#...If True Arena Magolor is like this...

[desultory-novice]

“A Beautiful Sunset”

CW: body horror, mind break

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I know-kirby-saved-me-he-wouldn’t-just-leave-me-like-this-not-when-it-hurts-so-much-please-make-it-stop-where-are-you-Kirby-

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My original sketch/idea had the two of them actually alright and safe in Dream Land, just plagued by memories, they being the lone “survivors” of having their Souls weaponized...

...Then cursed True Arena lore kicked in and now they’re not okay but since the Master Crown stole his eyes, Magolor can’t even see and he’s driven to hallucinating out of desperation and pain

Edit: I turned this into a whole mini series...

Part 2 “The Sun Never Sets” Part 3 “Screams of Joy” Part 4 “Visitors” Part 5 “A Perfect Circle”

Relevant: “Conditional”

Prologue: “Selfish Needs”

[pastelaeqy]

the end.

[kirbyliker12]

magylour ?????!?!?!?! 😲😲😲😲😲

[spectraltenkai]

"When your greed beckons you to lose your own soul to a vessel of twisted madness... you best hope those that have come to your aid will liberate what remains of your sanity."

Song: C-R-O-W-N-E-D (Remastered)

As much as I would've wanted to draw Marx Soul for the 457th time, I've never actually drawn Magolor Soul before! Clearly that has changed- rambles below the cut:

As a huge fan of Kirby ever since childhood (much like Pokemon and other series), this boss ended up hitting harder when the switch remaster dropped to be honest. Without spoiling anything, let's just say the True Arena and Traveler in Another Dimension made me very close to crying over Magolor. Heck, even listening to the boss theme has me almost a little emotional- I'm not afraid to admit that.

The lore of the Master Crown is beyond insane to me too- literally corrupting the user so much they almost take a mental backseat until they are completely eradicated from the original body on top of it. I mean, that almost goes for all soul forms in some capacity, but WOW Magolor's just hits different.

[spheredotorb]

What a precious, endearing, marginal soul.

[galaxygermdraws]

Some doodle dumps I did because I cannot draw anybody but Magolor anymore. This is my life now. I am fine with this. Funny this is queued for Sunday. Since Sunday is Magolor day.

(reblogs with tags/comments are appreciated. Thankyu)

[vaugarde]

[stararise]

sooo amusing to me how hal nerfed super dedede jump (it doesn't hit as many times, the mobility/range is much smaller, i may just be out of practice but the timing feels stricter) but it is still one of the best moves in the game lmfao. what do you mean my move that does more damage than hammer flip with no charge required, whose effective range is a quarter of the screen, which is completely invincible, and can be chained three times in a row while remaining invincible is insanely good.

[abyssembraced]

((...how is it always my h.ollow k.night stuff that manages to breach the containment of this blog lmao

actually no it's not just h.ollow k.night but rather stuff related to h.ornet specifically sgddgsg

Anyway. I said this on my Actual Kirby Blog but I'll say it here too! Magolor Epilogue mode in the RtDL remake?? 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀

[mi1kywaywishes]

the last one was was made because soul (normal) losing to soul (true arena) in the magolor contest is hysterical to me. imagine the second place winner of a contest about You being a version of yourself that has lost the last vestige of your likeness and has you unconcious in the back seat At Best. funny as hell.

[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...

[icedragonlizard]

Headcanons for certain Magoland masks

I'm aware that Merry Magoland is not 100% canon, but screw it. I implement it and its masks into my headcanon universe anyways.

... And at that point, it begs the question as to how Magolor knew about certain people to be capable of making masks out of them.

Of course, one could easily interpret Magolor just traveling across dimensions and through the timeline to find out himself, but I prefer to go with a more fun route for my interpretation instead.

I'm more than glad to share my headcanons for certain masks:

-The blue, green and yellow Kirbies were literally just Magolor giving more color palettes for Kirby because he thinks Kirby is very special and decided to give him utmost privileges. Lol.

-How did Magolor find out about Nightmare? Here's how: King Dedede has a photo of Nightmare somewhere in his castle. It's there to spread awareness to one of Popstar's earliest threats, and it's also there for the waddle dees in the castle to make fun of. Magolor encountered the photo when he came by Dedede's castle one time.

