#shroob invasion au

[duckapus]

Shroob Invasion AU

Somehow the Shroobs have returned and are out to take over the world and get revenge on the Mario Bros for their defeat in Partners in Time. And since the Crew is still recovering from Puzzlevision, the military is...themselves, and Peach is still a monster at the bottom of a demon flesh pit, the Mushroom Kingdom is wholly unprepared to fend them of when they first arrive.

...What, not everything needs some long-winded preamble.

Some important notes:

The Shroobs are studying the Creep Pit and using that research to improve their shroob mutant creation process (you know stuff like Yoob and the Tashroobas that one Wiggler boss? Yeah now imagine shroobified versions of meme and crossover characters. Now imagine them with demonic bonus features!!!)

Mario, SMG4, Meggy, Saiko, Shroomy and Boopkins were captured by the Shroobs during the initial attack. Shroomy, Boopkins and 4 were used in the Shroob-Creep hybrid experiments, with Shroomy and Boopkins getting fully Shroobified while 4 only got half-mutated and escaped.

Luigi is completely missing and only Mario knows where he is, which terrifies the Shoobs given how instrumental he was to their defeat last time. So they're torturing Mario for information in a dungeon but he's giving them absolutely nothing.

There's currently only one Princess Shroob, but Shroob Culture Stuff demands there always be two. Fortunately, they've found a solution that also doubles as psychological torture for Mario since physical obviously isn't working; slowly transform Meggy, via gradual mutation and brainwashing, into a second Princess Shroob.

Due to this arrangement Meggy's cell is more of a luxury suite that she can't leave, with Saiko forced to be her attendant via a shock collar that goes off if either of them steps out of line.

The Shroobs also managed to get their hands on Melony's Fierce Deity Mask, but it refuses to function for any of them so it's just sitting in a vault

(I do plan on having Meggy, Saiko and Mario escape eventually, with the mask playing a large part in that, but by then Meggy will already be half-Shroob, though thankfully even though the mutation's working as advertised she's got a strong enough will that she's still almost completely her usual self mentally)

Melony, Tari and Hal Monitor are all on the run together, trying to not get captured or killed and to find Luigi. And yes, Melony's stuck in her base form

A big chunk of the Kingdom's population, including the rest of the actually relevant characters, managed to escape into the Internet Graveyard and are using it as the headquarters of the anti-Shroob resistance. SMG3, Bowser and Toadsworth are the leaders of the resistance since they all have leadership experience, the Mushroom Kingdom citizens trust Toadsworth, the bulk of their forces are from the Koopa Troop, and they're operating out of 3's territory.

The resistance managed to capture half-mutated 4, who's extremely feral and violent, and are hoping they can study his condition to create a cure for him and anyone else who's been Shroobified

(I should note that, due to the alternate method used for Meggy's mutation, if they do manage to create a cure it might not work for her)

[doodlebob54]

Ok, part 2 of the single father Au

Ben is extremely missing his partner, and sometimes wonders what would happen if they didn't die. Also, when i said Ra1ey is sheltered and spoiled, i meant that she never exited the moon base she has no clue about the outside world as Ben is too scared to lose another person he cares about (to people's surprise) he usually brings her stuff from earth like a souvenirs, Ra1ey wasn't allowed to leave the moon base until she was 18 but only with assistance she finds it annoying. Sasha is looking after them, but as a ghost, they do torment Veenie because they helped in killing them. Ra1ey sneaked out of the base at least twice, and her first interaction was with Fawful ( because Sasha intertwined with the events of Second shroob invasion, Fawful gets to keep the worm in his brain so he becomes the only one Ra1ey can talk to.) Ra1ey only knows the shroob language and its hard for her to meet other earthlings, she sees them as these funny looking creatures and views them as accessories, she only somewhat respects Fawful and that's because a) he can understand her and b) he knows what happens to their other parent. Fawful didn't spear the details about how Sasha and ben met. Ra1ey does develop some resentment towards her Dad because he never told her she had a mom. She doesn't tell her dad that she knows as she is afraid of the consequences that it may bring. She pretty much pretends that she doesn't know anything about having a second parent. She waits for her dad to tell her about her mom himself. She extremely hates Veenie and Gagen for causing the death of her other parent.

