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[gustygardns]

you guys know that one scene in the bad guys

[giddlygoat]

to be fair he’s butch 24/7 but i just needed to get this out of my system

[bberetd]

got inspired by this ask, so now have…

✨Mario’s Nuisances✨

Daisy and DK are a deadly combo when it comes to Mario’s sanity, so he always makes sure they are NO WHERE near each other

[dorkytoonz]

☆ mushroom kingdom heros need rest too

+ more doodles !!!!!

rlly nervous on sharing my sketchbook doodles but its whatevah

[sabtoonz]

hmm. slowly growing into luigi being gay and daisy being a butch lesbian and theyre gay and lesbian solidarity besties and daisy is dating rosalina

[your-local-uwu-artist]

Transfem weegee with a stache

okay consider this a part 1 cause i DID have more that got lost : thankfully i was apparently so excited to share this one past-yumehoshi decided to take a screenshot to consider posting a wip dnfkads

anyway i was in a summer mood and wanted to give Luigi a ponytail fndjaskfds I see a lot of people call her "luisa" but I like to think transfem!luigi would keep her name, the nuckname 'lu' is pretty androgynous and theres also "lulu"

gotta love characters like luigi who have literally so much trans swag that they are commonly headcanoned every which way~

[galaxygermdraws]

More silly crack AU. Uhm. Yea did you think this was gonna be a normal au? No I had to drag the RPGs into this. So we get Pearl in the Mr L fit, Impulse possessed by this AU's Shadow Queen. Uhm. Shadow Gem, who technically isn't a messed up Gem but it...it's still technically an evil Gem, even if it isn't actually Gem. And a Shroobified Ren. I was gonna do a Fury Ren but didn't have the energy to do that.

(reblogs with tags/comments are appreciated. Thankyu)

[mrs-luigi-vargas]

Lowish-effort Aro Mario and Aro Bowser icons for @arospecfanworksweek! They're very simple but I like making them I should do it more often :D

Anyway there's whole lot of rambling about the headcanons under the cut if you're curious, haha. I guess it makes this entry technically match Day 1's prompt but honestly I wasn't intentionally trying to follow said prompts at all, lmao

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OK, so I've headcanoned Mario as aro for a while, now. Part of it is me projecting, of course. But also I think it would be interesting if he was, mainly because of how it would affect his dynamic with Peach. Because, you know, the hero and the princess; the knight and the damsel; he was a boy, she was a girl - at least a lot of the Toads seem to think that it couldn’t be any more obvious. But Mario wouldn’t think it was obvious. And any suggestions otherwise would just be mostly awkward and off-putting for reasons that are difficult to get across to the romance-minded. He and Peach were already close, as friends. That's all they needed to be, right?

But anyway what I'm trying to say is a major appeal of this headcanon for me is the like…inherent defiantness of it. Standing in step with so many normally romance-coded things and doing them platonically despite what everyone wants or expects. And then also me projecting, like I said before 😊. Wrote a couple of fics about it even, if you wanna read them~ 😁

As for aro!Bowser, though, it's only something I've vaguely been thinking about recently. 'Cause I read a whole bunch of Bowuigi fic last year, and in almost all of those they gotta wave away/retcon/reconcile Bowser's attraction to/kidnapping of Peach, right? So one way I've seen of doing that is something to the effect of Bowser kidnapping Peach because Junior needs a mom. Which is such an interesting rationale to give him, haha. But to be fair its usually not by itself; there's usually a sense of 'well, Peach is very kind and beautiful, so marriage is definitely the way to go on this (or so I thought'. But sometimes it isn't and that's very funny to me. The things shippers do to pull their stories off are something to behold sometimes 🤭

But still! It got me thinking. What if Bowser's crush on Peach was completely manufactured? Unknowingly, of course; in the sense that Peach is very kind and beautiful and powerful and the monarch of a nearby kingdom in his age range so that's how these thinks are supposed to go, yeah? He wasn’t totally sure; becoming King didn’t really leave any room to know otherwise, with how much work there was to be done every day. At least Kamek had seemed to think so, though, talking about alliances and heirs and a bunch of other things Bowser hadn't been really listening to. Though Kamek was hardly wrong about anything important, would it kill him to be a lot less boring about it?

But even still, Bowser's proud and headstrong and stubborn, so when the marriage-alliance with Peach doesn’t work out then he decides to make it work out. And then the kidnappings start. And then continue. Because "it'll totally work this time, this plan is perfect!".

Like trying to jam a square peg into a round box over and over with no clue that there's anything wrong. Or maybe an inkling of a clue that we've decided to ignore because, you know, "I'll kidnap Peach for good, this time, you'll see!"

