Francisca

"I shall do you the favor of freezing you!"

- Francisca

Francisca is a boss in the Kirby series, appearing in Kirby Star Allies. She is one of the three Mage Generals and is known as the Mage Generals' Snow Flower.

General Information
Francisca appears similar to Susie, with disembodied hands and long, albeit blue, hair parted to her right. She has no nose, and her eyes more resemble Kirby's as opposed to being one color, but still maintaining eyelashes. She carries a labrys with a snowflake design, and wears a dark purple beret with a bat-like symbol in front which the game's main antagonist also features on their hood. Francisca also has a water gun that she shakes before allowing to expel a strong water current that bounces on the ceiling and floor.

Her Japanese dialogue contains the uncommon kana character づ (dzu), possibly meaning that she has an accent or speaks an unusual dialect of Japanese. Because of this, as well as her French-derived name, it is believed that she may speak with a French accent in the English localization. The recent famitsu also supports that this may be the case.

Etymology
Francisca is the feminine form of Francisco, which is derived from the Middle Latin Franciscus (a Frenchman), which is from Francus (a Frank, a freeman), the root of which is the Old French franc (free). This may foreshadow that Francisca betrays the antagonist of Kirby Star Allies (becoming a free individual instead of working for someone else).

Francisca is also a type of throwing axe, which may reference her weapon, which appears to be a two-sided axe.

The translation of her Japanese name is Fran-Kiss; the prefix "Fran" is also present in the red Mage General's translated name, Fran-Rouge ("Rouge" means "red" in French), and likely will be a part of each Mage General's name.

Trivia

 * Interestingly, Francisca has been prominently featured as an avatar on the Japanese Kirby 25th Anniversary Twitter account for posts relating to Kirby Star Allies (much like Susie before her).
 * To add to this as shown in a post on the Twitter, Susie and her parallel counterpart appear to be jealous of Francisca.
 * The water gun Francisca uses in her fight resembles a soda bottle. She shakes it up before attacking, resulting in the burst of ice water she then attacks Kirby and co. with.
 * This mimics how, in real life, shaking up a soda bottle can cause bubbles of CO2 to form inside the bottle. When opened, the pressure inside drops quickly and the volume of the bubbles increase instantly, causing the soda to burst out.