-"Gray Coo" was the result of Magolor trying to create a fake love interest for Coo to go along with Rick's and Kine's love interests. Magolor was originally going to call it "Poo" until the waddle dee staffers for the park turned that down and instead suggested it to be named "Gray Coo" or else they wouldn't put it up, which Magolor reluctantly agreed. Coo felt embarrassed and awkward when he saw the mask and was told about its purpose, while the rest of the animal friends laughed their butts off as they think that the mask is hilarious.

-How did Magolor find out about Dark Matter to make masks for Dark Matter Swordsman and Zero? Dedede and the animal friends told him about it. When Magolor first met Gooey and learned his origins, he was fascinated to learn more about Dark Matter, so those guys told him more. Dedede has a photo of DMS in the castle, while saying that Zero was super easy to remember the appearance of.

-My headcanon universe disregards a lot of True Arena content from many games, so this means that the Marx Soul stuff does not exist in my headcanons. I interpret that the Marx Soul mask came 100% out of Magolor's own twisted mind. His own invention. He thought of making an alt mask for his buddy Marx and decided to make a more menacing version of him. Marx was ecstatic when he saw the mask.

-Magolor didn't physically encounter a clockwork star himself, but Marx and Susie were able to walk him through about what they look like, allowing him to piece together the appearance of Nova to make a mask for it.

-The alternate Ribbon mask (friend's hairstyle) was a recent hairstyle that Adeleine gave Ribbon. Magolor was interested in giving Ribbon a second mask, and so she and Adeleine told him about the alternate hairstyle to make a mask for.

-The alternate DMK design (dark mirror) was not actually something that Magolor learned about, but made on his own. He didn't plan to make a secondary DMK mask (because they're not friends) until he noticed all the other star allies had secondary masks, so he figured he'd do the same for DMK, albeit just a lazy color hue change. He sometimes look at both DMK masks to laugh at their edginess.

-How did Magolor find out about Drawcia? Drawcia is known amongst Vividria individuals across Popstar. A Vividria slipped out information about Drawcia and depicted her in a painting to show to Magolor, giving him the opportunity to make a mask of her.

-Dark Daroach and Dark Nebula were things that Daroach told Magolor about. When Daroach first came to Magoland to see the masks, he thought it was both hilarious and ironic for the masks to exist. He pointed out that he didn't see a mask depicting Magolor being possessed by a cursed artifact (there's the master crown mask, but that's the phase where he hadn't been possessed yet).

-How did Magolor know about Galacta Knight? Hyness told him.

-Magolor was trying to fill up some slots with alt color swaps, explaining the "EX" masks for Whispy Woods, Mr. Dooter, Fatty Puffer, Goriath, Grand Doomer, Metal General, Landia and Traitor Magolor.

-How in the heck did Magolor find out about Sectonia, and not just that, but her original Joronia form as well? Taranza has photos and paintings of her all over the Royal Road castle. That's how Magolor found out. He decided to make the masks to honor the memory of Joronia/Sectonia and he'd figure Taranza would be grateful to the masks. Uhhh.... he eventually did, but initially he had an outrage because Magolor did it without permission. It's fine now, though.

-Magolor saw the Robobot Armor turned pink one time. It was during one time when he and Kirby simultaneously visited Susie in her home planet that contains the HWC headquarters. Magolor wanted to see Kirby ride around in Invader Armors, so Susie let that happen for him to see. That's how he knew to make a Robobot Armor mask.

-Susie's weekend outfit is, indeed, an outfit that she likes to wear on the weekends. Magolor was physically seen her wearing it, giving him the idea to make a mask for it.

-Susie has photos of her dad in the company's headquarters. Magolor briefly had a weird fixation on Haltmann by virtue of being a fellow egg-shaped money liker, just like he is. This made it a no brainer that he was going to make a Haltmann mask for the park.

Susie was initially not happy to see the weekend outfit and Haltmann masks because Magolor made them both without permission. She was getting close to threatening to sue him until he apologized and said he did it for honorable and celebrative purposes. Eventually, Susie relented and became perfectly fine with the masks existing, but she really wishes that Magolor had asked for permission first.

-Morpho Knight is very elusive in my headcanons, so how did Magolor find out about him? He found out through Elfilin and Leon. They remembered what he looks like and were glad to tell Magolor when he expressed wanting to know.

-I'll make it clear that while I headcanon the games mostly happening by order, Merry Magoland opens after Forgotten Land's events for me. This explains how Magolor knew about New World inhabitants such as Elfilin, awoofies, Carol and Leon to make masks of them. He also watched Kirby perform his mouthful mode stuff when he visited the New World, giving him the chance to make a mask of that too.

