#Something something Marx Epilogue

[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.

[quinn-pop]

bonus: meta knight tries to eat

ive been thinking magolor thoughts

[veinsfullofstars]

-trips and drops all my eggs on the ground-

(ID: A small compilation of Kirby series fanart featuring Magolor in various silly and disconnected scenarios, with guest appearances by Marx, Kirby, and the rest of the Dream Land 4 as well. More detailed descriptions and transcripts under the cut. END ID.)

I sketched out most of these months ago while I was playing through KRtDLDX for the first time. The Epilogue was giving me thoughts and the brainworms were feeding. Still, I didn’t really have any big piece ideas for these, so I figured I’d just slap them all into a comp, throw some lines and color on, and call it done. A little loose on context, I admit, but I think they came out okay in the end. I just love drawing this wretched man (and the clown that bothers him).

Sketches started 02/28/23, render started 11/02/23, finished 11/04/23, updated for color correction 11/02/24. NOTE: This was originally posted on my deleted account on 11/04/23.

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Image desc. & transcripts (in no particular order):

-Magolor points to a barrel, smiling pleasantly, and says “Trust me, it’s foolproof! Now get in~” Marx looks on unimpressed.

-Magolor (in his tattered gray outfit) grabs his head with a look of fear on his face, saying “No one told me there’d be consequences to my actions!”

-Magolor (in his Tome Trackers outfit) winks and twirls his mustache, saying “Of course I’m trustworthy! You can tell by my mustache and ridiculously high IQ!”

-Shopkeeper Magolor holding the Gem Apple sapling and giving the viewer a thumbs-up, saying “That’s right! Spin-off games have canon in ‘em! It’s all over for you lore bitches!”

-Magolor happily lifting Kirby by the hands via Helper mode

-a large human hand squeezing a frightened and very unhappy-looking Magolor

-Magolor smiling smugly while the RtDL gang (off-screen save for their hands) all point their weapons at him (see the Knife Cat meme)

-Magolor showing Marx a Gem Apple, a look of wonder in the jester’s eyes

-Magolor weeping and clutching his head as a pair of large hands reminiscent of his Soul form loom around him, ready to grab

-Shopkeeper Magolor smiling with his hands together, an arrow pointing at him reading “no longer evil :)”

-Magolor (in his tattered gray outfit), first standing neutrally, then looking down at his hands, then shrugging with his eyes shut, saying “Oh, well. Time to learn nothing.”

-Shopkeeper Magolor showing off a Gem Apple to the viewer, saying “This apple cured my sociopathy! Imagine what it could do for you!”

-Magolor and Marx sitting back-to-back on the floor, the former fixing a pocket watch with a screwdriver, the latter propped up on his side watching a Minecraft let’s play on a purple childproof tablet; Mags says, “So, anyway, that’s how I lost everything to a baby, went to hell, fought my demons, and ultimately grew as a person.” Marx responds in disinterest, “Uh huh, sure, buddy.”

-Magolor winking at the viewer with a hand on his chest, saying “Of course I have a heart. Several, in fact! In really nice glass jars.”

-Magolor and Marx holding hands (er, well, Mags holding the end of Marx’s hat like a hand), facing away from each other, looking flustered and nervous; an arrow points at them reading “Shhh… they’re on their first date

-Marx smiling innocently at the viewer, eyes shut, one tooth peeking out, waving the end of his hat; an arrow points at him reading “causes problems on purpose”

-Magolor looking at something off-screen, a hand over his eyes as if to block the sun

-a tear in the background shaped eerily like a smile, a goopy drip connecting top and bottom, a blank red eye in the center peering out from within

[eli-void]

just relistening to RQG epilogue and Hamid name dropping Karl Marx was NOT something I remembered lol

the good ending for him ngl

[absolutely-zero-regrets]

HAL Laboratory really enjoys their attack moveset symbolism, huh?

Just to preface this, major spoilers for the ending of Magolor Epilogue below the cut!

A week or so back, while playing Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe, I had finally beaten Magolor and (perhaps against my better judgment) proceeded to play through the entirety of the Magolor Epilogue gamemode in one sitting. But hey, it paid off, as the revelation of the Master Crown was INCREDIBLE and the ending was sweet. Though, during that fight against the Master Crown, a very particular attack stood out to me the moment I saw it. From there, I began to notice more and more little details, and thus, I think that the Master Crown and Marx are more connected than we thought.

The attack I’m talking about, of course, is the one where it drops small seed-shaped gems and sprouts twisted vines to try and impale you. Sound familiar?

As far as I can recall, these two are the only ones to have an attack like this. Now, as mentioned by the title, Kirby bosses are very often hinted to have some sort of a connection just through attack patterns. The Soul bosses for instance, with their movesets sampled from each other. 

