#morpho talks

[bnha-butterfly]

YOU

Who me?

#morpho talks #moot.umikawa #sender.umikawa #idk my tags y’all

[stareyed-knight]

Day 24: AU

All my Kirby AUS aren’t really things I can draw without burning out for several days (/hj) but i do like designing swap stuff

#i would LOVE to talk about the au where sectonias an actual monster #or where meta learned to create a time rift and traveled back to the days of the Ancients #but this month is not it!!! #galacta knight #morpho knight #kirby au #kirby #artists on popstar #kirbtober #once again super behind bc i fell asleep smh

[leftysage]

These are the drawings from the big bug stream yesterday! I'm really proud of all of these, especially morpho knight.

#leftysage art #shovel knight #hive knight #wonderwuzzle #morpho knight #i still need a lot of practice with the drawing tablet. it's hard to use a brand new tool while trying to talk #but fortunately i can improve and make streams with great drawings AND funny banter!! #leftysage stream

[sonicmegaman72]

"This helmet appeared in response to the screams of the most powerful warrior in the galaxy." -Morpho Doomhelm description

So when you listen to aeon hero light/dark theme, you hear a scream/battle cry at the start of the battle. This means you are hearing galacta knight's voice! And he is angry!

#galacta knight #morpho knight #super kirby clash #kirby #my post #amd when combine the crazy text that hyness says in star allies and his description as well #oooooh boi #we got some more lore to deep dive in #he is not a happy camper #hyness #sara talks

[cheesecake-beech]

Oh yeah meant to post this on halloween but oh well better late than never lmao

#cheesecake's art // my art #cheesecake talks #my art #digital art #illustration #digital illustration #kirby #kirby nintendo #kirby of the stars #kirby right back at ya #kirby kirby kirby #kirby fanart #kirby series #morpho knight #nintendo #nintendo fanart #meta knight

[bennythe1980spaceman]

I think often abt the way that Wylan is in s2 ep6

spoilers ahead obvs but like me when me and my bf are fighting and i miss him so much that I infodump to myself abt the symbiotic relationship that reminds me of us. (He's dying in the other room)

#shadow and bone spoilers #sab spoilers #wylan hendriks #wylan van eck #shadow and bone show #soc wylan #wylan soc #soc wesper #wesper #And yk what as someone with a flower language obsession and a bff woth a butterfly obsession I get it man I get it #Him and his little fantasy butterfly and flower #fun fact the names of the butterfly and flower are like rlly clpse to real ones but the genus is changed #that way its allowed to be new plants and animals instead of our boring ones #idk if this is common knowledge or not but me and my friend were talking abt it #bc cyan morphos dont exist and daryra's scientific name is datura innoxia not datura meloxia #Isnt that lovely? #Also datura flowers represent decietful charms bc of their poison #which is what happened with wylan #got so so excited to see it only to realize how much of a threat it was #I'm normal.

[starsh0cked]

okay so. two things!! first of all, over the course of january (and the beginning of february) i participated in the kirby oc secret santa, which was wonderfully hosted by @/moonverc3x. i was lucky enough to be the santa for @/starflungwaddledee, and ended up with two of my best pieces so far!!

these were CHALLENGING, though. which is where the second thing comes in!! under the cut, i'll be going over some of the sketches, drafts and phases of either piece! there's also a speedpaint. exciting!!

i'll be starting with my starstruck piece! the theme here was wanderlust - literally one of the most whimsical words i know - and generally anything to do with the stars. i had a few things in mind, but considering how long it sometimes takes to make artwork, i decided to roll with what inspired me the most.

this is the final sketch compared to the final artwork. certainly one of the crazier transformations i've done. i had a mental image of most parts of the artwork, from the material of starstruck's bow to the lighting cast by the stars. everything except for the grass (i hate grass!!) i ended up rendering the grass and background first, anyway.

doing the background before the rest of the artwork helps define the lighting and shadows! if i decided to draw starstruck before the background, i'd have to draw it according to the lighting.

