This seems like a really excellent opportunity for Luigi Wins By Doing Nothing
Luigi can do everything Mario can do backwards and in high heels but he is a huge coward. Large spooky buildings haunted by malevolent entities are both the thing he's terrified of and his opportunity to shine.
The crucifix is easy. Not only is he Italian, not only can Luigi not say no to people, but no Mario Brother ever refused a power up.
Does Dracula have indoor plumbing? Does Dracula need indoor plumbing?? Well, maybe he does now. Luigi has his work cut out for him, but the next guy will have significantly more ease making his toilet. All this to say, I think Luigi can easily be gainfully employed for two solid months and thus justify Dracula keeping him around.
Luigi is not going to be picking fights without some desperate need. Luigi is going to be cowering. He might well go exploring, but if he does, he will be cowering all the way. I find the whole May 16th thing something that would very believably happen to Luigi.
Mario gets the faked letters and they just say "your brother is in a different castle." Maybe for extra irony they also contain a p-wing
Luigi is the tall one, which is convenient when Dracula decides to steal his clothes because it makes them much more likely to fit him. I want you to close your eyes and imagine Dracula going to town to post letters and steal babies and such dressed as Luigi. It's so much better than impersonating Jonathan because when you're dressed like that, nobody's gonna pay attention to your face. They even both have mustaches it works!
And then once Dracula leaves Luigi can easily make it out because he is an expert platformer. There's no good reason for him to need to be rescued as often as he does because the vast majority of the time he and Mario are mechanically identical. Except in Mario 2 where his jump is better and his dig speed is worse. Which only makes him better at Castle Dracula.
Anyway, Luigi can survive Castle Dracula by doing nothing. Like, there isn't even any lava it's fine.
You've written Charlie getting drunk, and then Vaggie getting drunk, but what happens when they're both drunk together?
Hi, Anon!
They'll probably *censored* and *BEEEEP-EP-EP-BEEEEEEEP* while *Good God, Golden, you kiss your wife and son with that mouth?!* But let's check it out!
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Title Match: Drunk Chaggie
Charlie: (staring all puppy faced, heart eyed, and giddy at Vaggie from across the bar) Pssst! PSSSSST!!! Husk! HuUUuuSk!!!
Husker: No. You're cut off. No more Dirty Shirleys.
Charlie: Who's Shirley? I was gonna ask who the cute girl is across the bar. (Blushes and rubs her even rosier cheeks like a hamster)
Husker: Uh.... You're jokin', right?
Charlie: (groans and slams plops her head onto the bar in shame) YOU'RE RIGHT!!!! How could I be looking at another woman when I have Vaggie?!?!?! (All doe eyed and lovestruck as she sighs) My Vaggie~ I'm gonna marry her some day.
Husker: (blinks) You're never drinking again.....
Vaggie: (giving Charlie an absolute smolder from across the bar as she speaks Spanish) I am absolutely going to ruin her tonight~
Angel: (so trashed from drinking tequila either Vaggie he's speaking strictly Italian) Not without hydratin', bitch.
Vaggie: (sends a wink over to Charlie) I've been drinking a glass of water after every Paloma.
Charlie: (full body blushes and curls in on herself while smiling and giggling like a school girl)
Angel: Not you. Her. She's plastered.
Vaggie: (grabs a glass of water and hops off her seat) Then I better give her something to drink~
Angel: Ugh.... (watches as Vaggie struts across the bar to flirt with her girlfriend) You're never drinking again.....
augh. there sure is a lot going on between them. tfw you know your older brother is wary of you so you have to navigate that fine line of proving you're useful, but not dangerously so. tfw your younger brother has the potential to be a knife in your back, but he's your brother. don't think too hard about what happened with the galeazzo. unfortunately, you're both visconti as well as sforza, and the visconti were prone to conspiracy. fucking RIP.
this definitely won't be upsetting years down the line when ascanio is near death and ludovico will be desperate to figure out how to bring his brother's body back to milan so ascanio can be interred in the same place as ludovico's recently deceased wife, beatrice d'este, and where ludovico himself has been haunting in a perpetual state of grief.
& the background of the first panel are public domain scans of two cards out of the visconti-sforza tarot deck.
Ascanio Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini
HAL: So anyway. I’m going to be investing in an "Italian Restaurant" to sell "pizza" with my "pizza recipe" that I "looked up online" and also "went to a pizza place to see what good ideas are floating around".
JAKE: I am assuming your pizza will kill me instantly upon consumption!
Bianca and Nico di Angelo’s story is equal parts heartbreaking and hilarious, because imagine this. You are two Venetian children (aged 12 and 10 respectively) who don’t speak a lick of English yet you’re dropped off in the middle of 1930s Las Vegas. Although it feels like only 2 months have passed since your arrival, you and your sibling unknowingly spend 70 years in an atemporal limbo known as Lotus Hotel Casino. You learn English by playing tabletop games, bingo, ring toss, slots…even Mythomagic.
When you think about it, Bianca and Nico learned to speak English the same way 2010s kids learned by watching Pewdiepie and Markiplier on Youtube.
Esteriore Brothers • 4 brothers embracing their Italian heritage
Today, the Esteriore Brothers stand as a symbol of Italian musical excellence in the digital age. Their story highlights the unifying power of music and the role of social media in bringing it to a global stage. As they continue to share their passion and talent, the Esteriore Brothers remain a beacon of Italian culture, captivating audiences with every note.
yes, i love mde. yes, its my favorite of the mafia trilogy. yes, i can say with 100% conviction that objectively… tommy is not an interesting character. for him to be the protagonist, he sure does have no depth to his character written in the game