Soul bosses… hey, didn’t Void Termina also share an attack with Marx?

And, didn’t Void Termina summon a replica of the Master Crown for one of its own attacks?

Also, partially unrelated, but in the image above, the wings on the crown are that of a dragon, but during the Master Crown’s fight in Magolor Epilogue they appear to be more bird-like. Just something I thought was a little interesting.

Moving on, after the vine attack cued me in, I began to pick up on some other details. Another big one is the Master Crown’s WINGS. During the attack where it shoots sharp leaves at you, it rapidly changes color. Much like our favorite Cosmic Jester.

Hm, now that I mention it, while his didn’t change color, Void Termina’s wings share a resemblance to Marx’s with their geometric pattern, too. But, I suppose that’s old news.

Another little thing I noticed was the shape of the leaves that the Master Crown shoots out. I know, this might be a bit of a stretch, but they’re shaped like spades. Much like the tip of a certain someone’s wings.

Speaking of those wings, I think that just in general they share a resemblance to Marx’s. Something about the way they’re shaped…

Not to mention, of course, how both are golden (though his Smash Brothers render is… less so). 

Speaking of those wings again, the offshoots of the wing branch strike me as interesting as well. The way they curl… almost reminds me of something else.

The Marx Soul amulet! Not only that, but the shape is similar to Marx Soul’s alulas(?) as well! 

I suppose these two were always connected in some form (Marx is connected to Galactic Nova, Galactic Nova is connected to the Ancients, the Ancients are connected to the Master Crown…) but to finally see an actual clear relation between them is very nice! With just how many things this one jester is linked to, I wouldn’t be surprised if the games were building up to something with him… But that’s just wishful thinking!

[emerxshiu]

i knew i said i would be more active but i was kinda busy with school, but now i've gotten my winter break so i think now i should be able to post more often.

this was a prject for art class where we had to draw what we wanted for christmas, got the highest grade on it!

i was planning to post this earlier but i kinda fell asleep, my sleep schedule is absolute bs at this point but im tryna work on it, kinda.

oh yeah the drawing, gonna talk abt it now, its based on that one kirby twitter image they posted for christmas, i think it was the 2018 one, not sure rn. dedede just put on a belt, thats it, he already looks like santa, bandee is all in spirit with an elf costume and meta had to be begged by bandee to at least put something holiday related on.

sorry its blurry, i couldnt get a better pic no matter how i tried

we also did something similar for halloween

btw marx and mags kissed after this, trust me im the moon.

i dont really have my gijinkas defined aside from kirby, marx and bandee, tho im starting to try to redesing them, but yeah, meta, dedede, and mags could change (i mean, mags already changed here, i used to draw him with short brown hair, but i like this hair better) dunno if it easy to understand, i suck at explaining stuff

i also finished magolor epilogue today at like, 4 am in like 4 or 5 hours and maaannn i loved it, i want to replay it from scratch but i dont wanna delete my save data nor have to replay all of story mode in another save file. i have all stages platinum except hydriath, who is on gold (i swear i'll get you one day!) no matter how i try i can never keep my combo long enough for platinum. when i finished it, i felt kinda empty ngl i wanted more, but didnt feel like trying extra mode or doing the challenges, or really anything i had left to do in krtdldlx

so i checked my ao3 cuz it had been a week since i had and remembered that i had a draft i wanted to post that i only had there

i lost the draft

so i just check my favourite tags and oh look there is another addition to my favourite series there, but i think this is for another time, better when i post a fanart of it

[davekat-sucks]

Some Homestuck Fans need representation so badly in fiction. They need to police all of us so badly to get it We could have good representation in fiction! I want it too! But it’s not something Homestuck even offers. Homestuck turns every bad taboo into a strange punch line. It’s weird to make Homestuck a platform to talk about capitalism when the way their economy works is so different for real life. It’s so strange to see people talk about racism when Karkat’s world was fucked up enough to make canabalism and mandatory sex a cultural thing. Homosexuality wasn’t even a concept to Kanaya, she isn’t a lesbian even if she does have a preference towards women. (I am so tired of seeing Yuri shippers really think they are activists when they make Rose and Kanaya into something more important than it actually is. They are the people who make fun of fujos despite doing the same thing. Only most fujoshis don’t claim making male characters have sex is activism. It’s just stupid fun. WERE ALL JUST HAVING STUPID FUN!)

Homestuck is not the platform to talk about these heavy issues. This is fucked up scifi where what would have been cool for the ending is to see them recreate the world together and pick what should be saved and what parts of their culture should be thrown away. (Plus! all of humanity being killed by the empress makes Dirk and Jane’s distrust of aliens in the epilogue make sense to me, this could have been a learning tool about how racist people develop their beliefs and how to change their mind. But the epilogue writers went full labor camp with Jane. This is Legend of Korra season 4 all over again. They need to make every bad guy hitler because they don’t know anything about history outside of snippets of WW2 propaganda.)