-Wait... Forgo Dedede is among the New World masks. How did Magolor find out about that when Dedede is back to normal now? Elfilin told him about the incident. He vividly remembers what Dedede looked like when Fecto Forgo further possessed him.

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Ok... that's all of the more questionable masks covered in my headcanons! Thanks for reading if you made it through all of this.

[chowmoon2]

I just came up with a crack Kirby au idea (again)

So like,you know about Soul bosses right? Well,what if those characters who have those forms,were revived in those forms after the events of their game?

(Also The True Arena and to a extent,the Soul boss battles do not happen,they just woke up in the Soul form)

And now they got to adjust to normal life while dealing with their monstrous form.nearly uncontrollable power and most of all *gasp* THEIR TRAUMA

Though that does bring up the question,why were they revived as souls in the first place?

(If you are interested in this Au,read below the cut for more info and feel free to ask questions in the comments,reblogs or ask box <3)

-Drawcia is the only one who actually is fought in her soul form (besides maybe Elfilis?) anyways,she has gone through a redemption arc and now is pals with Kirby! (In fact,all of the Soul bosses are buddies with Kirby!) she is still very snobby though

-Marx adjusted quickly and is just as chaotic as ever,though,he does have gears inside his body now and sometimes he just- splits in half for no reason but he just shrugs it off

-Magolor still goes through his Epilogue,just in a more monstrous form,after he got his power back and landed in the Kirby Clash dimension,for some reason,he can’t return to His dimension (because plot lol) so now,he creates his Shopkeeper Magolor persona using magic and hopes that nobody would see his true form,(it doesn’t help that he has the most unstable power out of the soul bosses)

-It took a while,but Sectonia is adjusting pretty okay despite just being a head and four wings,she needed lots of therapy and stuff but now she accepts who she is and now is pretty good friends with Taranza again! But she declined on being the Queen again and she is basically a different person from Joronia (Also I imagine her being like Rarity from MLP)

-Star Dream is now just a split heart and acts like Clippy/Bonzi Buddy now lol (because this is still a crack au) but they do still have a small piece of Haltmann soul in there so maybe……

-I can’t think of anything for Void Termina for some reason :(

-Elfilin (and Forgo) story on how they became that way is complicated but just you know that Elfilin is trying to deal with his chaotic power and negative emotions (not to mention the animal blood orbs) and Forgo is tamed but not exactly reformed (and also they are basically the main protagonist of this Au)

[mukuharakazui]

i feel like ive just gotten baited into sending one of those "WAIT, KIRBY HAS DEEP LORE!?" asks but please tell me about the magolor christian themes

HELLO. ok it is 2am so i will do the best i can. if this answer is utterly incoherent, blame that.

magolor's whole christian thing has been around since his concept art, which ensured that his design had notable yellow highlights as a nod to the color used to represent judas in classical christian art. (his ears were also originally going to be horns, so there could be some devil stuff there if you squint.)

this doesn't mean much if you only look at return to dreamland 2011. it's simply a clever, blink-and-you'll-miss-it piece of his character design that ties with the fact that he betrays kirby. some fans also found this funny regarding his symbolic link to apples, which he uses as bombs or. uh. microtransaction materials. lol.

however, once return to dreamland deluxe came out in 2023, the game dropped a MASSIVE bomb of their own by providing us with a new, post-game epilogue for magolor. spoilers ahead, obviously. via the epilogue, magolor's link to apples is explored in-depth by putting him through trials where he must collect 5 fruit (apple) fragments, which a game screen implies parallel the fact that magolor tricked kirby into collecting the 5 parts of the lor starcutter. that's essentially his "penance" process.

when magolor finished rebuilding the apple, which is known as the "ethereal alter" in english and the very unsubtle "room of eden" in japanese. the master crown that magolor had betrayed kirby for and stolen from its place on halcandra became a massive gem apple tree final boss. however, the tree itself is not listed as the boss--instead he is fighting the master crown itself.

he ultimately destroys the master crown, which had taken the form of the "forbidden fruit" that had tempted magolor into hurting people, including those he had come to genuinely deem friends, for the sake of obtaining personal power. the gem apple being constructed in the "room of eden" is enough on its own to build a base for a christian theme, but magolor's arc of redeption through either 1. trial and repentance (main gamemode with magolor epilogue; self-imposed; successful) 2. outside aid (extra mode + true arena; extended by kirby; failed) is what allows the christian imagery to shine.

