#Crowned Marx

[desultory-novice]

I should be in bed but talking about Clockwork Mechalor made it only feel right to draw some Crowned Marx as well. Especially since I only mentioned his experiences softened him up some.

Crowned Marx doesn't have the ability to split his body that regular Marx displays. The damage the Master Crown did to him via slicing his body this way and that with its thorned blades left permanent scars on his body. Again, unlike regular Marx, who seems immune to pain or at least brushes it off fast, these scars actually hurt him.

On the upside, he is able to exercise a little bit of power over the inert crown gold left in his body to form claw like hands and little tiny thorned wings he can use to glide... but not fly.

[dagrapesody]

The king and his jester, but they’re big boy evil

[nookisms]

Oops. It's a second headcanon compilation!

Don't worry, the next one will be back to our normal schedule of regular text posts and not headcanons

Masterpost

[pinkd3mon]

Magolor and Marx go to burger king

[katlynthecat]

kirby doodles except its the middle of the night and im not tired

explanation for the thing in the bottom right corner under the cut

that is lor starcutter. random dumb headcannon, most of the artifacts have some kind of spirit sealed inside them. that one is lor, who is prolly the youngest of the artifact spirits, but i dunno if ill ever draw the others. soooooo yeah. she's just there because i like doodling her being happy

[moonmacabre01]

I keep doing these

original images below cut

[kettyqw]

Look at what I have. The artwork of Marx and Magolor's not mine BTW, but the beach ball and the Master Crown I drew myself

[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.

[phat-bat68]

Gravity took hold of them and now Magolor is giving him a head kiss 🤭

[askdarknebby]

(OOC: Here is my AU Dark Nebula relationship with the other Kirby characters as of this current arc)

(I only included characters he knows of/met and for the REDACTED part,well,that's for later down the line in this AU)

[icedragonlizard]

Landia headcanons

Landia has dedicated himself to be the protector and guardian of Halcandra.

He lives in the planet's volcanic regions. He keeps the planet's sacred artifacts in the volcanic regions, as he deems it to be the safest spot for them. Unfortunately, someone made a successful theft attempt on the artifacts despite these extra safety measures, but it's only happened once, and so overall it's worked quite well.

The was a large time period where one of those artifacts, the Master Crown, was being worn by Landia at all times right up until it was knocked off of him. Thanks to his multiple heads, he had the mental fortitude to keep himself together and not succumb to the Master Crown while wearing it. The reason why he wore the Master Crown on him is because he refused give anyone else even a sliver of a chance to use it, as he knew how disastrous it could be in the wrong hands. He trusted nobody but himself to wear it.

Landia cannot talk like a person. He simply just makes animalistic dragon-like noises, as that's how he speaks. That being said, despite not being able to talk like a person, he can thoroughly understand people talking. He understands words.

His default form is the singular body with all four heads attached to it. He has the ability to split himself into four different dragons, but he only does that when it's either necessary or when he forcibly gets split.

An example of when it'd be necessary to be split is if he needs to keep watch of numerous areas at once. Otherwise, Landia usually sticks to the singular-bodied form, and he can alternate between being a singular dragon to four different dragons. His way of alternating is through sheer mental will.

Landia is generally a kind and good-spirited being that never shows any sort of malice to anyone he doesn't view as a threat or enemy. However, to beings that he does view as threats or enemies, he'll be very vicious towards. He'll be hostile and fiery towards those that he deems as threats.

The first being he ever saw as an enemy was Magolor. It started when Magolor stole the Lor Starcutter from Halcandra's volcanic regions, to which Landia did not take well to. They fought over her. Landia had the upper hand, but Magolor didn't give up the Lor, as he ran off with her in outer space. Extremely distrustful of this, Landia became extra fiercely protective of Halcandra, since he had the feeling that Magolor would come back with ill-intentions.

And, well, that did indeed happen. Although Magolor came back twice. The first time he came back, he was just showing Halcandra to his friend, Marx, which was someone he suddenly befriended sometime after first leaving Halcandra with the Lor. Magolor didn't stay for long, to which he left again. The second time he came back, however, is when he had the ill-intentions that Landia had a bad feeling about.

