#renu talks Kirby

[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.

[arkacarian]

Meet Hadal!

Hadal is… not a normal Ripple Star fairy. She’s half Dark Matter

She wasn’t made out of pure love like a normal fairy would be. Instead, she was born from pure hate during a battle between Pyrite, a blacksmith and solider for the old fairy queen before Ripple turned jeweler, and Rhokan, a blade-wielder general of Zero

Hadal is very social and energetic and upbeat, but… nobody wants her around. Fairies hate her because she’s part Dark Matter, Dark Matter hates her because she’s part fairy. And nobody else likes her because she’s Dark Matter, even though she isn’t a part of the hivemind

She doesn’t let the fact that she’s basically outcast from everywhere get to her though! She’s a ball of energy, and can be very intense, although not usually in a bad way. Hadal can pick up very easily on the emotions of others, and can tell when they clearly don’t want her around. She does have one friend though. A fairy about her age named Chiffon. Chiffon seems to be one of the few who understands that Hadal isn’t any different from a normal fairy… mostly

Hadal does do a few not normal fairy things. She can basically eat negative emotions, making others feel happier just by being around (although not many people would even let her get that close). When she’s very emotional (usually upset or distressed), her face gets more Dark Matter-like. She also stays up later into the night than most fairies

Some of her favorite activities are watching the night sky, making jewelry in her mother’s footsteps, trying to draw, studying the wildlife around Ripple Star, swimming, and attempting to socialize

Additional reference doodles and refs for her (unwitting) parents and Chiffon are under the cut!