#olympea's quest

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+2 Wing Bearers!

One wing, two wings, four wings. All billowing in the wind. Can we find someone with eight wings to continue the cycle?

(Kinda late for propaganda, but shhh. I had to draw my competitors Dotty and Galem at least once!)

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+ Several Unrecognisably Charred Lumps Of Carbon!

How did it come to this?! It seems the power of lesbianism and whatever is going on with Galacta Knight wasn't enough to save the ribs. May the sausages fare better.

(Good news everyone! I did not throw my tablet out the window trying to draw his wings! But it was close. Praise Ibispaint for having ready-made backgrounds, because I was not drawing one after all that. This was supposed to be a joke drawing, but it somehow took me several days. Because of the wings, but also because of me having several epiphanies I had to process. I miiiiight have made my interpretation of Galacta Knight more similar to me than I realised. As one does.)

@graycoin @quanblovk @morp I'm blaming your comments on the weatherproof outfit post for this! I hope y'all like it, it cost me blood, tears, several ribs and a part of my sanity.

Now, where is that money, Quan?? Gib 🫴 /jk

Bonus!

Just for fun (I couldn't choose which background to go with.)

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Edit: Expanded reference sheet

Edit 2: Updated refs and turnaround!

WOOOO! Done just in time! @kirbyoctournament

Name: Olympea, the Pummeling Peacekeeper

Gender: She-himbo, She/Her

Age: Never ask a woman her age! (She's an adult.)

Occupation: Warrior/Hero of Yore

Species: Puffball/Starborn/Star Child/whatever the Kirby species is called.

Uh-oh, due to a temporal anomaly the Hero of Yore Olympea suddenly finds herself transported alive and well from Ancient Halcandra to the Kirby OC tournament! She doesn't know what's going on, but she'll roll with the punches and treat it like a fun dream vacation of sorts. She does like meeting all sorts of new people and trying new foods, weapons and technology. She'll have so many stories to tell her friends when she returns! It's probably for the best if she doesn't learn what disaster befell the four heroes in the regular timeline, though...

Some ground rules, just in case:

I would love seeing people's OC's interact with her! Asking Olympea questions is okay, but this is not an ask blog/rp blog and I'm not looking for extended roleplay. I may not answer your question. If I see potential for an interesting interaction I may draw it, but I can't promise anything. (Keep in mind if I don't respond right away -> 1: I'm timid and get anxious easily. 2: I may not have figured out that part of her story/the history of Ancient Halcandra yet. 3: The answer would have contained a spoiler for my fics. 4: I'm very slow at drawing.)

I'm joining this tournament for fun, so thank you for understanding!

Propaganda and Answered Asks:

Arrival

Found cupcake!

Ask (Giant upcake): quanblovk

Ask (Kettlebell): graycoin

Ask (Pet rock): anonymous

Ask (Punching): anonymous

Bonus: Punch!

Ask (Green bean): maybeher0

Ask (Fic canonicity): anonymous

Propaganda/gift art for my competitor: zeros-witness and Rimuri

Ask (Unexpected cursed hands): morp

Off to the loser's bracket

'Tis pride month! Thou knowest what that meaneth.

Bonus: Rock Rider Olympea

Weatherproof outfits

Grillmeisters

Ask (The Gospel Of The Lamp™): the-chaos-axolotl

So Moth It Be

Olympea's Space Gauntlet

Ask (Grip strength): cauli-flawa

Wanya-fication

Noddyfication

Ask game: Graycoin 💫🥘☀️🐛

Ask game: Anonymous ⚔️🧋⚙️

Ask game: Anonymous 🥀 (Asks about Soul forms so CW: discussion of body horror and death!)

Propaganda/gift art for my competitors: Inufaiya and Cauliarty

Star Allies icon

Bonus: Keigo's P.E.T.R.O.C.K. interface

Fake Dream Buffet Costume

Paper Mario style emulation

Starstruck 🤝 Olympea

Expression Practice

Mirror counterpart Olivia

Halloween Outfits (Olympea & Olivia)

===Post Kirby OC tournament===

Masquerade Outfits (Olympea & Olivia)

Christmas Confusion (Olympea & Olivia)

Shell-shot (Featuring Sir Uther...kinda.)

New Apron, forging a poffertjespan

Blizzard Hammer

Olivia Spring Outfit

Birthday Smash! (Olympea & Olivia)

Ask: How do her gauntlets attach?

Birthday Crash! (Olivia & Olympea)

Feeding the Pet Rock

Hammer Witch (Halloween)

A wealth of Olympea emotions

Nefarious Mechanised Moth

A Puzzling Date

Mechanised and Menacing

Overview:

While she's not very big, intellectual or attuned to magic, she is unbeatably chipper and physically strong. She loves fighting and gleefully uses a variety of lovely accessories/weapons like a giant club, enchanted glaive, magitech gauntlets, etc. Her left glove allows her to access a dimensional storage. Teases hard, punches even harder. Actually quite feminine when off the clock. Loves magitech gadgets a lot. Doesn't think science or magic is better, because their society needs both. She's definitely not insecure about her height. She'd also never conjure a giant squeaky hammer to bop you over the head if you call her short.

