Wrong person or not, it is impeccable timing! Both because of Triple Deluxe's 10th Anniversary (in Japan time) and the fact that I've been intensely studying those scenes for my own anniversary piece! Which is, err, running late.

Here is what we can garner about Sectonia's transformation abilities based on the available information + insights the game gives us.

[Pause Screen Lore]

VS Sectonia Vine

"Sectonia's family(1) have parasitized, taken possession of, and controlled countless lifeforms."

1) This word is often translated as "clan" as in a large gathering of members who are not necessarily family but belong to a specific unified group. IE, this could mean anything from "she and her direct family members have this ability" to "all spiders within a certain classification have this ability" to "all spiders have this ability".

I sometimes HC that possession is something all female spiders possess, because I like to imagine her people being a Queendom and that'd be a good reason for it, and also because of The Dark Crystal's "Wings? I don't have wings." "Of course not. You're a boy." (Which just feels so Taranza + Sectonia coded to me)

(I say "sometimes" because I'm also very fond of trans-girl Sectonia HC.)

VS Queen Sectonia (2)

"Sectonia, beautiful and menacing in form. She has [placed herself] inside the world tree..."

VS Sectonia Soul (2)

"I have parasitized and changed bodies so many times, I can no longer recall...which of them was my original self..."

(This pause screen lore is written from Sectonia's POV.)

So, yes, Joronia/Sectonia is a parasite.

She attaches to something and makes it part of her body/swaps bodies with it. If we look at the difference between her queen-form and her flowered-form, we understand a few things about this process: she takes her current body, as well as the body of another living organism and fuse them together. IE: 1 + 1 = 1

>How long did it take?

It took... X amount of time! XD ...I dunno! Noir SHOULD have been in hell since almost the beginning, since he was the first or second to die also his life has just been hell since the day his parents died....

Like Noir, who acted as "dead" as possible in the hopes of actually dying, the deceased probably stuck to their own personal purgatories and never really did much positive interacting, outside of people who formed odd connections all on their own, like Joronia and Max, who quickly bonded over their love of rich, fancy things. >w<

Max: "01001101 01110101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100011 01101111 01100110 01100110 01100101 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100001 01101100 01110111 01100001 01111001 01110011 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01100010 01110101 01110010 01101110 01110100 00111111"

Joronia: "Oooh, do not even get me started on tea in this place!"(1)

("How does Joronia know binary? Why, she's the smartest, strongest, most beautiful queen ever! Of course she knows binary!" - Taranza)

The paradigm changed when Marx found Magolor's tormented soul and convinced the Crown to give Magolor control of his body back. Magolor, trapped in a series of troubled and confusing hallucinations due to how horrific and constant the pain of having a large, wrathful tree feeding off of and growing inside him was, blindly used the crown's limitless power to create an actual theme park.

"Timeline-wise" I'd say once Elfilin and Adeleine started interacting more, Fecty probably said some off-handed remark to "the human girl" (ie: "...your eyes are the exact same color as that boy in hell...") that clued X-over Adeleine into the location/existence of her X-over brother and they had a big, tearful reunion and here we are!

(1) PS: "Hell" here is not full of demons and pitchforks, but it is uncomfortably *bright* (the sun is ever-burning and the sky goes through a cycle of golden hour-orange to fever-dream dark with shades of electric pink at night) and also, there is a larger than average amount of fire. A whole lake made of it, in fact!

>Why does Magolor have both eyes?

Huh! I have to say, these kinds of power comparisons between characters is not normally my cup of tea, but I'll give this a whirl!

If we start out with the two of them in their their initial forms, I have to give the opening round to Sectonia. In my mind, it's no contest.

"But Dess, Magolor has the Master Crown! It has limitless power!"

That is true. But it is here I am forced to say "...Skill issue." XD If you know western comics (memes) then you've probably heard the complaints about some of the various Green Lanterns being bad because they are so uncreative with their power.

That's exactly where Magolor is. He has limitless power but he's still fighting with the mindset of a weak, underpowered mage.

Sectonia, on the other hand, has 1,000 years of experience running a conquering military empire under her belt. She's trained in both swordsmanship and magic.  She was also able to down Taranza (a good comparison for regular Magolor) with a single, casual blow.

Of course, we all know what happens immediately after you defeat Traitor Magolor... :du~n, dun da dun dun dun da~:

...Hmm. You've put me in something of a conundrum. When you ask a question so sincerely, I want to give a sincere answer, even though the answer I have is not a pleasant or cheery one.

I don't think she will ever come back. Bee, wasp, spider, plant, or otherwise.

I don't think that was the point of Triple Deluxe's story, tbh. It was, on the surface, a fairy tale. You play out this heroic narrative about a hero climbing a giant beanstalk to slay an evil queen and rescue the kingdom of the nice flower fairies from the scary bug people!

~The End~

And THEN you're invited to play it again and realize, "Oh no, the evil queen was actually a tragic figure, and so was that spider guy."

It's because of that Triple Deluxe just isn't written as a story where the tragic queen can come back to life. And now, her death has influenced enough of the overall narrative and themes of the Kirby series to the point that I think "invalidating" her death by bringing her back would be walking back on those significant thematic changes.

Now, do I think Taranza will ever be happy again?

...Yes, actually!

Honestly, seeing as how the OG, Dark Meta Knight, successfully sealed Meta Knight in the mirror world for a time, it's not that farfetched of an idea!

I think the only thing standing in the way of that theory being super plausible is that I imagine Director Kumazaki would probably prefer Sectonia be "responsible" for her own evil deeds and face the outcome of them, rather than the Sectonia we fought being an evil mirror clone while "our" sweet Joronia did nothing wrong. Sniffle...

(My many years as an anime/game fan has taught me that generally speaking "They were just controlled/brainwashed/body-swapped" is not a very popular lead in for "...which is why X did nothing wrong!!" A lot of creators want their characters to take SOME responsibility, even if the situation got out of their hands really quickly.

Fufufu, because this ask came up twice, everyone gets a bonus, a brand new, un-seen Dess pic! It's actually really unfinished - and due to its complexity, I don't know when I'll be able to finish it tbh - but this was a lot for me and I'm REALLY proud of what I managed!!

CW: Horror, Body Horror, also Gijinka

(Contents: three (unfinished) gilded portraits in soft, pastel colors of a humanized Magolor, Sectonia, and Haltmann and their respective gruesome fates in their Soul forms. No eyes/wrong eyes, detached heads and insect wings, wires going everywhere, etc etc)

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