#kamek: so your single?

[riri-time]

What if...

Kamek and Luigi bonded over fashion and became friends that ends up with Kamek thinking wow Luigi is really great ,perfect for my son ,Bowser, and plays matchmaker ?

[stingynugget]

Bowuigi Mating Dance Idea

Again, another crack Bowuigi idea that I'm not sure how to flesh out. For this one, Bowser steals a serum/potion from the Mushroom Kingdom in hopes that it will make him invincible. However, instead, it reveals his subconscious desires. And one of those desires is to have Luigi as his partner.

Wrote some copy for this, but again, not entirely fleshed out:

Mario and Luigi stood up with a grunt. Princess Peach’s throne room was a mess, with rubble everywhere and a gaping hole where the room’s doors used to be. From behind them, Peach reached over to see if they were okay, but Mario gently pushed her back, straightening himself. 

The toads who had been in the room had already fled. They had been in the middle of a meeting when Bowser so kindly interrupted. 

Bowser guffawed as he strolled through the hole his airship had just made. His advisor, Kamek, flew on his broomstick above Bowser’s head. Green-shelled koopas marched behind them, and they quickly flanked the trio. 

Luigi took a deep breath and tried to stop shaking so much.

“Well, well, did I catch you guys on a bad day?” Bowser crooned. “That’s too bad.” He looked as menacing as usual, especially with the setting sun on his back. 

Mario rubbed the dust off of his mustache. “Can’t you just leave us alone? We all know how this ends.”

Luigi nodded in agreement, crossing his arms over his chest.

Bowser pretended to look at his claws. “I’m afraid things are going to be a bit different this time.” He smirked as he reached into his shell and pulled out a bottle full of strange, pink liquid. He held it up into the sky and roared, “Behold! My raw strength is about to increase tenfold!”

Peach pushed past Mario and Luigi, a confused look on her face. “Wait, why do you have that?”

“My dearest Peaches, it was actually quite easy to steal from your castle’s boring research facility. And now, I’ll use it to rule the world.”

Peach raised an eyebrow, and Mario and Luigi looked at each other. 

“I would highly recommend you don’t use that, Bowser,” Peach said slowly.  

“Hah! As if,” Bowser sneered. He opened the bottle and downed the contents in one go. 

Mario and Luigi readied themselves, clenching their fists and opening their stances. Peach covered her mouth in surprise. 

Bowser grinned and looked down at his body in expectation. But… nothing about his body really changed. He glared over at Kamek. “You idiot! I thought you said this would make me invincible!”

Kamek held up his hands in placation. “I couldn’t quite examine it, sire, because you didn’t want me to waste a single drop. So I made a guess based on what it looked and smelled like.”

Bowser growled. “That’s it. When we get back, you’re—” Bowser stopped talking mid sentence, his snout twitching like crazy. He tried again, “You’re…” He shook his head and stumbled a bit.

“Your majesty! Are you all right?”

Luigi glanced over at Peach, who was rolling her eyes at Bowser.  “Um… what exactly does it do, princess?” he asked.

Peach opened her mouth to respond, when Bowser let out a loud grunt. They all looked over at him to see his pupils had dilated. He was staring right at them. Luigi and Mario both took a step in front of the princess.

Bowser didn’t move for a second, then he leaned forward and let out a low bellow that sounded like chainsaws trying to start up. Luigi had never heard such a sound from Bowser before. 

Turning around, Bowser’s tail swept across the floor, flickering and moving in a strange pattern. Even stranger, his spikes started raising and lowering in some sort of rhythm.

Luigi had no idea Bowser’s shell could do that. Looking over at Mario, Luigi could tell he was thinking the same thing.

Bowser faced forward again and let out another bellow. This one was accompanied by a small burst of sparks from his muzzle. Then he turned right back around and kept doing that weird shell and tail combo.

“Well… that’s a thing. I guess,” Mario said, stroking his mustache.

Luigi kind of wanted to laugh. But they were still surrounded by Bowser’s minions. “Hey, how about I take the right side, and you take the left side?”

Mario nodded and said, “Peach, keep Bowser distracted?”

Peach hummed in agreement. 

The two Mario brothers took off. The koopas charged at Luigi, but he easily hopped onto their heads and kicked them out of the hole Bowser made. He hit a few with his hammer and kicked those, too. 

“Luigi, look out!” Peach called.

Luigi turned around and came face to face with Bowser. He jumped back with a shriek and held up his hands in defense. The koopas he had been fighting now took cover behind Bowser.

“Sire! What are you doing?” Kamek called. He shot a blast of magic at Mario, who dodged it easily. Mario’s end of koopas were already out of commission. 

Bowser didn’t answer, he just stared at Luigi with his red eyes. When Luigi continued to stand there, Bowser let out a rumbling bellow and bobbed his head up and down. 

Luigi had no idea what was going on. Maybe he should just leave this sort of thing to Mario. He tried to run back to Peach’s side, but Bowser stepped in front of him. Luigi didn’t dare breathe. But Bowser didn’t hurt him. Instead, he turned around and slapped his tail up and down on the floor. 

Now Luigi was really confused. What exactly was in that bottle?

A blast of magic surrounded Bowser and lifted him towards the hole in the room. “Your Craziness, we must retreat!” Kamek cried. He barely managed to dodge Mario trying to jump up and grab his broom. 

Instead of listening to his advisor, Bowser let out a fierce growl. Kamek froze in his tracks, dissipating the hovering spell, and stared at Bowser in bewilderment. Mario managed to grab the tip of Kamek’s broom and yank him down. The magikoopa freed himself by shooting a small lightning bolt at Mario, who avoided it gracefully.

Bowser let out one last growl towards his advisor, then he approached Luigi again. Smoke billowed out of Bowser’s mouth as he approached.

“What do you want?!” Luigi cried hysterically, glancing around the room. 

A piece of debris hit Bowser in the head. Luigi and Bowser turned to see Peach winding up to throw another one. Bowser blew a plume of fire in her direction. Mario dove onto her, getting both of them out of the way. Mario dragged Peach out of the way when another one of Kamek’s lightning bolts struck the ground.

Luigi returned his attention to Bowser, who had managed to get up close to Luigi’s personal space without him noticing. Luigi held up his hands in surrender; the last thing he wanted to do was set Bowser off in his crazed state.

Bowser stared down at Luigi, his blown up pupils nearly drowning out the whites of his eyes. Luigi tried to take a step back, but he got poked by something. He glanced behind him to see the few koopas he didn’t manage to take care of standing there. One of them had a long spear, which they used to push Luigi towards their king.

Luigi covered his head with his hands. His legs shook violently, and he muttered prayers to himself in Italian.

However, instead of Bowser biting his head off, Luigi felt something warm and soft rub against his face. He opened his eyes and moved his hands away, right when Bowser leaned back from Luigi. When Luigi didn’t do anything, Bowser leaned down again and rubbed his cheek on Luigi’s. 

Luigi froze. He saw movement out of the corner of his eye and saw Mario, Peach, Kamek, and the koopas staring at the scene.

“Seriously, Peach, what was in that elixir?” Mario asked. His eyes looked like they were going to bug out of his head. 

Peach hummed. “It was a serum that revealed your subconscious desires… We were testing it for interrogation purposes…” She tapped her chin in thought. 

Kamek shook his head. He flew down and wacked Luigi’s face away from Bowser’s with the back of his broom. Luigi sputtered and tripped on something behind him. He heard a low growl and something firm wrap around his body. He looked down to see Bowser’s hand around his waist. 

With a gulp, Luigi slowly looked up at Bowser, whose eyes were half lidded as he stared down at Luigi. Was it just him, or was Bowser’s face getting closer?

“Sire! Enough of this nonsense!” Kamek screeched. He flew up to Bowser’s head and wacked the back of it with his wand.

Bowser’s eyes shrunk back to their normal size, and Bowser shook his head to clear it. 

“W-what?” Bowser groaned. He glanced at Luigi, then at Mario and Peach, then back at Luigi with a look of bewilderment. 

“Um… hi…” Luigi muttered. He tried to tug Bowser’s fingers off of him, but his grip was strong. 

Bowser’s face morphed into his usual cocky sneer. “What do you think you’re doing?”

“H-hey!” Luigi protested, “I’m not the one who was making googly eyes earlier! And is still holding onto me!”

Bowser glanced down at his hand and blinked, as if just noticing he was holding onto Luigi. He dropped Luigi unceremoniously onto the floor.

“Your highness, I suggest a tactical retreat!” Kamek called.

Bowser grumbled. “FINE!” He blew flame towards Mario and Peach, so they wouldn’t follow after them as they ran back to their airship. 

Luigi watched them go with absolute confusion. Mario tried to chase after them, but he was too late. Luigi didn’t bother standing up, his mind still stuck on what had transpired.

I like to think that the bellowing Bowser's doing is like an alligator's bellow, but much louder.

[janmisali]

[NOT APRIL FOOL’S RELATED]

As the only supermariologist I follow, I wanted to know your opinion on a shower thought I had regarding the Mario franchise, specifically, what might be considered the “Main Cast” of the super Mario franchise.

I’m mostly curious about:

A) is there an official or semi-official set of characters defined in this way?

B) if not, what is your personal opinion (if any) on who that might be and what criteria that would require

Considering Mario, Peach and Bowser are almost certainly part of that cast (though Bowser is an antagonist…) I would say characters that appear or are playable in most if not all of the games who’s plot revolves around Bowser kidnapping Peach should be counted. That leaves me with Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad (but is he a single character?), Yoshi, and Bowser.

I imagine that this is one of those things like “what is a mainline super Mario game” that has multiple ambiguous answers, but simply interested to know your way of approaching it!

this is a great question!

so there actually is a semi-official list of "main characters" for Mario in the same way there's an official list of mainline Super Mario games. over on mario dot nintendo dot com slash characters we can see that the main characters are:

Mario

Luigi

Princess Peach

Toad

Bowser

Yoshi

Daisy

Wario

Waluigi

Rosalina

Bowser Jr.

Boo

Donkey Kong

Diddy Kong

whether or not this list is an actual satisfactory answer to "who are the main characters in Mario" is another question altogether of course. besides the obvious questionable things here, I'd like to point out the odd inconsistency of referring to "Princess Peach" by her full title while being on a first-name-only basis with Bowser, Daisy, and Rosalina. fun!

personally, I'd say there are a few different "tiers" of main character status in the Mario games. the main main characters are Mario, Luigi, Bowser, and Peach. like, literally only those four. those are the four characters where it is always remarkable when a Mario game doesn't include one of them in a major role.

tertiary main characters would include all the recurring playable characters in ensemble multiplayer games, like Waluigi and Diddy Kong. (Diddy Kong would count as a main character if we were talking about Donkey Kong characters, but the question is about Mario characters, and Diddy Kong is definitely a tertiary main character in Mario games specifically) the real interesting question is who counts as being a "main character" at the layer between these two tiers.

I think Yoshi, Toad, Wario, and Donkey Kong are all a given for secondary main characters, but beyond that I'm really not sure! should Toadette count? what about Nabbit? Daisy? Kamek? Bowser Jr.? the Koopalings? Toadsworth? who knows! it's all very debatable, and there's no definitive answer here. nintendo's official list certainly isn't helping!

[inkprovised]

Pls keep scrolling if you don't like Bowuigi.

+TW Angst

There is so much stuff that didn't make it into the Reunion Comic... but I don't want it to go to waste.

So have a little something in-between the Coronation and Reunion;

Always time;

The day was long. Again.

Kamek dragged himself through the corridors on his way to his last duty of the day. It was past midnight already!

