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Reunion

Part 4

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Boi is thinking.

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Just one page this time, because I couldn't draw for a while now and this page was finished for far too long. XD

Between the pages lies so much time I tend to change things 😅🥲 it hopefully still makes sense in the end. Haha

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Masterpost

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Coronation

Reunion 1

Reunion 2

Reunion 3 p1

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Reunion

Part 4

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Them warming up

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Wow finally more pages.

I decided to put color on the course.

There is no color on page one now but well...

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Coronation

Reunion 1

Reunion 2

Reunion 3

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TW // Suicidal Thoughts

BGM- End Titles - The Last Guardian

ACT 1

ACT 2

ACT 3 - 1 <<< 23 / 24 / ⚡️

Spot the One Piece reference! ☺️

So, yeah, this segment is very dear to me on a personal level, so I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I enjoyed drawing it. These updates are taking so long due to the backgrounds and extra characters, but this time, the backgrounds are simplified along with the colour palette, so hopefully the next update isn’t too far off! I know last year I took a month long break, but I have been managing breaks between updates, so this time it won’t be necessary. My goal is to have this comic done by April. Props if I have it done before then!

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A Quick Fic: Calming Nightmare Sorrows

Okay so I was so so inspired by @bberetd’s amazing and beautiful drawings from the abisalli emotions challenge as pictured below:

I decided to write a story!!!

I give you…Calming Nightmare Sorrows!

I have also uploaded onto Archive of Our Own as well as shown below:

I think you dears might enjoy this as I just written it in under two hours after I got home from work. If I have forgotten anyone else, my dears, please help to spread the word if anyone would like some Mario and Luigi brotherly love goodness for love and comfort…

@silenzahra (my sweet little sis!) @bberetd (your art never ceases to amaze me) @keakruiser @itsavee4117 @peaches2217 @pepperycar @kelbreyworshipper @coffeecat1983 @alex-procrastinates @nuctoria @gravityglitch-blog @stripetkattelalala54 @roscolate @megaroomba @megamagimugi @wahooitsamee @charlie-the-ghost64 @multicolour-ink @akiiame-blog

Feedback would be much appreciated and if I manage to upload onto Ao3 as well, I’d really love to know what you think there too…please enjoy, my dears…

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Calming Nightmare Sorrows

Mario shot open his eyes immediately upon hearing the most heartbreaking sound in the whole world: Luigi sobbing his heart out…sitting up and pushing his blankets aside, he made out the shivering lump on the other bed. His heart ached the more he sensed the intense sorrow lacing every strained sob and hitched breath wrenched from his little brother. Standing up in the partial darkness, Mario made his way towards the other bed…the younger man was trembling under his blankets, clutching his handmade plush of him in his Tanooki suit. He was debating whether to wake Luigi up until-

“No…please…I…I didn’t mean to hurt you, Mario…”

Mario paused, his thumping anxious heartbeat in his ears…hurt him…Luigi would never hurt him! His sweet little brother had the gentlest and kindest soul…why would he-

“No! I tried to stop Kamek and…no! D-don’t….don’t hate me! Don’t leave me! M-Mario…”

Upon seeing Luigi’s face twist into the most pained expression he had ever seen and big fat tears streaming fast down his sweaty cheeks, Mario couldn’t stand it anymore…he had to cease Luigi’s suffering. He quickly clambered into his brother’s bed and hugged the younger man from behind. He pressed a kiss against a trembling temple, his lips brushing against his ear.

“Lu! Lu! Wake up! It’s a nightmare!” Mario exclaimed in a tone that should be gentle yet firm enough to wake him up…

And it worked its magic as Luigi immediately shot his tearful eyes open, clutching his plush close to his heaving chest. Mario made soothing hushing sounds as he tightened his arms around his lanky frame, waiting until his little brother stopped shivering.

“M-Mario?”

