sisters are the most unlikely ones to be added. I honestly just don't see them getting in.

As I don't expect a massive sized roster, I doubt they'd dedicate multiple roster slots to either of the two aforementioned groups.

And no, I don't think it would work to squeeze all three Mage Sisters in one slot by having them be alts of each other. I'm pretty sure that alts aren't meant to differ in gameplay, and the Mage Sisters 100% would differ in gameplay with their differing weapons and elements. DMK and Galacta get away with being alts because you can easily just make them operate the exact same as Meta Knight without doing them dirty.

Other than the Mage Sisters and Animal Friends, however, I think the rest of the Dream Friends may be fair game to be playable. Especially Marx because Sakurai made him. Taranza, Daroach, Adeleine and Ribbon could also still be fair game, although I think Marx has the highest chance.

....Also would like to keep in mind that, like I said in an earlier post, hidden slots likely won't just be Dream Friends only and we'd probably get more basic enemies/helpers as well.

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Sakurai goated for this one ngl

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My thoughts on Kirby Air Rider's roster

On one hand, if it turns out the full roster is only the characters we've been shown on the direct, then I wouldn't actually be all that upset because I'm pretty much just happy to see Magolor and Susie be racers. Those two were who I wanted most, and we got them. I'm also very happy we got Gooey, too.

But on the other hand, I really do feel like there'd be more riders coming.

For starters, Marx is immediately the most obvious choice for a future addition. And like I said in a yesterday post, I'm even surprised he's not confirmed as he was created by Sakurai. Maybe they plan to make him a boss/course obstacle, but eh. Him being a racer would be fun to play as.

Taranza is another obvious choice for a future addition. As are Elfilin, Adeleine and Daroach (I'm mentioning Daroach cuz I actually genuinely really like him and I think he deserves a spot) but I think we shouldn't even only just look at the Dream Friends for future additions.

Some more generic enemy characters would be nice and there are even some obvious and iconic ones. Chilly and Poppy Bros Jr. being the foremost examples. They're very recognizable alongside Waddle Doo, Knuckle Joe and Chef Kawasaki, I'm actually even surprised that Chilly isn't confirmed yet.

And for other mid-bosses to be racers alongside Kawasaki, I do actually quite like Bonkers so that'd be cool to see as a racer. Vividria, too.

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Priorities

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HOLY SHIT LOOK WHO MADE IT IN AIR RIDERS!!!!

No Taranza though, oof.

Also, not gonna lie, I'm actually genuinely shocked that Marx isn't in, considering that he was created by Sakurai.

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Marx: I'm such a bad person but in a funny way. Like I'm inviting a bunch of Kirby's friends who hate each other to go bowling for my birthday just to see how they interact. Hopefully they fight.

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I'd like to highlight a particular moment in my "The Horrible Gift That Keeps On Giving" Kirby AU - specifically, the moment where Susie kills the leader of the foreign alien military that invades her planet.

Because I actually genuinely think there's something hilarious about it.

Imagine if Meta Knight were to have killed President Haltmann during the events of Planet Robobot to stick it to Susie after she mechanized him? Well, in this AU, Susie kills the father of somebody that tormented her with an electrical shock-helmet and messed with her DNA.

As the Xtra-Terrestrial Army (name of the aforementioned foreign alien military) invades Mecha Star (Susie's home in the AU) and Susie herself gets taken in as a hostage, Naxor (the army's secondary general) does some violating things to her to force her to help him and his army strengthen themselves with her technology. He puts a shock-helmet on her head that hurts her with electricity to force compliance, and the helmet also has intentional side-effects that include changing her DNA and mutates her body to look more like Naxor's green alien species. This fortunately gets reversed after the helmet gets taken off of Susie's head, but I digress.

And then when Kirby shows up, fights the Xtra-Terrestrial Army and saves Susie from their control, he eventually confronts Draxon (the army's leader, and also Naxor's dad) and gets into a multi-phase fight with him. When Kirby wins the whole fight, Draxon's ego gets bruised so heavily that he ragequits by blowing up Mecha Star out of spite. Susie kills Draxon in revenge for destroying her planet by trampling him to death with her business suit.

