#kirby worldbuilding

[startistdoodles]

How is a Puffball born? From the cosmos above? A special world? Some other third thing?

Space dust and happiness.

[nookisms]

i would like to hear about kirby worldbuilding ali 👀

You thought I forgot about this didn't you! Let's talk about waddle dees!

In the common language they speak on Popstar, waddle dees are named after what they do or what they wear. This obviously means there could be, and likely are, multiple waddle dees with the same name in this common language. Waddle dees also have their own language of some kind, shown by the wawas and wanyas.

While their common names are simple and to the point, their names in the waddle dee language are much more descriptive. They're also built by the community! Waddle dees are very community oriented, as shown by how quickly Waddle Dee Town gets rebuilt in Forgotten Land. The community will build on each other's names.

A waddle dee could describe themself as adventurous, but other waddle dees would describe them as reckless and thus their name would be something like "reckless adventurer". They could also wear a beanie and wield a parasol and are extremely fun to be around despite the recklessness, so those would also be part of their name. So their name would be something like, "Entertaining reckless beanie parasol adventurer"

In whatever common language they speak on Popstar, this waddle dee would likely be called "Beanie Waddle Dee", "Adventurer Waddle Dee", or simply "Parasol Waddle Dee". No need to get too complicated!

[lucent-nargacuga]

The false puffball, Batamon, and Starborn

False Puffballs

False puffballs (Drakon caelestis), more commonly known as pseudopuffs or even just puffballs, are the result of convergent evolution. Nobody is certain how and why they evolved to become near-identical to true puffballs (or Astrals), as true puffballs inevitably outcompete them. False puffballs evolved from true dragons 1.5 billion years ago, and as such, their blood is always a bright lavender hue.

Unlike true puffballs, false puffballs are not purely magical in origin; as far as science is concerned, false puffballs are normal animals (although they have a much higher magical potential than most). False puffballs reproduce asexually and will lay a single egg at a time. Once an egg is laid, it is usually deposited on another planet, where it will remain for roughly one hundred years before hatching. The egg will slowly absorb life energy from the environment around it, which influences the young's physical traits and element(s).

Newly-hatched false puffballs are very independent and are able to fend for themselves immediately after hatching. During their first one thousand years of life, young false puffballs are extremely adaptable and their physical traits will change when their conditions do. They are able to grow new body parts if needed, and body parts that hinder them will fall off. (Attempting to raise a false puffball hatchling is extremely difficult, as they thrive in rough conditions. There are many sad stories of all of a hand-reared hatchling's limbs falling off due to disuse.) For the next three thousand years or so, their wings, horns, tails and other physical traits will lose their malleability and will develop into their final appearance.

False puffballs are fully mature at around five thousand years old; they can live for up to one million years.

While false puffballs tend to develop elemental abilities similar to those of true puffballs, they cannot use copy abilities, inhale, or float. Despite this, false puffballs have the capacity to become incredibly powerful. A famous example is the hero known as Celesta Knight, a false puffball from the faraway Conquest Galaxy who led four other heroes into battle against a terrifying threat and banished it back to the realm from whence it came.

True puffballs instinctively fear false puffballs and many will hunt them. False puffballs are few in areas inhabited by true puffballs. In areas where true puffballs are absent, false puffballs are numerous.

False puffballs can be considered superpredators.

Batamon

When the egg of a false puffball comes in contact with Dark Matter, it becomes infected and will hatch into a Batamon.

It is extremely rare for Batamon to live longer than one thousand years. Those that do will never develop wings, horns, a tail, or any other defining characteristics other than colour. Batamon are unable to use magic and are effectively defenceless. Their bodies are fragile, too, and they tend to prefer avoiding conflict due to being so weak.

Starborn

When the egg of a false puffball comes in contact with a true puffball, it becomes infected and will hatch into a Starborn.

Starborn are functionally identical to normal false puffballs. However, they tend to be more powerful, and can be differentiated from a normal false puffball by looking at the eye; Starborn always have pupils shaped like a four-pointed star, and normal false puffballs do not. Due to it being very unlikely for a true puffball to come across the egg of a false puffball, Starborn are incredibly rare.

In places uninhabited by true puffballs, Starborn are revered.

True Starborn

When the egg of a false puffball comes in contact with an unusually powerful true puffball (known as a blue star Astral), it may absorb the life energy of the true puffball and hatch into a True Starborn.

True Starborn are very similar to regular Starborn, but are even more powerful and rare.

There are currently no True Starborn known to exist, but that will change in the future.

Other Infected False Puffballs

Only Dark Matter and true puffballs have been confirmed to be able to infect false puffball eggs. However, research is underway to determine if false puffball eggs can be infected by pure forms of Dream, Heart, and Soul Matter as well.

Some claim that undead can infect false puffball eggs, but this has yet to be proven.

