sorry for leaving this in my inbox for a month. happy new year i suppose

when they were traveling together meta knight definitely developed of hobby of disappearing and returning five minutes later with some kind of animal and saying “okay i have dinner.” he was probably a bit quieter about it at first because he didn’t know how to express “hey, i trust you and i want to be friends” in a normal way so he just kept up the guise of hunting for food. sword and blade figure this out pretty fast. there were likely a lot of stray animals where they grew up so they’re familiar with cat mannerisms. they don’t tell him this of course, but they do find it endearing. in the present there’s a jar on blade’s desk that accumulates various buttons, rocks, and lost jewelry that meta knight finds on his adventures