#smb queen cecilia

[loud-kid2]

@silly-inky I did send this in as an ask but I'm way to excited for this AU and have to many ideas for it so I can't be patient about this anymore

The idea behind this AU is that the characters are folklore creatures/mythological monsters from around the world.

Bowser and the Koopas are based off of an indigenous myth from my country, the turtle island myth. Bowser is quite literally the island the dark kingdom sits on, he's floating in the middle of a lava lake. The regular Koopas are only big enough to support small ecosystems on their backs and Junior will grow up to be as big as his dad. Since Bowser quite literally is carrying an entire kingdom on his back he can't do anything, Peach getting kidnapped is just Junior, the Koppalings and Kamek's doing. Bowser only shows his face when things get really bad.

Peach and the Toads are mushroom dryads (from Greek myth), and the mushroom kingdom isn't exactly a kingdom it's more of a magical forest overseen by Peach, it's also the place where the mushroom and flower power-ups are grown, the power-ups like the cat bell and penguin suit are produced elsewhere.

Daisy is a flower nymph (again greek mythology)

Alexander, Henry, King and Cecilia are the four knights of the apocalypse (Christian stuff), Alex is famine, Henry is plague, King is war and Cecilia is death. They aren't allowed to gather for fear of the apocalypse so they are kept as far apart as possible. Sunny is technically also a knight of the apocalypse as he represents conquest (interchangeable with plague) so when he pops up he's gonna be kept away from the triplets and Cecilia.

Mario and Luigi did come to the Mushroom Kingdom as normal humans but after they saved Peach Kamek cursed them to become Selkies (celtic folklore), they didn't know at first so when they stayed the night they didn't expect to wake up as Mediterranean monk seals. They quickly figured out how to change between human and seal forms, which is just how they did it in Song of the Sea aka them disappearing behind something then showing up on the other side in the other form (GIF for example)

Sibling gave me the really fun idea of the bros getting seal behaviors post becoming a selkie so I looked up Mediterranean monk seal behaviors. The bros would become a lot more shy and would value privacy a lot more, to help with this Peach would've given them free reign over the large lake in the middle of the Mushroom Kingdom and would have the Toads try to avoid it as much as possible. Mediterranean monk seals are 7 feet tall so I had the idea that their seal coats are massive compared to the bros and are often used as blankets when Mario and Luigi are in human form. As for clothes they still have the iconic outfits but those are really only used when Peach needs rescuing and when that's not happening they are wearing swim trunks and are wrapped in their seal coats, when rescuing Peach their coats are tied around their waists.

Was also thinking that Mario and Luigi would try to go back to Brooklyn and live normally but it would not go well at all. They'd come back and hide their seal coats somewhere and then try to go about life normally but everyone would instantly know that something is wrong with them. For starters their parents would be worried because their sons are suddenly much more reserved and prefer to stay in their room, and they'd often find Mario and Luigi looking longingly at videos of the ocean and other bodies of water. And my sibling had this idea and I liked it a lot, it's the middle of the night and a random family member walks into the kitchen for a cup of water and is finishing said drink when the bros stumble into the kitchen for a midnight snack and don't notice this random family member. Mario opens the fridge and grabs two raw fish and the bros start eating the fish before wandering back to bed still not noticing the family member, leaving this poor person concerned and confused. Then the next night a family member goes to the bathroom late at night only to find two big ass seals laying in the bathtub which would be full of water. Luigi and Mario would notice obviously and Luigi would end up falling out of the tub and going back to human form while Mario would just stay in the tub and just close his eyes and pray the issue goes away. Luigi would promise to explain the next day by taking them somewhere to have a friend (Peach) help explain. So long story short a Mario family trip to the Mushroom Kingdom that does explain that the bros are no longer human and do need to stay in the Mushroom Kingdom

Edit: I FORGOT THE PHOTO OF THE SEAL

Edit 2: @peaches2217 I'm gonna start tagging you in these posts too if you don't mind ofc

[peaches2217]

It's eight in the morning (at least it is here) and I'm already trying to convince myself my paranoia is unreasonable.

The thing causing the incredibly pointless anxiety is not knowing if the two asks I send last night actually went through

Anyway she's got her own tag on my blog if you want some more info on her. It's smb queen cecilia if you're curious

Yes, they did come through! And I must say—

Consider me thoroughly intrigued. 👀👀👀

[loud-kid2]

@silly-inky @peaches2217

So I had an idea for the Folklore au and I think it's ready enough to share now

So the knights of the apocalypse (the KB triplets, Cecilia and Sunny) have a form they can only access under certain conditions. The conditions to access these forms are 1 being all gathered in the same spot (triggering the apocalypse essentially) 2 being under tremendous stress or 3 being extremely pissed off.

