#(Which is strangely the only other game to have a Kirby's Adventure-esque illustrated story section!)

[desultory-novice]

You know, given stuff like this, I'm honestly surprised more people don't write Marx + Dedede with Marx just utterly IDOLIZING the penguin king. A starry-eyed Marx nestling up to him like, "Tell me again how you stole all the stars in the sky? Pretty pleaseeee~!"

Because seriously, given all the stuff Dedede got up to "back in the day" he really ought to be Marx's hero. (Dedede, meanwhile, is trying to clean up his act and silently wishes the jester wouldn't constantly remind him of his cringe era with fanboyish glee.)