Mario & Luigi: Cloud Nine AU
So, lemme apologize in advance for all the similarities, cuz i know there's already Nimbus, cloud flowes, cloud levels and abilities in the franchise. But this is AU so i'm just gonna take inspiration from all what we have in the Mario universe!! Okay? ^^ Oh, btw, i didn't have enough power to finish some of the illustartions, sorry fo that too.
Now... Let's begin. (warning bad eng)
The story
...Few people know, but the sky above our heads is an intangible sphere that is quite possible to control. The times of day are regulated with the help of magical Sky Spheres. Rotating around the Central Axis, they change day to evening and night to morning. However, if one of these spheres disappears, the order of the day may be disrupted.
To ensure that these spheres were not lost anywhere and were not stolen, they decided to put them under protection in the Cloud Kingdom.
The Cloud Kingdom is located on the so-called Cloud Nine. That's where the Princess's castle stands. This castle is built of rock crystal, so it reflects the blue of the sky with its walls.
The princess who lives in this castle is called Tear. She is very modest and quiet, insecure, afraid to ask for help. Because of the latter, she and her kingdom often get into trouble. Her people are Cloudies - ordinary clouds. They are able to levitate, carry objects and people on themselves, strike with lightning, pour rain and sometimes regenerate if they are damaged.
Cloudies live in a cloud village according to their own laws and regulations.
However, soon this peaceful life of the Cloud People will change for the worse, because Bowser plans to steal the spheres in order to capture not only foreign lands, but also everything that is above them. And it's not a fact that Cloud Guards will be able to protect themselves and powerful spheres…
...One of the cloudies managed to find Mario and call him to Cloud Nine to help them save the kingdom and the Sky Spheres.
His younger brother, Luigi, stayed on land to protect everyone who lives here. And even when they are separated by miles, they are still able to work together, in one team.
Fun Facts and other stuff
Princess Tear's secret garden is right behind her castle, she loves spending time there and chatting with cloud flowers.
There is also a cloud maze in this garden. There are legends that only people with the strongest ties are able to find each other in it. Guess who was able to pass this test?
This AU for the most part tests brother bonds for strength. In my mind, this whole story could be the next part in the series of the Mario & Luigi RPG games. Since the danger threatens not only the skies but also the ground, they have to split up and work alone. However, this does not prevent them from being one team. For example, when Mario is in the sky, he is displayed on the top screen of the 3DS, and Luigi, respectively, on the bottom. There are powerups and all sorts of objects that can swap them. There are also those ones which temporarily put them in one place, for example, for a brother attack or solving puzzles.
In short, according to the plot of the (nonexistent) "game" itself, Bowser manages to steal the spheres, but at the very beginning of the story the brothers destroy his ship, which causes it to explode and scatter the spheres in unknown places. Two of them end up on Cloud Nine, and the other two end up on the ground. For this reason, they have to split up - to find the spheres faster than Bowser and his army.
By the way! Princess Tear helps her brothers a lot with loneliness, because she knows what it's like. She gives them the handy cloudies. They not only make up a company for each brother, but also work like a suitcase - they store useful items in themselves. Each brother has his own items, but they are able to transfer them to each other, again, with the help of their assistants-cloudies.
I am madly in love with their brotherly bond, so I decided to create this AU to observe how they will endure separation (it sounds ironic, but we love a little bit of angst, right?).
I think this information is enough to start with!! I will be glad if you like my idea. By the way, you can ask me questions about this AU, I will be happy to answer them!
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Me: excited to make my own AU/concept for a game for a mario franchise based on clouds and skies (just an idea btw not gonna make it an actual game ofc)
Me: works hard on concept art, how the world works, comes up with interesting game mechanics
Me: remembers that there's literally the Nimbus Land in the mario universe
Me: fucking dies in pain
come on is it impossible to create something new now.......
UGHHH *smashes my head on concrete*
I STILL WANT TO SHARE MY IDEA SO WAIT FOR IT!!!!!!!
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i was making self-insert characters for fun, shits and giggles, BUT there's one character i want to make a real fan-character....
Ok meet Princess Tear, the ruler of the cloud kingdom. Since clouds play major (i think) role in many mario games (like, cloud levels, smiling clouds, even the cloud flower from MG2 gives you some epic abilities... don't forget our beloved lakitu!!) i decided to give our fluffy friends a whole kingdom with it's ruler and it's treasures.
I'LL REDESIGN HER A LITTLE TO GET RID OF SOME OF MY FEATURES.......... but here's my first self-insert princess ok....
I'll be so glad to drop some lore about her, but later...
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i really wanted to finish my wip yesterday but i got really sick and the progress goes too slow ;-; okay then I'll finish it today maybe...
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