Adeleine

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

- Instruction manual

Adeleine (Japanese: アドレーヌ) is one of Kirby's friends in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. Adeleine is a gifted young artist with ability to make pictures she paints come to life.

Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
Adeleine makes her first and so far only appearance (arguably) in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. She first appears 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 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. Adeleine summons various monsters from Kirby's past, much like her Kirby's Dream Land 3 counterpart, Ado. After Kirby and the gang defeat Adeleine, she agrees to join their team and the three set out to find the rest of the Crystal Shards. Throughout various levels of the game, Adeleine will appear and paint various items for Kirby to use such as Maxim Tomatoes and 1ups. She may also paint pictures to help Kirby solve puzzles so he can obtain a shard.

She is also playable in multiplayer. 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 screenshots that she was originally intended to be a playable character, but was later scrapped for unknown reasons.

Appearance and personality
Adeleine is portrayed as a young girl with short black hair and black eyes, wearing a long-sleeve, bright green (which is shown as teal in official art) collared smock with a single yellow button near the top. She also wears a very short gray skirt, blue knee-high socks and large brown shoes with yellow laces. She also wears a bright red beret that covers most of her hair, and official art seen in the credits portrays her with a ligth brown hairclip in her hair. 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 character have cheeks like this. in mini-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 one of the few Humans to make an appearance in the series.

Not much is known about Adeleine's personality. What is known is that she is very artistic and creative due to the fact that she is almost always seen with her art equipment and that she can create various works of art in less than five seconds. She also seems to be very shy, as seen that she doesn't seem to converse much with her companions at first and that she is often alone in most of her appearances in the levels. In addition, she appears to be somewhat hesitant to join Kirby and the gang initially, but eventually begins to warm up to them as seen in the cutscenes. She also appears to be a slow eater and very calm, due to the fact that when she eats her sandwich at the picnic at the end of a level, she takes very tiny bites and she also never seems to be in a rush.

Controversy
In Kirby's Dream Land 3, Kirby meets a young painter named Ado. The two have almost the exact same design, however the two have slightly different hair styles and hair color. They both fight in the same way and even have the same battle animations. They even paint one of the same drawings at one point- Ice Dragon. "Ado" is a shortened form of Adeleine, in the sense that Ado is derived from Adoreenu (Adeleine's Japanese name), which also adds to the confusion. Second, the name box for bosses in Kirby's Dream Land 3 is relatively small; the name Adeleine would have been much too long to fit in anyway, leading some to believe that the name was shortened to "Ado" just to make it fit (just like Whispy Woods is sometimes shortened to just "Whispy"). Some Japanese sources do however imply that the two are separate people (possibly twins). However, there is a slight difference with Adeleine and Ado's smocks. If one looks closely enough at Ado's full-body artwork, his smock has white fabric trim at the end of each sleeve; Adeleine's doesn't.