#sectaranza mention

[desultory-novice]

CW: Serious but vague talk about the complex feelings associated with the loss of a loved one and mourning - both in Kirby and in real life. Some personal stuff and once more for good measure mentions of death and mourning.

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I know I don't owe anyone an excuse for my brief absence, but I was completely caught off guard this year when I realized the anniversary of Planet Robobot fell just days before the passing of my own father last year. No surprise I didn't make the connection last year, but it hit me this year and it hit hard.

I know that they're not the fandom's most popular characters ("most hated" may be more like it?) but I feel almost painfully close to the story of Susanna Patrya Haltmann and Max Profitt Haltmann. For I was also a child who was torn between being really mad at my father for his flaws and mistakes while also pining for this idealized parent-child relationship we didn't have, to the point of often spurning the bond we did have because it wasn't going the way I imagined it. I also had to watch close up as he wasted away, his senses going one by one, till he looked more and more like a fading shell of a person.

...You know, I didn't even finish playing PR until last year or maybe the year before? Of course I knew the story spoilers. But I couldn't make myself play it. I finally did because I felt I had to. And I'm glad, even if finishing it left me with a weird sense of sadness. A sense of sadness that finally came full circle a few months later...

I thought I would draw something for the anniversary this year. Something sad, bittersweet, poignant, meaningful. Something akin to a tribute. But my pen just wouldn't move. I don't think I have the words or the visuals to fully express what I felt about it right now. It's why, even though I really do like these two characters, I hardly ever draw them.

It's this closeness that renders them blurry in my vision.

...I suppose I might as well talk about this while I'm here, but I have this ask in my inbox about the Merry Magoland Branch AU. About Joronia and Max and what happens to them after their souls are freed.

'Do they come back to life?'

...God, I've written one thousand answers to that post in my head.

Part of my brain says the "right" answer to give - here on my Kirby blog where every story has a happy ending or at least a chance at salvation no matter how grim - is "of course they come back to life!" The Merry Magoland Branch AU is a sad but cutesy fractured fairy tale of a story where everyone ends up better than they started! Besides, they’re already souls. What else would happen to them? Just quietly go off to rest? That wouldn’t be satisfying!

...

But another part of me looks at "Kirby," a series that has characters who have "died" and come back to life and characters who have died and stayed dead and I feel like, as painful as it is to those such as the Sectaranza shippers and the other fans of of the implied dead cast members...

...they're not coming back. They can't come back. They shouldn't come back. Even in a completely fictional setting, even in a silly AU, it is hard for me, personally, to make myself change what has happened. What has been done. 

Don't get me wrong, I've even scribbled out a few "everyone lives!" scenarios but I've never been able to draw a single one... I tell myself that if a miracle happens and one day I'm scouted to make a Kirby comic or animated series or movie, something where I get to retell the world from the beginning, I would not have it so the "dead" characters die, if only because they are unique enough that I would want them around to use for future stories. Like Moretsu Pupupu Hour, with its funny Sectonia who is literally allergic to peace. Or that one manga I haven't read where Susie and her father run some kind of puzzle store??

But again, that would be a Kirby I had control of from the beginning.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm proud of Kirby the series for not being so grimdark “realism” that Marx, upon blowing up, turns into meat pasta and instead comes back with a smile and laugh to kick exploding jester balls at people all because you waved a magic heart-shaped wand. 

And I'm absolutely content with letting spunky wizard Magolor mercilessly fight his way back through some sort of purgatory dimension and start life over as a medieval salesperson, building up good karma one microtransaction at a time. I think that stuff is important. (Well, not so much the microstransactions.) But I'm also proud of it for letting some characters... not come back. 

Dark Matter Blade is both a badass and strangely attractive (...just me?) for an eyeball made of dark matter but despite the fact that maybe all he wanted was friends, despite the fact that it's implied he rescued Gooey from Dark Matter and hid him on Popstar to protect him from Zero, despite the fact that he should have become a good guy and was instead used heartlessly by Zero like ammunition, losing the few marks of individuality he'd been able to keep thus far (his hair and armor and cape) he's just gone. He'll never join the others on Popstar. Never enjoy the warmth of a spring day or get to be a sibling to Gooey. He'll never even get to explain things to poor Gooey that they ought to know, and he was probably the only one who could.

It's tragic. It's upsetting. It's unfair.

And it's...important, much as I hate to say it.

