Well golly gee whiz mister, what are your thoughts on Morpho Knight?
Alright motherfucker sit down because I'm about to go cringe mode
I want to reiterate that I am not normally a person to make theories because I am often wrong so before I started forming this I tried my best to actually research for a change but even with that I am not confident at all in this theory's validity and at this point I'm solely basing it on what I personally think would be cool despite it being wrong and bad. It's basically a glorified headcanon now. Also there's a possibility that I'm just reiterating what a million other people have already said but I've never seen anyone else describe it this way so yea
Okay so let's begin with what Morpho actually is, "the butterfly of Paradise" as it is referred to in game. We often call Morpho a grim reaper because of butterfly's connection to the dead in japanese mythology and the games describing Morpho as a sort of judge of fate. Morpho approaches weakened souls and decides their fate for them.
This gives us a few questions: how exactly does Morpho go about deciding the fate of a soul, and why has it chosen the souls that we've seen thus far? (galacta and forgo)
My theory is that when a powerful being is weakened (specifically one that has caused thousands of deaths) the souls of those it had unjustly ended will call upon Morpho from the afterlife to judge the being's fate. Morpho judges a soul by absorbing it's power and testing it's ability in battle against a worthy opponent.
Let's start with Galacta Knight (rest in piss king 😔) it's pretty obvious why Glacta would be a target for Morpho. Galacta is an incredibly powerful being who is implied to have killed uncountable people, and I'm sure those souls are rightfully pissed. Another question is why is Galacta in a weakened enough state to be judged? I don't really have an answer for that right now but let's worry about that later. The souls of the damned called up Morpho and said "get his ass" and this is what lead to the first canon Morpho fight. Pretty self explanatory.
Now onto Forgo's fight which has a few very interesting details. We can safely assume that forgo (or at least elfilis in full form) has killed a lot of people so that checks the "the dead wants you dead" box. The interesting part here is that upon defeat, Forgo isn't killed like Galacta. The general consensus is that Forgo absorbed Morpho's energy and fled, but I propose a different interpretation.
Morpho purposely allowed Forgo to escape. Morpho is not a villain, it is the grim reaper doing it's job and it will judge a soul's fate accordingly. Being something that has such great connection to souls it would make sense that Morpho could see that Forgo is not a complete soul. Forgo is a missing half to elfilin, its not whole. Because of this, Morpho granted it's energy to Forgo to become chaos elfilis, knowing that it will be defeated by Kirby and reunite with its other half, completing the soul.
This brings us to our final set of questions: why does Morpho follow Kirby around and why does Morpho deem Kirby to be a worthy opponent in judging the fate of a soul. It seems kind of obvious doesn't it? Even if Kirby isn't necessarily weakened he has absolutely killed... quite a few people and is incredibly powerful. It makes sense for Morpho to be following him around, waiting for the time to judge his soul. Or perhaps Morpho is just fascinated by him. It would also make sense for Morpho to deem Kirby a worthy opponent to judge souls against. A baby that kills space-eating beings on the regular is surely powerful enough to spar with death.
Now some of this I'm sure has been said before, but the main part of my theory comes from how Morpho judges souls and why Forgo survived judgement. Is this all dumb and bad? Probably. Do I care? Not really, because it's cool. In conclusion:
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