.... That was when Magolor set up Kirby, King Dedede, Meta Knight and Bandana Waddle Dee to beat Landia up and take the Master Crown off of him. Landia knew that Magolor was up to something nefarious, but he was surprised by just how nefarious it was. He heard Magolor's every word after he took the Master Crown, and immediately forgave the dream team as he was more than willing to team up with them to beat Magolor.

Marx told Magolor about Kirby. That's what led to RTDL happening.

After Magolor's defeat, Landia was relieved. He was relieved that the Master Crown was gone and that nobody could ever again attempt the same thing Magolor attempted. After Landia in his four-dragon form took Kirby and co back to Popstar, he returned to his one-bodied form as he returned to Halcandra. He went back to being Halcandra's protector and guardian.

He held a grudge against Magolor for a while after RTDL. He hated that manipulative wizard. The audacity of Magolor's actions left a foul taste in the dragon's four mouths. Landia held a bigger grudge against Magolor than anyone in the dream team.... even Meta Knight, the least forgiving dream teamer.

When Magolor returned to Halcandra for the first time after his defeat, Landia was unwelcoming. He attacked him on sight. Magolor attempted to apologize, though, to which Landia was unforgiving at first, but then the Lor Starcutter signified that she missed Magolor and wanted to be with him again. Landia was shocked by this.

He'd let the Lor do what she wanted, after all. Although he was pretty reluctant about it because of how mad he was at Magolor, but Magolor promised he wouldn't do anything bad ever again and would only have fun times with the Lor. He and the Lor then left Halcandra and went to settle to living in Popstar.

After that, Landia's hatred for Magolor began chipping away. He still has conflicted feelings towards the wizard and never truly forgives him, but he's accepted that Magolor is no longer the bad guy he once was. They never become friends, but Landia no longer grudges towards Magolor.

He even once decided to stop by at Popstar one time to check out Merry Magoland when he heard about its existence. It admittedly freaked Magolor at first, who thought Landia would try to attack it because of the grudge he held earlier, but that didn't happen. It was a nice visit. Landia then just went back to Halcandra after that, as he merely just wanted to check out the park for a moment, and then returned to do his own thing.

Landia just sticks to living in Halcandra, serving as its protector like it always has. In modern times, however, it's become more confident that its artifacts will be safe, since the most dangerous one (the Master Crown) is long gone. But who knows, there could be some other perpetrator that wants to steal the other artifacts, and Landia won't let that happen. Not after the disaster that happened the first time.

He hasn't met most of the dream friends. Heck, he's only ever met one of them besides Magolor and the dream team: Marx. It was back then when Magolor and Marx first became friends between Milky Way Wishes and RTDL, when Magolor first took Marx to Halcandra to show what his "origin planet" was like. The interactions that Landia had with Marx weren't friendly, considering he already saw Magolor as an enemy at the time, and Marx being his friend was also an enemy in his eyes. Although at this point he's probably forgotten about Marx.

Magolor, of course, did not hail from Halcandra. He lied when he told Marx that. He just pretended to hail from there because of how proud he was to have the Lor Starcutter in his hands during the time.

But despite rarely ever showing up in Popstar, Kirby considers Landia a friend. He was happy to see the dragon when he showed up in Magoland that one time. Landia, in return, thinks well of Kirby and appreciates him for saving the universe from Magolor that one time.

He's grateful to Kirby for destroying the dangerous Master Crown.

Thanks to that, he can continue guarding Halcandra, and with more confidence after that dangerous artifact was destroyed.

Guarding Halcandra was what he's dedicated himself to. That won't change up until the day he passes away.

[desultory-novice]

Ok so what if Magolor Nova and Crowned Marx

Amusingly, I just ran into this discussion about Galactic Nova that's totally relevant here: It brought up "Why did Nova fly menacingly toward Popstar after Marx made his wish?" Because it fulfilled Meta's wish without moving an inch.

