Just found a
really old notebook at my dad's house today... it had a bunch of stuff about The Kirby Lands in it. Probably written sometime back around 2001, judging by the fact that I hadn't started drawing ears or boobs on any of my human characters yet.
Some of it was pretty boring stuff like game stats and lists of enemies/attacks and that kind of thing... but there was also a complete family tree of Nummer, going back at least a few dozen generations.
A few random facts from the Nummer family tree:
* Gourbik, the random gray Numnum who shows up in the intro but then is never seen again, is actually King Narmer's brother.
* Meth, a character from the never-finished sequel Staff of Parupoo, is one of Nummer's cousins. (And he was named after methane, by the way... not methamphetamines. Back then, I had no idea his name was also the name of a drug.)
* The Crunchuso Num, a boss from the second half, is Nummer's great-great-grandma's brother. Which makes him several thousand years old... maybe that's why he has a bunch of kids drag him around on a platform on wheels.
* Fat Num is Nummer's great-great-great-grandma's brother. So he must be even older.
* Lum the Num (aka Lum-Lum after he... inexplicably mutates into a thing with a bunch of eye-tentacles) is Nummer's mom's sister's husband's brother (would that be called an "uncle-in-law?" I have no idea.)
* Nummer's family includes pretty much every Numnum king in the Kirby Lands going back over a period of a million years. Longest-running royal family ever?
* Some of Nummer's ancestors include the ones who built Num Castle, the ones who crafted the Num Crown, an evil king and queen, the ones who overthrew the evil king/queen, the ones who trapped TKL's final boss under the Ranoids' castle, and the ones who gave the Num Crown the ability to fire energy beams.
* Apparently Nummer was going to die in the year 3005 AD at the age of 1018. He was known for being the first Numnum king in history to not have a queen.
So apparently Nummer is related to pretty much every other Numnum character who appears in the game... but somehow he doesn't recognize any of the ones he actually meets. Whoops.
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