#yall the bowuigi brain rot is bad rn 😭

[izzyzalezbian]

Writing a Bowuigi relationship analysis at work bc I have nothing better to do-

I think one of the more engaging and appealing things about Bowuigi - at least for me personally - is how lonely they both are.

The Super Mario Games Cannon makes a point to distinguish the fact that Bowser himself is a very lonely man.

Bowser has spent his entire time as a a character trying to find a partner (and a mother for his children). It's pretty easy to deduce from that that the man must be pretty lonely- especially if he's resulting to kidnapping to find a partner.

The Super Mario Fandom had decided long before Bowuigi even crossed anyone's mind that Luigi was also a very lonely man.

A lot of fan made media that revolves around Luigi focuses on the fact that Mario has Peach and Luigi has nobody. While cannon points out at some points that Luigi is not as lonely as fannon implies- he has Princess Daisy, Mario and Peach aren't 'really' an item, showcasing Mario and Luigi's brotherly bond and how they need no one but each other to be happy, etc.- cannon itself has made a few jabs at Luigi and his loneliness; the scene where Mario leaves Luigi for Peach in the hot air balloons is one that always comes to the forefront of my mind.

While this joke, and jokes like it, was written with no true meaning behind it, it has simply fanned the flames of the Super Mario Fandom's headcannon

So, with both cannon and fannon as backing, whenever I look at or interact with Bowuigi, I always see it as this beautiful story of two desperately lonely people coming together and forming a bond that transcends the bounds of societal norms (human x monster). They find love with each other, because of their loneliness, and also in spite of it.

Idk, maybe I'm projecting, or making something where there's nothing, but this has always been a cool thing for me.