#waddle doo-ifying

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Saw this going around the tournament so...

WADDLE DEE BEAM!!!

Noir is falling behind on the polls! Vote for him please!

I-Ignore it's not Waddle Wednesday

Noir belongs to @desultory-novice @kirbyoctournament Propaganda!

Of course I had to make a Dark Matter Swordsman the waddle doo! Even as a waddle dee, his past comes to haunt him...

[desultory-novice]

you get to give a sequel to any kirby game of your choosing. which game do you pick to have a sequel and what do you make the plot about?

What a nifty ask! Okay...

First choice - "Kirby and the Amazing Mirror" sequel "Kirby and the Shattered Mirror"

...One day, the Dimension Mirror floating high above Popstar CRACKS and begins raining mirror shards down over the once peaceful countryside. Kirby must travel across the land recollecting the fragments of it, all the while swapping between regular Popstar and Mirror Popstar (where things are reversed, sort of like <old game reference> the reverse castle in “Castlevania: Symphony of the Night” except horizontal instead of vertical.) 

It follows Amazing Mirror's traditional metroidvania style gameplay. You don't control four Kirbys anymore, but since Shadow Kirby has grown to be slightly more heroic since Amazing Mirror, you do take control of them at various points. (And like in Triple Deluxe and Robobot, you get Mirror Bandanna Waddle Dee as a helper, who remained a Waddle Doo after the events of Kirby 64 and instead of a bandanna, dresses a little bit like Dark Matter Blade!)

The game gives you a much better look at Mirror Dream Land and just what's going on in there and with the various residents. To see mirror versions of the entire cast would be so indulgent as to be unbelievable - as much as we may want that - so we'll limit it to only a few more. Adeleine among them. (Ado is Adeleine from the Mirror Dimension or vice-versa headcanon go!) Maybe the mirror animal friends as well, since this journey covers large parts of Dream Land and affects everyone in it, we want long-time residents!

I also want to see Mirror Dynablade in here as a boss fight! Mirror Kabula too! (Maybe Kabula is a submarine now?)

When I first got this ask, I was going to suggest Mirror Zero/02 as being behind this, but now I want to say the instigator of all this is...Mirror Elfilis. 

In the Mirror Verse, it was Elfilis's good heart that stayed, ejecting all their hate and anger and suffering from their main body so they could sleep. Unlike regular Elfilin, Mirror Elfilis WANTS to unite with Mirror Elfilin, but doesn't have the power to create powerful portals anymore, so they shattered the mirror so that each fragment would reflect a smaller portal, allowing them to do....something tricky involving multiple dimensions. I'll admit, I came up with this plot literally right now, so it's very messy.

I guess if there's going to be a dimensional rift plot involved, we should probably go ahead and toss in Mirror Magolor, who isn't a boss or a helper, but an actual "friendly" NPC who rewards you with unlocks and such for each mirror piece you gather. He berates you the entire time, telling you how slow and useless you are, and that you're doing a terrible job at this and how did you ever become a hero...but he's selfless and never betrays you.

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Second Choice - "Kirby’s Epic Yarn" sequel "Kirby's Fabricated Fantasy"

Patchland comes to Popstar?! The Sock starts to unravel...and it’s going everywhere! Now all of Dream Land has suddenly become patch-ified!! 

Kirby and Prince Fluff and your choice of many, many additional yarn-ified characters must journey to restore Drean Land to normal! I imagine this one being a bit more like a Lego series game in that way, ala Lego Star Wars. (It’s the only one I’ve actually played.) Unlike the above, this one doesn't have a strong focus on plot, so it can be a complete fan-service packed feast for the fans. Everyone gets in this one! Even the characters who didn't make it into Star Allies! Even characters who are dead or otherwise inaccessible! You want Yarn!Sectonia and Yarn!Galacta Knight? You want them playable?! You've got it!

I don't know why, but that's the way it is! Yarn magic?? Maybe the dead-ish ones are more like unlockables?! This time around, you get to build a huge, massively customizable yarn-and-fabric city for EVERYONE, making them little houses to stay in. In fact, that's how you unlock characters, by making them apartments to stay in! Then they come by and you can call on them anytime!

Anyway, the conclusion would be something totally wild, with the colorful and brilliant design sense that Epic Yarn was known for, but with a big ol’ happy ending where the re-wound Patchland knits itself onto the miraculous star, becoming an official part of Popstar like Floralia and other territories...Mostly because I want Fluff to be more accessible going forward!