These alternate forms are Beast forms

This creature is essentially part of King's Beast form. He's fused to it, his hands and part of his forearms are fused to it's neck and his lower body is fused this "horse's" body.

Alexander's is an emaciated wolf crossed with a locust. Since wolves are associated with hunger and locusts with famine.

Henry's is a black rat. His beast form looks diseased and is constantly vomiting. It has these glowing green pustules all over that do spew what is essentially a fuck you cocktail of every truly awful disease known to mankind. The visual for what these pustules is basically the pustules on the DBD blighted skins but neon green

Cecilia's is a decaying black dog, matted black fur scattered over a mostly skeletal corpse basically.

Sunny's is a chimera kinda like this but change the goat for a snowy owl, make the back legs the legs of a snowy owl and make the whole thing white (the color of conquest)

The transformations are incredibly painful for them and when they rampage in these forms they remember nothing of it.

What happens when these transformations happen is they all basically start convulsing then their own unique thing happens as they start gaining more animal features before the beast forms take over.

The unique happenings are as follows:

King: his forearms, hands and lower body begin to melt as flesh, bones and gore start bubbling up from the ground underneath him to form the "horse" and he fuses to it as this is happening

Alexander: he basically starts to rapidly lose weight as both locust and wolf features violently and painfully burst out from his body kinda like how the extra limbs do for Ares in God of War (skip to 1:36 to see what I mean)

Henry: vomits up a mixture of tar, human blood and actual vomit as the pustules begin to form on his body

Cecilia: she basically starts to rapidly decay (despite not having flesh) and this decaying "flesh" starts to morph into her beast form

Sunny: his body melts and distorts into his beast form as he convulses

[loud-kid2]

@silly-inky @peaches2217 had a neat little thought I wanted to share, it's based off of old Greek superstitions

Boos believe names have power, and calling out someone or something by name is essentially drawing it's attention to you, so more often than not they use nicknames for things. For example King's Boo appointed nickname is Master of Illusions, Henry's is Party King, Alexander's is Master of Sound and Cecilia's are Tyrant, Mistress in chains and Malevolent Queen.

Was also thinking of ones for Sunny and the bros and came up with False King for Sunny, Lightning Wielder for Luigi, and Firestorm for Mario

[loud-kid2]

@peaches2217 @silly-inky more head canon stuff

Before Cecilia killed Bowser's parents the Dark Kingdom and the Mushroom Kingdom had pretty decent relations and an alliance, but that all crumbled once they died. The conflict between kingdoms was caused by a difference in opinion on what should have been done regarding Cecilia's attack

Bowser's mother and father wanted help dealing with Cecilia's siege of their kingdom but Peach's parents didn't help for two reasons, one, they didn't want to draw Cecilia's wrath to their kingdom and people and two, they thought Bowser's parents brought it upon themselves for getting in the mad queen's way.

The two sets of rulers had much different approaches to dealing with Cecilia and her never ending want for more power. Bowser's parents were more likely to object to her ideas, for a while they never told her no, only saying that they don't agree with what she's doing. Peach's parents didn't voice their opinions only going along with what Cecilia wanted, they just stayed out of her way.

Bowser was raised being told that Peach's parents were in the wrong for not helping while Peach was raised being told Bowser's parents were wrong to get in the way of a mad woman. This clash of thoughts lead to the loss of the alliance the two kingdoms once had, I'll get into it later but the alliance between the Mushroom Kingdom and Dark Kingdom does eventually get reinstated.

HC for what happened to Peach's parents is that her mother died in childbirth and her father just disappeared one day, it was suspected the revolutionaries that overthrew Cecilia had something to do with it due to the lack of trying to stop Cecilia's reign of terror, but they were never able to confirm anything

[loud-kid2]

@silly-inky @peaches2217

Toying with the idea that the King Boos plus Queen Cecilia having affects on the beings around them if the being has been around them for long enough. Alexander being famine would make people have a seemingly never ending appetite, Henry being plague would make people sick, Sunny and King would make people want to fight and in Sunny's case would make the people around him want to violently take over new areas (since y'know conquest) and Queen Cecilia being death drains any living thing's life force and given enough time would kill them

With everyone except for Cecilia and Henry these influences could be ignored and the people the Boo nobility surround themselves with can lead normal lives

Henry and Cecilia have to be isolated though since disease and death aren't great to experience, so Henry does live very far away from everyone and Cecilia being how she was isn't an issue as she's currently locked away in the lower city in the land of the dead