In a way, Susie kills two birds with one stone by killing Draxon. Because Draxon was Naxor's dad, Susie technically punches back at Naxor by killing his dad, making things even with him. Naxor's motivation in the army was even similar to Susie's motivation in Planet Robobot (committing atrocities in the name of your morally terrible father) and his most recent victim takes his father away from him, oof.

This could create the joke of Susie being some sort of "dad killer" because, after being inadvertently responsible for her own father's death, she also kills someone else's father in this AU.

And the funniest part is that in this situation, she doesn't regret it. Even after she self-reflects after getting a taste of her own medicine, she still doesn't regret killing Naxor's dad. Although to be fair, Naxor doesn't apologize for what he did to her, as well as the fact that his dad literally destroyed her planet with a huge explosion out of spite, so it's hard to blame her.

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I'd like to highlight a particular moment in my "The Horrible Gift That Keeps On Giving" Kirby AU - specifically, the moment where Susie kills the leader of the foreign alien military that invades her planet.

Because I actually genuinely think there's something hilarious about it.

Imagine if Meta Knight were to have killed President Haltmann during the events of Planet Robobot to stick it to Susie after she mechanized him? Well, in this AU, Susie kills the father of somebody that tormented her with an electrical shock-helmet and messed with her DNA.

As the Xtra-Terrestrial Army (name of the aforementioned foreign alien military) invades Mecha Star (Susie's home in the AU) and Susie herself gets taken in as a hostage, Naxor (the army's secondary general) does some violating things to her to force her to help him and his army strengthen themselves with her technology. He puts a shock-helmet on her head that hurts her with electricity to force compliance, and the helmet also has intentional side-effects that include changing her DNA and mutates her body to look more like Naxor's green alien species. This fortunately gets reversed after the helmet gets taken off of Susie's head, but I digress.

And then when Kirby shows up, fights the Xtra-Terrestrial Army and saves Susie from their control, he eventually confronts Draxon (the army's leader, and also Naxor's dad) and gets into a multi-phase fight with him. When Kirby wins the whole fight, Draxon's ego gets bruised so heavily that he ragequits by blowing up Mecha Star out of spite. Susie kills Draxon in revenge for destroying her planet by trampling him to death with her business suit.

In a way, Susie kills two birds with one stone by killing Draxon. Because Draxon was Naxor's dad, Susie technically punches back at Naxor by killing his dad, making things even with him. Naxor's motivation in the army was even similar to Susie's motivation in Planet Robobot (committing atrocities in the name of your morally terrible father) and his most recent victim takes his father away from him, oof.

This could create the joke of Susie being some sort of "dad killer" because, after being inadvertently responsible for her own father's death, she also kills someone else's father in this AU.

And the funniest part is that in this situation, she doesn't regret it. Even after she self-reflects after getting a taste of her own medicine, she still doesn't regret killing Naxor's dad. Although to be fair, Naxor doesn't apologize for what he did to her, as well as the fact that his dad literally destroyed her planet with a huge explosion out of spite, so it's hard to blame her.

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Kirby AU talk: "The Horrible Gift That Keeps On Giving"

Hello everyone! I know I've been talking about this AU in several Tumblr posts beforehand, but I'm now finally getting around to writing its synopsis, a consistency with my other Kirby AUs.

I just wanted to complete the AO3 fic dedicated to the AU before writing the synopsis, and that's now accomplished. Feel free to check out the fic for the AU on here!

As for this synopsis, it will have more brief and summarized versions of the incidents that happen in this AU. Click on the spoiler tag down below for quicker reads on the stories, quicker than the fic's writing.

Incident 1: Magolor becomes victim to a new twist-villain.

One day, a living Ancient named Crypton comes to Planet Popstar. He claims that the reason he comes to Popstar is to check out Merry Magoland.

