Adeleine

"'What do I say, 'Hi, I'm Adeleine Stuart and I caused the apocalypse, please retweet?''"

Appearance
Adeleine is a 14-year-old girl who has a green, collared shirt, a red beret, a white skirt, and short, dark brown hair that splits in the middle, giving her a prominent forehead. She is usually seen with a paintbrush and palette in hand.

Personality
Adeleine is extremely loyal to her friends and anyone she takes under her wing, and strives to do great things, both in art, and in life! It's just too bad that her heroic plans have had disastrous results as often as they've had god-killing successes. It may just be that she cares too much, so that she latches onto ridiculous plans founded on assumptions - or often rushes into a conflict in order to protect her friends without much of a plan at all. It's worth noting that she doesn't like having to get into combat, but she's often too shortsighted to realize that there are often other options. At the same time, she’s a natural leader rather than a follower, and stepped up from the early days of the Kids of Tomorrow in order to combat the threats they were facing. Her successes have been numerous enough that her friends continued to trust her to pull through as their leader, even through some of the toughest challenges they’d faced - and this led to her spiraling and eventually realizing how not-dependable she really was.

Background
Adeleine grew up as the daughter of two factory workers on Planet Shiverstar, formerly known as Earth. She was later sent off-planet by her parents, hoping to give her a better life than what Shiverstar could offer, as the planet was nearly freezing over because of human interference in the environment. Several years after this, the planet became completely uninhabitable and the human race, including Adeleine's parents, died out almost entirely.

Adeleine, meanwhile, spent most of her childhood on Planet Popstar. She mostly kept to herself, taking over the Strawberry Palace in Cloudy Park, until the second Dark Matter invasion, when she was possessed by Dark Matter and, under its control, she was forced to rule over Cloudy Park. Kirby and Gooey, using Cloudy Park's Heart Stars, defeated her and freed her of Dark Matter's control, and Adeleine quickly befriended the two of them.

After Zero's defeat, upon the third Dark Matter invasion (which was orchestrated by Zero's brother, Zero-Two), Adeleine joined Kirby, Ribbon, Waddle Dee, and eventually King Dedede on their quest to free Planet Ripplestar of Dark Matter's influence, after being freed from Dark Matter's control once again. During this time, she quickly befriended Ribbon, and the duo became best friends. This was a bond that was strengthened after Zero-Two's defeat.

Adeleine and her friends were hailed as heroes by the Princess of Ripplestar, and Adeleine remained behind on Ripplestar to study art while Kirby, Waddle Dee, and King Dedede returned to Planet Popstar. As a result, for several years, Adeleine lived with Ribbon on Planet Ripplestar, and the two were inseparable. Ribbon and Adeleine eventually returned to Planet Popstar - with Planet Ripplestar's legendary Crystal to assist them - upon hearing of the spread of the Jamba Hearts across the galaxy.

Upon returning to Planet Popstar, they were initially separated from Kirby's group until finding the Squeak Squad, whom they traveled with despite consistent, inexplicable attacks from Dark Meta Knight. During this time, a friendship formed between Adeleine and Daroach. The group eventually reached Castle Dedede, at which point Adeleine, Ribbon, and the Squeak Squad joined up with Kirby's crew, and to everybody's confusion, Dark Meta Knight offered his assistance as well. From that point forward, they joined Kirby on his quest to gather forces to chase down the Dark Hearts - including Vividria, a painter much like Adeleine who she became fast friends with - and once the Jambastion formally attacked Popstar, they joined the Star Allies as well, a group founded by Meta Knight. The original group of Kirby, King Dedede, Waddle Dee (now armed with a spear and bandana), Adeleine, and Ribbon reunited once more to defeat the Jambandrans and eventually, Void Termina himself, the progenitor of Dark Matter.

After Void Termina's defeat, Adeleine returned to Planet Popstar, bidding farewell to Ribbon, who returned to Ripplestar. It was during this time that Susie Haltmann formed the Dream Juice Co., a foundation that was juicing puffballs, Kirby's species, to sell for a profit. Recognizing the issue, Adeleine teamed up with Kirby and her new friend Gret to stem the issue, and was able to help Kirby stop Susie's evil plot.

