Sani

Azure puffball.

## **General information**

### **Character Design**

While Sani may be a star, he takes the appearance of a kirby, due to both, resembling the shape of one during the process of transforming the star, as well as the species thriving on the nearest planet, Azorinthia. His main body color is a light azure, whilst his feet and cheeks are cerulean. His primary body colors are very similar to that of the ocean pallet from *Kirby and the Amazing Mirror*, as well as *Kirby: Squeak Squad*. The only notable difference between him and a real kirby are his eyes. Sani's eyes are also blue, but stars can be seen reflecting in them when staring into them. This isn't noticeable unless intentionally looking into his eyes, however. He also has a faint glow beneath his feet when he walks, reminiscent of a star's glow. (See WSH)

### **Personality**

Sani is typically very openhearted, somewhat outgoing, and a bit curious. He puts all other lives above that of his own, willing to risk himself for others. This trait is how Snoek and him first became somewhat close, particularly right after awaking from critical hyponergia.

Perhaps his greatest flaw, is how emotional Sani is. While Sani has mostly gotten over most of his violent feelings toward himself, he still doesn't worry about himself much unless someone around him wants him to, i.e. Snoek. However, even with that in mind, he's still extremely emotional. Sani feels guilt for even the smallest of issues, whether someone is sad about dropping their ice cream or someone else lost a family member. This makes him extremely susceptible to being manipulated, and he often walks straight into traps with no regrets.

What may be his greatest passion is cooking. It was one thing he was always good at, and helped him make money to survive in the past when he was homeless on unfamiliar planets. He's very passionate about it, and loves showing others his recipes. He unknowingly sees it as a metaphor for life itself, in which he once told Snoek, *"Sometimes, I think the most fun part is messing around with the recipe to see what you can do! Even if it's not so good in the end, at least you had fun making it."*

### **Strengths and Abilities**

**Cooking**

Sani is an expert at cooking, and has made several recipes of his own, even owning a small restaurant of sorts at one point in his life. He can prepare nearly any dish from a recipe, and knows several of his own creations by heart. Not only can he prepare a delicious meal, but this has actual benefits as well outside of that, as he can prepare healing dishes or beverages to assist with illnesses or weakness.

**Copy Ability / Inhale**

Despite being a star, Sani can still inhale and obtain copy abilities like other kirbies. By inhaling the air in front of him like a vacuum, he can swallow entire people or objects, even if they're significantly larger than him. Upon doing so, he'll copy their essence and gain his own versions of their abilities and some of their mindsets. Upon being inhaled, someone can struggle to break free easily, or stay inside of his hammerspace.

## **Backstory**

Sani has had a very long and complex journey around the universe, despite only being 13. He's been to several different planets, his first being Azorinthia, and his current place of residing being primarily Gensokyo and occasionally Neo-Earth. His backstory can be summed up into a few primary parts, for the sake of ease.

### **Tensei's Story (1/2)**

Tensei, the Star God, had been pondering to herself while granting wishes for years and years. She was curious if she could make someone or something to help positively influence the universe, and in turn, get rid of many of the horrible issues she saw people dealing with firsthand. She came up with an idea to use star energy to form a sentient being who could take on this task, knowing the positive effects of them being made of WSH, as well as a fairly simple way to do so. So, she set off to the Ethereal Dreamscape to find a star to do so with.

A fairly young star was in the core of the Dreamscape, still being formed, when Tensei appeared and started focusing her power on it. She took some of the star's energy, removing the top piece of it, and then thought of what lifeform to make it appear as. Seeing as Kirbies are a somewhat common lifeform on the nearby planet of Azorinthia, she decided that would be a simple one to do, and did so. The star slowly shaped into a young, sleeping Sani, and she left it to finish the process of growing, watching carefully over it in her free time. However, Sani was shortly released from the Dreamscape, as a shooting star, sent directly toward the surface of Azorinthia. While she could have interfered and stopped his course, she decided that the planet would make a good example for what she was trying to do. When Sani landed on the planet, he bumped right into Kip's head, who was 15 at the time, knocking them both over. Sani blinked and opened his eyes for the first time, and Kip, noticing he had no parents, decided to take him in and raise him as a parental figure of sorts, but more so as a brother.

After a couple of years, Tensei's plan was all going accordingly, Sani being able to make Kip feel less alone in the world and in turn, changing him for the better. However, after Crisk had abused Sani for several years and he was unable to change Crisk, Tensei assisted Sani in his path of flying after running away. Otherwise, he would have crashed and been killed. He ended up on another planet, and began several years of wandering the universe.