This excites Magolor. He has a fascination for Ancients, and so it makes him really excited to meet a living Ancient, as that's never happened before. And the fact that this living Ancient is coming to Popstar solely to check out Magoland? Magolor finds himself being on cloud nine. It feeds his ego to have a living Ancient seemingly go out of their way to check out his amusement park.

But little does he know that Crypton sneakily takes full advantage of his ego being fed.

Crypton claims that he has tons of "insider information" about Ancients, and he presents himself as an informative person that gladly shares this so-called insider info with anyone in Popstar that's eager to hear about it, with especially Magolor eating it up. But it turns out that these are all lies that Crypton made up to serve as a distraction for what he's actually plotting.

He lets a few weeks pass after his arrival on Popstar to make people fully complacent of his presence. And then, at one point, he makes his move and betrays Magolor, who he relegated to be his main manipulation target.

Crypton, revealing that he has the ability to steal other people's magic to take for himself, steals Magolor's magic away from him and imprisons him in a large magic sphere. The suddenly-turncoat Ancient then reveals his true intentions, as he admits that he found out about Magolor's Master Crown incident in Halcandra and used that as an inspiration for him to develop his own plans to become an evil conqueror. He was using his informative demeanor to mask this up until now.

After revealing his true nature, Crypton then chooses Merry Magoland as his first place to take over, and forces the imprisoned Magolor to watch as he does it. Crypton turns Magolor's theme park into a chaotic hellscape, as he changes up the park's rides and deliberately makes them more dangerous, and forces people onto them. This causes a number of deaths, effectively making Crypton a mass murderer.

It mentally destroys Magolor to helplessly watch as his beloved theme park gets torn to shreds, and that people are getting killed by what this new twist-villain is doing to it.

A few of the park's attendees, specifically some Helpers, attempt to stand up to Crypton, but they end up losing because of how powerful he is after stealing Magolor's magic. He then becomes even stronger as he steals the magic and weaponry from the Helpers that tried to fight him.

However, Kirby eventually shows up after a few escaped attendees alert him of what's going on. He confronts Crypton. The traitorous Ancient proves to be a tough opponent, literally tougher than the Magolor boss fight because he's stolen Magolor's magic and more, but Kirby still manages to come out on top. He uses the Super Abilities during the fight.

As Kirby beats Crypton up and defeats him, he knocks all of the newly stolen powers out of him, which allows Magolor and the others to regain their powers back.

Then, in a fit of rage, Magolor gives Crypton a brutal pummeling on the ground, and then opens up an Another Dimension portal and throws the traitorous Ancient in it, subjecting him to suffer what he himself once suffered through.

There's a moment of celebration for Crypton getting well-deserved karma for his actions, but Merry Magoland is left destroyed by what he did to it, as well as the irreversible damage he's additionally caused in the form of the people that died from being forced on the dangerously-modified rides.

Magolor, and many other people, are left traumatized by all of this.

Incident 2: Taranza becomes victim to a new tyrant's abettor.

Floralia gets taken over by a new tyrant. They hadn't even fully recovered from the dictatorship of Queen Sectonia yet, and now they get hit with another dictatorship.

This time, the one that's ruling over them with an iron fist, or more appropriately a fiery fist, is a giant evil dragonfly known as Queen Zenithia. She originates from the Floralian island of Endless Explosions, and she has immense fire magic. She arises as a new tyrant, and she doesn't hesitate to brutally kill dissidents by either incinerating them or sending them down to Endless Explosions' lava.

And just like Sectonia before her, she has someone that acts as a loyal right-hand person to her, a smaller dragonfly woman named Ophelia who also possesses the same sorts of fire magic. Ophelia kidnaps people and sends them to Endless Explosion under Zenithia's orders.

One of the people that she kidnaps is Taranza. Ophelia breaks into Taranza's castle home in Royal Road and picks a fight with him, and despite how powerful of a magician he is, she ends up winning because she overwhelms him with her mach speed. And during their fight, she also wrecks his home and destroys much of his belongings, including precious Sectonia mementos that he was keeping.

