#World of Light

[smashy-headcanons]

So fun fact: Papyrus is heavily implied to be able to see where you are if you call him on the phone.

Other fun fact: You can use any custom Mii you like during World of Light once you unlock that Mii's fighter type in World of Light.

[kelpermoosee]

Honestly the funniest part about World of Light to me

[clownkure]

this did kinda well on twitter so here. shitty mspaint redrawing.

if you get the reference I love you <3

[terminallyspookystudenteagle]

World of Light but poorly explained.

[dragonroar87]

ok hear me out: AU where all the smash fighters not explicitly killed in the World of Light opening cutscene somehow survive and have to take on their post-apocalyptic world together

a comprehensive list on which smash fighters died in Galeem's initial attack:

the "not seen killed but there IS a body" tier is for characters who we don't see vaporized by galeem's light but are clearly visible in the scene with all the puppet fighters. I tried my best but that scene is REALLY dark with the only visible light being the glowing eyes so if you can point to a puppet fighter and say "that's X, you can tell because of their Y" I'll take them off the survivor tier

making this tierlist made me realize how few characters we see actually killed. not shulk? not fox? not THE MARIO BROTHERS??? (obviously mario is the one who we see puppeted but we never see his actual death and that surprised me)

and if we count the DLC fighters and Kirby that's a total of 52 survivors of Galeem's attack and that's a lot so to make it more bite-sized i split them up into groups like how you see people group up in zombie movies. they're also grouped by theme!

Have some lore for them, too! Beware my severe bias towards a few groups.

"The Survivor" - Kirby! Survived Galeem's initial attack by temporarily warping to a different dimension.

"The Littles" - Bowser Jr, the Ice Climbers, Little Mac, Pichu, Olimar and Alph, Ness, Lucas, Isabelle, and Meta Knight. These fighters are all children or physically small in some way. They all attempted to use the rocks and mountain faces as cover against the initial attack, but lost their footing and fell off the cliff as Galeem's rays destroyed it. Little Mac caught Pichu and tried to shield her with his own body as they fell.

Olimar and Alph were saved by their Winged Pikmin, Meta Knight saved himself with his wings, Isabelle caught herself with the balloons from her Up Special, and Bowser Jr. used the propeller of his Koopa Clown Car. Olimar and Alph caught Popo and Nana, Lucas grabbed Bowser Jr. with Rope Snake, Meta Knight caught Ness, and Isabelle caught Mac (and Pichu by extension).

By the time they had reached the bottom of the valley, Galeem was so distracted with trying to annihilate Kirby that he didn't notice that The Littles were still alive. They survived the universe-consuming blast by hiding out in a cave, since that blast seemingly did not affect the terrain.

"The Nobles" - Peach, Daisy, Chrom, King Dedede, Ganondorf, Corrin, King K. Rool, Lucina, Roy, and Marth. These fighters are all royalty or have noble blood flowing through their veins.

"The Perserverers" - Cloud, Ike, Ken, Simon, Richter, Ryu, Robin, Luigi, the Miis, Wario, and Shulk. Okay I'll be honest there's no theme with this one. I originally wanted Incineroar in this group and the theme to be they all had jobs that had to do with kicking people's asses but then there was Luigi and Wario and all the other guys and I just threw the theme out the window lol.

"The Non-Humans" - Incineroar, Wolf, Dark Samus, Yoshi, R.O.B, Pac-Man, Ridley, Donkey Kong, and Mr. Game & Watch. These fighters are all non-human. Game & Watch and Pac-Man survived by simply being too Flat but I'm unsure how the others would have escaped.

"The Newcomers" - Piranha Plant, Joker, Hero, Banjo and Kazooie, Terry, Byleth, Min-Min, Steve, Sephiroth, Pyra and Mythra, Kazuya, and Sora. These fighters are the DLC characters. Survived Galeem's initial attack by virtue of being in a different dimension when it happened. Pulled through time and space to the World of Light, they band together to find a way back to their home dimensions (although for some, this team-up happened very begrudgingly).

I don't know much about some of these franchises, so I'm welcome to suggestions to help me develop this AU! Seriously I am on my hands and knees BEGGING for suggestions because so far the only group that is developed is The Littles 😭

[web-pets]

I’m replaying world of light for ultimate and I was going to fight link to unlock him

I hit the wrong input and exploded

[chowmoon2]

Omg,I just remembered one Smash bros tumblr account (that I won’t say the name of) that said that Kirby won’t really care or be invested in about the whole World of Light stuff because “He is used to this kind of thing”

LIKE- NO????????????????? HE WOULD CARE VERY MUCH BECAUSE ALL OF HIS FRIENDS (WHOM HE LOVES VERY MUCH) DIED,IDC IF HE FACES ALOT OF ELDRITCH ABOMINATIONS BEFORE,ATLEAST DURING THOSE,NONE OF HIS FRIENDS GOT VAPORIZED RIGHT IN FROMT OF HIS EYES

GRRRRRRRR,I CAN GO ON ABOUT THE GENERAL MISCHARACTERIZATION OF KIRBY AND FRIENDS BY NOT JUST SMASH FANS WHO DON’T KNOW THE SERIES BUT ALSO IN GENERAL BY PEOPLE WHO ONLY KNOW KIRBY FROM MEMES

(Sorry if I sound like a big hater,Kirby is a very special interest of mine and I hate seeing constant Mischaracterization of his character alongside others,also Bandee should get in smash)

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[thehyperrequiem]

Ok, an interesting concept idea

World of Light where everything’s the same except what if Piston Hondo survived the Galeem attack (in progress of not becoming a spirit) and assisted Kirby in one heck of an adventure! Like think about it; considering that Kirby has met Little Mac before and Hondo has known Little Mac in the WVBA, it would be cute to see Kirby becoming friends with Little Mac’s Japanese friend while they save their friends!

