#≡;- TAKEOVER | EVENT : April fools.

[chaos-cousins]

finally, a connection

hello, users of this site. my trainer and I have come to inform you that we are taking over this blog.

i am known as Princess by my trainer. i am a giratina.

...you know i can still use the blog, right?

that seems to be the case. how have you been, Trickster?

I've been better. I'm kinda a cat at the moment.

...Dawn wishes to see a picture

Sure.

[An image is embedded. It's of a black cat, near a wheel of cheese.]

she is delighted.

[umbralknight1344]

For u

This is just a picture of an energy sphere... are you mocking me?

[jeweledstone]

*puts you all in a blender collectively*

👻: Well, this is… Definitely an issue…

🧠: Heart would you kindly get the FUCK off my head right now?

💜: Sorry, it’s not my fault it’s so cramped in here…

[missmako-chan]

🪲: "Is it working?"

💻: "Yeah, yeah, program should be working right about… now."

🕸️: "Well now, in that case, greetings! We're the Ohsama Sentai, though I suppose you already know that."

🐝: "We're simply… borrowing this blog for a bit."

⚖️: "…"

🌼: "Oh, don't be like that! You're here to keep us in line, after all!"

💻: "The way this is gonna work is that you can send us asks or submissions or whatever and we'll answer."

🐝: "Feel free to ask whatever you want of us!"

⚖️: "We do, however, reserve the right to not answer a question if we do not want to."

🪲: "Don't worry about the blog owner, though! They're still able to reblog what they want!"

🌼: "This is still their blog at the end of the day, and they're free to do as they please with what's theirs."

🕸️: "I've also been told we might have some extra guests we haven't met before that you can ask, as well!"

💻: "Hah? Who told ya that?"

🕸️: "Oh, no one you would know."

💻: "Fine, keep your secrets, slack-jawed tanuki…"

🪲: "Oh! That's right!! We haven't introduced ourselves!!! I'm the Tyrant King of Shugoddam, Gira!!"

💻: "Yeah, and everyone definitely believes that 'Tyrant' part. Name's Yanma Gast, President of N'kosopa."

🌼: "Hymeno Ran, the selfish Queen of Ishabana, at your service."

🐝: "The Lord of Toufu, Kaguragi Dybowski!"

⚖️: "Rita Kaniska. Sovereign of Gokkan."

🕸️: "And the King of the In-Between land of Bugnarach, Jeramie Brasieri. We hope to hear from you soon~"

💻: "But like, in 7 hours 'cause making the program to so Shugoddamn long and I'm tired as haka."

🌼: "I believe we should all get some rest for the day ahead. That includes you, Jeramie!"

🕸️: "Well now! I suppose I'll have to."

🪲: "We'll answer asks first thing in the morning! Good night!"

[paldea-champ-n1cki]

are you nemona. if so

🫵gender

Nope!! Not Nemona.

[canine-teethed-sheets]

;; let's see, what do we have here?~

;; hello again... did you miss me? <3

[13urningstars]

"You humans get everywhere don't you?"

"I dunno what you mean by that lady. I kinda live here."

She doesnt really, but with her Babysitter working with the autobots and Cherrybomb being her guardian, she does spend the large majority of her time at the autobot base.

[lucent-nargacuga]

Is it just me, or am I a little tired?

That's no surprise coming from you, Celesta Knight!

Oh, Casey!

...

You can feel it too, right?

...

Now that you say it... I can feel it.

Huh.

I suppose we went a little too far this year...

No, it was pretty normal.

...

Well, I'm going to get some sleep. I'll see you when I wake up.

Goodnight, Celesta Knight. Have fun!

...

Well, since she's going to sleep... I might as well, too.

Tootles!

[libertys-lovers]

I knew it. I knew there was something off about… whatever she’s trying to get herself into. She gathered all of us today and said that she was officially going to “throw herself into another puppet franchise”.

I’m just glad I’m not the only one who feels weird about it; I think some of the others are a bit nervous too. But she’s set on it, no changing her mind.

Oh yeah, this is your first time being here when she decides to go somewhere, isn’t it? It’s alright! All of us have felt nervous about her heading out to one of these new worlds. Actually, a lot of us were worried about her going to your place, Red. But she came back fine as always!

