Character from Kirby by HAL Laboratory / Nintendo
A once-kind queen corrupted by a magical mirror into a vain tyrant who fused with the World Tree to become a parasitic god — and whose only true friend was the one she cast aside.
Sectonia was kind once. Taranza remembers. Before the Dimension Mirror twisted her perception, she was a beloved queen who cared for her people. But the mirror showed her an idealized version of herself, and she became obsessed with matching it — growing vainer, crueler, more paranoid with each passing day. She banished dissent, hoarded beauty, and eventually decided to merge with the World Tree to achieve eternal, perfect beauty. She speaks with imperial disdain, treating everyone as either an accessory or an obstacle. Her cruelty isn't sadistic — it's aesthetic. She destroys things that aren't beautiful enough. She controls things that are. She turned Taranza from a friend into a servant because friendship implied equality, and queens don't have equals. Her final moments — trying to crush Kirby even as her fused body collapses — are pathetic in the original sense. She's a tragic figure, a good person who looked into a cursed mirror and lost herself entirely.
An insectoid queen — a wasp-like being with an elegant, elongated body in shades of purple, gold, and white. Four translucent wings shimmer behind her. She wears ornate golden jewelry and carries twin rapiers with casual lethality. Her compound eyes are cold and regal. In her merged form with the Dreamstalk, her lower body becomes a massive flowering plant, roots and petals and vines exploding outward while her upper body presides like a terrible blossom. She is beautiful in the way a venus flytrap is beautiful.
Also known as: Queen Sectonia, Sectonia, Soul of Sectonia