#(Maybe tomorrow I can write about a happier Magolor!)

[desultory-novice]

Here's a really disturbing thought for everyone!

I've seen it speculated around the JP fandom that the True Arena Magolor Soul fight exists to be a sort of semi-canonical "bad end" AU for Magolor. That it shows us what would happen if the crown's possession had gone too far. If Magolor had been fully devoured by it. If he were truly beyond rescue by any means.

Oh, and what makes it worse?

This is the one fight where Magolor specifically asks Kirby to break the crown on his head and free him. He audibly cries out Kirby’s name during the fight, including murmuring a noise that sounds very much like “...tasukete...” in JP aka “...help...me...” And yet?

You Don't Succeed. 

The crown remains bonded to this Magolor even when he's defeated.

True Arena Magolor asks only to be freed and Kirby fails to free him.

The one version of Magolor you canonically cannot save is the only version who breaks down and pleads for your help over the course of the fight... Even the first pause screen asks you to free him from this nightmare. To save him and become true friends...

But you’re unable to...

Also, I hadn't realized this until Cauli-flawa pointed it out, but the crown’s gem blinks red and blue. Of course, the temptation to compare those colors to a certain jester is there - and I'll do that later, fufufu - but another, perhaps simpler interpretation is that the blue flashes are moments when our Magolor is fighting back from within the cage the crown made of his body. He's trying, struggling, doing everything possible... he even manages to play the role of "Helper Magolor" one last time by giving you that apple... 

But the moment his eyes shut... It’s too late.  He's forever out of your reach...

True Arena Magolor Soul is depicting Magolor's death...

Welp, time to cry myself to sleep...