Likes: Vegetables, Nectar, Trying new foods, The colour green, Flowers, Butterflies and moths, Pretty/cool/badass women, Her club, Brass knuckles, Tinkering, New gadgets, Teasing her friends, Seeing a certain winged magenta knight open up and feel genuine joy

Dislikes: Being mistaken for a child, Being called stupid, Stuck-up people, Seeing her friends being hurt, Strangers flicking her antennae, How much dust and scales her wings leave behind

Abilities: Able to fly. Very physically strong. Innately has access to Suplex and Hammer, but mainly uses her trusty club. Her boots and gauntlets let her emulate elements of Hi-jump, Laser and Mecha. (The boosted jump, laser finger guns and palm blasts, respectively.)

Weaknesses: Can't fly quickly. Stubby little arms limit her great strength with little reach. Distractable and a little naive. Can't resist eating strange and exotic snacks no matter the source. Seeing cute girls (she HAS to show off).

Fighting Style:

Her gauntlets are good for punching and the palms can release blasts of energy as well. They're mainly so she can hold large weapons well, since her actual hands aren't very big.

Her moth wings aren't very big either, so while she can normally fly and can still break her fall when she's armoured, she prefers to zip around close to the ground. It's often faster and easier to run and jump when she's fighting. Especially when she's wielding her heavy club. Her boots help her boost and maneuver quickly.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that because she prefers close range combat and isn't proficient with magic she can't attack at a distance. Her gauntlets possess finger laser guns and she can use her left glove (which she also wears under her gauntlet) to access her weapon hoard at all times. Who knows what else she keeps in there?

Even her civilian outfit isn't harmless. She still has access to her innate Suplex and Hammer abilities, after all. And those shoes have steel toes! Of course, the platform heels are just to keep her delicate wings from scraping across the ground when folded. No other reasons. (Like being taller.)

Design Thoughts:

Olympea is the first of the Heroes of Yore who came to me. I was thinking about how to describe the Heroes of Yore and knew I wanted at least one to be a woman. Suddenly her name resounded through my head! Then I just started associating. Olympea sounds like Olympics, so she must be strong. Pea calls to mind small, round and green, so what if she's (mostly) the same species as Galacta Knight? Peas are famous for research on genetics and alleles, so what if she was born, not formed like him? Maybe she doesn't have a lot of magical affinity. Then she needs weapons. Pea, peace, pea shooters, peas in a pod, peacemaker, pea-smacker. Let's give her a hammer, no, a club! She's strong, so what if she packs a punch? How about some gauntlets for punching? She can have a gun, wait, let's put the gun (pea shooter!) in her gauntlet's finger! She needs storage for her weapon hoard (girl needs to accessorise!) so what if her enchanted gauntlets let her access dimensional storage (peas in a pod)? Hmmm, does she have wings? There's a bug called a pea moth, so she has moth wings now. Her ponytail is twisted like a dried pea pod and not-so-coincidentally looks a bit like a cocoon when down and a boxing glove while up in a bun.

I maaay have gone completely overboard with the whole pea thing, but such is life. Although there is a bit of Hammer Lord in there as well. She doesn't hate magic, she just doesn't have a lot of affinity for it. She does enjoy tinkering and building weapons. This is how she ended up relying mostly on technology instead of magic.

She's not a knight and has no mask, because while many people depict all adult puffballs as masked knights (probably influenced by the Star Warriors from the K:RBAY anime) I personally don't think this has to be universal for their kind. How sad it would be if all they were destined for was fighting! ...And then I made her a warrior anyway. Oh well.

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+1 Hypothetical Scenario!

Not many people would dare to prank or tease a celebrity like Galacta Knight! But Olympea doesn't care about his fancy schmancy reputation and has no problem bugging her friend and leaving him baffled.

(Yeyeye, I'm procrastinating on art by making different art. This was a nice excuse to practice metallic textures again. But why are Galacta Knight's wings so hard to draw?? I can never get the feathers to look right except in this angle! I need a new way to stylise them so I can draw them folded and from different perspectives.)

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+1 Wanyafication!

Oh no! The tournament's Waddle Dee beam has hit Olympea! Quick! Activate the W.A.N.Y.A. protocol!

(A little bonus. I saw everyone was wanya-fying their oc's and jumped on it.)

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+1 Noddyfication!

The transformation beam striketh once more! This time she's armless! And sleepy all the time! How's she going to get her exercise in now?? Strangely enough she keeps waking up tired and some people seem to be a bit scared of her. Why could that be?

(The one time I properly draw and shade Sir Uther and it's as a deceptively harmless Noddy? Whoa.)

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Sir Uther belongs to @quanblovk

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What is Olympia's grip strength

+5 Physical Feats!

Nothing wrong with her grip strength! Or her throwing strength, hand-eye coordination, balance or aim. She may not be as ridiculously overpowered as some of the other tournament contestants who can blow up everything in a snap, but she's not to be trifled with in hand-to-hand combat! Now if only her wing strength didn't lag behind...

(Hehehe, I hope you don't mind me using this as a workout demonstration. (And practice with drawing her from multiple angles.) I just wanted to draw her in action for once so she doesn't become the warrior who never fights.)

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+1 Impromptu Space Battle

What use is a club in space? Not much. That doesn't stop her, though. Pfft! Who's worried about range? Just add gun! Pew, pew!

(This was originally part of a collection of different ways Olympea displays strength as an answer to an ask. I just wanted to draw her gauntlet finger guns in action. Then I thought "Let's add a nice gradient background!" and it ended up looking like she was in space, so I worked it out further and, uhh. I really like it?? It has sci-fi vibes.)

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