#Huey pmcs

[paperroyalstar]

Protector of the Big Paint Stars!

[Have I ever posted color splash art here?? I dunno-but since I did art of human Kersti, I decided it was only fair if I drew Huey too!]

[mimikabii]

Lemon Thing

[occasionalmariosprite]

I see alot about the Paper Mario Games online, TTYD is a Masterpiece, SPM is really good and has memorable characters, Sticker Star is the Spawn of Satan and Origami King is a nice return to having good Paper Mario Games I even see 64 be praised alot

Genuinely no one cares about Colour Splash. have you ever thought about Colour Splash for more then it having that cute Rainbow Road and Mario Kart reference same with Huey, Poor Huey I really like his design! its nice but hes in just such a forgettable game... maybe a Late Switch 1 Colour Splash Port can help his relevance? It's already a very pretty game I don't think it'd need much cleaning up for a quick Port

oh and Kerstis here uh I have no thoughts on Kersti.

[skythealmighty]

why huey is the best companion character:

(disclaimer, i am biased, i know)

he has one of the most fleshed out character profiles

TTYD and Paper Mario 64, while having easily RECOGNIZABLE partners, don't actually give each character enough time to shine

(this is even emphasized in pm64 with the duplighosts. it would be really hard to tell which ones aren't bombette if it wasnt really obvious)

kersty is... flat for obvious reasons. she talks a lot, but i don't think they planned on actually giving her DEPTH and when they try it doesn't work

olivia is nice. but. kind of generic. sorry

tippi and huey are THE EXCEPTIONS. tippi has a huge backstory that they emphasize a lot on, and she brings a lot to the story and has a lot to say. huey, while not as 'important' (because the story is a lot less high-stakes), has a very significant part in the story especially at the end and also brings a lot to the dialogue. both of them also grow over the course of the game, and it's obvious

(on that note though the pixls barely bring anything sorry boomer ily but)

he's sassy, but not in a way that feels disrupting

EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM is kersty if she was a GOOD CHARACTER. i cannot stress this enough, he is mean but not a BULLY. he is sassy, and he brings a lot of funny moments, but he doesn't get in the way with that sass

on that note he also doesn't constantly berate you which is nice. KERSTY.

his sacrifice feels meaningful

this is a point for both tippi and huey, honestly, though tippi is a very close second favorite so that would explain it. it's precisely because he's a good written and built character that when he actually gets serious it MEANS something. on another layer, he's doing this entirely selflessly. he doesn't have the power of love like tippi did- this was all platonic, just a promise to a friend. and isn't that something we should treasure?

and yes, the 100% completion ending shows that he's alive and back in the fountain. that's all well and good, but it doesn't mean his sacrifice was for nothing- none of the toads recognize him, so he very well could have been under the fountain for hundreds if not THOUSANDS of years. he probably won't ever get to see mario again in his probably-immortal life.

that IS sacrifice, to me.

he finally was set free to go on an adventure after sleeping for who knows how long and formed a bond so strong with his friend that he would go back into that situation for him. loved too much, too fast, all while promising said friend he'd be alright. he went behind his back to do it. how long did it take for mario to realize what happened? (i miss him)

he's funny

as hell

[segakat]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DEAR FRIEND @1000foldarms here's an alternate version of their huey design i had drawn for fun a little while back! base design belongs to her and @/origamikingdom on twitter

[hoodie-prince-kid-archived]

Totally overhauled iconless Huey moodboard because it's missing Huey hours, apparently? Click for quality!

[ineedmydowntime]

I NEVER played Color Splash, but of all things, I thought of a funny parody song made by Huey.

To the music of I Want a New Drug, by Huey Lewis and The News

I want a new brush

Want it thin like a stick

Want the kind that can paint with acrylic

Make the paint seem less thick

Use it for a magnum opus!

Or make a really pretty hue!

Paint something new

Maybe a nice portrait of you!

I want a new brush

Annnnnd there ya go, I'm a full blown knucklehead.

[24-sourcandy-octopi]

I’m practicing animation so take this frame of Huey because he was the easiest to animate (I’m animating emotion changes)

[ls00]

Running through the GZ tapes and man, it’s very…abundantly clear to me now that Huey’s decision, while seemingly arrogant, was the only reasonable thought for someone with as much information as he had.

Miller and Big Boss absolutely did not make him aware of the fact the the inspection even could be a fluke despite giving him enough authority both to command people on the base and send out official business decisions like that.

Huey’s decision came from a place of wanting to show beyond a reasonable doubt to the world that they did not in fact have a nuke. Deny the inspection full stop is just going to cause the entire world/UN to unite against MSF because coming out of the COLD WAR or all things and just having had the Peacewalker incident happen, they would not see a PMC refusing a nuke inspection fondly and it would not go unnoticed.

The only difference is that Big Boss would most likely have been put on trial and the base would have been inspected regardless.

