#connectar

[thoughtpeek]

I'VE FINALLY FINISHED BROTHERSHIP IT WAS SOOOOO GOOD!!!!!!!

[thebroadwaysmoke]

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[federthenotsogreat]

Random thoughts and things I noticed about Reclusa

Just thought that writing them down could be interesting for others!

Before I start rambling I do want to add the disclaimer that I'm not trying to prove anything about this character... I'm not trying to force headcanons onto others, nor am I trying to stop others from having different interpretations.

I simply wanted to write down some details I noticed, as well as the ideas that I got from thinking about them a tad bit too much...

You may use this post however you want, be it for your personal headcanons and AUs, or simply for some entertainment because you enjoy this game ♡♡♡

Oh, and if you care a bit too much about video game characters like me... TW for discussions of injury and death

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✩ The red substance his body is made out of heavily resembles Glohm, which is incredibly interesting considering the fact that he actually needs Glohm to be reborn in the first place

This reinforces the fact that he actually feeds off of negative energy, and may even need it to survive

Interestingly enough, upon dying, his body glows in a golden color, heavily resembling Connectar. I like the idea that perhaps he once was a being made out of Connectar and maybe even fed off of positive energy instead. That also makes me think about why that may have changed

✩ His life energy seems to be tied to his head to some capacity. Either that or his screen cracking open is a lethal injury that he can't survive, similar to a human breaking their neck.

He actually seems to lose all energy after having his head cracked open, which you can see in his otherwise red body turning into a pale grey. Although he was injured before, he only loses his color after receiving the fatal blow, which causes me to believe that he would've made it out alive prior to that injury

It's also interesting that the more injured he gets, the more static seems to appear on his screen. (it also takes longer for the static to dissappear the more hits he takes) Maybe it's similar to a human after suffering a blow to the head, getting dizzy and not being able to function properly for a few seconds

✩ Although he is in possession of two pairs of arms, he primarily makes use of the one positioned on his head! He uses his upper pair of arms to express himself in all kinds of ways, while he barley moves his lower pair at all, almost as if they're useless to him?

✩ During his last breaths he talks about needing to do something still. Although it is likely that he's just panicking and mumbling incoherent nonsense, I do wonder if there's something important he had planned

✩ For someone obsessed with living in isolation, he seems to take great pleasure in "playing" with Mario and Luigi, even getting upset when they don't return the favor, wanting to escape instead. I personally believe that that's just due to him being a bit sadistic, but it's still very interesting

✩ He can sometimes be seen with a concordian's face displayed on his screen! I do wonder why that is...

I believe that it's something important though, because during the scene where Mario and Luigi defeat him with the power of their bond, this face can be seen for a split second, glitching in and out of the screen

The parasites that inhabit my brain got the idea that perhaps he used to be a concordian a long time ago, especially due to his obsession with bonds and isolation

[jelly-fish-wishes]

Jellyfish: I have a new crackship!

Me: oh! lets see

Jellyfish: Cozette x Reclusa

Me:

Put down that pencil

Jellyfish, you scare me

JK

We have toxic yaoi (Luigi × Dimentio)

Now toxic hetero (Cozette x Reclusa)

Only toxic yuri is missing

HEAR ME OUT

Now, I spent all day and night drawing for this ONE ASK. I was tempted to have a comic for this because it came to me as I woke up in cold sweat, but I compressed it to a bunch of doodles and sketches instead. Best to summarize it so that I don’t trap myself in ANOTHER comic lol.

There will be cliché tropes here, but WHO CARES, ITS MY LIFE SOURCE. This is an unpolished story, so here we go.

They have a lot in common. In the flashbacks, Cozette is seen alone until Connie comes up to talk to her. Reclusa doesn’t seem to have a reason as to why he is the way he is other than needing Glohm to live. Not even a backstory. So any HEADCANON is free game HUEHUEHUEHUE

This ship can probably take place after the events of the game, and Cozette knows no one in Concordia can defeat him, so she takes it upon herself to redeem him. Of course, there will be animosity between the two. At first.

Cozette seems like someone who has the heavy burden of being a Wattanist, so she needs a successor, and that’s Connie. They may be close, but Cozette knows she can’t live forever. Meanwhile Reclusa CAN, which is why he would have a hard time making bonds even if he wanted to.

