#Brothership Spoilers

[ruckis-vandalizes]

"BLOOD IN THE MACHINE"

Move over nerds its my turn to make the cool fanart /lhj

[maddiebrj]

Guilt Weighs Upon Your Shoulders

COZETTE RAMBLINGS UNDER THE CUT:

I have not been able to get Cozette out of my head for well over a month now. I haven't hyper fixated this much on character in a good while. Cozette is just....so interesting to me for some reason.

I've always liked her as I found her bond with Connie to be really sweet, and she felt like this wise and caring woman. And yes, while I do understand that the twist of her being Zokket is predictable( I speculated to myself that she might have something to do with him), the thing I like about it isn't because of how surprising the reveal was, but rather the layer of depth that it adds to Cozette's character that I wasn't really expecting. And it's depth that I really wish got expended upon in the game. At first, I didn't think too much of it; we now know where Cozette was all this time. But then I saw how she acted after we freed her from Reclusa's control...and then after that, I started to think about her for more than 5 minutes and realized just how sad, confusing, and messed up Cozette's situation actually is.

I..I so wish we got to learn more about Cozette throughout the game because no matter how underutilized she is, I just can't help but feel bad for her. She got corrupted in organizing the destruction of the world she loves and is supposed to protect. Separating friends and families, kidnapping people and forcing them to work in factories, spreading glolm and further separating others. All to aid the rebirth of being that wants to destroy all worlds. And she just has to live with all of that. That definitely did something to her mentally.

I can't help but think of all that. And on top of all THAT, I just feel like this was a misoppurtunity for some good and interesting character interactions. I want to know what all the Concordians think of her besides Connie and Patriarc ( who is another character that I wish got explored more), I want to know how she views the Zok troops and those memos she wrote while in the Zokket persona, I WANT HER TO INTERACT WITH EXTENSION CORPS AT LEAST ONCE.

I want to know... what exactly made Cozette fall to Reclusa's grasp in the first place. Connie asks a good question to the Great Conductor: If Cozette really was controlled by someone else, why is she taking this so personally? And while I bet it has to do with what I listed earlier, the Great Conductor mentions that it has to do with her being taken advantage of a weakness she has and I'm sitting there thinking, "Oh okay, interesting...care to elaborate on that????." From there I tried to find something, ANYTHING on what that weakness might be and just...nothing. Those Grampy turnips that give some lore tidbits on some of the major characters? They say nothing about her. Her one sidequest involves her making a decision that you can't stop her from making and comes to regret. To this day, I am still trying to figure out what that weakness is. I do have some theories.

Overall, I have this feeling that Cozette isn't entirely and that her story in this game isn't complete. It feels like the writers introduced this interesting concept but weren't able to expand fully on it. I can only assume they didn't as they realized how complicated of a situation it is, and it would probably draw too much attention away from the main threat, which is Reclusa. Which, do not get it twisted, Reclusa. Is. AWESOME. But I am left with a bunch of questions.

Tldr: Cozette is very interesting. I wish her character got explored a lot more.

(Oh boy, sorry, this was so long. I wanted to talk about Cozette for a while. Please don't take this as me hating on the game. I just care so much about Cozette :))

[rainbogen]

"So these are the bad guys your dad keeps fighting?"

"Yep. Mario and Luigi. If you see them, call us immediately and we'll give them a thrashing they won't forget!"

"They don't look all that strong..."

"That's their mean and nasty trickery. They know their other, truer forms would scare people off before they can con them, so they make themselves look wimpy on purpose."

"W-what kind of forms?"

"Let's see... there's the UFO one where they can fly around. There's the ball where they can move around quickly and fit into small spaces. Oh, and sometimes they can shoot out fire and ice and other stuff."

"That actually sounds really cool. Evil and scary, but cool too."

"Well- we'll my dad's way eviller and cooler and stronger than they could ever hope to be!"

("Did he say eviller?")

To my surprise, the Toad sidequests do actually have a deadline. It's when you go to seek out Bowser's Castle.

Snoutlet and Luigi sharing a single braincell is getting more and more literal by the minute.

And done. Lucked out and got the Toad who takes you right back to Shipshape Island last.

Is this foreshadowing you know who or am I reading too deep into things?

[dreamyluigi]

SUPER DANCE BROS

[kazumasougi]

so im playing brothership

[tiny-prom]

The fire and ice powers were funny to me cuz I’ve always headcanoned that Mario can’t handle heat and Luigi can’t handle cold

[lilsilly1]

Daily Luigi!

BROTHERSHIP SPOILERS!

Words can't explain how much I started sobbing during this scene

The scene:

I don't know, Maybe after more than 40hours playing, the fighting, the tension all that... and there is just this comforting scene of the bros after they jumped off Fortress Zokket, maybe thinking it's the end or that they'll be separated again, but the relief when they see and hear each other just got me like

PLUS THE FACT THAT ITS THE EXACT SAME SCENE FROM THE VERY BEGGINING OF THE GAME WHERE MARIO WAKES UP ALONE (same exact island aswell), BUT THIS TIME HIS BRO IS HERE.

Also I thought I'd finish the game yesterday, but, Nuh uh!!!! still not done.

[darks-romantical-corner]

Y'all I think Nintendo is trying to tell us something....

Bonus photos cuz I can (BrotherShip Spoilers):

[caroline-draws-stuff]

it was REALLY tasty soda tho

[pianokantzart]

Brothership is really good guys

[didy414]

ok mario choose wisely, who's the gayest one

[vbnhuet]

Mario and Luigi: Brothership second sea

the original image that I based this drawing on is below

[yourdailymariogif]

Your (third) daily Mario gif.

[thecaroliner]

I’m currently being extremely normal about this! :)

[peaches2217]

Between Mario panic-bawling upon realizing he can’t save Peach in Luigi’s Mansion 3 and Mario becoming so despondent that he can’t even move after being separated from Luigi in enemy territory for five minutes in Brothership, I think Nintendo’s officially confirmed our guy’s got some intense separation anxiety and Cannot Function if he can’t personally protect the people he loves, and I just wanna say they’re so real for that.

[federthenotsogreat]

Chained ⛓️❌⚡

I'm honestly not sure how to feel about this one... 🫡

Just.... Not my best work-

Edit: after looking at it again, I did end up liking it 👍✨