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all right everyone. one more Lore Post. this has been bugging me for a while, and either i am dumb, the wiki is dumb, or we have been misunderstanding the mirror universe this entire time.

this is gonna be long.

so, the dimensional mirror. i was under the impression that the people in the mirror world had kinda always existed, along with the world itself. my perception was that it was just sort of... an alternate version of dreamland! with its own cast of “dark” characters! hey, perhaps some events we see in the games also play out in the mirror world, just in a different way!

i’m... not sure if this is right anymore. but, well, amazing mirror is confusing. let me explain

i went on a wiki binge, and singled out some quotes that always confused me:

“At the beginning of the game's events, Dark Meta Knight was created by the power of the Mirror World, and was made in the likeness of Meta Knight himself.”

“[the mirror] is the gateway between the normal and the Mirror World, and is behind the creation of all of the Mirror World's occupants”

the wiki states this very confidently. at first, when i was reading this, i was just wondering.... where the hell is this backed up in the game / any other reputable lore source?? isn’t the mirror just a gateway?

though this quote from the katam instruction manual does imply the sorts of things that the wiki says there:

“High in the skies above Dream Land floats the Mirror World. In this strange and beautiful land, mirrors have the power to make any wishes reflected in them come true. One day, a sinister presence invaded the Mirror World, and its mirrors could only reflect bad things. When Meta Knight discovered what was happening, he set off to save the Mirror World.”

so... the mirror was corrupted by dark mind, and it started making “dark” versions of everyone. we also know that dark taranza was produced from taranza looking into the black mirror: “When a troubled mage stood before the mirror, Dark Taranza appeared…” if i were writing the wiki, idk if i would state this all so confidently

another VERY confusing aspect of the dimensional mirror is its function as a gateway. it’s a gateway between dreamland and the mirror world... but also has a kind of pocket dimension / liminal space inside of it, where you fight dmk and dark mind?? i think that’s how it works.

extremely confused, i went and watched the katam opening cutscene and tutorial again. that also made me confused. here is what i understand of it:

there’s a big mirror. it floats above dreamland. this mirror is a portal to the mirror world—it takes you from dreamland’s sky, to that place in the mirror world that serves as a hub in katam

someone (dark mind) is causing trouble in the mirror world

meta knight flies up to the mirror to enter the mirror world

dark meta knight enters dreamland. he splits kirby into four, and they follow him up into the sky towards the mirror

the game starts! kirby and his companions trek through the clouds, following dark meta, who they saw at the very beginning.

kirby & co go through the tutorial. it looks like they aren’t actually in the mirror world proper at this point. at the end is a mirror leading to the central hub. so, i guess the dimensional mirror isn’t the only entrance to the mirror world??

before kirby & co get to the hub, there’s a cutscene in which meta and dmk emerge from the dimensional mirror. i suppose dmk must’ve flown from the tutorial area to the actual mirror, catching up with meta.

dmk seals meta within the mirror, shatters the mirror, and disperses the shards. meta is now trapped within the mirror’s pocket dimension. i guess that dmk made extra sure to seal meta INSIDE the mirror, rather than just chucking him through the portal back to dreamland

dmk goes into one of the smaller mirrors. shadow kirby (shirby) falls from the top of the screen, and follows him.

kirby & co fall from the screen too, presumably the same place shirby came from, and the proper game starts!

yall don’t want to know how many times i rewatched those cutscenes to get all this info ok. what new stuff did i get from the cutscenes???? Not All That Much, admittedly.

i went back and forth about this for a while, and concluded that it is indeed possible that the mirrors created dmk and shirby. we just aren’t shown it in the cutscenes. meta knight flies up towards the mirror—it’s possible that him looking into the mirror created dmk, who then goes down, splits kirby into four, then goes back up through the mirror again. the kirbies go through that smaller mirror that leads them to the main hub—soon afterward, shirby emerges from the same spot the kirbies do later. it’s possible that that mirror created shirby, and then shirby went through it just before the kirbies did.

but, unfortunately, just taking the info from the cutscenes, it looks like the answer to the origin of dmk and shirby is ambiguous. could go either way.

let’s look back at the instruction manual quote up there again. does it straight up say the mirror(s) created dmk and shirby based on mk and kirby? no. but we do know that 1. the mirrors can make things reflected in them come to life, and that 2. lately the mirrors have been reflecting “bad things.” what does this mean? bad wishes? reflecting the dark sides of those who stare into the mirrors? making copies of the things reflected, but making those copies evil? it’s so unclear and up to interpretation!!!!

whatever the case, here is my conclusion: this quote does seem to imply that the mirrors created dmk and shirby. i’ve said that like 5 times now but i think it’s a definite possibility. i don’t think the wiki should state its interpretation like fact, but i do think the wiki is onto something, and i’m inclined to believe its interpretation of these events.

(i do wonder about characters like king golem though. is he mirror whispy? when would the mirrors have copied whispy? or is it just a coincidence? is the mirror world naturally a little similar to dream land, and the dark characters are the only ones actively created by the mirrors?)

(this also has implications for sectonia. did the mirror, corrupted by dmk, create a dark counterpart for her when she stared into it? is the sectonia that we know really dark sectonia, and the real sectonia, who wasn’t corrupt, is hidden away somewhere?? but i suppose we know from tkcd that the mirror sometimes just corrupts instead of, well, mirrors, and i guess that’s what happened to her. but taranza also got dark taranza.... hm.....)

another question is—is dark mind even FROM the mirror world? all the narration in-game makes it kinda ambiguous, but the manual quote says that he “invaded the mirror world.” this would imply that dark mind isn’t the mirror world counterpart of anyone! he’s just a bad dude who wanted to take over the mirror world! how very interesting.

right, so, it’s midnight, and i’ve tangled myself into so many knots writing this post. i sincerely hope it was all understandable!

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