Now the story of a team of heroes undergoing a journey like no other, and the namesake who had no choice but to lead them through all the action, chaos, heartbreak, miracles, and glory.
(Basically [the outlines of] an odd reimagining of a do-do-ton of Kirby games from the perspective of Meta Knight and his messed-up crew)
Yes, it really took me this long to make a masterpost. I'm not happy about that either.
The Main Tetralogy (AO3 Psuedo-outlines(?)):
I - The Quirky Origins
II - The Insane Following Stuff
III - The Later Roller Coaster
IV - The Unforgettable Star-Studded Finale
mini knightmare side stories (AO3):
1 - A Mission Already Running Sharply on Fumes
2 - Our Little Miracle
3 - Happy Birthday, My Blossom
4 - If Only All Dreams Could Come True
5 - All's Fair in Love and Prank War
Extra Posts (AO3):
Outtakes (Deleted, Alternate, and Pre-Update Scenes)
Meta Knightmare Art (Tumblr):
First Drawings of 5 A-Teamers
Meta Knightmare Stuff Tumblr Posts (Lore Dumps, Info Dumps, etc.):
How Sectonia and Taranza Became Pikiria's Parents
How Max Found Susie
Pikiria Info Dump - Part 1 (plus both my and Aiden Stolidus's drawings of her)
Other Meta Knightmare-related Tumblr Posts (Memes, etc.):
Meta Knightmare Presents: Total Halberd Island (Total Drama Parody Idea)
"Finding Nemo... IN SPACE" Meme with the Haltmanns
I can't even tell if that many people like my Meta Knightmare fics or just want my posts on them to go away, but for those that do and enjoy my headcanon/lore dump posts (like Pikiria even if part 2 is still in limbo)...
What character(s) do you want to see get it next (listed are the ones I'm at least a tad interested in)? (Note at the bottom)
Pikiria (Part 2)
Max Haltmann
Susie and Sirica (specifically their friendship/sismance)
Adam/Shadow Knight (or Dark Meta)
Dedede, Danny (Bandana), and/or Saila (Sailor) (may do just one or all three)
Queen Sectonia and King Taranza
Not-Quite-Captain Vul Brainbird (he's besties with Haltmann)
Mikey (that Walky guy)
Garlude (could mix hers with Mikey)
Other (like maybe Meta himself if you really want to put me on the hot seat)
Just get off your butt and start writing the fourth one already, you lazy chump!
Voting ended onFeb 28, 2024
NOTE: Obviously I don't want to write on spoilers for Meta Knightmare IV, so only pre-Star Allies characters are allowed. (Don't worry, Hyness fans, I'll hopefully feed you soon enough! (or shred your heart but again, not for now)) I also wouldn't suggest any characters not in the first three Meta Knightmare fics or the first three mini knightmare fics. (Lolo family and Gassy Gasper fans, though, go all in if you like!)
I can't guarantee that I'll write these, but I would like to as long as I don't get too much in the mood to write the fourth one. I specifically would plan to write in order from most to least requested. Wheter anything comes of it though, I hope for a fun poll! (Or at least anything better than the ghost town that was the worst characters poll)
I drew Queen Pikiria in Meta Knightmare! (plus some info on her and also someone else's much better drawing of her) (Part 1!)
It was a painful mess of flipping between different colorized versions, but I've drawn my AU/fic's version of Pikiria, adopted daughter of Sectonia & Taranza and the Crown Princess-turned-Queen of Floralia. (Based off Pirka from the light novels, but so different in personality, background, and name that she's essentially an OC.) I definitely could have drawn it better (I probably should have added a Dreamstalk flower to the center of the bow, but not only is it too late, but it's a pain drawing either that bow or any kind of flowers), but I feel like this was an okay first effort. Forget mine though, because also after giving a suggestion and a tiny bit of coloring advice, here's the (official?) colorized version of Aiden Stolidus's (aka "insane guy") much better drawing on Amino, even if there's no crown! (Yes, that site still exists and I still look around on there even though I never post.) Honestly, if you need any art of this character as a basis for your own, AU or not, this is the definitive answer. They knocked it out of the park! (Don't worry, I got permission.)
