Web Animation / Kirby Guardian

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Kirby Guardian is a series of animated shorts by KimiOmega based on the Kirby franchise. They focus on Adeleine and ten extremely tiny Kirbies collectively called "The Company", like a minuscular version of Kirby Mass Attack, and each Kirby has its own personality.

Each Kirby is named by their personality. They are The General, GlumOne, BleakOne, OddOne, ProudOne, CautiousOne, CutesyOne, OldOne, BitterOne, and LostOne. These ten Kirbies and Adeleine get into various sorts of adventures together.

There are currently sixteen episodes and comic pages available. The shorts can be found on either YouTube, Newgrounds or Twitter; the comics can be read here.

This work contains examples of:

• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Every main character from The Crystal Shards suffer from this, which is a given considering the Darker and Edgier nature of this series due to the main Kirby not being around to help his friends and Popstar: King Dedede originally attempted to become a hero and entertainer for Dreamland, but became a grumpy grouchy Alcoholic due to his constant demonization after he accidentally knocked out a child while trying to defeat Storo. Without a rival, he had no drive to improve himself or fix his public image. Adeleine becomes grumpy herself over the years due to her being raised by Dedede in spite of the latter's efforts for her not to follow his steps, eventually leading her to have a drinking problem. Ribbon is chastised by her fellow fairies due to being born an hybrid of a fairy and a disprite, and even the Kirbies themselves are born in a desolate area and with the possibility of not surviving had Adeleine not taken them to her home. Even Meta Knight, the odd one out as someone who had no presence in the Dark Matter Saga, gets this treatment with him getting pretty banged up constantly jumping from battle to battle to where he's missing an arm because of Dedede's apathy in defending Popstar from invading forces, resulting in the knight getting livid enough to make an honest attempt on Dedede's life with a young Adeleine nearly having witnessed it herself—and that doesn't get into the much clearer and brutal damage Meta Knight wrought upon Dreamland that time. Ultimately it's the appearance of the Kirbies that begin to make a positive influence on the rest. After meeting Adeleine, she quickly stops drinking and becomes happier and more social because she has someone depending on her. Ribbon strikes a friendship with Adeleine because she doesn't judge her for her heratage, giving Ribbon her first true friend. Adeleine convinces Meta Knight to rely on her and the Kirbies to defend Planet Popstar. Even Dedede becomes more social and likeable.
• Alternate Universe: Episode 7 confirms the series takes place in a parallel universe. The most notable difference is that Kirby never existed resulting in a darker world where many of the inhabitants, especially Adeleine and Dedede, are a lot unhappier.
  • While King Dedede initially tried to be a hero, he accidentally knocked out a child while trying to defeat Storo and was quickly demonized, losing his drive to be a hero. Without Kirby to challenge him, the king never had any drive to improve himself and become a hero again, instead becoming a lazy, selfish Alcoholic. Because of this he is hated by his citizens, and in no condition to defend Dream Land. The Squeak Squad by that token are also outright villainous here as a bandit gang since they are shown actively terrorizing and directly stealing from the citizens of Dream Land beyond merely swiping treasure in remote parts and making off with it quick as phantom thieves.
  • King Dedede adopted Adeleine, and because he never cleaned up his act, she adopted his bad habits and became an alcoholic antisocial shut-in.
  • Without another defender of Planet Popstar, Meta Knight had to fight off every invader himself, leaving him exhausted and bitter. By the time of Episode 12 this has cost him his left arm and the holographic tech giving him his hard light wings seems to not function right at times.
    • Episode 12 showcases this universe's version of The Revenge of Meta Knight. Since Kirby doesn't stop Meta Knight's invasion of Dreamland, King Dedede is forced to be the last line of defense. This King Dedede is too out of shape to defeat Meta Knight, but Meta Knight is forced to cut the battle short to defend Planet Popstar. Since Meta Knight's invasion got much farther, and combined with no one knowing of his actual heroic deeds or anything about him beyond this sudden and terrifying rage-tipped episode of his, he is disliked by all of Dream land and took him explaining himself to Adeleine for her to forgive and reconcile with him when they meet years later.
