Long before the events of Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Sectonia was once a kind and fair queen, ruling over her own clan of insectoid beings, who lived peacefully in Floralia along with the People of the Sky. Taranza, her best friend and one of her servants, stole the Dimension Mirror from the Mirror World, and gave it to Sectonia as a tribute. Sectonia loved the mirror, and gazed into it day after day. Unfortunately, when she looked into the mirror each time, the mirror’s power slowly twisted her mind, beginning her plummet into madness. Her obsession with her own beauty was magnified to a dangerous degree. Losing herself in her own vanity and delusions of grandeur, she grew tyrannical and power-hungry. Using her magic, she parasitized and possessed many other beings, alienating her servants with her changing appearances, before eventually taking over and settling on the body of her current bee-like form for its beauty. Then, she took over all of Floralia and ruled it with an iron fist, in which the People of the Sky suffered, leading to the events of Kirby: Triple Deluxe.
In a last-ditch effort to save themselves, the People of the Sky devised a seed composed of their hopes and dreams and sent it tumbling toward the land below, which so happened to be Dream Land. This seed was designed to grow into the Dreamstalk, and bring the hero of Dream Land up to Floralia to save its people. Seeing this, Queen Sectonia ordered Taranza to go down there and preemptively kidnap the hero so he would not be a threat, and sometime after, she captured and imprisoned the People of the Sky, likely so that they could not attempt something like that again. Unfortunately, Taranza mistook King Dedede for the hero and took him instead, leaving Kirby to give chase to save the king.
Queen Sectonia does not reveal herself until the end of the game, but her presence is implied shortly before; banners and other pieces bearing her image are littered across Royal Road, the game's final level. When Kirby finally catches up with Taranza at the end of Royal Road, the mage reveals that he is a servant of Queen Sectonia, and that he had abducted King Dedede on her orders because he thought that Dream Land's self-proclaimed king was the hero the People of the Sky had tried to summon with the Dreamstalk. Afterwards, he takes control of King Dedede and uses him to fight Kirby.
After Kirby defeats King Dedede, Taranza realizes - to his horror - that Kirby is the hero, so he quickly summons Sectonia while begging her to save him from Kirby. Displeased by Taranza's failure at his orders, Sectonia immediately blasts Taranza with her scepter, launching him out of Royal Road and towards the horizon. She then turns to Kirby and asks him if he would dare risk his life for Floralia and stand against her, and the two then engage in battle after she accepts his challenge.
Kirby gains the upper hand in the battle and defeats Sectonia. King Dedede regains consciousness and Kirby, who is overjoyed to see his arch-rival is okay, jumps in celebration while holding his hands. However, Queen Sectonia rises up again. Impressed with Kirby's skill, Sectonia explains that control was true, absolute beauty before she retreats into the distance and fuses with the Dreamstalk, placing herself at the heart of the flower and causing it to bloom in the process, transforming into a rainbow, flower-like form of herself. Vines begin to erupt from the Dreamstalk and ensnare the entirety of Planet Popstar and Floralia, intending to make both under her control. A swath of vines covered in parasitic flowers begin to cover the castle, trapping Kirby and Dedede inside.
As Kirby and Dedede panic, several People of the Sky arrive and provide them with a cannon-like device. with Dedede's assistance, Kirby uses the cannon to combat Sectonia's sentient vines. Once an opening in the vines is made, Dedede shoots Kirby through it and the latter ascends the Dreamstalk to confront Sectonia one last time in the skies above Popstar.
Queen Sectonia is bested a second time after a long battle, and Kirby again celebrates, but one of Sectonia's vines grabs Kirby by the foot and captures him (also stripping him of his current ability). Sectonia then uses the vine to squeeze him to death, causing Kirby to scream in pain. Before she could finish him off, however, Taranza returns with Dedede in tow, having realized that his best friend is now a deranged and violent menace beyond saving. He throws the king down to Kirby, who uses his hammer to smack Kirby free of the vine. Then, while Sectonia is recoiling from the blow, Dedede throws Kirby at Taranza, who tosses a Miracle Fruit at him. Kirby and the fruit collide mid-air granting him his Hypernova ability for the final time in the game.
Kirby and Sectonia clash once more, and a desperate Sectonia then makes a last-ditch attempt to destroy Kirby by firing an enormous beam at him, but Kirby inhales it (along with much of the platform, her petals, and even her health bar) and sends it back at her, vaporizing her. The vines covering Popstar fade away, and all that remains of Queen Sectonia are flower petals that slowly fall from the sky as the heroes are returned to the surface. With Sectonia purged from the Dreamstalk, it blooms freely and beautifully in Dream Land.
Dededetour
Queen Sectonia appears in the Dededetour sub-game. Unlike the main mode, however, it is King Dedede who confronts a more powerful Sectonia - now labeled Queen Sectonia DX - in her fortress to stop her plans. In the ensuing battle, Dedede manages to beat Sectonia DX, seemingly destroying her in the process.
However, Sectonia's fourth defeat was far from the end of Dedede's quest: immediately after she is felled, the Dimension Mirror makes its surprise appearance and Dedede is forced to fight two more battles - first against a dark version of himself known as Shadow Dedede, and then against Dark Meta Knight himself, the last boss of the sub-game, who wants revenge against Kirby.
The True Arena
After Sectonia's death, four Miracle Fruits float down from the sky to the battlefield where Sectonia's final form was fought. Four of her flowers then consume the fruits, before Sectonia's body rises up from below and consumes them, reviving her from the dead as Soul of Sectonia, who serves as the final boss of the True Arena.
Here, Sectonia has become so utterly insane, that she is nothing but a husk of her former self. In the original Japanese version of her second phase's description, she laments over herself. She recalls that she parasitized and possessed many and now cannot remember her true form. No longer able to hear Taranza's voice, she states that she must be given her eternal beauty sleep before the night ends, presumably asking for someone to kill her before sunrise so she may finally be at peace.
Kirby Planet Robobot
The real Sectonia doesn't appear in this game; however, a clone is created by Star Dream from remnants of flower petals after defeating her in Main Mode (or perhaps from Soul of Sectonia) to test Meta Knight during Meta Knightmare Returns. She retains most of her attacks in her first form, but the clone emphasizes her sword-based attacks such as her multi-stab and constant dives in and out of the background. When she is reduced to half-health, she will begin rapidly teleporting before attempting to strike her opponent from the back. She also can bring out her scepters to slam the ground, sending out a crystal-like shockwave that can damage the player. The clone also cannot summon Antlers to aid her.
It is interesting to note that the hearts on her chest, collar, and crown are now broken, which resembles Star Dream's broken heart insignia.
When defeated, the clone transforms into a being resembling Taranza, which was her original form before she became corrupted by the Dimension Mirror.
Kirby Star Allies
Though she does not physically appear in the game, Queen Sectonia makes a few cameo appearances in Kirby Star Allies. Stone Kirby can transform into a statue featuring Sectonia in her original form alongside Taranza. She also appears as a tracing in the "A Miracle Sent to the Skies" celebration picture. Lastly, a projection of her appears as part of Taranza's moveset as a Dream Friend, the move is called "Queen's Phantom."
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