#me when i post abt things i like on my own personal blog: GOLLY GEE WILL YOU STOP BEING SO EMBARRASSING & ANNOYING!!

[timothylawrence]

sorry it turns out hcing your fave fictional white dude as nonwhite makes you go crazy a lil

[paperpeachy]

You have like… THE BEST fan interpretation of Mimi I’ve ever seen!!! I’ve been scrolling through your blog and she’s s,so pretty,,, I hope this is okay to ask but, how do you feel about the general headcanon that she’s a child? Yours looks so mature, it’s a nice change to see,,

omg hi anon!!! THANK u for the lovely compliment aaaaa honestly !! knowing ppl like my take on mimi means sm to me, she’s an important chara for me to get down EXACTLY the way i see her ❤❤❤ and yeas ! ofc i can talk abt it a bit! i actually have my own opinions on this so IM GLAD U ASKED!! (n im glad u think so 😌)

mimi’s a more challenging character when she’s depicted as an adult i think! she has origin stories that either way obvi indicate she didn’t have a good/normal upbringing. the fact that she can switch moods and faces so fast makes it seem like she’s juggling between doing her job and catching up w her lost childhood by acting like she’s still living it. especially since she’s so disingenuous abt it? “NYAAGHH!! YOU BROKE MY MOST FAVU VASE DOOFUSES!! YOU’LL PAY FOR THAT DUMMY GRR..!!!… ahem anyway u can earn rubees over there and ask me anything you need at my office there! ok get to work! thanx”

((i kinda talked more abt this ^ here!))

and i think she learnt v quick that this disposition can be put into use for whatever the count has planned for her, so she’s internalised a lot of it (in robo fashion 🤖) but like, even then she doesn’t sound that childish to me?? i feel like that gets mixed up w how polite she pretends to b sometimes. w the occasional ‘gee whiz, golly gee’ speech she has but. that’s mostly just paper mario vernacular- koops talks a bit like this too !

she’ll go from calling the heroes a bunch of meanie poo pee heads and then immediately go for the ‘are you gonna get your boyfriends to clean up this mess for you too? :)’ she’s so facetious abt it most the time, it’s hard to catch that thinly veiled bitterness but. it adds more to her character than just saying ‘she talks like a kid bc she is one’.

and like, by post-game, she isn’t even using her goofy ‘golly jeepers crimminy on a biscuit!’ speech much. she’s more lowkey after peach snaps her out of her ‘myehh ive lived my whole life like this, its not my fault waa!’ mentality. it all makes her such a flip floppy chara to analyse- which is good ! mimi’s entire backstory is based on how shrouded and unknown her identity is. we know the least about her and why she is.. who she is.

and like..just to back myself up here,  there is canon dialogue that p much state she’s not a child. interned warns merlee and mimi that x question might stir up childhood trauma, referring to them being kids as past tense. there’s another question he’ll open up implying he (and the audience) are interested in both of the ladies’ type of guy, to which mimi will flirt back at him w. and OFC the whole option of confessing your love to her is right there for mario and peach to try at so ye.. rlly makes it seem shes like, of age to hear these kinds of things from adult charas.

. i realise i sound kinda upfront here omg im sorry if i sound defensive LOL ! i obvi have no beef w anyone who portrays her (or any other chara) differently!! she’s a nice n easy candidate for the spooky child trope- but i do feel like i need to get my point across that i personally and firmly don’t see her as one, since i know the general hc of her being adult squicks som ppl out, esp the more mature way i draw her and the ships i have for her etc.

i hope i answered this eloquently, anon x! i feel like i contradicted myself a few times explaining this but that’s just bc mimi acts contradictory, in a sense :’) tldr: i don’t agree w the hc, but all pm charas are written in a way for us to have our own fun w them so ! we!!