#their “last name is a middle sound

[legobiwan]

Apropos of nothing, here's my personal headcanon in regards to Mario and Luigi's surname.

Now, it's been generally announced and accepted that the brothers' last name is "Mario," shackling them with the somewhat awkward full names of "Mario Mario" and "Luigi Mario." My take on this is that the family's original last name was "Marianetti" (likely coming from the more common "Marinetti"). This name was changed to "Marionetti" when the boys' grandmother came over from Italy. (A common occurrence in record keeping at immigration at the time. Someone probably had bad handwriting and smudged a pencil stroke somewhere. It happened in my family for sure).

In Brooklyn, their father went by the last name "Marionetti," which ended up shortened to just "Mario," as oftentimes he would be addressed by his surname only. (Think, "Hey, Mario! Get over here!" as opposed to "Hey, Marionetti! Get over here!")

So, the boys are born and get their names. (Their father's middle name was Mario, and so our Mario, being the oldest, inherits his father's middle name as his first name. Luigi's name maybe comes from the middle name of some uncle who is long out of the picture).

So we have "Mario Marionetti" and "Luigi Marionetti." Which, their surname being a mouthful, gets shortened to "Mario" more often than not, just like their father. And thus we end up with "Mario Mario" and "Luigi Mario," culminating in the "Mario Brothers."

#hello there #this is based on zero science and mostly a way for me to explain the weird last name thing #i also came up with middle names for the boys based wholly on how i feel they sound and look written down #mario's middle name would be alphonso and luigi's would be giovanni #but i just looked up the meaning of the names and they're PERFECT for the boys #alphonso being “noble and ready to battle” #and giovanni being “gift from god” which would fit with luigi being the second younger twin #also if these definitions are off forgive me and google hahahaha #but the bros don't use those middle names in real life except to annoy each and embarrass each other #anyway enjoy that little tidbit while i go back to work

[luck-of-the-drawings]

(OLD OC SKETCHES) Meet Sunnabelle Von Sunnoviche, final daughter of the Sunnoviche family. Peeking from behind a window, she witnessed a wizards final spell, one that reduced the world to a wasteland. Her noble blood damned her to [HELL], but unwanting to suffer with her family, she made a deal with the devil. She now hunts in his name. The top of her head was taken by the blast on that day. The fires of her spirit have boiled her blood into a super-heated plasma.

#luckys original content #GRAAHH MY OCS OCS IM SORRY MY OCS I NEVER FUCKIN DRAWW YYAALLL #i was cleanin stuff on my pc again n found a buncha stray doodles of her that i made like. 1 or 2 yrs ago. so i cooked em into smth edible #shes a gunslinger rogue i think! mechanically aasimar bc plasma blood #played her once for a very teeny tiny improved oneshot me n some buddies did forever ago #would love to play as her again... someday a cowboy themed game will find me.. n she will live again... #SUNNABELLE VON SUNNOVICHE! the last name was sposed to sound like 'son of a bitch' ehehehe #bc she is ONE HELL ofa son ofa bitch. shes mean shes short tempered she takes NO SHIT #and she loses her mmIIIIND when she meets a delightfully stupid pretty person #i didnt play her for long so her personality hasnt evolved that far. thats the fun thing abt playing characters! u meet them when u play em #SUNNABELLE FUNFACTS: she is the 6th child of 11 siblings. middlest a middle child can be. bc o this she was often overlooked or ignored #she grew up in a family of obnoxiously rich nobles. all the other siblings were trained and focused on to be the best a sunnoviche can be #meanwhile. sunnabelle often stuck to herself. drawing and creating little fantasy worlds. was always a fan of wild wests n cowboys n guns #she was the only one that saw the WIZARD coming. she was peering over a window when the blast went off. taking the top of her head #GUHH IM ACTULY SO PROUDA HER DESIGN SHE LOOKS SO COOL.. LIKE WHATS WITH THE PLASMA HOW DID I DRAW THAT SO WELL. IM SO PROUD. #I lov all the sun symbolism.. its so fun.. what a fun character ive made.. hell yeah.... anyway hope u guys like her too. #if u got questions ive got ANSWERS!!! my askbox is always open. im pretty sure.

[romanken]

I've been trying to phase in andrew as my preferred name on here for a while but ive been aftg posting all autumn so it looks suspicious. A real conundrum...

#i promise it's unrelated. it's my dad's middle name and it sounds so natural with our last name I swear

[pussypopstiel]

Seeing the sharp rise of islamaphobic rhetoric and hostility towards muslims in america is really something. hope this dosent have any direct effects onto me or my family. Uh.

