✨🐠⭐️ BOW DEE ⭐️⚓️✨
FULL CHARACTER REFERENCE
🌟 Updated as of 06/07/26 🌟 | Features yet to be added: Skillset, Wardrobe, Links to other OC refs
✨🐠⭐️ General Info ⭐️⚓️✨
💙 Bow Dee is an energetic Waddle Dee with a bubbly spirit, a courageous heart, a fiery temper, & a knack for fearlessly rushing headlong into trouble (along with most of their friends). 🌊⛵️✨
🩵 Likes: Swimming, fishies!, spicy food, literally every sport, being outside, energetic dance music 💙 Dislikes: Bugs, sitting still, being yelled at, math, unseasoned vegetables 🩵 Birthday: March 21 ♈️ 💙 Place of Origin: The City (but raised primarily in Green Greens) 🩵 Relatives: Gear Dee (birth mother), Eva (adoptive mother), Treble Dee (older brother), unnamed birth father, Daffodil (family pet, only in Adult Years), Bandana Dee (godchild, only in Adult Years) 💙 Features in: Childhood Friends AU (CFAU) 🩵 First Appearance: This post (Oct 19, 2023)
✨🐠⭐️ CFAU Era: Kid Years ⭐️⚓️✨
Additional Details (Kid Years): 🩵 Named (unsurprisingly) for the bow she’s worn since infancy 💙 Born with Copy Abilities atypical for Waddle Dees (struggles to control them as a result) 🩵 Known for her boundless energy & earnest enthusiasm (along with a rather reckless sense of bravery) 💙 Has trouble focusing & sitting still, as well as prone to emotional outbursts 🩵 Will challenge just about anything to a fight if it makes her angry enough (even if it's ten times her size... unless it's bugs) 💙 Will follow her friends just about anywhere if it seems like fun (including directly into danger) 🩵 Friends: Dedede, Meta, Para Dee, Ace, Fringe
✨🐠⭐️ CFAU Era: Teen Years ⭐️⚓️✨
Additional Details (Teen Years): 🩵 Entering her rebellious phase (thanks to the many "bad influences" they hang out with) 💙 Still generally a joyful, social, & energetic kid 🩵 Experimenting with their identity (inspired by some real-talk with Ace) 💙 Starting to get a better handle on her powers (sorta) 🩵 Witness to some family trouble happening at home (dealing with a lot of complicated feelings about it) 💙 Dealing with some friend drama as well (frustrated at having to choose sides) 🩵 Friends: Dedede, Meta, Para Dee | ⚡️ | Ace, Fringe
✨🐠⭐️ CFAU Era: Adult Years ⭐️⚓️✨
Additional Details (Adult Years): 🩵 Joins the Galaxy Soldier Army with Meta, Ace, & Fringe (though quickly discovers it might not be the right path for them) 💙 Does well enough in their naval training to be granted the title of Sailor Waddle Dee (though friends & family can still call them Bow) 🩵 Drops out of the GSA after a particularly traumatic mission, returning home for a time to figure out what they want to do next (as well as make an unexpected family reconnection) 💙 Keeps in touch with their buddies overstars, learning about the independent unit they've formed under Meta's leadership, and - realizing how much they miss their old crew - decides to join the Meta-Knights (if only in a kind of part-time-ish way) 🩵 Participates in extreme sports tourneys in their spare time 💙 Is a little more disciplined than they used to be (though their focus and their temper still drift from time to time) 🩵 Has finally mastered their Water abilities (...more or less, anyway) 💙 Has perhaps lost the last vestiges of their naiveté (turns out there are some scary things out there in the cosmos, some of which leave scars you can't even see...) 🩵 But also has plenty of support & camaraderie around them, giving them the strength to endure & to face the future with hope 💙 Friends: King Dedede, Para Dee, Reedee, Bandana Dee 🩵 Coworkers: Meta Knight, Captain Vul, Axe Knight, Mace Knight, Javelin Knight, Trident Knight, Ace (Blade Knight), Fringe (Sword Knight)
For more fun facts & story details about Bow Dee, check out the Childhood Friends AU Masterpost as well as the tag #bow dee. Also crossposted on Art Fight. If you have any questions about Bow, their friends & family, or the CFAU in general, feel free to send me an Ask.
Bow Dee by © VeinsFullOfStars, 2023-2026. Ref sketches made btw 01/30/26 and 02/08/26. Ref renders made btw 03/09/26 and 04/03/26. Additional refs TBD.