  • Ripple Star seems to not have had dealt with the likes of Dark Matter yet, but other nasties such as a malevolent race known as "Disprites" that had tormented fairy-kind in Dark Matter's absence, ripping off the wings of individuals to rob them of their soul and power which results in them being unable to reproduce, all while corrupting fairy eggs to add to the Disprites' numbers; they are in the present day resurrected as zombies by wingless, renegade Banshee Clan fairies who willingly turned to the dark arts responsible for raising disprites.
• Bloodier and Gorier: There's surprisingly a lot of blood and death in this series in comparison to the original games (at least once per episode, even), so discretion is advised if you're not a fan of it. While it dies down later in the series instead of being a Once an Episode gag, the times we do see onscreen blood from then on are all played dead serious.
• Bloody Hilarious: At least in the first five episodes which - despite the violence - portray it in very slapstick manners meant as some black comedy. The gradual elimination of this trope marks the shift in which the series becomes more serious.
• Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting: Adeleine had a very unhappy childhood with King Dedede, because he acted more like a drunken, depressed older brother than a father. He tormented Adeleine when she was young and clumsy, drank constantly, abused his staff, and simply didn't pay enough attention to her. Dedede was aware that "Bad birds make bad eggs", and tried to course correct; he prevented Adeleine from drinking alcohol and tried to give her advice to avoid his mistakes. Unfortunately, his advice is that everyone is a bad person, so she shouldn't trust anyone you meet because they will all betray you. Ultimately, his parenting led Adeleine to become an alcoholic shut in with agoraphobia, essentially being just as bad as he is. When Adeleine adopts the Kirbies, she realizes that she should be better; she stops drinking, starts working out, making friends with new people, and she's also very careful to give each of her kids enough attention.
• Call-Back:
  • As Ribbon approaches PopStar in her spaceship in episode 16, she is confronted by Meta Knight in his Battleship Halberd, showing that he is indeed still on patrol defending the planet like he was in the backstory of episode 12.
  • The Kirbies all make personalized drawings of Ribbon to welcome her to PopStar, just like they made personalized drawings of Adeleine in episode 8.
• Call-Forward: A pair of instances, both of which happen in the Reincarnation prequel arc.
  • In Episode 6, Adeleine glared daggers at a brown-eyed waddle dee who was momentarily distracted by her passing by and stared at her. Said waddle dee was reading some job catalog and happened upon an ad for Kawasaki's restaurant and then wondered where Adeleine had gone off to. In Episode 4, a waddle dee with the same brown eyes is seen working at Kawasaki's restaurant, one who happily skipped toward Adeleine and greeted her and was overall genial with her and her Kirbies throughout, implying that they are the same waddle dee.
  • Episode 8 toward the end has each Kirby having made their own drawing of Adeleine. Of them all, BitterOne's drawing, while playing Adeleine up as fearsome-looking with sharp teeth and clawed nails, is the most detailed drawing of Adeleine with proportions very close to her own in his drawing. It shows that, after living with her long enough, his artistic side is quickly developing into the level of quality seen in his mug painting from Episode 4.
• The Cameo:
  • In Episode 2, in ProudOne and CautiousOne's Imagine Spots, Adeleine is fighting Landia.
  • In Episode 4, at Kawasaki's restaurant, Bonkers, Knuckle Joe, Iron Mam and Chilly can be seen dining.