[forgottenkirbyfactz]

forgotten kirby facts 3 - taranza's "puppetry magic" is intended to be connected to sectonia's parasitism, as theyre both refered to in japanese as the art of manipulation that can possess and parasitize, this is removed from the official translation, likely by an oversight.

(jp fan translation source)

[george228732]

Fylass' Fun Facts :D

[vigilskeep]

sorry for answering that ask half asleep. the REAL thing you need to know about dragon age is that it’s not one of those fantasy worlds that’s built really deeply fixed into real history with deep knowledge. it borrows shallowly. it’s built first and foremost to set a videogame in and i love that about it, that it’s built so quickly you can still see the scaffolding went up and how they got there. they decide on a worldbuilding principle—“uhhh what if our jesus figure was [spins wheel] joan of arc?”—and they go for it because they are on a schedule. you should absolutely never be intimidated by dragon age lore it does not know more than you. all i’m doing is being able to make good guesses at what they’re borrowing from and make leaps from there

[veinsfullofstars]

"Heya, sunshine! Somethin' on ya mind?" "Hmph, besides you, rat?"

(ID: Kirby series fanart of Daroach & Dark Meta Knight, the former standing slightly behind the latter and leaning with his paws under his chin against the top of the knight's head. He smiles down at DMK, his cape flaring out slightly to our left, a soft blush on his cheeks. DMK glances up at him through his mask with a slightly annoyed expression, one eye shut, one of his wings curling out and up towards our right. The light catches in little sparkles on the edges of DMK's armor, his wing talon, and Daroach's claws. END ID.)

Some rarepair comfort food. Turns out I am physically incapable of not drawing fluff, even for characters who are demonstratively not soft in the slightest.

Sketch started some time in 01/24, render started 02/16/24, finished 02/18/24, updated for color correction 11/02/24.

[gethoce]

My brain wouldn't let me rest unless I labelled all of my Kirby OCs I have uploaded on toyhouse with moral alignments.

Yes there is still more. Some don't have art, others do have art but I forgot to put them here. There are those like Dutch who changed their morals drastically over time, too. Sometimes characters aren't as easy to shove into tight categories, too.

[pinkestmenace]

I'm having Mirror World thoughts again. I generally don't see the Mirror World as a reverse copy of Dream Land. I don't think that if a child is born in Dream Land its counterpart just pops into existence too. I mean, if mirror counterparts have somewhat twisted or exaggerated versions of the original's personalities they would not have the same lives as the originals. They wouldn't have the same jobs, hobbies, homes, partners and consequently wouldn't have the same children. I mean, it's possible, but it would take some kind of bizarre quantum entanglement or something to make these people live out completely railroaded lives identical to the originals. Then again, it's said the Mirror World was peaceful until Dark Mind's corruption. Maybe the mirror counterparts used to be very similar to the original before that aggravating eyeball messed things up.

Still. I like treating it as its own self contained space. The landscape is different from Dream Land, after all. If someone looks into the Dimensional Mirror it does spawn a copy of them. But this doesn't happen often since it's so high in the sky. Everyone else is either a descendant of someone who spawned as a copy or just naturally lives there.

I wonder if there would be a difference in how the Mirror treats spawned copies and born Mirror Worlders. Why did Dark Meta Knight shatter after his Amazing Mirror boss fight when the common enemies just poof? How did he return and why didn't he shatter in Triple Deluxe? (Other than being smashed alongside that mirror in a questionably canon side mode.) Does the mirror treat him differently because the original is still alive or is something else going on? Shadow Kirby doesn't shatter, he just poofs like a regular enemy in the Amazing Mirror. In Kirby Fighters (2) he explodes, but still doesn't shatter. He does keep coming back, though. Maybe he respawns in the Central Circle just like the player Kirby and CPU's do? Questions, questions. I don't think we'll be getting any official answers to those.

Back to the Mirror World itself: it has access to space through Candy Constellation. It's entirely possible there are other Mirror Worlds with Dimensional Mirrors out there that you could travel to. Of course entering the Mirror spawns a copy of you, so it's not a consequence free shortcut.

Who knows, maybe on those other worlds their Dimensional Mirror is in a more accessible space and interacting with your counterpart is more normalised. Those worlds could be a lot more entangled.

