SUN WARRIOR

In the light and the wrathful flames of the glorious Suns, all evil will perish. Permanent Starter Call || Mutuals Only / Selective || Slightly canon divergent Shadow Kirby from Kirby || Anime/Game Canon friendly || EST. 3/29/19 || Written by Whiskers ||

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while these new icons i have may not be the most accurate to my hcs (what with the fire and shirby’s eyes being.. well, colored) at least i have icons lol

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Water moodboard

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i may come back to this blog at some point. i’ve gone through and purged my event, e: utopia, bc it was simply not in character w/ shirby to do, and kinda stupid. it will not be considered canon to this blog anymore. i, additionally, will be deleting all of my icons (except ones made by me or by my friends), and will be instead replacing them with new icons. i’ll do this in the coming day(s).

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madnessdescends‌:

Ok, the first few times he could excuse it, but now she was just being… strange. Why was she talking like that, being so careful not to mention names? To Meta Knight, it almost reads like a verbal encryption; not at all unlike how he might speak Spanish when dealing with sensitive information that he didn’t want Nightmare to know. Twice now, she’d mentioned ‘doing his job for him’… did that mean she had been babysitting Nightmare in his absence? Was she still in contact with the demon? Did Nightmare invade her mind, just as he invaded Meta Knight’s?

Mm. Perhaps she was closer to the situation than he had previously thought. If so, it might be prudent to speak with her just as carefully, lest she was endangering herself by even being in contact with him.

“…Not that I am ungrateful for your strides, but you have no business doing my job for me,” he said carefully.

“I am not sure what you are implying by claiming I let others act in my stead, as that is wholly untrue. If you are not aware of the progress I’ve made, then that is as I intended. The less others know of my pursuits, the better things will be… for everyone.”

“...”

What a dumb-dumb. She’s literally beat Nightmare’s head in while Meta Knight was missing in action, and that’s all he has to say? Yeah, whatever. He’s going to get a scowl.

“I know- knew- whatever, people who suck. Who sit around and do nothing. Because they don’t want to start any ‘problems’, even though there’s problems going on. They’re the norm, especially on this side of the mirror. People who think nothing of something that’s happened. People who sit on fences, you know what I mean.”

Shirby’s never been a fan of them. People who don’t know where they stand. Because more often than not, they stand on the side of evil when evil gives half-hearted whines about being attacked, or being sad. Those sorts aren’t trustworthy, and not to be associated with.

“On my side of the mirror, you don’t sit on a fence. That’s why I’m asking. I just want to make sure you’re not.. Y’know, a flip-flop. Because if you are, I don’t think I’d have a point to keep talking to you about anything I do.”

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@poyointhemirror​ said: ✎

Send me a “✎” and ill draw your muse | no longer accepting

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madnessdescends‌:

The world on the other side of a mirror… a world where everyone that lives there has the opposite personality to their non-mirrored counterpart. It’s… a lot to take in. All this time, he’d had a vague idea that alternate universes existed alongside his own— ( after all, how else would have met his younger brother, who was pretty much himself but from another universe? ) — but to have further confirmation that wasn’t a mere fluke? It’s honestly staggering.

He couldn’t help but wonder if everyone he knew had their own mirrored counterpart, and if so what their personalities were like. Would his mirrored self be evil? Would Escargoon and Dedede be decent people? What about Nightmare? Would he be a hero in that dimension? It’s honestly a sickening thought, that any world could be so backwards.

For that matter… If this girl is who he was rapidly beginning to suspect she was, then does that mean she was evil, too?

“If you are from a Mirror World, so to speak… who is your counterpart in my world?” he asked, as if he did not already know. Would this girl call herself ‘Kirby’ just like the one from his dimension? Would his dim understanding of the rules of the Mirror World prove true?

“This ‘Mirror World’ of which you speak… Is the Mirror a literal thing? An object? How do you get to your world, and what business do you have in my dimension?” If she knows him as intimately as she claimed, then she should know that Meta Knight had a pretty extensive history of being doubtful. It should come as little surprise that he was asking her a barrage of questions.

If Meta Knight examined the situation and how she currently was not cracking his face open with his fists, perhaps he would not have come to the conclusion that she was evil. If he’d proposed that to her she would’ve had to genuinely hold back laughter. And a punch. A friendly punch. 