It's been 5 months since they created the healing sphere in which the King of the Koopa was locked in, to- well... heal. It needed four Magikoopa to build that giant thing, but fortunately, only one to run it. Kamek and Kammy took shifts since Kamek still had his duty at the side of their new King. And since this one had no experience in ruling whatsoever, this job was even harder than before.

Not to get it wrong, Luigi's doing great. But since Bowser's absence, things in the Kingdom were going out of hand. But there was no fault to seek in the new Ruler.

Bowser promised Luigi would surprise them all. And this Kamek could confirm almost every day. Luigi was kind. He had a feeling for situations that were in immediate need of de-escalation, he was willing to put himself into everything, and he was fair. Yet scared all the time...

The citizens who came to bring their concerns and requests to the king sure were not convinced at first. But some of them already met King Bowser and sometimes were scared to ask of anything at all. Then, while talking to Luigi, they relaxed visibly, and chit-chating was about to become a common thing with the King. And Kamek was certain they liked their new Ruler.

One time, he wasn't fast enough to react, Luigi jumped from his throne to hug a desperately crying single mother who asked for help. Her husband died in one of the (already countless) riots at the borders of the Lands. He just wanted to get a surprise for their anniversary and wasn't even involved in the sedition....

Kamek was thrown off his thoughts as he reached the healing chambers. The door was ajar, and the light of the sphere was showing through. The Magikoopa could hear a voice, reading with passion about a dragon and a village in flames. He knew this part too well! It was Junior's favourite book. How many times had Bowser or himself read it to him...

Kamek entered the chambers.

"Luigi?" He asked, the reading stopped.

At the bottom of the sphere sat an exhausted looking King, bags under his eyes, book in hand, and a loud snoring Junior on his lap. His hair had grown out, and Kamek didn't know if he did not want them to be cut short or if he was just prioritising other things. Luigi leaned on the sphere, which caused the magic glow to alter.

He smiled. "Kamek. Come sit with us. We're about to get to the best part."

"How?!"

"How- what?"

"The world could go down, and you'd still find enough time for them... how?" Luigi only shrugged. "And how often did you read that thing already?!" Kamek pointed at the book. "And why are you still reading? Junior is fast asleep already. "

"Who says I'm reading to Junior right now?" The King laughed and craned his neck to look at the shadow inside the sphere, then he smiled. "I know Bowser can't stand this book anymore. He told me the last time we read it to our little one here. " Then his smile turned sad. "I keep reading this to him until he wakes up just to make me shut up because he can't stand it anymore. "

At this, Kamek snorts unexpectedly fast and loud

Which led to them both laughing a couple of minutes straight.

Kamek cleared his throat and adjusted himself before talking. "You should go and rest yer majesty. Don't make me use my sleep magic on you again."

I needed to get this out of my system first. Thanks for your patience!

For all of you who don't know what is happening;

Start here

[galactic-knightmare]

Yet another Au!

So, I had mentioned a slime rancher au in the bowuigi discord, and soon enough me and a couple others were just brainstorming and slapping it together, and this is (one of) the results!

(also tried a different artstyle. its kinda a mix of my usual style and canon lmao)

So Essentially, the bros move in to their own ranch, and their neighboring ranches being home to Bowser, Peach, and Daisy. Daisy and Peach share a ranch, with Peach usually handling the basic care of the slimes and plants (hence why I gave her a more gardener-kinda outfit) while Daisy usually goes exploring for new slimes. their Neighbor, Bowser, mostly specializes in Boom, Fire, Crystal, and Rock slimes, preferring the more volatile ones since they can’t really do much to him. (he’s still a koopa here, mostly cause I just didn’t want to make him human lmao) He’s also best friends with Peach- no romance there or anything.

He ends up meeting the bros when Mario ends up disturbing his boom slimes somehow (either with extremely loud music or something else). The two end up in an argument and there is Immediate dislike between them. Luigi, knowing how intense and... dense, his brother can be sometimes, decides to come over to Bowser’s ranch and apologize for it, and Bowser ends up thinking “alright, his brother’s not bad, so I guess I can tolerate them being my neighbors” and they just slowly befriend each other over time.

As for the slimes, there’s bits of ideas on those too!

Mario seems to attract literally every cat-like slime in existence. He goes for a nap under a tree and then wakes up under a pile of tabby slimes. You turn your back on him and when you look over again he’s got Hunter slimes all over him. He has a single Saber slime that is his baby and definitely spoiled named Pawline. (I headcanon Mario with a Calico cat named Pawline, so this is her in the au I guess XD) Luigi tends to be swarmed by batty and phosphor slimes, mostly as a reference to the Luigi’s Mansion games, but also because Batty Slimes are cute. They don’t swarm him as much as the cat slimes swarm Mario though. He also has a Yolky Slime named Sunny. When the two first saw Sunny Mario wanted to try and cook them because they looked like a giant egg. thankfully, Luigi said no and took Sunny in (and away from the stove). Sunny usually just sits around in the chicken coops, though every now and then you’ll find them Hiding in Luigi’s hat.

Peach has a bunch of Pink Flutter Largos... I don’t think I need to explain my reasoning there LMAO And Daisy has a bunch of tangle slimes, mostly because she thinks their cool, but also their one of the few plant slimes, and well, plants, flowers, daisies... you get the idea... XD

Bowser, since he’s a koopa and essentially heatproof, just isn’t affected by boom slimes and fire slimes. he’s also too big for a vacpack, so he just. picks up a handfull of slimes whenever he needs to move them around. At one Point Luigi is just. watching, as Bowser moves a bunch of boom largos, completely unaffected by the largos exploding in his arms. We were a bit(?) torn on what to do with the Koopalings and junior? Someone suggested that their a bunch of boom slimes that Bowser babies, though Personally I prefer them still being his kids. Maybe at the start of the au their all on a trip with their grandpa kamek? I just find the idea funny that during their talks, Bowser mentions he has kids to Luigi, but doesn’t mention that he has eight. So when they do get back from their trip, Luigi is just stunned at the sheer amount of kids he has lmao

Anyway yeah, that’s.. essentially it I think. I have other ideas so we’ll see if I make more lmao. I won’t write anything for it though, aside from maybe a oneshot here or there. (though I do think there’s at least one person from the server who is writing a fic for the au. Memory ain’t that great...)

[snapple16]

Hello, Hello! So since I mentioned it here first I'm gonna share the first ch for the Bowuigi 20s au here! Now as I say on my fics comments much appreciated!

Warnings!

Tw: Blood, Guns. It's a gang fic so..

Also this ch is tame compared to what I have planned

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Cricket song filled the night air as fireflies danced amongst the tree trunks. The small man-made lake glittered in moon light, owls called out to the night as they took flight. It was a peaceful night, until the grind of wheels on the dirt road interrupted the nighttime symphony. The headlights of the two vehicles were kept off even though the occupants were on their own land. They didn't want to draw attention to themselves. The first vehicle, a Willy's Overland Whippet 93A came to a stop just on the shores of the lake. The car's occupants filed out, the four turtle like creatures moved quickly around to the large padlocked chest strapped to the back. The driver pulled a large key ring from his pocket, letting out a triumphant noise when he found the key on the large ring and unlocked the trunk. The larger of the four a five foot ten bruiser reached in and pulled out the beaten up occupant.

"Pl-please.. I.. I didn't want to.." The koopa pleaded as he was dropped unceremoniously on the ground. The green shell on his back was cracked badly, leaking blood as did his nose. The brown hair on his head was matted from blood and dirt. The front passenger door of the specially built Rolls Royce Phantom Limo opened as a nicely dressed koopa hybrid got out, his head was clean shaven a few black scales dotted around his single eye while the other was covered in an eye patch. A black shell lay over the suit jacket.

He moved over to the back of the door and opened it allowing the King to exit. "King" Bowser Ryujin was an intimidating sight for his men to behold no matter how many times they saw him. Standing a little over seven foot tall with firey red hair slicked back between two sharp horns, sharp fangs poked out from his bottom lip of a mouth set in a human face that always had a nasty smirk. Dressed in his nice three piece suit with his large spiked green shell on the back he looked every bit of the Mafia boss that he was. His scaled tail swished back and forth like a cat waiting to pounce on its prey, fiery red eyes glowed as they focused on the koopa man before him. From behind him came a much shorter man with round rim glasses and a pointy cone hat perched on his head, dressed in a fancy suit Kamek did not look at all that intimidating until he waved the wand that doubled as a cane.

The bloodied koopa started to crawl toward his old boss still trying to plead his case. "Boss, I.. I'm so sorry I didn't want to. You gotta believe me. King Boo he.. he tricked me.. he said he'd-"

The koopa flinched as the one eyed koopa reached into his jacket, the traitor expected a gun or a knife instead he pulled out the case holding the King's prefered cigars. The other koopa pulled one out and deftly clipped the end and offered it up to his king. Bowser plucked it from his third's fingers holding one end up to his mouth where he blew a small flame on the end catching it on fire. He blew it out allowing the end to smolder before he stuck it between his lips.

"Marky, Marky, Marky." Bowser shook his head as he started toward the shivering koopa on the ground before him. "I don't care why you did it. I don't care that you let that over sized marshmallow trick you. I care that you BETRAYED me, now had you come to me and told me what he was going to do, I might have let you live for even entertaining the idea of betraying me. Maybe I'd only take a finger or a hand. Now I'm afraid you put me in a difficult position: Kill you quickly and end your suffering, or make it last."

In what seemed like a split second of thinking the koopa Mark chose for him. Seeing no other way out of the situation alive Mark tried to scramble up and make a run for the lake. He seemed to have forgotten what the king had living in the lake, for in a matter of seconds he was overwhelmed by alligators attracted by the scent of blood. The screaming only lasted a few seconds. Bowser took a deep inhale of his cigar before letting out the smoke with a few sparks.

"Howitzer." Bowser motioned to his third.

"Sir." Howitzer nodded, he didn't even need to be told what to do already knowing what his boss wanted done. It was going to be an unpleasant night for Mark's family.

*

The midday sun shone brightly on the street, the pedestrians had smiles as they enjoyed the spring sun. The warm beams seemed to point toward one particular flower shop, the shop name Bella Rosa was carved into a green and blue plaque over the front door. The bell of the small flower shop jingled, signaling another customer coming in. Luigi Mariano, the owner, stood from behind the counter where he'd been kneeling, blue jean overalls slightly dirty at the knees. His blue eyes sparkled brightly as he saw who had come in.

"Mario, mio fratello!" Luigi smiled brightly as he moved around the counter to greet his older yet shorter twin brother.

In terms of appearance Mario had the same blue eyes as Luigi, his mustache was a little more styled than his brother's. Clothing wise however they were on the complete opposite of the spectrum. Mario was sporting a red three piece Italian pinstripe suit, which only made sense since he was the boss of the Mariano family mafia. Despite his lifestyle Mario always made time to visit his little brother. While Luigi was spared the life of a mafia leader or at least second, their father had made sure he still got into 'real man's work' and had him drafted into the military, special forces to be exact.

Mario had been furious and wanted to get his little brother out, unfortunately before Mario could get to him Luigi had finished his basic training and was shipped out. By some miracle, Luigi had survived the first world war and made it home. To Mario's shock, he was still the same sweet, slightly skittish man he'd been when he left. Even so Mario made sure his baby brother wouldn't be involved in anything violent ever again. Now head of the family Mario had a protective order put on Luigi and his shop.

"Lu, how's business?" Mario asked warmly as he embraced his brother, not at all bothered by the dirt getting on his thousand dollar clothes. "Must be good since its spring time."

"Its going well, everyones getting ready for mass and Easter sunday." Luigi nodded pulling away. "What are you up to?"

"Just a routine drive around. DK's wanting to meet up later for drinks so I figured best get work out of the way." Mario stated. "Heard rumors there's been a few koopas running around the area."