We need to teach these people that Marx called all black people the n-word. He cheated on his wife and got the nanny pregnant. AND COMMUNISM LEAD TO A PRISON ISLAND FILLED WITH STARVING PEOPLE WHO (this is so gross so ignore if you’re squeemish) HAD TO PRACTICE CANABALISM! THE WOMEN HAD TO HAVE SEX WITH THE GAURDS TO GET FLOUR WHICH THEY MIXED WITH WATER THAT GAVE THEM DISENTARY! Marx was a fucking idiot who didn’t care about compassion and didn’t understand people. He was pathetic and seeing the Homestuck fandom suck his cock is so pathetic.

They do the same in other fandom spaces for stuff like anime, video games, comics, etc. The three listed being most talked about because of corporates that tries to push progressive activism is usually in poor quality, pandered to gain quick money, and localization becoming more of censorship that much of the original creator's writing or intention get lost or silenced. And fujoshi, at least for Western fans, don't really call themselves that. After all, it's offensive to use that label on yourself if you like BL. Because if you call yourself a fujoshi, you hypersexualized real life gay men. Because BL/yaoi in fictional works = real life gay men, when it's not the case. Using media to tie in with politics has been retarded since people started comparing Trump to Voldemort or Darth Vader. Even if a film or TV show has topics that would go over similar themes in real world, it is not exactly the same as real life. The shit that happens in the story is just that. It's fake fictional world with their own problems. It's not like real life.

[pezz-mp4]

Shout-out to that one time (today) I had autism and made Marx and Magolor shopkeepers in my DND campaign

I uh, suck at writing descriptions, sorry

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Im gonna infodump now 😺☝️

So, I don't have anything in concrete writen up for them, just the (Kirby) games events up to star allies (in mago's case, that includes the epilogue and Kirby Clash), but imma talk about my headcanon's about Marx yaaaay

(Dnd)Marx was human (I think? Or a semi-human, doesn't really matter what flavor of) and one day was like "yeah, I'm gonna sell my soul to Nova" blah blah, super star's events happen, and when Marx's gets his powers, the magic burns away his arms, because I think that would be cool (and one of my friends characters had something similar happen to her, so that's something that happens when you sell your soul for power in universe, I guess). When Kirby beat him and killed Nova on the side, Marx lost (most of) his powers, including the cool magic arms, only leaving there a mark, horns, tail and ... The color purple? For some reason? (Check image 3, down left), think of this as how people headcanon Magolor to have kept the eye-mouth thing, but cooler (and really itchy for Marx, that's why all his clothes are like 3 sizes too big, so they don't touch his skin)

The end :]

I'll post Kirby, Dedede and Meta Knight when I feel like it (or when I know what to write for them in universe, because as of now, their just cool designs with no real though behind . . . Welp... maybe Meta has some though behind, he's a vampire now, I don't know why or how to explain why he became one, but it looks cool and that's all that matters)

[rollercoasterwords]

oh!!!! happy 100k words wfrau!!!!!!! she's getting bigger (<- like you would speak of a puppy). how long is it supposed to be & how far along are you? and also... would you like to share a snippet you like (from any chapter ofc... no pressure if no it's completely understandable)? what do you enjoy the most about writing it? bc it seems like you're having fun & it's so nice to see someone enjoying a hobby so openly online... especially writing... there's this conception that writers don't actually enjoy writing (the whole 'forcing myself to write' bit) and i'm curious to hear your perspective on it!! also!!!!!! i hope moving will be easy & fun & the world will be kind to you with the change <3 i keep telling myself 2 read marx but i can't find any good translations to my native language and reading it in english is making my brain go grgrgrgrgr like an air conditioner on its last leg so alas it might have to wait... so true for liking iced drinks they're really the best!! i've heard someone say it's childish but i think they just live a very miserable hot life in the august heat drinking their hot coffee instead of putting some ice cubes in it :) it's funny you say that about fav line because it's definitely my fav fic of your writing & the ending of it is soooo beautiful i get back to it every time i need to feel something!!!!! that song line is beautiful too omg... and well the weather is hell everywhere at least the world is all suffering together :( i hope the atmosphere isn't suffering too much :/ honestly i am a big 'i would rather be hot than cold' believer because i am from a hot country so i know how to deal with the heat but you know what i'm sure the chill can also be intriguing to some... not me though... i hope the winter will be kind on you <3 thank u for letting me invade ur ask box i am creating myself a room here for now i think. anyway. love and hugs!!!! <333

hello!! she is indeed getting bigger <3 if i had to guess right now i'd say i'm maybe...possibly nearing the halfway point of the fic, plotwise? but honestly it's really hard to say lol. i've got 2 more story arcs to cover in part 3 (plus finishing the current one), and then part 4 is gonna have like...2 or 3 story arcs as well, plus an epilogue. so it just depends on how long it takes me to cover all that ground!

