just winging it
[image: "What an incredible performance in that fight! What tactics were you using, Martlet?" Martlet, winking, in cursive font: "i dunno" ...]
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first post on lemmy in like ages (though i've been actively lurking). life's been busy
spring 2024 mini newsletter just dropped! saw a thing at the end of the interview with papyrus and thought it had great potential for a meme template. so have some undertale yellow. what fight are we talking about here? insert the same answer that martlet gave.
martlet best (undertale) birb ...ok well there's also the one that carries you across the disproportionately small gap
made with paint\.net. text box (sans martlet) taken from the latest undertale (mini) newsletter, specifically the interview with papyrus. originally had sans in a top hat instead of martlet. martlet dialogue portrait taken from shayy's undertale yellow pacifist stream and then jankily resized. enjoy the low quality
cool lil' shop on the edge of the city
made this little remix, wanted to share with you guys!
have had this idea for quite a while now. wonder how many people will catch on to what i mean by that ;)
(also snuck in another little detail. not sure which one's easier to catch, but it was fun to put in regardless :) (and also allowed me to be a bit more lazy with things!))
composed in musescore. transcribed the original track in 0cc-famitracker, and made an edit using audacity.
reminded me of this:
[image: kirby anime japanese opening 2, similar warp star pose. english subtitles: "Let's go, Kirby!". taken from here]
fly! our good boy
elfilin syndrome
[image: "Bad Syndrome" meme
(wikipedia page: elfilin Syndrome)
"Instead of brain there is chimchila"
(page image: happy elfilin instead of brain, as per description) (caption: look at him!!!)
(instead of empty space there is more chimchila:
- elfilin
- elfilin mask
- elfilin magnet
- elfilin plush
- elfilin from music festival
)
table of contents:
- Treatment
- why would you want treatment
- drink lots of apple juice (inflicts bandee syndrome)
]
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this idea randomly spawned into what would be my brain if i didn't have elfilin syndrome. please enjoy the chimchilapost
made with paint\.net meme template taken from know your meme all elfilin images from wikirby
Elfilin halloween costumes by FafaMeow
[provided image description (by the artist): Bunch of doodles of Elfilin trying some different Halloween costumes for fun :p
further description (by me, not the artist): on one side of the image, kirby and elfilin trick-or-treating together in witch hats. on the other side, some drawings of elfilin in halloween costumes -- one where he's dressed up as fecto elfilis (big spear included), one where he's wrapped in bandages like a mummy, and one where he's wearing a pumpkin (he's not too thrilled about it).]
link to original: https://www.deviantart.com/fafameow/art/Elfilin-halloween-costumes-934744531
happy halloween, c/kirby! haven't really had the time to contribute to this community lately (and, by the looks of it, neither has anyone else), but i wasn't going to pass up the perfect opportunity to share this wonderful piece of art!
really nice elfilis costume! reminds me of those pokemon halloween fanart pieces where unevolved pokemon dress up as their evolutions
happy halloween to c/undertale_deltarune! new newsletter dropped (it's the source for the thumbnail image)
[thumbnail image: annoying dog in a bedsheet ghost costume. woof]
newsletter summary:
- deltarune chapter 3's almost complete, and chapter 4 is underway
- toby's changing the release plan for deltarune again, now chapters 3 and 4 (not 5 anymore) will be released for purchase together
- there's a nice little dev team interview for deltarune chapter 2
- various images of characters dressing up as each other!
- a spoopy narrative to tie it all together
nice stuff!