"Only the few civilians that don't live in Bowser's territory. Not all koopas work for him you know." Luigi shook his head. While he's heard stories of the terrifying dragon turtle hybrid he'd never seen the man. Not that he wanted to, if even some of what he'd been told was true. "I know I'm beating a dead horse but please try not to get caught by the police in a speakeasy or start any fights?"

"Hey, I don't always start those fights and I've never been caught." Mario huffed, crossing his arms. Luigi couldn't help but giggle, even as a mafia leader his brother still acted like a child sometimes. It was good to see Mario still had his heart even with what he does for a living. "Oh by the way, Peach wants to meet up this weekend with us and the other girls. Daisy's gonna be there." At Mario's eyebrow wiggle Luigi just rolled his eyes, his brother knew his preference lay with his own gender. Didn't mean Mario wouldn't tease him relentlessly.

"Still, please try to stay out of trouble. I really don't need your men dragging your tail in here like they did two months ago." Luigi stated.

"Hey, that was not my fault. DK said that area was legit, how was I supposed to know it had already been overtaken by those koopa creeps?" Mario defended. Luigi just shook his head as he pulled his older brother back into a hug.

"Go handle your business, I got orders to fill." Luigi smiled at him as they pulled apart.

"You sure you don't want me to leave a couple men here for you? I'm sure they'd be willing to help out." Mario offered. Luigi shook his head no.

"No, Fratello, you need all the help you can get to keep you out of trouble." Luigi smiled. "Now go on."

Mario always hated leaving his little brother alone since he came home from the war. Not that Luigi couldn't handle himself, the skinnier Mariano brother was a gentle soul and prefered talking to fighting. He would rather himself get hurt than someone else. And the last time he left Luigi alone he'd been shipped out.

Mario sighed as he nodded. "Alright, bro. I've been hearing some of King Boo's men and more of Bowser's have been spotted roaming our streets at night. So don't go out unless absolutely necessary, and even then call me so I can send someone to be with you."

"Mario, I'm not a little boy anymore you know." Luigi rolled his eyes.

"No but you are a mafia boss's brother. A dopo, fratellino." Mario walked toward the door where his men waited outside for him. As the door closed he looked down at the toad with blue spots, "Mikey, you stay close to this shop. If Lu leaves you, follow him, capiche?"

"Comprendo, Boss." Mikey nodded with a salute to his mushroom cap.

"And for God's sake stay out of sight this time." Mario ordered as he approached the car waiting for him. Mikey saluted again as he hurried away from the shop front toward a good vantage point.

All the men under Mario 'The Plumber' Mariano learned one particular rule upon their initiation: No one touched Luigi Mariano. Any who broke the rule, gang member or rival member learned very quickly what Mario's wrath felt like.

[mrs-luigi-vargas]

