im absolutely in love with your interp of adult Kirby even now. I was wondering if i could ask what inspired ur interp of him?
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hmmm iiiii. don't really know tbh. my personal interp of Kirby in games is a very down-to-earth guy who likes to keep things simple in his life with a couple or two adventures, so I'd imagine with adulthood he might've mellowed out more and found something he enjoys doing. like. yes he does enjoy adventures and fighting for fun (arena is good proof of that) but doing that for living might be tiring for the guy!
then there's the fact that he actually did spent a few years as a royalty (real royalty, not whatever Dedede got going on) as Patchlandian prince-consort, and that made him realize how BADLY he's not cut out for this shit. he legitimately doesn't understand some part of etiquette and to Patchlandian nobles he's painfully straightforward. (for regular folk that's refreshing for once to know that their royalty does mean what they say, but nobles think he's acting like a commoner he is.)
add to that - he's a dad! he has been brought up by Animal Friends as sort of a free range kid (at least, as far as he remembers - he doesn't remember anything before crashing onto Popstar), so he remembers his childhood clearly and wants his kids (both of them, Chiffon and Nova) to have the same childhood. he's genuinely saddened Chiffon barely was able to have the same freedom as a princess, so he wants her to have this at least here in Dreamland for now.
he still is a hero for Dreamland, don't get me wrong. I guess what I wanted to do is to portray him as a person he'd grow up into, and not as an ideal role he'd take. he's fucking multidimentional, dammit!