  • In Episode 5, after Adeleine has a Near-Death Experience due to ramming headfirst into a tree, the orange butterfly form of Morpho Knight lands on her shoe.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: While the Kirbies are all the usual pink body, they can be told apart from one another by the color of their eyes and cheek markings. The General's are red, GlumOne's are indigo, CutesyOne's are pink, OddOne's are orange, ProudOne's are blue, CautiousOne's are green, BitterOne's are purple, and LostOne's are aquamarine. BleakOne and OldOne are special cases as they both have black eyes and cheek marks, yet they are still can be told apart by how BleakOne has Empty Eyes while OldOne is based on Kirby's original appearance with horizontal lines for his cheek marks and eyes.
• Darker and Edgier: While the original series itself is already chock-full of Surprisingly Creepy Moments for a family-friendly franchise, this series amps the darker side of the games to a whole new level, as mentioned in the Alternate Universe example above.
• Dark Reprise: The main theme gets a deeper, muffled remix for Episode 6, 7, & 8 (intro only for episode 8).
• Defeat Means Friendship:
  • The General managed to rein in the violent BitterOne after beating him in a fight at Episode 7's end.
  • After Adeliene won the fight against a Gao Gao followed by feeding it an apple in Episode 10, by Episode 11 she adopted it to act like a guard dog for her house.
• Early-Bird Cameo: King Dedede shows up in OldOne's Daydream in Episode 2 and again on the TV in Episode 6, apparently having been stealing food again (or being scapegoated for something else). He shows up again with a more pronounced role in Comics 5-13 & 15, and Episode 15 is entire focused on him, why he came to Dream Land and why he's so bitter.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: The earliest videos had a lot of Black Comedy, especially of the Bloody Hilarious kind. Starting from Episode 6 onwards, all the humor was kept tame and lighthearted while the gruesome and bloody aspects were transferred to the dark and dramatic scenes.
• Faerie Court: Ripple Star has two Fairy factions: the normal fairies and the Banshee Clan, the latter being renegade fairies who joined with the Disprites and sold their souls to them.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: Episode 16 finally has Ribbon land on Planet Pop Star right in front of Adeleine and The Company's home. To her brief horror, the family Gao Gao quickly leaps at her U.F.O. and plasters itself on its glass dome thinking her an intruder. From its size alone and how much it covers the dome, and using Ribbon to scale for how big it is in relation to her inside of her U.F.O., an observant viewer will quickly pick up on the impending size difference between Adeleine and Ribbon.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Adeleine in episode 6-7 and comics 7-12. BitterOne has this as his default disposition to a more pronounced degree—being born from that emotion of Adeleine's after all..
• "I Can't Look!" Gesture: The General when faced with Adeleine in Episode 7. Despite his attempts to scare her off out of fear, he realizes he's no match. He covers his face and cries, expecting the worst.
• Leitmotif:
  • "Hidden Garage", a remix of the recurring "Boss Stage Select" theme (specifically based on its appearance in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards), plays any time Ribbon works on her inventions.
  • "Revenge of Meta Knight: Title" plays as a sting when Meta Knight appears.
  • Storo and the Squeaks retain their leitmotif from the games, "Here Come the Squeaks!"; specifically, a remix of the boss theme from Squeak Squad titled "The Squeaks!" plays when Dedede brawls with Storo.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: The Kirbies each have varying personalities, some being less courageous than the others, yet when they need to fight they instantly don their own hats and weapons: The General becomes Staff Kirby with a hat like the Monkey King, BitterOne dons a spiked hat with a chain flail and spiked helmet, ProudOne puts on a pirate cap to go with his sword, OddOne breaks out the bombs with an orange jester's cap, GlumOne wears a beanie ap while dual-wielding scimitars, CautiousOne puts on a cap similar to Sword Kirby and readies a shield and arrows, BleakOne puts on his own black spiked cap ready to drop a spiked hammer on baddies, CutesyOne puts on a straw hat and gets ready to fight with a parasol, and OldOne becomes Mic Kirby complete with a little white bowtie. LostOne doesn't change or don any weapon, although sparks of electricity can be seen coming from him briefly. Episode 10 shows that they get this from Adeleine who is more than ready to throw down against a ravenous and ornery Gao Gao to save a colony of beanbons.
