Pirika

Pirika Artwork of Pirika from the Kirby novel series Details First appearance Kirby: Save the Rainbow Islands! Role Guest character Similar to Ribbon, Elline

Pirika is a guest character featured in the Kirby novel series, and makes her appearance in Kirby: Save the Rainbow Islands! as the main antagonist. She cast a spell on the lake that pours rain onto the Rainbow Islands which makes everyone who drinks its water become her puppet and manipulates Kirby and his friends to help her, thus setting the events of the story in motion. By the end of the story, she learns the errors of her ways and becomes friends with Kirby and his friends.

Characteristics

Pirika is a fairy traveler who wears white clothes. She has a plump yet healthy body and transparent wings on her back. She got short limbs which are disconnected from her body and bug-like antenna coming from her head. She has curly hair, on it, a ribbon tied in a bow. When she is frightened, her skin becomes very pale, and when she is excited, it turns red.

Pirika appears to have a sweet and kind personality, but in the story, it is revealed that there is a shadow inside her heart. She lies and manipulates Kirby and his friends to pursue her plan for mind controlling all the residences of the Rainbow Islands. Deep inside, she is lonely and doesn’t have any friends. She has a spell that makes people do her bidding, which she uses to make people admire her, but only for a short time. She is an admirer of Queen Sectonia and seeks to become strong, beautiful, and admirable like her. She is deeply envious of the friendship that Kirby and his friends have and wants to have real friends, even if she says she doesn’t.

Role in Kirby: Save the Rainbow Islands!

Pirika being rescued by Rick

Main article: Kirby: Save the Rainbow Islands!

Before the events of the story, was living in her home village, but she didn’t have any friends, making her feel lonely. With her spell that can cause people to be her puppet, she made others love and admire her, but her spell couldn’t last forever, and every time it broke, people would become more afraid of her and her power and hate her, which made her cast the spell again. Eventually, she was exiled from the village, becoming a traveler with no home. Out of loneliness, she wanted to create a spell that would never be broken and became a fan of Queen Sectonia, because she could make others follow her commend and wanted to become like her.

At the beginning of the story, Pirika meets Taranza near Queen Sectonia’s castle and tells him that she journeyed to Floralia because of her respect to the queen and tells him about her ambitions to like her. After hearing it, Taranza tried to persuade Pirika against it, but she doesn’t give up. She instead travels the universe and finds another sapling of a Dreamstalk, which she plants, but because of the the loneliness and pain in her heart, the Dreamstalk was changes from green to a dull purple. The Dreamstalk also strengthens her puppet spell, making it last forever.

Kirby, Rick, Kine and Coo meet Pirika, after she had fallen from the clouds, and see that she is injured. She tells them that while traveling in the Rainbow Islands, she found a strange creature that disappeared into the clouds and made the rain stop. She pursued the creature because she suspected his intensions and found out a giant lake above the clouds, and that the creature obstructed the waterflow from the lake, causing the rain to stop. She tells them that he attacked her, and pushed her from the clouds. In reality, it was Gooey who chased her into the clouds. There, She planted the Dreamstalk, which its roots cursed the water inside the lake, making everyone who drinks them fall into her puppet spell. Her plan was that when the clouds would rain, the water from the lake would pour from the clouds, cursing the residences of the rainbow island to be her puppets, which Gooey tried to stop. Nevertheless, after hearing Pirika’s story, the group goes to chase the creature and return the rain, with the help of Pirika, that wanted to join too.

When Gooey sees that Pirika was trying to push Kirby into the cursed lake when pretending to be afraid of him, he attacks Kirby to prevent him from falling, which makes him seem like the culprit. Gooey Starts to attack Pirika, which makes the group run away. When the group tries to fight Gooey, Pirika tries to convince the others to jump into the lake to take control over them, but Coo gets suspicious about that. Coo, realizing that Pirika’s want to make them jump into the lake was a part of her plan, tells the group that she was the culprit behind the incident. Pirika, understanding that her plan failed, flies away. After successfully pushing King Dedede and Meta Knight, both of them come out of the lake as her puppets, which she commands to attack Kirby. After Kirby and Gooey defeat King Dedede and Meta Knight, Pirika tries to run away again, but Gooey captures her. The group stuffs Pirika and their two mind-controlled friends in a sack, which makes Pirika very mad.

While the group was trying to understand how to undo the curse, King Dedede and Meta Knight free themself from the sack, freeing Pirika too, and the battle ensues. In the middle of the battle, Pirika flies away and start removing the stones that blocked her puppet potion. Kirby, in his last resort, sucks up all the water from the lake, ruining Pirika’s plan. After the battle, Pirika becomes exhausted and cannot fight back. After the group sees that King Dedede and Meta knight remain under the spell, they ask Pirika again how to undo it, but she doesn’t know how. Kirby says to Pirika that he felt her pain when drinking the water, which was mixed into the potion. Pirika tells them the reason for her actions. After hearing her story, Kirby offers Pirika to be her friend, which makes the others join too, yet Pirika still refused to accept their offer, until she begins to cry out of loneliness, breaks down and accept their friendship. After Pirika’s heart has been cleared, the Dreamstalk changes back to green, the water begins flowing back, and the effect of her spell disappears. Kirby offers to her to go back with them to the Rainbow Islands with them, but Pirika refuses, saying that she needs to go back to her home village that exiled her to apologize for controlling everyone. They say goodbye to each other, promising to meet another day.

Gallery

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  Pirika meets Taranza.

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  Pirika being stuck in the boat.

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  Kirby grabs Pirika to run away from Gooey.

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  Coo hides Pirika from the impact of Kirby's inhale.

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  Pirika being mad at being stuffed in a sack.

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  Pirika tells about her ambition to be like Queen Sectonia.

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  Pirika cries and accepts the friendship offering.

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  Everybody plays tag together.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ピリカ Pirika	Pirika Derived from ピリカ, an Ainu word meaning good or beautiful.