I didn’t plan anything, so to celebrate here’s some sketches I’ve been sitting on
A mini comic that I never posted! I was thinking about how Castle Bleck is located inside the void, so where was it before they opened the void? One of Carson/Garson’s stories mentions something about a castle deep in the forest, and yeah.
Also a lil sketch of an au idea where Peach also gets brainwashed, cuz I was like “holy crap Dashing Thief Peach and Mr. L partners in crime”
I LOVE COMBINING MY INTERESTS!! I’ve been cooking up this au for like the past month with @jell-o101
Screenshot redraw of a cutscene from the second game because I wanted to try replicating the art style
REFERENCES!!! Mario is Mickey, Luigi is Oswald, Toadsworth is Gus, Dimentio is the Mad Doctor, Daisy is Ortensia, and Toadette is Prescott. Others not shown here is Bowser as the Blot, Wario is Pete, Pauline is Animatronic Daisy, DK is Animatronic Donald, and E Gadd is Yen Sid.
Spent the past couple weeks cooking up this comic based on a certain cutscene from the game >:)
Oogh I haven’t posted in a while, so here’s some stuff I did for my Character Design class (shoutout to my professor who was chill with me just making everything about Mario)
This project was to make rpg characters with a focus on shape language, so I made more humanoid versions of various mario rpg characters
And then this project was to draw a character in different time periods or in drastically different styles, so I made it Peach Showtime inspired
Currently designing a bunch of designs for a Very VERY specific crossover that appeals to like 3 people including me. The storyline is practically the same as Super Paper Mario, with some changes regarding character dynamic and cause -> effect events.
I am having a LOT of fun drawing these! I'm nearly done with the rest of the main cast. Might do a masterpost or just a Big Ramble about this AU/Crossover at some point teehee
AHHH ok more of @cherryfennec Bad End au because I love it and they wrote about Super Dimentio going out to look for the real Mario and it made me tear up a bit, but then I had the thought. This scene, but with Everything Stays. And then I started crying more- I swear this song makes anything like 10x more sad
WAHHHHH THEY’VE BOTH CHANGED SO MUCH TO THE POINT THEY BARELY RECOGNIZED EACH OTHER BUT IN THE END THEY STILL CARE FOR EACH OTHER AHHH
You ready for the most insane and pointless theory?
So let’s talk about the Shamans/descendants of the ancients. Idk how common knowledge this is since I spend an ungodly amount of time reading the Mario wiki, but in TTYD they do explain why throughout the games they have the same name but look different. Wonky, who is essentially the equivalent to Carson/Garson, says “Ol' Wonky hears they're from a strange tribe that names people by profession. So, for example, if someone did the same work as Merlon, they'd have the same name...”
So their names are based on their profession, cool. Each of the games have some of their own shaman characters that aren’t in the others. In 64, there’s a shaman npc that sell badges in exchange for Star Pieces. In TTYD, this character is replaced with one named Dazzle, who doesn’t look much the shaman characters. In SPM, there is no equivalent, due to badges and Star Pieces being absent in this game.
So what’s the big deal? There’s a bunch of shaman characters from the first two games that don’t appear in SPM since their mechanics aren’t in the game. But there is an instance where another old character returned with a different name.
Madam Merlar and Merlumia
Now what if I said….
NOW HEAR ME OUT-
I know it sounds crazy and it totally is, but let me just be silly
Now what does this mean in the long run?
Honestly nothing. The most lore implications you can get from this is that both of them are shamans that ran away from tradition and decided to be a silly jester or something. Plus the fun design headcanon that the diamonds on Dimentio’s hat and chest are Star Pieces
Was there any point in making this post? Eh. Idk just wanted to show the mental gymnastics I go through trying to figure out any extra SPM lore
Ok I’ve never actually watched It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but from the clips I’ve seen, that’s what I imagine Team Bleck acts like (also Charlie Day Luigi my beloved)