[quinn-pop]

im not sure what happened to me but suddenly i love queen ripple and she’s my new dress up doll

anyway, let’s talk about her!!

taking the fact that ribbon’s name is ribbon entirely too far (and going off their designs) i think it’d be cool if ripple star fashions leaned into frills, bows, and long or exaggerated silhouettes

since the planet is literally just a heart shape i imagine their aesthetics lean into that sort of romantic and elegant vibe. a lot of ivory, pinks, and reds

(ripple dresses up a little different to see her friends tho)

also flower and butterfly motifs. because they’re fairies of course <3

think it’d be a little ironic if butterflies were a symbol of beauty and all that…

also she’s friends with carol and dedede. they can go to pta meetings or something /j

(taranza can come sometimes too because he’s cool and it makes sense to me)

btw ripple star probably exports a lot of silks (because silkworms in a land of butterflies feels right) and luxury items whereas dreamland is more agriculture focused + maybe some livestock and furs

…yeah i’m saying these places reflect their rulers basically. ripple star can be a little more traditional and whatnot. that’s what makes ripple so endeared to her dreamland friends—they’re silly! and yeah, tragic princess angle, it’s my favorite trope—i think that would really pull at her heart

i won’t get into that right now, but i gotta imagine getting possessed gives you a lot to think about lol

…gah i have so many thoughts on this

there isn’t much to go off of in canon, sure, but i think there’s a lot of interesting directions something like that could go ^^

[startistdoodles]

How does the cape transformation into wings work? Or are the wings hidden under the cape? When do knights get a cape when in training?

Dimensional capes were typically given to mentors, established soldiers and other higher-ups in the GSA. Each one is specially made by Lorelei using her magic and can take several weeks to a month to make one.

The inner lining of a dimensional cape forms it's own pocket dimension where the user can store a few things (backup weapons, medicine, etc) and even their wings.

The main feature of a dimensional cape is so that the user can hide their wings in combat if they are not needed. Since wings do not grow back and can usually be pretty delicate, it was recommended that soldiers use one to protect them if needed.

A spell binds the cape to the user's wings and enables them to switch from cape to wings at any time. The spell can be disconnected by going into cape mode and removing the cape off of the user's back where the wings will slip out of the pocket dimension and can be used regularly until the cape is put back on.

Since these capes are very special, younger knights did not get them until they got older, after an extra 100 years of service to the GSA or so once they have been knighted. However, after a certain incident where a young soldier lost her wings in battle, they deemed it was important to also be distributed among the newer soldiers as a safety measure.

[nookisms]

Here are the walking sprites of Kirby and the batamon in DL3 (taken from Spriters Resource)

Very similar, but imagine if you walked up to someone and their eyes were too big and their face was too wide.

Give them more colors, not just default Kirby pink, and that's a deeply unsettling being

Looks at batamon (enemy from Dream Land 3). Do you think they give puffballs the uncanny valley feeling

[lucent-nargacuga]

celesta knight has a strange connection to morpho knight. despite it being a grim reaper of sorts, it's keeping her alive because it sees celesta knight as a friend, even if she's oblivious to its presence.

since, in my headcanons, morpho knight eats souls and is cursed with eternal hunger due to being undead, celesta knight's tendency to ravage fish populations caught its attention quickly. it still follows her to this day, silently consuming the souls of the fish celesta knight eats.

[forgottenkirbyfactz]

forgotten kirby facts 4 - magolor's language has been officially refered to as "magolorese" in a miiverse post.

(post archive)

[novabear0]

ive been having tons of fun developing Parallel Popstar's Void Corruption lately so heres a lil something i made recently for that: the Void Golem! it's a parasitic Void Beast called a Void Hijacker, and they are about the size of a regular Puffball. one of them took control of a huge statue of the previous queen, Axis.

related side note but the "Parallel" bosses from Kirby Star Allies also exist in my au:

Parallel Woods is the Void Arbor, a titanic tree that is capable of controlling the bizarre plant life of the Void.

Parallel Kracko is the Void Storm, a gargantuan and unpredictable weather system that causes havoc for those who linger uninvited in the Void for too long.

Parallel Meta Knight is the Void Blade, a small but incredibly powerful and ruthless swordfighter that can conjure up terrifyingly dangerous blizzards.

Parallel Dedede is the Void King, but despite that title it offers more of a support role, powering up Void Beasts around itself and occasionally crushing those near it with its huge hammer.

all of these ultimately serve Parallel Null, an entity so thoroughly corrupted by the Void that nothing of its old self remains. despite its extremely violent and animalistic disposition, its "Four Horsemen" (as called by the deities) protect it fiercely.

one more thing while im kind of on the topic: succumbing to the Void Corruption is an extremely slow and painful process. as for what exactly happens, i dont have any idea yet, but i do know that those suffering from it eventually become hyper-aggressive towards everyone. the worst part is that in its early stages it is VERY ADDICTIVE, similar to smoking.

[george228732]

The Most Mindful Hero of Soul!

Metaniono, Son of the Aeon Hero and an Astral that got a second chance from death itself to fix what got broken years before his birth and his temporal passing!

Along with Dedede, he has a past that burdens him, yet his way of coping was much more... quiet than his, having to live with the fact that he's alone, displaced and probably even a corpse that just got embraced by the cold hands of Death... Yet they felt warm.

Eventually, this past will come back to haunt him, but thanks to the strength he got thanks to his friends, he meets all the requirements for being the Hero of Souls - if his father is the Aeon Hero, then he shall be the Anima Hero.