#A Forsaken Painting

[arkacarian]

I've decided to make a little list of all my Kirby AUs and put it here, because... why not people might like them.

As you'll quickly notice, all three of these focus on Adeleine. Why? I like Adeleine a lot. She's my favorite character. Out of the three I have one that is super fleshed-out and devloped, one that I know pretty much how it goes, and one that just kinda... sits there.

So, here they are, just past that read more button! So there isn't just a whole wall of text.

(Also because one of them [the very first one] is pretty dark.)

Ravagers of the Stars- By far my favorite and the most expanded upon AU I've made. RotS takes place in a universe where Kirby has turned into an evil void-creature, and looks like a much more horrifying version of 0². Many of his friends went into the strange dimesion where he resides, and tried to fight him to bring him back, but... none of them made it. Magolor, Taranza, and Susie were the only three who never tried to fight him, and stayed at Castle Dedede. Four years after Kirby’s change and the deaths of everyone else, a mysterious person only calling themselves Nightmare Knight shows up, wearing a giant suit of armor all in black with a dragon head helmet, white glowing eyes, long claws gloves and boots, and a cape that resembles the wings of a carousel pegasus. They wield a long harpoon with a head made out of a Crystal Shard. The four of them travel across Dream Land, finding parts to fix up the long unused Lor Starcutter, remaking it into the Lor Haltmann, as Susie has added her own technological flair to it. They use the new Lor to enter the dimension where Kirby lies in wait, but before that, have a meeting knowing they might die like everyone else. Nightmare Knight removes their helmet, and… it’s Adeleine. Her left eye now has a large scar over it and she can’t open it entirely anymore. She explains what happened to her. Something about her human spirit kept her alive enough to crawl out of the cave-like entrance, where she was found by Ribbon and immediately taken to Ripple Star. Using the healing properties of the Great Crystal, she was healed, leaving her stomach a gaping hole of exposed gore, and her eye scarred. She was given a Crystal harpoon, since Crystal Shards are one of the very few ways to truly destroy void-made beings. She went to Neo Star, and found the suit of armor she wears now deep below the surface, and lived there, training and waiting for the day she could go back and save Dream Land. Now knowing all that, they enter the realm Kirby created for himself, and battle against him. Nightmare Knight (as she hates being called her real name now,) leaps from the deck of the Lor and skewers Kirby, turning him into stardust. She’s quickly picked up by Magolor and brought back on board as they escape the crumbling pocket dimension. The four are horrified that they had to do what they did, but citizen of Dream Land herald them as heroes. Magolor realizes there’s darkness lurking in every timeline out there, and the four of them are well equipped to take care of it. He makes them all matching outfits, all blue and gold with a winged, four pointed star shape somewhere on them. Nightmare Knight gets to keep her gloves and boots now in new dark blue, and a dragon mask/helmet with actual eyeholes. They agree on the name Ravagers of the Stars, and they travel between timelines, helping wherever they can. They occasionally go back to their timeline, but it’s safe from threats because everything is afraid of Nightmare Knight’s death spear.

RotS is absolutely the most developed. There’s actually a lot more than that (so far I have about four arcs of it in my mind), but I wanna try and keep these short, so I can’t go into all the detail. (Like Ribbon attempting a murder. [On who, I won’t say.])

A Forsaken Painting- What if Kirby… wasn’t the protagonist of Forgotten Land? And what if all of his friends were sucked up into that portal? And what if the person most connected to that place was the one saving everyone? These are questions answered in AFP! All of Kirby’s friends end up being taken to the New World. Kirby is mistaken for a Waddle Dee, and along with Bandee and Marx, used like all the other Waddle Dees. Most of the rest are being used as bait and eventually fuel for Fecto Forgo, and some of the more animal-like ones (Daroach, Taranza, the literal animal friends) have been turned into members of the Beast Pack like Dedede. Adeleine ends up being the hero, and takes up her old DL3 design because she doesn’t want her long smock getting ripped. Instead of fighting with art, she uses a more human-suited (and more dangerous) version of the Toy Hammer. The Beast Pack is much more aggressive towards her, since she’s a human. And everything that would be needed to be solved with Mouthful Mode or a certain copy ability? She’ll just whack it until it works. It’ll work eventually. She hopes. Instead of getting along with Elfilin the whole time, he is extremely distrustful of her until she saves him at Lab Discovera even though he didn’t ask her to because he’d rather be there than with a human.

