Koi Lakes

"You never should have come back here!" - Koi Lakes, Super Mario Continuance (REITERATED)

Koi Lakes is Riba's older sister. She was one of the few brand new characters created for Super Mario Continuance. In that book and its remake, Super Mario Continuance (REITERATED), she initially played the role of a supporting character to Riba, saving him from a Screeker when they were both children. However, she later became the first of many minor antagonists in the books, going as far as to attempt to kill Riba and Len. However, this failed and ultimately led to her demise.

Personality
Koi is portrayed as a tough tomboy with a secret soft side. This is displayed when she saves Riba from a Screeker, scolds him to the point of tears, and then consoles him when she realizes she may have gone too far. Koi is a rule-follower, but won't hesitate to speak up if she feels something is unjust.

Early Life and Childhood
Koi Lakes was born in Honyrup Village in the Wooded Kingdom some time after the execution of Queen Plum (for sake of reference). Koi always worked hard to help her family out during her childhood. She was an expert at using a machete, although she was still not trusted enough to own one herself. She was also very skilled in many other areas, such as fishing and exploring. She was always very loved by her parents.

When Riba was born, Koi was very excited to have her brother as a new member of the family. She would protect her brother with her life if she had to. Even when the young Riba ventured off alone into Honyrup Jungle, she quickly located him and saved him from a Screeker at the heart of the jungle by killing the large beast with the machete she had taken from her parents.

Teenage Years
However, as Riba grew older, he treated Koi less and less like a person. Koi began to pick up on these manipulative and abusive tendencies, and treated her brother with disdain for the person he was shaping up to be. It all came to boiling point one night, where they began to fight over the smallest of disagreements. It eventually went to the point where Koi ran away from home out of rage, and into the jungle.

There, she came into contact with the Screekers, who were in need of a new empress to embody the Heart Tree, the source of life for the entirety of Honyrup Jungle. The current empress was dying, and when the life left her body, it would leave the Heart Tree, rendering the whole jungle dead. Koi accepted, and her spirit was transferred to the Heart Tree, replacing the empress before her. And so the cycle of life repeated itself in the jungle.

She remained there for many years, keeping the jungle alive for as long as she could. Nobody ever found her until many centuries later.

Super Mario Continuance (REITERATED)
During the events of Super Mario Continuance (REITERATED), a reiteration of Riba and Len Alwenia Foska entered Honyrup Jungle in order to find the first Memory Fragment. When Koi found out her brother had returned, she began sending earthquakes throughout the jungle and manipulating the earth to kill him by any means, even if it meant killing herself by making the rather large Heart Tree fall onto him. This failed, and she died because of it.

It is unknown if Koi was brought back to life at the end of Super Mario Continuance (REITERATED), although she was shown to be brought back to life in the original book. However, the original is no longer canon. It is implied at the end of Super Mario Continuance (REITERATED) that there is either a new empress of Honyrup Jungle, or Koi still exists as the empress due to the flowing Honey Syrup river that Mario finds Riba at when Riba attempts to leave the Mushroom Kingdom.