This leaves him at the mercy of chance that someone will be possessed by him on accident to fulfill his wishes. (This force can manifest itself as overwhelming rage or magic.) However, because he has no form of his own, he does not have his own sentience and intellect he can operate on his own. Giygas, as mentioned before, becomes a force that rests inside of all the creatures on Earth. The Core of the island is a physical artifact of what remains of Giygas mind, which is why the Magicant island falls once the Core is finally destroyed. That means that the Mimigas, and all the enemies in the game, are all incidental creations of Giygas imagination. The floating island and its residents are actually Giygas Magicant, which was given physical form because of Giygas victory and fusion with the world, turning everything inside his head into physical reality. This would explain why Quote and Curly are different from the other robots created to fight the Mimigas/destroy the Crown. The same happens to his friends, with Paula remodeled into Curly. Ness is left inside his robot body and cast into the new world, where he is discovered by the government post-Giygas and has the robot body remodeled into Quote. Pokey is captured by Giygas before he has a chance to escape to another point in time, and gets an ironic punishment for his arrogance by being transformed into Balrog on accident.

Everything in the world is left the same for the most part, except that the future is altered completely by the fusion, meaning most of the events of EarthBound never happen, and Giygas becomes a force of nature that runs through everything and everybody. Instead, Giygas winds up infusing himself into the existing world, creating the new world where Cave Story takes place. The premise is that Giygas succeeds against Ness, and receives a massive burst in power, but he does not manage to destroy the world.

And remember how Toroko's eyes went deep red right before she hulked out? Did it never bug you that King, another excellent fighter (though still not a very tough one- Misery shredded him without even going into 'battle mode', which is more evidence that Mimigas need red flowers if they're going to do any fighting at all), who occasionally acts in rather irrational ways (as pointed out by a similar but less comprehensive WMG below), is the only Mimiga we see with eyes of a different color, and that it happens to also be reddish?Ĭave Story is a sequel to EarthBound, with the basis that Giygas defeats Ness.At the end of the EarthBound game, Ness and his friends have their souls deposited into robots and are sent back in time to fight Giygas.

Toroko has far less body mass, and she's never taken flowers before, so she turns into a serious threat. And it follows that the exact nature of the changes caused by the flowers is determined by how much you're taking, relative to your body, and if you've built up a tolerance- Igor is an adult Mimiga who had already been taking flowers for a while before the Doctor fed him the rest and hulked him out, so he gets the fully-increased size but is a bit of a pushover. The fact that they're usually found scattered around beds (except in Arthur's case he grew and used his flowers in the basement because he'd have had to conceal his habit from his sister) makes me think that they're highly addictive (one's bed is a personal thing, associated with a necessary and similarly personal habit) and that withdrawal is an absolute bitch (so habitual users are dosing themselves first thing in the morning).

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