weird explanation, but in summary: background before character helps the character look like a part of the environment! character before background means extra steps need to be taken before the character fits in the environment!

starstruck's bow was also a decent challenge! i'm a fan of bows and satin, so a satin bow sounded like a good idea. it was, but i've never drawn satin before. the workaround was an active satin study! i stared at a satin bow i found on pinterest and tried to understand how light spread over the material. it's quite interesting!!

you might notice that i flipped the direction of the shooting stars. this is for composition reasons!! i wanted to make starstruck the obvious focus, and while the contrast between her warmer palette and the background's cooler palette easily achieve that, i wanted to cement it. i also added little hand drawn sparklies everywhere. because i like it.

of course, i have to talk about the eyes!! if anything, i noticed that in all of starflung's drawings of starstruck, she had really glittery eyes. literally adorable. so i made it my mission to capture her feelings in her eyes!! i had a lot of fun making them super shiny and adding little stars in there. i also needed to pay attention to the subtle gradient, though - they fade from blue to pink if you zoom into starflung's artworks - and decided to keep it vibrant.

okay. thats all for this one!! i'd like to mention that in the original sketch for this specific pose, bandee was in the background. i really regret scrapping that now. oh, well!

time for morpho dee! i'll be starting for with the speedpaint for this one, mainly because it sort of explains some of the process by itself.

i restarted the shading... three or four times at least? so yeah. i was losing it on this piece. i'll be completely honest, i contemplated dropping it for the sake of meeting the deadline. it wasn't stressing me out, but i had studies to worry about too, and i was worried that it wouldn't be of great quality? but after some advice from my beloved older sister, i managed to turn the tide!!

this is a first for me, but everything here was a challenge. if you scroll through my account and the few artworks i've posted, you'll notice that i draw gijinkas far more than orbs. now, you may be wondering why this didn't pose so much of an issue for my starstruck piece! it's mainly because i chose a far simpler pose for her than i did for morpho over here.

for morpho, the artwork needed to be dramatic. i draw cutesy things - while i've always wanted to draw something dramatic, i've never pushed myself to do it. until this artwork! i went for a dynamic pose which would (hopefully) pull the viewer's eye towards morpho dee. that's what's up with the foreshortned spear! i also realised that the plcement of his feet would be quite significant to the artwork. you might not know this, but feet are my greatest enemy. i'm still trying to figure out how best to draw them for people or orbs, but i'm getting there.

after 'lineart' (which really ended up being a cleaned sketch - this was supposed to be linelessly rendered, but i gave up on that) the pose was no longer a problem. because the shading was! hooray!!

nothing has quite bewildered me like metal shading has. i've shaded gold. satin. cotton, fluffy scarves, shiny things, grass. yet metal shading continues to elude me! this was, hands down, the most difficult part of this artwork. i struggled to make sense of how the lighting was supposed to work, even with references. and every time i thought it made sense, i ended up with something i didn't like the look of. the solution? long breaks, more references and pinterest tutorials. i have no clue how i managed this, but we got here anyways. i finished it off by colouring the lineart according to the shading.

i have experience with drawing fire, at least! it was three or four years ago in an old artwork, but i have experience! i simply had to figure out how to work it into the atmosphere. for the glow, i duplicated the layer, gaussian blurred it and used a slight glow layer! i did something similar for the durst particles, but i used motion blur instead.

i also want to talk about the spear a little bit. you might notice that i added a bit of ambient glow around the blue gem. that was with the light intensity in mind, but also for a sense of realism! i also had to keep the pink light in mind, though. so i ended up using an airbrush to create a base for the lighting and i continued from there. i added a few scratches on the handle just to give it a bit more life, too.

and, finally, a one-to-one comparison between the sketch and the final! i have literally no idea how i pulled either of these pieces off, but i'm quite proud of them.

i recommend you drop by @/kirbyoc-secretsanta for other artworks! a total of 75 artists participated, so there are plenty of super cool ocs to adore over there and new artists to find!! this was my first secret santa experience, and @/moonverc3x made an amazing host (thank you for hosting, by the way!!) bye bye!!

