#paper mario ttyd reference?

[jschrepp-illustrations]

Paper Ghost King and the (nearly) Thousand Year Missing Prince

[quikyu]

Vivian do you know that I would take one hundred thousand million and one bullets for you

[nintoonerart]

Madame Flurrie makes her long-awaited return to the stage with a heart-pounding re-enactment of her journey to save the world! Joined by the fearless Super Mario, she must recover the seven Crystal Stars before the evil X-Nauts can, and rescue the fair Princess Peach from their clutches. Will the two of them make it through unscathed? This tale of action, thrills, romance, and drama will leave you on the edge of your seat!

You know the play adaptation of TTYD that Flurrie stars in at the end of the game? I made a poster for it 😎

[malk-with-tea]

More thumbnails I made for NudgeAndProd's Paper Mario TTYD playthrough streams :p

The last thumbnail is for an oncoming stream happening at 06/15/2024, 2pm est ^^ (today haha) come join if you'd like!

[yoshijammer]

hey how about jolene? 👀 or any other chapter 3 character you like

Sorry this took a while! I took a break for a bit, but I'm back at it now!

Chapter 3 is my favorite chapter and I love a lot of the characters. Jolene is a girlboss so I had to draw both of her outfits, and as for a character of my choice, it was tempting to draw all of the Minor League-ers but I decided to stick with just two choices. Yoshi Kid is my favorite character in the game, and I just really like Grubba for some reason.

Fun fact, the orange Yoshi Kid was the color I got on both my first save file on the original and in the remake! Completely unintentional, but I was very happy about it. I even gave him the same name.

(Paper Mario requests are still open btw!)

[mostlyghostly66]

So close! That is not paperwork for the evil organization

[even-more-than-before]

this is basically my understanding of their relationship /silly

[imbree64]

GUYS!!!!!!!!

I watched a playthrough of TTYD and he said the thing!!!!!!!!!

[hoodie-prince-kid]

Gijinka/android design of TEC-XX from Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. Look at it. The guy ever.

[thebeardedladyofthelake]

My friend @yuusha-tori was going through old photos and found a screenshot of what still remains one of the most iconic text messages I have ever sent.

[quinnkdev]

so. its looking like the german translation of paper mario: ttyd is continuing to erase the existence of trans people in the world of the game.

(terribly written article, good ol' sebastian ruppert has no idea how to talk about trans people, but im linking it as my source)

this is another grim reminder of the importance of a non-exclusively america-centric worldview.

here in the german-speaking world, several counties both in germany and in austria (jury's out for switzerland, i dont know anyone from there), trans-topics remain extremely controversial and are often used as fodder for right-wing extremists to implement oppressive legislation.

language, as always, is a major focal point to these people. many politicians and ideologues (even ones supposedly on the political left) here weather against language-centric concepts such as "gendering" (i.e. using more gender-neutral avenues of referring to groups of people or individuals), and in a few counties in austria and germany (bavaria in germany and lower austria in austria, for example), its actually fucking outlawed now.

i have faced a lot of discrimination even in the more nominally progressive capital city of austria. an austrian cab-driver once asked me if i was "one of those american tr*nnies". people here believe that it is the united states that "import" lgbtq+ topics to us, but really, the main thing imported from the united states and their political landscape is the "anti-woke" rhetoric of the right.

i will still celebrate; this character (vivian) means the world to me, and so does this game. but never once forget that every win, ANY win, is hard-fought, and that there is more work to be done in places other than the anglosphere.

[cherryfennec]

Quickly wrote a long overdue summary of the Bad End AU that I can send to people if they ever ask me about the plot. Ahem!

THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR PAPER MARIO 64, PAPER MARIO TTYD AND SUPER PAPER MARIO.

The Prologue:

The story begins following the first Paper Mario game in the series where Bowser originally obtains the Star Rod. During the final battle between Mario and Bowser, Peach watches as her hero in red starts to loose to the Koopa King, due to not being able to match the Star Rods accumulated power. She gets a chance to make a wish to the stars, however instead of wishing for the Star Rods magic to be nullified (like in the original game), she instead wishes for her and Mario, who is at the brink of Game Overing, to be taken to safety immiediately. The heroes proceed to stay low during his recovery, planning how to stop Bowser who continues his evil deeds unbothered for now.

After this we skip to the events of the second game in the series, The Thousand Year Door. Just like in the canon, Peach invites Mario to search for the hidden treasure of Rogue Port. Due to the rumors, she believes that whatever they find behind the legendary sealed Door can help them defeat the now Star Powered Bowser. Mario of course accepts.