Several years later, Sani was about to give up, despite Tensei speaking to him in his dreams for years trying to help him. She then noticed someone making a wish in another place, far, far away. A young pichu named Spark. Tensei, noticing the wish for a close friend, decided to take Sani to Spark's planet without him knowing. He thought he simply crashed on the planet, but Tensei was the one who led him there all along. Thanks to her, Sani and Spark became the closest of friends, of course, as she had thought. Tensei could once again rest, and now focus on Snoek once more, who was also alive at this time, by now. *(She created Snoek 3 years after Sani. Snoek was about 7 at this time, while Sani was 10.)* However, after the Flash incident, Sani lost all of his newfound happiness, and was running away again.

Tensei was running low on ideas, until she got one, final, foolproof plan. She decided she would have her two "children" meet. (Note that she had never revealed herself to Sani nor Snoek yet.) She would have Sani end up on Neo-Earth with Snoek for the two to meet, and see what happens. The rest is history, leading up to now, where Sani and Snoek know most of the truth about themselves, and the fact that they're essentially the only blood-related family they have.

### **The Beginning / Early Azorinthian Years**

After he was created from a star, Sani was sent flying into the planet of Azorinthia. He bumped into Kip, and when he opened his eyes, that was the first thing he had seen in the world. The white, stone roads of central Kinorite, with a 15 year old Kip staring down at him, rubbing his head. Kip picked up the small, sidereal puffball, and looked at him curiously. He asked around for anyone who had seen Sani before, but to no avail. Kip then decided he would take matters into his own hands, and have Sani stay with him. Kip was living alone, despite being 15, so the two lived in a small home together.

Sani's life on Azorinthia was not peaceful. He got bullied frequently by Crisk, a red kirby who everyone blindly followed and agreed with due to how cool he is. Crisk did this, knowing that something was special about Sani, wanting him dead before he could do anything to interfere with his plans in the future. It started with name-calling, and quickly shifted to heavy emotional and physical abuse, Sani often coming home with bruises and scratches, and almost always with tears in his eyes. Sani was determined to make Crisk a friend, despite this, and kept trying, but it never worked. One day, Sani was presented with the choice of being drowned in the ocean, or running away from home. Being intimidated by Crisk, he nodded, and ran away. He was supposed to crash and be killed, however, Tensei prevented this from happening. Sani's life continued on as he became a young space traveler of sorts for the following years.

### **Meeting Spark (Spiritual Revival)**

Sani had trouble making any friends in his travels, and was starting to believe what Crisk told him wholeheartedly. However, he kept pushing on, as the voice in his dreams kept inspiring him to do so. He found himself crash landing on what is known as the Pokemon World one day, only to find the town of Post in complete panic. The pokemon exclaimed that their town's child had gone missing. Sani, not having anything to lose, and still having his mindset of wanting to help others truly inside of him, promised to go help them. He quickly ran off into Frost Forest to find them. He faced several pokemon trying to stop him, as well as a maze of trees, but he pushed on, keeping his promise. When he made it, he found a pichu fallen over in the snow, on the verge of crying. A large monster was lurking behind her, and Sani ran over to the pichu and told the beast to stop. The monster didn't listen. Sani helped Spark up, saying his first words to her, *"h-hey, a-are you okay? w-we have to get out of here, but, you can call me Sani for now! c-come on, let's hurry!"* before helping her up and running. The two escaped successfully, and introduced themselves to one another. Sani was acclaimed as a town hero, and went on to live there for several years.

In his time there, Sani lived alongside Spark, growing closer and closer day by day. They both shared a passion for exploring, and always looked for pokemon in need of help. The two frequently visited Post Town, almost everyday. One day, they started to grow closer to a young shinx named Flash. Flash wanted to go on adventures, too, so one day, the two agreed to take him along through a walk in Frost Forest to see a statue there. However... Things went horribly wrong. Flash went missing, and the two came back to a rioting village. Sani was the one being blamed for it, since he wasn't even one of their kind, a pokemon; they lost all his trust, and started doing the same to him that Crisk had done years ago, albeit with less physical harm. Sani was claimed to be a murderer, even though Spark knew that wasn't true.