• Mega Meal Challenge: When visiting Kawasaki's restaurant in the fourth episode, Adeleine orders the Bottomless Pit meal, which consist of 100 plates. Kawasaki believes this will be easy money but soon discovers that Adeleine brought her Kirbies with her (she did say table for 11 after all), and they manage to eat all 100 plates together. When Kawasaki demands payment, Adeleine points to where the plaque says that completing the challenge means she and her Kirbies get to eat free.
• Mythology Gag: The windows on Ribbon's spaceship close up before entering hyperspace the same way that the windows on Kirby's ship from Kirby: Right Back at Ya! did.
• Prequel: Comics 5-13 & 15 take place before the rest of the series and showcase why Adeleine is the way she is in episodes 6-8 (which themselves take place before the other episodes).
• Shout-Out:
  • The necklace Adeleine wears in episode 4 looks just like Kirby's heart in Mass Attack.
  • When the Gaw Gaws confront them, the Kirbies each turn into a stylized version of an actual Kirby ability: the General is Staff, GlumOne is Cutter, BleakOne is Hammer, OddOne is Bomb, ProudOne is Sword, CaustiousOne is Archer, CutseyOne is Parasol, OldOne is Mike, BitterOne is Whip, and LostOne is a strange take on Copy (or perhaps on Shadow Kirby from ''Kirby And The Amazing Mirror'-. Some of the abilities look different to fit the personality of the Kirby wielding them, like ProudOne wielding an elegant sabre and BitterOne's wielding a sharp spiked flail.
• Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: The series is mostly idealistic, but it's not always that happy.
  • Episodes 1-5 and 14 are very idealist featuring Adeleine and the Kirbies having fun together, and apart from some not-so-family-friendly violence in the first five episodes, it's all very happy—Episode 14 being the most light-hearted and happiest episode by far.
  • Comics 1-4 are a little less idealistic, showing some of the downsides of the relationship between Adeleine and the company. Comic 15 is not as cynical as the other ones below but still shows Adeleine beginning to pick up on Dedede's bad behavior. Episode 11 is largely very idealistic but does early on feature a brief and surprisingly rough look into a Waddle Dee who left Kawasaki's only to find himself jobless and homeless before Adeleine sets him up to find a place and work at King Dedede's. Comic 16 is fairly normal though shows that Old One has a particularly strong complex about driving/flying his Warp Star to the point of banning any use of the words "drive", "warp", "star", and "fly" when acting as substitute "Mom" when Adeleine is away.
  • Comics 13 and 14 along with episode 9 each start off as lighthearted but gradually dip into the not-so-lighthearted stuff, the comics having Adeleine playfully pulling kick me pranks on King Dedede even as she gets older and bigger to where she can seriously injure King Dedede (much to his dread), making crepes for her sons who speculate that she is growing terminally ill with the tattoos on her that they weren't awake to see (and to which she decided to crack a dark joke about after clearing the air), and then episode 9 has her and her sons play pretending village and trade in the snow with rocks as "currency" only for some of her sons to get into a fight over taking it too seriously which results in her defusing the situation and calling them all back inside for a possible grounding (none of them had been seen misbehaving that badly and/or getting in trouble before, not even OddOne for drawing a Gag Penis who merely got off light with an unamused frowning from Adeleine).
  • Episode 15 starts as incredibly Idealistic, where King Dedede enters Dream Land as a hero to the people, helping them even for something as small as painting a fence. It also shows how strong King Dedede is and how beloved he is. King Dedede is humiliated by Storo, accidentally hits a child with his hammer hard enough to knock the kid out, and quickly becomes the hated scapegoat of Dream Land, losing his desire to be a hero. While the episode ends with him adopting Adeleine, it's clear from the the other episodes that King Dedede will never really recover, remaining hated by all of Dream Land and believing that he is a bad person.