#kirby #digital art #starstruck dee #morpho dee #sorry to everyone who thought this was short. and sorry to everyone who reblogs this #it really wasn't supposed to be so long but i had a lot to talk about #i'm pretty sure i've covered everything though #but these were a thrill to make!! #i've always wanted to make fanart for starflung because her characters are so cool and unique #so i was hoping to get her in the santa and. somehow i did #yeah i screamed when that happened. heehee #but!! i'll probably try to participate in more events like this!! this was super fun!! #i literally cannot thank moon enough for being such a great host #i'm generally a nervous person when it comes to talking online but moon was quite warm and sociable!! #this was an exciting first time for me!! #glitter in my ink

[kirby-souljourney-au]

dametamorpho nonsense

ID:

Morpho: He’s stubborn and persistent and it’s incredibly annoying. Every time he should die, he just gets up again and acts like nothing happened. It drives me insane.

Empress: Dearest, I am very willing to help you, you know. You need only ask.

Morpho: …this is my homoerotic rivalry, Em. Please stay out of it.

#kirby series #kirby au #au #my au #k:sj au #morpho knight #dark meta knight #<- kinda. i mean hes not there but theyre talking about him #kirby oc #my oc #oc #oc: empress #dametamorpho #oc x canon #text #sincerely - mod bugthing #morpho’s been losing their mind trying to reap dameta’s soul for the past 100 years #dumbass keeps getting into Situations and almost dying #but he lives anyway because he despises the gods just about as much as he does life’s rules

[cali-kabi]

~ showing off a picture of my Morpho Knight plush I got from my sister as a belated birthday present <3🧡🦋💫 I still don’t know where to put him in my room my shelf is full of plushies and toys for the time being he’s on top of my giant Kirby plushie xD🦋he’s a very pretty butterfly indeed👌🏻🦋

#my silly thoughts #Sydney talks #he’s about the same size as my Galacta Knight plush #morpho knight #yes I’m a hello Kitty fan I love Cinnamonroll and my melody :) #i love how his eyes are just •.• staring at your soul xD

[gethoce]

Well, now I'm curious about Fecto Elfilis. What's their deal?

Have a quick summary of their backstory in my version of things ~

Elfilis is an entity that was artificially created by the technology faction of the ancients, the Fectos, using the DNA of several animal species to birth the ultimate life-form. They were full of energy, so much energy that going zoomies at home wasn't enough to satisfy their needs so they would travel through space until they became tired enough.

Often they'd bring home gifts, commonly the remains of a slain beast or horror. The gifted material aided the Fectos in the development of their machines, which soon allowed them to follow Elfilis on their travels.

Upon ageing and requiring increased amounts of energy to feel satisfied Elfilis began to take on bigger foes, taking out entire armies which allowed the Fectos to conquer more territory all across the galaxy. At one point Elfilis came across Halcandra, which, at the time, was under the sole rule of the magic faction of the ancients, the Photrons, and attempted to conquer the planet together with the Fecto army.

The war ended in a draw and the leaders of both factions agreed to work together, which was something Elfilis was vehemently against. They didn't wish to share the battlefield with anyone. When Sir Arthur of the Fectos and Morpho Knight of the Photrons created the GSA, Elfilis refused to join, preferring their own army.

After the Photrons lost their leader and were severely compromised by Sir Arthur's betrayal of both factions, Elfilis decided to use the weakened state of the other faction to their advantage. After the Galactic Crisis was overcome, Elfilis was on the forefront when it came to banishing the remaining Photron to the edge of the galaxy.

Sometime after that they met Galacta Knight in their dreams, who begged them to break his seal. They declined and a fierce battle ensued that sent them through time and space until they landed on the planet that would become their involuntary home for the next 30 years. Elfilis attempted and failed to conquer the planet in their weakened state and was captured. The rest is history.