Veenie, Gagen, and Ben belong to @aliencatwafers

[aliencatwafers]

Baby Lift…?

Fawful cannot carry one apple let alone two whole babies.

[marbarmars-arts]

🍄Day 19: AU🍄

-love and tragedy, hand in claw-

I made a cool little AU! Fawful and the spilled Tea!

Thanks so so much to @aliencatwafers for inspiring me to make this AU...a few days ago she drew the concept of what Minty as a shroob would look like, and after thinking about it some more at 2am, BAM! Stayed up until morning coming up with a what if scenario if the story elements of Wafer's Second Shroob Invasion and Minty Frazzles was combined. It all starts with Minty getting shroobified, thus renamed to M1ทt33! Their earth nickname is Tea.

A uhhh short plot synopsis and details are in order!

It all starts off normally when Minty and Fawful are hanging out. They've been friends for quite some time now, he thought about finally confessing his feelings to her, but then the second shroob invasion starts. With the two having witnessed the first invasion years ago, panic ensues. The shroobs originally intended to capture Fawful to shroobify him due to his very high intellect but Minty ends up getting captured instead.

Now with no recollection of her past, M1ทt33 carries on as part of the shroob army until Fawful finds them. Wanting the love of his life back, to undo his guilt, he manages to drag her back to his base. But with Tea's lost memories, empathy to the shroobs, and false backstory that they've been feeding to her, it's difficult for Fawful to get her back to her normal self. Let alone having the information necessary to know if he can even undo this in the first place. Did I mention this is all happening in the middle of an invasion?

Despite this stranger dragging them to a place they've never seen before, M1ทt33 swears this all feels so familiar. More memories start to come back to her as the plot goes on, but things get complicated...even though Tea IS Minty, Tea has become her own being too. Born from horrible means...does she have a right to even exist?

It's all so tragic I know, but deep down I know there's a good ending somewhere...

I don't really plan to do anything HUGE with this btw, it was just a fun concept to make that i love talking to Wafers about!

[dooxliss]

@keylovesstuff @bewilderingbog ask and you shall receive

i’ve mostly been thinking about the first two mario and luigi games since i have to refresh myself on peach’s role in bis

superstar saga:

as we learn midgame, peasley visited peach before the events of the game to warn her about cackletta. their relationship and betrothal allowed him to get an immediate audience, and toadette is chosen to have her voice stolen in peach’s stead. the rest of the game plays out as normal, and toadette is treated in the beanbean kingdom once her voice is released by fawful.

peach still travels and visits little fungitown, which was established when she was first kidnapped by bowser (plus she has never visited the beanbean kingdom before) so it’s more or less the newest town. toadette also accompanies them, and is left behind by bowletta and fawful when peach is kidnapped.

the only other change i believe is the infamous luigi crossdressing scene. there are multiple but limited super crowns, and they do not work on humans. imitation of mushroomian royalty outside of clear entertainment is highly illegal, which the bros banked on being common enough knowledge that luigi would be accepted as the real deal. (it works! this is also why peach was so surprised at the sight, but she does not acknowledge the events happening in a silent pardon bc toadsworth would blow a gasket)

luigi makes sure to keep the crown with him but ditches everything else

post game events, peasley and peach meet and officially call off their betrothal ✌🏽

partners in time:

originally this game wasn’t going to happen in my au since the bros are isekai’d and baby peach didn’t look like that (i imagine she was introduced to the crown around age 10) but i just tweaked a few things re: method

so now professor e. gadd invents a time machine that runs with no issues! awesome! so after that he decides to modify the machine so it can wander dimensions as well. peach successfully convinces toadsworth to let her try this variation since the machine has already been proven to work and. well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

since peach was going, toadiko had to go with her (volunteered but still mandatory) and the events of the game still go similarly