  • Comics 5-6 and 9-12 are rather cynical, featuring King Dedede who is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and is trying to be a good influence on Adeleine. Episode 12 shows a battle between King Dedede and Meta Knight, ending with King Dedede badly injured, and the episode shows exhausted and injured Meta Knight is without anyone else to rely on in his battle against the invaders of Popstar.
  • Comics 7, 8, and 13, as well as Episode 6, are highly cynical, with Adeleine's depressive mood setting a dark tone for the episodes, especially in the Unreadably Fast Text end of video description for Episode 6.
  • Episodes 7 and 8 are cynical initially but steadily becomes more idealistic as they go along. Episode 10 forgoes cynical tone in favor of the second fight scene of the series—that being Adeleine's first proper fight against a ravenous and ornery Gao Gao that is trying to eat a colony of beanbons, and though her lighthearted shenanigans win the day and win the Gao Gao over, she once again demonstrated that—if given the chance, this taller-than-almost-everything-else lady is not someone you want to end up on the bad side of when faced with her magic art and her honed hand-to-hand combat skill.
  • Episode 13 starts off light, dips into a little bit of serious stuff before becoming light again, but the sheer darkness presented in it eclipses previous episodes— Ripple Star is playing host to its fairy population being preyed upon by an evil counterpart species in the disprites alongside former renegade fairies who willingly amputate their wings and damage their souls with the cost of being unable to reproduce just to raise these monsters and menace their former fellow fairies at night; what this looks like in practice is less like predation and more like straight-up genocide as the disprites are noted to actually kill fairies even in their undead states, and as such, this episode is the first to show an actual onscreen death in who is implied to be Ribbon's mother where a disprite killed her and corrupted her egg with her dead body seen in a shot. As fairies have two wings while disprites have four and are covered in freckles instead of merely having them, they are ordinary treated as kill-on-sight monsters with Ribbon being spared by the queen but forced to live in isolation as a "monster" because of it. And that's not getting into Ribbon's initial, misguided attempt to rid herself of her second wings via scissors which she thankfully didn't go through with as the pain was far too much for her to bear—an incredibly graphic detail that only passes because of the relative use of insect wings instead of of flesh and bone ones.
  • Episode 16 begins with Ribbon finally ditching her home planet in her custom-built U.F.O. and even leaving off with a bitter letter "I hope the WORST happens to you ALL!! See you all NEVER!!" nailed to her boarded up door, all while Adeleine and her sons are preparing the most welcome welcome for her. Ribbon makes it through hyperspace warp before Pop Star and is overjoyed...until she ends up having the misfortune of warping right in Meta Knight's line of sight on his patrol around Pop Star, and his massive Battleship Halberd quickly positions itself right behind Ribbon's small U.F.O. ready to blast Ribbon out of the vacuum of space in case she proved to be a threat (worse, given Ribbon's panicking reaction after Meta Knight prepared himself, the telltale fly buzzing of the Disprites is heard which implies Meta Knight is familiar with their kind). Luckily for her, all she had to do was mention being a friend of Ribbon, and Meta Knight lets her go without a fuss, and even asks her to say hello to Adeleine for him. Ribbon finally arrives, and she receives the warmest welcome from Adeleine and The Company (very brief jump scare from their pet Gao Gao notwithstanding) who show her around her new home, complete with a drawing from The Company and baking a cake for Ribbon. All of this, and it is one of the sweetest moments in the series now that Ribbon has finally found a place of belonging at last...which makes it all the more jarring that the episode ends off on a very unsettling note when someone levitates near Ribbon's old and abandoned house back on Ripple Star - and we never get a clear shot of who it is besides what appears to be red heels worn on someone wearing black clothing.
• Squashed Flat: Happens often to the Kirbies. While they lose some blood when it happens, they often get back up no worse for wear.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • Adeleine lives with King Dedede as a parental figure from being an adolescent to an adult, without school or many other friends, so even though she knows he's not a good person, his personality rubs off on her, giving her a Hair-Trigger Temper and a heavy distrust of anyone she didn't know.