The plot continues similarly to the original game plot, up until Chapter 4 that is. Mario proceeds to get his name and body stolen by Doo_liss, however in this timeline he and Vivian happen to be out of luck since the crows who originally had the information about the tricksters name are nowhere to be seen. Mario becomes trapped in Twilight Town, with his memory starting to fade as a side effect of turning into a shadow. Meanwhile Doo_liss leaves the town, with now 4 Crystal Stars in his pocket, and proceeds to exploit his new identity. Shortly after he disbands the party, simply because he has no care for the original quest.

He is later found by the two remaining Shadows, Beldam and Marilyn, who convince him to give up the Stars after peaking his curiosity about what's behind The Thousand Year Door.

With no more Mario around, the remaining stars are discovered with the map that was left in Doo_lisses pocket and Peach is ultimately used as a vessel for the Shadow Queen who has world domination plans of her own. Doo_liss also swears his loyalty to her, alongside the remaining Shadow Sisters, since he doesn't want to get on the bad side of someone who could end him right then and there when he can just follow some orders when summoned once in a while and use the rest of his time for having fun.

The Queen returns to the Mushroom Kingdom and proceeds to make a treaty with Bowser, who returns the castle and the rule over Toads to her under a few conditions.

After this we do yet another skip, this time referring to the plot of the third game, Super Paper Mario. Count Bleck arrived as the castles doorstep, making a proposition to the Queen of The Mushroom Kingdom. He promises an artifact of great power that could destroy whole worlds, known as the Chaos Heart by the Ancients. As an old demon herself she recognises the potential of gaining it and agrees help summon it.

With little trouble to convince Bowser to marry her, the ceremony is held and The Chaos Heart appears as planned. There starts to be sudden big ruckus among the guests caused by unexpected explosions around the altar of unknown origin. Before anyone could however react, someone steals the ancient artifact and dissapears without a trace.

The thief is seen again after some time, now looking different than before as well as acting rather off with talking to seemingly air and going from being able to fulfill certain tasks to being unable to do them mere seconds later. He is recognised by Bowser as Marios brother, much to Doo_lisses annoyance.

One day the thief he just started hanging around The Mushroom Castle before being ultimately accepted as a part of the main group of evil, as uncooperative as he can be, with the Queen hoping she can one day turn him into a loyal servant or take what's rightfully hers.

The General Description of The Current Plot:

The current events of the AU revolve around the group of villains, that the main four has now become, trying to take over the rest of the land and other Kingdoms, inconveniencing and eliminating their enemies, finding artifacts of power as well adapting to the current reality. Unfortunately their plans tend to get inconvenienced, or even foiled, by their own faults such as overestimating their own abilities, being stubborn and unable to cooperate effectively often and just not getting well alongside eachother in general. In other words: hijinks ensue!

Main Events of The Story: TBA

[helloyesthisispapermario]

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[misschimotosuwa-blog]

Yeah I don’t know

I just looked at them and thought “do you think they’ve explored each other’s bodies?”

[retroquarium]

Happy Pride!!

This pride month I'd like to draw attention to Nintendo's canonical and implied queer characters! To kick it off we'll be starting with the queen that inspired me to do this, Vivian from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door! She is canonically transgender!

For each of these posts I will be going over the queer history of the character, which you can find under the cut :)

Vivian has been a trans woman since the original Japanese release of TTYD, but when the game was localized, references to this fact were taken out, specifically in the English and German releases. In the new remake of TTYD on the Switch, they have since added this fact back to the game, solidifying that she is, indeed, a trans woman!

This is a huge step for queer representation in video games, but Vivian is not alone in Nintendo's catalog of queer characters. There are many more that I hope to touch on this month! I currently have a list of characters but if there are some you'd specifically like to see then go ahead and tell me! I'm open to expanding the list and hopefully helping people learn about characters they didn't know about :)

[jelly-fish-wishes]

Am I the only one who heard the pseudo-Italian gibberish from the games when Luigi was arguing with Cooper at panel 14, and rapid fire Koopa sounds for the latter of the pair? Also, is Cooper's name a Paper Mario reference?

Originally I wanted his name to be Koops, but found it was a name taken by a TTYD Koopa character so I settled on Cooper. And then when I started playing the first Paper Mario game and saw that the first Koopa partner was a Koopa named Kooper I just wanted to slam a fist into a wall. At least it's spelt different so it gets a pass 😭.

And yes, I imagined EXACTLY those sfx for those two arguing while Doug and Felocity were talking. Its quite a beautiful sound, is it not?