AFP is fairly similar to Forgotten Land, so there really isn’t that much to say about it. Adeleine is very nervous throughout most of it, but then when going to Wondaria she starts to calm down…. Until she gets to Winter Horns and it’s even worse, because that’s a lot like her old home.

Praefecta Patrya- Parallel President Susie? What about normal President Susie? But she should have a cooler name than just “President”. Susie, having kicked her father out of the company upon her return, decides to conquer Pop Star and robotize all of the notable people. When Kirby and Dedede, the only two who didn’t get caught up in that because they were busy having a Gourmet Race rematch, arrive on the Arc, they’re met by a strange welcome robot trying to shove a brochure in their faces and get their credentials. Dedede is about to whack it off the ledge of the bridge they’re all on, until he realizes it looks a lot like his basically adopted daughter… And it introduces itself formally as “4D3L31N3, but please use ‘4D0’ to preform command actions.” Under that fancy suit and behind those empty eyes is Adeleine, speaking out of a voice box somewhere with prerecorded messages. Dedede lies and says that he and Kirby are delivery men, and she takes them to the lounge, where they can wait for their meeting with the Praefecta. While there, Dedede finds a manual on operating 4D3L31N3 that was left out, and grabs the antenna-like receivers on her head and shuts off the external programming. Adeleine, now back to normal, is horrified that she’s now a partially robotic creature with wires and hands that can turn into various things, from an array of weapons to cleaning spray bottles. Alongside Kirby and Dedede, the three defeat Susie, but are unable to undo any of the robotizing done to anyone.

PP is definitely the least Adeleine-focused one, and is more about Dedede and Susie than anything, but she still plays a major role and gets a cool design. But the poor girl has wires in her skin. And unlike all those memes say, she can’t take them out.

So those are all my Kirby AUs I have so far! I don’t think I’ll come up with more since I’m currently constantly debating what my headcanon backstory for Adeleine is gonna be because I’ll come up with one and then immediately think of a new one the second I start working on writing it.

Thanks for reading all this!! I really just wanted to share it.

[kottkrig]

Let's play PONG☣️☣️☣️

[lord-squiggletits]

I think the key component to my personal reading of post-Delphi Pharma is that he's trying to be a horrible person on purpose. Not "on purpose" in the way that people have free will to exercise their own choices, but in that Pharma's "mad doctor" persona is a performance he puts on to deliberately embrace how much everyone else hates him. Basically, if people already think you're a "bad Autobot" and a horrible doctor who just kills his patients for fun, why try to prove otherwise to people who have already made up their minds about you? Just fully embrace the fact that people see you as an asshole. Don't try to change their minds. Don't plead for their forgiveness or understanding. Just stop caring. If you're going to be remembered as a monster, you might as well be a memorable monster, and eke as much pleasure and hedonism as you can out of it before karma catches up to you and you inevitably crash and burn.

I mean, I guess you could just go the route of "Oh, Pharma was always a fucked up creepy guy and Delphi was just him taking the mask off," but I really don't like that interpretation because, for one, it feels really wrong to take a character like Pharma becoming evil under duress and going, "Oh well clearly he did the things he did because he was evil all along," as if somehow Pharma breaking under blackmail/torture/threat of horrible death was a sign of him having poor moral character. As opposed to, you know, suffering under the very real threat of horrible death for himself and everyone he cares about while being manipulated by a guy who specializes in psychological torture.

The second reason is that it just doesn't make sense to write Pharma as having been evil all along. I mean...

Occam's Razor says that the best argument is the one with the simplest explanation. Doesn't it make way more sense to take Pharma's appearances in flashbacks, his friendship with Ratchet, his stunning medical accomplishments, and the few we see of him speaking kindly/sympathetically (or in the least charitable interpretation, at least professionally) towards his patients and conclude "This guy was just a normal person, if exceptionally talented." Taking all of these flashback appearances at face value and assuming Pharma was being genuine/honest is a way simpler and more logical explanation than trying to argue that Pharma for the past 4 million years was just faking being a good doctor/person. I mean, it's possible within the realm of headcanon, but the fact is Pharma's appearances in the story are so brief that there simply wasn't room in the story for there to be some sort of secret conspiracy/hidden manipulation behind why Pharma acted the way he did in the past.

I just can't help but look at things like Pharma's friendship with Ratchet (himself a good person and usually a fine judge of character) and the fact that even post-Delphi, pretty much every single mention of Pharma comes with some mention of "He was a good doctor for most of his life" or "He was making major headways in research [before he started killing patients]" which implies that even the Autobots themselves see Pharma's villainy as a recent turn in his life compared to how for "most of his life" he "used to be" a good doctor.