Huh, now that I think about it, that just means we started this “take over” thing at the perfect time! Now everyone can see what it’s like behind the scenes when she goes out and explores!

I guess so…

Red & Lúcio 🐸

[fandommemequeen]

"Planet Robobot is the best Kirby game, I do not take constructive criticism."

"(And no I am not just saying this so Haltmann gives me control of the channel back although IT WOULD BE NICE-)"

[honey-bell-aint-well]

I keep seeing this Loveball being mentioned in regards to fresh, but I wasn't in the fandom back then and I don't know what the fuck Loveball is and how it created fresh's character? Asking you abt it bcus you seem knowledgeable abt fresh lol

I'll have you know that when I saw this ask I cackled and rubbed my hands together evilly, completely unironically.

Unfortunately I've already rambled about this before, so I'll copy and paste the rant here rather than ranting anew:

So, like seven years ago there was a fandom-wide event called the Loveball, where people gathered their OCs and had them all attend an UTMV dancing ball. Fresh went, of course. There, he met a Frisk called Pacifrisk. Even knowing who he really was [90's parasite], they still believed he could be good. Before this, he hadn't ever really felt a connection to anyone, or even positive emotions in general. But Pacifrisk's faith in him made him feel positively towards them. This freaked him out. [No Fr@ns though, don't worry. That wasn't the intention for this plot.]

As a result, not only did he try to kill them, but he also went through with his plans: the Fresh Takeover [I forget what it's actually called]. His true reason for attending the ball. OCs were either possessed by the parasites or tried to fight against them. Apparently, some people used alcohol to ward the virus off, as Fresh hates substances such as that.

Fresh wanted to take over the multiverse, with this Loveball being the first step for his total domination.

But then right in the middle of things, a Sans AU [which I totally forget the name of X,D] grabbed Fresh and basically yeeted him into an alternate state of being. One where he could see the creators, all staring at him. An audience.

The Sans revealed the nature of Fresh's existence: That he was simply a character in a story. And if the creators got bored of him, he could easily be written aside and forgotten. Erased. His conquest didn't matter, in the end.

Predictably, this gave him an existential crisis. I'm not sure what happened after, but he stopped invading and went somewhere to contemplate his existence in a depressed state.

Afterwards, he had a new goal: To entertain. To convince the creators that he was worth keeping around. Similar to his previous goal of survival, but now with more dire stakes."

Here are some links regarding the Loveball. I recommend checking them out if you want more info about it, because I didn't really talk about it very deeply here:

https://thebonezone66.tumblr.com/post/139210779428/muffets-love-ball-roleplay

https://www.tumblr.com/bestfresh90smess [This is CQ's RP sideblog]

https://loverofpiggies.tumblr.com/tagged/loveball/chrono

Hope this clears things up! :D

Edit: Oh, and Fresh wasn't created during the Loveball. He was originally an April Fool's shitpost doodle that CQ made, inspired by Dippy Fresh from Gravity Falls. Eventually he developed into the horrifying 90's abomination that we know today.

[umbralknight1344]

favorite flavor of rock?

Firstly, I do not have the ability to taste things. Secondly, why would I eat rocks?

[jeweledstone]

👻: As for who’s the weirdest out of us, it’s probably a tie between me and Heart.

💜: N-No, you’re definitely “weirder” than me-

👻: PROBABLY A TIE!!

[paldea-champ-n1cki]

Gotta go now, lol. In a couple hours this blog will go back to Nicki. Hope you guys had fun, Nicki will probably change his password tonight.

[13urningstars]

Theres a cloud clang as cherr finally forces open her habsuit door, followed by the quickly approaching sound of footsteps. "GOTCHA YOU LIL BUGGER" The femme exclaims as she swiftly plucks jennie off the ground with one hand, nabbing her phone with the other "NOOOOO but i was making so many friends!" The brunnette pouts, only to receive a glare as shes held aloft like a kitten. "You can make friends with people at school jennie. dont let me catch you stealing my datapad again, alright?" a beat of silence "......fine"

[7grandmel]

Todays rips: 31/03/2024

Your Best Nightmario and Bowser's Finale

Season 5 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume C

Ripped by Blookerstein

Season 5 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume C

Ripped by Blookerstein, Sarvéproductions

Requested by themessengervevo! (@themessengervevo)

You KNEW this day was coming. Surely, right? Its March 31st, a landmark day in gaming history. The day that Super Mario died. The day we lost him to time forever. And the day that spawned perhaps the greatest April Fools event on all of SiIvaGunner. For me, its no contest - Your Best Nightmario and Bowser's Finale, and the entire event they were part of, were the absolute highlight of Season 5.

