#spm angst

[legobiwan]

I was rolling around this post in my brain, considering the manhole cover-shield scene and I had this...thought about a fun, semi-angsty off-screen scenario after the general hullabaloo from Bowser's incursion into Brooklyn has calmed down.

We know from the movie that Mario is injured during the final fight with Bowser, that he had a plethora of cuts and nasty bruises that would need attention. We also know from the movie that Luigi, our unhinged king, picked up a metal manhole cover to block fire.

Basic science would tell us that this manhole cover likely reached some excruciating temperatures rather quickly, and that Luigi's gloves/outfit (which, considering their junked-up van), were probably not the highest quality. Meaning, I have a feeling our green hero might have accumulated a few burn injuries and, given what we know about his character, might have neglected to say anything about this.

Anyway, cue Mario and Luigi getting ready for bed after the whole crazy day, and Luigi, who is so tired he isn't even thinking about what he's doing at this point, absently changing into his sleeping shirt. That's when Mario notices the burn marks. That's when Mario freaks out like the highly protective older brother he is.

[matadede-good]

TW: Drowning (he's not really drowning but just in case)

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fuckin Count angst is one of my favorite genders

[blankalisek]

Tags I left on this post bc I kinda regret just leaving it in the tags cuz its a good idea I think

[galaxygermdraws]

so instead of get back into art after the basic recovery of my surgery, I instead replayed Mario and Luigi Partners in Time…and why does nobody talk about this game?? Hardly ever see it in the Super Mario tag. Like. It’s actually insane how dark it gets. People die. Like actually die. Not as dark as SPM but like we see the dead spirits of Toads get siphoned through tubes. They had their life force sucked out of them via genetically modified trees. Yoshis were eaten by a larger alien Yoshi and were gonna be turned into more alien Yoshis via a factory IN THE GIANT ALIEN YOSHI. We see a town that’s literally just “Christmas is Cancelled” the city. Their mayor probably died. We never see these places restored because there are no survivors to restore them. The citizens of Hollijolli village probably all died by the time the bros shut down the Vim factory. And also there’s the entire scene with the Star Gate. Like. Hello??

maybe I’ll stream or let’s play this game and share it here because I think. More ppl should talk about Partners in Time. I’ll say it too: I like it more than Bowser’s Inside Story. By like a LOT. That’s my ramble for the night. Ttyd day tomorrow. Yippee

[theintroverse]

The Revenant

Based on the Player One Luigi AU by @tiny-prom

Subject: O’Chunks

Role: Shadoo

Confusion. Sheer bewilderment.

He had just finished digging himself out of oblivion. Was he still dead? Was he alive? Both? His body was barely held together by sheer spite- or was it a form of magic? Could this even be considered his body anymore, or is this his corpse?

Focus. Think on what is confirmed to be true.

An artifact of complete and utter annihilation and the enchantress who usurped its power had been destroyed moments ago, giving him a surge of consciousness and willpower. He had used it to claw out of the dirt where he had been half buried. Now he’s trying to-

Trying to what? What would someone like him be so determined to do?

Who was he?

Desperation rose, and he found himself tugging on parts of himself just to avoid completely going insane. His somehow still existing beard, his arms, the tightening straps on his armor…

Wait. His armor.

His battle armor! He was part of an army!

The burst of reminiscence gave him renewed hope, and he started checking to see what else on him he remembered.

There’s the engravement of his people’s emblem, showing which section of the forces he had been part of, and rank within said force. Standard attacking force, rank general. The various dents and scratches from the many fights he had been part of. The hidden pocket in which he kept the photograph of his daughter-

Daughter. His daughter, Daisy.

His daughter, who had not even reached the age of ten when the ambush-

The flames that had consumed the village-

The screams of the innocent who were unjustly struck down-

The blast of sorcerous magic that had been fired at his heart, causing unbearable agony as it coursed through his veins-

A cursed roar echoed throughout the edge of the Darklands, coming from a forested valley close to the deserts of Sarasaland, and enchanting the nearby young Koopa Prince to follow the sound to its source.

The Revenant had awoken. And he would get back the family he had lost.

[chaos-love-au]

Part 4 is out on AO3!!

Dimentio continues with his plan, he will get Mr. L back, no matter the cost.

[aro-luigi]

Chaos L-ove part two is out now!

Dimentio regrets ending Mr. L's game, and he attempts to get him back. But things go wrong.

[camprell-art]

possible angst idea-- Dimmy waxing poetry for someone, perhaps Mimi or O'Chunks, but it's just Dim reciting pre-existing poetry ((or it's inspired by pre-existing poetry)) it's all a show, and the words aren't his, but oh does he make them sound pretty~ ((your design of Dimmy has infected my silly brain, he's too pretty for his own good.))