and yeah i'm having a lot of fun writing!! i know what u mean abt the whole "ugh writing amirite" bit that writers do lol and i'm sure i do it sometimes too...i mean i think tone varies a lot and many people who complain about writing still really enjoy the activity, but i do think there is sometimes this self-flagellating tendency amongst some writers to act like writing is meant to be this strenuous, emotionally draining activity like ur...idk sisyphus w the stone or something, and if you're writing something 'easy' or 'fun' you're somehow a lower caliber of writer than those who Nobly Suffer for their art, etc...which i think is dumb lol. suffering doesn't inherently make art any better or more noble

& thank u 4 the well-wishes w moving!! i'm mostly nervous about getting to my flight on time lol i have to go into work the literal day before i leave and then catch a train across the country at 5am the next morning 2 get 2 the airport...not going 2 be fun so i'll take all the well-wishes i can get !!

sorry 2 hear u can't find marx in ur native language :( it's hard enough 4 me 2 understand reading in my first language i cannot imagine trying 2 parse it in a second language...maybe it might be easier 2 find one of his (or engels') shorter texts 2 read? capital is a monster but i started off with a few shorter pieces ('socialism: utopian and scientific', 'principles of communism', 'wage labour and capital,' 'value price and profit') which i found helpful! also there are lots of secondary resources of other people breaking down + explaining marx's work; maybe there's a good source in your native language that could give a summary/overview of capital? there's no one right way 2 learn, it's just abt finding what works best for u!!

iced drink supremacy 4ever truly <3 me myself & i we can only enjoy a hot beverage if it's very cold outside...otherwise i am simply thinking well why would i do that 2 myself... & thank u!! happy 2 hear u like the lines!! v happy w them v proud <3 & also appreciate the well-wishes re: weather i cannot relate 2 the hot-weather preference i much prefer cold...or at least i used to i grew up in a relatively cold climate but then i moved south 4 university so at this point i'm going on 6 years of living in what is categorized as a "humid subtropical climate" & i think my winter tolerance has been all but destroyed it hardly ever drops below freezing...but hot&humid weather is still my least favorite i think i would prefer icy-cold winter + mild summer but i will be actually putting that theory 2 the test this year so!! who knows maybe my hubris will be my downfall...

& of course!! u are welcome 2 stop by + chat anytime...in my heart we are drinking iced beverages 2gether <3 also as requested here is a snippet from ch 14:

“Don’t,” he tells her, firmly, “Don’t say that. I don’t—want you involved. If they ever did anything to hurt you…I wouldn’t be able to live with myself.” She stares at him, eyes ablaze. “And how do you think I feel? Knowing that they only pick on you because—” her voice falters, cracking, “Because you’re with me?” Her lip is trembling again, tears threatening to spill over from her eyes. Sirius shakes his head, helplessly, at a loss for what to do.

[efy727]

I made a Bingo Card

Since we are a month away from the release of Return to Dream Land Deluxe, I decided to make this just for fun. Actually, I came up with this around October, but I guess is a good time to share. I added/changed a few things since then.

I had plenty of ideas, not only in the context of the previous remakes, but also regarding how the modern games had changed since RtDL. I would proceed to elaborate and rate the possibility, in my cautious opinion, that is.

1. DDD, BD & MK in hub when not used: Akin to how Ban Dee can be seen hanging in Waddle Dee Town. It could be both in the Lor and Magolor Land. I would be neat if you could also speak to them too. Chance: Possible

2. Use of originally cut content: As in stuff from the original game (not counting previous versions like GCN), like unused enemies appearing. Chance: Very unlikely, yet considering HR-D3...

3. GK fight outside the True Arena: Just wishful thinking. For the longest time I wanted to fight Galacta Knight outside the TA. IDK, the background always made me feel like he should be a secret boss hidden in Dangerous Dinner. Chance: Unlikely

4. New mode similar to HiAD & II:FD: Other case of wishful thinking. I might be asking too much, but I just like these epilogue modes; for instance, it could explore Magolor in the aftermath. Chances: Not very likely, but HiAD in SA’s final update does give me some hope.

5. Unlockable playable Magolor: That would be a cool reward, may be by getting certain scores in all the minigames, 100% or in the epilogue mode from the previous point. I mean, he was already made playable, and Festival is in the game. Chance: Possible

6. Translatable Halcandran Alphabet: I’m referring to the glyphs in the Lor’s screen. I remember seen a post expressing this same idea months ago. I think it would be cool to be able to compare the New World’s writing with Halcandran. We see shared characteristics among those and the symbols in Hyness’ clothes, but I want it to be expanded.