  • King Dedede accidentally knocked out a kid in a fit of rage at being tricked by Storo. While he's horrified by it, he also never explains himself or apologizes as far as the audience can see (this is made murkier as the shot of this happening only focuses on King Dedede's immediate reaction before cutting away to the aftermath). As such, most people think he's a bad person, and he is used as a scapegoat by the media. Additionally his increasingly cantankerous mood came about from the aforementioned scapegoating, which eventually rubbed off on Adeleine as she herself points out.
  • Episode 12 shows a fight between King Dedede and Meta Knight. While King Dedede was incredibly fit in his prime, being the hated scapegoat of Dream Land means that he's out of shape when Meta Knight attacks. Meta Knight is far faster than King Dedede, so while Dedede gets a few hits in, when the battle ends King Dedede is badly bleeding and struggling to stand, while Meta Knight only has his mask damaged. Also, because of Meta Knight's heroics happening completely out of the periphery of Popstar's population and with no one having any idea that he knows King Dedede, no one knows why he is like this; all anyone sees is a brutal warlord come to conquer their world, not a well-meaning defender of their world who simply had a nasty break of patience for King Dedede and presumably everyone else. King Dedede may be able to salvage some semblance of his old kingly and heroic reputation with Adeleine's newfound positivity rubbing off on him, but Meta Knight has likely permanently colored everyone's opinion of him for the worst with this brutal first impression and is all but unable to change it in the foreseeable future.
  • The company's initial reaction towards Adeleine in Episode 7 and the start of Episode 8 mirrors that to how small animals would perceive much larger ones as potential predators.
  • Episode 10 pitted Adeleine against a Gao Gao, and throughout the fight, Adeleine is quite cocky and very clearly shows how little the Gao Gao can actually affect her despite its best efforts (and boy is it no slouch either). The size difference between the two fighters alone plainly show Adeleine as having no shortages of advantages over her opponent due to it, especially when put together with her trained kickboxing and magic art abilities. This all goes to show how it is next to impossible for most anything in this Kirbyverse to actually take her in a straight fight outside of maybe King Dedede simply because Adeleine is a giant (a trained giant at that).
  • Episode 11 had one of the Waddle Dee's try to strike out on his own and leaving Kawasaki's behind, only to end up not landing work anywhere and end up effectively homeless without a penny to his name. This showcases how increasingly hard it is these days to find work and why staying in a steady job, even if unpleasant, is on the rare off-chance preferable to 'not' having a job. Luckily for the Waddle Dee, Adeleine was quick to set him up to find a place and work at King Dedede's with the other Waddle Dees there.
  • For all the mercy the Queen of Ripple Star granted Ribbon in sparing her from execution when her egg was tainted with Disprite energy, the apparent lack of care toward her since then combined with the constant discrimination all her life has not endeared anyone to Ribbon whatsoever. Freeze frames show in her doodles of leaving Ripple Star and are a quiet but poignant display of how Ribbon has nothing but contempt for her homeworld and can't wait to be rid of it. This is seemingly a mirror to King Dedede yet at the same time a contrast: the Queen may have had good intentions and may be generally well-meaning, but that sadly didn't translate into being a strong supporting figure and emotional anchor for Ribbon to not even consider her as someone worth staying; cementing this, Adeleine still very much loves King Dedede and his staff with the implication that she visits them in the present day while Ribbon left a spiteful note on her door as her goodbye wishing ill on everyone and hoping to never see any of them again, implicitly including the queen.
• That Cloud Looks Like...: The premise of the second episode consists of the Kirbies looking at clouds, with each one detailing an object for Adeleine to have.
• Unexplained Recovery: Oftentimes a Kirby will be killed off then return perfectly fine in the next episode. Justified if using the logic of the games where if you can reach the angels the Kirbies turn into they will come back perfectly fine, which Adeleine probably did. Episode 7 reveals that due to the connect she and the Kirbies share, Adeleine can heal them just by showing them love.
