Mahokabi

"I guess what I'm saying is...no matter where you go and no matter where we may meet... Let's always stay the best of friends, Kirby!"

- Magolor to Kirby, Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe

Mahokabi is the non-binary ship between Magolor and Kirby from the Kirby fandom.

Canon
Magolor is a traveller that crash lands on Kirby's planet Popstar with his ship the Lor Starcutter. In exchange for taking Kirby and his friends to his home Halcandra, Magolor asks Kirby to collect the parts of his ship that has been scattered across Popstar. When the Lor is restored, Magolor takes Kirby and friends to Halcandra, but Landia, the dragon that previously damaged the Lor attacks the crew once more. Magolor then requests Kirby to defeat Landia, and when Kirby does so...

In actuality, Magolor knew about Kirby's heroic deeds prior to meeting him, and tricked Kirby into gathering ship parts and defeating Landia so that he can take the Master Crown, an artifact created by the Ancients that grant the user infinite power. Magolor then proclaims that he will rule over the entire universe.

When Kirby has seemingly defeated Magolor with the Ultra Sword, the Master Crown takes over Magolor, making him a manifestation of the crown. Kirby liberates Magolor from the control of the crown, and Magolor vanishes.

After Magolor's defeat, he travels in Another Dimension, hoping to restore his powers and escape. After he defeats the Master Crown with the same attack Kirby used to defeat him prior, Magolor travels to another world, the Dream Kingdom, where he assumes the role of the shopkeeper, providing wares for Team Kirby.

At a certain point in time, Magolor returns to Dream Land to create a theme park as an apology for Kirby. As well, in another world and time, Magolor creates Merry Magoland, a much larger amusement park filled with subgames where he is the manager.

Magolor proclaims to be Kirby's friend, and even Kirby's best friend on multiple occasions. The general director of the series, Shinya Kumazaki has stated that Magolor truly wanted to be friends with Kirby.

During the story, despite using Kirby, Magolor shows great appreciation towards him, describing their meeting as "fate," informing Kirby that even though he is not actually from Halcandra, he wanted to take Kirby there because of his personal fascination with the planet, and telling him of his lifelong dream to open an amusement park. Magolor also asks why Kirby helped him, despite being a complete stranger.

The song that plays during Magolor Epilogue's staff roll is called "Crossing into the Parallel with You," with implications that the "you" being referred to in the title is Kirby, as Magolor expresses that no matter where the two of them meet, they will always be friends. This meaning of wanting to be with Kirby is more clear in other translations of the title.

Fanon
In fanworks, Magolor is often deeply attached to Kirby. His tendency to lie and his past betrayal can cause suspicion to arise between Kirby's friends regarding Magolor's relationship with Kirby.

Some fanartists create art of a hypothetical fanchild of Mahokabi, who is usually drawn as a smaller Kirby-like creature wearing Magolor's hood, almost identical to the appearance of Kirby with the Magolor costume and Magolor Umber color from Kirby's Dream Buffet.

The fandom is also known for pairing Traitor Magolor (known as kuramaho in the Japanese fandom) and Kirby together, forming the pairing Kuramahokabi. Fanworks involving kuramaho can involve canon-divergent scenarios where Magolor wins.

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Trivia

 * Mahokabi and Kabimaho are a combination of Magolor and Kirby's Japanese names, Mahoroa (マホロア) and Kābī (カービィ) respectively.
 * The Japanese fandom uses the emoji 🥚 to refer to Magolor and the emoji 🍑 to refer to Kirby. Thus, mahokabi is shortened to 🥚🍑, or in the case of kabimaho, 🍑🥚. 👑 is used to refer to Traitor Magolor/kuramaho, leading to 👑🍑 for kuramahokabi.