FECTO ]'s ] deal (c/undertale_deltarune crosspost)
trying out this cross-post feature with a little thing i did that's relevant to two different video game fandoms! cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6129824
> i was thinking about how elfilin was shaped like a heart for some kind of valentine's day concept. and then... that turned into the following kirby/deltarune crossover thing. spoilers for kirby and the forgotten land! > > -- > > -- > > -- > > --- > > [[Welcome, visitors!]] > > MEET THE [[Ultimate Lifeform86]] > > FECT > > FECTO [[forgor]]!! > > ARE YOU [The Lion King (1994)] SEEKING CONTACT [From Those Who Departed For Space]? > > HAS YOUR KIND BEEN ABANDONED IN [[Forgotten Land]]? > > ARE THEY LOOKING TO ENTER A LAND OF [Hopes and Dreams]? > > WELL HAVE I GOT A [[Special Deal]] 4 YOU [Menacing beasts]! > > I USED TO BE A [[BIG SHOT]]. BUT THEN I TOOK A [shortcut] TO [[New World!]] > > I SAID [Hiiiii!] BY [Beam attack!] THE NATIVE WILDLIFE, BUT IT WAS NOT WELL [receiver]. AND SO I WAS SEALED IN THIS [Barrier]. > > BUT IT GOT WORSE! > > IN [THIS NEXT EXPERIMENT] 30 YEARS LATER, [no No NO NO NO NO NO]! > > THEY RIPPED OUT MY [[SOUL]], LEAVING BEHIND [[It Burns! Ow! Stop! Help Me! It Burns!]] > > [[And here we are!]] IN THE PRESENT DAY. > > [Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.] > > [even if we do] [getting to the surface], I WILL JUST [amalgamate]. > > BUT YOU CAN [Press F1 For] HELP. > > [[A new life-form, separated from the main specimen,]] [[has yet to be recovered.]] > > FIND THAT. SMALL CYAN [[HeartShapedRodent]]. AND BRING IT. TO ME. > > WITH OUR [Powers Combined], I WILL ONCE AGAIN BE A [[BIG SHOT]]. > > [But wait, there's more!] > > [[Escape would require more energy]]. I ALSO NEED [workforce]. > > I WILL [Opened vortex.] [Brought here.] YOU ONLY NEED TO ["gotch"] THEM IN CAGES. > > DO AS I ASK, AND I WILL [[Initiating facility navigation prototol.]] YOU 2 [[LandOfDreams]]. > > IF THIS [[fills you with determination.]] THEN WE HAVE A [[DEAL]]. > > HAEAHAEAHAEAHAEAH!!
FECTO ]'s ] deal
i was thinking about how elfilin was shaped like a heart for some kind of valentine's day concept. and then... that turned into the following kirby/deltarune crossover thing. spoilers for kirby and the forgotten land!
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[[Welcome, visitors!]]
MEET THE [[Ultimate Lifeform86]]
FECT
FECTO [[forgor]]!!
ARE YOU [The Lion King (1994)] SEEKING CONTACT [From Those Who Departed For Space]?
HAS YOUR KIND BEEN ABANDONED IN [[Forgotten Land]]?
ARE THEY LOOKING TO ENTER A LAND OF [Hopes and Dreams]?
WELL HAVE I GOT A [[Special Deal]] 4 YOU [Menacing beasts]!
I USED TO BE A [[BIG SHOT]]. BUT THEN I TOOK A [shortcut] TO [[New World!]]
I SAID [Hiiiii!] BY [Beam attack!] THE NATIVE WILDLIFE, BUT IT WAS NOT WELL [receiver]. AND SO I WAS SEALED IN THIS [Barrier].
BUT IT GOT WORSE!
IN [THIS NEXT EXPERIMENT] 30 YEARS LATER, [no No NO NO NO NO NO]!
THEY RIPPED OUT MY [[SOUL]], LEAVING BEHIND [[It Burns! Ow! Stop! Help Me! It Burns!]]
[[And here we are!]] IN THE PRESENT DAY.
[Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.]
[even if we do] [getting to the surface], I WILL JUST [amalgamate].
BUT YOU CAN [Press F1 For] HELP.
[[A new life-form, separated from the main specimen,]] [[has yet to be recovered.]]
FIND THAT. SMALL CYAN [[HeartShapedRodent]]. AND BRING IT. TO ME.
WITH OUR [Powers Combined], I WILL ONCE AGAIN BE A [[BIG SHOT]].
[But wait, there's more!]
[[Escape would require more energy]]. I ALSO NEED [workforce].
I WILL [Opened vortex.] [Brought here.] YOU ONLY NEED TO ["gotch"] THEM IN CAGES.
DO AS I ASK, AND I WILL [[Initiating facility navigation prototol.]] YOU 2 [[LandOfDreams]].
IF THIS [[fills you with determination.]] THEN WE HAVE A [[DEAL]].
HAEAHAEAHAEAHAEAH!!
Kirby Cuddles by aquabluu
[image description (by me, not by the artist. may or may not capture the intended vibe): (kirby) "Come here Kirby!" (along with some japanese text that i can't read) (kirby sees hands) (kirby goes into hands) (happy poyos! and two little hearts emanating from kirby)]
found this adorable thing on deviantart. the artist also has a lot of other cute kirby stuff!
so i was looking deeper into how cages work in forgotten land, and...
