Beauty over wisdom to fit in with their styles
Your Cinderella story's for a price
Vanity's a business built to please the unique
Silicone and stars collide, the rest will fall in line

Visually you're stimulating to my eyes
Your Cinderella syndrome's full of lies
Your insecurities are concealed by your pride
Pretty soon your ego will kill what's left inside

You're everything that's so typical
Maybe you're alone for a reason
You're the reason

Just as beautiful as you are
It's so pitiful what you are
You should have seen this coming all along

It's so pitiful what you are
As beautiful as you are
You should have seen this coming all along

-From 10 Years, "Beautiful"
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...I realize that song seems to be more about the kind of beauty pushed by Hollywood with Botox and implants...but since this character is often praised as "hot", I figured it was still appropriate.

I also realize there's some irony in my making this; being so against Kursed getting any attention, and here I am drawing her. My only defense is that this is meant to be the antithesis of most, if not all, attention Kursed recieves.

I've seen fanart and fanfiction of a similar vein...the idea that becoming an angsty exile is "badass" and good for Krystal's character. I've also seem some stories that involve Kursed seeking "revenge" on StarFox.

Revenge for what, I'm not really sure. Revenge for joining her former enemies then abandoning the whole situation when things got too tough for her, maybe? ...Oh wait, she did that to herself.

To me, then, it seems that whole ending consists of her feeling sorry for herself. And, contrary to the ideas these stories and such have pushed, I don't think this attitude should be praised or glamorized EVER. Goodness knows it's considered exciting, even in real life, just undoing your whole life because it wasn't going your way.

It's also opposite because people seem to think Kursed, wearing black and being super kewl, can exact "revenge" on Fox personally. That's horseshit. The argument could be made that Krystal can put up a decent fight, but Fox is older, more experiences, and well...a man, so almost definetely stronger, and he's considered fast, so I doubt she'd be able to overcome that obstacle with agility.

You know what else is shit? The idea that Kursed is "hot". You're really going to look at that buldging, constipated face and tell me she's better than Marcus or Lucy? At least those two don't represent a ridiculous plot extremity.

So here we have the end result; Kursed, being beaten by Fox, BEGGING for mercy and apologizes for all the wrongs she had done. And Fox, ashamed that the woman he loved (and still does somehwere, maybe?) and former teamate could stoop so low, contemplates whether or not to grant her the luxury of forgiveness.

Hopefully this scenario will never come to fruition, as much as some fanboys would like it; this is really more retaliation against fan interpretations, not so much the characters themselves...although I'll be greatly disappointed if Kursed actually becomes canon.
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This is just a sketch, but I thought the roughness and lack of color would fit this situation. I had a hard time with Kursed's pose...it might have been more effective to have drawn her with her arms closer together, maybe with her back more hunched. I actually used a yoga pose as a reference, I really could not find anything else.

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Fox, Krystal, and unfortunately, the Kursed persona-Nintendo

(Please note-I DO NOT CARE if you sympathize with Krystal/Kursed in Command)

(...I also realize that I'm being a total bitch, but I don't really care...sometimes...being a bitch is oddly satisfying.)