Your childhood friends au is so cute! Can I ask how poor lil Meta already got himself that big ole scar on his head? If he already got himself hurt his friends would be sooo sad!
Aw, thank you so much, anon! I’m doing my best to channel as much wholesome energy into this project as I can (at least for now, hehe).
As for Meta’s scar, well… I can’t say too much at the moment (got some plans for a bigger piece to explain it in full in the future, and I need to establish a few more characters and scenes first... so many ideas, so little time, y'know), but I can give this little tidbit:
He got it on the day he first arrived on Popstar, not long before he met his new friends…
(ID: A long vertical shot of Green Greens at night during a meteor shower, the navy-blue sky stained in dark tones of color, speckled and streaked with stars. Below, grassy hills and fields are laid out to our right, dotted with trees and thin pill-shaped structures, and a swathe of dense forest spreads towards the horizon on our left. A curling wisp of smoke rises from the center of the woods where something has apparently made impact. In the foreground, on top of the hill closest to us, a telescope - presumably Para's - lies knocked over on its side, and an upturned picnic basket spills snack foods all over a red-and-white-checkered blanket spread over the grass. Text bubbles wind down from the top around to the bottom, the speakers off-screen and unspecified, presumably family and neighbors of Dedede, Para, and Bow. Transcript below the cut. END ID.)
Sketch started 04/22/24, sketch finished 04/23/24.
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Dialogue transcript:
“Hah… Is everyone alright?”
“Y-Yeah… I think so.”
“It didn’t hit anyone, did it?”
“No. It just passed overhead, thank stars.”
“Goodness, that was scary.”
“You’re tellin' me. When I said I wanna see the meteor shower up close and personal, I didn’t mean that close!”
“I didn't know shooting stars could fall out of the sky.”
“I don’t think that was a normal shooting star...”
“Look! Over there, in the woods! That must be where it landed!”
“Oh, dear, do you think we should- Wait. Has anyone seen the kids?”
“They were just here a second ago, weren’t they?”
“You don’t think…?”
“Dammit… Alright, c'mon, let's go! That can't've gone far.”
“Oh, Dee… Of all the times to go running off into danger…”
Old art! This is from 2020 and was meant to be Green Greens in the middle of winter. I found it while looking through old drawings for inspiration and I remember I really enjoyed drawing it. I normally struggle with backgrounds, but now I kind of want to try drawing some more Kirby locations at some point.
I made a Kirby boss theme that's a remix of Gourmet Race played in reverse with a little bit of Green Greens in reverse at the very end.
The idea behind this is basically Kirby lost control of their power and turned all Void-like. I chose Gourmet Race (and Green Greens) because they are Kirby classics that are the closest to a theme for Kirby I could find. The backwards part is because Kirby being mean is the opposite of how Kirby normally is (also the reverse honestly sounds cool). I then used some distorted sounding instruments to make it sound even more "wrong".
HUGE shout out to purple for being the only color that has like no losers. Deep purple royal purple bluish purple redish purple pastel purple dusty purple lavender periwinkle violet like. Banger after banger after banger!!