The flaw in Huey choosing to allow the inspection comes from a lack of communication between him Kaz, and Snake.

By the time they bring up the relevant suspicions, such as them not even being registered officially with the board therefore not even falling under jurisdiction to be investigated, it’s already too fucking late.

Combine this lack of communication with the fact that Paz and Chico get captured and you end up in a situation where regardless of the decision that Huey or MSF in general made, they were going to be targeted and in the case that the UN gets involved, you could say goodbye to DD and the wandering MSF soldiers because they’d all be hunted down and treated like international terrorists.

It’s just all so unfortunate, the last few days of MSF were just a mess of hastily made decisions. As well as the fact that Zeke was never even meant to have a warhead to begin with. Huey is correct in that keeping the nuke is ultimately what fucked MSF over the most but hearing that from the guy you suspect isn’t the best even if it is ultimately a just assessment. That doesn’t absolve Huey of his ignorance and his haste to make a decision without talking to at least Snake.

But genuinely, if you think Huey, who is somehow the 3rd in command at MSF despite being a civilian, who can apparently give orders to soldiers and actually have them be followed as well as just…in general the fact that he would not have the means possible to sabotage the struts of the base (assuming the platforms were constructed in a similar way to how they are in PP) without arousing a ton of suspicion would just up and betray MSF I don’t know what to say.

There was literally nothing Cipher even could offer him that he didnt already have in spades at MSF. Most of all being the respect he managed to command even if it was just through being another beacon of the boss’s word at times. It’s honestly absurd to look at the circumstances the attack happened under and blame everything on just him.

I feel like too many people take Kaz at his word when he himself is not squeaky clean and the way he acts in PP in general is just generally rancid and not at all evocative of what Big Boss would have wanted. PP Kaz as a whole leans far more into his idea of DD as a business rather than Big Boss’ ideas of MSF as a sort of heaven for soldiers. Partly because Venom literally cannot keep him in line and it is only by a spider’s thread that Ocelot can override Kaz’s irrational decisions most the time.

I love PP Kaz but bro is absolutely out of his mind half the time. Coming into this and seeing him act like that after PW, it doesnt feel like he’s trying to rebuild home at all.

[holdthelina]

have i ever told you that i’m kindly obsessed with your pmtok and pmss/pmcs art? specifically all the doodles of profode and the besties/worsties relationship between huey and kersti? especially since i can not find stuff for them besides your art?

thank you for doing god’s work, lina!

—✨

awww omg thats so sweet.. its an honor!!! i think about my paper friends allll the time... its been a very long time since i drew anything for em but it means a lot. thank you <:)

[segasonic1991]

What's your favorite character from each Paper Mario game? (Or just the games you are familiar with!)

Pm64 - Lady Bow

Ttyd - Vivian

Spm - Dimentio

Pmss - Bowser (he counts right ... hehe)

Pmcs - Huey

Pmtok - Olivia (My favorite Paper Mario character in general)

Thank you for asking !

I got many others I love but these are just the general ones that i really love

[otnesse]

Technically, Portable Ops was referenced twice: In MGS4 and Peace Walker. The latter game arguably referenced it twice: Aside from the whole "leave the crap in San Hieronymo behind" line from Miller, the script indicated that the reason why they specifically set the beginning at Barranquilla Coast, Colombia, not to mention specified that said camp was adjacent to the San Hieronymo Peninsula, was specifically to have that game bridge the events of Portable Ops. And personally, I'd consider Portable Ops to be FAR closer to a missing link than Peace Walker or MGSV ever did (at least we actually SEE how Big Boss's ideals for soldiers not being used crystallize in Portable Ops, and if anything, far from stealing the idea from Gene, he formed his Outer Heaven philosophy specifically in RESPONSE to Gene and how he callously treated HIS soldiers despite promising the opposite. We barely see much headway into the MSX2 game outside of his having a PMC [which was technically already formed in the beginning and at most we just expand it] and maybe his adopting nuclear deterrance. We don't even see him form Outer Heaven in South Africa, nor was it even ALLUDED to even in Miller's call. And don't get me started on MGSV where Outer Heaven's formation occurred off-screen thanks to playing as an explicit body double, and all so Kojima could give the middle finger to America at the expense of the lore [apparently Huey was meant to be "Ishmael", but Kojima nixed it because he felt he'd have a pro-American bias to morality and wanted America to effectively be the Moby Dick of the tale]. That, and Kojima apparently forgetting that he DID have Big Boss survive the MSX2 game.).

So with the Metal Gear Collection out now (of debatable quality), I figured I'd make a short, handy list of the chronological order of these games, and a short summary of what they're about. I'll try to be as vague and spoiler free as possible.

