Adeleine

"Back for a new adventure!"

- Adeleine & Ribbon

Adeleine, also known as Ado, is a character in the Kirby series, debuting as a boss in Kirby's Dream Land 3, but would later have a major role in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. She came to Planet Popstar to study art. She is a talented young human artist that can paint pictures that come to life.

Physical Appearance
Adeleine is portrayed as a young girl wearing a long-sleeve, bright green (teal in artwork) collared smock and a bright red beret that covers most of her black hair. She also wears a gray skirt, blue socks and large shoes with yellow laces. She is almost always seen with her blue brush with multi-colored paint on the tip, her dark brown paint palette with red, blue and yellow paint and her large easel. She always appears to be blushing, although this may just be due to the fact that almost all characters have cheeks like this. In sub-games she can wear a lavender smock with a violet beret, a beige smock with a chestnut beret, or a cyan smock with a yellow beret, in addition to her plain green and red outfit. She is quite unique in seemingly being the only human to actually live on Planet Popstar and make an appearance in the series.

In Kirby's Dream Land 3, she has a full head of brown hair, beady black eyes, two buttons on her shirt, and black shoes; in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, her hair is jet black and shorter with the bangs removed, and she has big black eyes, one button on her shirt, and brown shoes. Kirby Star Allies is closer to the latter appearance except she now has a single fringe of hair on the left side of her forehead, violet eyes, a small, stubby nose, and five fingers on each hand. She is also currently depicted with dark brown hair, merging the hair color from her first two games.

Personality
Due to her lack of dialogue, not much is known about Adeleine's personality. What is known is that she is very artistic and creative, and as such she is almost always seen with her art equipment with which she can create various works of art in less than five seconds. After being freed from Dark Matter's control in her second appearance, she eagerly joins Kirby and the gang. In some parts of the game, and in cutscenes, she usually renders assistance to Kirby and the others by painting food or hints. Like Kirby, she appears to be a cheerful soul, as she is noticeably happy most of the time. According to the Kirby Star Allies Channel on Update 11, Adeleine is a little shy about being fed food and hides her face with her hands when done so.

Kirby's Dream Land 3
Adeleine, name shortened to Ado, makes her first appearance as the boss of Cloudy Park. During the battle, Ado stands safely behind her large, cloud-constructed canvas and paints enemies to attack Kirby. After Kirby defeats one of her drawings, she will get mad and make another. Her paintings are all old bosses from Kirby's Dream Land 2. They include Ice Dragon, Sweet Stuff, Mr. Shine & Mr. Bright, and Kracko (in that order), none of which spawn enemies/obstacles that grant abilities. After Kirby defeats them all, Ado, now in a fit of rage, steps down from her canvas and attacks Kirby. She is defeated in one hit, however. Once Kirby lands just a single slide attack on her, Ado rolls off-screen, signifying Kirby's victory.



If all the Heart Stars are collected for Cloudy Park after the boss battle, Ado will become friendly and paint a randomly-selected drawing whenever Kirby enters her arena. In Boss Butch, the cloudy battlefield becomes gray and stormy.

Ado appears during the credits alongside the rest of the game's bosses as they socialize with Kirby. The game ends with Ado dashing across the screen as she swiftly ends the game by painting the word "END" in bright colorful letters in the corner of the screen.

Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
Ado, name lengthened to Adeleine, reappears in the second stage of the first world, Pop Star. She is simply painting a picture when a Crystal Shard falls next to her. She turns and picks it up, when an orb of Dark Matter materializes on her easel and possesses her. Kirby, Ribbon, and Waddle Dee then arrive to find her possessed, and are forced to battle her. In this battle, Adeleine summons an N-Z, Bronto Burt, an unidentifiable enemy that somewhat resembles both a Gordo and Mariel, Mumbies, and mass of jumbled pixels. After the pixels are defeated, Adeleine summons two stronger enemies; a drawing of Ice Dragon and a drawing of Dark Matter. After the Dark Matter drawing is defeated, Adeleine, just as furious as ever, jumps off of the stump and starts rapidly swiping her brush while charging at Kirby. However, just like in Kirby's Dream Land 3, she can be defeated in one hit.

Throughout various levels of the game, Adeleine will appear and paint items for Kirby. If Kirby enters the area Adeleine is in with full life, she paints a 1UP, otherwise she paints a Maxim Tomato. She may also paint pictures to help Kirby solve puzzles so he can obtain a shard.

Adeleine is also playable in the multiplayer mode of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. In this mode, she has four different outfits - her normal green and red outfit, a purple outfit, a brown costume, and a blue and yellow costume. It was also revealed through pre-release screenshots that she was originally intended to be a playable character in single player, but this was not implemented in the final version for unknown reasons.

Kirby Star Allies
Adeleine appears in Kirby Star Allies as one of the Dream Friends that came in the second update. She is paired up with Ribbon as a single Dream Friend in a similar manner to Rick & Kine & Coo. Adeleine can create paintings of past enemies and bosses and has a few moves from her boss fights.

Ado's Painter Movesets
Attack names for this section are conjectural.

