Bringing more spotlight to Franmarx
I generally believe that these two make an absolutely delightful duo!
I did talk about my headcanons on how these two interact with each other in an earlier tumblr post, as well as another earlier tumblr post, but I think this has a LOT of potential for a ship. So much that I believe more people deserve to know the potential that these two could have with each other. I think they'd be a match made in hell!
So basically, you've got two extremely unhinged lunatics here. Marx is obvious, he's a shitfaced prankster that likes to cause chaos for kicks and giggles. Then you've got Francisca, who literally has a 'trophy' collection of people she has killed and encased in ice cubes, and has a chilling giggly laughter that sounds like a banshee.
I headcanon that all three mage sisters like to cause chaos, but Francisca is by far the most twisted, psychotic and freakish of them.
Marx would sure love a partner that's also very nuts like he is!
I would imagine that Francisca would enable Marx and his antics a lot more than almost anyone else in the Kirby cast would.
While I of course headcanon Magolor being prankster buddies with Marx like most people in the fandom tend to do, I also headcanon that Magolor has clear standards and he'd hold Marx accountable if he were to go too far in overstepping someone's boundaries. This also applies to Daroach and the animal friends, whom I also headcanon having a knack for mischief and being friends with Marx as well, but similar to Magolor, they also have standards and wouldn't just let all of Marx's shenanigans slide, they'd also stop him if he crosses a line.
Francisca however? In my headcanons, she enables Marx a lot more than the rest of his friends do. She's the closest one to his level in terms of willingness to go crazy in trouble. That's not necessarily to say she would enable him in every single situation, but she's far more unlikely to hold him accountable than the rest are. Flamberge and Zan Partizanne like some good mischief and chaos themselves, but they're both generally kinder and not quite as unbridled in twistedness as Francisca is. Compared to her, they nearly seem tame.
These two could be very, very unhinged together. It'd be delightfully devious! Imagine all the hijinks these two would be willing to cause.
They've both got ridiculous laughters, too. If they laughed together at the same time, you know that some insane tomfoolery will come.
I think even Magolor, despite being buddies with Marx, would be scared to join in on some of the hijinks that this duo would be causing. To get an idea on how I interpret it, Magolor tries to make Marx better, but Francisca would make him worse, and vice versa. LOL.
And like I mentioned in my previous tumblr posts, I headcanon that Marx hypes up Francisca's frozen corpse collection. Most of the other dream friends feel uncomfortable of her decision to keep that trophy collection, but Marx is an outlier as he is delighted by it. He'd perhaps even want to start a collection like that on his own. Francisca could probably train him on that. And I bet it could all be quite possible, since Marx is one of the dream friends that can be given elements in Star Allies, with blizzard being one of those elements.
That's basically the gist of my thoughts on the potential of this ship. I think it could be amazing, and like I said earlier, I believe that more people deserve to acknowledge this potential ship pairing.
I also wouldn't mind the idea of shipping Marx with one of the other two mage sisters, too, whether it be Zanmarx or Flammarx/Marxberge (not sure what you'd call that one), but I personally would ship him with Francisca out of the three mages since she's the most unhinged out of the three, which he'd love.
I want to give a shout-out to @kirby-rarepair-tourney as this ship did exist in the ongoing Kirby rarepair tournament, but got eliminated as soon as the second round. If they ever decide to start another entire Kirby rarepair tournament in the future after the current one, then I think this ship absolutely deserves to show up again. And maybe hopefully it could perform better next time! I'd be all over for it.
This is my second favorite ship for the series, with my first favorite being Taransusie, although I'm sure that one is going to win the ongoing rarepair tournament and actually seems to be popular enough to have no need to be in a future tournament should that exist. This ship, however? I think this ship could use more awareness!