I like to think that he’d change colours if he had a bond, so now he matches Cozette (like soul bonding or something 👉🏼👈🏼)

I don’t think Reclusa can live off of connectar, so of course their bond has consequences. And Cozette will want him to stay because she’s grown fond of him. This also has consequences. (Yes I drew her blushing, COME ON. IF I’M GOING TO BE A FILTHY DEGENERATE SHIPPER, THAN I MIGHT AS WELL GO ALL OUT AND NOT HOLD BACK)

WHOOPS, others see them out of context, yada yada yada. “Our love isn’t just forbidden, we’re hurting each other” *swoons* And all you get from Reclusa is guilt, guilt, and MORE guilt.

Ppffttt

So sappy. I love it. Take this track to go with the last images huehuehuehue

[reclusafanpage]

mario and luigi brothership endgame spoilers below!!!!! (rambling about the final boss)

food for thought. imagine how MAD reclusa would be if he got revived with connectar instead of glohm. i bet he'd throw a tantrum

yeah, totally not mentioning this bc i started an au based on that. toootally not /s /silly in said au that i've barely just made up, he gets revived by the uni-tree post-fight, and cozette's reasoning for this is bc "apparently the uni-tree deemed he had a bond worth saving for". HE'D BE SO MADDD LIKE "WYM ME??? A BOND??? YOU CRAZY????" yeah said bond is fuckin. Zokket. because of COURSE it is. look at how devoted zokket was despite hating AND breaking bonds actively. nah my man wanted reclusa revived SO BAD HE'D DIE FOR HIM (yeah i read another post talking about zokket in-depth and wink wink if you're reading this. your post was real good food)

anyways yeah, do with that silly au whatever u want. headcanon instead of red, reclusa would be yellow bc of the connectar and when he gets revived, thats like, the first thing he sees. absolute BONKERS yuh

[bl00dblight]

DID I COOK?? Meet Chargrin, an ex-Wattanist with quite the criminal history. No matter how threatening they may sound, they're actually quite a pushover—rather, they're a pushover presently now that they have no access to Connectar.

My ask box is always open for questions about them! :]

[zettatoad]

finished mario and luigi brothership. i liked it! misc thoughts

i kinda like that this game is relatively back-to-basics. feels like a good decision considering it was made under a different studio. besides that, dream team and paper jam were very much following the template of bowser's inside story, and i feel like that was a little to their detriment. compared to these, the first three games were all trying new things, and in resetting like this and figuring out how to make mario and luigi work again from scratch, brothership is both trying new things and paving the way for any future titles to try even newer things

it does kinda suck that they made it so that you select luigi's battle options with the A button. a little awkward to switch from A to B when attacking

regarding trying new things: i like how luigi is handled in the overworld in this one. i don't know if i prefer it to the classic way, but i feel like it was a different way of controlling him that introduced new puzzles and such, rather than a simplification. it admittedly took some getting used to to not try to make him jump while navigating

the music is pretty good, but it's not yoko shimomura good, y'know? i don't begrudge hideki sakamoto at all and i wish him the best but i do hope they're able to get her back for any further sequels

the pun game here is on point. kudos to the localization team for their many ways of interweaving electricity, sailing, and gardening together (some of those are freebies, though. e.g. i'm pretty sure electric current is named after water current)

i've seen people complain about how long the special attacks and enemy attacks are for multiple mario and luigi games, and that hasn't really bothered me before. but boy, do some attacks take a while in this game. not a big deal for me but i'm beginning to see where those complaints are coming from

i wish this game had repeatable boss refights like the previous few did. they could give it an in-setting justification with connectar, somehow. the fact that there's already a level scaling system means you could potentially have an option to strenghten old fights so the early ones don't die in one hit when you're strong

the bowser jr. subplot was a good payoff for me actually playing bowser jr.'s journey. i think the mario and luigi writers care more about bowser jr. than basically anyone else. i like how he's characterized as being an incredibly spoiled and selfish brat but still a good kid at heart (besides being, you know, evil)

i like that peach does things in this game instead of protecting or saving her being a major goal. awarding mario and luigi brothership two feminism points for this

i haven't talked about the actual plot uhhh it was pretty good. i liked it. some of the many characters who tag along with you were a tad one-note but it was kinda nice having a whole gang of guys you get to know. iunno.

they did nail the ending, in particular the stuff after the final boss. a great conclusion to everything

overall i rank it as my 4th favorite mario and luigi game, above dream team and behind partners in time (i have an unusually high opinion of partners in time, relative to how i've seen other people talk about it. if you did not like partners in time like this is basically like saying it's my third favorite (i don't know if it works like that))

we still need more mario and luigi games until we finally get one with a wario and waluigi boss battle

