NumericBiconditional

accessible version (not an exact replication, i'm more aiming for an equivalent user experience):

Kirby and Bandana Dee are giving Elfilin a tour of Castle Dedede.

Bandee, happy: ...And finally, my room!

Bandee opens the door. The three of them go in.

Bandee: Man, it's been so long since I've last been in here!

Bandee, happy: It's good to be home!

Elfilin, happy: It's a really nice room!

Elfilin: ...Um, what are all these big boxes for?

Bandee, eyes sparkling: Oh! My apple juice collection!

Bandee zips over to the large boxes, stabs one open with a spear, and pulls out a juice box, all in the span of a second or two.

Bandee happily sips apple juice.

Elfilin, shocked: Whoa...

Kirby, smiling: Bandee just loves apple juice! Dedede put all those boxes here just for him!

Bandee, happy: I haven't had any in so long! It's as good as ever!

Kirby, smiling wide: ...I want some too!

Bandee, happy: Here, catch!

Kirby, smiling: Thanks Bandee!

Kirby realizes something.

Kirby: Wait!

Kirby runs over to the apple juice boxes, his own unopened juice box in hand.

Kirby, smiling wide: Let's play the Apple Juice Game!

Elfilin, confused: The Apple Juice Game?

Bandee, happy: The Apple Juice Game!

Bandee: Whoever drinks the most apple juice wins!

Kirby, smiling wide: It's a thing we do a lot whenever I visit Bandee's room!

Kirby, smiling: Ready, Bandee?

Bandee finishes his juice box and grabs a new one.

Bandee: Ready! 3... 2... 1...

Kirby and Bandee, happily in unison: Go!

Kirby and Bandee drink apple juice at... well, at the pace you'd expect from those two in particular, really.

Bandee's simultaneously humming the Apple Scramble theme. Somehow.

Elfilin, scared: Don't drink so fast!

Kirby and Bandee, to the surprise of nobody but Elfilin, don't listen.

...In fact, they start to drink even faster.

Elfilin, worried: Aren't you guys afraid of choking?

No response. They're both too busy drinking apple juice.

They finish juice box after juice box after juice box. The empty, discarded juice boxes form an ever-growing pile on the floor.

As the game goes on, Elfilin has some inner monologue.

Shocked: That's more than ten juice boxes already!

Scared: How many more are they gonna drink?!

Back to normal: ...Huh, was Bandee humming something this whole time?

Happy: ...It's kinda catchy!

As the song reaches its climax, Kirby joins in on the humming.

In pain: Ow! My eardrums-- Whoa!

Shocked: How did that pile of empty juice boxes suddenly become twice as big!?

Elfilin's monologue ends.

Kirby and Bandee hum the final five notes of the song as they finish off the final few juice boxes in the large box.

Bandee, happy: ...And we're outta apple juice!

Kirby, happy: Poyo!

Elfilin, worried: ...Um, how many juice boxes was that...?

Bandee, happy: Well, each of these big boxes has 30 juice boxes, so that's how many we drank in total!

Elfilin is shocked into silence.

Elfilin, putting up a happy face: ...So, then... who won?

Bandee, happy: Oh, we don't actually keep track!

Kirby, happy: We both got to drink a whole bunch of yummy apple juice!

Bandee, happy: So in a way, we both won!

Elfilin: ...Oh...

Bandee: Wanna try some for yourself, Elfilin?

Elfilin: ...Um, sure...

Elfilin: But, um, just one, please.

Bandee opens up another large box. He takes out five juice boxes: two for him, two for Kirby, and one for Elfilin.

Elfilin, happy: ...Wow! It is really tasty!

Bandee, happy: I'm glad you like it!

Kirby, smiling wide: Maybe you could join us next time we play the Apple Juice Game?

Elfilin thinks for a moment.

Elfilin, happy: ...Well, it does seem kinda fun!