Here's the fic I wrote for @paper-mario-zine! You can get it here. Check it out for some more awesome art!

~~~ [AO3 Link] ~~~

We Launch in Five

Mario and Kamek have a chat on the deck of Bowser’s airship.

The last remaining of Bowser’s airships capable of flight bustled with activity as minions scurried around getting it ready for liftoff. Kamek stood among them, watching to make sure preparations were going smoothly; as Bowser had been neatly folded into a square shorter than he was with worse mobility, it was up to him to make sure the minions didn't somehow mess something up.

...even if he would rather be sweeping up that conspicuous dirt pile over there.

...ah, but he should focus; he was hardly a groundskeeper anymore. And he’ll hopefully never be again. He’s got enough titles stuffed in his job description as it is.

He glanced starboard and Mario was leaning against the railing, staring off at the other side of the ship. Just standing there, as hard-working members of Bowser’s Army flowed around him like water.

Kamek marched up to him. “What are you just loafing around for?” he said angrily. “Make yourself useful or get out of our way!”

Mario didn't acknowledge his words, lost in his own little world. Kamek’s eye twitched. Back to being ignored, was he?

“Hey!” Kamek jabbed the end of his broom into Mario’s nose. “Are you listening to me?!”

Mario started, looking cross-eyed at the broom in his face. His gaze slid down it to Kamek, who was scowling fiercely at him. Mario’s face turned apologetic in return. His eyes flicked over to what he’d been looking at once more, then he stood up straight and shook his head as if to clear it.

Kamek looked too, to a small crowd of Bob-ombs milling about the door to the cannons. He considered Mario, who was passing him to leave with a face that looked a bit sad, beneath his usual expression.

“Oh,” Kamek said. It sounded amused. “You got attached to one, didn't you?”

Mario stopped in his tracks. He turned around and blinked at Kamek, who smirked at his surprise.

“Yes,” Kamek mused. “It makes sense for a goody-two-shoes like you to do something like that. You know their lives are meant to be short, right? If you start having feelings about that, you'll just find yourself in more trouble than it's worth.”

Eyes flashing with indignation, Mario balled his fists with an impressive scowl of his own. Kamek scoffed at the display, rolling his eyes.

“Seriously,” he continued, “do you even know how many walk out of the factories every day? There are hundreds, sometimes! They’re all disposable! Take it from me, if you grieve after every single one, you'll burn yourself out in no time. Besides” — Kamek crossed his arms — “they hardly do much these days, aside from being sent out to fight you.”

Mario’s glare froze. It melted into something troubled.

“Oh, for the love of —!” Kamek poked Mario’s chest with his broom. “You heroes always make everything about yourselves. It's not like we expressly tell them to blow themselves up for good; it's hardly anyone’s problem if some of them get overzealous trying to defeat you. They're really not allowed to be that stupid unless it's an emergency, which” — Kamek’s face fell — “I suppose this classifies as.”

Mario frowned. He raised his head, looking up at where Olivia was flying up by the mast with Bowser Junior, and Kamek wondered if the emergency the Bob-omb Mario was thinking about had given it their all for had something to do with her.

“Well, all’s unfair in war, it seems.” Kamek sighed. “The Bob-ombs will be in the cannons,” he told Mario. “It’s doubtful we’ll be allowed to storm Peach’s Castle without resistance. So don't waste time in hesitating for them; they'd rather go out with their impact, as you surely already know. And defending us — you — so you can go do your hero thing certainly is an impact worthy of having.

“Falling out of the sky into the ocean would be a most unfortunate fate in comparison,” Kamek added, leveling Mario with a glare. “So you’d better not screw up!”

Kamek didn't take his eyes off Mario until he received a firm nod in answer, after which he stalked away to yell at a stray Shy Guy for making a mess. Mario fell into step behind him, and it admittedly took a while for Kamek to realize he’d done so, caught up as he was in mentally bemoaning the incompetence that surrounded him.

“...What are you doing?”

Mario shrugged, grinning.

Nearby, a Koopa tripped, the crate they were carrying flying up into the air. Kamek drew his wand to catch it with his magic. “Be careful!” Kamek snapped as Mario helped them back onto their feet. They paid him little attention, busy staring starstruck at Mario. Kamek grumbled about being ignored yet again as they scurried away with a blush on their cheeks. Mario jumped up to grab the crate still floating in the air, and waited patiently for Kamek to get the ire out of his system.

Kamek’s complaints petered out as he noticed Mario with the crate under his arm, watching him expectantly. The confused scrunch of his face shifted to mild irritation fairly quickly, though. “I suppose I did want you to be useful,” he muttered. If only everyone was as eager about receiving orders from him. “Put that over there” — he pointed — “and then go get Olivia and talk to King Bowser; we’re practically ready for liftoff.”

Mario nodded enthusiastically and hurried off to do just that. Kamek watched him go with a huff, then went to go chat with the airship pilot.

Minutes after that, the airship took flight, soaring towards the volcano upon which Princess Peach’s Castle sat. As predicted, there were origami aircraft ready to meet them, to knock them out of the sky. And when Mario had to man the main cannon to defend the airship, Kamek was pleased to note that he didn't miss a single shot. A more than adequate performance, if he did say so himself.

[skulls-soul]

Well that was unexpected

Silly_Inky

On Ao3

I 100% recommend reading it before reading the rest of this post because I’m gonna go off on how much I love it what I love about it and more specifically the auto filling that my brain did while reading it because I think it’s absolutely hilarious

Did you read it? read it. good, isn’t it great!

the relationship between Bowser and his family is so fucking adorable especially when all of the kids tackled Bowser into a group hug oh my goodness and when Kamek started being a cheeky little Old Man giving bowser a knowing grin because he’s like (this bitch gay good for him..good for him)

Bowser‘s over here getting really flustered because he knows Kamek is right

Also the things that Luigi says internally got me cackling each and every single time

Especially when he asked Bowser to step on him!!!! I’m DEAD literally RIP

Poor Bowser is even more of a flustered mess because he’s reading Luigi’s mind and he has to keep it all to himself because if not that would be a dead giveaway (also I’m pretty sure Mario would be furious to find out that Bowser was invading his brothers privacy like that even if it was kind of on accident)

I really love that there was a song recommendation to listen to while reading the racing scene it made my brain go brrrr

Also relatable as fuck because sometimes when I’m listening to music it helps me get into the mood for writing especially when it’s music that goes along with what I’m writing (if that makes sense)

But my favorite scene of all time has to be a tie between Luigi saving daisy or when Bowser asked Luigi officially out on a date.

Because Luigi saving Daisy was a real treat I love it when I get to see Luigi being an absolute badass that he is

But also when Bowser gave a kiss on Luigi’s hand I couldn’t NOT grin from ear to ear I think that would be physically impossible and if you were able to that’s a flex 

When Bowser asked Luigi on a date and Luigi was basically like “dead ass?” this is where my brain auto filled because I imagined Luigis internal thoughts just being

(AAAAAAAA OMG THIS IS HAPPENING?!?!? MARIO BRO I LOVE YOU AND IM SORRY BUT FUCK YOU!! YOUR HOT NEMESIS IS ASKING ME OUT AND IF I DONT TAKE MY CHANCE THAT WHOULD BE A CRIME TO MYSELF Plus I’m pretty sure Daisy would kill me) 

Speaking of Daisy absolutely love her in this and can totally see her and Luigi having a little sleepover squealing like teenage girls as Luigi tells Daisy everything that happens and also scold Daisy for being the one who gave away the fact that he was crushing

Even though it’s because Bowser had the ability to read Luigi‘s mind Daisy did say things that Luigi could definitely use as a (this is probably when he found out) moments “when you made a joke about the gym date or called us lovebirds!!! of course he would find out!!!”

Daisy would only cackle in response

I think the cherry on top though Has to be Luigi giving Bowser a little kiss on his cheek to only then have Mario’s reaction with him being like “Luigi what was that?!?!?”

Oh boy I can’t even begin to imagine the brother’s conversation that there going to have after luigi did that. although I do know one thing that it’s probably hilarious!!!

Also imagine with me, Kamek being an absolute fan girl in the background and giving Bowser a thumbs up 

There all dorks and I love them

[duckapus]

Curtain Call

So the fight against Showtime at the top of the tower isn't exactly going well given how powerful she is, but thanks to the war down on the ground the tides are about to turn, because a stray barrage of Missile Megs from Bowser misses Metal Overlord and hits the tower about halfway up instead, doing enough damage to make everything above start to fall. Everybody realizes that their only chance of maybe surviving is to jump out the window, and, well, Kamek and Cubot are the only ones who can fly and they're obviously not strong enough to carry everyone else, so all they can really do is hope for a miracle (or at least for Meme Energy to decide it'd be funnier for them to survive the fall).

And with a roar and a call of "YYYYEEEHHHHHAAAWWW!" a miracle does arrive, as they all land on something mostly solid far higher up than they expected.

"Need a lift, piss-ants?"

"Anti-Shroomy!?" The 4 then looks down at what exactly their savior rode in on, "you tamed Draco Piranha!?"

"Yep! Turns out he's not so bad once you show him who's boss."

It's at that point that Showtime reminds us that she can just ignore gravity, and she starts throwing attacks at them, prompting a chase down towards the ground.

...okay, I'll level with you, I've got a few small scenes figured out for all this but not a coherent story to stitch them together, and at this point I just want this done so bear with me. Eventually the fight reaches the ground, the group is still on the back foot, the chaos of the battle raging around them is messing with both sides, at some point Ice Melony and Mecha Desmond show up while fighting each other and Showtime gets caught in their crossfire and blasted elsewhere on the battlefield and the main group (plus the rest of the converted crew members who've managed to come over to either help or attack depending on which conversion they have).

At this point Metal Overlord seemingly manages to overpower Castle Bowser and tries to merge with him to become even more powerful...but it takes a lot more willpower than Metal has to overwrite Bowser's, so instead we get Heavy Metal Bowser.

(not my best work or even colored in but this is what you get. junior for scale)

The good new is that now the Robot converted characters are now under Bowser's control and helping the good guys. The bad news is that Showtime had a front row seat for this.

"Well now, there's an idea." she looks over the battlefield and spies a certain royal Siren fending off a frozen king and his army almost single-handedly, and in an outfit that's almost just her style to boot, "Jackpot."

She flies over, sending out a wave of energy that knocks away everyone besides Old King Winter and Sonata. Sonata levels her trident at the newcomer, "Your energy...you're the source of all this madness, aren't you."

She laughs haughtily, "Clever as always, kiddo. Now, both of you hold still." she raises her arms towards the two and they begin to feel something being torn out of them as painfully as possible.

Streams of colored energy pour out of them and into Showtime, gradually causing all three to glow. eventually it gets so bright that they can't be seen at all, and when it dies down only one titanic figure remains.

"Alright! Goodby Queen Cutie and he-llo Empress Sexy~!"

"Two down, five to go. Now, where's the mushroom girl?" She flies off towards Toadstool Tangle.

Meanwhile, the Ice and Undersea converted people start to undergo some rather horrific transformations, with Creep growing out of them at all angles. 4 unfortunately gets a front-row seat when it happens to 3. This continues with the Mushroom conversions (so really just Draco Piranha and the Tangle itself), then the Muppets and soon after the ghosts, and finally everyone gets to witness the battle between Heavy Metal Bowser and an even more powerful version of Fusion Showtime with features added from the other three trigger characters (I unfortunately did not draw the later Fusion Showtime stages. I might in the future but for now you'll just have to use your imaginations). It's a close match, but eventually even Bowser falls, and Wonder Showtime is born while the Group stands alone once again.

It seems as though all hope is lost, especially since most of them quickly get pinned down by the horribly mutated versions of literally everyone, but 4 gets an idea, "Wait, we still have the seeds, right?"

Mario manages to yeet Luigi away and pulls out a few of their collected Wonder Seeds, "Yeah, but they don't exactly do anything besides sit in your inventory."

"Not on their own, but they're part of a meme, right? And they're a new enough one that they've got way more Meme Energy than most things at that scale. Maybe I can turn them into something we can actually use!"

Meggy looks over from where she's trying to get what might be Saiko and Tari off of Ferb, "Can you even get a meme to that kind of power on your own?"

"..." he looks to a particular section of the battlefield, eyes full of determination, "No, No I can't." he runs in the direction he was looking, tackling the mutated Admiral 3 to the ground and pulling a tentacle that used to be an arm into a death grip.

"SMG4, what are you doing!?"

"My...job!" he's assaulted by the all-too-familiar sensation of the Creep burrowing into his body, his brain, along with the horrible memories that come with it, but he holds firm, "3, if there's anything left in there that can hear me, I need you!"

There's a long few seconds where 4 can't help but think he's just thrown his life away for nothing before the seven Wonder Seeds rise up and start to morph into raw Meme Energy spheres, "work...fast...ba...ka"

The two work in tandem to merge the energy into a single sphere, which then transforms into...

A Wonder Flower. Because what else could it possibly be? This one has the strange grey-with-yellow-accents color scheme of the Special World wonder flowers.

"You've got-erhf-one shot! Make it...count!"

Whoever's left of the group nods in understanding and rushes towards the flower in the hopes of reaching it before one of the mutants, and two hands grab its petals at the same time, one gloved, the other not...and something unexpected happens.

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A single figure sits on a rooftop, looking out at the sun setting over a city that no longer exists.

They are alone.

They are together.

A living monument to a bond forged in Ink and Fire.

An experience made flesh.

The moment seems to stretch on forever, as they revel in simply Being...

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But when they open their eyes, not even a second has passed.

"Holy shit."

They look down at the awestruck face (or, well, eyes) of Marcy, discovering that they're now significantly taller than either of them were before.