It was around this time that a collision between the Kirby universe and Starcrossing occurred, sending Adeleine and several other notable characters from the Kirby franchise into Starcrossing.

Story in Starcrossing
Upon arriving in Starcrossing, Adeleine took it upon herself to explore, until she encountered the very same Dark Matter that possessed her twice several years ago. Said Dark Matter, after chasing and being taunted by Adeleine several times, possessed her, and attempted to use her to take over Peach's Castle. Said takeover failed, and Adeleine was freed of Dark Matter's control and was able to fight him off.

In the wake of this attack, Dark Matter returned to attack Starcrossing once again, this time led by Zero. Adeleine and Ribbon, who had also recently arrived in Starcrossing, teamed up with Kirby and several of Starcrossing's other inhabitants to stop Zero, but were captured by Dark Matter. From the things Dark Matter said, Adeleine slowly realized that Dark Matter was keeping Adeleine and friends from a worse fate at the hands of Zero, and with the assistance of Kirby's Friend Hearts, was able to bring out the good in him and convince him that even he didn't have to remain tethered to Zero. From there, she made an effort to befriend him, and though he always sharply rebuked her, she was nonetheless inclined to spend time with him and Dark Matter, despite his statements, seemed to feel the same way.

Zero later returned, regaining control of Dark Matter entirely. It was around this time that Adeleine met and befriended Maxwell, and the two attempted to defend the X-Naut Fortress from Zero's forces. When this failed, she managed to break through Zero's control over Dark Matter by reminding him of the friendship they had formed.

Maxwell was far from the only lasting friend Adeleine made during this period of time. During one night in the Dimble Woods, while Adeleine was telling ghost stories to Dark Matter, they encountered Hat Kid, who despite being a rather quirky little child imprinted on Adeleine quickly, and the two became fast friends and exchanged stories of their adventures.

She also encountered and fought Drawcia, an evil painter witch who at first wished to revive Zero. However, with the help of Dark Meta Knight and Daroach, Adeleine was not only able to defeat Drawcia, but even to befriend her and help her onto the path to redemption. Later, she found out that Drawcia was, in fact, Vividria's older sister.

Other friends Adeleine made during this time were Lissa, an Inkling Magical Girl, Linky, Pementa, NESP,  and Lucas. This basic group began to hang out more and more often during these early days.

However, despite these new friends, enemies would also consistently appear; one of the most frequent being the Dastardly Bombers, headed by Plasma and Phantom Bomber. They sought to use Adeleine's painting powers for their own gain, attempting to get them to work for her several times before Phantom Bomber drained some of her magic away, gaining it for himself.

The Dastardly Bombers continued to be a nuisance for quite awhile after this point, though all but Magnet Bomber eventually made peace with the group.

Hat Kid was later kidnapped by DIO. Despite Adeleine and Dark Matter attempting to fight him, he seemed to be able to shrug off most of their attacks. While they were unable to rescue Hat Kid, Hat Kid later returned under the control of one of DIO's Flesh Buds. When the two removed the Flesh Bud, Hat Kid noticed and immediately removed a dormant one DIO had planted in Adeleine's neck.

DIO returned several times to cause more chaos to the small group Adeleine and friends had formed, but caused no lasting damage despite his immense power. One day in Greenhorn Forest, however, Lumia, a youkai girl, attacked the group, under the control of one of DIO's Flesh Buds. With Ado's help she was able to break free of DIO's control. Despite DIO using Flesh Buds to attempt to split the group up further, they were able to prevent DIO from doing any lasting damage to any member of the group several more times.

During this period of time, Lumia stuck with the group - at first, as a matter of convenience, but as time wore on, Adeleine and Lumia became genuine friends and began hanging out with each other specifically, not as a matter of convenience, but because they genuinely wanted to.