#Fecto Elfilis #Morpho Knight #Sir Arthur #Galacta Knight #Kirby OC #Hal Photron Lor Serjo #Hal Fecto Lor Tata #Col O'Stomy #<- that's Skullseer (Alive version) #Kirby #Kirby Series #Gethoce Kirby Art #I could talk about so much more #I tried to limit this to events relevant to Elfilis alone more so than their relationship with other characters #Elfilis is pretty much like an outdoor cat with too much power lol

[turtleplushi]

I don't know if I'll actually do anything with this au but it's fun to make art for it (explanation under the cut)

It's basically a "what-if" scenario where Sailor sort of half dies in Meta Knight's revenge, and Morpho is stuck with this random child for three days. Morpho already has to deal with the other butterflies in Hades kind of hating it, and now it has to take care of Sailor while finding a way to bring her home. (Also, Dark Nebula is basically Morpho Knight's boss because of the whole "ruler of the underworld" thing.)

Meanwhile: Meta Knight! Meta Knight saved Sailor from drowning in the Orange Ocean, but in the process lost track of his crew. He also doesn't have his mask at the moment so he isn't really looking forward to seeing them in the first place. Meta's busy taking care of Sailor's unconscious body (with the help of Galaxia and a medkit he had in the Dimensional Cape) when he notices a missing poster that the breeze carried from Green Greens.

Turns out, while he's been missing, the rest of the Meta-Knights have been looking for him and Sailor. They reluctantly went to Dedede for help, and surprisingly, he wanted to help. Despite Meta Knight trying to take over Dreamland, he was gonna forgive him anyways. It's not like Meta's the first to commit horrible crimes, so what's the point in holding a grudge?

However, in pure Meta Knight fashion, our local blueberry assumes this is a wanted poster, so he's kinda hiding from the law now.

If I do end up making this into a fic of sorts it'll probably switch pov's between Meta Knight, Sailor, Morpho Knight, and occasionally the Meta-Knights. (Also I was thinking about adding Galacta Knight but I haven't decided anything yet.)

I'm open to suggestions if anyone wants me to actually make this!

#turtle talks #turtle's art hoard #sailor dee #sailor waddle dee #meta knight #morpho butterfly #kirby au #Sailor's Warning AU

[mattis-flo]

[ old drawing - 10.1.2019 ]

The knights have a discussion

#meta knight #dark meta knight #galacta knight #morpho knight #-- #moo's art #short comic #old piece #Kirby Series #[ found the comic i was talking about days ago in the tags ] #[ tbh my best drawing of D. Meta tho lmao ]

[featherisderp]

Kerbi

BabyGala post!! I love this oddly violent child. Not much to say besides he's usually with Meta Knight. He hisses whenever N.M.E is mentioned by anyone. Even Meta.

#galacta knight #kirby #kirby right back at ya #nintendo #digitalart #hal laboratory #ibispaintx #meta knight #escargoon #morpho knight #He won't let anyone pick him up either #he'll hiss and flail his arms #tiff #no carrying the angri baby orb #Kirby AU #go ahead and decide what Meta and escargoon are talking about lmao #you can probably come up with a better caption than me #Oh I already included that second one on a different post- oh well

[fruitsofhell]

       An idea I’d been working on for a second was that Morpho Knight isn’t the only grim reaper of the Kirby universe, and more just fills the specific niche of taking the souls of warriors. It came from reading the novel where Meta Knight falls into hell, which explained that he came just for the purpose of taking the souls of strong warriors, (something that was then canonized in KatFL). Which is fun cause it opens up the idea of like a little pantheon of reaper butterfly characters for specific niches.

Which I will talk about a lot now.

