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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!

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.

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]

happy birthday, and thanks for the poyo boyo!

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)

ah, the beauty of federation between two very different platforms

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.

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

wow! that's alotta poyos

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?