“Yeah, it’s me, little bro…”

“…I had a nightmare…” Luigi’s voice was shaking as he turned to face his brother in the circle of his arms after carefully tucking his plush into a fold of his blanket safely. Mario didn’t have time to observe this cute action of how he treasured the miniature toy…instead he noted how scared Luigi looked as he tucked himself as close as he could against his chest, pressing his forehead against his collarbone where he heard the tiniest of metallic klinking…his precious golden dog tags that signified his loving bond with Luigi…

“I can tell, Lu…you…wanna talk about it?”

Silence reigned between them for a long while…but Mario remained ever patient. Luigi hadn’t said no immediately after he asked…that meant he just needed to find the right words to tell him what haunted his dreamscape. Finally…

“It’s when Kamek was torturing you…and the gold dog tags I gifted you…they made the electrocution effects worse and you were in pain!…and…and…the…the poison mushroom wasn’t there for me to eat to ensure for your safety and I took too long to stop him! By the time Kamek disappeared…your…your neck was so badly burned that you could hardly talk…”

Mario’s breath caught in his throat…hardly believing what he’s hearing…that was one of the most terrible ordeals they ever faced back then…

“And…and when you finally did talk…y-you told me you hated me and that I didn’t do enough to save you…”

It’s as if an icy shard had pierced his heart as he imagined the full terror and hurt his sweet little brother endured…so much so that tears came unbidden to his eyes…by then, Luigi was trembling in his arms again and his hands gripped onto his back tightly. The younger man’s sobs were heart-wrenching to hear…

“I wanted to save you, big bro! But you turned away and then…you were gone…and…you left the gold dog tags behind…I knew that you were serious…you really hated me….you hate me! You hate me!”

Shuddering in his throat, Mario grabbed and cradled a hysterically sobbing Luigi close as he could as they nestled among the green blankets. He knew right here and now that his little brother would be too spooked to sleep by himself tonight…not after what has happened with Kamek and what that Magikoopa did to him on that fateful encounter…how sadistic he was to make the both of them suffer…

“I’m so sorry! I hurt you! It’s all my fault! I should be dead instead of you!”

Mario felt Luigi press his head even more firmly against his neck and collarbone where some faded electrocution scars were still visible and his golden dog tags were hanging. His little brother’s tears were hot like acid and burn sadness into his heart. Mario silently wept with and for his brother, knowing fully well how much he carried this burden by himself…he had to set things right and make Luigi see the truth…to unravel the twisted machinations of his troubled imagination, anxiety and guilt from that day…

“Little bro…first off, I would be devastated if you died in my place…and second,” Mario cupped his brother’s tearful face, thumbing away his tears, “What happened in that nightmare isn’t real…therefore everything I said in there isn’t true…it will NEVER come true…I would NEVER hate you…I would NEVER leave you behind like that…”

“B-but…my gift…your dog tags…they hurt you…it’s all my fault…”

He kissed his brother’s brow gently before pulling back to pull down his shirt collar slightly, pointing to the faded scars around his neck and the golden chain glimmering slightly in the shadowed night lit up by the stars and moon outside their windows, “Kamek did this to me…not you, little bro…a sweet, gentle and kind person like you would not do something this horrible to me…you make them feel better, Luigi.”

“How can I, Mario…I…I hesitated back then…and…and…I made them appear…”

Luigi’s sobs gradually died down to occasional sniffles and hiccups but his eyes still burned with guilt and anxiety…but Mario was too persistent to let this linger…

“YOU make them feel better…I swear these scars don’t hurt anymore because of your gift, little bro…” Mario emphasised this by taking out his golden dog tags and getting Luigi to grip them in his fist, “Do you remember that night on Star Hill, little bro? How you worked so hard with Peach and Toad to surprise me with those wonderful gifts. That was one of the best nights of my life, knowing that you, my little brother, love me with all your heart and soul and these tags prove our bond is stronger than most…”

Luigi’s eyes began to regain their lucidity and calmness. Mario smiled encouragingly and cupped his cheek, thumbing some of the remaining tears away. A relieved sigh escaped the younger man’s lips as he began to reciprocate the gesture, allowing his big brother to cup his silver dog tags in his fist after sliding them out of his shirt…