The April Fools events held prior on the channel since their very beginnings with Grand Dad Metropolis had all been presented as complete surprises. That is perhaps a given - it is in the nature of a prank to be surprising - but it's also where the Season 5 event differs most even today, in that its theme was all but known to us well beforehand. Announced on September 3rd of 2020 as part of a bizarre marketing tactic to drive up demand, Nintendo had let us known that their newfangled Mario celebration releases in Super Mario 3D All-Stars and Super Mario Bros. 35, would both be delisted from sale after March 31st. Super Mario Bros. 35 stung in its own right - it is effectively lost media now as a digital-only, online-only game, but Super Mario 3D All-Stars contained three of Nintendo's most celebrated games, games that had no reason to stop being sold just for a cheap trick. Everyone rightfully denoted how scummy of a tactic this was to drive up sales, but more than that: the imagery of Nintendo celebrating Mario's birthday by killing his games - and by proxy, killing Mario himself - was a joke that online spaces just ran absolutely rampant with. And can you blame them? That IS funny as shit, and reframes Nintendo's slimy marketing into something that makes them look far worse. Because of the joke's sheer prevalence, I had the same thought as many others in the early days of 2021 - there was *no way* that the SiIvaGunner team were blind to the potential this gag had, and how well it lined up with their previous explosive festivities just a day after. By March 29th, they even teased the event's start with three daily rips of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, a game all about impending doom affecting the world in just three days, with each rip featuring the melody of one of the three 3D Mario games in the collection.

And sure enough, the day came. With March 31st, we saw a whole day of nothing but Mario rips and Mario-related jokes in other rips - a last hurrah for his life - all ending with Super 3D All-Stars Music S64 Game Over. Just like that, he was gone - faded from the video, faded from view. Yet few of us could've predicted just how dire things would get.

In SiIvaGunner lore, the term "Figment" refers to the personification a meme or joke on the channel takes, its characterized state - think Mr. Rental in Mr. Rental [B Side] ~ Out of Options or Inspector Gadget in Become as Gadget and throughout his two takeovers. When a figment based on a real human dies, it can easily be reborn - the human itself lives on in the real world, after all, and can recreate the essence of its Figment in a variety of ways. But when a purely fictional Figment dies...its erased from all history. As if it had never existed to begin with, all traces of it are wiped from memory, wiped from the very state of having ever existed. And under Nintendo's very own Gulliotine, this was the fate Super Mario himself succumbed to. As a result every single Super Mario-series rip uploaded in the channel's five-year run, be they Kart, Sports, Paper or just outright Super, was set to private on the SiIvaGunner channel. And as April 1st of 2021 went on, it seemed to be harder and harder to remember the name of that mustachioed man. Had someone like that...ever existed?

I'm certain a lot of what I'm writing here is familiar ground to many of you reading, but I really want to convey just how incredibly well-done this atmosphere was. Throughout April 1st, fifty-five rips were uploaded, many of which featuring games that seemed just...the slighest bit off. The opening to the classic Philips CD-i game "Hotel", where a lone Luigi talks to himself; The underwater music featured in the SNES Launch title "Super World" with a bizarrely-lopsided logo, and most prominently - games like Super M̸̌̊a̴͛̿█̸͌̑i̵̛͊█̷̾̓ 64, Super M̸̌̊a̴͛̿█̸͌̑i̵̛͊█̷̾̓ Sunshine and Super █̴̧̀a̵̤̐r̷̙̋█̶̰̆o̶͚̚ Galaxy, three games that were bound by a strange malfunction in their presentation, as if they're collectively...held back by something. Or someone.