however, his christian imagery chronologically extends past the return to dreamland deluxe epilogue, as that same epilogue confirmed that "microtransagolor" (the green magolor from kirby clash deluxe) is the same magolor from return to dreamland. he nurtures the gem apple seed which he obtained after defeating the master crown in that game. clash deluxe also introduces us to a weekly "magolor day," which, you guessed it, is on sunday, with the first of them occuring on an easter.

the major reason why i connect magolor to christianity in particular rather than all abrahamic religions is the judas connection, the easter sunday thing, and the process through which he repents or "must atone for his misdeeds." while genesis isn't exclusive to christianity, the specific actions which magolor takes along his path of betrayal and redeption mirror make more sense to me as a christian moral tale rather than judaic or islamic for some reason. not sure why, i'd have to unpack that elsewhere.

this isn't to say that kirby is indoctrinating children into christianity or whatever ofc. considering the whole hyness and mage sisters deal in star allies, the connection between kirby and religion as a whole isn't always a positive one. nintendo also tends to avoid real life religions and references to them as a whole in their games likely to avoid controversy and to make their games accessible and understandable to a worldwide audience with a wide variety of cultural backgrounds. that last point is WHY i find it super crazy that magolor has an obviously and intentionally christian narrative.

(also, for the books, i'm not catholic. but 4 years of catholic school and one very catholic grandmother gives me just enough background on the topic to relate it to kirby)

[munchboxart]

Finally finished Return to Dreamland DX and the visuals are so amazing. The background for fighting Magolor? It so pretty like I was so stunned on how vibrant it is while fighting him. This is so pretty wtf!!

Also Nutty Noon,

There are stars in the clouds!! I wish they did that more often in night cloudy levels for future Kirby games. Maybe they did it in Star Allies but to be honest I forgot everything about that game. I'll have to replay it one day (I have no choice, I deleted the save data for space to download Splatoon 2).

I'm kind of disappointed still that Extra is just regular story mode but harder, but I know it's been like this for every Kirby game before the Switch so whatever, it's just kind of a slog to get through again but I will do it for the True Arena and 100%.

Also there are like. A couple fucked up Saw contraptions in a couple of levels (I never watched Saw) it's kind of funny

[nokk0]

🎮, 🗣, and ❤️ for whoever!! :D

Second ask by: @nightcovefox

🎮: What Kirby game or what point in the Kirby series timeline would your OC first appear?

★ i hope i'm interpreting this correctly...

Fal's story begins just after the defeat of Fecto Elfilis, at the end of Forgotten Land and after completing the True Arena... He has nothing to do with the main games or the anime...

🗣️: If you could cast a voice actor to voice your OC who would you choose?

★ Something funny is that Fal and Snow already have voice actors!

In the Raising Project anime adaptation, the voice of Snow White is made by Nao Tōyama... Or so the character's wiki says, because the actress's wiki does not mention her participation…

On the other hand, although Fal hasn't made an appearance in the anime, there is a character identical to him called Fav, the voice is made by Kurumi Mamiya

Fun fact: Kurumi Mamiya is the voice of Elfilin in Forgotten Land :D

❤️: What is your OC’s love language (Words of affirmation, Quality time, Physical touch, Receiving gifts, or Acts of service)?

★ Uhm… Acts of service and words of affirmation, i think…!

Fal is devoted to anyone he trusts, so rest assured that he will help and accompany if necessary, offering information or comfort with words. Snow is more reserved, but her actions speak louder than words

💎: Does your OC like to collect anything?

★ Mementos

Many of these objects are memories of different experiences, or rather, different people with whom the two interacted. You could say that they are attached to the belongings of the deceased... Fal also has other things that he “borrows” from Magolor, such as the Gem Apples

🤫: Does your Oc have any secrets?

Yes, but just like three secrets. Next question

🥺: What is your Oc’s biggest regret?

★ With Snow i would say that not protecting her friends... She has lost too many allies, many of them really close friends. In the Beginning of the end, we can see her extremely protective towards Wolfbell because:

1- Wolfbell reminds her to her powerless self when she was still alive

2- She doesn't want to make the same mistakes. She's already dead, so she can risk without worrying for her own life

Fal… The death of a certain person, and of course the death of Snow herself. This person... Basically, she was someone that Fal involved without knowing what was really happening and who ended up perishing despite having nothing to do with the matter. A victim he condemned by mistake

i hope i answered these correctly... Thank you so much for the asks!!!

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