“You know who it is. I don’t have to spell it out and you don’t have to say it. And yes, the mirror is an object. You go through the mirror to get to the mirror world, ding-dong. And I already told you what my business is.”

Shirby felt no need to elaborate past that. 

“Now, I’m going to ask you a question, since it’s only fair, poob. Are you a namby-pamby little wimp knight who does nothing, and lets other people do your job for you? Do you just sit back and do nothing when there’s stuff to be done, Meta Knight? Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure you had your reasons to not do things when there were things to be doing, poob, and I’m sure there’s a reason why.. Well, you know. My business had to be done. At least, I hope you know what I’m talking about right now.” 

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puffywarrior‌:

  “Haltmann?”

 Kirby parroted as he blinked. He. Very much understood that the Mirror world had its major differences, for sure, but he could never imagine any form of Haltmann to willingly help someone… Jail-time service? Sounded serious. Kirby just defeated the guy and his dumb little soul. 

 “…I’m at least glad nothing happened to your Mekkai… But I guess that is a good idea. I just didn’t want to tell too many people because I don’t want people panicking, poy… Even if it’s warranted.” He sighed. Kirby wished this situation could’ve been avoided, but who the hell could’ve seen such an abrupt planet destruction coming..?

 Meta Knight was wise, he’d know what to do. Dedede was probably too busy eating fish or whatever he did nowadays… Kirby had to keep the whole ‘bring the planet itself’ back plan in the back of his mind, for sure.

“Well, seems like you’re coping pretty well with it, anyways.”

Haltmann’s not really an important topic, so unless Kirby pressed, Shirby wasn’t going to elaborate on it. She said all that needed to be said.

“Just keep everyone calm, yeah, and there’s probably going to be out there who’re going to be funny about the whole situation, but like.. Don’t really react to them or whatever, poob. Just find someone who can help, focus on that. For real.”

For real, bruh. Just go get one of your friends. Maybe Bandanna Dee can do something.

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madnessdescends‌:

“I am afraid I do not,” he said finally, that unblinking yellow gaze peering sternly and perhaps a touch suspiciously out at her from beneath his mask.

“Who are you, and how do you know who I am?”

He’s tempted to ask, furthermore, what she means by ‘doing his job for him’, but for the time being he chooses to leave that be. There’d be time to discuss that later, and besides— surely she didn’t mean what he thought she meant?

By the callouses on her hands, the gruffness of her speech, and the way she carries herself at attention, it stands to reason she’s older than she appears— or at least, more experienced in combat than any child her age had any right to be. It was a tossup as to which category she belonged, and really he was just guessing. Either way, this thought registers in him as a strange hybrid of pity and approval. It was good that she had made some attempt to prepare herself for the War that was yet to come, but it was also his hope that someday such preparations would one day no longer be necessary.

Speaking of appearances… She looks quite similar to another Star Warrior he knew; in fact, she’d be the spitting image of him if her palette was pink. But a mere resemblance wasn’t anything too extraordinary; in all likelihood she probably didn’t even know who Kirby was. That was probably mere coincidence.

Oh, well. Hm. We’re doing this song and dance, okay.. Shirby’d thought she wouldn’t have to, but seems she’d struck out, luck-wise. Perhaps this wasn’t the Meta Knight she thought it was.. One that’d never been to the Mirror World, even? Strange, so strange. But anything was possible nowadays.

She meets his question with a stare as she tries to think of what to say. She knows, from certain talks with certain yellow wizards, what certain abilities she could assume certain blue ones could have. And she simply didn’t want any of that. Even being seen by him is a gamble. Though..

“..I’ll tell you where I’m from. I’m from a place called the Mirror World. It’s another universe on the side of a mirror, where everything is different. I know who you are because there’s a version of you on that side. I know him, I know how the mirror works to reverse people’s personalities and traits and stuff, so I know you.”

Why did she have to explain this to such an old guy.. Yes, yes, he’s never experienced any of this stuff.. But it still felt very strange to tell this sort of stuff straight to his face. Oh well.

“Maybe not everything, specifically. But I do know some things, poob. I don’t like to pry into people’s lives because I don’t particularly care and also it’s none of my business. So I don’t know your history or anything.”

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puffywarrior‌:

 “I sadly am serious, poyo… I checked myself. Nothing but big scraps of metal and machines…” Kirby rubbed the side of his face, even basically over a week later still finding it hard to process the information. “I don’t think it was anything like Void, pwai, just… I’m not sure. Part of me thinks maybe the place just exploded because of all of the machines, but I doubt that’s the case…”

 There’s a long pause.