He just wishes he knew what these dreams mean

more commentary about this in the tags because I'm dumb

[illdothehotvoice]

They should have put me on Paper Jam I could have done so much for that game dshgjknfdh

[artcompany1]

It's funny how the game treats Dimentio as irredeemable while Count Bleck gets a redemption arc. Even tho wanting to destroy all worlds to create new ones is way less terrible than the destruction of all existence and lying to vulnerable people about giving them their own paradise when your really just gonna wipe them out of existence.

I don't think I've ever seen any fanworks that touch on that fact. I wish they would, that'd be an interesting read.

the thing that really gets me though is the tragedy surrounding dimentio's betrayal and the aftermath he probably had some reason he wanted to join count bleck aside from whatever personal agenda he may have had. after all, he came to him looking to join his cause. i can't imagine how he must have felt getting rejected. why not him? why must he be so outcast as to not even be accepted by the misfits and rejects? and why would count bleck not need a master of dimensions if he intended to create a perfect new world after destroying all worlds? world and dimension tend to be interchangeable within the game so it would be very suspicious.

so of course when count bleck comes back asking for his help, he's suspicious. he still accepts, of course, he still wants a perfect world, he still wants to believe that's the goal. but he can't get over that. can't get over how, despite the count assuring him his participation is vital, he was outright rejected during his first attempt to join the cause. he has to figure out why this is the case. has to find out what's going on, or at least be able to assure himself that it's nothing.

and he does find out. count bleck never intended to make a perfect world. he never intended to make anything at all. only to destroy it. and what can he do at that point? he can't just leave. leaving now does nothing to stop count bleck. but if he just stops count bleck, well, then he's just back at square one, isn't he?

so he hatches a plan. a beautiful, amazing, dare i say perfect plan. he can stop the count and still get his perfect world, the perfect world that the count had promised all of them.

it fails.

of course it fails. of course it fails and of course it's to something he couldn't possibly have foreseen. and it probably guts him to realize that the reason the pure hearts came back, the reason he lost everything, was because they were all so sickeningly loyal to the count. to the very same man that betrayed them.

that they would scorn and even despise him all while clinging to the side of the true traitor.

and it's not even that the count didn't care for them. but it wasn't a little white lie and it wasn't an accident. he had enlisted their help long before he grew to care for them and by then it was far too late to give away his true intentions. by then he wouldn't be able to handle them leaving once they knew. and in a sense his sacrifice was just as much his attempt of making it up to them as it was a true change of heart.

but even now that everything's over they wouldn't hear dimentio out and i know this. the only one who might would be nastasia, who already knew count bleck's real plan. mimi hates liars and o'chunks probably isn't too fond of traitors, considering the reason he agreed to join the count in the first place. neither of them would see a reason to listen to dimentio. dimentio himself is too proud and too stubborn to ever admit he may not have been entirely justified or to ever come to them with a sincere apology, and they're too devoted to count bleck and too distrustful of dimentio to listen to anything he has to say on the matter.

so they'll forever stay devoted to the man who had lied to them from the very beginning.

[legobiwan]

So I was thinking about Luigi while commuting to this job site (which I, an older adult professional, have a habit of doing practically every day). And specifically, I was thinking about the whole Chaos Heart-Luigi-Dimentio merge wherein I am very much of the mind that the whole "soup" of Super Dimentio left Luigi with both a bit of the Chaos Heart and Dimentio within him.

I was also thinking about Luigi's penchant for magic and dimensions and how the presence of Dimentio's magic in his person (small as it might be) might amplify these tendencies. How Luigi might, with some effort, be able to conjure a dimensional door or a part of another plane or a...

Well. Imagine this. Mario and Luigi are fighting some big bad and Mario's cornered and it doesn't look good. Imagine Luigi freaking out and tapping into that latent piece of Dimentio hiding inside him.

Imagine, if you would, dear reader, the look of abject horror that crosses Mario's features when Luigi summons a very familiar, translucent box with a snap of his fingers.

[matadede-good]

Stupidity jakdjks

I don't know where the dialogue is from 😅, I only know that I found it in one of my old drawings (the dialogue was in Spanish) but I'd love to know where it is from... But hey it looks perfect with these gay ass men

[nerdstreak]

time to finally share the other secret santa i worked on, some requested spm angst for @silkestmoth!

thank you @mariosecretsanta for hosting!