After marvelling at Luigi’s sincere actions, Mario cupped the back of his head to press and nuzzle their foreheads together, willing to pass each other the warmth of their special soulful connection…their fratellanza…the older man willed all the love and care he possessed in his being to send them to his precious brother in soothing waves…to hopefully banish all the fear, anxiety and self-loathing away for the time being…and fill him up with serenity and peace to his soul…their cupped fists came together, fingers interlacing to lock their dog tags within, feeling their combined weight in their palms while reciting their extra special creed…

“Nothing can hurt us as long as we’re together…”

“As long as we’re together, everything’s going to be okay…”

They were brothers through and through…and Luigi knew this now as he found himself returning his brother’s smile with sincere happiness…Mario always knew how to banish the dark demons plaguing his mind and his dreams…why did he even deserve such a wonderful, caring, brave and strong older brother…

“Little brother? How’re you feeling now?” Mario inquired as he carefully tucked his brother’s silver tags back inside his shirt.

Luigi hummed as he did the same for his big brother, “…tired…can…can you sleep with me?”

“You don’t even need to ask…come here…”

Luigi gladly repositioned himself against and under Mario who kissed his forehead…with Mario’s chin against his forehead and him pressing his nose against the older man’s neck, he could feel the fluttering of his brother’s pulse…Mario was alive…he was NOT dead. Luigi found himself sighing heavily, snaking his arms around Mario’s waist and feeling his eyes slowly falling closed. He could feel Mario’s strong weathered hand slowly combing his hair soothingly…rhythmically…lulling him to sleepiness…

“Mario…I…”

“Shhhh…I’m here…I love you always, little bro…more than anything else in this world and beyond…”

And this was what Luigi needed to sleepily sink against Mario and allow the last vestiges of the nightmare fade away from his mind but…he just had to let his wonderful big brother know that…

“I love you…too…big…bro…”

At this, Mario’s grin turned sentimentally warm, his heart soothed by the sight of his little brother falling asleep with a small happy smile under his moustache.

“Sweet dreams, Luigi…”

Tugging his little brother closer to him, Mario pressed one more kiss on his brow before shutting his eyes to follow Luigi to the land of dreams for another adventure…

Together…

The End…

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Creative & DIY

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I've always loved the lil toad assistants in dark moon, so I wanted to try redesigning them a bit :)

starting off with the 3 toad assistants:

(also maybe giving them paper mario style names, like secret mine toad could be "chill e." or something like that lmao)

the toad curators:

and also bonus luigi bc im silly like that:

I feel like its ridiculous they didn't give him a coat, especially when e. gadd literally says all of this. like I get his plumber outfit is iconic, but c'mon don't freeze him to death :(

harsh weather you say, it can't be that ba-

(3ds vs the remake; someone get him outta there please...)

also the fact you can hear him (and secret mine toad in the first mission) shivering throughout the entire adventure, e.gadd let him live 😭😭😭

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Luigi

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GUYS GUYS GUYS NEW MARIO MOVIE CONCEPT ART OF THE HUMANS AND THE FAMILY

Concept art by Nicholas Olivieri!!

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Just some Luigi's sketch initially from my sketchbook.

I just really liked the t shirt design from that one nintendo magazine, it inspired me.

Probably the last fan art sketch before going back to commission and finishing the 2nd tome of my comic.

Stay tuned !

Artwork made by me

Super Mario (c) Nintendo

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How are your pet cat and your father doing?

Kitty has been doing alright; no seizures for a good long while. Dad's not been feeling so good. Looking like he's going in for heart surgery next month once the cardiologist gives the 'A-okay'. It's a constant worry. So I'll be taking over some of the Dad-ly duties while he's recovering. It'll keep me busy and hopefully he'll be alright again.

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He's-a Gone

Luigi time! To suffer, that is.