[image: (sillydillo) mfw pink ball clips through my cage (sillydillo's face: not amused) pink ball, clipping through cage: poyo]
...cages in kirby and the forgotten land are... weird. somehow the act of simply touching them causes them to colourfully disintegrate. and what exactly does it look like when dedede/sillydillo swings a cage and catches elfilin/kirby inside?
i looked at slowed-down footage. the cage is actually already closed when they're swinging the thing. kirby/elfilin just straight up clips into the closed cage. and when you mash your way out of the cage, kirby just simply clips out of the cage -- what you see in the image.
so beautiful
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made with paint\.net image derived from KirbyVolt's let's play -- i can provide the original screenshot if anyone wants it
New World Friends Chat: A Sugar Rush Through Alivel Mall
---A Sugar Rush Through Alivel Mall--- elfilin experiences an invincible candy for the first time, courtesy of a kiss from kirby. kirby and the forgotten land famously (or infamously?) removed the healing co-op kiss, replacing it with a high five. i'm adding it back in. let the lil orbs (and chimc...
accessible version:
Kirby, Bandee, and Elfilin are going through Alivel Mall for the first time.
Kirby and Bandee, eyes sparkling: An Invincible Candy!
Kirby becomes invincible.
Kirby, happy: Poyo!
Bandee immediately runs over to Kirby. The two of them kiss.
Bandee becomes invincible.
Bandee, happy: Wanya!
Kirby, smiling wide: Hey Elfilin! Kiss!
Elfilin, shocked: Huh!?
Elfilin, worried: Um, OK...
Elfilin becomes invincible.
Elfilin, eyes sparkling, thinking: Whoa! I feel so... powerful now!
The three of them glance at each other. They wordlessly, unanimously agree on what happens next.
In unison, in joy, they yell: Charge!
...And that's how Alivel Mall got ravaged by three kids and a lollipop.
The end.
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for the 4th installment of this series, have a sweet little mini-interaction between the trio in the 4th stage of kirby and the forgotten land!
as always, hope you enjoy, and feel free to leave any comments or feedback that you have!
my initial thought was that it actually didn't use that many leitmotifs: just spamton's two motifs, the world revolving + power of neo, and dummy!. but that's actually more leitmotifs (5) than hopes and dreams (4: once upon a time A and C, your best friend, and snowdin town), chaos king (3: card castle, lancer, legend), and attack of the killer queen (3 or 4: queen, maybe another queen motif somewhere?, berdly's 2 motifs), assuming i have everything correct! (i'm counting each distinct section of a source song as a unique leitmotif.)
watched the linked video for the first time, though i'm sure i've seen it plenty of times in my recommendations. i didn't consider melody A'' to be a variation of melody A, but i suppose it kinda makes sense. i assume this was one of the more influential analyses of big shot's leitmotifs?
accessible version (not an exact transcription):
Kirby, Bandee, and Elfilin are making their way through the Wondaria theme park.
Elfilin, confused: A water pipe?
Kirby thinks for a moment before coming up with an idea.
He puts his mouth on the water pipe, and fills up with water like a balloon.
He then waddles over to a nearby patch of mud, and sprays it all away.
Elfilin, happy: Neat idea, Kirby!
Kirby happily hums a "Thank you!"
The three of them move forward, with Kirby washing away more mud (and enemies, too). They hop up a newly cleaned (courtesy of Kirby) set of stairs.
As Kirby blasts away more enemies, Bandee sees some flowers that aren't doing too well.
Bandee: Looks like those flowers up ahead could use some water, too!
Kirby obliges. The flowers, once dull and wilted, now stand tall and vibrant.
Bandee, happy: Nice job!
Kirby happily hums a "Poyo!"
Kirby tries to climb up a ladder to the next area. Unfortunately, he's too large and heavy to do so.
He then tries -- and (of course) fails -- to jump up there without the ladder.
This makes him sad for a moment, but then he starts thinking...
...And he turns to face Bandee with a mischievious smile.
Bandee, worried, thinking: Uh-oh. What's he planning to do--
Bandee yelps as Kirby blasts him in the face with a stream of water.
Bandee, playfully upset: Kirby!
Kirby's still wearing that mischievious smile.
Bandee screams as he barely dodges another stream of water from Kirby.
Kirby starts spinning around in an attempt to hit Bandee, who lets out another scream -- much more playfully this time -- as he runs in a circle around Kirby.
Elfilin, a safe distance above all the action, watches the two with great amusement.