SPOILER THOUGHTS BELOW:

reclusa is sort of like if flowey the flower and monokuma had a horrible son together

i kinda think he sucks but i kinda think that's at least partially because he kinda shows up out of nowhere to take over the last act of the game. and then that last act is kinda just going back to old islands without doing anything interesting. kinda kinda kinda

like if he could peak out of his egg a little earlier and have some dialogue, some influence on the plot, maybe introduce a couple of reclusa-brand enemies earlier, then it would it be less like some random annoying guy took over the game from the previous villain and more like the annoying guy we all know and love rightfully ascending to his place as the true villain

also: why an egg. that's kind of random, considering how on point the rest of the game's theming is. a seed would make much more sense, especially considering he makes an evil tree

i bet you could have fun dialogue with him being his annoying self and zokket being like "yes, master. your will be done" or whatever and the extension corps could be like "is this REALLY the guy behind the guy we're serving?" could help make their face turn at the end of the game be a little less out of nowhere. oh well, writing is hard and making video games is hard and it's a lot easier for me to say all this in hindsight

i DO like his design and the design of the reclusa-brand enemies. i even feel like his dialogue and personality is kinda (again? argh) fun. but the way he suddenly shows up and takes over everything left a bad taste in my mouth

the final boss has a problem where they wanted it to be an epic multi-phase fight, but they also need it to fit in with the difficulty curve of the rest of the game, so it ends up that every phase goes down pretty quickly and has only two or three attacks, and it all feels less exciting than the fight against zokket, who had a bunch of attacks and survived several times longer than any phase of this fight

while i'm at it, why didn't zokket get a unique boss theme. antasma got one and he didn't do anything. he didn't even do anything

as it stands, i think the game would be improved if it ended at fortress zokket

i feel like i should write a conclusion here but i already concluded it before i started talking about spoilers. i complained here but i liked the game and i'm glad they're making more of these even if i'm still mad about alphadream. odds are high that the next paper mario game will be good instead of bad. that's all i got

[fullmoonfireball]

what DOES necessitate a removable headpiece? Like what are they doing in there?

Shun's got issues with his contacts, both in that they fail a lot and they're prone to corrosion/rust build up. so every now and then, he needs to be pried open to scrape that gunk out to help keep him functioning, maybe put some temporary bridges in if you're feeling daring. usually, this is a condition that gets resolved when one's still just a grub (in either it's fixed or the baby passes), but his just... didn't. so even past that routine, it hasn't been uncommon for him to get cracked open to try and implement some new solution

his current solution (courtesy of Zokket) is a connectar-based conductive fluid. by far the most effective one so far, as it means he can actually like... function normally, albeit at the cost of making him way heavier + this fluid needing to be cycled out every now and then

[sonicasura]

Ok I have have seen the entirety of Brothership and yes Brothership would be a fantastic place too drop Orion into. Though when in Brothership should Orion appear in. A bit before Mario and Luigi get there. Maybe he washes ashore Shipshape Island and is cared for by Connie and Snoutlet.

What point in the story do you think would be best?

Orion washing up on Shipshape first and then Luigi shows up later. Give him some time to process things before the real adventure starts. I also see Connectar being an energy source that can sustain a Cybertronian too.

[canalsart]

L'art té un gran potencial curatiu! A través de l'expressió artística, les persones poden connectar amb les seves emocions, alleujar l'estrès i fomentar la introspecció. Això és el que sovint es coneix com a artteràpia, una disciplina que utilitza l'art com a eina terapèutica per millorar el benestar mental i emocional.

[lasusanitavalenciana]

Benvinguts a "La Susanita Valenciana"!

📚✨ Hola a tots els apassionats de la llengua i la literatura valenciana! Soc Susanita, la ment inquieta darrere d'este blog. Què trobaràs ací? Doncs bé, prepara't per a submergir-te en el fascinant univers de les paraules, les històries i la cultura valenciana. Des dels versos més antics d'Ausiàs March fins a les obres contemporànies més innovadores, este espai està dissenyat per a explorar, analitzar i gaudir de la riquesa lingüística i literària de la nostra benvolguda terra valenciana.

