Metajecra

Metajecra is the slash ship between Meta Knight and Knuckle Joe's father from the Kirby fandom.

Canon
Meta Knight and Knuckle Joe's father were best friends and members of the Star Warriors, an elite group of the greater Galatic Army that fought against the universe-spanning Holy Nightmare Corporation, led by the evil Lord Nightmare. The two had met either at some point before the war against the evil Nightmare or during the war itself, and became best friends, during the war the two bonded greatly and rejoiced after each battle along with respecting each other's cred as warriors. However, their friendship came to a tragic end when Meta Knight's friend was kidnapped and mutated by Nightmare into a Demon Beast who was later sent to kill the Star Warrior platoon he belonged to, Meta Knight included. With no other option left, Meta Knight ultimately struck down his friend who in his last moments and recovering his identity with the last of his willpower, gave Meta Knight a locket with a picture of his son, Knuckle Joe.

Years later after the Galactic Warriors were almost eliminated and Meta Knight took refuge in Planet Popstar, Knuckle Joe was deceived by Nightmare into believing that Kirby murdered his father and sent him to Popstar to destroy the pink puffball after mutating Joe into a Demon Beast like he did his father. However, Joe eventually learnt the truth that Meta Knight killed his father after the latter was turned into a Demon Beast and turned into an ally when given the locket of his father and renouncing his Demon Beast powers when he realized he became a monster briefly in his anger. Joe would return later on to fight the powerful Demon Beast Masher with his father's locket that was given to Meta Knight being the key to defeating the monster. In the series finale, Knuckle Joe, along with other allies of Meta Knight, assisted in the final assault on Nightmare's fortress, helping Meta Knight avenge his friend by assisting in the destruction of Nightmare's empire for good.

Fanon
Meta Knight and Jecra (a nickname given to him by the fandom to better identify him as he has no canonical name) began getting shipped shortly after the airing of Kirby: Right Back at Ya! concluded, with popularity being drawn because of Jecra's status as Meta Knight's one and only outright admitted best friend thus far. A common plotline of works where Jecra remains dead involves Meta Knight being in a lot of grief from losing him and driving a parental instinct to raise his son in his steed. Fan works involving a living Jecra instead have them both raising Kirby and Knuckle Joe as a family, sometimes Garlude might be involved with them as well, raising the trio of Kirby, Knuckle Joe an Sillica as their children. Other common fic plots involve Jecra and Meta Knight in their younger days as Star Warriors learning from each other and their world and bonding throughout their fights. Sometimes even acting like a battle couple. In this kind of scenario other prominent Star Warriors may be depicted as shippers on deck of the two or just close friends of theirs who come to support them.

The ship is based around the anime version of Meta Knight, as Jecra was created for the anime and has no game counterpart, let alone any relation to Meta Knight there. The ship enjoys bits of popularity in sites such as Tumblr, AO3 and corners of the Western fandom but otherwise is massively overshadowed by the likes of Metadede and Metasusie with only a few select fanfictions and fanart pieces existing to represent the pairing (8 fics with the Meta Knight/Jecra tag thus far in AO3 for reference), made even harder by Knuckle Joe's father lacking a canonical name (albeit the fandom's near-universal use of "Jecra" alliviates that issue). There is barely a fanbase for the ship in the Japanese portions of the fandom, however, with no specific works in Pixiv or other art sites.

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Trivia

 * The ship name is a portmanteau of "Meta" (Meta Knight) and "Jecra" (Knuckle Joe's father fanon name).
 * The origins of the fan-made name, Jecra, are unknown. However, it is by far the most popular fanon name for Knuckle Joe's father.
 * Jecra is the only person that Meta Knight has explicitly called his best friend. Later works in the game canon tend to indirectly reference that Meta Knight genuinely considers Dedede, Kirby and the other Dreamlanders as his friends but he himself has yet to admit to such an appreciation for others