The end.

i thought i was done, but then some time later there were various tweaks and changes i wanted/needed to make to the portraits. making bandee more red, correcting elfilin's nose colour (it was originally the same as his inner ear colour for some reason), changing a certain portrait type to make it convey its thing more effectively, etc.

i'll be checking things over again, one last time if i'm (un)lucky (it's lucky to catch things in time, but it's even luckier to not have anything that needs to be caught). assuming everything goes smoothly, prepare to see a new post from me in 1-3 hours.

i'm pretty much done with everything! expect to see the final product sometime tomorrow (well, in my timezone, technically today).

all of the necessary portraits are done! (as are some unused ones that were convenient to make from other portraits.) i also spent an ungodly amount of time on an "hd" (read: 144×144 instead of 48×48) version of a certain portrait. which you won't be seeing in the project itself but maybe i'll post it at some point. i was going to do the same thing with the other characters' versions of the portrait but then i decided against it because it would require an even ungodlier amount of time and effort.

all of the other portrait work, in contrast, was actually quite easy. thankfully.

i was going to post just that back when i finished the portrait stuff, but then lemmy.world was down so instead i started work on the rest of the programming that i had to do. that was... a journey. tougher than i expected, but not too bad. somehow the code actually got less messy the more i worked on it???

anyway! just a few final things and i'll be ready! i have a near-final version of the thing at hand, and... well, it wasn't exactly the scene i was imagining in my head, but i still like the final result! i literally just had an idea as i was looking over the thing as i was writing the previous few sentences! so i'll do that, do some final checks, transcribe things into a screen-reader-friendly form, and then i'll be set to share it all with you guys in somewhere between 6 and 18 hours depending on my sleep schedule! =D

wow! that's alotta poyos

i'm gonna use this thread as a place to post status updates on the project

i got kirby, bandee, and elfilin's neutral sprites done yesterday, as well as all of the coding until i realized i should probably do some stuff to make line wrapping and text overflow less painful to deal with. today i'll be working on that, as well as the rest of the dialogue portraits. will hopefully be less of a pain now that i have base images to build off of.

here's a silly demo i made yesterday

transcription:
Everyone say something!
[kirby open smile]: Poyo!
[bandee neutral]: Wanya!
[elfilin neutral]: Um... Hi?

one kirby post at a time! let's all make this community a thriving one!

...though it would be easier to do that if the servers didn't have problems every now and then. tried to post this from lemm.ee, it didn't federate here. ah well, new platform, occasional problems are expected and all that

this is a poyo

now there is another one
there are two of them
there are two ______

original svg source code:

<!--
	elfilem (more polished version)

	created by NumericBiconditional

	based on the lemmy logo and elfilin from kirby


	main sources:
		lemmy logo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Lemmy_Logo.svg
		elfilin (krtdldx mask): https://wikirby.com/wiki/File:KRtDLD_Elfilin_Mask_artwork.png


	i learned how to write svg code specifically for this

	don't expect it to be idiomatic svg code
-->
<!--
	we'll be working with a 1024x1024 canvas, just like the original image i got from wikipedia

	to make life slightly easier on me,
	i decided to make (0, 0) the center of the canvas and have up be the positive direction

	we have (-512, -512) as the bottom left corner and (512, 512) as the top right corner


	i tried to make shapes match up with the original image, to some extent.
	you can't see it in the final version of the code,
	but i was originally making this in a modified version of the original file.
	i would overlay the original image on top of my version with 50% opacity
	whenever i wanted to compare the two images to check accuracy.
-->
<!--
	to use a gray background instead of a transparent one, add `style="background-color: #808080;"` to the svg tag

	or alternatively just edit the image in your favourite image editing program
-->
<svg version="1.1" width="1024" height="1024" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
	<g transform="translate(512 512) scale(1 -1)">

		<defs>
			<!--
				there's this weird double outline thing going on, and i dealt with that by
				drawing everything multiple times with outlines of different colours and thickness.
			-->
			<g id="ears">  <!-- elfilem's ears - the cyan rim is also implemented as an outline -->
				<!--
					notched ear (his right, our left)


					i decided to implement this in truly one of the ways of all time.

					start with a circle of radius 5 centered at the origin.

					from (0, -5) to (-3, 4) and from (3, 4) to (0, -5), use the arc of the circle.

					but from (-3, 4) to (3, 4), flip the arc of the circle upside down to create the ear notch.