 “…Again, if my friend just stumbled upon it, and I’m pretty sure he isn’t capable of destroying planets… Do you know anybody who has. Constant surveillance on the planets here, poy..? I don’t, but I’ll be happy to like… Beat the person who did that up.”

 Termina style, of course.

“I have Dedede-” Shirby paused, “Shadow Dedede do it for me with the remains of Sun Dream. Star Dream for your side of the mirror. Haltmann fixed it up for us as part of his jail-time service. We use it as a communication device between planets, and we’ve got people on each one making sure things are okay.”

Communication was a team effort. She couldn’t keep watch on every single planet every single day, and no one else could either. And she most certainly didn’t trust anyone from her adventures to man them. And those that she did, she didn’t want them to. They had better things to do.

“Nothing’s come out of anything on our version of Mekkai, but I can have Shadow Dedede check. Again. Usually if anything happens, he tells me, poob, and I haven’t heard anything.. So.. But yeah. Whoever did that.. I know you don’t need luck, so I’m just gonna say ‘happy fighting’ instead. But until then.. Maybe one of your other friends know? Or would help with fighting. Meta Knight, Dedede, them, poob. I’m going to stay on my side just incase anything happens.”

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puffywarrior‌:

Kirby wasn’t one to get mad over the fact that someone didn’t ‘attend’ his birthday or give him a big gift. He knew full well what it was like to be busy or just not have the time for something, so he wouldn’t hold something like that against Shirby. Bigger thoughts, though. Kirby took a deep breath, already slightly tense at the thought of the subject. This wasn’t something he could just ignore. He knew that. Mekkai was so close to Popstar, who knew if whatever did it would strike another planet nearby.

 “Well, uhm, sit down for this… It’s just. Gone. It was… Destroyed by something, but nobody knows what? My friend told me about it because he was. Around the area, and it is gone, just… Scraps…” Kirby looks off to the side. “I… I know someone who can maybe restore the planet itself, but… Not the people who were… You know, poy.” 

Shirby would’ve thought Kirby were joking.. Had it not been for the fact that this was currently a joke-free zone. The news was astonishing, the thought even moreso. What sort of creature would dare destroy a planet that was under Nightmare’s claim? It was basically right inside of the dude’s.. What was it called.. Area of like, retail, or whatever!

“You can’t be serious, poob, gone? Gone, gone? For real, gone? How? And how did no one figure out what did it? Or, wait, yeah, do you know what did it? It couldn’t possibly be Void Termina again, right?”

If it were, such a thing would’ve had to been mirrored onto her side. Which she knew, absolutely, was not happening. Not a lick of a hint of such a thing.

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puffywarrior‌:

 “I was mostly confused when I found out, because I thought ‘bounty’ was like a cowboy word… But it’s uhm… Fine, poy.” Kirby didn’t really feel… Threatened. Nightmare hadn’t made a peep after that event and this bounty, to his knowledge. Maybe he would be more threatened if Nightmare came down himself, super angry and stupid that he is, but.

 He didn’t, so. Kirby shrugged.

“Everything’s been going nice, poy. Had a nice birthday, talked to some new people, the usual, but uh… There’s kind of this other kind of big unsolved issue that I was told of a while back. I know you can handle it, but… Uhm. You know about Mekkai? Mechanical planet, nearby, poy..?”

Well, there’s that. At least Kirby had a nice birthday.. That she may or may not have been a little bit too busy to attend. She’ll make it up to him next year, she’s sure of it.

“Yeah, I know about it. I spent enough time on your side of the mirror to know which one you’re talking about. Did something happen on it? Because as far as I’ve, like, watched, nothing’s happened on mine.”

Maybe Kirby’d battled on Mekkai and damaged it somehow? She could only guess since Kirby wasn’t giving her too much right now.

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@puffywarrior​

“Admittingly, I did sort of expect.. A bounty. But I sorta also knew no one in your universe would even bother with it.” 

Shirby rubbed the back of her head, hearing the news. She was thankful to also hear no one had acted on it, also as expected. Kirby was simply too much of a force, and too known among these parts.

“Sorry for not telling you, I was hoping it like, wouldn’t happen, poob. But good to know no one’s considering it at all? So that’s good.”

