Elfilin

Elfilin is a Protagonistic character that first appeared in the game Kirby and the Forgotten land as well as fictional media such as Shin Hoshi no Kaabii and Kirby and The Rebirth of The Ancients. He is seen usually as Kirby's sidekick and in the fictional anime he serves a similar purpose as a friend much like Ribbon and Gooey are. Many people have suspected before his debut that he was a traitor but it was actually not true and he was simply a part of a much more powerful entity.

## Appearance

Elfilin is a chinchilla-like creature covered in bluish-green fur. He is shown to have big ears akin to that of an elephant's, with orange on the inside and a large, rounded nick in the right ear, a small, reddish-orange nose, and blue eyes and rosy cheeks similar to that of Kirby's

## History

Elfilin is the passive, compassionate half of a creature known as Fecto Elfilis, a hostile being that hails from the depths of space. Fecto Elfilis has the ability to open dimensional rifts to other dimensions and travel through them, and as such, Elfilin shares that ability as well. However, Fecto Elfilis used their ability for their own invasive purposes.

### Game Lore:

In the distant past, Fecto Elfilis arrived in the forgotten world and attempted to invade it by wreaking destruction on the native wildlife. However, their campaign was brought to a stop when the researchers of an ancient civilization that once lived on the planet captured it in the Eternal Capsule. Afterwards, they began studying their spatial teleportation ability within Lab Discovera, allowing them to become highly advanced in science and create technologies that share Fecto Elfilis's ability. 30 years after research on Fecto Elfilis began, an incident occurred during an experiment with the spatial warp ability, in which it was split in two. Their malevolent, invasive half split off into a being known as Fecto Forgo, while their friendly, passionate half split off into Elfilin. After the incident, Elfilin escaped from Lab Discovera and fled into the outside world. Sometime later, the people of the civilization abandoned the planet with their new technology, leaving behind Fecto Forgo, who, after many years, takes over the minds of Leongar and the creatures of the animal kingdom in order to search for and capture Elfilin. In Kirby and The Rebirth of The Ancients, Elfilin is able to provide information on the laboratory of shiver star whenever he is picked as companion instead of ribbon. He explains how he seems to have a vague memory of it back from when he was a whole with Fecto Elfilis. It seems that these ancients also Bio-engineered some of the powerful beings we see in the kirby games previously and likely the same people who developed Fecto Elfilis. In the room before the boss fight against HR-86 Elfilin has some kind of flash back and it is revealed in a Black and White cutscene of the ancients which have blurry faces using some of Fecto Elfilis' energy to power up some weak looking heart handled weapons. This reveals something major, Fecto Elfilis or more specifically its good side was used by the ancients to create the Heart Spears we see in Kirby Star Allies.

### Anime Lore:

Much like in the games Kirby, Tiff, Tuff, and Bandana Waddle Dee find themselves in a similar situation only this time its also Tuff who gets captured in a cage by the ravens. Elfilin is saved like in the games and informs the trio of what happened. everyone except tiff trusts elfilin because they have been tricked before by a seemingly innocent creature. Slowly throughout the Forgotten Land Arc it seems that slowly tiff begins to trust elfilin until they reach Lab Discovera which is after King Dedede and Escargoon fend off the Beast Pack after saving Bandana Waddle Dee after he tripped. Reaching the lab they are both confronted and also explained to by Leongar of the true nature of Elfilin. Tiff of course almost knew this would happen but kirby and bandana dee are shocked. This leads to the half decision by tiff to not release elfilin when leongar was defeated after kirby used a hammer swing on him.

## Trivia

Elfilin having similar eyes to kirby may suggest that the ancients used the base design of a certain cosmic entity to develop them, hence both the similar eyes and chipped ear.