(toadbert goes also but this isn’t about him)

the time holes are still technically time holes, but multidimensional as well so they access this world where the bros are from the mushroom kingdom and peach is human

though this peach can be on the timid side, she was raised to be a protector of her people and when initially attacked by the shroobs she rose to the occasion to protect toadiko and toadbert and fight back against the initial invasion

it’s only after she gets eaten by petey piranha that she loses her crown and spends the rest of the game hiding from shroobs

i’m not quite sure when she finds out about the vim fuel thing and what happened to many of the toads in that world but she definitely knows that if the shroobs find out that she’s one of them she’s having the worst game over imaginable so it’s a lot of hide and seek and trying to think of feasible solutions until she recovers the crown and is captured again for the endgame

toadiko and toadbert are recovered but the process of being turned into shroob mushrooms (plus vim draining with toadiko) have them both at less than perfect health that has them (mostly toadiko) both bed bound for some time. as a result, toadiko is forced to retire ✌🏽 a very good time for peach’s guilt overall

re: baby counterparts—everyone is very curious about them and the toadsworths clash isn’t necessarily helped by the obvious difference but they do eventually get along

toad peach is extremely curious about this human peach and wants to meet her adult counterpart, but knowing that world exists does not help her impostor feelings at all 😭

and the bros are kinda left to wonder if they were always supposed to be here in the mushroom kingdom. other trauma too but don’t worry about it

rotating the toad peach au in my mind while prepping for artfight so uhhh anyone want more insight?

[duckapus]

Bestie we gotta stop giving Meggy body horror trauma, I have 2 aus where Meggy's gets fuzzified and now you have an au where Meggy is part fungus - superluigiglitchy

part alien fungus! :D

[doodlebob54]

Ok, part 4 of Single Father Au

Ra1ey will figure out about who Veenie is

and try and attack them, Fawful is just

watching from a far he doesn't want to get

involved

Meanwhile Ben finds out his child is missing

and goes to find her, and on the way he

meets Gagen who lies to Ben about knowing

where Ra1ey is so he could be closer to Ben

and hoping they do find her and he uses the

opportunity to quote 'redeem' himself

Going back to Veenie who doesn't want to

hurt Raley but her tries to reason with her

and explain why they did that. Ra1ey doesn't want to hear those excuses. She also has a hard time believing them because they already lied to her, so who's to say they aren't lying again. Midbus was able to capture Ra1ey and put her in air jail so she wouldn't cause any more damage.

Ben, Veenie, and Gagen belong to @aliencatwafers

[doodlebob54]

I got a moldycorps, Au dubbed: Single father Au

The thing about this Au is that Veenie and Gagen were able to kill Sasha, but not Ben, leaving him alone with a child, Ra1ey never met her mom, nor did Ben want to talk about them, Him and Gagen became extremely distant because he was along with Veenie were responsible for the death of his partner, Ra1ey became a very sheltered and spoiled child as a result of Bens new found overprotectiveness. Gagen started hating Veenie because they are the reason why Ben doesn't want to see them anymore. Fawful is only mad at Veenie because he lost his new friend, that he saw as a replacement for Cackletta, Midbus isn't mad at Veenie because they were the one who killed Sasha but, he is more mad at the fact they helped Gagen kill Sasha without thinking what consequences of their actions. Ben hates Veenie even more now and is telling Ra1ey that if she finds someone who looks like Veenie, then she has 100% allowance to kick them. Ben is also preparing Ra1ey to become next Regent after his retirement as the Shroobs would need someone to rule them, Ra1ey does have lower chances to become a princess because of her being half blooded.

Ben, Veenie, and Gagen all belong to @aliencatwafers

This would most likely be part 1. So stay tunde

[aliencatwafers]

Sewers AU - Out and About

Normally, the babies meet Fawful and the residents of the Sewers at his Bean ‘n’ Badge shop. The babies usually sit back while Fawful does the talking. For today, Baby Luigi steps up while Baby Mario and Fawful watch on.

(I wish it was possible to crop photos on Tumblr, but alas, we shall make do with what I got so far).

I’ve also been experimenting on how to draw the babies.

