#I appreciate the good sentiment and support 🫂💫

[elitadream]

hey elita! hope everything is well and that you’re on the mend.🤞

what do you think about the concept of the mario brothers being raised in the darklands? would your mario still be so kindhearted when being brought up surrounded by evil?

(i can imagine mario and luigi being bowser’s second in command/ bodyguards. mario meets peach when she is captured by bowser for the first time since he is one of bowsers guards keeping an eye on her and a sort of forbidden romance is born.)

just a thought. how would this little au fit with your mario, luigi and peach?

(apologies if this makes no sense, i am very tired😓)

OOH that's a very interesting concept!! 👀👏

There is definitely something to be said about the environment a character grows up in and the sheer impact it can have on them. The pressure and expectation would certainly be immense, and a great deal of emotional struggle would no doubt result from this. ><

As for how I would go about presenting said idea: one of my favorite tropes of all time is the unshakeable truth one feels amidst adversity. When a character was set to become a tool of darkness from the start, but completely defies those odds because the inherent goodness that they always had inside of them simply couldn't be silenced or ignored.

Remember Finn from 'The Force Awakens'? The stormtrooper who reeled back in horror upon seeing what his own faction was doing, and couldn't bring himself to kill innocent people on his very first mission no matter how harshly he was conditioned throughout his entire life to do exactly that? That's how I imagine my Mario would be like in this AU. A burdened soul who was never meant to do what was asked of him and stood firm in the name of his own principles.

He would help the kidnapped princess escape, because of course he would. Nothing could sway him from the burning shame and resolute sense of duty he would feel towards her. And Luigi, albeit less assured and very morally torn, would feel a similar pull too. Something telling him, over and over, that this isn't right.

The ultimate confrontation that they would later have with Bowser would be made all the more significant by their past history and the spark of genuine trust he initially had in them. 🎭💥