(CW: character death)

This is obviously a sort of comlementary piece to I Was-a Too Late. But it's more than just that as it also illustrates a certain fun, dark what-if idea I had. Please keep reading if you're intrigued!

Lore:

Luigi's Mansion, the first game. Everything goes the same as in canon until the final boss fight, when Luigi defeats King Boo in his Bowser costume. After King Boo comes out and Luigi intends to suck him in, the villain laughs and reveals the truth: Mario's painting was an illusion, so was everything Madame Clairvoya saw. All just to mess with Luigi. Meanwhile the real Mario wasn't just captured by the Boos, he was immediately killed by them on their King's orders. The only physical thing that's left of him in this realm is the five items Luigi found - hidden by the Boos for Luigi to find, another part of King Boo's sick game.

Luigi is able to finish the fight despite his shock and grief, fueled by the anger King Boo never expected from him. After getting out of the painting the plumber discovers that it is indeed empty, no Mario or anyone else in the portrait.

Heartbroken and guit-ridden, Luigi goes back to Professor E. Gadd's lab and gives him back the Poltergust 3000. He doesn't even want to stay long enough to see what is going to happen to the ghosts. Of course the Professor tries to offer some semblance of comfort, but we all know it's not his forte.

So Luigi leaves, only taking Mario's five items with him. He notices that the mansion has disapeared without a trace. The reality of it all finally hits him, and he practically collapses onto a nearby tree's large root protruding from the ground, putting down the precious items around himself, only leaving the matching red hat and the letter in his hands. He should have known something was off. After all, the Mario he saw in the painting was wearing his hat and both gloves.

Looking at all these items, to his growing horror he can't help but imagine what exactly might have happened to his brother and what his last moments might have been like. He hugs the hat to his chest and rereads Mario's note several times, knowing that the brief warning was his brother's last words to him.

Luigi can do nothing but cry for the beloved brother he couldn't save, desperately wishing it was his warm, living and breathing body pressed to his chest rather than just a couple of his belongings.

But Mario is truly gone, apparently having met such a horrific fate that not even a single part of his body is left in the physical world.

[Good night]

…I'll leave the rest up to your imagination ;) Sorry if I got carried away with my description. Occasionally even I enjoy being a little dramatic, though I'm no writer whatsoever.

Yeah, I'm not apologizing for making this one - I was nicer to Luigi than to his bro, at least here the Mushroom Kingdom and everyone in it (except for Mario lol) is still okay!

But alas,

You can no longer play as Mario

Rest in spaghetti, funny wahoo man.

@federthenotsogreat I'm tagging you because you said you wanted more Mario art like I Was-a Too Late, thought you might like this one too!

@drones-of-innocence Also tagging you because you were interested in my idea.

Edit: Tagging a few more mutuals who might want to see this based on their reaction to my previous angsty work just in case, feel free to ignore. Or ask me to remove the tag if you want, no problem.

@silenzahra (remember, no rush) @c-lavanda @jell-o101 @stripetkattelalala54-gf

@luigixfanxayjay @itsavee4117

And you @giddlygoat just because you have a Luigi's Mansion AU and I thought you might appreciate this... Also because I'm a fan 👉👈

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"Hey, paisanos! It’s the Super Mario Brothers’ Super Show!"

Been on a Super Mario Bro Super show kick lately haha

I really loved experimenting with the colors, shading and lighting!!

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he's ok, he just shouldn't have watched the horror movie before bed

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Before hehe

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TW // Eyestrain / Torture (?) / Character Death

BGM - Deep Cut - Splatoon 3

ACT 1

ACT 2

ACT 3 - 1 <<< 20 / 21 / ???

And thus their names are revealed! And now you know which one was female all along! RIP Felicity though. She won’t be missed (unless she was your favourite, then sorry for giving her a comical death.)

I apologize that this one took so long. A lot has happened in the last three weeks for me. It kinda slowed me down by a lot, but FRET NOT! There is so much to look forward to!