Dess secret... but I actually get a little mad when people want Taranza to "...hurry up and find a new girlfriend and stop being in mourning all the time" because... I think it's okay for Kirby to have "a character who is in mourning." I suppose there's no real reason he can't be "character who was in mourning who was able to find love again" but I also kind of like that he's THERE as a character for anyone who has lost a loved one and is still sad about it. For those who haven't begun rebuilding their life just yet.

Gooey is the one who lost someone without every really knowing what he had/could have had. Susie is the one who lost someone and also has to get back to work because that's a real thing too.

I didn't really mean to talk about death and mourning in Kirby (for a second time) but I think part of me had to as well. At least if I was ever going to go back to regular posting. I don't even really feel as if I even captured everything there was to say. Like I said, I don't really have the words. 

But, yeah, anyway, if you've ever seen me politely push back when someone brings up Susie or Max discourse of the negative variety on my blog, hopefully you have a slightly better understanding as to why I respond the way I do.

[lowrezbonuslevel]

normal rulers that can be trusted with physical and political power

day 5: royal (magolor and sectonia team-up would be fire. also they are bffs. to me)

They definitely give each other relationship advice too, because their love lives are the worst best in Dream Land

(rest of the comic under the cut)

master crown KNOWS this bastard isn't pulling

[sammhainnn]

here's taranza kicking his metaphorical legs and giggling like a girl (made at 1 am while i have the flu) + misc mts (magolor taranza susie) doodles from like a year ago

[cochineal-leviat]

Masterpost: My writing & comics.

Kirby fics

A Royal Visit - Kirfluff with a focus on shenanigans and hijinks from the main Kirby cast. Still one of my favourite written works.

Blueberry Kisses - Kirfluff - a sequel to A Royal Visit. Kirby is a dumbass in this one. (Gijnka)

My Waking-Light - Kirfluff. Sweet fluff. (pun intended. Gijnka)

Waltz of the Oblivious - Metadede. Two pining idiots dancing around each other.

El hijo del Caballero - gen. Focused on Skirby and DMK's father-son relationship and the events before/during KATAM. (Gijnka)

Garden of Dismay Series

A sunrise that will never come - Sectaranza (one-sided). Angst and hurt/no comfort. (Gijnka)

Paradise Lost - Mostly gen. Post Triple Deluxe as Taranza adjusts to living in Dreamland. (Gijnka)

The Balm of Gilead - Metadede. A one-shot set in place during the events of Paradise Lost. (Gijnka)

RosenRot (Kirby Fae AU)

The Midnight Soirée - Kirfluff. Kirby stumbles upon a mansion that transports him into a different and bizarre world. Dark/horror romance.

Bad End Nights - Kirfluff. A compilation of bad endings for the Midnight Soirée. Dark/horror.

Bring mich nach Haus - gen. Kirby escapes Underhill and returns home. But the journey back is easier than confronting his friends. Sequel to the Midnight Soirée. Angst & Hurt/Comfort.

Art ref Kirby & Marquis Fluff

Art ref Kirby chapter 1 & 2

Art ref Marquis Fluff chapter 1 - 5

Comics

Feminine Charms

I Luv mah Pardner

Wrong Dimension

Prince of Felt and Cowardice

Friendship solves everything..., right?

"Boyfriend/friend? What's the difference?"

Zelda fics

The Decoy - gen (for now). Four Swords. An AU with Red Link as the Prince of Hyrule and Vio as his bastard older brother. Drama and Fantasy Politics.

Elemental Surprises - Blue/red, Vio/Shadow and platonic bonding between mulitple charachters. Four Swords. Shenanigans with the Links taking after their respective element during the main story events. Old and on hiatus. (Needs editing)

A Seed Blossoms - Prologue - gen. ALTTP. Really old. I only put it in here as an honourable mention. (Seriously needs rewriting)

A Seed Blossoms - gen. ALTTP. Same reasons as above. On indefinite hiatus. (Really needs rewriting)

Sonic Fics

Mathematical Loneliness - gen. Sonic Prime. An introspection into Nine's psyche from episodes 6 and 8. Angst.

My Heart has grown Grim - gen. Sonic Prime. Sonic has a bad time, and Nine is there to help him through it, supposedly. Dark & mystery.

Pokemon Fics

Gimmighoul for your thoughts? Other (gay pining) KieranxMC. (I'm not sure what the official shipping name is, but MC is the NB version of both Florian and Julianna). Kieran and Flore (MC) talk after the events of Indigo Disk and the Underdepths. (Happens before Mochi Mayhem)