Sectaranza

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

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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 unrecirpocated back then, 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 situation summons Sectonia to aid him, however, she betrayed him instead, striking him down with a ray of magic. Sectonia battles Kirby directly at first after presumably killing Taranza, but loses. So she merges with the Dreamstalk, becoming a large flowered figure. 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 and give her an eternal rest.

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, 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 appears again as a sticker and a clone in the Meta Knightmare Returns mode of Kirby Planet Robobot.

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

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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. Any slight implications of lore being instantly eaten up in desparation of more love being given to the spider & bee/double spider duo.

Taranza is mainly portrayed as being a slightly depressed, yet still optimistic lovable dork, wh ich can be understandable (sexiest loser), but there is also the fact that many people will associate these traits with Taranza due to possibly kinning him, and it's made very clear how much Taranza is in love with Sectonia with 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.

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