					and then scale, translate, and rotate the circle into an ear.

					oh yeah and i intentionally chose a circle of radius 5
					so that i could work with 3-4-5 right triangles and avoid headaches with the coordinate system
				-->
				<path d="
					M 0 -5
					A 5 5 0 0 0 -3 4
					A 5 5 0 0 1 3 4
					A 5 5 0 0 0 0 -5
				" fill="#ffc080" vector-effect="non-scaling-stroke"
				transform="rotate(60 -320 136) translate(-320 136) scale(17.6 21.6)"/>
				<!--
					normal ear (his left, our right)


					similar to the notched ear case
					but we can simply use the circle of radius 5 without doing any flippy business
				-->
				<circle cx="0" cy="0" r="5" fill="#ffc080" vector-effect="non-scaling-stroke"
				transform="rotate(-60 320 136) translate(320 136) scale(17.6 21.6)"/>
			</g>
			<g id="main">  <!-- the rest of elfilem -->
				<!--
					head


					modelled as two semicircles, the top one slightly more "flat" than the bottom one
					to approximate the shape of the original lemmy head
				-->
				<path d="
					M -288 0
					A 288 216 0 0 0 288 0
					M -288 0
					A 288 280 0 0 1 288 0
				" fill="#80ffff"/>
				<!--
					eyes


					moved way up from the original image, and also stretched out into ovals.

					i think it still preserves the "lemminess" of the original image, though

					tried experimenting with a gradient effect for the white part, but ultimately that didn't work out
				-->
				<!-- eyes - outer blue part -->
				<ellipse cx="-112" cy="0" rx="32" ry="64" fill="#4080ff" stroke="#0040c0" stroke-width="16"/>
				<ellipse cx="112" cy="0" rx="32" ry="64" fill="#4080ff" stroke="#0040c0" stroke-width="16"/>
				<!-- eyes - inner white part -->
				<ellipse cx="-112" cy="24" rx="16" ry="32" fill="#ffffff" stroke="transparent"/>
				<ellipse cx="112" cy="24" rx="16" ry="32" fill="#ffffff" stroke="transparent"/>
				<!-- cheek blushes ~~(the most important part of a chimchila)~~ -->
				<circle cx="-176" cy="-128" r="32" fill="#ffc0c0" stroke="transparent"/>
				<circle cx="176" cy="-128" r="32" fill="#ffc0c0" stroke="transparent"/>
				<!-- nose -->
				<ellipse cx="0" cy="-248" rx="72" ry="72" fill="#ff8040"/>
				<!-- whiskers -->
				<g stroke-linecap="round">
					<line x1="-240" y1="-160" x2="-336" y2="-200"/>
					<line x1="-176" y1="-232" x2="-224" y2="-304"/>
					<line x1="176" y1="-232" x2="224" y2="-304"/>
					<line x1="240" y1="-160" x2="336" y2="-200"/>
				</g>
			</g>
		</defs>

		<!--
			putting it all together


			there's a specific order to do everything in

			it's a bit of a weird order because of what needs to be in front and what needs to be behind other stuff
		-->
		<use href="#ears" stroke="#ffffff" stroke-width="105"/>  <!-- ears with white outline -->
		<use href="#main" stroke="#ffffff" stroke-width="56"/>  <!-- everything else with white outline -->
		<use href="#ears" stroke="#000000" stroke-width="77"/>  <!-- ears with black outline -->
		<use href="#ears" stroke="#80ffff" stroke-width="21"/>  <!-- ear rims (cyan outline) -->
		<use href="#main" stroke="#000000" stroke-width="28"/>  <!-- everything else with black outline -->

	</g>
</svg>

egg

...sad egg?

is that a tear i see? :(

got it! :) i'm excited to work on it! hoping i'll be able to put in some other enhancements beyond just small technical adjustments

thanks!

you have my permission if you want to use it as the c/kirby icon! though in that case, i would like to create a more polished version (as in, making sure everything is actually symmetrical and stuff). should take no longer than 3 days. feel free to use the current version and/or a more polished version for any c/kirby thing you want!

holy hellfilin!