SSB headcanons: Subspace Emissary’s underlying Master Hand horror story
Captain Falcon and Olimar both ended up on the Isle of Ancients after following a mysterious distress signal operating in a strange way neither of them had ever seen before. Olimar hypothesized that maybe the bizarre signal came from an organism with resonating crystals or similar structures and abilities. (You know. Like order scions do.)
Ganondorf would often hear a man’s voice telepathically whispering to him. Bowser and Wario couldn’t hear it, but he could. It appeared when that Master Hand thing was around, and it said the same thing every time. “Help me”.
Before coming across Pikachu, Samus logically searched the deepest reaches of the Subspace Bomb Factory. Instead of finding her gear, however, she discovered an abandoned cell that was apparently built to contain something extremely powerful. There were also these odd stains everywhere that glowed blue. Only after defeating Tabuu and restoring everyone’s memories did she realize the pure horror of what the stains were: Blood.
Everyone had dreams involving two oddly familiar men in monochrome pinstriped suits. Often, the dreams seemed to be of happy memories. But sometimes, the dreams involved the man in white being dragged away into a black abyss, or the one in black breaking down and crying, wounded and alone...