Worst came to worst, and the entire village was outside of Spark's small cabin where Sani was being hidden. Sani was cornered, and even about to be killed by the townspeople. The townspeople were typically friendly and would never do this, but their blind rage drove them to, "do the same to him that he did to Flash." One pokemon stepped forth, calling them out for it all being horribly inhumane and wrong. They told Sani he simply can't live there anymore with that reputation, and would have to leave. Sani solemnly accepted his fate, and Spark gave him her unity looplet as a sign that their friendship will never end no matter what. With tears in his eyes, Sani left the planet, and was once again on the run from the world. When he finally found himself, and had nothing to worry about, he lost everything. Spark was the first person he could truly call a friend, no, family, besides Kip. This quite literally destroyed him, even more than the first time he ran away, and he left for good.

### **Last Chance, Reunion (~Present)**

Sani was flying through space, again, not listening to the voice in his dreams anymore. Their words had no more meaning to him. No matter how much she tried to convince him he isn't useless or deserved to be born, he shook his head and denied it all. He suddenly blacked out while flying, and when he awoke, he was in a field of purple and sparkling grass, stardust calmly blowing through the air. He got up, and looked around. He noticed Aqua in the area, and went over to them. Aqua asked him a few questions, and Sani had absolutely no idea where he was or what he was going to do. Aqua decided to let Sani stay with MROU for the time being, making Tensei's plan go perfectly, as he ended up meeting Snoek there. At first, the two were pretty much indifferent about one another. However, things changed when Sani suddenly entered critical hyponergia for a long time, making Snoek worry about the puffball. He started checking on him, and that increased Sani's WSH *just* enough for him to awake. Sani was completely shocked that someone actually cared about him, and was, worried. He wanted Snoek to just forget about him and live his own life, since Sani believed his own wasn't worth it, but Snoek insisted. After this, Sani grew closer to Snoek and started staying around them a little more.

Several significant events have occurred with Sani during his time with MROU so far, the most significant being his reunion with Spark, his self realization, and discovering the truth about himself, Tensei, and Snoek. He now lives on with MROU, learning to forget the past and live in the present.

### **Ashlyn + StArc 3**

There was still a bit of gray space in Sani's history, even after everything he's been through. For some reason, he could never remember what happened immediately after leaving Azorinthia. One day, it became increasingly bothersome, and even resulted in severe PTSD panic attacks, so Snoek and him went to Memory's Edge in the Dreamscape to find the truth. What they found was the following.

Shortly after leaving Azorinthia, with Tensei's guidance, Sani ended up crash landing on a strange, dark planet, that oddly resembles Earth a bit. He landed in a city, covered in smog and pollution, full of greedy people who care only about money and fame. He was treated as an alien (despite technically being one) in a degrading and violent manner, in which he was physically and emotionally abused on a daily basis. Despite this, he still stayed happy, and cherished the little box he lived in, along with the blanket he had. One day, however, when someone threatened to call the police on him, a girl suddenly attacked the person and ran off into the nearby abandoned woods with the puffball. The young, naive Sani didn't know much at the time, but soon it turned out that the girl who took him was the ghost of a young, homeless girl who died in a tragic murder disguised as "an accident." The girl's name was Ashlyn, and she had intense emotions of remorse for the other poor and homeless people treated the way they are by everyone. When she saw Sani, her emotions took over, and she possessed a nearby girl to save him, leading to where they ended up.

Over the course of the next few weeks, Sani and Ashlyn would grow extremely close. Ashlyn was the one who taught Sani a lot of the English he knows now, as well as the one who gave him his passion for cooking. Despite the situation they were in, as the air was hard to breathe and the smog kept getting worse and worse, they were both happy. However, their happy story had an abrupt end, as tensions across the different countries got worse and worse. Threats of nuclear warfare were rising more and more, until the point where it was too late. Ashlyn saw the nuclear weapons about to be fired, and knew that the fallout would kill everyone, including Sani. However, because Sani was happy and had no regrets, he would just die, and wouldn't remain with her as a ghost. Not wanting him to die at such a young age, Ashlyn said her final goodbye to him, and slowly erased his memories of her as she sang her last lullaby to him. After he fell asleep, he was sent away from the planet on the warpstar he came there with. Just a few days later, the missiles were launched, and everyone on the planet was killed, leaving Ashlyn alone in the woods to mourn on her own as the last sentient being on the entirety of the planet.