Taranza gets extremely upset to see his Sectonia mementos get destroyed, but he's unable to do anything about it because Ophelia incapacitates him and kidnaps him away from his home.

Like she does with the other people she's kidnapped, she takes Taranza to Endless Explosions, although she ends up taking him to her personal cave lair and locks him up in there because she was impressed by his magic and plans to mind-control him to fight for her. Ophelia has the ability to mind-control people by hypnotizing them with her eyes.

When Kirby comes to save Floralia a second time, he gets into a battle with Ophelia and beats her. She then mind-controls Taranza to fight the pink puffball, and makes modifications to his magic during that battle, but Kirby wins again and frees Taranza.

After he's been freed, Taranza helps Kirby for the remainder of saving Floralia from Zenithia and Ophelia. They free the imprisoned Floralians, and Ophelia desperately unleashes Pyribbit on Kirby, and when this fails, Zenithia shows up.

Zenithia lashes out at Ophelia for failing her, and hurts her as punishment. The evil dragonfly then imprisons her own right-hand woman with a cage after hurting her.

Then follows a fight between Kirby and Zenithia. And during their fight, Taranza makes the decision to free Ophelia from the cage that her queen just put her in. Despite what happened between them beforehand, Taranza found himself being horrified when he watched Ophelia get hurt by the very person she was loyal to, and couldn't help but feel bad when it hit really close to home for him.

Kirby wins an initial fight with Zenithia, and then a second fight between them happens. In this next fight, Zenithia goes entirely off the deep end. She spits out a giant rock that she enters and undergoes a transformation that doubles her already large size and makes her exponentially stronger, and she effectively loses her sense-of-self as she makes repeated unhinged screams about how she's going to incinerate literally everyone and everything.

This forces Taranza and Ophelia to team up, as they go and find a Miracle Fruit and throw it at Kirby. With it, he's able to win again, and he even ends up killing Zenithia as his final blow sends her flying and makes her crash onto a mountainside that then results in a rockfall that crushes her body.

And with that, Kirby rescues Floralia from tyranny a second time. But there's also some complications, in the form of Ophelia having to deal with the loss of her queen, and Taranza also goes through a lot after what just happened. He's left having to grapple with the permanent loss of his Sectonia mementos, and even though Ophelia was the one responsible for destroying those mementos, he doesn't actually hold a grudge against her for it, and even feels bad for her as he watches her experience grief like he once did.

Incident 3: Susie becomes victim to new intergalactic colonizers.

Susie's home planet, Mecha Star, gets hit with a foreign invasion. The foreign invaders are a massive organization of militaristic green aliens known as the Xtra-Terrestrial Army.

They invite themselves into Mecha Star with a ginormous spaceship, and their army is more than big enough to endanger the entire planet.

Susie tries to fight back by unleashing the Haltmann Works Company's military, but they find themselves outmatched as they're vastly outnumbered by the invaders. And then Susie herself gets captured by them.

She gets taken in by a green alien named Naxor, who's the secondary general of the Xtra-Terrestrial Army. The invaders are impressed by Mecha Star's technology, and decided that they're going to take it all for themselves and strengthen themselves with it, and Naxor plans to make Susie help him and the army accomplish that goal.

Naxor puts a shock-helmet on Susie's head that hurts her with electricity, effectively torturing her to force her to obey him. The shock-helmet also has a built-in mechanism that changes Susie's DNA and mutates her to more closely resemble the same species as the green aliens that run the Xtra-Terrestrial Army, and Naxor says that this "improves" people as "lifeforms" as he unabashedly looks down on people that aren't the same species as him.

It also gets revealed that the Xtra-Terrestrial Army has invaded many other planets before Mecha Star, showing that they're intergalactic colonizers like the Haltmann Works Company once was. And Naxor also admits that he's mutated other people before doing it to Susie.