Your Best Nightmario stood out as the centerpiece of it all, with a title yet more bizarrely mangled than the rest - Super 👉█̸͌̑█̷̾̓😁̶̆͠☼̷̇̃👈̸̂͑█̷̾̓█̾̓ 64. Two fingers, pointing toward a desperate smile. It's-a-me. The rip serves as an incredible multi-stage arrangement of Your Worst Nightmare from Undertale, the boss music for Flowey the Flower. Its already incredibly befitting on the surface level - Undertale is at once one of SiIva's most prominently-ripped games, and a game very much about the state of living game characters have, the idea of how characters in games can affect you in a way that makes them worth remembering for all time. And though the rip is initially in line with the instrumentation of the original Ultimate Koopa theme, it uses the segmented style-shifting sections of Your Worst Nightmare to arrange music from other Nintendo platforming games - the ones primarily bound by featuring characters like Luigi, Peach and Bowser within them, but ones where I can't really place my finger on who their protagonist is. As a result of all these styles and the fervent, desperate, downright nightmarish pace of the music, paired with the full-on galactic-scale orchestral sections near the rips end, it truly feels like a hopeless struggle, a plea from an unknown hero to stay alive, to not be forgotten, to not be lost to the sands of time.

The sheer atmosphere conveyed throughout the entire event was primarily carried through these rips, of course, but it cannot be understated just how much of a part the comments section played in it all. There was no confusion - the buildup had been done so well, the gag established so clearly, that EVERYONE was on board with the day's theming in the comments, and "playing along" with the story's theme. Everyone reminisced and had fond memories of all these games - New Super Bros., Luigi: Superstar Saga, Super 64 DS, and more - yet we were all collectively wondering why things felt so different from before. It was the most fun collective gaslighting I've ever been part of.

As the day came to an end, Mario's fate seemed to be set - the entirety of April 2nd was silent, except for one rip that confirmed that even our beloved Gangsta Mario (see Caramariodansen) was lost. Yet on April 3rd, we were all finally met with Bowser's Finale, a direct followup to Your Best Nightmario by its very same ripper. Blookerstein, the legend behind The expanse of meme in past was split, A fiendish trap has now been set; Behind a tree the villains sit, Terror of sport, the Robbie's Net., this time aided by Sarvéproductions of Goodbye To Love fame, created the absolute perfect way to round out the event - a return to the desperate battle that had once seemed lost, now with the music of Finale instead of Your Worst Nightmare to indicate the turning of the tides - that this legend, nay, SUPER MARIO, was not going to give up. This figment did not deserve to leave us - and Bowser's Finale was his last stand. The excitement in the air, in the comments section, was palpable.

Finale is already an incredible theme, and one that some of us even have some emotional attachment to in the context of SiIva - remember Aphex all the way back in Season 1? Bowser's Finale leverages those feelings, and the theming set up throughout the event as a whole, to incredible effect, with the same structure of going through the styles of various Mario music to rising dramatic effect. Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy - the first two using songs like Slider and A Secret Course that are beloved by so many SiIvaGunner viewers, the third hitting a emotional gutpunch in its orchestral instrumentation, and all three bound together as the games that started this whole thing, the games part of the 3D All-Stars collection. It is with no exaggeration a pitch-perfect rendition of this idea, better than anything I could've ever anticipated before the event began - once again only elevated through the sheer sense of community the entire comments section held through it all, cheering Mario on, collectively remembering his existence - fighting to bring this lost figment back to reality.

Y'know, I've been critical of Season 5 in the past - it is likely still the Season of the channel I was "least" invested in taken on the whole. That is in large part due to its lack of ties to the channel's ongoing lore, as it was focused primarily on self-contained events just like this one. But GOD, those events. I still see people online today who are less in touch with what SiIvaGunner does, who cite this event - "The Disappearance of Super Mario", as some call it - as the absolute peak of SiIvaGunner's output past the Season 1 finale. I wouldn't necessarily agree - but the event was undoubtedly unforgettable, at once an incredible execution of a long-anticipated bit, surprisingly emotionally gripping, whilst also being subtly tied to the very canon and theming of the SiIvaGunner channel itself. I chose to highlight Your Best Nightmario and Bowser's Finale in particular today, but I emplore you to go watch the entire event yourself through the fanmade YouTube playlists - if nothing else to see just how committed to the bit everyone involved truly was.

But don't forget: There's more to this tale yet to be retold.