In a side note, I want for some words from that language too, we do see a few connections between the Switch game’s spoken languages, for example ‘Heart’ is ‘Haruda’ (‘Bastion’ in the EN localization) in SA and ‘Faruda’ in FL.

Anyway... Chances: Very unlikely

7. More Magolor!!!: Not need to elaborate. Chances: Already confirmed, but there always could be more.

8. New cutscenes related to main story: Specifying to not count the stuff related to the theme park. Anything that happens during or is consequence of the main story counts, like the potential GK encounter or epilogue mode, may be scenarios added to the repairing cutscenes akin to 64. Chances: Unlikely

9. New stuff connected to the ‘Ancients’: I’m including Hyness’ clan and the people from the New World under the term. Chances: Possible even if it’s something minor.

10. Dream Collection content: An old idea I decided to keep, with it I mean the New Challenge Stages and Magolor Race. Chances: Impossible by this point.

11. New pause descriptions for bosses: RtDL is so weird compared to the other modern games in many ways, an example: only a few bosses have pause desc. and they are relatively short, just like in SSU. I think this is a no brainer. Imagine if they remove them and pass them to masks, if that happens, I’ll still count them. Chances: Very likely

12. Updated movesets for DDD, BD and MK: The SA ones. Chances: Confirmed

13. Replace/change Extra Mode: I don’t hate this mode, it’s just weird with the other modern games in mind. I hope I don’t cause much contention; this was a filler idea. May be a little shake up, like a few new puzzles like in Isolated Isles. Chances: Unlikely

14. More allusions to Magolor’s ‘friend’: Though most agree its Marx, a few more hints won’t hurt. Now imagine if the acquaintance is a future character instead, since Mags has a time machine. Chances: Very unlikely

15. Option to customize/turn off outlines: I personally like them as part of the pop-up book aesthetic, but I’ve seen many hating them, so why not have a choice, at least alter thickness. Chances: Possible

16. Challenge Stages for newer abilities: Since they are new. Chances: Confirmed

17. New hidden rooms in MM and ExM: SA got some in the updates. Would be nice for those that already played the game. Chances: Possible

18. Chaos boss: Thinking about Marx Soul in SSU, I think it’s fitting to have this item happen even if everything else here doesn’t. With I’m just referring to a harder secret true final boss; may be another fight with Magolor, I’m also considering someone else, may be the crown alone? I dubbed it ‘Chaos’ to refer to something above ‘Soul’. Chances: Very Likely, though don’t get your hopes up.

19. Reference to RtDL’s beta versions: not counting the visuals or stuff from the original. Something like betalor being referenced in “Chaos Magolor” or something. Chances: Very Unlikely

20. Additional Stages in Main Mode: As in new whole stages, not just a room or two. May be even a whole new world. A big ask honestly. Chances: Unlikely

21. New Landia lore: Even though Landia appears in the Clash games, there really isn’t much about them besides being called a ‘Guardian Angel’, and they are not part of the main continuity. I’m just saying, this is a good opportunity. Chances: Possible

22. Voiced Adeleine by staff picked for SA: This just something I hope is the case, since a screenshot already confirms her mask has sound effects. It’s just nice seeing stuff cut from a previous entry finally being used. Chances: Very likely

23. Shopkeeper Magolor reference: This is filler, since SA already did that. Magolor is above canon after all. Chances: Possible

24. New well hidden Easter Egg: Possibly involving 86. May be cram in a third HAL Room? As long as most players don’t find out without checking a guide or by pure accident. Chances: Likely

To end this, which took me all night to write, I’ll mark the confirmed boxes. I don’t think I’ll get ‘BRAVO’, but this was fun to make.

[eveshyper]

All in The Flesh -epilogue-

I always thought the dynamic of power fascinating. Need and demand. The one in need always looking up to the one with means. Nothing can have value without being an object of utility, said Marx, apparently. Sell me this pen, Jordan Belfort asks Bo Bodnick. Come closer, demands Hannibal. What did you do, asks the police officer. Nothing can really work if there’s no one to obey, to give the right answer, do the right move, give the missing piece.

I don’t know what happened, but I know something will. I can feel it. I’m scared as things get worse by the second. The things we found, we should have left it all there, should’ve never said anything, to anyone. I don’t know if I trust Nico anymore. I’m worried for them, really worried. And I’m afraid of what they’ll end up doing.

I should’ve stayed home; I shouldn’t have come.

Hyde was having the time of their life. The bass, blasting in their ears, so loud the song itself was unidentifiable. There were only vibrations, moving the crowd along, the smell of expensive perfumes and sweat made the atmosphere feel hundred times hazier when mixed with the flashing lights and erotic-induced humidity.