[jaybleu25]

I FINALLY FINISHED BROTHERSHIP!! I got things to say!!!!

firstly,

BRO THAT GAME WAS AWESOMEEEEE THERE WERE SO MANY WHOLESOME MOMENTS IN IT MY HEARTTTTTTTTT

second thing, but i have a feeling some people will disagree with me on this one: this wasn't as angsty as SPM. don't get me wrong, i definitely believe it was as angsty as TTYD if not angstier, but i feel like SPM is just the maximum possible angst you can get in a mario game. like...the main cast literally got killed on screen. i feel like you can't really get angstier than literal death (and also seeing people you care about die with you, mario angst owie). i do think brothership was angsty, but i don't think it was SPM level just because of that reason.

but speaking of angst...

man do i have a few ideas for my au :)

won't say too much because i don't want to spoil much of my next video, but i will talk about a few things here because i have been unable to ramble about this qwq

first thing: the sharkbones. those guys can kill you in one hit. that is quite insane. and also somehow stronger than the main bosses?? like, even if you're underleveled in a boss fight and get hit, you still have a chance of survival. but for the sharkbones, if you get hit once, that's it.

there's also the concept of glohm, and it's interesting to see how it effects the bros different compared to everyone else. because for everyone else, they're completely hateful to the people around them and stuff, wanting to be alone. but when the bros get it in battle, they keep fighting alongside the other bro. sure, they can't do bros attacks and stuff with each other, but they don't run away from each other or anything. they still stick together. and i like to think that's their brotherly love for each other being so strong that they're able to sort of fight back against the glohm, not letting it completely consume them. also, it's interesting what happens right before one of the bros attacks if they're infected with glohm. right before they attack, they stop moving and grab their head almost as if they're in pain.

i feel like the glohm definitely effects the bros differently. you can see the bros trying their best to fight it off, but when they try to attack, their negative thoughts and feelings get so loud that they just...can't. they genuinely have to stop moving because their head is so loud, and it won't stop until either of them uses an ampberry. the bros still want to help each other; you can see that with how much they fight the glohm's control.

also, unrelated note, but THE SCENE IN ZOKKET'S FORTRESS WHERE MARIO IS JUST SO UPSET ABOUT LUIGI BEING TAKEN THAT HE DOESN'T EVEN MOVE???

LIKE?????? NINTENDO GIVE HIM HIS BROTHER BACK HE'S SO LOST WITHOUT HIM?????

but yeah, those are some of my ramblings; i really loved this game!!! i can't wait to write more stuff based on it :D

[chaos-love-au]

Failure.

[Part 2 of Chaos L-ove]

Click here to read on AO3

Warnings: Super Paper Mario spoilers.

Summary: Dimentio regrets ending Mr. L's game, and he attempts to get him back. But things go wrong.

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Dimentio didn't move, his eyes were fixated on the spot Mr. L stood in.

“Wh-why did I do this…” he whispered, a pained sob escaped his mouth.

He fell to his knees, the pain spread in his mind, it wasn't going to go away any time soon.

Mr. L was dead, gone. And it was no one's fault but Dimentio's, he knew that well.

“I-i..” he attempted to collect his thoughts.

“I need..” he took a shaky breath, “I need to speak with Queen Jaydes…”

He slowly got up, taking deep breaths to calm himself down.

He began walking towards the door, but something crunched under his feet. Small pieces of a magical material.

“My mask…” he collected what's left of it, and placed it in a hidden pocket.

He started floating, just a few inches above the ground. He floated away, using the door.

Now that his mask was destroyed, he had to make another stop before going to retrieve L.

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“Dimentio! How are you? It's been so long!” A small shadow creature cheered, approaching the jester.

“Hello, Shadoo. I hope you've been well..” Dimentio nodded.

“You alright? You're never without your mask. And you sound… depressed.” Shadoo tilted her head.

“Depressed? No. Just… a mess. Have you met the heros yet?”

“The heros? Of the light Prognosticus? No, I haven't.. have you?” Shadoo seemed curious.

“Indeed I have, they're quite strong. I suggest sending your minions out, they will visit soon, I can assure you of that.” Dimentio chuckled softly.

“I will, no need to worry. Now, enough catching up, we all know you don't come to visit without a reason.” She jumped in place.

Dimentio sighed, “yes… I'm here to request your help creating a new mask. You're the only creature that knows how to create the material.”

“Hmm.. alright.”

“If you would like payment, the heros have defeated Fracktail, and he is laying lifeless in the sand.”

“Oh! Very nice…” Shadoo turned to a door behind her. “The stuff’s there. Be quick.”

“Thank you, little sister, I appreciate this more than I can express.”

Shadoo nodded.

Dimentio quickly entered the room and gathered everything he needed. With the wave of his hand, a new, identical mask was created. He placed it on his face.

“So much better…” he smiled, his mask smiling with him.

He left the room.

“Looking fabulous as always, Dimmy.” Shadoo laughs.