It was also around this time that Adeleine and Dark Matter had a falling-out, as a result of Dark Matter returning to his former evil ways. Despite this, Adeleine kept attempting to talk him out of it, to little effect. Distraught, she happened upon a girl named Ashley in the lost woods, who needed help finding a friend of hers. Adeleine volunteered her help, and the two began seeking out Ashley's friends. The two girls hit it off greatly, and became fast friends. After the two hung out, searching Starcross for quite some time for Ashley's friend, Ashley revealed that she was not this world's Ashley, but rather a version of her from another dimension, and she was looking for her friend in order to return to her home dimension.

Upon happening upon Ashley's friend, Dr. Strange, the two had a tearful goodbye - in Adeleine's case, because she'd made a friend that she'd have to lose so soon. Meanwhile, Lumia and Dark Matter had had a heart-to-heart, in which the two bonded somewhat. Ashley offered to allow Adeleine to come with her to parts unknown, however, upon looking to Dark Matter and Lumia, Adeleine was forced to decline, realizing how much she had to lose if she left Starcross. Despite this, Ashley promised to write, and the two said their final goodbyes. Ashley continued to send letters after the fact.

One day, when out with several of her friends, Adeleine came upon a pink crystal, which shattered, revealing a warrior named Galacta Knight. Galacta Knight revealed that he was seeking Kirby to defeat and kill him in a duel, and upon Adeleine refusing to tell Galacta Knight where Kirby was, Galacta Knight attacked - and nearly killed - Adeleine. The group was able to defeat and send Galacta Knight back despite his relentless pursuit, and Adeleine was healed by Lumia.

Later, Adeleine, this time alone, happened upon a god named Duma who had been using Vessel Essence to convert the residents of Toad Town into his mindless servants. Duma, for reasons unknown, challenged Adeleine to a duel, which Adeleine declined, explaining that she'd rather not get into another unnecessary conflict. Duma challenged her pacifistic ideals, laughing at her perceived "cowardice," and used Vessel Essence on Adeleine, forcing her to not only become extremely strong, but also to forget her pacifistic ideals and to become somewhat of a violent loose cannon. In a side effect, she also completely forgot her passion for art. Duma departed, revealing to Lumia - who had stumbled upon the scene - that Adeleine would also make for a mindless puppet should the need arise. Adeleine herself, probably due to the vessel essence influencing her mind, brushed off the situation, and as Lumia wasn't quite comfortable enough to confront Adeleine, the situation stood.

Dark Matter, who had still not been swayed to the side of good, later attacked and attempted to capture Adeleine, but Adeleine simply used her newfound strength to break out of the bag and start ruthlessly pummeling Dark Matter. Dark Matter, convinced now that something was seriously wrong, approached Lumia, who admitted she was just as clueless as to how to resolve the situation as he was.

Later that same day, Adeleine and Lumia happened upon the Princess of Ripplestar, who was possessed by Zero's now clearly incompetent brother, Zero-Two. Adeleine used the Crystal Shard Gun to remove Zero-Two from the Princess's body, and the Queen, now free of the possession, thanked Adeleine. Upon Adeleine asking how Ribbon was since returning to Ripplestar, the Princess revealed that she had not seen Ribbon for at least a month - Adeleine, at this same time, realized that this was around the same timeframe that she had last seen Ribbon in Starcross. With this information, the two concluded that something had interrupted Ribbon's voyage home. Adeleine, greatly concerned, attempted to rally the group to figure out some way to track Ribbon down, however, they were interrupted by Flamberge, who revealed that she had the technology in the Jambastion to track Ribbon and to get the group to where she needed to go. Adeleine graciously accepted Flamberge's help, and Flamberge summoned the Jambastion, crushing Peach's Castle in the process. The group, however, had more immediate worries.

It was soon discovered, to Adeleine's surprise, that Ribbon was located on Planet Shiverstar. When the others asked about her reaction, Adeleine explained that was her home planet. Maxwell questioned this, seeing as Adeleine had told him she was from Earth, but Adeleine explained that Earth had fallen into a deep freeze decades ago and was now only known as Shiverstar. Seeing as Maxwell was from Earth, albeit an alternate Earth that was not experiencing a deep freeze, this caused him great concern over the fact that he and his family were likely dead in this universe; a concern that was only amplified upon seeing the surface of Shiverstar himself. Adeleine attempted to console him, explaining that she was sure his family was back home in his world waiting for him.