[loud-kid2]

Decided to go into detail about the two sections of the realm of the dead and a bit of Boo history on my own blog this time as it's too much for an ask I feel. @silly-inky

The realm of the dead is separated into two parts, the upper city is where all the normal ghosts and Boos live (note some ghosts and Boos do prefer to live in the mortal world, for example the current Boo monarchs prefer the living world), the upper city is a very big place separated into different sectors designated by the cultures of those specific zones. One is heavily focused on music, another food, another art (think drawings, paintings and sculptures), and another literature. Boos can live in any number of these zones (for example Rosemarie lived and grew up in the music district before getting married to Alex and moving to the mortal world) but they tend to congregate in an area called Boo town, Boo town is an amalgamation of all the other districts.

The lower city is a prison for the worst of the worst, the ghosts who refused to let a grudge go and thus became consumed by it live there to keep them from destroying the rest of the realm in order to settle the grudges and regrets that corrupted them. The lower city is just a chaotic free for all of ghosts trying to get out and settle the score with the living, nobody from the upper city has ever seen the lower city save for when someone needs to get thrown down there which fortunately doesn't happen very often. The lower city has a caretaker who keeps the prisoners in and everyone else out.

The only being in the lower city that isn't a normal ghost is the previous ruler of the Boos, queen Cecilia, she was a tyrant driven only by a desire for power and made the Boos miserable in her lust for more power, she was the original owner of the purple diamond that now sits in King's crown, it was the final thing to throw her over the edge. She didn't need the power the gem game her so it drove her mad, whereas King did so he did not suffer from the madness. Her reign ended in a violent revolt that nearly destroyed Boo town, the gem ended up in the moral world eventually which is where King eventually found it. Boo-Hoo was a kid when Cecilia was overthrown, he doesn't remember much other than an agreement that whenever their new monarch should be born they would be raised to not be like her. The triplets remember when they were kids Boo-Hoo took them to see what became of queen Cecilia as a lesson to not end up like her, a mad ruler who tried to take over the entirety of the realm of the dead so she could have an army to conquer the mortal world.

[loud-kid2]

@silly-inky ok so my brain randomly cooked up an angsty thought. Cecilia is the reason Bowser's parents are dead.

It would have been the incident that caused her to get overthrown. More than likely she would have killed them for getting in her way.

Boo-Hoo would have been in his mid-teens around this time (minor retcon here), reason he doesn't remember much was because Boo-Hoo was incredibly sheltered from everything going on (he later found out the extent of things from some family friends). Then like 5 years later he would've started taking care of the triplets (early 20's). Meaning Bowser and the triplets have a 5 year age gap (they'd all be somewhere in their 20's when the bros show up)

[loud-kid2]

Thinking about Queen C again @silly-inky

I like the idea that she very much still remembers the triplets despite only ever seeing them once when they were kids, and they remember her very well too. Alexander would've unintentionally made himself a target for her if(and when) she manages to free herself from her chains, he is after all the strongest out of the three.

The specific incident that made little Alex her main target was him letting out one of his famous sonic screams, and Queen Cecilia pretty much immediately saw his extreme condensed power and decided he is top priority for when she gets free.

King had the exact opposite problem when it came to that, she barely noticed his presence because he is the weak link of his family, at most he was an opportunity for her to manipulate his much more powerful brothers. Cecilia can and will use this insecurity of his to make him slip up so she can get back the gemstone that used to belong to her

[loud-kid2]

@silly-inky

Boos technically do not have parents, but they do often refer to whomever raised them using parental terms. For example Rosemarie calls the ghosts who raised her in the music district her parents, Alexander, Henry and King did for a short while call Boo-Hoo dad but that was only when they were very young. Queen Cecilia is not the triplets mother because they aren't related in the slightest, nor do the triplets know her. The only thing the triplets know about her is that she was a tyrant, that she was the original owner of the purple diamond King now owns and that they do not want to end up like her.

She's also the only being in the lower city to be restrained, the reason for this is that she is still a very powerful individual even if she no longer posses the power she once had, if she were to be part of the constant fighting the realm of the dead would no longer exist. She's also only ever met the triplets once, when they were kids. She scared the living shit out of them, her clothes were stained and tattered from being overthrown so violently, her eyes seeming to stare straight through them, not seeing them for who they were but seeing them as whatever power she could take from them, and her smile, impossibly wide even by Boo standards. They had nightmares for weeks after meeting her, even now the thought of seeing her again makes their skin crawl.

Edit: also if you want to come bother me about my lore and world building go right ahead