Susie is completely helpless as she's made against her will to help give her home away to the Xtra-Terrestrial Army. She breaks after being hurt enough by the shock-helmet that Naxor put on her head, and she's fully aware of the mutation done to her body, but can't do anything about it because Naxor has turned her into a mind slave.

Eventually, Kirby comes to Mecha Star with the intention to save Susie and her home. He fights the Xtra-Terrestrial Army. And as he plows through their forces, he finds himself in a battle with Naxor. After Kirby wins that battle, the secondary general then comes up with new plans for Susie.

Naxor does some new conditioning with the shock-helmet he put on Susie's head. He begins to completely control her movements, and then goes on to take her business suit and make modifications to it. His intention is to turn her into a weapon to fight Kirby with.

When he sics Susie on Kirby, he watches the plan fall apart in front of him as Kirby wins yet again. And after Kirby wins this fight, he takes the shock-helmet off of Susie's head and frees her from Naxor's control.

Susie's DNA also gets reverted back to normal. The shock-helmet being taken off of her head also results in the erasure of the foreign mutation on her body, which changes her back to her original self.

After she's been freed, Susie helps Kirby finish off what's left of the Xtra-Terrestrial Army. The Haltworkers give Kirby a Robobot Armor to use as a thank-you for freeing Susie, and they also quickly fix up her mech to allow her to help Kirby.

Kirby and Susie plow through much of the remaining Xtra-Terrestrial Army soldiers, and then eventually confront the army's leader, a bad-tempered and ruthless man known as General Draxon. He becomes surprised to see people challenge him, and doesn't hesitate to reveal how much destruction he's caused on many other planets before this point. He accepts the fight taken to him without hesitation.

An initial battle happens where Kirby, with Susie's help, handily beats Draxon. But then Draxon goes ballistic after getting beaten up a bunch. As he loses his temper and displays a bruised ego, he screams and spews out xenophobic slurs, and then ramps up his intentions as he no longer cares about taking all of Mecha Star's technology and now suddenly plans on destroying it all.

Naxor steps in and tries to speak out against Draxon's sudden change of plans, showing that he doesn't like the idea of now wanting to destroy all of the planet's technology and believes that it doesn't do the Xtra-Terrestrial Army any good, but Draxon promptly discharges him from the army. The enraged army leader completely loses his cool and becomes utterly hellbent on destroying Mecha Star.

Draxon gets out the Xtra-Tank, an enormous tank that covers up a whole portion of the Xtra-Terrestrial Army, and uses it to begin his merciless assault on Mecha Star. Susie lets Kirby combine Robobot Armor with her business suit to result in a robot that's double the size and combines the abilities of both robots. After this transformation, Susie backs out of the fight and pleads Kirby to take down Draxon and his giant tank.

Considering how huge the Xtra-Tank is, it's a tough fight, but Kirby manages to win. He damages the Xtra-Tank enough to make it break down and stop functioning.

But then Draxon decides to start a timer that will result in the Xtra-Tank exploding once it runs out. He does this deliberately to blow up Mecha Star out of spite for getting his butt kicked. He then attempts to fly off, but Susie catches up to him and kills him with her mech. She kills him in revenge for making her planet about to blow up.

Naxor watches Susie kill Draxon. This is noteworthy because Draxon was Naxor's father. Susie kills the father of the very person that tortured her during this invasion.

An evacuation happens as a result of the incoming explosion caused by Draxon. Everyone in the planet leaves. Naxor and the remaining Xtra-Terrestrial Army soldiers don't come back after they leave, staying out once they make their exit, and their army also disbands.

The Xtra-Tank explodes. Draxon's corpse gets evaporated, and the explosion also destroys the vast majority of Mecha Star's technology, leaving the planet in miserable ruin.

After the explosion ends, Susie and her employees return to Mecha Star, and they're left having to deal with the horrible aftermath: the Haltmann Works Company has been destroyed a second time, and Mecha Star in general is a huge mess. Susie worked so hard in shaping up her new home and company, and then just like that, it's destroyed.