Also I remember seeing discussion somewhere about how Bowser could be interpreted as someone with abandonment issues, which could play into this too; people will stay if you keep them by force, after all, whether by kidnapping, marriage, or both.

So yeah. Not the greatest outlook on things, obviously.

Regardless, I think that in this universe where Mario and Bowser are both aromantic they both get on track to consciously realizing it post-Super Mario Odyssey.

Mario because as he and Peach are flying home Peach obviously wants to know why he snap-proposed to her like that. To which Mario has to sheepishly explain how his inner competitiveness had flared up when Bowser had tried to propose to her again. To which Peach sighs because yeah, of course it was that. And then Mario gets around to asking if Peach is okay, to which Peach describes the nightmare of a past while she'd had because of this wedding business, to which the conversation pivots to weddings in general, and then romance in general.

And Mario contributes to the conversation as best he can, but… he knows from watching Luigi's romance-related ups and downs over the years that the way he himself thought about the concept wasn’t…correct.

But Peach won't stand for Mario thinking that there was something wrong with him; it takes an overnight stint or three in the castle library (to Toadsworth's chagrin) before she finally finds an answer for him. So she invites him to the castle for tea, and for a vocabulary lesson that'll change his life.

Meanwhile Bowser sits on the moon,. Reflecting on his utter defeat that must have been more crushing than he'd thought for him to not even remember how he got out of that cave, thinking about how even aside from Mario being on his tail the entire time this whole wedding planning business was more of a stress-filled ordeal than he'd initially thought it would be, considering the fact that the post-wedding future that he'd figured he'd figure out as it came had stubbornly remained an amorphous blob of ambiguity instead of snapping into place during those final hours, despite the Broodals' assurances to the contrary. He'd indulge in a rare bout of self-reflection, maybe, about these inconsistencies.

And then he would shrug, get up, and make his way home. Because while he wasn’t particularly sure about marrying Peach anymore, he knew he would still be kidnapping her. Because of the engaging process of making and executing perfectly laid plans, because of the adrenaline rush of a good fight, because of the future bonding experiences with his kids, because the rest of his minions needed something to do, ha.

Because of the fact that he was Bowser, King of the Koopas, and he's absolutely not the sort of person to just give up, even if his core motivations have shifted slightly! And just as Mario would always show up to ruin his plans and take Peach back home Bowser would just make new plans, and he was going to successfully pull a kidnapping off and beat Mario once and for all, he just knew it!

[merwynpersonalhub]

How the fuck doesnt Luigi after the whole mr. L thing doesnt have a prosthetic leg or arm or something. Like yeah he died BUT HE ALSO EXPLODEDDDDD YALL.

I request luigi artists to draw luigi with disabilities or having prosthetics or etcetc. I think its neat!/nf but fr tho i think it be neat. Jfdj

[giddlygoat]

TRADITIONAL TOAD GARB PEACH LETS GOOOOOOOO

[snakeeyesdraws]

thinking so much about Firebrand and Thunderhand. what I would give for games to bring those back or to see them in the eventual movie sequel

[bberetd]

So we know that Luigi is canonically kind of a crybaby (very brave guy but cries easily) but what about Mario, in your opinion? Cry easily or nah, or somewhere in between?

I personally believe it takes a LOT for Mario to cry.

He hardly cried as a baby, rarely when he needed a diaper change or had an upset tummy, he’d just scream. But the WATERWORKS came when the idea of being separated from Luigi was threatened.

Same thing with older Mario; his loved ones would have to be at the brink of death for a guaranteed cry. But before THAT can even happen, he is in pure and utter denial.

I feel like with Luigi, yeah he cries a lot, but they’re short-lived, so he knows how to control his emotions for the most part. But Mario… there’s almost no stopping once he starts. He’s shaking, hyperventilating, trying to regain control, but his tears are heavy and thick and endless. He’s clinging onto the object nearest to him to ground himself, usually Luigi. And after about 45-60 minutes of tears, he’d cry himself to sleep in Luigi’s arms.

[cocoa-rococo]

"larry koopa is enby", "larry koopa is trans", good takes, yes, but INCORRECT.

above everything else, first and foremost, larry koopa's gender is gamer.

[valentinbelleyh505]

hey my koopalings mutuals/moots and followers, i got an headcanon idea i know is not about the koopalings but hear me out: Pom Pom having an obsession on capybaras

[nightynite]

would count bleck go with mimi to watch five nights at freddys the movie. important

yes. he would be like wtf is going on. imo. mimi just thinks the jumpscares in the games are cool and watches compilations. they freak out mr. L and luigi with fnaf jumpscares lol

[the-mediocre-witch]

Champion of naptime.

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