Bonding time with Midbus

Bonding time with Fawful

The babies won’t leave Fawful alone. Out of all the people in the Sewers and the world, it’s Fawful that they latch onto.*

*The babies love the Adults first and foremost! If they had to choose between Fawful and the Adult Bros., it would be a tough choice but they would go with the Adults. Still, Fawful is a close second once Fawful gets over himself and the babies pester him more and more.

[aliencatwafers]

That is since the Shroobs’ technology are thousand of years ahead anything on Earth. And Fawful loves working with technology. He would adjust very quickly and even experiment with said technology. The Shroobs would be impressed as they realized they’ve underestimated Fawful.

Plus, the Shroobs and Fawful both want to conquer the Mushroom Kingdom and they’ve primarily conquered Peach’s Castle. So they wouldn’t have that barrier of not taking over kingdoms - they would bond over it. At most, they would conflict on egos and how far to conquer. The Shroobs want EVERYTHING to be Shroob-like as they detest anything different (thanks to xenophobia). Fawful wants everything Fawfulized but can work with others different than him.

Furthermore, they both come from a place of struggle. Fawful had to work his way up to villainy while the Shroobs’ home planet appeared to be dying (as it was shunned by starlight, so they wanted a world of warmth).

Also, Fawful is strange and the Shroobs are strange. They would both feel out of place and bond over that.

But of course, the Shroobs want him in many AUs of mine. They see each other as precious resources that must be taken and exploited lest someone more powerful comes along. Maybe there’s a chance for a real connection?

That depends heavily on their choices.

One of the hardest parts of being a writer is having a shit ton of ideas but having to focus and hone in on a few of them. And then working through a few ideas and then another idea pops up but I can’t go back and include it and AHhhhhhh! Part of writing I’m learning is having to kill my darlings. Some ideas feel like a good idea but don’t mesh well with a cohesive story or even contradicts stuff. Just being grounded can be hard while writing. With that being said, I got a few stuff in mind. Some are really fleshed out while others may get sprinkles of content here and there. I’ve got about three AUs.

Sewer AU -> Takes place during Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. Very little changes from canon except the babies and Fawful bond and have a sibling-like dynamic. (Mario and Luigi are kept in the dark). The AU only lasts until the game ends. After that, everything goes as normal. No Shroobs invade in the present and there are no Shroobs on Homeworld.

Second Shroob Invasion -> Also takes place during Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. The major change is that the youngest batch of Shroobs were left under the care of Regent Shroob back on Homeworld. As such, the youngest batch grows up and invade the present while the Mario Brothers are handling the Shroob Invasion in the Past. Since Fawful gets caught up in the Shroobs’ business, he isn’t around to help the Baby Bros. much. (Content is on Archive of our Own).

Shroob Marriage -> Happens after the M&L games in the afterlife. Fawful, Cackletta, and Antasma wander into Shroob territory in the Underwhere. Elder Princess Shroob nabs them and anyone else who wanders in. She makes them fight for her sister’s claw in marriage while her and Princess Shroob talks. Elder Princess Shroob, having been imprisoned by the Cobalt Star, gained powers like being able to manipulate time for a small bit. She senses that Fawful has Dark Star powers deeply imbedded inside him. Princess Shroob chooses Fawful for marriage. Everyone is like “what the heck” especially since marriage isn’t a thing in Shroob culture. Rather, Shroobs can connect to others, but they reproduce asexually (most of the time). So the Shroobs can easily make heirs by themselves. Rather, marriage is used as ownership - the Shroobs are trying to claim Fawful as their territory and get access to the Dark Star. The reason why the Shroobs also want Fawful is unknown. But Cackletta, Antasma, and Fawful must go through with it (either it’s that or live on the streets like they have been doing).

No matter what happens, there is two things in common. Fawful is around and the Shroobs have an eye on him. To me, the Shroobs and Fawful are inseparable.

[duckapus]

Marggy Childhood Friends AU

So I finally came up with enough details to make a proper au out of my icon pic.

