So within the last month or so, I ran a plot in a Kirby RP server that came with a fun plot twist: Yin Yarn is two people! Okay that's not particularly surprising if you've played Epic Yarn (happy belated anniversary by the way, can you believe this game has been out for 15 years as of yesterday? WILD). BUT! What is surprising is how it comes to be.
Meet Quilton the Cozy and Fiyarno the Frayed! These two sorcerers (along with their third partner, the Wonderful Woolfgang) were all amazing in their respective forms of crafting magic (quilting, knitting, and needle felting respectively). They were once dorm mates at magic school, until it blossomed into something more. Happily married by the great Squashini, the three of them moved to Fiyarno's home world of Patchland, a curious little planet that turns all that enter its atmosphere into yarn.
But not all was peaceful. For Nightmare, nefarious force that he is, targeted Patchland (amongst many other planets), and proceeded to reign terror on it for years. The three sorcerers worked hard to defend their home from such a monster, but he was too powerful. Plan after plan to defeat him failed, and they were getting desperate. Fiyarno caved into using a dark magic to bolster himself, and it was slowly eating away and corrupting him from deep within his soul. And he continued to use it, even though he knew it would destroy him.
When it went too far, Quilton, upon realizing what his husband had done, refused to let this be the end. Crafting a Metamortex (those magic sigils Kirby and Fluff used to become a tank, UFOs, dolphins, etc) out of the same dark magic, he fused the two of them together, intending to extend Fiyarno's life until he could find a way to fix things. But this...would not go as planned. There was so little of Fiyarno's soul left, that sticking the two together was barely a crutch. They both ceased to be in favor of something new, something that could sustain them in their current state.
This was the birth of Yin Yarn, who was so corrupted by his whims. After they managed to drive Nightmare away, Yin Yarn's focus turned not to fix what was broken, but to take the planet for himself.
Bobbin doesn't remember her uncle being two people. It was as much a surprise to her as it was to her friends when they undid his curse of turning the Nexus into yarn. But what's more, they blame her for why they were stuck as one person. Why? What does she have to do with it? That, my friends, is a story for another time.~
