And even more gift art from the con! Dan Green was another I met (though I didn’t get a photo with Dan… I can only afford so much!) But he was also very appreciative for the gift, as well! And Dan said he’d show his art to his buddy Ted Lewis, who voiced Dedede and Escargoon 🥹✨ AWWWW 😭
This is what I drew for him, the salesguy being stressed by customer service duty 🤣
Please do not trace, recolor, edit, or repost my art without permission, even if you are planning to give me proper credit!
N.M.E. Salesguy/Customer Service, King Dedede, and Escargoon belongs to HAL Laboratory/Nintendo
Spinstra was originally made as one of Nightmare's most fearsome classes of Demonbeast, the weaverbeasts, a species built to collect and feed on magic and fear to empower their master. While there are many different classifications of these spidery creatures, Spinstra specifically is a dreamweaver, which specializes in stealing sweet dreams and creating nightmares in their place. Dreamweavers are amongst Nightmare's favorites, as they're some of the closest to himself.
In her youth, Spinstra was a skittish spider, snapping and biting at anything she perceived as a threat. This earned her the nickname of Mangle amongst her peers. Hardly the kind of person you'd expect to betray Nightmare. But upon losing her only friend, Havoc, she found herself growing tired of playing Nightmare's games. So she attempted to help her fellow demonbeasts to escape their base within Nightmare's fleet. While most of them made it to safety, Spinstra was caught, and thus, punished for her crimes against their overlord.
She was thrust into the mantle of Patchland, left to sleep and passively absorb its power for Nightmare to collect later. Nightmare reasoned that if she wouldn't serve him willingly, it was more useful to break her, use her up until she could bear no more, whilst crippling the planet that had given him such a headache in this war. As a result of being thrust inside of Patchland, her body has been permanently altered to be yarn forever. Almost as though some of the planet's magic has become a part of her very fibers.
Spinstra's saving grace came in the form of a polycule of three kindly sorcerers: Woolfgang the Wise, Quilton the Cozy, and Fiyarno the Frayed. They freed her from the planet's grasp and took her in, adopting her as one of their own. The spellcrafting community of Patchland welcomed her with open arms, seeing an opportunity to turn Nightmare's forces against him. She learned a great deal from them, becoming a healer and mender for their forces, and capturing the same dreams she used to create. She found particular closeness with Aida Rose (an embroidery witch), Patchrick (a badge maker), and Claridee (a waddle dee who gained clairvoyant visions).
As time went on, Spinstra worked with Fiyarno on a project: using the genetics of demonbeasts to try and build a poison for Nightmare, a sleeper agent, if you will. Something that could infiltrate his forces and and free the demonbeasts from his control (as, a monster's proximity to Nightmare means he gains more control over their mind). Using both Spinstra's materials and pieces of fallen monsters from the battlefield, they ran several experiments, but none of them ever managed to come to fruition. Their eighth attempt, utilizing a very different methodology from the others, was the first to breathe and survive. The first with a complete soul to call her own. But even that project was not suited for their needs. And so, the idea was abandoned, and they continued to work on other plans to take out the evil overlord.
The spellcasting community on Patchland lost many members in her lifetime, but it also gained some: a new generation slowly spinning into being. Spinstra became a mother, pouring all of her love into her greatest creation: Bobbin Octavia Bobble. She is overprotective of her daughter and still learning when to let go of those reins, but time has found her fighting to find the balance. Bobbin is so dear to her, and after a nasty demonbeast attack that almost left her daughter broken and magicless, it was hard to let her out of her sight. Or at least, out of the sight of those she trusted.
Bobbin ended up under the care of her uncles more often than not, as Spinstra ended up being promoted to head witch by the royal family. With so much newfound responsibility and the war still being waged, Spinstra found herself overwhelmed. She couldn't see what was right in front of her, as Fiyarno continued to succumb to a mental decline and a horrible curse. When the battle came to be that resulted in Fiyarno and Quilton becoming Yin Yarn...after they drove Nightmare off the planet, she was not prepared for the evil they would unleash onto their world.
Spinstra was used against Meta Knight during Yin Yarn's takeover of Patchland. (Her memory is hazy of the events, but it would make for a very awkward time later.) Once she finally returned to her senses, upon Yin Yarn's defeat, she pleaded with the royal family to have a chance at rehabilitating him. He was once two sorcerers that stood up for her and tried to give her a chance, the least she could do was return the favor. Yin Yarn...was not good at doing as she asked, he was so mad, so rotten in his aching heart, and it hurt everyone in their home. To the point where Bobbin ran away to try and find a hero to defeat him for good. Thus, leading to Spinstra having to finally give up on her brothers in law. Her daughter got hurt one too many times, she could not risk it any longer.