"I knew something crazy would happen but this..."

They grin, "I know, right? I...we?...Yeah, I feel amazing! Like I could do anything! Like-"

The earth shakes, and they look up to find that Showtime's definitely noticed the commotion, "-Liiike I'm wasting time. Let's-a go!"

They run towards the titanic villain, soon discovering that their fusion was only part of the Wonder Effect as an obstacle course of combined Super Mario and Splatoon elements springs up around them, forming a path up to their target. Obviously Showtime doesn't just sit and wait for them, attacking with everything she's got, but they tackle any challenge that comes their way with a combination of Meggy's athletics and skill and Mario's platforming prowess and Avatar powers, as well as some of the greatest reoccurring memes of both (of particular note is when they weaponize Meggy's poor cooking skills to turn an oven they found into a rocket to help them reach a higher level).

Soon enough, they reach the top of what's left of the Tower, nearly at eye level with Wonder Showtime. She leers down at them.

"And just what are you supposed to be, you little freak?"

"It's-a me, Marggy, and I'm not 'supposed' to be anything. But as long as we're both here, I guess I'll be the one to take you down."

She laughs at this, then gives them a sharklike grin, "Real cute, kids. But it's gonna take a lot more than two midgets in a trenchcoat to beat a goddess."

Marggy shrugs, "I dunno, eight on two seems like pretty good odds to me."

More laughter as she brings up her ice-covered arm, "Okay, okay. Now you die."

A blast of ice the width of an ocean liner barrels towards them, but rather than show any fear they simply activate a certain something they grabbed on their way up here: a Killer Wail Canned Special.

"NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINTENDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The beam of sound and ink cuts through the ice magic like it's nothing, badly cracking the ice arm and, after she moves it out of the way in pain, continuing on to blast a hole in the eye on her chest. They waste no time after that, continuing along the Wonder Effect's path towards the prone titan.

She can tell what they're doing, but at her size with her injuries doesn't have the speed or strength to get away in time. Instead, she directs every last one of her mutated minions, Creep tentacles, shadow arms, and whatever else she can muster at them, "JUST DIE ALREADY!!!"

Marggy continues to be able to outrun and outfight everything thrown at them, eventually diving into the hole they made and finding themselves in a massive chamber made of creep. And right in front of them is a face they've been hoping to see all day.

She's beat up, covered in Creep, her dress ripped to shreds and crown nowhere to be seen, and just barely conscious, but when she looks up at them her eyes are as bright as ever, and she doesn't look the least bit surprised to see them, "Hey honey. How was your trip?"

The bravado Marggy's been keeping up crumbles away, and they start to tear up, "Mom..." They run towards her, pulling her into a hug as best they can given her bindings.

They stay that way for a short while, then it's back to business, "Okay, Let's finish this." they look around the room, which seems to be slowly becoming active, for some kind of weak point, eventually spotting yet another massive eye directly above Emulator, "That looks about right."

They pull out Mario's Code Bow, which apparently merged with Meggy's Splattershot so become a futuristic Tri-Stringer, and aim it up at the eye. It's at this point that Showtime starts fighting back again, lashing out from the walls with more tendrils, but it's too late, and an inky, binary-covered arrow flies straight and true clean through the eye's pupil, and the entire room becomes enveloped in blinding blue light as Showtime screams in agony.

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Back outside, Showtime's outer shell is glowing just as much as the rest of her, and a shockwave of Wonder Power blasts out from her, destroying any Creep it touches and transforming the Mushroom Kingdom and its people back into their original selves. Everyone present begins to celebrate the fact that it's finally, finally over.

In the meantime, the Crew and the airship group all do their best to get their bearings and start heading towards the now rapidly shrinking glow. Which, of course, leads them right back to the old castle grounds.

Before anyone gets there, a small shape falls out of the sky and lands with a comical squeaky toy sound in the grass, standing up to reveal that it's Old Man Hobo back to his usual self "Does anyone know where I li-"

*WHAM*

Suddenly, Bowser crashes shell-first on top of him, clutching Lily to his chest. When the trigger characters had reformed up in the air, he'd made sure to grab onto her so he could break her fall. Giant superpowered turtles can handle falling from the sky, human children usually can't.

Next to land is Kermit, who hits the ground with a splat before immediately standing up, "Well. That was traumatic. Goodbye everyone, don't bother inviting me to the next arc." With that, he walks off with that G-Mod "Move doll up and down" walk that most characters use.

Peach, Floyd and Metal Sonic can all just float down, so they do so.

And finally, there's Marggy and Emulator, who use the last of the Wonder Flower's power to gently touch down right on the moat bridge, with her leaning on them once they're on solid ground and gravity takes effect.

After this there'd probably be an actual reunion scene and maybe an epilogue (plus the scene about Showtime's fate that I detailed in this post) but I am done with this arc. Duck is out, peace!

[staticshipstation]

I am currently unemployed do any of your f/os need an evil underling?

In terms of romantic f/os? Buddy I'm the evil underling.. however for PARTENTAL F/OS. I know Papa B has been looking for a new evil underling. Kamek is still employed he just wants something to really spice it up.

Be warned the working environments are sweat inducing (you are working next to lava)

Escargoon has been gone for a while. No idea where he went. oh but. Dedede's not evil anymore so I guess he wouldn't need an EVIL underling. Though he treats his underlings super well.

OH! Maybe my other scaly dad is more your speed! Though I hope you don't mind trying to steal a coconut every single Saturday morning.

[xserenemeadowsx]

Unconditional Love (Chapter 3)

By xSereneMeadowsx

Link for Chapter 2: https://www.tumblr.com/xserenemeadowsx/718697625594003456/unconditional-love-chapter-2?source=share

A/N: Thank you everyone for the likes and follows! :) I appreciate it so much. :) I’m happy to know that people are liking this story. This chapter is a bit longer. I really wanted to get more in for this time around. I hope you all enjoy this extra long chapter! 

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Chapter 3

Kamek was in his workshop, busy preparing his trip to scout out for help for Bowser. He knew Bowser would want someone who had all the right qualities with music. Someone that can help bring out the feelings of his heart for Princess Peach. Kamek would be sure to take notes on potential candidates and then single them out. He informed Bowser that this could take some time.

“So be it,” Bowser said. “I just want someone who will help me out by bringing in the right words to my song.”

“Of course, Sire,” Kamek replied.

So, here was the wizard gathering his tools and necessities together. He would be bringing his spell book with him so he could disguise himself or turn invisible again if he wanted to go that far. He made sure to pack along an orb that would allow quick communication with Bowser and let the king see the candidate in mind once a decision had been made. Bowser of course, would have the final say, but the ruler of the Koopas trusted Kamek 100%. Afterall, Kamek had been with Bowser ever since he was born.

With the spell book and orb packed up into a large bag, Kamek made his way out of the workshop toward his bedroom. Once inside his room, he set the bag down on the floor and cast a spell to make the bag and everything in it small for easy carrying. This was one of the reasons why he was thankful to be a wizard. The convenience of making things easier for oneself was satisfying.

Now that the bag was small, Kamek walked out to his balcony and hopped onto the broom. He then started moving into the air on his broom toward his first destination. He figured the Mushroom Kingdom would be a good place to start at. Even though he and Bowser had just fled from there, he had a feeling that going there first would be beneficial. Something, he felt, would happen in his and Bowser’s favor and he couldn’t ignore the feeling.

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Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, and Y/N were all outside of the apartment building and heading toward the sewers. Conversation had jumped around all over the place amongst the five of them, but they all enjoyed chatting. One conversation shocked them, especially Toad.

“Wait…you meant it when you said that you did steal something once?” Toad asked.

“Yeah…” Y/N looked a little guilty. “When I was little, I did steal a pack of gum from a grocery store when I was with my mom.”

“For shame!” Toad exclaimed and then expressed sadness. “How could you do that?”

“I apologized and my mom had gone back inside and put it away. Lesson was learned on that day,” Y/N answered.

“Well…at least the lesson was learned,” Mario said.

“Yep! Never stole again. My mom had talked with me for quite a while about it,” Y/N then chuckled, “I was terrified of my mom and her angry voice. She and my dad had a certain pitch to their voices they used when disappointed or angry and I remember thinking that I don’t want to hear those sounds ever again.”

“Your parents sound like they’re strict,” Luigi said.

“They weren’t terribly strict, but they always made sure that I understood what needed to be done. What was right and wrong, everything like that. They care greatly about my sister and I,” Y/N smiled.

Peach joined in, “Well, I think they did well with raising you. By the way, you never mentioned that you had a sister.”

“Thanks. Yeah, I do have a sister. She’s older than me by a couple of years,” Y/N said. “I haven’t been able to talk with her as much because she’s been so busy with her career.”

“What does she do?” Toad asked.

“She works as a supervisor for a hotel chain called Melody’s Suites and Resorts. It’s a high-class chain and they offer great benefits. Honestly, if my sister didn’t work there, my family and I wouldn’t be able to afford it,” Y/N explained.

“What’s her name?” Peach asked.

“Her name is Hannah,” Y/N replied.

As the five of them continued chatting, they reached the sewer cover Peach and Toad had moved. Mario and Luigi maneuvered the cover and allowed the others to go down before they followed suit. The smell, as they all began descending the ladder, was awful. Even worse than what Peach and Toad endured earlier.

“Ugh! What a horrible stench,” Y/N said wanting to plug her nose.

Everyone else agreed with Y/N. The smell was quite foul.

“Did something die down here?” Toad asked. “I mean jeez! I don’t remember the sewers being this bad before.”

“Hmm…they could be doing some routine cleaning or something maybe,” Mario said.

“Let’s just hurry up and get to that tube,” Luigi said.

“Yes, lets,” Peach agreed.

They all continued down the ladder and soon came upon more ladders to navigate through. Everyone helped Y/N out to make sure she didn’t get lost along the way. It took some time to get to the green pipe with how far down they had to go. After climbing down a few more ladders, the green pipe was at least found.

“Here it is,” Peach said to Y/N.

“Wow…big pipe,” Y/N said.

“Entering the tube may be a bit scary at first, but it won’t hurt or anything. There will be a strong gust of wind that pulls you in. Just flow with it and make sure you stay with us. There are paths that diverge to other areas,” Peach explained.

“Alright,” Y/N said slightly nervous.

Peach put a hand on Y/N’s shoulder, “You can follow behind me and the rest can be behind you. Everything will be fine.”

Y/N nodded. “Okay. Let’s go.”

Peach stepped into the green pipe and not having walked very far inside, she immediately disappeared. Y/N’s eyes widened at how fast Peach vanished. Y/N took a deep breath and let it out. She did what Peach had done and slowly walked inside. Still nervous, she turned to look at the brothers and mushroom man. All of them gave her an encouraging smile, letting her know it would be okay and they’d be with her.

Feeling the wind grow in strength, Y/N’s body slowly lifted and got pulled further into the tube. Soon, all around her were colors of every kind swirling and twisting around her. She felt like she was flying through a galaxy of sorts. It was all pretty to her. Her nerves started to calm down from looking at the colors.

Not long after, Mario, Luigi, and Toad were behind Y/N. They all came upon a cloud-like area where other green pipes could be seen. Peach wasn’t joking when she said there were different paths to other areas. Y/N smiled as she gazed at it all. She and the others caught up toward Peach and soon a fork came up.

“Turn your body to the right!” Peach called out to Y/N.

Y/N saw Peach moving her body to the right and she copied her. The others behind Y/N followed suit. They all entered another green pipe and one by one, crash landed into some giant mushrooms below.

“Ouch! That hurt!” Y/N said as she got up rubbing her left shoulder. She unfortunately landed hard on her left side.

“Sorry, I should’ve warned you about the landing,” Peach said to Y/N.

“It’s okay. As long as no one is severely injured, that’s all that matters,” Y/N replied as she continued rubbing her shoulder.

“Maybe we should get some ice on that shoulder,” Toad observed Y/N.

“No, it’s okay. Don’t worry about it. Thank you though,” Y/N smiled at Toad. “I’m sure it’ll quit hurting after a while.”

“Now that we here, where to first?” Mario asked.

“Want to walk through the forest for a bit and then head into town?” Peach asked everyone.

“That sounds good,” Luigi said.

“Sure!” Y/N answered.

Toad and Mario nodded in agreement.

“Okay. A stroll through the forest it is then,” Peach said as she began walking ahead of all of them.

The walk was very nice, and Y/N couldn’t believe some of the heights of the mushrooms. She knew for obvious reasons why it was called a forest, but the height still astounded her. Never had she seen any mushrooms grow to be so tall. She glanced up and noticed what appeared to be floating islands in the sky with tall mushrooms on them. That amazed her to see such a site. This place really was like a children’s book come to life.

After some more walking, they came to the forest’s edge that led into the town. Y/N was once again in awe of what was in front of her. The town had many pipes (red, blue, and clear along with green) for travel and there were all kinds of shops and homes scattered about. Toad and Peach greeted some of the other mushroom people along with Mario and Luigi. Y/N politely waved at some of the mushroom people, feeling a bit shy. Y/N did feel that the town had a cute charm to it as she continued taking in the sights around her.

The five of them reached the pipes that had been seen earlier in the distance. Y/N was slightly overwhelmed with the pipes. There were so many of them. Didn’t they get lost easily? Then again, after living in a place for so long, everyone would eventually learn their way around and navigate easily. It was just like what Y/N had to go through when moving to Brooklyn.

“We can do as we did previously,” Peach said to everyone. “Follow me!” She jumped into a clear tube and Y/N followed.