1 - Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - Takes place in 1964 during the Cold War. CIA operative and FOX unit member Naked Snake is sent to Russia and has to survive the jungle (don't ask, just roll with it) to stop the development and deployment of a new kind of ultimate weapon, the Shagohod. Things are not what they seem and the political machinations of both the United States of America and Russia will have severe repercussions for the rest of the series. Most of all, it will affect Naked Snake and his legacy.

2 - Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops - Takes place in 1970. FOX has seemingly gone rogue and started a revolt in San Hieronymo. Naked Snake begins to build his own resistance with the help of Roy Campbell. (The game is only available for PSP and while it was touted as a "missing link" between Snake Eater and Metal Gear 1, it hasn't been mentioned or referenced since. Easily skippable.)

3 - Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker - Takes place in 1974 in Costa Rica. Naked Snake and Kazuhira Miller begin building their private military company Militaires Sans Frontières. As they uncover the truth behind the strife in Costa Rica, Snake's past during the Snake Eater incident comes back to haunt him. (Originally a PSP game, it was included in the PS3 HD collection. This was also billed as a "missing link". Up to you if agree. Definitely need to play this to understand the next game.)

4 - Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes - Takes place in 1975. After the Peace Walker Incident, one of MSF's own people goes to Cuba on a failed rescue mission and Naked Snake goes in alone to retrieve his man and the person he came to rescue. Serves as an epilogue to Peace Walker and a prologue to the next game.

5 - Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - Takes place in 1984, primarily in Afghanistan. Ten years after what happens in Ground Zeroes, Naked Snake is rechristened Venom Snake and is rebuilding his forces with Miller, naming themselves Diamond Dogs. They prepare to strike back at the organization that has been targeting them for 10 years. A startling truth is revealed and strong alliances shatter.

6 - Metal Gear - Takes place in 1995. FOXHOUND unit rookie, Solid Snake is sent into the fortified state, Outer Heaven, to rescue FOXHOUND veteran Gray Fox and discover the secret behind Outer Heaven's nuclear weapon and the identity of its leader.

7 - Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake - Takes place in 1999. Dr. Kio Marv has bio-engineered a new fuel and energy source that would reduce the consumption of oil. Military forces belonging to Zanzibar Land kidnap the doctor, intending to control the world's oil supply and hold the world hostage as well as stockpiling nuclear weapons. New FOXHOUND commander Roy Campbell forces Solid Snake out of retirement to infiltrate Zanzibar Land and rescue Dr. Kio Marv. Solid Snake is forced to face those he once considered friends and mentors.

8 - Metal Gear Solid - Takes place in 2005. FOXHOUND rebels against the US government and takes over the Alaskan island Shadow Moses, which contains a nuclear weapons facility. Among their demands is the body of Big Boss who is considered the greatest soldier that ever lived. They wish to use his genes to create an army of super soldiers. At the behest of the Secretary of Defense, Roy Campbell once again has to ask Solid Snake out of retirement for one last solo mission. Solid Snake is forced to confront who he is, where he came from and what it is he's fighting for.

9 - Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - Takes place in 2007 and 2009. In 2007, the anti-terrorist organization Philanthropy learns that a new Metal Gear is being transported through the Hudson river and attempt to stop it. They are thwarted by Russian mercenaries and the tanker is blown up as they get away with said Metal Gear.

In 2009, FOXHOUND operative Raiden is sent to infiltrate the Big Shell, a large decontamination facility that has been taken over by a terrorist faction calling themselves the Son of Liberty. Raiden must neutralize the threat and save the hostages. However, Raiden will soon learn of a conspiracy that dates back to even before the Cold War and begin to question his own existence.

10 - Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - Takes place in 2014. War has changed. War has become a commodity and has created what is known as the War Economy. Old Snake is tasked with putting a stop to the madness as well as put an end to a personal war that started as far back as 1964. (So far, this is exclusively a PS3 title, but there is hope that it will be released for PC in a further Metal Gear Collection)

11 - Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance - Takes place in 2018. Raiden has made peace with his lot in life and is trying to support his family by working as a military trainer and VIP bodyguard among other things. While protecting a VIP, Raiden is ambushed and utterly defeated by a cyborg that is part of a larger organization. Raiden begins his quest of vengeance and will finally see if he can put his past behind him.

And there you have it! Dunno really what prompted me to do this, but hey, maybe someone out there will find this helpful or interesting or intriguing or whatever.

[mimikabii]

paper mario color splash art in 2024?!? more likely than you think

[prototypeprophet]

i was so late to finding it but i really liked @mimikabii 's huey humie a lot (a whole lot) so i had to draw it

[tarditzgrade]

just some paper mario gijinka doodles. a tape, a professor toad (Peter), and a huey

(click for better quality)

[hoodie-prince-kid-archived]

"Next stop: Starlight Cape!"

Sunset Express/Tangerino Grill/Marmalade Valley (and a little bit of Toad Trainworks) moodboard! This one was tough, but I think I got the vibe right. Click for quality!