The group examined the location Ribbon was said to be in, that being the factory Adeleine had visited when she had previously been on Shiverstar, without finding a trace of her. Upon leaving to look elsewhere, they spotted a machine departing from the factory and escaping into space. They tried to chase it down, but lost it; and the group returned to Starcross, Adeleine in particular dejected at her failure to find and save her friend.

The following day, Adeleine, still a vessel, was introduced to Lumia's new friend Morpho Knight. However, it was quickly discovered that Morpho Knight not only did not have his memories, but was slowly being corrupted from sharing a body with Galacta Knight, who eventually took over completely. Galacta Knight used Morpho Knight's body to turn Lumia against Adeleine using mind-control waves; however, the argument did not last as their memories were erased by Kakyoin.

The Vessel Essence from Duma and the strength that came from it later disappeared - and when Adeleine came to her senses, she discovered that Lumia had made a deal to remove Adeleine's vessel essence in exchange to become Duma's Vessel herself - breaking her seal in the process and becoming a mindless force of destruction. Furthermore, while mindlessly causing havoc, Lumia encountered Duma's master, Grima. Lumia declined Grima's offer of greater power in exchange for becoming his vessel, and promptly became a Vessel anyway because Grima did not care. This turned her into an entirely mindless puppet of Grima's whim - however, when Grima demonstrated his ultimate ability to turn back time when fatally wounded, all memory of Grima's influence was lost.

This catapulted Adeleine and Lumia into a repeating cycle of becoming servants of Grima and assisting him in attempted takeovers of the Mushroom Kingdom, only to have time be reset after fatal wounds were inflicted on Grima. Due to the breaking of Lumia's seal each time she became a Vessel, they were privy to memories of the previous cycles - and eventually figured out that the best way to handle things would be to let Grima win, as otherwise they'd be trapped in an infinitely repeating cycle. This did not take well with Dark Matter, whose constant attempts to kill Grima and to free them culminated in a battle where Grima forced Lumia to attack Dark Matter - causing Adeleine to jump in front of the knife and take a fatal wound, breaking the Vessel Essence. This drove Dark Matter into such a rage that, despite Grima inflicting a wound to himself to try to reset the timeline, he attacked Grima ruthlessly to the point where Grima was driven back into his own portal, being sealed and 'reset' himself and losing his powers to cause the reset in the first place.

In the end, this is what cemented Adeleine's friendship with Dark Matter; and forced Dark Matter to accept his willingness to protect her and care about her.

One day, while out exploring, Adeleine and her friends stumbled upon an abandoned Wigglytuff's Guild. They decided to move in and eventually adopt the group name "Kids of Tomorrow," though upon the original owner's return Adeleine later bought it for the price of a giant hat. Here, Adeleine made other friends such as Kitsune, Singe and Esorta. She also found a recurring nuisance in the Slimes, particularly the Big Ice-Cream Slime, who took a liking to eating her hat. However, eventually she came around to see the latter as a pet of sorts.

Adeleine also met Sonzai-shin, who was fairly candid in explaining that they were a Creator, a being beyond godlike comprehension. Due to the fact that they were brainstorming ways to rescue Ribbon around this same time, Sonzai noted that they could get Ribbon back for them, but it would not be "fair". Adeleine countered that point by explaining her own viewpoint, that the current situation was not by Ribbon's choice and that it would be the right thing to do to save her - which caused Adeleine to discover the weakness of Creators, mental confusion - as a large crack appeared in Sonzai-shin's forehead. Nonetheless, Sonzai eventually agreed after much badgering, but after Ribbon was saved, showed Adeleine multiple possible futures that could have occurred had they not done that - including one where they both ended up in tubes, being drained by the power of a Clockwork Star. Ribbon, meanwhile, after taking some time to recover, returned to Ripplestar.