#my silly little posts #i dont want to say much becasue i dont whatsoever want to make anything thats happening a pity party about me #but its just a little bit scary. im not a hijabi but my family members are and i fear for them more than anything #also trying to decipher if my last name is too ethnic sounding or if im good. who knows #but tbh im thinking more about them because im pretty white passing. name and face wise. #i get more hispanic than ‘middle eastern’ im not middle eastern but ppl think afghanistan is the middle east lol.

[wuntrum]

naming characters is sooooo hard...like i already struggled with picking first names and NOW you're telling me i have to pick last names too??

#personal #and dont get me started on middle names #anyways. if u have last names that sound good with: #ry ; cass ; frankie ; jas ; and vincent #tell me...pls...im struggling #ry is short for ryland and jas is short for jasmine #if that helps #oh and cass is short for cassandra

[grimmshood]

the problem of being dk is trying to work in education but being a fucking weirdo so you cant fucking . introduce yourself to a bunch of teenagers

#Theyre not even that much younger than me i think that makes it weirder #and i dont . like introducing myself i hate having to hear my last name wrong #and miss s sounds fucking weird probounced out loud #cant use mx bc im not fuckibg Out #so its just fucking weird!!!!!!!!! #This is why i prefer middle schoolers #txt

[mydemonsdrivealimo]

thinking about how absolutely FUCKED jensen name is after he hyphenates it. there is just no smooth or flowy way to say jensen mateo valentine lahela

#and TO THINK he almost had two middle names too #bryce noa lahela valentine just has some cadence to it #like it sounds like a name w an extra last name #jensens just sounds like fuckin Words #just a whole bunch of em smashed together #honestly though is it too late to give him that second middle name ??? #bc honestly i really want to but I didnt say it when i posted about him originally so i thought i was confined to that #but honestly i dont think it matters #n e ways #jensen valentine #bryce lahela × jensen valentine

[ponderousorb]

I drew some sketches of Oceanbird and Major Doctor Ghastly being sisters With Lalavava asking the real questions

#crack headcanons #lalavava #evil con carne #dexter's laboratory #major doctor ghastly #oceanbird #I named MDG Serafina and Oceanbird Penelope #middle names Hinotori and Ahira - same meanings in Japanese #I realised when I was typing 'water bird' I was thinking 'duck' then cackled to myself #so her name means duck #then of course going opposite I gave MDG the name 'fire bird' #because if it can't be some kind of pun are we really living? no #I feel like 'ghastly' is a fake name she made up to sound evil #thinking of a good real last name

[strawberrybabydog]

sometimes i hate having a chosen name over a given name cuz i cant say "thanks it was a birthday gift" when ppl compliment me anymore. they just ask me if my name is fake and im like no its real and then they tell me its cool and i HAVE to be like "thanks" because honestly it Wasnt a birthday gift.

#my full chosen name doesnt sound that fake honestly #i have a normal first middle and last name. not unique at all. alone they dont sound fake #but its the special combination of all three that makes people say i sound like a witch or superhero (real things i have been told LOL!!) #it doesnt upset me at all im really more upset i cant say its a birthday gift. #whats a good joke when someone says your chosen name is cool. i cant say thanks i chose it. then i get Questions #also i dont actually call it my chosen name its just my regular name ive been luna for 6 or 7 years. just calling it 'chosen' for context #personal #not dog

[elijah-loyal]

i think i'm so funny because whenever the star wars text pops up i try to read it backwards like arabic

tell me that shit doesnt look like it should be read right to left

#also ki adi mundi's name just sounds arab to me #i think its so funny how growing up in the middle east really makes star wars a more plausible concept in my brain #like #cmon #star wars #btw get ready for more star wars posting bc im bouta go sicko mode w catchign up on the last 7 years of media #i might just text my grandpa bc he has all the star wars shit from the 80s and he's GOTTA have a manual buried somewhere in his hoarder hou

[yourqueenb]

Also they really just gave MC that dumb ass name for no reason huh

#choices mah #choices murder at homecoming #choices #choices stories you play #playchoices #choices app #there was literally no reason for the MC to have a preset name #especially one that was so hard to pair with a middle name because it sounded stupid with the last name too #it sounded like one of those names people put in their wattpad fics and amateur YA novels to show that the MC is ‘different’ #but at least they usually try to tie in a reason for it

[k1rishiki]

ok fr last one but there's actually a bootleg of my school's anastasia and i'm linking it bc you all NEED to understand that my infatuation with this one girl's voice which started when i was in the 6th grade and still hasn't really worn off isn't based on nothing