Before getting drunk they were admiring the beauty of the adolescence madness. The need for escapism. For some it was drinking, drugs, smoking and snoring, others found comfort in flirting and sexualizing their own bodies, kissing whoever gave consent, and sometimes, who didn’t. Girls and others escaped their turbulent minds in a never-ending search for male validation and praise, using miniskirts and tight tops that were definitely too uncomfortable for their own taste. Of course, you could find some girls that weren’t in that subconscious treasure haunting, the girls that were called “nerd whores’’ or “dy—s” around the corridors, which for some wasn’t wrong, but still makes you wonder what goes through a college jock’s mind besides slurs and boobs.

At first, the party was insufferable, too hot, too crowded, the music was too loud. That only lasted for 3 shots of vodka and a smoke off of someone’s blunt. Hyde’s head was too heavy to give into the foolish mindset of it all too easily, she needed something stronger. Not 20 minutes later, they were on hunching over a small coffee table near the walls. Hyde could hear a group of people screaming encouragement to her while they organized the powder in thin lines, conscious enough not to laugh on top of the newly bought heroin, but not enough to realize they needed to stop. First line was gone, then the second, third and fourth. Their brain sparking with artificial euphoria, finally the weight on her shoulders and hands was lifted, finally a moment when their faces, filled with terror, disappeared. They felt at peace, at last. They knew what they had done was wrong, gruesome, but nothing could’ve stopped it, not the police, not the teachers. They were at peace with it all, and from that moment until the sirens started to substitute the loud music around the space, they were it all.

-So, Hyde Willows. Why don’t you tell me about tonight? - the police officer asked, emotionless. There was no doubt they had done it, Officer Fei knew that, but the motives and actions behind the crime were still unclear. 3 students, all from Hyde’s social circle and 1 teacher, were all found dead. The display of their bodies, how calculated it was, how it seemed so meticulously planned, everything from the time of their death to the reason of death. All of it seemed too much to have come from that kids brain, that wasted college kid in front of her, who has not said a word for the half hour they have been together, the same blank stare stuck on their eyes, mascara and lipstick all smudged, sweat sticking their black hair to the cheeks. More silence filled the room -Great, anything else? - She bluffed, getting up, pretending to leave, maybe something could spark out of her, but to no avail. The cold in the interrogation room seemed to pierce through Hyde’s skin, Fei saw their body hair get up and their body shivering slightly, but apparently not enough to sober them up.

[desultory-novice]

Marionettes' Pavane, Chapter 5 Part 2

"The Sweet Taste of Home" (conclusion, 10 pgs)

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"MariPav" is a strangers to friends to......... fan comic about Marx and Magolor's meeting and their zany adventures in the days before Return to Dream Land. It was written before RtDL DX came out, so expect inconsistencies with current game lore!

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...After :cough: over a year of real-world time :cough: Magolor finally got a teeny, ti~ny taste of delicious, homemade cake - and a large taste of what his life of withered dreams was missing all this time.

Could his inescapably annoying jester companion be bringing something more than just chaos into Magolor's world...?

Up Next: Chapter 6 Part 1 "Let Me Play Amongst the Stars" ...Where the two go sphere hunting in earnest!

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A/N: So, fun story, when I was first drafting the plot of MariPav, for the longest time, this chapter was just the phrase, "Space Boyfriends Cooking Chapter! XD" I was constantly re-arranging story beats to figure out what scenes should even go here. In the end, it turned into a somewhat significant chapter despite starting out as a joke / lighthearted story tucked in between more serious events.

While MariPav isn't (and can't ; _ ;) be canon to the Magolor of DX, I did think it was funny how several aspects of his character actually do mesh pretty well with DX!Magolor, one of them being Magolor's soon-to-be obsession with preparing food! (At least, I saw Helper Magolor bringing Kirby a constant supply of healing treats to be indicative of him actually kind of liking food prep!) MariPav Magolor has definitely caught the fever for baking after this adventure!

By the way, most of the script you're seeing here is completely unchanged from my pre-remake final draft but I did end up adding the line, "...a delicacy favored by the wizard kings of ancient Halcandra" (and "Your monarchy ate rocks?!") after seeing the role the gem apples played in the Magolor Epilogue and their ties to the Master Crown. Gem apples sure seem to be made of / grown with magic, yet we know they can be eaten too! If such a food existed, it would be no surprise that wizards would love to dine on highly sweet, concentrated magic power! (The "concentrated magic" part is why they explode, of course. That stuff is pretty volatile!)

...Oh, and also, this is canonically when Marx first coins the nickname "Mags" for Magolor. I know it's confusing because I've used that nickname a lot in side material already, but it starts here!

