Kirby Fan Lore - Dark Mind Soul By Poltergust5000 Watch

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I feel like it's at this point that the unspoken purpose of the "Kirby Fan Lore" "series" finally comes to light-- that it's basically just an excuse for me to design Kirby characters and prattle on about Kirby fanfiction.



Anyway, Dark Soul Mind. ...Dark Mind Soul. Let's start with the elephant in the room, which is:



Why does he look like a cross between Dark Mind, the Access Ark, and Zero Two?



The answer may shock you... because it's so fanon heavy your brain might explode:



Dark Mind's true identity, beneath all his flames, is a mechanical idol built by a cult of heretic ancients who worshipped Zero. Access Ark resemblance? Ancients. Check. Zero Two resemblance? Zero cult. Check. Bazaam. He was banished to the mirror world when he went rogue, since his creators bestowed him, an idol built for worship, with intelligence and free thought. Don't ask me why.



oh, the little hexagons, much like the Access Ark's "fins", are kinda like Dark Mind's hands. They also shoot out fire and stuff, as do all of his tron lines. That's how he achieves his mega-fireball form. Also, the screw on top, which Robobot afficionados should recognize as his CPU unit a la Star Dream, is designed to resemble a halo. You know, Zero Two.



...I've said before that I don't like to think of Dark Mind as Zero's straight mirror-counterpart, right? Well, that's why. Besides, the idea of mirror counterparts always seemed... off, to me. Like by their existence, it implies that entire parallel universes are "dependant" on a prime universe. THAT flies in the face of the idea of free will... or something.



Oh and also, Dark Mind's wizard form might bear some resemblance to Nightmare, but based on the fact that it obviously houses Dark Mind's "core", I tend to believe that it's not much more than a "battle body". Like an armor-limb. Metaphorically.



I dunno. Make of it what you will.



yeah i kinda phoned it in on the fire



Dark Mind, Access Ark, Zero, and the Kirby series are (c) HAL Laboratories and Nintendo







oh and one last thing, you might say that "ohhh but the access ark was built by haltmann works co.!" and to that I say... well, you're not wrong. there's really no way to know one way or the other if the access ark was also based on ancient technology, but for the purposes of this design... well, you can clearly see what i went with.

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Published : Feb 16, 2018