“Has everything else been okay, otherwise?”

[1-800-for-evil]

Open.

“If you are not with me, you are against me.”

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“And where did you get the impression I was against you, exactly? I hate to break it to you, Meta Knight, but I’ve essentially been doing your job without you even knowing who I am for multiple months now.”

Who is this tiny child? Well, it seems she has some opinions and is a lot more harsh than any child her age should be. Physically, too. She seems more calloused than Kirby was, her skin showing signs of either intense training or intense, non-scarring battle.

“You know, just normal duty for you. Normal duty for me. I hope you get what I’m getting at, poob.”

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 “Do you uhm. Ever think oto hard and get tired.”

 Kirby kind of just. Loafs on the ground, his small form slightly tense.

 “It happens sometimes, poy.”

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puffywarrior‌:

 His face scrunched up a bit. It was obvious that he was deeply confused. When he envisioned ‘pal of Nightmare’ he imagined a big beast, or another ugly creature who did dark magic or whatever. Not. Single human girl. That did get him curious though… How long was Shirby working for Nightmare? Kirby couldn’t imagine…Casually talking to little man about money or stocks or whatever adults talk about…

 “I mean. I understand. I just see Nightmare as big dumb idiot who does big dumb idiot things.” Very simple yet to the point. “I couldn’t imagine ‘working’ for him. I would be outed by eating all of his cruddy snacks that he sells or something, poyo.”

 Kirby kind of frowns again. You know, that tiny widdle frown that made people on the internet scream.

“…I think I’m going to stay until everyone has settled down and left. I know Nightmare’s no longer around and all, for now, but I’m going to play it safe, poy.”

“Gotcha. I’ve got stuff to do too. I’ll see you again in a bit, maybe we can hang out again. Would be good, I’m sure.”

Shirby’s simple about it.

That’s all that needs to be said right now.

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puffywarrior‌:

 I mean, to him, what’s more convincing than seeing a cute little orb™ that’s known for being strong getting the snot beaten out of him. Also he wasn’t gonna let that little gremlin of a man call him a wuss. Maybe he just wanted to do some fighting anyways, he was bored. So bored. He knew he wasn’t winning by a longshot, but again, he didn’t care for winning.

 “Look, besides that, I kept an eye on that Jae person, and she??? Participated? And now she’s gone, poyo? I don’t doubt you, but you sure she’s on Nightmare’s side? And a lot of people are in a frenzy right now too, for some reason? It’s a mess.”

 Ah yes, keeping his weird little oval eyes on people. What a nice thing to do.

“Kirby, no offense, but I’ve had to look at Nightmare’s ugly face for the past six months. I had to monitor what he does off-base. All day. Because that was and IS my job at NME. I work over it satellite monitoring. I saw his interactions with that girl. Many times. I can confirm to you, straight faced, I know what I’m talking about.”

Was she irritated? Yes. She was a little bit irritated by this line of stupid questioning and ‘I know better than you after 10 seconds than you know in 6 months’ shitty mansplaining.

Shirby sighs.

“Sorry, I’m frustrated because my job at Nightmare’s irritates me. But I won’t have to do it very much now, I guess.”

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puffywarrior‌:

  It was so odd, looking in her eyes with those contacts. Kirby blinked a few times at her words. Well, uh. That was good, no Nightmare. No big evil scary thing from him. But he glanced away when she mentioned participation. 

 “…No, I did. To try to show people how tough it was to deter them from fighting, poy. It didn’t work too well… Only a few people forfeited, and a lot of people got really badly hurt. I don’t understand why anyone would willingly compete in this, pwai.”

“..I mean, they can sorta do whatever they want, poob. If they wanna knowingly play the ‘get punched in the face’ game, they can, but like. If they complain about it that’s kinda their thing. I’m glad at least some people decided to not get punched in the face.”

Shirby’s a little >:| at the fact that Kirby decided to do the thing anyways, when a much more convincing course of action would’ve been to outwardly and publically say ‘no, I’m not going to do this because it’s too tough’. That would’ve sent a better message, and much less painlessly.

She’d begun to wipe the coat of paint off of her face.

“I don’t understand why anyone would compete in the first place, but it’s not really my place to care. People want stuff, people want to feel like they’re good at something, so they join to get validation or whatever. But, whatever. Beside the point.