Moon Prince Kubo

"This is the end of my story"

Moon Prince Kubo is an AU version of the character Kubo, from the stop-motion animated movie, *Kubo and The Two Strings*.

## Backstory

Kubo claimed the last piece of armor, the "Invulnerable Helmet", which turned out to be his village bell. After completing his objective he is greeted by Raiden, who reveals himself as his grandfather, the Moon King. He wants to take Kubo's remaining eye to join his "family" and make him immortal like him. Kubo refuses and Raiden, angry at his decision, transforms into a gigantic sentinel known as the "Beast from the Moon" and attacks him mercilessly. Despite fighting for a few minutes in the exchange of blows, Kubo is beaten and violently thrown into the village cemetery, where the beast of the Moon corners him and the villagers who were there. Kubo opts to shed the armor and try to win with his shamisen, fixing the strings using his mother's hair, his father's bowstring, and a strand of his own hair. He uses his magic to recruit the spirits of the deceased villagers, showing his grandfather that memories are the strongest magic of all because they will never be destroyed. To end the fight, he uses the summoned spirits to protect himself and the villagers from the Moon Beast and then envelops it in his magic. The Moon King is finally defeated and becomes a human being, in his mortal form he does not remember who or what he was. The villagers show compassion and forgiveness and convince him that he was a man full of positive traits.

In the end, Kubo manages to speak to his deceased parents, whose spirits appear alongside him, as he floats his lanterns across a lake, as he watches the other lanterns of the deceased villagers transform into storks and fly to the world of the spirits heading to heaven. The bad ending occurs when the Moon King manages to attack him in the cemetery, destroying the shamisen that his grandson possessed, leaving him defenseless and without the possibility of summoning the spirits. Therefore, the winner of the fight is Raiden, who takes advantage of the situation to instead of murdering Kubo, he steals his eye, taking away his empathy for humans and transforming him into his apprentice and heir to the celestial kingdom against his will. After that the town is destroyed by both divine beings willing to rule both worlds with an iron fist.

## Appearance

Kubo wears a blue kimono along with the armor, now a tainted blue to represent the moon. He also wears a long black feathered cape. His hair covers up whatever is left of his upper face after Raiden took his eye.

## Personality

Kubo has lost all empathy for humanity and believes them to be unworthy of his own spit and thinks that they all would be better off dead, as for friends and family he only cares for the strong if any of his family begins to show weakness he will lash out without any remorse. All in all Kubo has become a sick, sadistic, yet bored god with all his powers he still feels like something is missing and will often wonder why everything is so bland. Although challenging, it is not impossible to make friends with him. Though much of his old self is lost, he still finds himself enjoying mortal music and Kubo often finds himself making paper origami animals.

## Trivia

* The Art on the Info-box is made by ryu || kaibutsu on *Twitter*.