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the well #89 - Adeleine's Maximum Fun Chamber
- Thread starter Adeleine
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What pokemon that ends in "-le" or is a bug/rock type are you most thankful for?
ooh ooh i know! crustle
mfk magolor/marx/susie
Oh hi! Yeah I remember you by Illusio for sure. I actually popped in for a little earlier this year, and would plausibly do so again, but probably not long-term. Basically everyone from my old Trivia community has left, and I use PS in a lot more casual way now that isn't super conducive to game or battle rooms. It's nice to see you, though!
Honestly the C.H.A.T. thread is a nice excuse to put down whatever I'm thinking at a given moment, even if it's not everyone's interest, so I like it a lot. There's a lot of historical threads I've enjoyed over the years – the temporary thread, the evil Incineroar optimization, and getting second in the knife fight come to mind.
Clefable, and Armaldo, respectively. Clefable is so round and soft and huggable I love her. Her flavor is also pretty unique and strikes a chord with me, being timid around a lot of stimulus and nervous around people but very comfortable and free in her own lane. Armaldo has a really interesting design and concept niche, especially when it comes to its body shape, towering in a way but also a funky nebulous guy with a lot of cool utility moves. It also comes from a generation I'm very nostalgic for.
Ok so, I'm asexual and interpret these characters as minors, so I'll respond a little differently.
I don't like Magolor. He'd be the kill option. There's a couple of reasons.
- I see him as really derivative of Marx, both being circle-shaped "Ma-" impish tricksters who con Kirby into defeating dangerous opponents to secure an artifact of unimaginable power. I haven't even got into the full similarity list.
- He comes from a game (Return to Dream Land) I view as pretty weak and generic, particularly in the atmosphere and narrative ideas I care a lot about Kirby for.
- With these two things, I view the internet culture of popularity around both character and game as pretty artificial and tiring. Like the characters and games you like, have fun, but I find stuff like "Magolor deserves a spot in Smash" and "RTDL is peak" to be silly and shallow.
I'm fine with Marx. He and his theme hit a childhood nostalgia point for me, I think the subversion of his twist is cool, and I especially love the aesthetics and creativity in his fight. His moveset is really novel, finding new ways to create exciting attacks from common and rare tropes. Attacking with plants is one thing, but someone like Marx doing it, and with towering rose briars in bloom? Awesome. I'm not head over heels for him because he just doesn't fit my niches, but he was definitely a part of me finding my artistic identity as a child and teen.
I don't have a lot to say about Susie. I'm generally unenamored with New Kirby ™ (Return to Dreamland onward). I don't have total information about every game, let alone played every game, and there are definitely exceptions I have seen, so this is very "impression versus hard facts," but it continually strikes me as repetitive, edgy, and banal. (I talk a bit more about the "edgy" part, and some broader dislike with modern Kirby, here.) I'm not particularly hostile to Robobot, but this orientation means that, while I get the basics of what she does, I'm not particularly deep or invested in my understanding. To my limited understanding, she seems like a solid character, but not an exceptional one, and not one that fits my personal interests. I find her flashy, dynamic, elemental attacks in Star Allies fun, though.
I answered k, and f doesn't apply. M? The fairy queen from Kirby 64. She and Ripple Star fit in a lot of implied characterization, and from that, we'd hit it off great, I think. I'm very lucky in that I'm not the only one who finds her really cool – she has a shockingly rich fanart scene for her limited time, which does an amazing job giving her more screentime in a way, fleshing her out even more, and providing new possible interpretations.
This comes from a 4-page comic by Brie. I'd really recommend seeing the full comic here. It's lovely.
A reverse image search, like Google's, should make finding the authors easy to see their other pieces.
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