A few seconds pass. Kirby starts to run low on water... but as he loses water, he also gains speed!
Bandee, scared, thinking: Oh no! He's getting faster!
Bandee, determined, thinking: ...That just means I gotta get faster, too!
Bandee picks up the pace.
A few more seconds pass. Kirby still hasn't scored a second hit on Bandee.
Kirby, a bit tuckered out, pauses for a moment to catch his breath.
Bandee doesn't notice! He continues to run around Kirby...
...who, seizing the opportunity, blasts out all of his remaining water right as Bandee runs past him again!
Bandee yelps again as all the water hits him.
Kirby, happy: Poyo!
Kirby, smiling: ...I'm all outta water!
Elfilin, happy: That looked like fun!
Kirby, pleased: Yeah, it was!
Bandee, happy: Well, it was really fun, but...
Bandee, relieved: I'm just glad it's over now!
Elfilin looks at the two of them with a happy expression...
...but then he notices something.
Elfilin, happy: ...Hey, Kirby!
Elfilin, winking: I see another water pipe up ahead!
Bandee, playfully upset: Elfilin!
The end.
New World Friends Chat: Watering Flowers... and Dees
---Watering Flowers... and Dees--- kirby has some fun with a new mouthful mode... at bandee's expense.
[accessible version here. (yes, a link from a different instance than the one i actually wrote the comment on. lemmy.world is being weird with comment links at the moment.)]
it's been a while since i've last posted one of these, hasn't it? some of it was just life getting in the way, but i also worked on two other scripts before deciding to save those for later installments.
for those who don't know, this is the third installment of a series that i'm doing in which kirby, bandana dee, and elfilin do and talk about various stuff, told through a sequence of undertale-style text boxes. it was meant to be a way for me to contribute reasonably lowish-effort yet highish-quality content to this community on a regular basis.
...yeah the "regular basis" thing didn't entirely work out this time.
anyway, hope you enjoy! feel free to give any questions, comments, and criticism you have!
Juno Songs - Kirby and the Forgotten Land FINALE COLLECTION WITH LYRICS - FULL PACKAGE
and here he is with his long-awaited cover of two planets approach, along with some other new goodies! what an experience
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet
Baphomet is a deity allegedly worshipped by the Knights Templar that subsequently became incorporated into various occult and Western esoteric traditions. The name Baphomet appeared in trial transcripts for the Inquisition of the Knights Templar starting in 1307. It first came into popular English usage in the 19th century during debate and speculation on the reasons for the suppression of the Templar order. Baphomet is a symbol of balance in various occult and mystical traditions, the origin of which some occultists have attempted to link with the Gnostics and Templars, although occasionally purported to be a deity or a demon. Since 1856 the name Baphomet has been associated with the "Sabbatic Goat" image drawn by Éliphas Lévi, composed of binary elements representing the "symbolization of the equilibrium of opposites": half-human and half-animal, male and female, good and evil, etc. Lévi's intention was to symbolize his concept of balance, with Baphomet representing the goal of perfect social order.
...huh
ralsei is the one trying to maintain the balance of light and dark, i suppose
*google translates the title*
...yeah
ah, that little detail! what's even more intriguing is that it's only the first two bars of the theme
it's not an easy question for me!
i'll highlight two from undertale: first, it's pretty cool how waterfall is kind of a "leitmotif bridge" between ruins and another medium / core. too bad snowy isn't connected in the same way
more notably: the way don't give up uses the variation of the ruins leitmotif from an ending / undyne's neutral death theme is pretty amazing. with pretty much the exact same melody and rhythm, it manages to go from depressing and emotional to inspiring... and emotional.
for deltarune, i'll highlight two from chapter 1 and one from chapter 2. i like how field of hopes and dreams, as the very first "proper" area theme, heavily emphasizes the don't forget leitmotif, using it in a cheerful, upbeat way.
as for one of the very last songs in chapter one, the way chaos king just blasts you with the legend section C in a refreshing burst of determination and hope that contrasts nicely with the rest of the theme... yeah even in chapter 1, despite lacking the various improvements of chapter 2, toby fox absolutely nailed it with everything music-wise.
and as for chapter 2, the way berdly's theme is incorporated into attack of the killer queen is both surprisingly subtle (especially since it actually takes up more of the song than queen's own leitmotif(!)) and, just, pleasant to listen to. in particular, i love the way they changed around the rhythm for section B of berdly's theme.