The speed of the tube was not expected, and Y/N had a bit of difficulty keeping her body positioned to follow the curves and when the tube would go up or down. She hit a few corners and did her best to ensure that her face didn’t get smacked along with the rest of her body.

Peach had reached the top of a platform and waited for the others. She peered into the pipe and could see Y/N coming up. Y/N came out of the pipe falling almost headfirst. Peach helped her to stand up again.

“Gah, I feel dizzy,” Y/N said as she wobbled a bit from standing.

“You’re not going to throw up, are you?” Peach asked slightly amused laced with worry.

“No,” Y/N said chuckling. “My head just needs to stop spinning. Thankfully, I don’t get motion sickness. If someone with motion sickness were to go through these tubes…it would not be a pleasant sight.”

Peach grimaced, “Ugh! That would be awful to see. Makes me wonder if maybe other forms of travel should be put in. Though, I’ve never come across anyone with motion sickness.”

“I don’t think it would hurt to have that. You never know when you may meet someone who has that,” Y/N said.

“Very true,” Peach replied.

Mario, Luigi, and Toad soon joined up with Peach and Y/N. After everyone got over from traveling through the pipes, they all started walking again. A castle greeted everyone’s sight. Y/N looked up in admiration of the castle. It was white with a few towers and a large stain glass window of Peach.

“Very pretty castle you have there,” Y/N commented to Peach.

“Thank you,” Peach replied. “We do our best to keep it looking nice on the outside and inside,”

Large red doors with two mushroom guards in front of them stood proudly. As the guards saw their princess coming, they both bowed.

“Good afternoon, Princess,” they said.

“Good afternoon to you too,” Peach greeted.

The two guards stood aside and allowed Peach to enter along with everyone else. However, as Y/N was about to enter, the guards put up their spears blocking her way, making her gasp.

“Hold on…who are you?” A guard with blue spots on his head asked.

“Uh, I’m- “Before she could continue, Peach stepped in.

“She’s a new friend. I’m showing her around. Her name is Y/N,” Peach said helping to ease the tension.

“Oh, our apologies,” the other guard with yellow spots on his head said. He and the guard with blue spots moved their spears out of Y/N’s way.

Y/N walked inside and breathed a sigh of relief, “I thought I was going to be toast.” She and everyone started walking through the long corridor they were now in.

“Sorry about that,” Peach said.

“No worries,” Y/N replied. “They’re your guards so it’s expected for them to be extra careful with everybody.”

“True, but they have been on edge more recently because of Bowser,” Peach said.

“Ah. Yeah, Mario and Luigi said he caused a lot of trouble for all of you,” Y/N said remembering the conversation from the previous night.

“Even though he is locked up, it’s been very difficult dealing with some of the aftermath. If he were to get out…more trouble would be brewing our way,” Peach said.

“He’s still locked up though, right?” Y/N asked.

“Yes, but still…his Koopas have sometimes been very crafty in figuring out ways of escaping when captured. It’s more of a concern too because we didn’t get Bowser’s wizard Kamek,” Peach answered.

“Kamek? A wizard?” Y/N asked once again.

“Kamek has been with Bowser since his birth. He is what you would call a Magikoopa since he is able to perform spells with his magic wand. I know he has many years of experience on him and that’s why I’m a little worried,” Peach expressed.

“I’m sorry,” Y/N said worried for Peach.

“It’s okay. I know we can win again if anything does happen,” Peach said trying to boost herself with confidence.

“Can’t lose hope,” Toad said. “We need to always keep our guard up too, but we’ll pull through.”

Just as Mario and Luigi were going to say their thoughts, a mushroom man dressed in blue came up to all of them. “Princess! Urgent news!”

“What is it?” Peach asked with concern.

“Follow me to the meeting room. The council and I all need to speak with you. It’s…about Bowser.” He said nervously.

Peach and the others gasped. This could not be good news at all. The princess and the others followed the councilman and went into a large meeting room. In the center of the room, there were a few other council members dressed in various colors. They all stood around a table that brought out a very intricate model. The model took shape forming the Mushroom Kingdom and other places Y/N didn’t know of. The model then changed again and zoomed into Peach’s castle.

Before them, a scene of two guards outside of two large light pink doors was displayed. The guards were standing there chatting quietly to each other when they were suddenly knocked out. One of the doors opened after that. A few minutes later, a small creature could be seen looking like he was hovering in the air and leaving the room.

“Apologies your highness. We just found out about this a few minutes ago otherwise, we would have informed you sooner,” the councilman in blue explained with deep regret on the late and urgent matter.

Peach had to compose herself for a few seconds. She concluded more than likely that Bowser was probably back to his normal size as well. She took a deep breath and released it. “This happened last night.” It wasn’t a question, but a fact.

“Yes, which means, Bowser will be planning something if he hasn’t already,” the councilman replied.

“This is terrible,” Luigi said. “We literally kicked his butt not even that long ago and already...”

“It’s not a good thing, but we have to do something before he does,” Mario chimed in.

“What exactly can we do?” Toad asked.

“We’ll discuss some possible options,” Peach answered. “Mario, Luigi, Toad. Could you take Y/N out of here now? You can show her some more of the castle.”

“Sure,” Toad said. “C’mon Y/N.”

Y/N, having been quiet the whole time, was shocked. Mentally speaking to herself, ‘He got out and he sounds awfully dangerous…I hope nothing worse comes about…’

“Y/N? You in there?” Toad asked trying to get Y/N’s attention by tapping on her arm.

Y/N snapped out of her thoughts. “Huh? Yes?”

“We need to leave the room now. We’ll finish showing you around the castle,” Toad explained.

“Oh, okay.” Y/N followed the three out of the room. Two doors closed behind them, startling Y/N.

“Are you feeling alright?” Mario asked concerned.

“She’s probably worried like we are Mario,” Luigi answered. “I know I am.”

“I am a bit nervous,” Y/N answered. “I mean…all of you have had an encounter with Bowser and he…he sounds terrifying. I just hope nothing worse than the last time happens again.”

“Like Mario said, we do need to do something about him before he makes a move. I’m sure Peach and the council will come up with a good plan,” Toad said trying to calm Y/N down.

“Yeah,” Y/N said, trying not to get so doubtful.

“Enough of that for now. Let’s continue going through the other parts of the castle,” Toad said happily. “It’s got amazing rooms that you have to check out.”

Y/N appreciated Toad for trying to make everyone feel light in the situation before them. “Okay.” She smiled.

Mario and Luigi exchanged smiles with Toad and Y/N and all four of them started walking through another long corridor. Toad pointed out what the rooms were, and they all went inside the ones they were allowed access to. One room was dedicated to tea sets. The sets had intricate designs of different mushrooms and even flower patterns. Another room had many paintings displayed varying in types from scenery to people. Y/N couldn’t help feeling like she was in a museum from everything being shown. It was all delightful to see.

The last room had elegant dresses in it that Y/N found to be very pretty. They ranged in various colors. Most of the dresses were pink which didn’t surprise Y/N considering the color scheme of the castle and the dress the princess was currently wearing. She was very tempted to try one on, but she didn’t think that would be appropriate. The jewelry that was also displayed in the room was nothing to scoff at. Different gems mixed with silver and gold lined up in a display case. Y/N walked over to it to get a better look. The colors sparkled and shined from the sunlight that shone through the large glass window. It felt like going into a rainbow.

“Impressive, isn’t it?” Toad noticed how entranced Y/N seemed to be from everything.

“Very. It’s like walking into a dream. There’s so many dresses and the jewelry…it’s so beautiful!” Y/N’s eyes shined with happiness. Her sight was then drawn toward a stage with three full length mirrors behind it almost encircling the stage.

“Okay, now this is definitely like a dream.” She couldn’t help thinking about those teen rom-com movies when looking at it. “I would love to have something like this.”

“It seems pretty handy,” Mario said.

“Not a bad thing to have,” Luigi said. “You know, it’s making me think of the stage where you work at Y/N.”

“Huh, I can see that,” Y/N agreed. A thought then came to her. “Well…would you like for me to sing for all of you? I think it could be fun!”

“I do!” Toad exclaimed.

“Yes,” Luigi answered.

“Sure! Go for it!” Mario encouraged.

“Okay! Of course, this will have to be acapella style since I don’t have music on,” Y/N said with a smile. “I hope my audience is okay with that.”

All of them gave Y/N a thumbs up.

“Let’s see…what song should I sing…” Y/N wanted to pick something good. “Ah! I know! Unconditionally by Katy Perry. I love the lyrics to that song.” Y/N pretended to be holding a microphone and began to sing, the three audience members giving her their full attention.

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Kamek was a little worn out from flying on his broom for a long period of time, but he was happy that he finally had the Mushroom Kingdom in his sight. He smiled still having the feeling that it was all worth it to come to this place first. His feeling told him that he would find someone very fitting to help Bowser. Finding a place to land and have a break from flying, he landed by a couple of large mushroom trees that weren’t too far away from the entrance of the town.

“Lies and ties, bring about my perfect disguise,” Kamek chanted his spell. He slowly began to morph into a mushroom person dressed as one of the guards for Peach’s castle. He wore a silver helmet and wore a blue and yellow outfit. His head had purple dots on it. “Perfect!” He shrunk his broom down just as he had with his bag to make for easy carrying. Also, he couldn’t leave his broom behind like what happened one time. Bowser gave him an earful about it. Not a good day.

Kamek walked toward the entrance and began his search. Thus far, no one had any instruments out and no one was singing. ‘Perhaps further in town,’ he mentally spoke to himself. Just then, he heard someone, or something, trying to sing.

“Ah! My ears!” Kamek covered his ears. The singing was atrocious. It sounded like nails scratching down on a chalk board. The next voice he came across wasn’t as bad but wasn’t any better. The next voice sounded more like screaming than singing.

‘Ugh! They sound like they’re being punched to death,’ Kamek grumbled mentally. ‘There must be someone here with a voice or instrument talent. Perhaps, I could maybe try the castle. It’s risky, but my disguise should do just fine for me.’

Finding an ally in town, he quickly chanted a spell to make his broom normal size again. He sat down on it and flew off before anyone could notice something strange flying in the sky. He cast the invisibility spell as he flew toward Peach’s castle. Reaching the castle at a quick speed, he slowed down. He could barely hear someone singing and from what he could hear, it sounded good.

‘I need to get inside to listen better. That teleportation spell should work.’ He quickly cast a teleportation spell and soon he was inside the building. ‘Follow the voice now.’ He listened closely to see where the voice was coming from. He walked around for a little bit and soon, he found the room the voice was in. He took his orb out, turned it invisible, made it large size, and cast it to appear in the room. He had cast another spell for him to have a screen displayed before him so he could see inside the room.

The voice was coming from a human girl. She had (hair length/hair color) hair in a ponytail and was swaying to the song she was singing. The lyrics seemed to be very captivating for her. Kamek was very impressed with what he was hearing. This human had a sweet voice and seemed to be giving her all into the song she sang. He could easily read her emotions from her voice and body language. However, the orb seemed to catch three others in the room. Upon closer inspection, he could see the plumber brothers and that mushroom man who had accompanied the other two men before.

‘Argh! Of course, they know this human. They always seem to find a way to get in the way!’ Kamek sighed. ‘No matter, no matter. We will make sure they do not ruin the plan this time.’ He continued listening closely to the girl singing. When she finished the song, Kamek transported the orb back into his hands. He had to find a secluded area to show his King what he had found. Getting all his belongings together, he transported out of the castle and flew on his broom. He found some trees and bushes to hide in and then took the orb out.

“Sire, are you there?” Kamek asked as he looked intently into the orb.

Bowser had been napping on his throne when the orb moved and made a sound. He yawned and held up the orb to peer into it. “Kamek?”

“My King, I have found someone for you. I’ll display the footage to you now.” Kamek waved his wand with his other hand to display what had been taken for Bowser to see.

A human girl appeared on the screen and the most serene voice entered his ears. He watched the girl sing out her emotions, her hair and body moving along to the song. Bowser had to admit that this girl did look very cute, but nothing compared to his Peaches. Her voice was nice, the lyrics were heartfelt, and that all seemed to prove her talent. He made his decision.

“Bring her to me Kamek. She will do nicely,” Bowser smirked. ‘She will do very nicely.’

“Yes Sire. I will work on a way to secure her and bring her to you right away. In fact, I think the Shy Guys would be of great help,” Kamek replied.

“Is there a catch?” Bowser sensed something Kamek wasn’t saying.

“Ehm, well, you see…Mario and Luigi are back…” Kamek’s body tensed, rearing up for Bowser’s reaction.

Bowser’s eyes widened. He couldn’t stand them since they ruined everything from before, especially Mario.

“I can show them to you in the footage.” Kamek had only focused on the footage of the girl and not showing the others. He zoomed into the footage to allow Bowser to see that Mario and Luigi were back.

Bowser looked at it and it showed Mario, Luigi, and Toad all clapping for the girl. He growled with anger and then breathed deeply to calm himself down, “Well, the Shy Guys along with my troops would cause a fuss allowing you to get the girl. Or you could simply do what you did with helping me get out of the castle.”

“That is another possibility, but I do not know if she will be staying here for the night or not either. I think we need to act quickly and get her now.” Kamek felt that time was of the essence, and he knew Bowser didn’t want to wait much longer either.

“Hmm…very well then. Are you able to cast a spell allowing several beings to appear at once?” Bowser asked.

“I should be able to,” Kamek said. “I should have a spell in my book allowing me to do so.”

“Excellent. I will expect to see you back here with the girl by this evening,” Bowser replied.

Kamek nodded. “Yes Sire.” He sighed. He knew he would need a few days off from casting all the magic he had today. Weariness was starting to get to him. He opened his book, making it normal size, and skimmed over the contents until reaching the last few pages of the book. A spell talking about casting large amounts of magic to transport tons of creatures was found.