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Lastly, for the eagle-eyed readers who noticed the cook book uses the New World Font and thus, ought to legible in English, I'll spare you the trouble by copying the text I used here:

So we're finally here. The end of the cooking chapter. Has it really been a whole year? Amazing. Anyway, I'm finally learning how to implement 3d models successfully. Like that cake.  The one in the book is the defeault.  I modified it a bit for the one they make... Uh, what else can I fill this space with? Oh yeah. I was really proud that I wrote about Magolor quickly becoming addicted to sweets before he showed up in DX always dropping cakes and other food on you. There's a few things I felt MariPav predicted despite all that it got wrong.

[caendtowntrash]

More Marx? (Annoyed Groan)

It’s another one of these! Spoilers for the January Endtown Update just as a forewarning.

In my other Marx rant I went over a good amount of Marx but I feel the newest updates to Endtown really drive it home how horrific Marx is and how damaging his presence is on this story and how cruel a god entity he is just via context alone. I think I need to appropriately break it down so people can really grasp this with both hands rather than be dazzled by fancy art and faded memory.

More under the cut!

Marx is basically the creator, the author if you will, of the Endtown world. He chooses worlds which are slotted for destruction and manipulates the circumstances within them to seed a new sandbox for him to play around in. Multiple sandboxes even!

During the Ship Arc it’s revealed that the parallel worlds to Endtown’s world are dead. Nobody survives the apocalypse, which typically is caused by resource squabbling. Marx, horrible god that he is, sets up Endtowns in these worlds that shelter and preserve humanity which we see during the post-mortem Flask epilogue and again in Holly’s flashback where she and Doc Chase are sent to Endtown. He also gives Apex (Topsiders) means to survive the resultant Armageddon as well as evidenced by Amesworth’s Exposition segment of the Eden Arc:

Marx left his ‘clue’ about what was happening to the world and tampered with the biosuit’s plastics which allowed the Topsiders to persist when they would have all transformed or perished. This makes him responsible for the Topsider’s existence and their genocidal rampage on the mutated (grexed) humans. Now the cause of the mutations were revealed to be due to some thinning of reality’s walls which allow a completely unrelated universe, not parallel but cosmologically distant to this one, collide and infect it in a way where people turn into cartoon animals. This may, perhaps, be seen as a kind of accident if you are so inclined to believe so. Like a boulder crushing a sparrow’s nest it’s an act of nature the occupants never would have foresaw or anticipated until doom was upon them. But what if I told you that there was a man who pushed the boulder in the first place? Enter a brief but incredibly damning comment made by Dr. Amesworth in a quiet aside during the Exposition segment:

Isn’t this a really curious thing for her to say? Almost as if Marx chose the nature of what the universe collision was. Which, if you think about it, might be actually true. Marx has been shown to accomplish anything and has not faced something that actually stands as a challenge to his skills or will and expresses nothing but fawning adoration for Cardoodles. We have from his own admission that he’s been manipulating Wally’s ‘story’ to serve the purpose of feeding him to Eye and ultimately combining his soul with Cracked Cat and that he’s done this countless times. He’s admitted in this most recent update that he’s watched or been aware of Duffy committing suicide ‘8 million times’ but only now supposedly thought to stop him. And why?

Marx seems to have this happen where his outreach for characters not named Wally are curious larks rather than anything in his rigid five billion step plan to whatever endgoal he’s looking for with his sandbox. This happened much earlier for Flask too.

And in fact ONLY seems to happen when he’s ‘curious’ if that really is earnest and not another lie to get the circumstances of what he wants to happen, happen. He’s a master manipulator after all, privy to countless permutations of how a situation will go and pulling the strings accordingly. He doesn’t save Holly because the Ship reveals what her ‘deal’ was and deems her too fundamentally broken to fix (even though there could be opportunities to fix her, I feel like Marx cared more about Holly fixing Wally and getting him out of Endtown rather than Holly’s own wellbeing and orchestrated Milk Trial to break her fundamentally). He doesn’t save Walt because he knows exactly what happened with Walt, there’s no mystery to his actions because it’s a perfectly understood progression. How tragic but not anything he has to deal with, people die every day! And he doesn’t save Heather because, uhmmm...

He just doesn’t okay????????????? Endtown’s served its purpose! Who cares about the innocent people left behind in there, it’s fine and dandy to pull some parlor tricks like making your eyes bleed to scare the fascist you put in office or make a sad pose as Walt disappears from existence, maybe the audience will forget you’re actually the reason this all happened and give you a pass for not intervening when you did it for Wally and now Duffy. If the characters are not serving Cracked Cat’s ascension then they’re disposable. It might be neat to see what new thing can twist the story around for Marx’s point of view but each ‘tweak’ is fundamentally not important to his main goal. If something affects the main goal, like Holly, he’d gladly throw them in the garbage. And he has every right to do this in his eyes. Why? Because he made the world. Everyone’s lives were forfeit to his whims the second he ‘saved’ them from an apocalypse. Nobody in Endtown is supposed to be alive, absolutely nobody. So if this world was supposed to die he can do anything to it, can’t he? He can cross a cartoon universe over the one he’s chosen, make the inhabitants change into cartoons. Why? How else can he make the Cracked Cat he wants to see?