To begin at the beginning, Meggy ends up as one of the hundreds of babies that present-day Bowser and Kamek kidnapped while looking for the Star Children in Yoshi's Island DS. And, despite not being one of the Star Children (because I didn't change the lineup), she manages to be an extra sixth escaped yoshi-riding baby because she's Meggy. Of course, she's a tiny gooey baby squid the whole time but she's already got that Spletzer Family Ink Production so she can still shoot at her enemies. Also she's in a little bucket the whole time and it's both funny and adorable.

Anyway, after all that she's brought back home to her parents by one of the storks, and you wouldn't think anything would come of that but a few months later her dad gets a massive business opportunity in the Mushroom Kingdom and they move to Toad Town right next door to the Mario family, and she turns out to get along so well with their twin baby boys you'd almost think they already knew each other from somewhere.

From then on the three of them are practically joined at the hip (though it obviously takes a few years for Meggy to actually have hips), to the point where you'd think they were triplets instead of twins and a close friend. The Bros are even there on that fateful day when Meggy saw One-Shot Wren in person and fell in love with Turf War.

And then they're fourteen, and the Great Mushroom War is starting up, and the Marios are moving to Brooklyn because they remember the Shroob invasion and they just know their boys are going to get caught up in this if they stay, and the Spletzers are going back to Inkopolis both for that same reason and so Meggy can pursue her Inksports Career. The three of them stay in touch afterwards and meet up as much as they can, of course, but it just isn't the same.

And then, years later, when they're in their 20's and the Bros are getting their new plumbing business off the ground and Meggy's scouting for a profreshional Splatoon, they find out that Bowser and Peach's parents are dead, and Bowser's kidnapped Peach and is turning Toads into bricks, and, completely separately, they drop everything and go back to the Mushroom Kingdom, because Peach is their friend and that's their home. They run into each-other in the first fortress and it's like they were never apart.

Anyway, after they beat Bowser they decide to actually move back to the Kingdom together and become Peach's semi-official bodyguards in case Bowser tries something again, because he was kinda-sorta their friend too back then and they know how stubborn he can be. Thankfully they're not giving up on their dreams, since Mario Bros Plumbing is still new enough that they can set it up pretty much anywhere and Inkopolis Plaza is just a pipe away.

And from there we get "The Mario Series But Meggy Is Also There," up until the end of Super Mario 64 when the pods drop, where it's now "SMG4 Except The Game Adaptations Happen In Order And Are Somewhat More Accurate And There's A Lot More Of Them (And Meggy's There From The Start)." Also, the canon Splatoon plotlines happen, but Meggy doesn't actually get involved in this AU so it's just background flavor.

As you can imagine Meggy being around so much earlier has significant consequences, the big one being that since she's around to be a good influence Mario stops being a complete jerkass waaaayyyy sooner, which keeps his relationships with Peach and... really everyone besides Luigi from falling apart. Except Toad. The vast majority of Toad's issues have surprisingly little to do with classic era Mario.

(Of course, this presents a bit of a problem since I still want to do at least a version of the Anime Arc so Meggy can get her transformation trauma, but this version of Peach wouldn't do That and the greater adherence to Mario Canon means Francis still lives in the Bitlands and has completely the wrong personality for leading a crime syndicate.)

[aliencatwafers]

An Unlikely Family

aka the one time a Shroob gets with a muse or nonEarthling

Thank you @doodlebob54 for being awesome! We were chatting and I love her oc Sasha (they/them). She told me a lot of amazing lore about Sasha and how they’re a chaotic entity. Doodlebob54 made Ra1ey (she/her), the child of Sasha and my oc Regent Shrooben (he/him) from my Second Shroob Invasion series. I love this little family and love drawing their interactions (plus an angry and jealous Gagen in the top right corner - Sasha stole his husband lol).

Also please check out the rest of @doodlebob54 ‘s content! She has an amazing take on Fawful’s characterization and loves dark stories and AUs! Her stuff scares even me who loves torturing my characters (which I mean in a good context - if you can scare someone who tortures their OCs, you did amazing)! Doodlebob54 also wrote “Regent’s Revenge” which is an amazing story and an honor to read. I also need to check out her Fawful x Peasley story! (I love that ship too)!