That’s all, thanks for coming to my ted talk

[staidanom]

Geno's beta design had a SWORD and I think that's pretty cool

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

Sephiroth: The idea is simple.

Sephiroth: *points at Galeem* I want to kill that man.

[smashy-headcanons]

Continuation of the Master Hand and Dedede fighting on your side comparison because I've thought of more specific things that could also apply to this: (Once again, major Kirby and the Forgotten Land and World of Light spoilers) -I specified World of Light because in Subspace, sure he does fight back, but unfortunately not successfully. Both Master Hand's fight in WoL and King Dedede's fight in Forgotton Land are both shown to be successful. There's also very subtle evidence to me that he wasn't exactly 'mind controlled' per se- because you can see him actively struggling to get enough attention from Ganondorf to notice the restraints. (Though that part could just be me trying to fill in the gaps that Subspace lore hasn't told us) For all we know, he had been aware and trying to fight back the whole time, while only being able to for whatever reason at that moment. While in World of Light, when you first free him, he looks around as unaware as to what's been happening for who knows how long. -That being said, they do both have signs of actively resisting or struggling against the mind control- in the final battle against Forgo Dedede, he's seen trying to get the boar mask off before the fight begins, while MH (technically both Hands) have the average power and HP they'd have during a regular fight in Classic Mode during every single fight against them in WoL. If the horde of puppet fighters have the same power as the originals, then he was significantly holding back during said Classic Mode fights and holding nothing (or at least not as much) back during the fight against the 50 clone fighters. Why do I bring this up? Because that would mean he was subconsciously holding back during fights against him during WoL somehow, not letting Galeem use him at his full power. - Partially unrelated to the first two points, but they also have something in common that I was thinking of when I said their fights against your enemies means they were now on your side- In their first (or even first few) appearances in their games of origin, they were solely seen as a villainous figure and someone to take down, while much more recent games depict them being a lot more friendly and more of an ally to you when needed.

(Sorry this got so long...I'm just really passionate about the characterization they both have.)

Oh my god you’re killing me with these. Ohhhhh my god. Ooough.

[microwavingtoniii]

hey can you guys hear me out on a crack ship real quick

[drgnbnd]

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it's not enough that the Light destroyed us all

[xxhinastarxx]

When I saved G&W from world of light:

I'M LAZY

[terminallyspookystudenteagle]

The beginning of World of Light, according to Galeem.

[dragonroar87]

Re-Sorting the Groups from my SSBU AU

So a few days ago I came up with a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate AU in which every character not explicitly killed in the World of Light's opening cutscene survives and has to take on the post-apocalyptic world. (See my original post for details.)

In that AU, the survivors are split into several smaller groups to make things more bite sized. What I didn't take into account was how many characters there are as alternate costumes that need to be treated as seperate characters for the sake of this AU. So today I'll be re-sorting them!

For the purpose of this list, I will only be including alternate costumes that are explicitly a different person (i.e the Koopalings and the Heroes). Multicharacters such as the Ice Climbers and Pyra/Mythra are also counted as multiple characters.

Behold, the new and improved groupings:

(this took me WAY too long to make)

Change Log:

-Nana, Mythra, Alph, the Koopalings, the Dragon Quest Heroes, and the three Mii fighters now all count as their own characters. (I swear to GOD if there is anyone else I forgot)

-"The Perserverers" have been split into two groups, "The Combatants" and "The Ragtags." The Combatants all have professions that have to do with fighting of some kind (Ike is a mercenary, Cloud is a soldier, the Belmonts are vampire hunters, etc.). The Ragtags don't have a specific theme to them. Think of them as the little guys nobody would expect.

-To make sure all groups have a relatively even number of members after the split of The Perserverers, the following changes have been made: Meta Knight has been moved from The Littles to The Combatants, Olimar and Ness have been moved from The Littles to The Ragtags, Robin has been moved from The Nobles to the Combatants, Ganondorf and Iggy been moved from The Nobles to the Non-Humans, and Pac-Man and R.O.B. have been moved from The Non-Humans to The Ragtags. Mii Gunner, instead of staying with her fellow Miis in The Combatants, stays with The Ragtags instead. (I hope those are all of the group changes because I genuinely have lost track.)

-All groups besides The Survivor and The Newcomers now have precisely ten members. Adding together all groups, this makes for a total of sixty-seven survivors of Galeem's attack.

-The official name of this AU is now The Sixty-Seven AU. It's MY self-indulgent AU and I get to choose the name!