And although Pharma doesn't know this, we as the readers (and even other characters like Rung) know about Aequitas technology and the fact that it actually works, so... if Pharma really was an unrepentant murderer, why couldn't he get through the forcefield too? The Aequitas forcefield doesn't require that a person be completely morally pure and free of wrongdoing or else how could Tyrest get through, just that they feel a sense of inner peace and lack feelings of guilt. Pharma has murdered and tortured people by this point, and put on quite a campy and theatrical show of how much he sees it as a fun game, so why then can he not get through?

It circles back to my headcanon at the start of this post that the "mad doctor" persona is just that-- a persona. Delphi/post-Delphi Pharma's laughing madman personality is just so far removed from every flashback we saw of him and everything we can infer based on how other people see/saw him before that, to me, the mad doctor act is (at least in large part, if not fully) a persona that Pharma puts on to put his villainy in the forefront.

To avoid an overly simplistic/ableist take, I don't think Tarn tortured Pharma into turning crazy. To me, it's more like the constant pressure of death by horrific torture, the feeling of martyrdom as Pharma kept secret that he was the only one standing between Delphi and annihilation, the physical isolation of Messatine as well as the emotional separation from Ratchet, being forced to violate his medical oaths (pretty much the only thing Pharma's entire life has been about), etc. All of that combined traumatized Pharma to the point that the only way he could avoid cracking was to just stop caring about all of it. Because at least then, even if he's still murdering patients to save Delphi from a group of sadistic freaks, Pharma doesn't have to feel guilty and sick about doing it. As opposed to the alternatives, which were probably either going off the deep end and killing himself to escape, or confessing to what he did and getting jailed for it.

In that light, Pharma becoming a mad doctor makes sense. It avoids the bad writing tropes of "oh this character who was good his entire life was actually just evil and really good at hiding it" as well as "oh he got tortured and went crazy that's why he's so random and silly and killing people, he's crazy" and instead frames Pharma's evil as something he was forced into, to the point where in order to avoid a full psychological breakdown and keep defending Delphi, he just had to stop caring about the sanctity of life or about what other people might think of him.

Then, of course, the actual Delphi episode happens, and Pharma's own lifelong best friend Ratchet basically spits in his face and sees him as nothing more than a crazy murderer who went rogue from being a good Autobot. Then Pharma gets his hands cut off and left to die on Messatine. At that point, Pharma has not only been mentally/emotionally broken into losing his feelings of compassion, he's received the message loud and clear: He is alone. Everyone hates him. Not even his own best friend likes him any more. No one even cared enough about him to check if he actually died or not. He will only ever be remembered as a doctor who went insane and killed his patients.

So in the light of 1. Having all of your redeeming qualities be squeezed out of you one by one for the sake of survival and 2. Having your reputation and all of your positive relationships be destroyed and 3. People only know/care about you as "that doctor who became evil and killed his patients" rather than the millions of years of good service that came before.

What else is there to do but internalize the fact that you'll forever be seen as a monster and a freak, and embrace it? People already see you as a murderer for that blackmail deal you did, so why not become an actual murderer and just start killing people on a whim? People already see you as an irredeemable monster who puts a stain on the Autobot name, so why beg for their forgiveness when you could just shun them back? You've already become a murderer, a traitor, and a horrible doctor, so what's a few more evil acts added to the pile? It's not like anyone will ever forgive you or love you ever again.

Why care? Why try to hold on to your principles of compassion, kindness, medical ethics, when an entire lifetime of being a good person did nothing to save you from blackmail and then abandonment? Why put yourself through the emotional agony of feeling lonely, guilty, miserable, when you could just... stop caring, and not hurt any more?

[exotic-inquiry]

uldren eyes 👁 👁

[fizzseed]

mag170 you will always be famous to ME

[sleepanonymous]

(source)

Oh my god it's not photoshopped, his nails are painted... II did it. II painted Vessel's nails. I don't care if there's proof otherwise, II painted Vessel's nails. I will die on this hill.

[jadeitor-art]

Destiny 2 - Fan Art Collection 💠

Some old drawings I made of Destiny back when I used to like the game before Bungie (either by themself alone or with the help of Sony) sent me a DMCA takedown notification for the first illustration I made of Cayde-6. Lost all love and respect for the game in an instant. Don't be a greedy game company 😘

[mossy-rat]

I don't know what to do without you

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[endys]

The fall of Cainhurst

Older bloodborne painting that took... many attempts to complete.

