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   A Knight Must Be... by Chesgray

   Fandoms: Kirby (Video Games)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   02 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Kirby & Meta Knight
   • Kirby (Kirby)
   • Meta Knight
   • Sailor Waddle Dee
   • Javelin Knight (Kirby)
   • Original Characters
   • King Dedede
   • Alternate Universe
   • What if Kirby and Meta were the same age?
   • And Meta honestly didn't like it?
   • What if they both had weighty pasts they only partially understood?
   • And lived in a very different universe?
   • Angst
   • Crying
   • I guarantee no consistent in terms of upload schedule or chapter length
   • Worldbuilding
   • I have no idea what I am doing but I am doing it
   • Original Character(s)
   • In a Gamble Galaxy where the stars are winking out
   • leaving only an indifferent void in the sky
   • there is no beta.
   • Trauma
   • Childhood Trauma
   • (as in the characters are often children who are in fact going through trauma)
   • (but in such a place can any adult be said to have had a childhood without?)
   • I'll be real I think I am progressively sliding into xenofiction with this thing
   • Harm to Children
   • Oh man is there ever. Thought there had to be a tag for that.

   Summary

   Kirby and Meta are two young Starchildren whose very different paths have led them to a pirate brig. Their paths have also led them to the impossible paradise-world of Popstar. One is perfectly content to be a child, and one is perfectly content to be a warrior. But in truth, both are children, and both are warriors.

   And far more besides.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   259,651

   Chapters:

   83/?

   Comments:

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   Bookmarks:

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