       So building off that I thought about Morpho’s actions and how it seems he specifically shows up when a character has long overstayed their mortal welcome and needs to be taken away, or needs to have a “final battle”. Given the nature of how Soul Bosses work and how Forgo himself was in that state before Morpho came and got him, I figured the idea was that in the Kirby universe character’s souls can linger on and get lost when they’re still filled with too much emotion and a will to fight on. Thus needing to be tracked down and forcefully taken away by a reaper. It’s easy to imagine this happening with warriors, who are likely to die in fights still full of energy and vengeance, but also power seeking maniacs drunk off power are commonly turned into soul bosses within the games.        Another part of it I thought of though is how much “judgement” is emphasized in Morpho’s descriptions, so obviously that’s an important part of why reapers would exist beyond souls just wandering off. Warriors are probably very tricky to judge because their job includes spreading death and destruction, and you have to weigh that against the good they brought as well as intended to bring with it. And back to the theme of those power hungry maniacs, while some of them were clearly vain like Sectonia, you have Haltmann who started just with the wish to bring back his daughter before he went down a path of corruption.        And Morpho’s origins had always been hard to think about for me, the most obvious idea at first was that it was the same species as Galacta, Kirby, and Meta, but his appearance couldv’e just been because of absorbing Galacta. But then KatFL comes around and he’s still an orb with wings which is in line with our description of their species. As well as the fact that Forgo manages to get “Chaos” powers it previously never showed off only after escaping Morpho... I think it made a strong case for Morpho being soul matter, the way Kirby is heart matter and Zero is dark matter. It’s power’s seemed in line with the idea of how Kirby and Zero represented their specific elements.        (Also as an aside, I wondered if Elfilis would be dream matter, but if Kirby, Zero, and Morpho are our bases for this species... it would not make sense. Plus like I said, it only got the “Chaos” powers related to Astral Void after interacting with Morpho. So no in my opinion.)

Headcanon Starts Here:

       ANYWAYS, thankss to KatFL I’m very sure Morpho, and subsequently his reaper pals, are all a form of Astral Void. But unlike Kirby (Heart Matter) or Zero (Dark Matter), they’re weird trans-dimensional shadow orbs. Which is how they can teleport, turn into butterflies, and break the rules of space-time in order to judge souls across the universe. A butterfly of a certain type comes to everybody who dies, but these bad boys only really make true appearances when things are special. The butterflies work kinda as just pieces of them spread across time and space, and they can appear from them at will as long as they have enough power.        There’s probably far more I could hypothetically make (it would be fun to make a whole rainbow of them), but these are the ideas I have now based on the qualifications of being needed to wrangle troublesome souls and/or those souls needing careful consideration. They also have roles in the actual underworld, which is probably where they consciously spend most of their time as their butterflies go about bringing souls to them.

       All the reapers regard eachother warmly, as being an eternity old makes it hard to keep grudges, and they see eachother sort of as friends or coworkers. Unlike Heart Matter and a lot of other creatures in the universe, they don’t have a burning need for deep attachment and they spend lots of time completely solitary from eachother. They sometimes have small rivalries and running gags though. A big one is how Morpho had been looking forward to claiming Galacta Knight’s soul for most of the warrior’s life in order to punish his hubris, but once he got sealed outside of space-time that became rather impossible - much to Morpho’s despair and the others’ amusement.        The reapers are also completely sexless, and regard themselves as genderless. They just pick up whatever mannerisms or characteristics they feel suits their niche, like Morpho adopting warrior-like traits that could be read as masculine, and Shepard adopting caring and nurturing traits that can be read as feminine. They mostly refer to eachother by name or maybe as “it”, but adopt the pronouns of any peoples or mythologies who regard them as well. To a patriarchal culture the King reaper would be thought of as a man inherently, but to cultures like the Ripple Star fairies who are matriarchal they’d refer to it as a ‘she’.        Most cultures across the Kirby universe pick up on the connection between the butterflies and death, but interpret them in different ways. Some base their versions of them on accounts of their true forms, and some make up characteristics from scratch. The ancient Halcandrans were very familiar with accounts of Morpho and the Artisan as a culture who valued both valor and ingenuity. The fairies of Ripple Star are most familiar with the Shepard as a species of children, and the King who comes to take their queen. Some cultures like the Jamba whom are very absorbed in their own beliefs actually attribute others, such as Astral Void, to ferrying the dead. Which surprisingly holds a tiny nugget of truth as the reapers are spawn of it.

