1005-KOI "Hopewrecker"

== Overview ==
The 1005-KOI "Hopewrecker" is a superweapon appearing as a Superion-tier boss fight, set to appear in an as-of-yet unknown Superion Level.
== Appearance ==
The 1005-KOI is a barely-humanoid, partially rusted and heavily cybernetic.. thing, with very few trace remnants of a Koishi left (only visible in the form of a heavily augmented torso). It is missing it's legs, replaced with a large mechanical 'pedestal' that bolts the 1005-KOI to the ground, and has four varyingly mechanical arms; on it's left-hand side are two normal hands, one with it's fingers replaced by purple glowing extremities, and on it's right hand side it's rotting lower hand is bolted to the ground whilst it's upper arm is a hastily-cobbled appendage with a gloiwng green blade on the end.
The Hopewrecker's neck and head is replaced with a construct bearing four purple eyes and four green eyes, as well as two visible monitors & two searchlights on it's sides. The monitors & searchlights glow colors that are opposite of each other, with the monitors having purple-green eyes & the searchlights having green-purple spotlights. The satori eye is replaced with a television screen.
Throughout the boss fight, the Hopewrecker's body falls apart apart: in phase 2, it loses it's upper appendages and it's searchlights weaken in intensity, in phase 3 it loses it's lower arms and it's searchlights have outright shut off, and in phase 4 it loses the searchlights entirely and gains a deathly red glow. When defeated, all of it's heads fall off, and a saddened Koishi face emerges from the Hopewrecker. Notably, this sprite gains a noticeable decline in quality.
File:Koi machinedemon p2.png|The Hopewrecker in Phase 2
File:Koi machinedemon p3.png|The Hopewrecker in Phase 3
File:Koi machinedemon p4.png|The Hopewrecker in Phase 4
File:Koi machinedemon p5.png|The Hopewrecker when defeated
== Behavior ==
tbd lol
== Trivia ==
* The Hopewrecker has the unique title of being the only Koishi to be intentionally featured twice on the Koishi of the Day regular showcase: it was first the KOTD for January 9, 2024, before some of it's concept art was released on January 15, 2024. This decision was made due to Mare not having any new Koishis to show for the evening, but thinking it'd be fun to show off some of what goes into the creation of these goofballs.
** Notably, the concept art implies that the Hopewrecker has "front" and "back" limbs, suggesting there is an intended depth or hierarchy to it it's appearance.
* Mare revealed some information about the Hopewrecker's development on the MP discord on September 8, 2024:
** The Hopewrecker was planned to have several Koishi-shaped minions that would be fought during the course of it's boss fight; Mare remembers a sword-wielding Koishi, a flamethrower-wielding Koishi and a Koishi that "fired actual projectiles". The idea was scrapped after the sprite for the sword-wielding Koishi was lost to a paint.net crash, while the latter two's existences remain uncertain.
** In the planning phase, the Hopewrecker was referred to as an "Apex Forme" to the Fantasymover, a title that Mare states was never elaborated on and was eventually scrapped. The term "Apex Forme" seems to imply that the Hopewrecker was going to be a successor to the Fantasymover in some capacity, an idea that has likely been revisited through the 10000-HCT "Persephone" boss fight.
*** In the final game, the Fantasymover and Hopewrecker's only noticeable connection is a similar naming scheme and lore (both are human-developed weapons designed to fight the Lunarians, but nothing currently states that the Hopewrecker is related to the Fantasymover's basis, the Mastodons.)
** Before it was decided that Superions would exist on separate levels, the Hopewrecker was also going to be summoned with an item dubbed an "Ashen Memory", which in itself may likely be scrapped due to the Superion Key conventions.
* The Hopewrecker's description quotes a book found in the level 7-4: "...LIKE ANTENNAS TO HEAVEN" from ULTRAKILL, describing the Earthmovers (or potentially V1) as a glorious finale to the in-universe Final War.
* The Hopewrecker's sprites internally refer to it as MachineDemon.
* The name "Hopewrecker" is a portmanteau of the word "homewrecker" and any word with "hope" in it. (most likely "hopeless")
** Although unintended, but in line with FTK2's frequent tendency to reference music, it is worth mentioning there is a punk rock band named Hopewrecker.
** The word "homewrecker" is a term that describes a person that has irreversibly damaged a family or marital relationship. If we are to take the term "Hopewrecker" and describe it as a real word, then it now means someone or something that has irreversibly damaged one's optimism.
* Being cybernetically-augmented immobilized monstrosities that feature monitors and eyes as part of their deisgn, one could argue the Hopewrecker has a partial resemblance to The Master from the first Fallout.
* The Hopewrecker had a notoriously long development cycle, with Mare putting down development on it for months on end (having only done the first phase) before being self-encouraged to complete it and release it for testing on June 20, 2024. Mare joked that the Hopewrecker's telepathic effects managed to reach him.
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