Qui soc jo? Una entusiasta de les lletres, una exploradora incansable de la bellesa de la nostra llengua i una devoradora voraç de llibres. Però més que això, soc una amant de compartir coneixements, experiències i passions. Este blog no sols serà un lloc per a aprendre i reflexionar, sinó també per a connectar amb altres amants de la llengua i la literatura valenciana.

Així que, benvolguts lectors, preparen-se per a un viatge emocionant a través de les paraules, els versos i les històries que fan de València un lloc únic en el món de les lletres. Unisquen-se a mi en este viatge i descobrim junts la màgia de la nostra llengua i literatura!

Una abraçada literària, Susanita 🌹

[nuriablogs]

Desconnectar. Algo que estoy intentando incuir en mi dia a dia, y es que llevamos una vida tant, como decirlo... monòtona, rutinaria. Solo pensamos y nos preocupamos de seguir la rutina sin pensar en lo que necessitamos, no escuchamos nuesto cuerpo, sus necessidades. Todos necessitamos tomarnos un descanso, salir a pasear, tomar el aire. Y es que desconnectar nos hayuda a volver a connectar.

Disconnect. Something that I am trying to include in my day to day, and that is that we lead a life that is so, how to say it... monotonous, routine. We only think and worry about following the routine without thinking about.

[jelly-fish-wishes]

Sooooooooooooooooooooooo

Do you have more headcanons for Cozette x Reclusa?

Since this is a ship from an AU of mine, I will try to avoid any possible spoilers since it’s not written yet.

Cozette 🔌

She likes to be alone with her thoughts

She has the patience of a rock that finally been exposed to the surface only to be used as a skipping stone.

She rarely gets angry, although it’s mostly towards herself if she does.

She’s more of a show and tell person

Her favourite hobbies are playing Concordia’s equivalent to a hammered Dulcimer and cooking using the ingredients she has foraged.

Honey made from connectar is her favourite flavour and smell.

Reclusa 📺

Can only fall asleep listening to music since he hates silence

Hates thinking, acts on impulse.

Concept of gender confuses him since he is immortal as the culture of the many worlds he’s been to doesn’t apply to him (explains Zokket)

Has 0 patience

Has never cried 👀

Doesn’t understand social cues so he doesn’t know when to stop talking

His favourite hobbies are puzzles, botany, and starting arguments.

He has a love/hate relationship with flowers.

When Together

She sings him lullabies

Around her, his face screen makes a pink facial expression he’s never done and doesn’t know what it is (he’s surprisingly bashful)

He is only patient for and with her since he lets her do all of the thinking that results in positive outcomes.

He may talk a lot, but lucky for him, she is a great listener.

She finds comfort in being around him and it confuses the hell out of him.

She taught him how to make honey from flowers.

Do what you will with this information :3

[reclusafanpage]

riiight it seems i forgot to post a doodle~!!

(brothership spoilers below cut)

him post connectar revival!!

[bl00dblight]

Chargrin is such a good idea for a character in Brothership, love the concept of going to the other extreme and abusing the power of Bonds. I can definitely see them as the main antagonist in a sequel if M&L ever return to Concordia.

Do you think they'd manage to rope in the Extension Corps to his schemes? Would he have his own unique army?

I want to print this ask out and hang it on my wall, this is genuinely the best compliment I could ever wish to hear!! Thank you so much, Anon! :]

I'm so glad that him representing the downsides of certain kind of (manipulative/parasocial) Bonds came across! I think it could be such a fun way to reinforce what positive Bonds look like versus negative ones.

For the Extension Corps, I could absolutely see him reaching out to them. Trying to sugarcoat recruiting them to his side by reassuring that he'd neeever ever forget their names (a real golden deal, right?)! Perhaps the three would be a bit more wary to make themselves henchmen again after what they got mixed up in last time, but who's to say they couldn't balance their acts of community service with a little more evil scheming?

As for a unique army, I could also absolutely see that! I'd love to sketch up concepts sometime, as I have a few vague ideas already! Chargrin has an odd insect (and parasite) motif to me, collecting Connectar, having his odd—almost stinger-like in some ways—tail, and the way he promises to contribute and maintain unity for all of Concordia if everyone offers their loyalty to him...but only taking from it in reality. I'd love to go further with that and make him a few electronic-based insectoid minions, ohoho!

I can't wait to share more lore about this bastard soon (I'm currently writing out his full motivations and a bit of backstory), thank you so much again for this ask and the chance to blab about him!