• Unreadably Fast Text: After every episode except for Episode 7, each of the company has a description written by Adeleine, seemingly to herself. From Episode 16 onward the description is changed to show how Adeleine describes them to Ribbon. Episode 8 in particular describes when she first met the Kirbies and is recounting them to herself (or perhaps King Dedede):
  The General: He's generally the first one to check up on me when I'm a bit down. I'm so glad he and the others keep me company. He tries to be a leader, but he's such a scardey-cat. He is very easily startled. It's a but hard to take him seriously! ... I'm starting to sound like you... Hey! it's okay little guy, don't be mad at me! I know how you feel.
  GlumOne: Look at this one, all Doom and Gloom. He reminds me of myself a couple years ago, hahaha! Oh, he's rarely seen with a big smile on his face. I get it, we don't need to smile to enjoy life! ...Though he does own a sharp weapon. I don't know how similar we are but I make sure to keep him safe and happy so he doesn't go all stupid with it.
  BleakOne: At first, I thought this one would be dangerous and evil. Turns out, he's just a little shit-stirrer who enjoys fighting and going all out! "Never trust a book by its cover", Yeah... I should know that... Yes, Shortcake, Mommy used to be a book.
  OddOne: Ah, the little jester one. He looks like a lot of work but he knows what boundaries are. When I see he's not happy with a joke he's making, he just stops. It rarely happens too, so I know he only wants others to laugh. I'm proud of him for being so cheerful. Huh? You know I'm watching you honey. That's why you're doing this trick now, right?
  ProudOne: He's a complicated one but I got him figured out pretty quickly. He doesn't want others to see his more fragile side. I believe I'm the only one to have ever seen him cry. It takes a lot for him to fall into tears, but when he does, he still has the strength to wait until others are gone for him to cry on my neck. It's okay to cry, Bébé.
  CautiousOne: He's one of the three puff balls I can trust to tell the truth when some are misbehaving. I think he doesn't like the others enough to care if they get in trouble for acting stupid. ...Look, I know I'm not one to talk, but... I'd like for you to trust others... your brothers more. That would make Mommy very happy.
  CutesyOne: It's funny how quickly the situation in this family went from cheering me on and making me feel more secure to them becoming extremely dependent on cuddles and kisses. Apparently it heals them and puts them at ease. Ah! Speaking of "cuddles" and "kisses". These are your favorite words, huh? Come here, Baby boy. I was a big hugger too, in my younger years! Ask Uncle King.
  OldOne: You know, this one treats two of his brothers like I used to treat Revol, Pistol, and Raifol back at your castle. He even likes to sing for everyone but... Let's say I'll have to teach him how to lower his voice. Also... I don't know if you tripping all the time is due to your strange way of walking or if it's a jab at me being a bit of a mess sometimes... You don't understand anything I'm saying, right? Blah, blah, blah! Hahaha!
  BitterOne: ...Um? You want to train with me? Do you want a fair fight? I can draw you a Jumbo Candy if you lik- No?... My hand? You want to fight my hand?! Hah! We both know this is a bad idea, Sweetie. Go ask someone else or wait until later today, ok? I know, I know "You're no fun, Mom!". That was never on my resume. We'll train later, I promise. Do you promise you'll be there? Give me a "Promise Kiss". I love you too, Sweetie.
  LostOne: I got to be honest, I don't really understand this one but the look he always gives is the same one I have in front of a canvas, according to you. I always hated when you pointed this out. So, maybe this baby is looking for inspiration. ... You're very good at mimicking your brothers in combat, little one. You're like a white canvas: you can be anything you want to be. ANYTHING. And Mommy supports that.
• Watch Out for That Tree!: In her blind rage, Adeleine ends up running head-first into a tree while chasing the Gaw Gaw family.