And while Susie's DNA did revert back to normal, she also still feels lingering pains from what the shock-helmet did to her on top of her having to deal with what's happened to her home.

The aftermath.

Magolor, Taranza and Susie are left traumatized by the recent incidents, and that's really saying something because all three of them are people that have already had trauma in their lives. They now have new trauma on top of the previous trauma they had.

They all lost stuff dear to them. Magolor lost his theme park, Taranza lost his Sectonia mementos, and Susie lost her revived company. These losses are crushing to them.

And not only that, but it also disturbs them when they go back on reflect on their past selves, because of how shockingly similar they themselves happen to be to the ones that just hurt them.

Because... Magolor, Taranza and Susie are all guilty of having committed the same crimes that Crypton, Ophelia and Naxor committed. They effectively got tastes of their own medicines.

This makes them more repentant of their past crimes than they ever were before, and they come to fully understand why they weren't forgiven by everyone. Some of their victims forgave them, but many of their other victims didn't. And after the tense feelings they have of the ones that just hurt them, they well and truly get it now.

However, they do also get sympathy from people, particularly their friends, which includes each other. And they also become more indebted to Kirby than they ever were before, being especially grateful that he saved them from when they needed him most.

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That's it for the synopsis! If you've read it all, thank you so much.

Like I said, I know I've talked about this AU a lot before writing this synopsis, and this also replaces "A New Alien Force" as I used to have a different story that uses the reversal trope for Taranza and Susie with them getting kidnapped together. I was actually dissastisfied with that previous story, and so I decided to entirely replace it with this new story that now adds Magolor as a new victim to this trope and lets Wave 3 get tormented in all separate incidents.

I find myself enjoying this so much more than the previous version of utiliizing the reversal trope.

Anyways, that's about all I got. This synopsis came late because, like I said, I wanted to write an AO3 fic for the AU first, and now that's done as I linked at the start of this post. So enjoy this synopsis in case if you want to learn what happens in this AU in more brief versions compared to what I've written on that fic.

If you've got questions about stuff in the AU, feel free to ask. In the future, I may also make more posts for the AU that revolve around stuff that I've not disclosed yet.

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I'm using a translator in case what I mean is misinterpreted.

Do you think a ship between Magolor and Meta Knight is possible? If you want my opinion, yes, but it would be complicated. Magolor should first become interested in Meta Knight. It would be interesting. The dynamic would be like love and dislike, or some resentment, or something like that.

They are similar in certain ways. They both have swords and ships, and both were Kirby villains at one time. They both redeemed themselves, and it could be a very complementary pairing. Meta Knight needs to be more open, and Magolor needs to learn to control himself.

I mean, with how intentionally open the Kirby series is, I'm sure that ship could be possible, and it could be executed well by people in the fandom for those that choose to ship them.

If the question is regarding them for my Kirbyverse, however? No.

I'll be honest, I barely do any serious shipping in my Kirbyverse. I've talked about how I'm supportive of some Kirby ships (particularly Magolor x Marx, Susie x Taranza and Susie x Francisca) but concerning what I actually establish in my Kirbyverse, I don't actually genuinely ship those and instead just interpret them as bestieships/really strong friendships, I'm just supportive to see those ships in other Kirby content/interpretations/stories that aren't mine.

I feel very indifferently about the idea of Magolor x Meta Knight. My favorite ship for Magolor would be with him and Marx, and my favorite ship for Meta Knight would be with him and King Dedede.

Nice mentioning on the similarities that Magolor and Meta Knight have, though. I will mention that because of the similarity they have in that they both attempted to take over Dream Land (or rather, the whole universe in Magolor's case) my interpretation of Meta Knight disliking/hating Magolor is pretty much entirely because of the manipulation and betrayal that Magolor pulled. I don't think Meta Knight would care about the taking over Popstar/Dream Land thing, it'd be hypocritical of him to be mad about that anyways. But yeah, to me he'd be the type of guy who'd be pissed about being played like a fiddle, and I imagine Magolor could've even ended up giving him some trust issues in general.