...SO, I made another Kirby Oc...
Lore under the cut!
Art and scripture older than most existing galaxies today can be found all over The Dream Fountain. Depicting a graceful, godlike entity that archaeologists had dubbed "Lady Dream".
While a majority of the text is still left untranslated, they've managed to piece together a small snippet of a story from the many, aged murals dotted around the fountain's surrounding structures.
They could only recover the apparent story about halfway through, though. As a good portion of the glass paintings had been either desecrated or completely destroyed. Whether it was through conscious and malicious actions taken by an aggressive third party, or just time taking it's toll on the sacred ground, they have no idea…
"Lady Dream is, from what we can gather; the Goddess of the Night and the Founder of Dreams and Nightmares. Whose endless tears, brought on by an unknown tragedy lost to time, began to pool into a starry puddle beneath her hunched form as she wept.
And soon enough that puddle became a lake...
And eventually, She soon crumpled down onto the lake's floor and finally closed her teary eyes. Ane as her grief and power slowly melded into one, she began to dream the first and longest dream.
And through her powers, she connected with the universe's many creatures and extended her sleepy delusions of paradise and strange stories to them, created by her now endless sleep. Granting them all the gift of a moment's solace with her from their own troubling existences.
However, the unconscious mind has a way of pulling you back to your pain. A terrible pain.
And it is said that she once had held a dream so fearsome, it birthed a dark horror from the once peaceful fountain of dreams. Tearing through the sky like a black comet of fear and sorrow. Unleashing onto the universe a new kind of terror.
The first ever NIGHTMARE."
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Name: Needlous
Debut: Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
Lovely little larva
Creeping ‘cross the wood
Stretching and contracting
Like a little larva should!
Some things in this world are so lovely! So lovely they inspire you to write poetry! Needlous is the very lovely little larva of legend. Let’s Larva Learn!
But first, here’s a word from our sponsor, Togezo from Kirby’s Adventure! Togezo is sponsoring today’s post because it is desperate to regain any crumb of relevance. Togezo was the first Needle enemy in the series! And its design is about what you would expect. A nondescript little waddling thing with a spiky shell. Togezo was the main Needle enemy for quite a while! It got in multiple games and even got blue shoes in one of them.
But alas! Togezo was utterly replaced. Maybe they thought it was too similar to designs from other games. Maybe they just felt they could do better. Whatever the case, when Adventure was remade in the form of Nightmare in Dream Land, Togezo was gone, and Needlous in its place!
No disrespect to Togezo, but I think this was a good idea. Needlous is a much more distinct design! More concept to it than just “a spiky guy”, and fits the world very naturally.
(Though very strangely, Gimmick!, which released even before Kirby’s Adventure, has these two enemies that strongly resemble both Needlous AND Togezo! And this is not the only time Kirby enemies have been strangely similar to Gimmick! ones...)
It is based on the stinging hairs of many caterpillars, but taken to the extreme, becoming big ol’ stabby spikes!
Needlous is NOT, however, the only Kirby enemy inspired by this phenomenon! Here we have Capiller! Alright. I know. Get it all out. I know it looks unfortunately similar to a certain body part. But it’s not Capiller’s fault that it happens to resemble a Muppet’s eyes and nose!
Kirby has no qualms about eating sharp weapons, fire, toxic waste, ghosts, and more. But he HATES eating Capillers! I assume this is because Capiller (whose Japanese name translates to Hairy Bug) is covered in irritating hairs, even if they are not always depicted visually, and that is just too uncomfortable for even Kirby to eat. Everyone has their limits!
This, then, makes it very strange that Kirby can eat Needlous just fine, and even get the Needle ability from it! Two enemies, both based on the same thing, but executed quite differently. It honestly feels like an oversight, like they just didn’t consider the existence of Capiller when conceptualizing Needlous! Or maybe it was intentional and there is something else about Capiller that Kirby hates. Maybe the eyes. Yucky texture.
BACK TO NEEDLOUS enough not talking about Needlous on its own post! Needlous is not capable of extending its spikes like Needle Kirby is, but instead, curls up and rolls in spiky disc form! In Return to Dream Land, this move was added to Needle Kirby’s moveset, so you can feel more than ever like you are playing as Needlous! If you take many creative liberties with interpreting what is actually happening.
Isn’t this such a lovely creature? You should not pet any random creature you meet, especially not dangerous ones like fuzzy caterpillars, but maybe you could pet Needlous, since its spikes are so big that they are easy to maneuver your hand around. Or maybe not! It is still a wild creature, be careful in this hypothetical scenario!
Needlous is such a little larva, but... what will it turn into? Assuming this is not already its adult state, I have some ideas!
First, the more mundane idea. This is Pierce, a bee with a spear that grants the Spear ability! Bees have some of the squishiest and most helpless little larvae around, not like the capable caterpillar that is Needlous, but the stripes and the points of Needlous do bring bees to mind! If Needlous really does turn into the stingerless Pierce, maybe the spear is one it made itself, using its own shed larval spike!
But now. The more wacky idea! Maybe Needlous is the larva of something that does not even usually have a larva!
The Spider ability, introduced in Star Allies, has a unique guard where the user is wrapped entirely in silk, with spikes appearing as a counter if attacked! Hmm. Spikes and silk? That sounds like the perfect cocoon for a pointy larva I know!
And then, there is Como’s striking stripe, matching the colors and stripiness of Needlous! Yes, yes, I know actual arthropod larvae do not resemble their adult forms in this way, but I am just having some fun in Silly Cartoons World over here. Como and Needlous also both debut in the same stage in Return to Dream Land, implying they occupy the same general location, but in different niches!
Needlous is such a humble little larva, but has so much to think about! Its complex past, its many future career paths, and most importantly, its splendid present! Every little larva is so special, please appreciate them whenever you can!
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