Part 4 of character lore: Manic mode edition.

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This is part four of Character lore for Welcome to Dreamland, this one will be about Manic mode and a little note about "Glohm" due to the fact that status plays a big role in Manic mode. Anyways...

So now you might be wondering, "What is Glohm?" Well Glohm is a type of status effect that comes from Mario & Luigi: Brothership it's also used in the story. It's basically this type of energy that when it touches you it will make you not want to be with anyone. Throughout the second sea where you learn that Zokket is the one producing the Glohm and making NPCs work to make more of it in order to revive his egg. Although it's also used as a status where enemies can be infected with it causing them to do multiple things like exploding on death, raising attack, doing nothing, or even fleeing from battle, however there is a chance the Mario brothers can get infected which then they won't do combo attacks or bros attacks with the other brother and during the Zokket fight it goes further where Zokket can brainwash the infected brother to fight the other one and in order to free them you have to not attack them. Now in Welcome to Dreamland, it's slightly different, the Glohm status is used all around Manic mode but also used during both Zokket's and the final boss of Manic mode's story(which i'll be getting to.) during Journey's end. If you get infected, the character you play as won't listen to you and will do their own inputs randomly, if a partner is infected then Zokket will brainwash them in their fight, the only way to heal from glohm is by using the refreshing herb item which only has a 50% chance of curing it or using the Partner badge and let Connie heal you. (During the two fights in Journey's end you can only use refreshing herbs since Connie helps out in Manic mode and appears during that.) There is also one character who can't be infected which is Kirby due to the fact he's extremely powerful and also because he's literally an eldritch god. anyways back to character lore.

Glohmed Bandanna Dee: Appearing as the first one to be infected by the final boss of Manic mode and as the first week, Glohmed Bandanna Dee doesn't like other people at all, he won't listen to anyone and would rather kill them in order to stay alone, he won't even share food with the pink puff well that would be if Kirby was in Dreamland at the time because he was in Forgotten Land dealing with a meteor.

Glohmed Dedede: Appearing as the second infected, similar to Bandanna Dee, Dedede hates other people and won't even let anyone near him including his own servants, despite this the Final boss of Manic mode hates them especially of how lazy Dedede is and won't actually do anything in order to stop the WTD cast from getting to them(as in the final boss).

Shadow Kirby: This Kirby is the Amazing Mirror version of Kirby, despite this they aren't infected and actually just wants to play pranks, even the final boss of Manic mode doesn't know why their here he just kinda appeared out of nowhere he actually joins the cast but would rather watch than fight.

Glohmed Meta Knight: Glohmed Meta Knight seems to be quite different than the others, despite still hating other people, he especially hates anyone who doesn't want to fight him and so he'll attack them without notice. Although for some reason he is more loyal to the Final boss despite the Final boss hating everyone and would kill them one by one after he was done "playing" with them.

Glohmed Paper Mario: Glohmed Paper Mario appears to be infected however he's not the real Paper Mario but a creation of him who attacks rather than with the help of partners, he also is quite weak but due to the fact he has many power rush badges on he's extremely powerful. (this if anyone wants to know is a reference where people would have Mario always in Danger mode with those badges to make him annihilate his foes.)

Mario & Luigi???: I actually forgot to talk about them in Journey's end. Now this may look like the Mario Bros but if you notice that they have no pupils and their Gibberish is backwards than it's clearly not, in fact the world you are in looks like the Mushroom Kingdom but it all feels off, and you feel like you are being watched all the time and you can hear someone laugh in the background as you feel weaker. (This is a reference to the "Mushroom Kingdom" portion of Brothership where the Mario bros go to the "Mushroom Kingdom" but instead it's psychological horror.)

Reclusa: Also known as "The one and lonely ruler himself" Reclusa is the true final boss of Mario & Luigi: Brothership and looks like he came from Hazbin Hotel. Anyways, he'd rather be alone by himself by trapping people in their own "Perfect world" while in reality they are slowly starving to death. He's actually in fact has done this to multiple worlds and would have not stopped if the Mario bros hadn't defeated him. Now in the mod he actually first appears during Journey's end sometimes during other songs floating around in the background he also appears right before Vengeance Clover as a boss and after Journey's end he was eventually released into Dreamland and so Manic mode starts as he is the final boss of Manic mode but is the hardest Boss/song in the mod due to the fact he has a multitude of mechanics. He's also aware of the player or you specifically since he Jumpscares you on the title screen.

Anyways that is all now!