Thank you for being awesome @doodlebob54

[aliencatwafers]

Fallen AU - Chapter 1

Here is my first chapter of the Fallen AU. I figured i wanted to write a few chapters about the AU. I promise it’ll be much shorter than the Second Shroob Invasion. (I’m also typing the chapters on my phone which helps with condensing stuff). I figured this would help when drawings come up short.

Thank you for reading.

Premise: The Shroobs have won. While the Adult Bros are taken, Princess Shroob condemns the babies to her barren Homeworld for survival. Fawful is condemned to the safe fate. They all try to survive.

[aliencatwafers]

Been hit with a cool idea!

I know I make AUs left and right when the only AUs I’ve developed were the Sewers AU and Second Shroob Invasion stuff. My brain usually rapid fires with ideas but can’t settle on one thing to work through and develop it enough. But this idea settled in my head for much of the day and I want to write it down before it vanishes.

So the Sewer AU (where Fawful looks after the babies in between time holes in PIT) is the main premise. It’s limited in that the babies can’t spend too much time lest they wind up getting caught or the Shroobs invade. The AU ends when the Shroobs are defeated and the time holes are shut. Fawful makes his plans in BIS and everything goes as normal.

But what if the Shroobs won?

Adult Mario and Luigi are out of commission. Princess Peach is nowhere to be found. Baby Bowser is stuck as a Mushroom; Kylie Koopa and Toadbert met the same fate. Stuffwell is barely functional.

The baby bros are left to their own defenses. They barely manage to sneak back in the Present devastated. They’re trying to decide what to tell E.Gadd and the Toadworths. Baby Luigi has Stuffwell cradled in his arms while Baby Mario is on the lookout.

But it’s the least of their problems.

The moment Elder Princess Shroob won, she and her sister invaded the Present. Princess Peach’s castle was quickly overwhelmed in the Present. The Shroobs rounded up everyone and lined them up. A Commander Shroob would quickly access each Earthling and either point left or right.

Left to be Shroobified and ready to serve the Shroobs, no resistance or hesitation, no free will or memory.

Right to be sent into a large Shroob Prison Ship.

Immediately, the baby Bros get sent to the left alongside the unconscious Adult bros.

A few seconds later, the Shroobs yank Fawful out from the sewers. He resists each step and nearly bites one Shroob’s claw off. Despite his weak stature, he is a hassle. It takes several Shroobs to restrain him and several more to aim laser guns at him. He nearly gets killed a few times trying to escape.

The baby bros use the hassle as an opportunity to slip out. Fawful spots them and makes a run for it too.

Of course, it fails miserably.

Just as the Commander Shroob is about to take his laser gun and off the three, Princess Shroob walks in. She smirks at the three of them, recognizing the Baby bros. For a few moments, she analyzes Fawful and takes note.

A few moments of silence.

Without a word, she raises her claw to the right, and the three are shuffled into the prison ship.

As soon as everyone is packed into the ship, it takes off at light speed, and lands on the old Shroob Planet?

It lands on the old withering planet; it is shunned by starlight.

And all the prisoners are dropped off there at random locations! Fawful gets shoved off the ship first near a rocky volcano. The Baby Bros are shoved off by a beach near the volcano.

The babies land on Stuffwell safely, thus surviving the fall.

Many others aren’t so lucky.

Of course, Stuffwell is barely functional, and the bros don’t know how to fix him. They wander aimlessly using everything they packed in the case and pockets to survive. There’s enough Bros items to fend off ravenous predators with, enough mushrooms to heal wounds, and some food left. It’ll run out one day.

They make their way to the volcano and are shocked that Fawful is…alive?!

By all accounts, he landed in a hard place from a long distance, and he had nothing to cushion him. How the heck is he alive?

And Fawful is more out of it rather than in severe pain or injured. It hurts to move, but he can move a bit. The bros give him a Mushroom which heals whatever damage he sustained and makes him less loopy. Reluctantly, Fawful fixes Stuffwell while the babies update him on what’s going on. Fawful tells them that Stuffwell was an old project he and Professor E.Gadd worked on before Fawful was taken in by Cackletta.