[everyones-least-favorite-bard]

"'It is mine to avenge, I will repay,' says the Lord."

[arkacarian]

Renu’s AUs Masterpost [VERY BIG WIP]

I’ve decided to make a huge list compliling all of my AUs with links to them! Eventually they’ll all have their own masterposts which will be linked here, but not yet. And that isn’t even the only reason this is a huge WIP. I’ve never even posted about some of them except maybe vaguely or briefly once. Anyway, here it is!

“Ravagers of the Stars”

Fandom- Kirby

Major Characters- Adeleine, Magolor, Taranza, Susie

Content Warnings (if applicable)- Heavy injury/gore, lots of angst

Brief Description- After Star Allies, Kirby becomes a terrifying monster much like 0² and retreats to a pocket dimension. Many of his friends try to bring him back and fail. The only three left, Magolor, Taranza, and Susie, are approached by a strange person named Nightmare Knight. Joining forces with them, they construct a huge ship to take down Kirby, and Nightmare Knight was Adeleine the whole time. The four now travel from timeline to timeline helping out the citizens of them and Nightmare Knight takes care of any “void spawn” she sees.

Links- RotS Intro and Explanation Post

Tags- #ravagers of the stars, #rots au, #nightmare knight, #rots nightmare knight, #ravager adeleine, #ravager magolor, #ravager taranza, #ravager susie

“A Forsaken Painting”

Fandom- Kirby

Major Characters- Adeleine, Elfilin

Content Warnings (if applicable)- Drug use

Brief Description- Not only were the main four of the Dream Land team taken to the New World- everyone was! Most of them ended up captured by the Beast Pack, except for Adeleine. Dressed more like herself in DL3 and sporting a red bandana instead of a beret and armed with a huge version of the Toy Hammer, she sets out to stop this crazy animals and get her friends back… except, after first arriving, she finds a strange plant she had never seen before, and tried some of it because it didn’t look poisonous. She basically ended up getting high off it.

Links- TBA

Tags- #a forsaken painting, more TBA

“Praefecta Patrya”

Fandom- Kirby

Major Characters- King Dedede, Bandana Waddle Dee, Susie

Content Warnings (if applicable)- Angst, body horror

Brief Description- After returning from Another Dimension, Susie took over as President of HWC. She took way more than just Meta Knight to experiment on though, taking most citizens of Dream Land and turning them into robots to serve various needs. Somehow, Dedede and Bandee ended up being two of the only ones to not get captured, and have to infiltrate the huge company buildings and get their friends deprogrammed.

Links- TBA

Tags- #praefecta patrya, more TBA

“Ado-ption”

Fandom- Kirby

Major Characters- Adeleine, Dark Matter Swordsman, Zero

Content Warnings (if applicable)- N/A

Brief Description- Dark Matter was scouting the recently made uninhabitable planet of Shiver Star for an invasion, but realized there was nothing left to take over. However, the small scouting group led by the Swordsman himself did find the seemingly last thing on the planet that was alive- a young human girl named Adeleine. They took her back to the Dark Matter lair, and she was raised by them, and lives a very happy life with her Dark Matter family.

Links- Ado-ption Concept Post, Ado-ption Adeleine ref sheet, Ado-ption Adeleine and Apologies Adeleine wouldn’t get along

Tags- #ado-ption au, #ado-ption adeleine

[kottkrig]

Commission for @spacelingart

[lemonjuiceday]

" Poor George, poor George

Can't help he was born a King

Poor George, poor George

She said she wanted everything

I'll show you mine, if you show me yours

Look what you made me do

Poor George, poor George

He's going blind to watch you lose "

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🌟 Poor George, from James Supercave

[mallowcream-art]

I once again made art of Mofurun

[mintytrifecta]

All That Glitters

[lauravenart]

[EDIT] Change the colors, blue is better

Lord Darius Crowley ! I'm completing my artwork collection of the Gilnean arc story :)

"Lord Darius Crowley was once a Gilnean nobleman. A pro-Alliance figure, he dissented with King Genn Greymane's decision to separate his people with the Greymane Wall. Crowley led the Northgate Rebellion that caused a civil war in Gilneas, during which he was imprisoned. When Gilneas was attacked by worgen, he was freed and became a worgen himself. Both Crowley and Greymane reconciled and joined forces against the threats Gilneas faced. He now leads the Gilneas Liberation Front which fights against the Forsaken along with the Bloodfang Pack and the 7th Legion. "

Source : https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Darius_Crowley#Lord_of_His_Pack