## **Star Energy (WSH)**

Star Energy is a special energy type, found in stars. It is one of, if not the single most powerful type of energy by far, a single unit of it capable of running a large city for a significant amount of time. As the name suggests, it is derived from stars, and is much more potent in shooting stars. It's the power strong enough to allow wish granting upon stars, as well as their "life force." When a star runs low on star energy, it will begin to fade and flicker, before dying by either burning out, or going supernova in extreme cases. The only two living beings to possess this energy on Neo-Earth are Sani and Snoek, due to their sidereal qualities.

### **WSH in Lifeforms**

For Sani and Snoek, they both practically have Star Energy in their blood. It's what keeps them energized and able to push onward. Due to this, they can't die of old age or natural causes, a reason Tensei chose to make the two from the energy. However, they can still be killed by any normal means, I.E. being slaughtered by someone else or getting severely hurt. **Hyponergia** is a state that can be entered by reaching below critical levels of star energy, around 1-3. When in this condition, they fall into a deep sleep, in which they experience darkness, and are forced to live through horrible nightmares until awaking. Sani experienced this for 2 months straight, due to Spark being in a coma in frost forest for the same time. It's unknown if Snoek has experienced it before or not. On the contrary, when one reaches a nearly meditative state in which they focus hard enough and fill their minds with a purely positive feeling (such as hope), they can change into a **WSH form.** WSH forms bring out their true inner being, and allow them to use the same abilities they would if they weren't in the form of a kirby or a human/inchling. This form drains star energy at a very slow rate, however, when using their abilities in this form, it drains very quickly.

### **Additional Information...**

For more information on WSH, as well as details about WSH leveling and abilities such as overdrive, see the page on Star Energy.

## Possessions

**Unity Looplet**

A looplet with only one hole on it, given to Sani by Spark. He can use it to fill it with his own essence, creating a spirit emera on it. These provide various boosts, however, Sani rarely uses it, as he keeps it close to heart.

**Gensokyian Bear / Takumi**

Sani found a teddy bear in Gensokyo several months ago while he was recovering from hyponergia. He felt bad for it, thinking about how someone used to love it and don't have it anymore, so he took it with him. Now he keeps it with him almost everywhere he goes like a good luck charm. It eventually became a tsukumogami, which he named Takumi. He carries Takumi around with him everywhere he goes.

**Star Phone**

A special cell phone that Sani received from Kip when he was very young. The model is only made on Azorinthia, and is hard to find now. It's a yellow, roughly star-shaped phone, with a blue keypad. Unlike other phones, it is capable of calling from extremely long distances, and is capable of teleporting one to someone else in the contacts list by creating a temporary door. It can be recharged with his **WSH Charge** effect.

## Relationships

**Spark** (Best Friend)

Spark is Sani's true and eternal best friend. He's risked his life to save her on numerous occasions, and would do it again and again if he had to. She's the reason Sani didn't give up in the past, and helped him through the hardest of times. Together, they form the electrostellar duo, in which they combine their elements of electricity and WSH to do new things together. Their friendship is eternal, as suggested by their theme's name. They may bicker occasionally, but they'll always get over it no matter what.

**Kip** (Close Friend)

Kip was the one who raised Sani for the first couple years of his life. Sani cares a lot for Kip, even going through the trouble of going to the dreamscape to save his life alongside Snoek and the others once. While his memories are mostly hazy, he remembers one thing from when he lived with Kip the most, that being a small music box that he kept close and would listen to with Kip when he felt down. Even though Kip took care of him when he was young, the two have more of a friendly or sibling relationship than that of a father/son one.

**Snoek** (Brother)

Snoek started out as a close friend for Sani, and in literally one moment, "friend" became "family," as he learned that Snoek is his only technically blood-related family. Sani formed a duo with Snoek, promising to do anything and everything he can to make the world a better place, one step at a time. Sani cares more about Snoek than anyone else, and is willing to sacrifice himself for his well-being.

**Tensei** (Creator)

Not only was Tensei Sani's creator, she spoke to him in his dreams for years and years, telling him to never give up or lose hope. Sani, despite feeling the voice might just be himself, grew a close affection for it, and his dreams became a place of escape and warmth for him, no matter how cold it was where he was asleep. Her voice alone can instantly calm or make him feel better instantly.

## Themes

Warm 'n Cozy ...For Sani's Theme (Azorite)

My Future ...For Sani's Theme (Cerulean)

Home

Family (Ashlyn's Lullaby)

Eternal (Theme of Reunion) ...For Sani + Spark's Theme