Stuffwell, now alert, is shocked and questions what happened. He takes X-Ray scans of everyone. The bros are fine, but his alarms go off at reading Fawful’s records.

Fawful: What is it being? I am not liking the suspense like eggs not hatching.

Stuffwell: ummmm…well…by my accounting and measurement cycles, you should be dead.

Fawful: *in pure shock* Huh, Fawful must’ve given Stuffwell humor of darkness. I know you have favoring of E.Gadd due to your morals of stupidity, but Fawful is being proud of you. If that is being the worst insult you are having, it needs more heat in the oven.

Stuffwell: NoNo! Im in Gratitude Cycle that you are functional. What I mean to explicate is that your X-rays show deep and lethal fractures all over each of your bones. Your spine and skull has the worst splitification. By all accounts, it should render you unable to move or perform Life functions without support. Evidence points to you being dead, but you’re respiring and engaging in locomotion.

Fawful: *thinking back* Yeah, Fawful logically should’ve had tasting of the dust of death. I had seeing of suffocating darkness, but I had waking like I had recovery from a fever of badness. And I am getting better? It has no sense making.

Stuffwell: In that case, we’ll make sense of it.

*Baby Mario and Luigi cry*

Stuffwell: But for now, we must have survivalification on this hostile planet.

Fawful: You can be scanning the planet for anything or use.

And so it begins. Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Fawful, and Stuffwell explore the planet and try to survive.

TL;DR: Made a new AU where everyone is on barren Planet Shroob while the Shroobs rock out on Earth.

[aliencatwafers]

One of the hardest parts of being a writer is having a shit ton of ideas but having to focus and hone in on a few of them. And then working through a few ideas and then another idea pops up but I can’t go back and include it and AHhhhhhh! Part of writing I’m learning is having to kill my darlings. Some ideas feel like a good idea but don’t mesh well with a cohesive story or even contradicts stuff. Just being grounded can be hard while writing. With that being said, I got a few stuff in mind. Some are really fleshed out while others may get sprinkles of content here and there. I’ve got about three AUs.

Sewer AU -> Takes place during Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. Very little changes from canon except the babies and Fawful bond and have a sibling-like dynamic. (Mario and Luigi are kept in the dark). The AU only lasts until the game ends. After that, everything goes as normal. No Shroobs invade in the present and there are no Shroobs on Homeworld.

Second Shroob Invasion -> Also takes place during Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. The major change is that the youngest batch of Shroobs were left under the care of Regent Shroob back on Homeworld. As such, the youngest batch grows up and invade the present while the Mario Brothers are handling the Shroob Invasion in the Past. Since Fawful gets caught up in the Shroobs’ business, he isn’t around to help the Baby Bros. much. (Content is on Archive of our Own).

Shroob Marriage -> Happens after the M&L games in the afterlife. Fawful, Cackletta, and Antasma wander into Shroob territory in the Underwhere. Elder Princess Shroob nabs them and anyone else who wanders in. She makes them fight for her sister’s claw in marriage while her and Princess Shroob talks. Elder Princess Shroob, having been imprisoned by the Cobalt Star, gained powers like being able to manipulate time for a small bit. She senses that Fawful has Dark Star powers deeply imbedded inside him. Princess Shroob chooses Fawful for marriage. Everyone is like “what the heck” especially since marriage isn’t a thing in Shroob culture. Rather, Shroobs can connect to others, but they reproduce asexually (most of the time). So the Shroobs can easily make heirs by themselves. Rather, marriage is used as ownership - the Shroobs are trying to claim Fawful as their territory and get access to the Dark Star. The reason why the Shroobs also want Fawful is unknown. But Cackletta, Antasma, and Fawful must go through with it (either it’s that or live on the streets like they have been doing).

No matter what happens, there is two things in common. Fawful is around and the Shroobs have an eye on him. To me, the Shroobs and Fawful are inseparable.