discussion question: what's your favourite use of a leitmotif in undertale/deltarune?
let's see if this community is better at responding to these than c/kirby! :p
toby fox is famous for his use of leitmotifs. what specific instances do you find compelling, interesting, memorable, etc?
in my opinion:
titles that are just awesome: Two Planets Approach the Roche Limit, The Star Conquering Traveler, The Raging Lion Roars, The World to Win, Faded Dream of a Psychomeddler, Settling a Score ~ Atone for One's Misdeeds!, Supreme Ruler's Coronation - OVERLORD, A Full-Speed Farewell from the New World, probably a whole bunch more but i'm gonna end there
titles that inherit their awesomeness from something else: The Wastes Where Life Began, "Mistilteinn, Tree Crown without a Ruler"
titles that are nice in some other way: From Those Who Departed for Space, I'm a Hungry Pink Puffball!, Soaring Determination: No Night is Eternal
titles that i pay more attention to than the song they come from: Please Don't Inhale the Cinema Patrons
a nice title for a not-so-pleasant song: Eternal Echo of the Thrilling Tour-our-our
unofficial titles that i prefer over the official ones: Moonstruck Blossom [official: Fatal Blooms in Moonlight], Looming Darkness [Another Dimension], Fly! Kirby of the Stars [Fly, Kirby!], Swole Dedede Scuffle [Macho of Dedede]
unofficial title where although the official one is cooler, i'm way more used to the unofficial one: Under My Control [Welcome Your New Overlord]
man, that transition segment in finale where asriel's leitmotif plays...
New World Friends Chat: Kirby's "Really Cool Idea"
---Kirby's "Really Cool Idea"--- kirby writes down a really cool idea. too bad nobody can read it... alt text: Kirby's house. Kirby's going out to take care of some business. Kirby, smiling wide: Oh! Before I leave, I had a really cool idea that I wrote down on a piece of paper! I hid it somewhe...
accessible version:
Kirby's house. Kirby's going out to take care of some business.
Kirby, smiling wide: Oh! Before I leave, I had a really cool idea that I wrote down on a piece of paper! I hid it somewhere! Try to find it! Bye!
Bandee and Elfilin, happy: Bye Kirby!
They immediately start searching for that piece of paper. Not even ten seconds later...
Elfilin, happy: Found it! He just hid it under the table. Now, what "really cool idea" did he write down...?
Elfilin, sad: ...I can't read his handwriting. Bandee, can you read it?
Bandee, sad: ...No, I can't! I can usually read his handwriting just fine, but this is some really messy handwriting, even for him!
Bandee, happy: ...For his handwriting to be this bad, he must've been really excited! Let's just ask him about it when he comes back!
Some time later...
Elfilin: Kirby! You're back! We found the paper that you hid! ...But neither of us could read your handwriting. What was your "really cool idea?"
Kirby, happy: I, um, forgot! Lemme see what I wrote again...
Kirby, frowning: ...I can't read it, either!
The end.
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this is a mini-installment of New World Friends Chat, the undertale text box thing that i'm now doing. first installment here (lemmy) or here (pixelfed, which is a image-sharing fediverse platform)
...it wasn't well received :(
if you have any criticism for this project, please share it so that i can more effectively contribute nice stuff to this community! anything from technical issues to art quality to writing/characterization to you-just-don't-want-to-see-this-project-on-c/kirby. what can i do better on?
Snuggles by FafaMeow
[provided description: Kirby and Elfilin hugging together :3]
link to original: https://www.deviantart.com/fafameow/art/Snuggles-915902640
it's meant to play in a loop, but for whatever reason lemmy seems to not do well with that
this person draws great art, including lots of great kirby art! this is one of the cuter forgotten land ones
kirby on the receiving end of the whole "getting eaten" thing for once
(well, ignoring various other enemies in the kirby games themselves that also try to eat kirby)
Running Through the New World (With Lyrics) by BOOM! Fanfic-a-Latta!
a wonderful, lesser-known kirby "with lyrics" fanwork! to echo the pinned comment, you can view the lyrics as being from bandana dee's perspective, which makes things even cuter!
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.
