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Bowser pushed aside a couple of branches to spy through the bush he was hiding in.
On the other side of the bush, sitting in plain sight, was a quaint little house with a red roof, a green door and a blue letterbox. A cozy, unassuming house, barely bigger than any other home of any other Toad of the kingdom. All that was lacking from the scene was a rocking-chair with a knitting Toad granny on the porch.
"You're kidding me, right? This is Mario's house??"
Without a word, Kamek pointed with his wand at the big "MARIO" sign above the door. And they dared to call Bowser "tacky" or "self-absorbed to the point of ridiculousness". Pah!
"He's the hero of the Mushroom Kingdom. Their saviour. The champion of their princess. He could live in a castle! He could live in Peach's castle!! Don't they even pay him for saving the world??"
"I'm not sure, Sire, I think he's doing his hero work for...free?"
"What's the point of being famous for saving people if you can't make money out of it??"
Kamek probably answered that question, but Bowser didn't actually care for the answer. In fact, it would probably only piss him off more : of course that pretentious plumber would make himself look good and virtuous by living in that...that shabby tool shed! As if he couldn't afford better! As if his nemesis wasn't the greatest king who ever lived!
More and more annoyed, he decided to focus instead on his reason to come here, and after looking around, he found ...or rather, him, as he walked past the house towards a hedge.
His first thought was: I didn't know Mario wears green sometimes.
His second thought was : Wait, am I going colorblind?
His third thought was : And since when is Mario so skinny?
And then he realized that instead of a green, lean Mario, it was instead a different guy who started to trim the hedge while whistling a little tune.
"So? What did I tell you, Your Incredulousness?"
He did look very similar to Mario, Bowser had to admit it. Taller and skinnier...
"Ow ow ow!"
...And clumsier...
"Aw, come back here, shears! I don't wanna lose another pair, I'm running outta neighbours to borrow them from!"
...And chattier...
"Hey, what's that-AWAWAWAWAWA!!!!"
...and whatever-ier the term was for poking through a hedge with a stick and disturbing a wasp nest.
"AAAAAHHHH NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!"
Treated to the sight of his potential saviour running all around the garden in a panic to escape a wasp swarm, Bowser was left speechless. Only for a moment, though, as he suddenly turned toward Kamek, eyes burning with anger :
"You sleazy little liar!! You think I'm an idiot??"
"Sire!! How could you?! What even do you mean!?"
"You really expect me to believe that this-" he pointed to what was now a blur of green and blue running in circles "-this moron is Mario's brother??"
"But it's true!! Our spies are certain of this!"
"Then they're slackers and deserve to be fired!"
"He lives in Mario's home! He looks almost the same!"
"He could be some crazy fanboy! How could he be related to my most dangerous enemy?!"
As if on cue, their target dashed and jumped inside the warp pipe near the house, disappearing for a moment. Then coming back up, checking for the wasps...who were still waiting around, forcing him to duck back inside the warp pipe. The little scene went on for a couple more times until the wasps seemed to get wiser and managed to force the human out of his safe place, forcing him to run in circles once again, swatting aimlessly through the air to keep the wasps away.
Bowser aggressively waved his hand in the direction of the spectacle, as if to say "see??"
"...Well, that might explain why Mario never takes this brother of his along his adventures."
Bowser facepalmed.
"That's it." He said abruptly as he let got of the branches, hiding once again the little house. "This whole idea's a bust. Let's go home."
"Well, Your Stubbornness, if you know of another human you might be able to convince to help you, be my guest!"
It made Bowser halt. He could not afford to remain in his current state, but going to his only other options was simply not conceivable.
"HELP MEEEEEEE!!!!"
"Look at it this way," Kamek said cheerfully, "at least you have an easy in with this oaf: if you rescue him first, he might be willing to help you!"
Bowser grunted. He could already feel the headache coming.
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Hi sorry to bother you but I just wanted to say that as an autistic person Starstruck makes me want to cry. I love her so much let her live the happy life she deserves with people that accept and care about her. That “otherness” or feeling of being “incorrect” and being seen as suspicious/ostracized for it was absolutely NAILED and it HURTS SO GOOD. I just really wanted you to know that. It’s nice to see someone like me in media, especially in something like the Kirby franchise. Thank you.
ohhhhh i am SO thrilled to receive this message because i am autistic, and by extension so is starstruck, and this was entirely on purpose! i'm so happy that you feel i nailed it! thank YOU for letting me know this; it's the highest praise i could have hoped to receive!
this was intentional autistic representation by an autistic creator and i am over the moon that it's connecting with you! her inability to "have the right magical signature" and her "mimicry of the signatures around her in attempt to fit in" is explicitly a (rather ham-fisted, if i'm being honest) autistic parallel, especially towards masking.
there are obviously parts of her story that aren't explicitly parallel (she is still a little alien after all, and there's going to be Fun Dramatic Aspects that my real life autistic experience sadly lacks), but for what it's worth i'm really happy that this purposeful allegory was noticed!
thank you again so much for writing in, it means the world
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