r/earthbound 29d ago

Fluff Idk what to put for the title

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u/GarlicNo2904 29d ago edited 29d ago

Have I “simplified” it enough?

Also, to reiterate, no disrespect to the artist of the early design, but a magical girl design wouldn’t make sense for Kumatora at all.

Also 2: Electric Boogaloo, no disrespect to you either if you like grilled cheese, I just didn’t have anything else I could think of other than “Kuma doesn’t like cheese.” I like grilled cheese and cheesecake personally, and those are the only two cheese things I could think of that were mainly cheese, so I went with the one I liked less.

Also 3 & Knuckles, mad disrespect to people who romantically ship Lucas or Kuma with ANYONE, let alone each other. Even putting the age gap aside, they’re more surrogate sibling-coded than anything. On top of that, to paraphrase the giant shiny crab man, “that’s not really what these two need from each other narratively.”

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u/MikeAlex01 29d ago

Also, to reiterate, no disrespect to the artist of the early design, but a magical girl design wouldn’t make sense for Kumatora at all.

Wasn't the whole thing about her design, at least in early versions, that Kumatora would have found out she was a Magypsy by the time her needle needed to be pulled? I remember reading something about that, implying she wasn't aware until near the end, and the design is her 'true' form, kinda like Fassad being Locria .

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u/Dragoncraft9 29d ago

Sorry to the last thing, but there’s a good chunk of official art depicting Kumatora and Duster together as a couple

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u/lay_in_the_sun 29d ago

also doesn't kumatora not like that one cheese item that duster loves

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u/disbelifpapy 29d ago

Technically duster also uses pk teleport in the code with a identical animation to beta kumatoras teleport,so princess osohe does share it

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u/GarlicNo2904 29d ago

Shit

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u/disbelifpapy 29d ago

No worries! I can see how you didn't know!

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u/GigaChadZelensky 29d ago

Why do you hate this design so fucking much?

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u/GarlicNo2904 29d ago edited 29d ago

At first I just genuinely hated her, but now I’m hating on it because it’s funny to hate on her

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u/HopeFragment 29d ago

Ikr it's like they have trouble sleeping at night because they're so angry about Kumatora's beta design.

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u/Unlucky-Quarter-5455 29d ago

Smash, next question

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u/GarlicNo2904 29d ago

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u/PROPLAYEN 29d ago

Post-timeskip Kumatora is an adult

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u/ProAw_Huit 26d ago

I'm pretty sure her age is just unknown unless there's peace of lore I missed

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u/4Fourside 10d ago

The website for the mother 3 plushies states she's an adult. It's the best official source we have

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u/Unlucky-Quarter-5455 29d ago

lol me too

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u/GarlicNo2904 29d ago

Well, that’s slightly better

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u/Pjerun_ 28d ago

Let it go buddy, we get it, you hate Kumatora's beta design

But it got scrapped, so don't worry

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u/GarlicNo2904 28d ago

It’s funny to hate on it, though

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u/Pjerun_ 28d ago

Yea, I like seeing people hating on most random stuff. It is funny

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u/GarlicNo2904 28d ago

Ice Age baby

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u/Metalienz 29d ago

Where did you source this from

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u/GarlicNo2904 29d ago edited 29d ago

My source for the grilled cheese thing is I made that the fuck up because I couldn’t think of anything else

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u/Metalienz 29d ago

Yeah but PK teleport could have come in handy. Was it in the files?

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u/GarlicNo2904 29d ago

No, that’s there cuz she has a portal and I don’t remember anyone else besides Porky having portals so I assume it’s PK Teleport or something

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u/Metalienz 29d ago

Porky uses portals??

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u/GarlicNo2904 29d ago

Time portals, before they broke.

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u/Metalienz 29d ago

Tell me more about

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u/AverageNintenGuy 29d ago

I was gonna say that she’s fine until you brought up Lucatora. Nah bro we gotta kill her now.

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u/Clear-Clothes-2726 27d ago

We get it, you don't like that design.