Reading over everything a few times, Kamek stood up holding his wand and peered down at the book to read the spell, “Bright and smite, bring me tons of creatures to this fight!” An orange circle appeared from his wand and ascended toward the clouds in sky. It expanded in size and out of it dropped a hundred Shy Guys along with a hundred Koopas.

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“Thank you, thank you,” Y/N said as she took a few bows.

Mario, Luigi, and Toad were all ecstatic from Y/N’s performance as they clapped and cheered.

“Your voice is lovely,” Luigi said.

“It’s amazing!” Toad exclaimed.

“You have a very nice voice,” Mario complimented.

Y/N smiled and blushed, “Thank you.”

Suddenly, the window in the room started cracking. All four turned to look at the damage.

“What the?!” Mario said. He could see little guys wearing hoods and masks trying to break the glass.

“Ah! Those are the same guys that tied me up and brought me to Bowser before!” Luigi said, shivering slightly.

“Y/N, stay behind us,” Toad said. “These guys can get dangerous.”

Y/N wanted to help but listened to Toad. Afterall, she didn’t really have experience with these guys like the three before her did. She wished she could help somehow.

The window shattered into pieces, the hooded figures and other creatures who looked like turtles started climbing into the room. Mario and Luigi tried to fight off the turtles while Toad dealt with some of the hooded figures. Y/N watched as they all did their best to taper down the situation. She began backing up and hit the wall next to the door.

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The sky rained down on the citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom. Shy Guys started grabbing at the mushroom people while Koopas were smashing through different stores. Break-ins to homes occurred as more chaos ensued. The castle was especially flooded from the outside with the Shy Guys and Koopas. Guards had to rally together to push back the forces. It wasn’t enough and the large doors to enter the castle crashed open.

Shouts could be heard from all inside the castle and while this was going on, Kamek had prepared a particular spell to knock the girl he needed to bring to Bowser unconscious. With everything ready, Kamek transported himself inside the castle just outside of the room where the girl was. He heard a thud and carefully opened the door. To his right, he saw the human turn to look at him.

Before the girl could react, Kamek cast his spell on her. She fell to the floor unconscious. Toad, hearing the thud behind him, turned around to see the wizard casting a spell on Y/N shrinking her in size and carefully picking her up.

“Y/N!” Toad cried out.

Mario and Luigi punched off a couple of the Koopas and turned to look where Toad was looking at. All three had worried expressions on their faces and raced toward the doorway. The door slammed shut in their faces and locked thanks to another spell Kamek cast on it. He got onto his broom, making sure to hold onto to the human gently, and was about to fly off. Suddenly, mushroom guards came running toward him.

“Grab him!” One of the guards shouted.

“You’re all too late!” Kamek shouted and cast his transportation spell. He vanished instantly and reappeared in the sky. He headed back to his kingdom with the girl in hand.

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“I can’t believe we let him take Y/N,” Toad said in disappointment. “We should have paid better attention.”

Mario put a hand on Toad’s shoulder, “We’ll get her back.”

“Right. We won’t let Bowser hurt her,” Luigi said. “Although…how exactly did he find out about Y/N?”

Before anyone could answer, the door to the room they were in busted open. Peach and other guards were there with her. She saw the mess displayed and looked to everyone when she noticed someone missing. “Where’s Y/N?”

“That wizard…who works with Bowser…he got her…,” Toad said saddened.

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Kamek flew on his broom with lightning speed. He was beyond exhausted and anxious to get home with the girl in his hand. He looked forward to getting some rest and hoped to have a goodnight sleep after the rather exhilarating day he had. He could see the balcony to his room and carefully landed on it. He got off the broom and transported himself with the girl to the throne room.

Bowser, who was still relaxing in his throne, perked up upon seeing Kamek appear before him, “You have her?”

“Yes, she’s right here Sire,” Kamek said. He gently laid the girl down on the floor and used a spell to turn her into her normal size.

Y/N began to regain some consciousness and slowly opened her (eye color) eyes. She sat up and rubbed her head. She had a strange feeling and uneasy feeling all of the sudden.

“Greetings human,” a rather intimidating voice spoke.

The girl gasped and turned to her right to see a large Koopa. She instantly recognized him to be Bowser. “B-Bowser?!”

The king was slightly taken aback by the girl knowing his name. However, once he thought it over some more, it made sense. Those pesky plumbers and the others had informed her about him, “I see you already know my name. I have a special job for you.” He started walking close to where Y/N still sat.

Y/N, extremely nervous, tried to back up. She couldn’t move and saw that there were light pink, lightning-like chains keeping her ankles down in place since her legs had been stretched out on the floor. Kamek had waved his wand and cast the bindings to appear.

“I know you can sing well. You have a lovely voice and I want to use your talents for singing and writing lyrics to improve on my song for a princess,” Bowser explained. He knelt to get a closer look at Y/N.

Y/N’s body shivered slightly and yet felt warm. Perhaps it was because of the place she was in. There appeared to be lava flowing on either side of the floor they all were on. “H-How did you know I sing?”

“A little bird whispered word to me of your ability. With your help, I can win over Peaches’ heart once again. You will help me until she falls for me,” Bowser said as he stared into Y/N’s eyes.

“Peaches? You mean…” Y/N trailed off. Bowser still wanted to go after her. Why though? He knew she hated him. Peach had made that very clear according to when Mario and Luigi chatted with her back at the bar. She knew it was obvious now that this wizard behind her had told Bowser about her. How exactly did the wizard come to know of her? She did not know.

“Yes, the princess you have made friends with. That one,” Bowser answered, easily reading her thoughts. “We will start working on the song first thing in the morning. There is one more thing I need from you.” He looked intensely at her.

Y/N’s body shook in fright from the red eyes that became fixated on her.

“I need your name,” Bowser said.

Y/N couldn’t stop looking into his eyes. The fire burning inside them was a bit entrancing and terrifying at the same time. She shook her head slightly, “It-It’s Y/N.” Her voice came out as nothing more than a whisper, but the king understood and heard her clearly considering he was still near her.

“Y/N, my new songwriter,” Bowser said proudly. “Get some food, drink, and rest. Kamek will prepare a place for you.”

Loud clanging sounds were heard, and a cage dropped down from the ceiling not too far away from where the king, wizard, and human were. It dangled just a few inches from the floor. Y/N looked at the cage with widened eyes. They were going to keep her in here of all places? Y/N felt the bands leave her body and she was transported inside the cage. She felt pathetic right now. How could she let herself be captured like this?

“Have the kitchen staff prepare food for Y/N,” Bowser said to Kamek. The wizard nodded and transported himself out of the throne room.

Bowser looked up at the cage, “Best get comfortable. You will be spending all your days in there except when you’re helping me.” He started walking away and laughed manically.

Y/N watched his retreating figure leave the throne room. Her eyes began to water, and tears slowly cascaded down her face. How was she supposed to get out of here?

Link for Chapter 4: https://www.tumblr.com/xserenemeadowsx/719178293244493824/unconditional-love-chapter-4

[noelledeltarune]

As a mario enjoyer I’m curious abt ur interpretation of the bros origins. This isn’t rlly asking what is canon cuz the series doesn’t rlly prioritize continuity and it’s all debatable etc. Personally I have a vague timeline in my head and I like to draw from pretty much all mario media but sometimes that makes contradictions. A lot of mario media has mario from new york (new donk?) and then ends up in the mushroom kingdom through a warp pipe. In yoshi’s island it seems his parents live in the mushroom kingdom though. And in partners and time baby mario and luigi are there during the shroob invasion in the past. I love partners in time a lot but I also rlly like mario being a new yorker so it’s hard to have my cake and eat it too. I guess he could be born in the mushroom kingdom then move to NY then come back? I’m not too sure. I’d like to know your take on it.

SORRY FOR TAKING SO LONG TO GET TO THIS. yeah i'm gonna be honest my take is sort of vague and meaningless because as a kid i just wanted every single thing to take place in one universe. and i sucked at making that happen. to me it sort of went like, they were delivered / born / whatever in yoshi's island to their parents. then those guys were like wait these arent our kids. then they were delivered to their actual parents or whatever (i have never really played yoshi's island i'm sorry) and they lived there for a couple of years and probably spent a lot of time with peach / around the castle because i figure if kamek was aware of the whole star children thing it's likely that at least some people in the mushroom kingdom would want them there for that. and mario has fought bowser a couple of times as a baby so who knows.

then after partners in time rolls around their parents who were sort of letting them hang around the castle went ermmmm actually nvm. we are going to brooklyn 1990 because it is Much Safer There. [looks into the camera like in the office]. and then they kind of lived in new york city for 20 years before getting dragged back to the mk in a tragic plumbing accident. even though i know they love their jobs as plumbers and are genuinely passionate about it i will admit that i like to think that mario wanted to go into paramedicine or nursing and luigi to university for aerospace engineering or something but it wasn't really feasible for them before the great eeby deebing 😔

i honestly don't really know how i imagine their parents, a lot of people have really lovely designs and concepts for them, and there's been a lot more stuff on them since the mario movie came out and gave people these dubiously canon characters to work with, but they just don't come up much in my mind. i don't want to be like "they died 💀" but also like mario and luigi are in their mid 20s and if they somehow ended up in the mushroom kingdom i figure their parents would also be able to go back there. but then you think about like the whole deal with the cartoons how the way between worlds was sealed and stuff and it just gets confusing to try and make everything work 😭

sorry i'll probably be able to come up with something more reasonable tomorrow after i sleep and give it some proper thought but i think in general i just have the skeleton of a timeline LMAO

delivered by stork yoshi's island style -> partners in time happens -> I Am Not Letting My Babies Fight Aliens We Are Going To New York City -> WHUH OH! PLUMBING EVENT GONE WRONG???!?!?! [NOT CLICKBAIT] -> basically every other game.

it's also a little tough to balance because judging by PiT they seem like they would have known or have learned at some point that they like. are actually from the mushroom kingdom and stuff. which idk how you'd explain that to your kids but whatever

there are honestly a couple of ways i imagine their backstory, like saying oh they fell into a warp pipe themselves while exploring baby style after PiT and were adopted and raised in brooklyn or just going oh they have their own room in the castle in PiT so they probably lived there as kids or just saying they were just born in brooklyn and ended up in the mk like in the the cartoons and ignoring yoshi's island and PiT but none of them are very cohesive or really make much of a difference in how i imagine their characters yknow?

i have the same dilemma as you because i also love mario being a new yorker but parnters in time is my favourite M&L game

don't worry though once get really into mario again i'm sure my favourite scenario will come to me in a prophetic vision. and then i will get back to you 🔥💯‼️

[sagegreenselfships]

About OP and The Blog

You can call me Arin, Sage, or just OP-- whichever of those works best for you. I go by (he/him) and (she/her) pronouns.

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List of OP's Fictional Others

Demon Slayer

Mitsuri Kanroji

Akaza

Aizetsu

Arcane Legends

Sevika

Viktor

Pokémon

Arlo

Tabitha (Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire)

Professor Elm

Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

Erandur

Revyn Sadri

Taarie

Fallout 4

Preston Garvey

Codsworth

Super Mario Bros.

Hellen Gravely

Kamek

Pirate101

Deacon

Rooke

Cult of the Lamb

Heket

Kallamar

Hollow Knight

The Hunter

Zote

OFF

The elsens (yes, every single one of them)

Dedan

Cookie Run

Sorbet Shark Cookie

Oyster Cookie

Minecraft Story Mode

PAMA

The Warden

Snowmeo (I headcanon him to be a separate entity from True Admin Romeo)

Miscellaneous

Lemongrab (Adventure Time)

Steve Small (The Amazing World of Gumball)

Tech (The Bad Batch)

Kaito (Vocaloid-- I don't play Project Sekai)

Nadia Satrinava (The Arcana)

Valvatorez (Disgaea)

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[Original Ask Post]

2. 🍄Describe your wip/one of your wips in the format of “___ + ___ =___”  

The Bowser-centric WIP "What if God was one of us?" (x / x) is basically Secret Keeper AU + Young Bowser = The horrors of being born with an entire kingdom baring down on your shoulders to solve alone because, despite your young age, you are already king, you have to take it head on. The history of your people is to conquer, of power and strength, but other kingdoms do not share your sentiments on war and the lack of treaties. So no one turns to aide you and you must aide an entire kingdom yourself. You search through the Royal Magic Koopa library in hopes of learning more of your culture, to fully understand your world to care for it, and come across rumors of the one being in all the lands who holds all history of the Darklands, someone who can help. The most powerful Magic Koopa of all, Kamek.

There is something about the only kingdom Bowser has ever known and its ever-withering, blazing features that make a pit in his stomach grow every time he lays his eyes on it. It’s beautiful, yes; the warmth of the fire against Bowser’s scales, the ever-bubbling, shifting state of lava, and the refraction of heat across the land feels like home with each forbidding, twisting tree and shadowy, looming mountain. But he sees past its magnificence into something deeper, the gloom hovering over every occupant of this kingdom, something Bowser can feel deep inside his bones, that something is wrong here. Something has been wrong long since before he was born. He was born as the next heir, the next ruler of this land, one that’s falling apart right before Bowser’s very own eyes. He can see how their agriculture has worsened since his first memory of watching the farmhands at work, the hardening of once much more free-flowing streams of lava. Even the flaking of now hollow trees that once stood with a power and resilience that Bowser had been determined to break with a single tail swipe as a young child. Now it’s all lost. Lost to something Bowser knows nothing about, past the muffled roars of his mother in meetings and the quiet whispers between guards in the dead of night. He understood why the secrets of their land were so hidden; it had been explained to him more times than he could count on his paws. It was for the protection of their people, the security of knowing that no one but those who needed to know would not let information slip to the other kingdoms. They had the advantage of secrecy where others did not, and no spy could fool them into giving over the information they did not have. But Bowser didn’t understand why he couldn’t be in on it. He had to rule this place sooner or later. Why couldn’t he know what he was dealing with? Bowser was never thrown in as blind to a challenge as he is into this big mystery. He has always had at least a hint of basic information, and with that bare minimum, he would face it head-on without fear. But this felt so much bigger than him.