Their theory was Galactic Nova needed the stars of the milky way to use its full power. When the stars bailed to help Kirby, Nova lost a significant chunk of wish-granting power. The best it could do for Marx was just do whatever it was doing. (Collide with Popstar?)

I bring this up because this means as long as Magolor still made others do his handiwork, he'd suffer the same fate as Marx did if he stole a wish from Nova. The star would de-power itself because he wasn't the person who summoned it. With that out of the way, let's talk BOSS FIGHTS and THE AFTERMATH!

[Descriptions + sketches below. CW: Disturbing imagery warning for Marx's fight. Magolor's defeat too, actually.

Magolor + Galactic Nova

For Magolor, once Nova starts to power down (immediately before the boss fight) he almost immediately gives up on it fulfilling the rest of his wish and uses his (now Nova-boosted) magic power and starts disassembling the clockwork star, which rests in the distant background of the battle as a creepy, mechanical skeletal husk.

He uses his magic to morph its detached parts into various physical enhancements/weapons for himself. Breaking the compass off to telekinetically fling around like a pair of spears or forming a giant fist to hit you with out of the piano keys, managing to wield them all at once with multiple powerful magic circles. Meanwhile he's removed chunks of the Nova's face to use as protective armor swirling around himself as he faces off against Kirby.

(This battle would be pseudo-3D/1st-person, most closely resemble the battle with Star Dream and with Void Termina, as you're trying to get close enough to Magolor while facing off against a barrage of weaponized Nova parts.)

Unlike Marx, who goes haywire and crashes into Nova and explodes, the end goal of the fight with Magolor is about wearing him and his magic down so that Nova can take its parts back, re-assembling itself slowly in the background the more punishment you inflict on Magolor. This reaches its denoument with a tired Magolor competing against Nova's own gravitational pull to maintain some control of his clockwork armor until a stubborn Magolor loses the struggle and is sucked backwards into Nova, ending up being bricked up INSIDE the restored (now quietly ticking away) clock.

A Post-Nova "friendly" Magolor returns as something of a part-Nova cyborg. A clockwork Magolor replica, made of plated metal and springs. This (implied horrifying) experience hasn't changed his personality in the slightest, however.

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Marx + The Master Crown

As for Marx, his first phase goes all in on the idea of fusing "the jester" and "the king." Much like how Magolor did, he experiences a dramatic makeover once he dons the dreaded diadem. His accessories become larger, more fanciful, and more gaudy.

This Marx is glutted on crown-fueled greed and thrills to kick back and be the one who runs the show. His fight is not a brawl but a full on trick boss, like Squashini in Epic Yarn, only ramped up to 11.

Marx spends this phase chilling in the background, watching and giggling as he uses the crown's limitless magic power to make YOU into the fool, having you jump through impossible (flaming) hoops in his deadly show and laughing maniacally when Kirby takes any damage. He gets bored though, and eventually, angry enough to leave his safe perch once you destroy enough of his tricks.

When you overpower him with the Ultra Sword, just like with Magolor, the Master Crown shows its true colors, turning against Marx just like it turned against Magolor.

The fight then turns into a nightmare version of "The Greatest Living Show" with the Master Crown transforming/taking over Marx's fun little stage and extending its tendrils into long golden meat hooks it sinks into Marx, flinging and slinging him at Kirby, ripping Marx in two and trying to smoosh you with the two halves.

It uses the thorned horns from Magolor's fight like scissors, cutting his "strings" loose then grabbing him from a different angle to signify a different attack pattern/phase of the fight.

Post-Crown Marx, like canon Magolor, begins to show some personality changes after his awful experience, steering away from tricks that hurt or upset people and focusing more on being a sassy entertainer. As for physical changes, he doesn't have scars from the crown's tight grip like Magolor (...is often HC'd to have...) but the rips and tears in his body from the crown pulling him apart persist, only they're filled in with gold now, like a piece of kintsugi pottery.

[dagrapesody]

They‘re in love

(Guys can we have more Marx and traitor/crowned magolor together plssss i need it)

[cauli-flawa]

I could go on and on

[cauliarty]

Accidental enemies to lovers

[katlynthecat]

mmmmmdoodls