Who Is Chaos Elfilis?! Lab Experiment Gone WRONG?! [Theory]

A happy ending that doesn't end with kirby eradicating a cosmic being at an atomic level, instead he just reduced it to a soul that can't even be bothered to fight back.

11:07 Rather than a lion and a butterfly it seems more likely that it's a moth, moths have butterfly wings and manes? mains? neck fluff. and their antenna can take different forms sometimes resembling antlers.

Star Allies established Morpho Knight as the “wings of judgment” which I believe goes beyond just being a cool name. My theory is that when Morpho Knight consumed Soul Forgo, he considered him worthy of a second chance at life and granted him part of his power transforming him into Chaos Elfilis

Just when I thought this game wasn't gonna be as heavy as the others in terms of Lore,it started to hit harder than ever

i think Elfilis is Nintendo's take on a chimera. for those who don't know either Greek or Egyptian mythology, a chimera is a monster comprised of multiple parts of different animals the common depiction is a tiger or lion with a goat head attached and a snake for a tail but chimeras are just multiple animals mixed into one. i think that is what Fecto Elfilis is they're a chimera of alien origins.

I love how Kirby casually fights beings able to create wormholes, destroy galaxies and warp between dimensions. And he is so chill about it.

11:21 The side parts sorta look like Axolotls, a species of salamander with incredible regenerating capabilities. Maybe that’s why Elfilis has a Health Recovering move?

14:26 I think its more that every enemy kirby faces has a soul inside, and its a similar kind of soul, because it is a similar kind of being. Like how Void Termina looks like Kirby, so do these other soul forms. My theory is that Kirby is fighting the same kind of creature every time, a dark matter, essence similar to his own.

9:58 I would like to note that Taranza in Star Allies also has this ability, but instead of his soul it's the soul of Sectonia. It's always interesting to see what characters share abilities

14:03 that bouncing attack seems to be something kinda common in this soul bosses, since sectonia's soul also uses that attack and, by the way, chaos elfilis has an attack from sectonia's soul when she seperates in two colors, pink and blue to ''rain'' into kirby, just like chaos elfilis does but with more violence

I’m not sure about Elfilis’ origins. Looking at how it was absorbing creatures during that goo phase, maybe it is a natural born creature. Could be a kind of chimera or just an apex life-form from its home planet. It could have absorbed all sorts of creatures, become a perfect life form and then started to bounce around the cosmos looking for more creatures to absorb and corrupt. Could be a test subject from the start. But I’m not sure if that’s necessarily where things began for him.

Nobody is going to talk about how elflis is extremely reminiscent of Sephiroth? Crashing a giant celestial object into a planet, the whole angel motif, being related to an alien of some kind? Just seems very interesting

I have one. Since Elfilin is now one whole creature again, do you think it would be possible for Elfilin to actually TRANSFORM into and fro Fecto Elfilis while still retaining his good heart and nature?

Fecto Elfilis is definitely an antagonist who has a lot of mystery behind it

Theory: I think the Forgotten Land was a human colony world. Likely established when Earth started turning into Shiver Star. Idk what happened to the humans that went to Dream Land, but they must have lived there for enough time because we have Adeline. Maybe the last of the humans. Actually Related Theory: Elfilis wasn’t a lab experiment, he was a cosmic entity. Like Void, Dark Matter, Zero and the like. Beyond that, idk if he’s actually related to that Eldritch family tree. Somehow the humans managed to capture him and then experimented on him. Reducing it to the weird looking MewTwo fetus. When his tormentors abandoned the land he needed someone to make him whole again. Getting Elfilin. After Leongar failed, he made himself a body from him and the Beast Pack. Creating an incomplete mass. He then used his powers with Elfilin returned to him, to change that mass of green goop into his complete body. Kirby destroyed him and he fled into another world. In true Eldritch fashion of his own limited creation, like the Dreamlands. Keeping the soul and body of Leongar. Likely to become his next body. Just as Soul Elfilis was gonna attack, his power was stolen by the Butterfly. And when Morpho Knight was defeated, Elfilis had a kind of blueprint of him that he used to make Morpho Knight EX. Then integrate into his truly final form. When Morpho Knight explodes we see butterflies leave (one likely the main) and the shadow of Forgo teleport away into his dream. Finally becoming Chaos Forgo, he made a last ditch attempt to leave his dream and take back Elfilin. After his soul was defeated, he had nothing left. All he truly wanted was to be whole again. So with the last bit of power he had, he did so, but gave up his own will to Elfilin. Finally at peace. There are clearly more cosmic beings in the Kirby universe beyond those related to Dark Matter. I wonder who will be next. Maybe we’ll get a full on octopus looking one.

Okay hear me out, Morpho Knight is a member of kirby's species who was killed and has been reincarnated as a butterfly. One of the distinct characteristics of Chaos Elfilis, a form Elfilis took on by using Morpho's DNA, included a redesigned spear. This new spear features a new 5-pointed yellow star beneath its blade. (It was previously a 6-sided star with Fecto Elfilis.) This star looks very similar to the stars that Kirby uses in his base mode, something we have only seen Kirby use. Morpho Knight is also described as a "Pure being twisted through years of adversity" and seems to have its own sense of honor, as it only feeds on destructive and uncontrollable beings like Glactia Knight and Forgo. My headcannon is that he is a fallen kirby, the former hero of popstar, still fighting evil and consuming gods, just like Kirby does.

So how do we think elfilin will affect the series going forward, a "portal opening friend" seems pretty op

You know, Chaos Elfilis color pallet also remembers a lot Zero 2 since he is all white with red in the wings... EDIT: The thing about the Chaos Elfilis soul repeat attacks from past enemies has been happening a lot since Sectonia Soul. She had Marx's, Drawcia, and D-Mind moves as well, Star Dream Soul also repeat some and also Void itself. Tho its only the Soul bosses who does this so might be a big connection between all and the butterfly. Maybe the Butterfly is the responsable for the Souls keep up to fight?

I think the Ball attack that Chaos Elfilis uses is just a reference to Drawcia instead of having canocity, just like with void termina

I actually think there might be some influence from the bavarian mythical creature "Wolpertinger". It's most often described as a rabbit with antlers and the wings of a duck, a mix of which could explain the large wing-like ears. The tail and legs could also be explained this way, since other iterations of the creature feature wildly different animals, including wolves, deers and squirrels, wolves or deers for the legs, and squirrels explaining the fluffy tail. Additionally, I think the chest fluff and the whiskers could also just be from the rabbit motive. The squirrel part of the creature could also link to elfilins small, rodent-like design. In terms of actual folklore- there isn't much to take from that could be applied to forgo elfilis. The only real connection there is their link to full moons, apparently only appearing then. You could stretch this out and make a connection with the moon to outer space, though I doubt that would be anything intentional. This creature was pretty much just my first thought when I saw elfilis, but after looking into it a bit, I feel like there might be some partial inspiration, at least design-wise.