Sectaranza

Sectaranza is the het ship between Taranza and Queen Sectonia from the Kirby fandom.

Pre and during triple deluxe
Taranza and Sectonia are said to have been extremely close friends in the past, with Taranza having romantic feelings towards her. It is unknown whether these feelings were unreciprocated around this time, however, his feelings lead him to stealing the Dimension Mirror, and gifting it to her one-day. Sectonia cherished the gift so much, she gazed into the mirror everyday which lead to her mind being twisted by the mirror's influence to a state which is often referred to as insane, ultimately leading to her dramatically changing her own appearance into a more bee-like form, then taking over the entirety of Floralia, with further goals to take over the whole of Popstar. At some point during this, Sectonia bewitched Taranza so he would continue to follow her without question. During the events of Kirby Triple Deluxe, Sectonia orders Taranza to kidnap the hero of the 'Lower World'. Taranza kidnapped King Dedede, assuming her was Dreamland's hero. After Kirby defeated Masked Dedede in Royal Road, Taranza in desperation after realizing his unwinnable situation summons Sectonia to aid him, however, she betrays him instead, striking him down with a ray of magic. Sectonia battles Kirby directly to the theme "Sullied Grace/Dirty&Beauty" at first after presumably killing Taranza, but loses. Thus, she resorts to merging with the Dreamstalk, becoming a large flowered figure and once again battles Kirby, this time to the melody "Moonstruck Blossom/Fatal Blooms in Moonlight". After the first phase of this boss fight, Kirby seemingly defeats Sectonia for the second time, but is swiftly grabbed her vines and is almost crushed to death, but before the queen can kill him, Dedede and Taranza arrive to Kirby's aid. Taranza realizes that his former friend is too far gone, and must be stopped, thus he chooses to aid in defeating her for the sake of the world. He does this by granting Kirby a miracle fruit, which gives him the power to overcome Sectonia's flowered form, battling her one last time to the melody The World to Win before giving her an eternal rest.

Post triple deluxe
After Sectonia's death Taranza, as shown in Kirby Star Allies (mainly his Dream Friend DLC Trailer and Guest Star mode) is shown to be consumed by grief. Though his current state is unknown, there are some hints that he may be attempting to move on, as shown by some Easter eggs in Kirby Star Allies title, file, and mode select screens, although, there is also evidence suggesting the opposite, as both of Taranza's pause screen descriptions show that he is desperately searching for a way to bring her back. The English dialogue for Taranza's guest star pause screen states that he is making a desperate bid for Hyness' alter to bring her back, backed up with the qoute; "No doubt, a miracle will happen for sure!" which reflects how he clutches to hopes of bringing her back, while the Japanese dialogue for Taranza's ultimate choice pause screen description states that he is "easily absorbed" in thoughts of how desperately he wants to see Sectonia again. Sectonia, however, remains dead to this day. However, in the "Meta-knightmare returns" subgame of Kirby planet robobot, Star dream summons a clone of Sectonia, dubbing her the "most powerful queen" and described her swordplay as a "beautiful dance" while also describing her fighting skills as "unparalleled", her clone battles Meta-knight to the melody Faded & Flower before she is ultimately defeated. Though not much is revealed about her relationship with Taranza here, there was some dialogue from the the 25th anniversary concert referencing the clones appearance. In it, the first thing the clone does upon waking up was call for Taranza in a demanding tone. The fandom also states that her DNA had the DNA from species ranging over a thousand years. This has been interpreted differently by many.

Sectonia also appears as a sticker.

Taranza appears again as a sticker in Kirby Planet Robobot, and as previously discussed, a Dream Friend in Kirby Star Allies.

Kirby: Save the Rainbow Islands!


Fanon
Sectaranza is a fairly popular ship within the Kirby fandom, presumably to it's tragic nature and status as potential AU bait (although the bait hasn't been taken yet), usually when in her Spider form, Sectonia is portrayed as being Taranza's adorably possibly depressed girlfriend with body image issues with Taranza being the good little fellow who cheers her up the most, while in her Bee form, Sectonia is either portrayed more sassily or occasionally as an abusive dictator. Many fans are very willing to show their interpretation in regards to the relationship between these two, and many of the fans that do ship them wish for Taranza to succeed in his goals in reviving her.

Taranza is mainly portrayed as being a rather depressed, yet still somewhat optimistic lovable dork, which leads to him being widely loved as proven when he won the Sexiest loser poll on Tumblr (Taranza actually had THE most votes from all the characters participating in the Tumblr Sexyman poll). There is also the fact that many people will associate these traits with Taranza, some people potentially see some of themselves in him, which leads to him, and by extension, this ship, being more popular.

The story makes it very clear how much Taranza loves Sectonia with his actions, quotes and displays in canon, this is naturally major fuel for this ship. In addition, the canon has some hints towards this love being indeed mutual before the mirror's influence fully twisted Sectonia's mind. In the fandom, Taranza's love for Sectonia is also often reflected in the way people usually portray him the way that people usually portray him.

It has also become popular fanon headcanon that Sectonia's name was 'Joronia' before she had transformed herself into a bee, with Kirby's Dream Buffet including named CPUs, with one CPU being named Q.Joronia, which is named "Taranza and Joronia" in the japanese verison, which implies that the Joronia being mentioned may be Sectonia, but also implies that she and Taranza share a Nintendo Switch account. However, the "Joronia" name is not confirmed to be her original name, as some other characters also didn't use their exact names for their "accounts".

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