I just had to share my thoughts on the stuff. My personal opinion on it is that, in all fairness, none of the characters that have ask or rp blogs on this site are canon unless the person running the blog is the one who created the character and owns the thing they originated from in the first place. I have run a (now inactive) co-owned ask blog and currently run another one by myself, both for Kirby characters who originate in canon. I refer to them as being AU counterparts, because, though their stories, genders, names, appearances, and so on more or less adhere to the official game canon and what happened in it, the personalities they have been given, events they have been through, and so on, were created by me - A simple fan of the series. None of it is canon to the actual games, just as any other ask or rp blog is not. For it to really be canon, you would have to be the one who created their character and their game or book or movie or anything in the first place. Paintcia of just-another-painter is more or less as she is in the games - Female, an artist, pink hair, striped orange cape with red trim, red hat, yellow bows, blue scarf thing, golden eyes and buttons, paint on her brush-like legs. She fought Kirby on his way to rescue Dedede. Her sister is Drawcia, and the two were separated at birth - Not even aware that they were sisters until a few months ago. Her name is canon, at least in the original Japanese. In spite of all this, however, she is not canon - For her to be canon, I would have had to made her. I would have to own the rights to her character. And even then, she isn't. She has no personality in the game - The most we know is that she is a painting, has a sister and was separated at birth from her, was left unnoticed for years until she came to life, and then proceeded to vow revenge on the world. This is not my Paintcia. They are similar, yes, but my Paintcia is different to the one in canon - She never vowed revenge, is not a painting (Rather, she's a paintbrush). She eventually met her sister. She lost her home in Lollipop Land and wound up staying in Treat Land because the fourth wall of her universe is nonexistent. She is constantly clashing with Queen Sectonia and Yin-Yarn. Her backstory is different - Yes, she is still essentially an inanimate object that was somehow brought to life, but her story is different. As a kid she befriended a Waddle Dee, a Cappy, and a Chilly, all of whom eventually abandoned her for reasons I'm still waiting for people to figure out. She is not canon. None of this happened in canon. For her to be canon, I would have to own the rights to her character, retcon what was said about her in the games, and make all of this and more true. None of these characters anyone uses are canon, regardless of how closely they adhere. They all have something different about them, be it personality, story, or anything else. Any event that happens to them, be it so simple as meeting someone they never met in the games, books, movies, tv show, or anything else, makes them non canon. For them to be canon, everything that happens would have to go exactly as it does in their work of origin. Nothing new can happen to them. They cannot have anything different about them. And where would be the fun in that? So anyone saying that a given character someone uses can't be something because it's not canon can stuff it. None of them are canon. Did Taranza have a daughter named Sylvia with a Sectonia dating a yarn sorcerer because some grey person with shades on used magic to cause it in canon? Of course not. Did Storo ever actually die in the games? Nope. Do Magolor's ears essentially work like dicks in the games? If so, we most certainly don't know about it. Does Paintcia have a music-themed Mirror Counterpart named Lyra who hates her guts and would love to see her dead in Kirby Triple Deluxe? I highly doubt it. None of them are canon. You want to make your character who was male or female in the canon work something else? Go for it. You want to have your character wind up in a relationship they never had in their work of origin? Feel free. You want to change up their backstory or their personality or appearance or something? Hell yeah, variety for the win. You want to have them meet and interact with someone they never did in their original work? Fuck yeah, throw them at everyone. None of it is canon. We didn't make their games, their books, their movies, their animes, their mangas, their shows. None of it. And that is perfectly okay.