“Heh.. thank you. I shall continue my plans now. Will I see you tomorrow for dinner?” He smiled at his sister.

“Of course!” Shadoo jumped again, happy.

Dimentio teleported away.

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Queen Jaydes smiled at Mario as he walked through the door to return Luvbi to the Overthere.

“Your majesty! How wonderful to see you again!” Dimentio called as he teleported into the room.

“Dimentio… weren't you banished?” The queen sighed.

“Ha! That's true, but I'm back for a small visit!” He laughed.

“What do you want? I don't exactly deal with outlaws of the realm.”

“I need someone out of here. He ended up here by an… accident.. and he has unfinished business in the living world.”

“And why should I release him? There is not a single reason I should believe you.” Queen Jaydes crossed her hands.

“His name is Luigi, and he's the one in charge of the world's fate.”

“He just left with his brother.”

“No!” Dimentio yelled involuntarily. He cleared his throat. “Uh. That was not a wise decision. His brother is-”

“The hero of the Light Prognosticus. I've made my decision. You're not getting him. And I suggest you leave my realm, unless you want to spend the rest of your afterlife in the most well-guarded dungeon in the Underwhere.” she hissed.

Dimentio scoffed, “you'll pay for this, Queen Jaydes!”

“I'm sure.” She replied, sarcastic.

Dimentio teleported away.

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“No, no, Mimi! Ye need teh wear more white!” O’Chunks shook his head.

“But I hate white dresses!” Mimi frowned.

“But it look good, Hen, white goes well wit’ green.”

“urgh! What do you know!?” Mimi grabbed the pile of dresses from the table and angrily left to her room.

O’Chunks sighed with a smile, “weird lass…” he mumbled before turning back to his drawing.

Dimentio floated in through the window, visibly weak.

“Oof. You alri’t?” Chunks turned to face him.

“Shut up.” Dimentio hissed, moments before collapsing onto the floor.

“Ooh no!” O’Chunks scooped him from the floor, “Nastasia! Dim's passed out!” he called.

Nastasia's heels clicked on the floor as she rushed into the room, “what happened?”

“I don’ know, he just got ‘ere”

Nastasia sighed, “put him in his room, k? In his bed.”

O’Chunks nodded and ran to Dimentio's room, holding onto him tightly.

Nastasia watched as they left the room, “there is no way this was the heros’ doing…” she noted to herself before leaving as well.

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Dimentio opened his eyes, very slowly gaining back consciousness.

“You're awake! Are you okay? Chunks said you just passed out!” Mimi sat next to Dimentio's bed.

“Ah.. oh…” Dimentio barely processed her words.

“Don't move, you could be badly hurt… was this the ‘heros’? Did you fight them? Is that why Mr. L is gone? Did he go with you?” Mimi questioned.

Dimentio froze at the mention of Mr. L. “M-Mr. L…” he mumbled.

“Yes.. where is he?” Mimi asked.

“He…” Dimentio didn't want to answer that. Especially not while he was still recovering from the hit his head got when he passed out.

Mimi was silent, she was waiting for Dimentio to finish his sentence.

“He's gone…” he hated to admit it, but he had to tell the truth, even if it was only part of it. Mimi deserved it, she was very close to Mr. L.

Mimi gasped, “wh-what?! No! You're lying!”

“I-it's true.. I'm sorry, Mimi.” he closed his eyes, he didn't want to stain the mask with his tears.

“No!” She ran off crying.

Dimentio’s useless struggles to get up were painful. He felt… powerless. Pathetic. He lost Mr. L. And now, he won't be able to fight the heros.

“Perhaps returning to the Underwhere was not very smart…” he thought.

There was shouting from outside the room, Mimi was upset.

“I'm so sorry…” Dimentio sat up straight, tears flowing from behind his mask.

[pianokantzart]

I am now obsessed with the idea of Mr L, thank you so much for your comic bringing his existence to my attention ❤️ Is there any other media for the character you would recommend? (Art, comics, fics, etc)

@cherryfennec is definitely the first one that comes to mind. Their art is S-tier in general, and their Super Paper Mario & Mr. L stuff is no exception.

@jell-o101 also has a couple of comics that focus on Mr. L (Be warned, Jello is renowned for her angst. Guard your heart well, she will do her best to rip it out.)

A user named lethalhedgehogs was the one who first opened my eyes to Mr. L's character possibilities. Unfortunately, they're no longer active :( but if you type "lethalhedgehogs tumblr" into the google image search engine you'll get plenty of links to reblogs of their stuff.

And with that uuuuuuuhhhh I'll hand the baton off to @legobiwan because as far as my dashboard goes, they seem like the most equipped to guide you down the SPM/Mr. L rabbit hole.