Identity
For years, it was unclear whether or not Ado and Adeleine were the same character, given their different names and slightly different character designs. However, the fact that the Japanese romanization of Adeleine's name is "Adorēnu" at least implies a connection. The Japanese manga adaptation of Kirby's Dream Land 3 features a character redesign very similar to Adeleine's, with Ado's name and color palette; in addition, it is the first source confirming that the character is female, which would later be the case in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. The Japanese-exclusive 20th Anniversary Hoshi no Kirby Pupupu Taizen leaves this issue open-ended, although it suggests it is likely that Ado is merely Adeleine's nickname as both girls came to Popstar to improve their art skills. HAL Laboratory occasionally referenced Adeleine in games following the book, even including Ado as part of the collectible "Sweet Stuff Drawing" and "Boss Butch" keychains in Kirby: Triple Deluxe.

In 2017, a Japanese artbook known as Kirby Art & Style Collection was released to commemorate Kirby's 25th anniversary. In it, one page showed scans of documents from the development of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, specifically documents regarding the character of Adeleine. The document explicitly states that Adeleine was the artist in Kirby's Dream Land 3, and that the artists and graphic designers for Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards should refer to her then-new redesign as opposed to how she appeared in Kirby's Dream Land 3. Additionally, the document refers to her using gender-neutral pronouns, which could imply that the character was initially intended to be androgynous. It has also been discovered that "N64_Ado" is the internal label for the remixed track of Adeleine's introductory cutscene from Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, found in the four Nintendo 3DS eShop games, further supporting the idea that Ado is simply shorthand for Adeleine.

In Kirby Star Allies, Adeleine has a move called Ado's Painter, referencing her debut appearance where she only painted bosses instead of enemies. Certain promotional material such as Nintendo of Europe's YouTube video descriptions for the Adeleine & Ribbon DLC reconfirm the notion that Adeleine first appeared as Ado in Kirby's Dream Land 3.

Etymology
The name Adeleine is is a variation of the name Adeline. It originates from France and means 'noble' or 'nobility.'

Given the pronunciation of the name, it's likely a pun on the phrase "Add a line."

Related Quotes
"Adeleine, an aspiring artist, comes to Pop Star to study art but finds herself in the middle of a Dark Matter mess."

- Instruction manual

"The wait is over! This clever artist and her fairy companion from Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards are back on Planet Popstar! They may not be the galaxy's most powerful duo, but their perilous paintings and shiny crystals are nothing to scoff at."

- Flavor Text

"The attack artist from Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards and her pal Ribbon have returned! And with Adeleine's newly improved painting skills, these two are ready to be in the mix!"

- Guest Star Description

Trivia

 * A pre-release screenshot of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards shows that Adeleine was playable in the main game at one point in development.
 * In Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Adeleine's battle theme can be heard from Copy Ability selection screen in the Kirby Fighters sub-game. It was remixed in Kirby Fighters Deluxe.
 * Adeleine makes a cameo as a keychain in Kirby: Triple Deluxe.
 * She also makes a cameo as a sticker in Kirby: Planet Robobot.
 * Adeleine used to be the mascot of the "Galería CN" (CN Gallery) section of the 1991 Mexican Club Nintendo magazine. The section was incorporated late in 2000 and was then named "Galerie d' Adeleine" (Adeleine's Gallery). Subscribers of the magazine could send their own drawings and paintings to the editors with a select few being featured in one issue of the magazine. The gallery's name has since been changed to its current name and removed Adeleine from the section.
 * On February 13, 2017, Adeleine appeared in artwork on the official Kirby 25th anniversary Twitter account, alongside several other prominent female characters in the series. This marks the first time she has made an official appearance in Kirby media since Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. Since then, she's made multiple appearances in the account's tweets, and a tweet commemorating its 100,000 followers states that she's the one illustrating the account's artwork.
 * The Artist ability, introduced in Kirby Star Allies, is based on Adeleine. Kirby wears a red beret that looks similar to Adeleine's, and one of his moves has Kirby paint characters on an easel to aid him, similar to Adeleine's actions during her boss fights.
 * Kirby also uses his paintbrush to swipe at enemies, which is similar to a pre-release screenshot of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards showing Adeleine attacking a Mariel in a similar manner.
 * Adeleine and Ribbon are the first two female Dream Friends in Kirby Star Allies.
 * The canvas that Adeleine and Ribbon hide behind in Kirby Star Allies depicts the same paintings used for the first stages of Pop Star, Rock Star and Shiver Star on the stage select in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards.
 * In addition to this, the canvas will rarely depict Adeleine's self-portrait that appears in the game's end credits after the good ending.
 * In Kirby Star Allies, Adeleine's move Ado's Painter creates paintings from a canvas on top of a stump instead of an easel. This is a reference to the big canvas she used in her boss fight in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards.
 * When Adeleine takes a hit in Kirby Star Allies when using her Brush Force attack, her knockback animation matches the tumble animation she goes into after being defeated in Kirby Dream Land 3 and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards.
 * In Kirby Star Allies, Adeleine & Ribbon take more damage from enemies and obstacles than Kirby and other Friends, which is a callback to how Adeleine is defeated in one hit during the boss fights against her.
 * Adeleine's Al Fresco Friend Ability is a double entendre: alfresco is Italian, referring to the outdoors; it is typically used in context with dining, referencing the move's ability to produce food, but can also refer to painting on a blank slate, which is what Adeleine does during this move.
 * According to a Nintendo Dream magazine, the staff of Kirby Star Allies had originally meant for Adeleine to be voiced in her appearance as a Dream Friend, and even found a staff member to voice her, but scrapped the idea later on.