Lacuna (Puffball)

Lacuna’s art in Kirby: Stretch of Darkness (2031)

**Lacuna**, also known as the **Time Erasor**, is a former ancient hero, and the main antagonist of *Kirby: Last Goodbye,* *Kirby: Civil War Intact*, and *Kirby: Stretch of Darkness.* She is notable for being one of, if not the, only person Kirby hates.

## Appearance

Before her transformation, Lacuna was a b/w puffball with white shoes, and a scowl on her face. She had aGreyscale blush, as well as a red Iris.

## Games

Lacuna makes her first appearance in *Kirby: Last Goodbye* as the main antagonist. She is the daughter of Capys, She makes her appearance in Unwavering Foe, where she is revealed to be the one responsible for changing the timelines so that Kirby's friends would never be redeemed. This causes Kirby to be left with only Bandana Waddle Dee, Taranza and Sectonia as his allies. Upon her defeat, the timelines were restored to normal, with the added bonus of Taranza returning from the dead, fully redeemed, with the same going for Sectonia.

In *Kirby: Stretch of Darkness*, Lacuna appears as a spirit. Kirby asks Lacuna how she is alive when he defeated her in *Kirby: Last Goodbye*. Lacuna then replies that she is alive as a spirit. Lacuna tells Kirby that she was able to use Galacta Knight's memories of her to make her return to the living world as a spirit. Lacuna then states that she won't rest until she gets revenge on Kirby for what he did to her. Kirby then tells Lacuna about Flavius's plans to destroy the universe and asks her to put her hatred against him aside so that they can work together to defeat Flavius. But Lacuna refuses. Kirby is then about to ask her again but then remembers what she did to his friends and his hatred for her starts to come back to him. Kirby then fights Lacuna but can't as she is a spirit. Dark Matter Swordsman then transfers some of the power from the Rainbow Sword to Kirby. This allows Kirby to fight Lacuna. Eventually, Lacuna is defeated, and a portal appears which sends her back to the death world. Kirby is about to destroy her soul completely but then remembers that Lacuna was the reason that Taranza was alive. So he stops himself and Lacuna is sent back to the death world.

Lacuna Spirit EX is fought in *Last Dark Stand*.

Lacuna is sidelined as a side antagonist under the command of Dark Bailey. It is revealed that during her time as a spirit in *Turbulent Apocalypse*, she undid her death in *Last Goodbye*, before using her time-altering powers to convince Kirby's closest friends that he was a "pink demon", specifically Eclipse Termina. She also destroyed the Mirror World via unleashing Photil during the events of the altered *Amazing Mirror*, and brought Agrippa into the main timeline as a result of her time altering. She had also taken complete control of Popstar, and has grunts to attack Kirby. This is the sole game in the *Lacuna Trilogy* where Lacuna is not fought as the final boss. When she is fought as a boss, Kirby slices her head off, causing her to disintegrate. But before Kirby can steal her power, she explodes so that Kirby can never rearrange the timelines. After Kirby gets the time magic from the past Flavius, Kirby attempts to rearrange the timelines, but Lacuna's spirit shows all the bad memories, transforming Kirby into Temporal Eclipse Termina. After Temporal Eclipse Termina is defeated and Kirby is freed once more, Francisca helps Kirby to use the time magic. While using the time magic, they see Lacuna's spirit trying to stop them by showing them bad memories of the past, but Kirby and the Mages slash Lacuna, destroying her spirit, which kills her completely. However, after the timelines are rearranged again, it's shown that Lacuna was also revived due to an error in the time magic. Lacuna then plans on brainwashing one of Kirby's friends rather than all of them, this cutscene leads to *Kirby: The Last Stand of Sextus* (2041). This is notably the sole game in the *Lacuna Trilogy* where she is not the final boss, that honor belonging to Temporal Eclipse Termina.

Chronologically, Kirby and the Forgotten Land is allegedly Lacuna's debut in the universe. She was captured by Valerius and Dr. Secundus and was used to cast the titular Royal Spell. Kirby eventually frees her in the depths of skull castle, and she appears in the post-credits scene of the game, setting up *Last Goodbye*.