NumericBiconditional

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

oh, that's wonderful! thanks for the translation!

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.

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

it's not an easy question for me!

i'll just highlight things 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.

may or may not edit with my answers for deltarune later

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, 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 (also partially overlaps with the above category)
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, Looming Darkness, Fly! Kirby of the Stars, Swole Dedede Scuffle

edit: yay, post went through!

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)

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?

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>

egg

...sad egg?

is that a tear i see? :(