New World Friends Chat: The Apple Juice Game
[screen-reader-friendly text-only version here.]
and here we are! this is the first installment of what will hopefully be a regularly updating series. kirby, bandana dee, and elfilin chat about stuff and do various other things.
i'm not good at visual art, but i am reasonably good at programming, and i figure i'm not horrible at writing dialogue (though i don't have much experience in that department). so the logical way for me to contribute original content to this community is exactly what this series will be: a thing told through the format of undertale-style text boxes, similar to stuff like Conversations from the Lunch Table. only with kirby characters instead of toby fox characters.
don't have a firm idea what i want the release schedule for this thing to look like, but my main goal with this series is for c/kirby to have a steady stream of reasonably high-ish quality oc content. i'll be posting non-oc stuff if there's ever a shortage of ideas/motivation on my end.
all in all, it was quite fun working on this project. if anyone wants source code or anything, please let me know.
hope you enjoy the new world friends' first chat of many! if you have any questions, feel free to ask them! i'll probably be having a long-overdue sleep soon, but i'll try to respond to anything i see whenever i'm awake enough to do so.
edit: changed elfilin's text color to make it less of a pain to read.
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
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
a dialogue portrait for a thing that i'm working on
[image: a pixel art drawing of kirby's smiling face (just his face, not his limbs) against a cyan background]
this community hasn't had a post in five days, so here's something i just finished today! (it only took forever to get that mouth looking reasonably good...)
edit: moved the eyes and cheek blushes closer together because it turns out bandee would've been too wide otherwise. also revised the mouth, again. it's hard to make it look good with such a limited number of pixels, but that's the tradeoff when working with low-size pixel art: fewer pixels that need to be worked with, but also fewer pixels to work with.
edit 2: changed the background colour because it was too close to elfilin's colour.
for a while now, i've had an idea for some reasonably low-effort oc content that i could post here. would take quite a bit of upfront work (which is what i'm currently doing), but afterwards i'll hopefully be able to put something out semi-regularly for this community. not sure when i'll be done, but again, this community hasn't had a new post in 5 days (and it hasn't had a new post from someone other than KirbySSM in 11 days), so i'm making this post now.
in the meantime, i might be posting some non-oc stuff over the next few days, just so c/kirby has some new stuff to look at. i encourage everyone else to do the same -- and also comment on other people's posts, if you have something to say!
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>
elfilem (more polished version)
[image: the lemmy logo, but with elfilin's eyes, cheek blushes, ear notch, and general colouration. still retains the original whiskers, ears (size-wise), and nose.]
here's the more polished version of elfilem that i promised! it was pretty fun to work on, and i'm quite proud of the final result. instead of just roughly eyeballing everything, i leveraged the power of code (i.e. wrote an svg file by hand) and used Precise Numbers™ to dictate the position and size of things.
seems like lemmy doesn't support uploading svg files, so instead i uploaded a png version. not sure if and how i'll share the original svg -- would certainly love to! i commented the code specifically so that others could get a better understanding of what i did to draw each thing.
edit: never mind, just pasted the svg source code into a comment below
list of notable changes from the original elfilem:
- eyes are now significantly higher up than they were originally
- cheek blushes are now larger, fully visible circles
- inner orange part of ears now extends fully downward to more accurately match elfilin's appearance
- eyes now have a dark blue outline
- various colours have been changed
created with the help of the following:
- notepad++
- this tutorial, along with google and stack overflow
- the same lemmy logo from wikipedia that i used last time -- only, instead of editing the file in an image editor, i simply used it as a reference this time around.
- wikirby and its elfilin pictures, particularly the merry magoland mask
this is the most effort i've put into a drawing in a long time. but i think the result is worth it! :)
edit: the white outline was lost in the background the first time i uploaded this. after some shenanigans on my end, here's a version that includes the white outline as it's supposed to!... unless you're on kbin apparently edit 2: made the new image properly spaced instead of "cramped" (cropped to have no extra space)
eflilem
[image: the lemmy logo, modified to look like elfilin. head is now cyan. eyes are now large blue ovals with smaller white ovals inside. nose is now orange. pink cheek blushes added. ears are now orange on the inside with a cyan outer rim. right ear (our left) now has the Elfilin Ear Hole™.]
as you can tell by my decreased posting activity the last few days, i've run out of ideas for reasonably-low-effort oc content to post here! this was my final idea of this sort -- kind of a spiritual successor to kirbby. (i do have some other things i want to make and post here, but it'll probably take a good while to actually make them.)
this time around i actually had to manually draw some details instead of just copy-pasting stuff, so it took a bit more effort to make and the technical quality's not as good. still, hope you enjoy this little guy!
created using paint\.net and this lemmy logo that i got from wikipedia