[seraphares]

Marx design based off Magolor Epilogue. He’s gotta go through space to get out of space or something lol

[kingtrash-fox]

And the same can be said for Kirby and his friends. The main difference between all of them is the fact that all the magical dangerous shit is either ON Popstar or just wants to fuck with POPSTAR for some dumb reason.

anyone with a Telescope or something can very clearly see shit the Void Termina Star dream Magalor (Hell if they look in the right areas they can see the shit in the Magalor epilogue) Marx Nova Etc. Not to mention other planets with most likely higher Political power or Influence like Haltmann Industries and Ripple Star can vouch on their OP nature. Nothing is containing them the universe is just PRAYING the denizens there don’t snap (and even then since Samus canonically exists in Kirby they might be fine sending her after Kirby)

Random headcanon: the reason that Peach and Bowser don’t seem to get a lot of respect in some Super Mario games is because the Mushroom Kingdom is kind of a rural backwater and isn’t terribly important or influential politically, so people tend to regard Bowser as a C-list villain for being so hung up on such an insignificant conquest. Nobody really expects Bowser to be a serious threat – that would be like expecting a guy whose main claim to fame is repeatedly failing to conquer Wyoming to be a serious threat – so they get taken by surprise every single time.

[opal-owl-flight]

hi! i love your aus and art with that lying egg, but im a bit confused on when the different story arcs or aus started. are they tagged? thank you!!

I actually havent started on the others ISJSEKJZ

But basically… (LET THIS BE THE MAGOLOR ARC MASTERPOST!) everything under the cut. Its super long KSJS

Pre-RTDL. Havent actually posted about it, if I remember correctly. But this ask kind of covers what happened to Halcandra. The arc is Mags surviving in the destroyed planet with Void Termina being a little shit and feeding his desire for vengeance (blowing it up into a hatred towards the universe) and playing on his insecurities. Finding the Lor, meeting Marx, etc etc. (Related: the timeline of events including the two galactic crises that befell the Ancients)

RTDL has a retelling which I havent touched on in my own posts yet (its usually me rambling in the tags). Involves Mags interacting with the Popstar Four, growing fond of the planet, finding friendship with them as a not so bad thing, growing hesitant with his plans for conquest… Termina convincing him otherwise.

post-RTDL-SA has a retelling, which I should talk about more. Mags is still a little shit for a while, still thinking about conquest or power, stealing relics, manipulating the Four. Reminiscent of the stuff in the light novels. He only makes legit attempts at turning good after Robobot (bc Kirby was able to drive away the HALTMANNS, who destroyed his old home)! SA has him proving himself as a good ally. Shaky trust with the Allies but hes taking it.

SA-FL has him trying harder to build more trust. Not the best attempts but he really is trying!

FL postgame. False Paradise. Talked about briefly here (the link on the ask details it a bit more)!

Zero3 arc. Not talked about yet. Will someday! AFTER I FIND A MORE PROPER NAME FOR IT. (Considering Into the Darkness or something that involves eyes). Referenced here and here! (And here too!) Melania looks for knowledge and finds out about/summons Zero to “know true despair”. Morbidly curious fellow, she is. Anyway, as for Mags, his attempts at being good are much more legitimate here. He cares for Popstar, he cares for the Allies. He wants to be better for them bc they have…somewhat accepted him into their home. Part of the ending here!

Mangoes and Berries. This is the romance arc with Mags and Meta. I dont really tag this one bc its just the two being gay disasters AKDJEK. Touch of angst bc Mags is stupid in love with Meta and is drifting away from Marx. But they all make amends. Such a shame that all those promises of staying together get smashed in the next arc.

Back to Zero. This is tagged as such! Starting here. Everything’s in the link, this post’s already long ENOUGH

Recovery arc, will talk on it more. Usually tagged as back to zero, but needs its own tag. A post about it here!

Legacy arc. Revelation about the Haltmanns. Im currently messing with this one as I learn more about Robobot. Its on the first link I posted, and then delved into more here and here.

Rising Storm. A new threat brews… is Mags really the last of his kind? Starts here, but its tagged as such as well!

The Retreat. Mags is called by a mysterious force. He ascends into a higher form at the end. Posted about it here

Bonus next gen stuff. The “epilogue” as I call it. Here, here, and here!

This is all ONE au/interp. A month or more of work…Ive been watching this egg grow into someone honorable. Im proud of him.