Adeleine in particular made a concerted effort to befriend Sonzai-shin despite Sonzai-shin's inability to process this on the same level as mortals. This is amplified by Sonzai-shin's explanation of being betrayed by another friend in the past, who abandoned them as soon as Sonzai-shin gave them the powers of an Elder God as a gift.

Galacta Knight, still using the body of Morpho, finally found and challenged Kirby to a duel, beating the young puffball handily, stealing his Inhale ability on top of it. Adeleine and Lumia were forced to concoct a plan to save Morpho by being inhaled and then using Vessel Essence directly on Galacta Knight's brain to force him to separate from Morpho. This actually worked, and they were granted the opportunity to kill Galacta - but Kirby used a Friend Heart instead, removing his bloodlust and granting a mutual respect between him and the group. He also hinted to being reminded of an old friend in Adeleine's appearance and abilities.

Another notable event was Adeleine's first encounter with Kyubey, who attempted to serenade Adeleine with lies in order to coerce her to make a wish. Adeleine ultimately refused despite Kyubey's claims that Lumia's friendship would not last once her seal was broken and she would revert into a primal monster, and even claiming that Grima would return.

DIO later revealed that Hat Kid has been taken prisoner by the Mushroom Kingdom for burning down several villages, and that he was allied with Hat Kid's old enemy, Mustache Girl. Adeleine immediately concluded that this is a frame and with the help of Apollo Justice concocted a plan to expose DIO during what they believe will be a very rigged trial. This was amplified when the accusation was extended to the rest of the group for "conspiring" with Hat Kid. It's here that Ado befriended Mario, who realizes that the trial is a sham due to the circumstances. Despite the terrorist accusation, Bowser offered the Kids of Tomorrow refuge in his kingdom if the trial did not go well, for the most part to get back at Princess Peach.

It was here that Adeleine took action and charge of the situation, being formally accepted as the leader of the Kids of Tomorrow in the process. She devised a plan with the help of Mega Man and Mario in order to have Mario distract the jury while Mega Man digs the presumed Flesh Bud out of the Judge. This plan, however, was ruined with the revelation after the fact that DIO had not implanted a Flesh Bud in the judge at all - and, once Mega Man tried to dig it out, the entire group came under fire. It was at this point when Bowser's "Plan B" was enacted, attacking the Mushroom Kingdom in order to grant the Kids of Tomorrow the opportunity to escape to his castle. Ado took the whole situation to be her fault and fell apart completely - and, when DIO later attacked Bowser's Castle, she gave herself up to him to protect her friends despite their protests.

DIO threw both himself and Adeleine into the lava, giving the illusion to her friends that they both had died - however, in reality, DIO simply transported the two to the Lost Woods, leaving them alone with only a Hat Kid-sized coffin that Adeleine naturally presumed contained Hat Kid; DIO told her that if she didn't do what she was told, whoever was in there was going to die. With this blackmail, he convinced her to paint something very special - one of Hat Kid's Time Pieces. Upon DIO acquiring the Time Piece, the figure in the coffin was stabbed - however, it was in fact Mustache Girl, and Hat Kid emerged just then to attempt to beat DIO up. Due to DIO's sheer power, this attempt failed; however, DIO told them that now that he had what he wanted, the charges against them had been dropped.

In the end, Adeleine went home - resulting in a new soul awakening in Lumia once she found out Adeleine was in fact alive - simply hoping they would be safe from DIO now that he had gotten what he had wanted.

Around this time, the group also encountered Sonzai-Shin as well, who warned them that they were being targeted by another Creator, named Kyu. This Creator was, according to Sonzai, incredibly dangerous and out to erase anybody who knew of Creators - so Sonzai suggested that they gather the Sparkling Stars and summon Galactic Nova in order to achieve a wish that would make them immune to direct action by their species. One of the planets the Sparkling Stars are on was Ripplestar, prompting a brief reunion between Adeleine and Ribbon.