       And speaking of Astral Void, the reapers do tend to pay extra close attention to their fellow voidspawn cousins. Morpho watched Galacta very carefully from a young age, knowing that he would be a truly great warrior but blinded by ego. He did try to scare the guy into not developing a god-complex, but Galacta was stubborn and only saw death’s warnings as challenges. Ever since then he’s watched Meta and Kirby very carefully, and is actually a big fan of Kirby due to him quickly becoming such a humble, merciful boy. Zero created a similar problem for King, and it waited very very patiently for his unimaginably long reign as the god-king of dark matter to be ended by everyone’s favorite pink ball of peace.        They’re not able to communicate directly with other beings, only with their souls, which isn’t very easy to reach in life. Even when appearing as Morpho did in KSA and KatFL, it wasn’t able to talk to others, but it could finally talk to Galacta’s soul in it’s head. The only way they can make appearances like Morpho did to the living and healthy is by using a dead or dying soul, and to those in that state already they can appear like that when casting judgement. They can also control souls of the dead as ghosts to do their bidding and send messages too. But that’s fun stuff for my HC writing. I’ve rambled on long enough.

TL;DR - Morpho is the Knight of Hades, and I thought up a King, Shepard, and Artisan of Hades who have their own niches of souls to guide and judge. They’re genderless, solitary, hyper-dimensional shadow people who are interpreted across the cosmos as different pantheons of death gods. They’re cool with eachother and even look out for their fleshling void-kin, but don’t interact with mortals outside of death matters. Morpho is an exception with it’s shenanigans cause Gala and Forgo cause hard times.

#kirby #kirby lore #kirby headcanon #kirby ocs #morpho knight #shut the heck up #my kirby writing #one of my resolutions is to gush more randomly about my kirby hc i have too much of it #weee i love themes of neutral or cosmically benevolent death and how its interpreted by different peoples and cultures!!! #i think recently watching puss in boots 2 [best movie ever go watch it] made me think about this extra hard #all this headcanon has been lying in my brain but i wanted to go back to it #i think these guys are fun and wacky #morpho and gala especially are a ball i need to talk more in depth abt my hc stuff with them #its just like puss in boots 2 best movie ever [flutters lashes] #hades the place is also something i have opinions on but im holding out that maybe we'll see it in a game one day?????? #idk #if its not obvious i try to be very... canon adjacent. like i consider it and what feels reasonable to expect in it a lot in my hc. #so im always looking out for canon to obliterate or validate my stuff teehee #i had a good streak with the validation in katfl :]

[jennyandvastraflint]

"Butterfly Queen"

Relationship: Jenny Flint/Madame Vastra Additional Tags: Fluff, post-2.1 Trespassers The Ghost and the Potato Man, Butterflies, Kissing, Light-Hearted, Mild Hurt/Comfort, all the good things and silliness for both of them, haven't they suffered enough, also oops they took control of my brain and almost made out in a cave ah well Summary:

Jenny had been watching Vastra carefully the days following the arrest of Reg Adams. Some of the Vauxhall boys (who had quite a few girls among them) had been taken into temporary custody. Most of them, though, had dispersed. Vastra seemed… fine, most days, though some of her habits had changed a bit. She slept less, brooding over her books in the small hours of the morning when she thought Jenny was fast asleep. After a few days, Jenny decides to take action to get her wife out of her mood, and so she takes her to a butterfly house...

Also just gonna go ahead and tag @simpingforwomen24-7 @imnothattypeofdoctor @capybaraonabicycle here, hehe. Have fun reading!!

#vastra talking excitedly about butterflies in the audio added ten years to my life <3 #so have almost 9.5k of butterfly fluff and of silly wives <3 #madame vastra #jenny flint #jenny and vastra #thirteenth doc #jenny x vastra #the paternoster gang #vastra x jenny #vastra and jenny #trespassers rogues gallery #paternoster gang #paternoster gang trespassers #ao3 fanfic #fanfiction #my fanfiction #fanfic #my fanfic #doctor who #blue morpho

[starrypeeps-headcanons]

Morpho:

#looney tunes is so funny and versatile its unreal... #kirby shitpost #admin talks #morpho knight