Now take rather randomly organized some info and HCs on her under the cut, even if I might just reuse them for a bigger post if I draw her Spydeair parents soon (and also some of these are carried over from that "How Sectonia and Taranza Became Pikiria's Parents" post from a while back, which itself was half a Cliffnotes version of the Our Little Miracle fic)! (SPOILERS FOR META KNIGHTMARES II AND III, OF COURSE)
She's a Fairie, a species of fairies distantly related to the Spydeair species. (Might also have just a bit of relation to the Ripple Star fairies, but not a lot and I'm not sure.)
These first few points will simply summarize things you can already find in the fics, but I'll bring them up for context. To summarize her adoption yet again (Our Little Miracle), she floated into relatively-newlywed Sectonia and Taranza's garden hours after her birth and after some weeks of taking care of her and eventually deducing how she got here, they happily adopted her as the Crown Princess of Floralia.
Fast forward to her 12th birthday, which was also Sectonia's 35th birthday (The Insane Following Stuff, specifically chapters 5-11). After meeting (most of) the Meta-Knights and getting them to Sectonia just in time for both the queen's surprise b-day party and an attack by Dark Mind's Mirror World forces (long story short, DMK has beef with Secty's family here), she had to use her lightning-fast Fairie wings to save her father from getting crushed by debris. That night, she learned that she'd immediately have to fly all the way out to the planet Skyhigh to be trained for her future for the next 236 months like a glorified college. (Her parents had known this since she was like 6, but were always vague on telling her and just didn't want to think about it.) She emotionally said farewell before flying off into space.
About four and a half years later (chapters 17 and 21-25 of The Insane Following Stuff, to be exact), she had done very well on Skyhigh, taking after her mother and becoming a spectacular and speedy dual-wielding swordswoman nicknamed "Pikiria the Quick", although she was still rather homesick and waiting for a good time to spend her single vacation day. That came sooner than expected when her mother, after over four years of emotional struggles (from Pikiria's departure and fear of Dark Mind's forces) compounded by the Dimensional Mirror's grip on her, caused the darkness transmitted from it to take over and her to have a meltdown. Upon detecting her telepathic cry for help/farewell in a nightmare, she immediately rocketed back to Royal Road just in time to stop her possessed mother from killing the Knights, and both she and her father were able to comfort her and let her regain control. After staying for the next 24 hours to reconnect with and check on her parents, as her mother slowly started to recover, she emotionally went back to Skyhigh.
Once those 236 months were up (chapters 13-18 of The Later Roller Coaster), she had just gotten ready to return home for good and become Floralia's top defender/crown princess when she got another urgent telepathic message from her father and rushed back in panic. In the last few weeks, her mother's corruption had come back with a vengeance and the entire kingdom was on the brink. She reunited with her father and after launching the Dreamstalk mission with him and the people as a last-ditch effort to save both the kingdom and hopefully her mother, she got the Knights up to Royal Road. But the plan imploded down the stretch and right after watching her father get blasted out the window by her warped mother (which she thought killed him), she and Meta were forced into a battle with DMK/Shadow Knight, her mother's (even further corrupted) corrupter. While they did force him to retreat into space, Pikiria was in horror as her mother in Dreamstalk form seemed moments away from death when Hypernova Kirby had the beam pointed toward her. While a sympathetic Kirby did use the beam to instead severely weaken her corruption, thus giving the family a brief moment of reconnection and joy, with the corruption still deep within her, Sectonia went into slumber to fend off the darkness until a potential cure was found. Right before though, she asked Pikiria to succeed her and Taranza on the throne to become Floralia's new queen and clean up the mess just made, which she emphatically agreed to.
Nearly two and a half years after that (chapters 21-24 of The Later Roller Coaster), when the Star Dream crisis happened, she flew into the Access Ark alongside the Knights and eventually had to rush out, though not before she had to fight a clone of her mother's corrupted form. She was able to defeat her through her memories of her real mother's swordfighting technique and escape alongside the crew, but after witnessing a certain shocking loss on the way out, she returned home with even more appreciation for her father.
The story continues in Meta Knightmare IV: The Unforgettable Star-Studded Finale later this year!