Presently, Spinstra is trying to balance motherhood, repairing the magic community on Patchland, and a myriad of chronic pains and poor body functionality as a result of too much magic absorption. She can't move around very well, on account of her aching limbs and being too tall for most structures. But she will often astral project in a smaller form. She risks burning herself out more other than not, but she feels like she has to, or else everything around her will collapse. She's paranoid about NME returning to her planet to destroy everything she loves, and it's motivated her to continue learning all she can to combat them.
Bobbin does not know everything her mother has been through, but one day, maybe she'll learn the truth. And perhaps, the two can finally understand each other. Spinstra may seem a little cold and detached at first, but give her time. You may find there's a whole lot more warmth in those spidery eyes.
"Higher ranking monsters, or rivals with abilities like no other. Each are ranked from 5 to 1. Buyers are required to purchase them in order, no exeptions. Elites 4 & 3 are required to be bought together however, I don't know why."
RANK #5 -- FOOL
RANK #4 & #3 -- LOVERS
RANK #2 -- MISTRESS
RANK #1 -- [RESTRICTED]
It's probably best I warn you guys about this early.
There is one important thing about the Kirby anime that no one ever talks about. In the episode “Cowardly Creature” N.M.E. Sales guy informs DeDeDe and Escargoon that one of his monsters is missing. The monster, Phan Phan escaped from a program known as “Young Monsters of the Future” a program that is known to train monsters until they are traumatized from abuse which causes them to have no morals and destroy what’s around them.
This is a major reason why most of the monsters in the show are evil. Almost every monster Kirby has fought was more than likely trained there. All of the monsters the Star Warriors fought originally came from there. The monsters were probably trained to be sent to customers like King Dedede who constantly use them to get rid of Kirby.
I really wish this concept of the show was mentioned more since it was introduced late in the series. This episode came in a few episodes before the finale.
While N.M.E. Tells Dedede and Escargoon about the program. He also mentions that a hacker was responsible for Phan Phan’s escape. Unfortunately we don’t know who the hacker is who saved Phan Phan from torment, but I have some theories about it:
1. Knuckle Joe
Knuckle Joe was able to work for N.M.E. before he betrayed them to battle off Masher. Maybe Knuckle Joe knew some things about the company while he was working as a monster manager.
Knuckle Joe developed hatred in his heart which caused him to transform into a monster. After Knuckle Joe redeemed himself, he didn’t want other monsters to experience the pain he has gone through. Knuckle Joe is a monster hunter, but understands that not every monster is worth hunting. He wanted to save as many untrained monsters as possible, so he hacked into the system to save Phan Phan.
2. Sirica
Unfortunately we don’t get to see much of Sirica’s life after “Crusade for the Blade” until the finale. In the finale she pilots one of the 3 rouge destroyas alongside Knuckle Joe and Sir Arthur. Maybe in between those two episodes she wanted to hack into the system to show her hatred for the company (Since the company created Kirisakin, a monster responsible for the death of her mother)
An interesting connection to this theory is that her weapon has the N.M.E. Symbol on it, confirming she knows something about the company. I want to know how she received the weapon and her life outside of Dreamland. I wonder if she has a similar role to Knuckle Joe where she is a monster hunter.
3. Both (alongside Arthur and his men)
I imagine that before the finale, all six came to an agreement that they should hack into the system to rescue as many untrained monsters as possible. Maybe Arthur did the planning while Joe and Sirica did the hacking together. Since Knuckle Joe knows where everything is, maybe not only he hacked to the web server but also led the Star Warriors where exactly the Destroyas are.
4. A traitor from the company
You know how Yamikage used for work for the GSA, but decided to later betray the army to work for N.M.E.?
Imagine the opposite of that
(Obv it wouldn’t be Yamikage, but I was just making an example) Maybe a worker that used to work for N.M.E. hated their job and decided to betray the company freeing one of their monsters.
Unfortunately we don’t know if the other untrained monsters were saved. In the Finale, Tokkori and Kit Cosmos planted a bomb that later destroyed the entire fortress killing any remaining monsters.
It’s honestly depressing to think that these poor creatures that were forced to train in this program never had their happy ending…
THE GOOD GUYS HAVE THEIR HAPPY ENDINGS, BUT WHY COULDNT THESE MONSTERS HAVE HAPPY ENDINGS TOO?!?!?
Dedede even says this line:
“And I ain’t got a way to order anymore monsters!” *While crying*- Fright to the Finish
This line also proves that the monsters didn’t survive the explosion
Young monsters of the future has such an important role to the story, and yet no one ever talks about it.
Been watching the old Kirby anime, Right back at ya, and I must talk about the big bad and the amazing word play it has.
No idea if anyone else has ever mentioned this or noticed but again I must rant!
Like, the main big bad is a being called NME, which when said aloud sounds like Enemy. And this NME runs a monster making business called NightMare Enterprises, which, when abbreviated, is called NME, which I think is beautiful.
