Escargoon

He's also quite intelligent with a wide range of knowledge in botany (he wrote an encyclopedia on the subject called The Encyclopedia of Botanica), chemistry and electronics/robotics. When Dedede doesn't order something from Holy Nightmare Inc., he tends to use one of Escargon's inventions instead, such as a formula that turns things into demon beasts. He builds various machines such as submarines and missiles. Relationships The person Escargon spends the bulk of his time with is, of course, King Dedede. His duties as Dedede's assistant are numerous, from cooking to cleaning to giving back rubs.

He basically tries to ensure the king's well-being and happiness in any way he can, sometimes to the detriment of his own. And unfortunately, one of his jobs is to be Dedede's personal punching bag. He often falls victim to Dedede's mallet or just gets punched if he happens to be nearby and the king is angry. Dedede also likes to pull pranks on him and scare him just because he can.

Despite all this, he actually cares about Dedede quite a lot. (Though he still hates how Dedede treats him and tries to gets even when he can, and often subtly insults him right to his face in ways that Dedede isn't bright enough to catch on to.) Escargon's true feelings became clear in episode 055, where he sings a song saying how Dedede is always mean to him, but ending with, "He's truly very selfish, but I love His Majesty." This perhaps explains why he's content to continue working for Dedede, when he could conceivably get a job elsewhere with his skills. (In the dub version, he doesn't actually care about him, but instead only sticks around in hopes of gaining money or becoming king himself.) He's even shown sleeping with a plush toy of Dedede in a later episode, and puts up with some of his more bizarre plans- one of which involved him dressing in drag so Dedede could practice his marriage proposal techniques.

Escargon's mother is the most important person to him, maybe even more so than Dedede. He's quite attached to her, and will do anything to make her proud- even once pretending to be the king. His mother loves her only son dearly, but she can be rather harsh with him and will tease him- though affectionately. (His father is never mentioned, so he either died when he was young or was never involved in his son's life.) Unlike Dedede, Escargon doesn't harbor any bad feelings towards Kirby himself. He'll help Dedede just for the sake of helping him, but on his own he doesn't really have a problem with the pink puffball. Kirby likes Escargon quite a bit- but then Kirby likes nearly everyone. (Source: Kirbypedia)