[mrs-luigi-vargas]

Um. Hi. So I was reading @theangelofangst's newest work and it gave me Blorbo Thoughts. Unfortunately my blorbo is Kamek, so uhh…yeah.

Anyway, I wrote a thing based on it! Sorry if the lore/timeline (or the cipher) is wrong; I started writing this after Chapter 3 came out and then Chapter 4 came out as I entered the editing phase, lmao.

Also if you haven't read Speechless Symphony yet, you really really should! It's a delight of a story and the ending is very good :D

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Sitting in a cage in a pitiful excuse for a dungeon really gives you a lot of time to think.

A lot of time for your mind to wander, bored with staring at golden bars, white walls, the glint of metal spears meant to poke you if you’re out of line, the closed door denying you freedom. Nothing to stop thoughts and memories from surfacing, and of course those thoughts and memories can't do you the decency of being any semblance of pleasant.

No, the memories that float beneath your eyelids and repeat ad nauseam are those having to do with how you had ended up here to begin with. That plan, that infiltration, that confrontation. That oh-so-satisfying spray of blood, those delectable cries of fear. That green human’s face flipping to pure rage at a speed that could have put even King Bowser to shame.

That lucky throw.

That throw that shouldn't have been of any note, as the object flung through the air had been just a small stone. But it hadn’t been until the flames King Bowser had been gathering abruptly died out and he'd begun clawing at his own throat that you’d realized something was wrong. But you had barely been able to raise your wand to do anything about the way his face had twisted in pain before the green one struck, with a blow to the head that cast your world dark.

And then you had woken up here.

You spend the first hours after reorienting yourself fuming about the indignity of it all. Swearing vengeance for being treated like this, cursing those blasted humans who had landed you here, vowing to break out with King Bowser and —

The panic that had been blooming in your King’s eyes flashes in your mind, then. If you were an optimist, then you would next hope that whatever had been wrong with him had somehow resolved itself, and that he was waiting somewhere in the wings with a grand plan to break you, his esteemed second-in-command, out of this dreadful place. But you know exactly what had been wrong with King Bowser, and you haven't gotten this far in life with anything as worthless as optimism.

So you flick your wrist when the guards aren't looking, pulling up that monitoring charm you’d attached to your King back when he’d been a trouble-making prince, one you’d never bothered to remove as he’d aged. It stares back at you, fuzzy and buzzing with static as if it had never been anchored to him at all. You allow yourself one tremulous breath, paired with a single overlong blink. You’re behind enemy lines, after all.

...

...He’d been a great king.

For the next few days, you comfort yourself with the fact that the Mushroom Kingdom’s hero, at least, had been injured enough that he likely hadn’t survived that encounter, either. But even that solace is denied to you, as you overhear the guards standing near your cage chatter about Mario. About Mario’s recovery —

You struggle to keep your magic under control. They'd taken your wand away when they’d locked you up, in the assumption you were powerless without it; there’s no need for them to have evidence to the contrary. Still, you seethe over the meager, tasteless prison food they’d given you. You should have known the lack of funeral bells was a sign something wasn't right. Not only does that green hero get to walk away a murderer, he gets to have his brother with him, safe and sound. A duo of goody-two-shoes, prancing about as if they hadn't destabilized an entire kingdom in one fell swoop. As if they hadn't —

Again, you wrestle your magic down. It still simmers beneath your skin, eager for an outlet. And you're eager to give it one, one that ended in those brothers suffering a thousand times the amount King Bowser had, as he’d burned from the inside out. Yes, they would rue the day they crawled out of whatever wretched hole they’d surfaced from, so long as you still lived.

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For a while, you entertain more...outlandish forms of revenge. A curse to cause unending nightmares as it puts them to sleep for good; an “accident” that leaves them both blind and deaf and crippled for life; the red hero held down, helpless to watch as you break every one of his brother’s bones one by one by one.

But those ideas, while satisfying, still aren't enough. You haven’t gotten this far in life without a reliable and fine-tuned cruel streak, and in that fine-tuning you’ve learned cruelty is a dish best served cold. So you let those short-sighted scenarios pass you by, sorting through the chaff for the perfect one.

You also know cruelty is a dish best made to the servee’s tastes, and for that, you need intel. You haven't needed a wand to cast simple spells since you’d learned to walk, so it’s trivial to attach little eavesdropping charms to the food trays and cutlery those fungal peons bring to you at mealtimes. Emphasis on little, because while you have been doing magic longer than any of these imbeciles had been alive, you know the Princess, at least, isn't as much of an idiot as the rest of them regarding magical matters, and you haven't gotten this far in life without a healthy dose of caution.

So you do what you do best — you listen, and you learn. Those brothers visit the castle often, and thus you find the red one hadn't actually escaped King Bowser’s final attack unscathed; apparently, his voice box is forfeit. The world forever spared of that idiot’s worthless blathering...for the first time since waking up imprisoned, a ghost of a smile curls up on your face. Even in death, your King’s vicious nature still prevails. You’d taught him well.

And, in a lucky break, you manage to eavesdrop on your King’s murderer well enough to catch the guilt in his voice when talking about the state of his brother. You take a risk and upgrade the charm to give you visuals, and you see with your own eyes the self-condemnation lining his shoulders. The sight is enough for the second grin of your prison stay. But it isn’t enough to satisfy you completely; you need it to hurt more. Nonetheless, you could still use this; the only reason King Bowser’s blow had landed — besides his unrivaled combat prowess — was because his initial target had been too busy cowering in fear to see the strike coming.

Without access to your spellbooks, it takes a while for the perfect idea to manifest. But that’s fine; you haven’t gotten this far in life without a wealth of patience. You mentally flip through them, one by one, for the perfect spell to make those humans pay, as you bide your time for an opportunity to escape.

And the perfect inspiration comes months later; after months of awful prison food and taunting from the guards and absolutely no privacy, you sit next to the light of the moon, thinking about your late King. Not in a moment of weakness, as someone soft-hearted would assume, but of the power vacuum he’d left in his wake. To be filled by whatever schmuck made a big enough power play, by the circumstances. You frown imagining it, a headache half-budding in your temples. If you were a lesser man, this would be when you would wish to do anything to have King Bowser back to take his rightful place once again. But you are greater, so you merely cast that thought aside; when you return to the Darklands you’ll find some poor saps to use as fodder for whatever revival ritual you’ll perform to get King Bowser back to his glorious, living self.

But...you do know someone lesser. Many people, in fact. One person in particular, however, would be perfect to cast in a certain role. And there’s another who would be an excellent fit for the tragic hero of this upcoming tale. And you won't even have to hatch another escape plan to direct it!

Originally, the spell you’re thinking of was something to cast on oneself in a saccharine moment of self-sacrifice for a loved one, but you know better. So you spend the next week or so keeping to yourself, those pathetic excuses for guards long since bored of you, recalling the exact shape of the incantation you need, building your magic reserves as much as you can to cast the spell itself the way you want to, knowing your slight magical atrophy and the lack of magical focus would make things marginally difficult. Or rather, it would have made things marginally difficult, if you weren't the greatest wizard alive.

As such, soon enough, with the moon sitting high yet hidden in the night sky and almost a year to the day since King Bowser was killed, you deem yourself ready.

In the darkness, you kneel on the metal floor of your cage. With a deep breath, you close your eyes and focus your attention inward. You think of your King, that look on his face, the last look you had seen on him while he was still alive. The look he probably died wearing. Surprised. Agonized. Frightened.

The vowels and consonants of your native language fall from your lips easily; low, whispered, with the barest of shaking as you concentrate. You feel the spell reach out to you, wanting you to pay your price. You feel it reach out beyond you, toward the Darklands, wanting to restore what was lost in exchange.

But you aren't a lesser man, so you don't give it the chance. You gather your magic and push it away, away out of the room, towards the magical signature you want it to latch on to instead. While the act of doing so is simple, it still costs a fair bit of energy, and without your wand you’re left panting from the effort of avoiding becoming ensnared by the spell yourself. You’d chosen it for a reason, a reason that was rather deadly. It wouldn't do to fail now.

The moon sits high in the sky and the rest of the world is asleep, so you shift to a better sitting position and lean back against the bars of your cage. You feel the traces of magic stretch out toward where you sent the spell, winding down pathways and weaving between buildings, to a little house in a town, to a certain murderer’s sleeping form. They’ll figure out what you’ve done sooner rather than later, you know. And with the spell you’ve cast banned in every country and scrubbed from every text published in the last century, they will have to come to you to learn how to break it. Not that you’ll tell them, of course.

So now, all there’s left to do is wait. Wait for them to come with their distress and their anger and their paltry threats. Wait for their tears, their denial, their attempts to bargain with you. And as the only one with answers, you’ll be free to give the ones that would only send them further into despair.

As your magical exhaustion ushers you to sleep, a cold smile dances on your face. You haven't gotten this far in life without patience and cruelty, after all. And it looks like both are about to pay off.

You can hardly wait for it.

[gertlushgaming]

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass Review (Nintendo Switch)

  For this Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Review, we play Race on 48 remastered courses from across the Mario Kart series with the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass! All courses form 12 new cups, and returning characters from the Mario Kart series have also been added.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass Review Pros:

- Gorgeous graphics. - 11.2GB Download size. (base game and all tracks included) - The base game contains all previous DLCs from the Wii U version. - LABO support. - New characters were added with the tracks - Diddy Kong, Funky Kong, Pauline, Peachette, Kamek, Wiggler, Petey Piranha, and Birdo. - Four-player split screen support. - Two local players can go online and race with others. - 12 Player online races. - Wireless mode allows two Switches to connect making 8 player local races a thing. - Amiibo support- Scan Amibo to unlock special outfits for your Mii racer. The Amiibo section has a checklist so you know who is scanned in, Also you only need to scan the Amiibo once. - Mii creator within the game. - Supports big screen and handheld mode. - Controller- Supports both Joycons, Single Joycons, and Pro Controller. - Driving aids- Smart steer and Auto accelerate. - Motion control support. - Full stats breakdown, Split into online/solo/wireless. - MKTV is back and allows you to watch the community replays of gamers. - Classic bright cheery soundtrack. - Tutorial/help section. - You can now carry two items at once. - Grand Prix has 12 cups with four races in each. - Five game speeds- 50, 100, 150, 200cc and Mirror. - 47 Characters to play as well as your Mii so it is actually 48. - Earn 1-3 stars in races and they in turn unlock new kart parts. - Full kart customisation. Choose your frame, Wheels, and glider. Each one will change your stats and you can bring the stats screen up to check. - Time trials with ghost management. - Vs and battle mode races you can choose speed, tracks, rounds, AI, difficulty, etc. - Battle mode has 6 modes-  Balloon battle (hit each other to lose balloons), Renegade round-up (Like cops and robbers), Bob omb blast (Bombs only), Coin runners (Collect the most coins), Shine thief (hold the crown for the longest time) and random. - New purple ultra mini turbo drift. - Miis can wear themed outfits like a Bowser suit and helmet or peach, piranha plant etc. - New items for battle mode. - Can set up online tournaments for people to join. - Can host or join online races. - Addictive gameplay. - Controls are as tight and fluid as ever before. - Fun to play. - Easy to pick up and play. - Ten new cups - Turnip, propeller, rick, moon, fruit, boomerang, feather, cherry, acorn, and spiky. Each has four tracks in each. - The new tracks bring a lot of old favorites with a few new tracks from newer games. - No unlocking is needed, all new tracks and cups are instantly playable. - An easy game to come back to. - The whole set of tracks is FREE with the Nintendo Online subscription. - 48 tracks added. Related Post: 2024's Most Significant Esports Events Worldwide Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass Review Cons: - Playing with friends online with others is still a pain in the ass, With no friend invite system. - Driving assists start n as default and the game doesn't tell you or that they exist. - Split screen can be hard to see around the track and this is especially evident in battle mode. - No friend ghost download option. - AI can still be cheap at times. - No control layout options. - Online has a few connection issues from time to time. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass: Official website. Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo  Store Links - Nintendo   Read the full article