Portrayed as a theory / speculation? For sure. Portrayed that they did built things on Popstar as a fact? No can do. Let's remember, "the facts don't care about your feelings"; In other words, yes, by portraying things that way, many fans will imagine that the ancients could have made those things. However, that is not the same as a confirmation. The intention could have been
to speculate that the ancients did it, rather than
to know that it is a confirmed fact (not that the intention matters anyway). For sure, a lot of fans will want every such portrayal of things to equal a confirmation, but if there is no substance behind their claims then that's that.
For example, if you make crime scene and the culprit had green gloves, and you much later introduce someone with green gloves, does that mean it is now a confirmed fact that this is the culprit and that your intention was that this is the culprit? No, that's dumb.
Maybe it is the culprit, or
maybe you simply wanted others to imagine that this might be the culprit; just to hold that thought, bc that's fun by itself.
Yeah. Once I turn all that blog into a series of videos, I will expand on my thoughts there; As long as that section is, it could have been much longer. They only had months to make that story, the original idea had
something on the lines of Hyness getting affected by the Power of Friendship, but that's either not canon now or his evil made it so he didn't care, 'cause he went back to plotting the destruction of everyone. The story they made makes no f*cking sense, idk why the Mage-Sisters are transformed, what happens to the background in the end, what do the Mage-Sisters do to it after it, why the Friend Hearts are in these dimensions, why do the bosses keep the spears. But I think of the long term; In 15 years or so, a remake of
Star Allies will be made, and I'm confident that they will not handle Heroes in Another Dimension and what happens after that in the same way.
I also can't get over how awful the name of Fecto's brother is.
If you mean as in, "this fan-made cover sang by this character fits so well, this is now canon to me," sure. If you mean for real, I will have to tell you that this is not the case:
I get that, as a fan who cares, you would always want everyone to be smart and not do anything stupid. But the reality of the series is that, they will do stupid, nonsensical things like that if the writers feel like it. And they felt like it.
- Story Mode and Heroes in Another Dimension are canon, you know that.
- Dream Friends are canon from the start of the game, and more were added via updates. It's not like only the evil ones are DLC.
- Kirby portrays all his friends at the end of Story Mode in his final attack, meaning they all helped him across the adventure.
- Heroes in Another Dimension is stated time and again to be an adventure in which all Dream Friends (up to that point) help out.
- Be it in the Wave intro showing the characters or pause descriptions, the narrative portrays a level of surprise on these events and caution towards teaming up with these villains, so the hero characters are not fully mindless in doing this.
Think about it like this: It's similar to how this is done in Mario, another Nintendo series for kids, with everyone turning a blind eye on their past crimes for a time. Now, yes, you could argue some
Kirby characters are less simple, and the crimes of the villains are more awful, but that's neither here or there; The point is to see how such a choice makes sense by the devs' point of view, so the "points against it" don't matter next to how they would rationalize that it makes sense as something to do.
He's not though.
That's what the "Post-Heroes in Another Dimension reformation" was all about. This is some small section from that part of the the blog:
"More importantly, the Jambastion cult is still shown to be evil even within the context of
Kirby Star Allies, despite its story having practically ended and having so little screen time left.
- Francisca still owns an ever-expanding prized collection of frozen enemies she killed, with the game still undermining her ability to consider them enemies as unjustifiable.
- Flamberge often goes to play with Francisca on what is implied to be the place where she keeps her collection of corpses, accidentally melting and ruining her trophies, and making either Flamberge or Francisca mad because of it, but Flamberge gets over it. This would show Francisca's collection is no secret, and others support her to the point of trying not to mess up her collection. In typical Kirby fashion, the description comes of as purely innocent if one doesn't know the context.
- Zan Partizanne's English description in "Guest Star" has her saying "Sure thing. I will show you...the terror of the Three Mage-Sisters!" to unknown victims. Although, the Jpn. version is less threatening, being ambiguous if it is a threat, or if she is about to show her skills to her allies.
- In a silly title screen animation gag, Francisca gets uncomfortable from fire creatures or fire others hold, goes away, and so Flamberge gets mad at them, takes out her sword, and chases them while swinging it non-stop. The creatures only dodged the assault because they started running away as the attack started. Title screen animations aren't canon, but represent the characters' behavior in line from how they are, or make a reference (Such as Taranza kidnapping King Dedede, something Taranza did for a reason in the past, having no reason to want to do it again). In this case, Flamberge's animation is vaguely similar to her first characterization shown, and there is no reason to believe Flamberge outgrew that characterization."
Then there is the fact that they worship darkness, which is pretty much evil. And they worship a God of darkness, which they view as evil, and when they pray to it, it's almost never for the well-being of others. And they sing songs saying how much life sucks and view their (evil) feelings as sacred, entitling themselves to murder others if they feel disrespected. They didn't change the lyrics of those songs, didn't stop believing in their God of darkness, and they didn't change their teachings beyond how Hyness now cares for his daughters, and maybe how anyone under them doesn't get to die for the cause.
Even the latter bit is iffy, since the Mage-Sisters
treated their soldiers like sh*t while they themselves didn't like the way Hyness was treating them. We need to assume the Mage-Sisters wouldn't do that under regular circumstances, but "under regular circumstances," back when Hyness was a ""better father,""
he still only saved the Mage-Sisters as girls to use them as tools (mature content here), so what hope is there for the Mage-Sisters to treat their soldiers properly? They understand the Power of Friendship when working with Kirby & co., sure,
but they would rather not be with them. So it's easy to view that as not their style, something they only do bc those around them do the same. They are close and friendly with Hyness, but that is their foster-father and the Mage-Sisters are his daughters.
