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Who's Kirby?

Kirby is the unstoppable puffball with an infinite appetite.

Staring in a pretty awesome series of games produced by HAL and published by Nintendo, Kirby is known for swallowing his enemies whole and copying their abilities.

Don't let his small stature and cute demeanor fool you! Kirby spends much of his time protecting his friends, planet, and food from demonic horrors that would otherwise threaten the entire universe.

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[This is a rewritten version of a post I made on r/Kirby 8 months ago.]

One day, I came across the following passages in Elfilin's character entry on TV Tropes (final entry under "Other Heroes"):

Cosmic Motifs: According to the official guidebook, Elfilin's ears were designed to resemble the waxing and waning of the moon. This was meant to represent "having lost the quality of a single existence", that is, having separated from Fecto Forgo.

The Fog of Ages: According to the official guidebook, he barely has any memory of his time as a test subject in Lab Discovera anymore.

At the time, I wasn't able to find anything else that talked about this information. At some point, I checked out this official(? It's official enough for WiKirby.) guidebook myself. This is the relevant page (it's also the final page in the preview).

My attempt at a transcription of the relevant passages (I can't read Japanese):

ともに旅をしながらアドバイスをくれるカービイのパートナー。本人の記憶にはほとんど残っていないが、ID-F86の中に残されていた小さな博愛の心が分離して生まれた存在で、かつて研究者たちには"ID-F87"と呼ばれていた。再び融合することを目論むID-F86によって、とらわれの身となってしまう。

月の満ち欠けをイメージしてデザインされたという耳。1つの存在だったものが欠けたことが表現されている。

Based on machine translations, the TV Tropes descriptions seem pretty accurate. And according to a commenter on the original Reddit post, in the Kirby light novels (separate continuity from the games, so take the implications with respect to game canon with a grain of salt), Elfilin also doesn't remember Lab Discovera. So that's some not-so-new-at-this-point-but-still-not-widely-talked-about Elfilin lore for you.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

chimchila lore

chimchila lore

...how i wish it were (officially) available in english :(

(also how i wish this federation stuff had fewer technical issues)