Ultimately, though, it was revealed by a minion of Sonzai's former "friend" - who would later come to be known as Sprinkles - that Sonzai had been using them all along in order to form a group of "heroes" to kill Chisei, the ruler of existence. As evidence mounted, Adeleine felt incredibly betrayed by this revelation, and ultimately confronted Sonzai, the group nearly fatally wounding them with sheer mental confusion. However, Lissa's genuine desire to protect her friends manifests her power as a Magical Girl and heals them, thus allowing them to properly reconcile with Sonzai, and ultimately leading to a genuine attempt towards friendship on Sonzai's part for the future. Sonzai, meanwhile, gave their own perspective on Chisei and how they wished to create a "perfect world" - asking the Kids of Tomorrow for genuine help with dealing with the situation once a plan was devised.

Bowser, a couple of weeks later, returned to the clubhouse - their previous alliance apparently forgotten. He demanded the deed to the place, which Adeleine refused - and a fight ultimately took place, the group ultimately driving Bowser back. This left them all confused as to why Bowser was now attacking them - without any of his minions, even - despite their previous alliance.

Another unfortunate instance occurred with the arrival of Parallel Dark Matter, a variant of Dark Matter from a timeline in which the events of the Crystal Shards resulted in the defeat of the heroes. This Dark Matter at first posed a threat to the group, but ultimately allied with them upon an unfortunate revelation - Grima was, in fact, poised to return, according to Nah. As such, Adeleine gained access to Parallel Dark Matter's army of Waddle Doos - however, Grima did not show himself the longer they waited, leading to the plot as a whole petering out. Meanwhile, the Waddle Doos went on to start their own band.

A revelation from Esorta made matters worse, however - along with Gensokyo and Esorta's home dimension, some force - which they falsely presumed to be Grima - had deleted Adeleine's entire home dimension. This tested her friendship with Lumia, who cast a spell to completely dull her own emotions - however, Adeleine was able to break through it by reminding her of their friendship. Parallel Dark Matter, who was there at the time, was even affected by this speech.

Another event that occured just about at the same time was the attack of Ganondorf on Dreamland. Adeleine, who stepped up to defend her home, was stabbed through the gut before Ganondorf was defeated and properly killed, leaving her confined to a wheelchair for about a week due to all of the blood loss. Meanwhile, she also found out that Dark Matter had been complying with Zero's orders and was planning to attack Starcrossing behind her back. This led to a confrontation where she told Dark Matter just how betrayed she felt and ended in her dropping the phrase "I HATE YOU!" However, she ultimately made up with Dark Matter thanks to the help of Drawcia and Dark Matter's admittance that he was afraid to stand up to Zero. Adeleine offers to help him do so.

Adeleine's 13th birthday went fairly smoothly, and a small, low-key celebration went by - up until Parallel Dark Matter, sick of Grima's lack of emergence, attaed proper and revealed that he's captured the Queen of Ripplestar as well as Ribbon. He demanded that Adeleine give herself up to him in exchange for their freedom, and Adeleine - who felt there was no other choice at the time - accepted, becoming possessed in the process. At this point, Parallel Dark Matter snoops through Adeleine's memories, seeing not only how much she'd been through in the past few months, but how much she'd been through before then, too - and realizes just how ill-intended his revenge is. In the end, he apologizes - using his power to restore Earth, Popstar and Gensokyo to their former states, and bringing Adeleine's parents back as well.

(To be continued)

Abilities and Gear
Due to a certain aspect of her family tree, Adeleine's power to use color to bring things to life is imbued into her very soul. She is able to accomplish this - creating everything from mundane objects to large, combat-focused beasts (albeit ones that only last a limited amount of time - she's not quite skilled enough to create ACTUAL life yet, and would prefer not to), by painting them on her canvas. Anything she brings to life using this method will be incredibly flimsy and ultimately will go down in only a few hits. She can also paint her face to resemble various Kirby baddies to take their form directly. This will be a lot more powerful and long-lasting; however, she can’t communicate when in this form, and when it’s over, her energy will be drained to the point where it’s really only worthwhile as a last resort. She seems to have the ability to produce a canvas from thin air, as well as use it to defend from just about any attack coming from that direction. It’s never been explained how this is possible.