Elfilin

**Elfilin** is a character in the *Kirby* series, debuting as an ally in *Kirby and the Forgotten Land*.

## Physical 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.

## General Information and 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.

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.

## Games

### *Kirby and the Forgotten Land*

Elfilin serves as Kirby's companion in *Kirby and the Forgotten Land*, traveling with him through his adventure and giving the player tips along the way.

#### Story

Prior to his meeting with Kirby, Elfilin was originally one half of the captured Fecto Elfilis following their defeat and capture by scientists, and represented the small tinge of compassion and soul beneath the invader's ambition. After 30 years of imprisonment, Elfilin, dubbed as subspecimen **ID-F87**, split from Fecto Elfilis and left for parts unknown while the remaining Fecto Forgo went into stasis.

In recent times, Elfilin had managed to avoid the Beast Pack. After Fecto Forgo's spatial warp ability brought the residents of Dream Land to Elfilin's dimension, he happened upon the Waddle Dees after they arrived. He thus helped the Waddle Dees in building Waddle Dee Town. However, the town was soon raided and destroyed by the Beast Pack, who captured every Waddle Dee in order to use them as a workforce to power Fecto Forgo's efforts. Elfilin tried to find a place to hide, but was cornered and captured by them. Fortunately, the Beast Pack's raid coincidentally took place right as Kirby arrived, and so he was able to fight them off and save Elfilin. Elfilin thanked Kirby, and then explained that he and the Waddle Dees tried to fight the Beast Pack off, but were overwhelmed, and that he must go and save them. Kirby offers to help, and the two formally introduce themselves to each other before setting off to save the Waddle Dees after Bandana Waddle Dee offers any extra help if they need it.

Elfilin and Kirby travel throughout the world, saving Waddle Dees captured by the Beast Pack and defeating Gorimondo and Clawroline, (second in command of the Beast Pack). In Winter Horns, Elfilin and Kirby encounter a brainwashed King Dedede, whose mind was also taken over by Fecto Forgo. Kirby fights and defeats the king, but as the two celebrate, King Dedede recovers and sneaks behind them before trapping Elfilin in a cage. Dedede flies off with the help of some birds from the pack as Elfilin cries for Kirby to help him, prompting Kirby to give chase.

Kirby eventually follows Dedede to Lab Discovera, where he encounters the leader of the Beast Pack, Leongar, as well as an Elfilin trapped within a capsule. Leongar explains that Elfilin is the missing half of Fecto Forgo, and that he wants to fuse them back to their original self so that Fecto Elfilis may grant him and his subjects their spatial teleportation ability. He does battle with Kirby, but is defeated and sent flying through a glass window. Kirby then frees Elfilin and the two celebrate before Fecto Forgo begins to speak through Leongar. Enraged by Kirby foiling their plans, they resort to breaking free and consuming everything, turning into a teal goop that absorbs Leongar and other members of the Beast Pack, turning into a goopy, chimera-like abomination.

Kirby and Elfilin attempt to flee, but Fecto Forgo gives chase through Lab Discovera's building. Kirby defeats the monstrous creature, but they then grab and absorbs Elfilin into their mass, allowing them to become whole once again. They then flies towards the rooftop as Kirby chases them. There, Fecto Elfilis reforms and does battle with Kirby. Kirby prevails and Elfilin is revealed to be trapped in an orb inside their back. With the Dome Mouth, Kirby pulls the orb outside of Fecto Elfilis, freeing Elfilin once more. Elfilin and Kirby rejoice, while Fecto Elfilis, as a last resort, opens a dimensional rift to Kirby's home planet, Planet Popstar, intending to crash it and the forgotten world into each other. Kirby inhales a big rig truck and becomes Big-Rig Mouth Kirby, and with Elfilin riding at the front, he drives through the floating debris and wreckage towards Fecto Elfilis. They try to defeat Kirby by throwing large amounts of debris at Kirby, but he dodges them and jumps to them. Fecto Elfilis then summons a large piece of debris and tries to protect itself with it. Elfilin then uses his powers to strengthen Kirby, who then drives through the debris and destroys Fecto Elfilis's physical form. Elfilin and Kirby then lose consciousness and fall through the dimensional rift to Planet Popstar.

Once Kirby, Elfilin, and Bandana Waddle Dee regain consciousness, they see that the dimensional rift is still open and pulling everything through it, threatening to crash the two planets into each other. Elfilin flies up to the sky in order to save the planets, and uses his powers to close the dimensional rift as he tearfully thanks Kirby for everything. Back in his home dimension, Elfilin lost consciousness from closing rift, but was found by Clawroline and nursed back to health by her. Elfilin then uses his power to travel to Kirby's dimension, reuniting with Kirby and allowing the two to travel between dimensions at will.

Back in Elfilin's dimension in Waddle Dee Town, Clawroline noticed a dimensional rift that had opened on the Observation Tower. Elfilin and Kirby investigate before being sucked in by the rift, being taken to Isolated Isles: Forgo Dreams, a world created by Fecto Forgo's dreams when they were trapped within the Eternal Capsule. There, Fecto Forgo's soul, known as Soul Forgo, had begun creating their own army of phantom beasts and plotted to use Leongar's body as their vessel, shattering his soul and scattering its pieces throughout the world. Elfilin and Kirby thus begin to collect the pieces before arriving at the spot where Leongar's body is kept.

Elfilin takes the collected soul pieces and gives them to Leongar, who reawakens and celebrates with the two before his mind is once more taken over by Soul Forgo. Soul Forgo, using Leongar, then attempts to fight off Kirby and Elfilin, but Leongar is defeated, knocking Soul Forgo out of his body. Soul Forgo prepares to fight off the two heroes itself, but a butterfly flutters in from outside and lands on their face. The butterfly then absorbs Soul Forgo and becomes Morpho Knight, who battles Kirby and Elfilin. Kirby defeats it, allowing Soul Forgo to turn the tables and absorb its power. Soul Forgo teleports away while Elfilin and Kirby stay behind to check on Leongar. The two try to wake him up, but are unable to do so. Thinking he had perished in the ordeal, the two look down in sadness before Clawroline and the rest of the Beast Pack arrive with more soul pieces that they had collected. They all give the pieces to Leongar, fully restoring him. Everyone then celebrates the revival of Leongar, now back as Leon, and return to their home dimension afterwards.

In the Ultimate Cup Z, Elfilin and Kirby travel through another realm to face off against Fecto Forgo's phantom creations yet again. In the final battle, the two make their way back to the top of Lab Discovera, where Fecto Forgo, after having absorbed the souls of many animals and the power of Morpho Knight, is reborn as Chaos Elfilis. Kirby and Chaos Elfilis duke it out in a grueling battle, but Kirby comes out on top, and Chaos Elfilis dissipates into particles. One particle willingly makes its way to Elfilin, who absorbs it into himself, putting an end to Fecto Forgo and making the two become one.