#brielle's the one in the n95 mask (the video is too grainy to actually make out any of the ensemble's faces but she stands out) #and i'm the in my 'teenage tboy's diy first short haircut' era in every scene she's in #apart from everything abt the girl who plays anya. the tea on everyone else is that our director liked the boy who played gleb's voice so #much that she actually lowered some if not all of his parts to be in his range. the guy who played vlad was a total diva and uhm. the phras #'peaked in high school' has been tossed around at him a lot. and the fact that he came back to sub the year after he graduated isn't helpin #his case. also he pressured the girl who played anya's grandmother into wearing old age makeup + spray her hair grey bc he decided he was #going to wear it and since she's supposed to be older than him she had to too and used to waltz into the girls' changing room whenever he #wanted. everyone was like super shocked during auditions though bc we all thought he was a shoe-in for dimitry esp since seniors get #priority casting bc it's their last chance. but at callbacks (we had singing auditions via video and dance auditions in person and callback #were tacked on to the dance auditions) he kinda flubbed his song and then this freshman. who was with us via google meet bc he literally ha #covid at the time absolutely blew him out of the water and i remember walking away w brielle like 'holy shit [first name] [last name] just #lost a part to a freshman' (he's the kind of person you just have to full name otherwise it sounds wrong). that said i do think he made a #much better vlad then he would've made a dimitry and while he is. a lot. he's always been nice to me and i did briefly idolize him and his #stage presence way i did anya's singing voice but that faded when i got into hs and started actually observing his prima donna ways #(the one production we were in together before in middle school we didn't have any scenes together). the girl who played the grandma #actually shouted me out in cast circle and that's the only time that's ever happened to me. also i'm p sure her dad is/was dating someone m #dad and by extension myself work with so that's. Oh My God. like she (the one who works for my dad) brought him w her to a comedy show as i #think her bf but i'm not 100% sure and when he found out what school i went to he mentioned his daughter went there and despite the fact #that i basically have a script for when people ask me that question bc i do NOT pay attention to most of my fellow students and don't know #anyone i was like 'holy shit' bc i actually did. hm what else. the guy who played the tsar and i used to shittalk bad period dramas #backstage during the first part of act 2. also during the press conference scene i need you to picture all the bolshevik soldiers and #romanov royals doing the macarena behind the curtain bc that was absolutely what we were doing back there. speaking of the press conference #the really high singing w/o a clear source was actually anya standing behind the curtain on the other side of the stage bc she's the only #one who physically could sing the part. also in regards to the bolshevik soldiers. we were originally supposed to have wooden rifles but fo #some reason our director took them out so we had to just walk menacingly towards the romanovs. you can't rlly see me that well in that scen #but that jacket would NOT stay closed and for 2/3 performances i had to awkwardly hold it closed the entire time. luckily the one that was #filmed was the one where i was smart enough to bring safety pins and also saved like all of the ballerinas bc their costumes all started #falling apart at once backstage. #romeo.txt #theatreposting

[charlottesweetly]

what if i just legally changed my last name to sweetly. then what

#i want a new last name anyway for like... future job purposes #but also secretly distancing myself from my dad reasons #if im gonna change my last name i may as well toss in lottie as a middle name anyway #whether or not i land on sweetly tbh #i may land on one that sounds nice double-barrelled with my exsiting one. like new-current. #so i can get away with only putting the new one on stuff

[thychesters]

wait a minute, for all of these poneglyphs is robin jotting down what each one says or just cataloguing them mentally? does she remember them all? because that sounds exhausting and means her power is unmatched.

#nico 'big brain time' robin #i would like to be taught her ways but also that sounds terrifying #what happens if she can't remember a character? just ah hell. nami reset the log pose we need to sail back to that island from last week #meanwhile gan fall's like oh? luffy also has the middle name d? YES AND? #kate watches op #one piece #skypiea

[thebirdandhersong]

side note but Emily St. John Mandel is an INCREDIBLY cool name

#personally i think she sounds like a character herself. never seen anyone with st john as a middle name/last name before #reading adventures

[tempestclerics]

thinking about thi and sum and names again

#thi as in thị. a traditional middle name that doesn't quite fit as a first name and instead is just. default yet wrong. #thi's dad has always wanted a daughter. and that's all their name means: his daughter. their clan. her family. #sum as in. more or less than the sum of their parts? as in something but it sure doesn't know what. #as in 'i am' and 'i exist' but only in the most bastardized way. #anyway yeah. last post so true. i am constantly thinking about Them #i love hathym but their name is just a combination of sounds. hard to go as bonkers about that one #the hollow lands #sola said