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Luigi to me is someone who would rather be hated but known rather than just being unknown.
He doesn't really care when someone is being mean to him because its a "ah but you know me" moment for him.
Random Toads being mean to him? Who cares, he doesn't know them anyways. With Starlow, it doesn't bug him either because they are friends in canon so there is no real weight to her picking on him.
Only exception being the scene with the Shroobs, she ends up hitting a nerve that she later apologizes for. He does get upset when the Star Gate berates him but I would be to if a deity did the same to me.
The real worst thing you can do to Luigi is to act as if he doesn't exist.
That's what really hurts him.
[freeze frame] yeah, that’s not me. I don’t know who that is. [unpause]
i know why they don't do it but i really would like a proper block function on youtube. not just the "don't recommend me this video for the next 2 days if you feel like it🥺" function that exists i mean never seeing that channel ever again. no videos no collabs with other channels just completely blasted out of existence
on my hands and knees begging artists, please sigh your art!!!!! preferably with your url but even just the name is good. please!
i was scrolling through my gallery from 3-4 years ago and there's so much beautiful art and i can't find any of the artists because none of it is signed 😭 it's even worse with non fandom artists because i can't rely on tags for help. a little signature in the corner wouldn't hurt anybody but it will save lives i promise you pleaseee
Okay perchance this is a hot take but like. I feel like so many people think Mario is basic that he loops back around to not being basic. Because like. Mario has got so much character (PARTICULARLY in the Mario & Luigi games) but he's so often boiled down to being a generic hero character because people don't really care about thinking to deeply about why he does things (and also game theory has gaslit too many into thinking he's a bad brother. Which is fake fucking news) like I feel like this is the Mickey Mouse problem where a character is the face of a franchise and so becomes flanderized to high hell both by the fans of said franchise but often also by the creators themselves because of it.
Like. I genuinely like Mario as a character, because he fucking rules. He's decently strong but also small compared to a lot of his enemies and so he often has to rely on his wit as well, which– I feel like he's way smarter than people generally portray him. That aspect of him is almost never focused on but he's really clever, that's generally how he keeps winning.
Some of my favorite moments in the mario & luigi games are the ones where he immediately thinks of a way to con someone into letting them progress and gets his brother to be in on it I swear–
He's NOT 100% fearless, (PEOPLE KEEP SAYING THIS WHEN COMPARING HIM TO LUIGI AND IT'S BLATANTLY UNTRUE) he just has an easier time than Luigi does in steeling his nerves because he's got more self-confidence because of his insight into things.
Luigi is scared because he tends to feel helpless in situations that are thrown at him and he's too panicked to be able to see a solution to them, and Mario is also scared but knows that even the biggest threats always have a weak spot, so he's able to calm himself down and react quickly.
I think part of the reason that him and peach work so well together is because they're both insightful (granted I'm not a peach expert but she's capable of ruling an entire kingdom very peacefully and successfully and also I know for a fact there a multiple moments she quickly figures stuff out by herself) which I think they really admire about eachother.
I think what makes Mario ordinary is also what makes him fun. He's mostly just. A regular guy, but that's EXACTLY why how he relates to the world around him makes him so interesting.
Like think of the concept of this. He's just a guy, the type of person you would call to fix your leaking sink, but it's applied to this magical world with its own different magical problems, in the exact same casual way. What do you do when you have a world dominating threat? You call the world dominating threat plumber. That's fucking fascinating.
That's also why it kind of irritates me when people make comments about how they would get sick of saving the same people over and over again and that Mario must be tired, because they're missing the POINT. Mario LIKES fixing things for people and helping them, that's his job. He finds the same fulfillment in rescuing the mushroom kingdom as he does in repairing pipes, and that's why he does it.
Mario isn't made to be the most specialest guy ever, nor do I think he would ever want to be (I think that the citizens of the mushroom kingdom probably believe that he is though). And that's why he's awesome.
Started talking about him with friends so I drew him
sorry kids daddy lost all his money betting on rhinoceros beetle fights again there won't be a christmas this year
good news babies, momma just cleared some chump of everything. Two christmases this year. God i love beetles fighting
too much undertale/deltarune content has me playing other games and thinking "well naturally at some point they must address the seperation between player and player-character, their status as a vessel and the inherent unfairness of having us control their life, right?" as if thats just a normal thing for videogames to contain.
do you think mario resents me for making him drive go kart
hyperfixating on a fictional woman who went underdeveloped in canon is literally FUN and the 80-90% of fandom people who only do the same for background character men have no idea of the degree to which they are fucking missing out
no tumblr i have faith that this post will be found by the enlightened 10-20 percent
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