Antasma's Potential and Midbus ideas!

what i think by having villains more developped is that they don't need to use the whole kidnaping plan RPG villain and Bowser use. King boo for instance didn't have the whole kidnaping shtick, his plan was to break the Dark Moon so he could gain an army to conquer the world, he just imprisoned mario because he was opposing him and because he wanted to exploit Luigi's weaknesses.

Antasma didn't exactly need Peach either, he wanted to steal her love power but you could argue that next game, his plan would be to create some trap or device which would be then used to steal all peoples's energy to power himself up/power a Macguffin then rule the world but Luigi walked by and noticed something was fishy, starting the adventure.

That's too, Luigi is a character which has hidden depths thus he need villains which have also hidden depths.

They should at look at kirby, it do have pretty nice plots and yet there no kidnapping (aside for the last one).

It may be surprising but love could work, remember Antasma was planning to steal peach's power, her power is love implying he can use the power of love unlike other villains who are affected negatively by it. It would be interesting if he used love against you.

Kirby games doesn't have an annoying game developper that insist on a "No Story" policy either, in fact should the original kirby creator come back, i may argue that the Kirby games would get even more plot.

Love as always be a theme in vampire stories, you have one story that say that Dracula became a vampire after his wife died and went on a rampage against the world for taking her away (this what inspired Count Bleck).

Another story is that Dracula was once zealous christian who served god but one day his unrequited love killed herself after receiving a false report of his death, enraged that his wife is now da(m)ned (fuck censors) for committing suicide, Dracula desecrated his chapel and renounced God, declaring that he will rise from the grave to avenge Elisabeta with all the powers of darkness. In a fit of rage, he stabs the cross with his sword and drinks the blood which pours out of it.

I think the second story would work pretty well for an Antasma backstory

Interesting fact, Antasma is associed with spirals, in the merloo pic (the guy who supposedly wrote the light prognosticus) there is eyes with spirals:

Now that i realize it all the male ancients have yellow eyes and purple skin just like Antasma (suddently it may explain why he can use love)

Well Antasma backstory could go like that:

He was a member of the tribe of Darkness who once fell in love with a girl, eventually he was forbiden from seeing her, Antasma still managed to sneak out only to discover that she ended her days out of pain of not seeing him. Furious and sad he turned himself into a bat to forget the loss and banished himself to Pi'illo island, so he may live happily as a small bat, sadly he accidently ate a nightmare which sparked the events of DT.

A way to connect the nightmare would be that, he mistook the nightmare for one of his favourite food (which happen to be because it was the food the girl would bake for him and thus stayed as a phantom memory).

To expand a bit the backstory above, he was doing his job within the forest as alway but he secretly wanted to leave even through this was against the rules of the tribe of darkness, one day he meet the girl who lost himself in the forest and was unconsious, against the tribe rule, he took care of her and healed her. The girl was from the outside world which is why Antasma took care of her, so he could heard her speaking about what the outside world look like.

Basically a reverse count bleck

And that really fit with the quote he utter toward Bowser:
"All i vish for is the freedom to spread my vings. I vish to do anything i vant und then, i vill be happy"
Bonus point if he said that toward the girl.

New headcanon.

Then he eventually gets it back and makes an Ice Age during the game, spreading the blizzards to surrounding regions that connect to his.

Very good! Let's just hope Midbus does not start to hate being a little toady, like a certain huge-toothed guy did. *shifty eyes*

True, that fits Antasma's personality. Although, even Fawful treated Midbus really well, like a best friend. It is hard to treat the big guy badly. He is just so awesome.

Antasma even treated Bowser well. We all know how hard Bowser is to work with.

"But Midbus has pride." That's why Fawful helped power him up instead of joining the battle. Oh, and it seemed like Fawful brought out some kind of latent ability to use ice in Midbus, so maybe not all of his kind can harness their power without some aid from some type of device. What do you think? Could Antasma even further this since he has so much power.

Yep! I hope he returns, more so now that we made some ideas! A villain fighting for this would differ from anything before. We had villains like Bleck and Naraku who use hatred, but not many like Antasma.

So he is basically a mixture of Mage(Dimentio) and inventor(Fawful) which means he is a very dangerous villain.

So I wonder what he truly looked liked before and under everything.

Sounds good! I like that description, especially the hair.

Now, who should be Luigi's Partners in this game? We need to make those. Any ideas? He needs a group. We have focused on the villains enough it seems.

One could be a Bumpty who escaped from the Ice World Midbus came from.