#So we start at like 23 Movie Mario and eventually get to Early 30's Super Paper Mario

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You’re all getting another unpromted headcanon dump because I’m very personally tired of the “Mario would hide his struggles and trauma post Movie from Luigi because he doesn’t want to look weak and keep up the appearance of the Strong Older Brother” take. Don’t Eldest Daughter Syndrome Mario. He and Luigi are a team. A pair. He would tell Luigi everything.

Anyway here’s everything I think Mario personally struggles with and would rely on Luigi for

The Mario movie put it very blatantly on the table that Mario’s a little touchy about his height. It’s probably more so because he’s use to being picked on as The Short Guy on the sports team rather than it really actually bothering him all that much. He’s just assumes someone calling him short is an insult. The only personal problem he has with it is being shorter than Luigi. They spent a lot of their childhood the same height, and Luigi being taller still messes them both up from time to time

This is another left over from Highschool; Mario and Luigi (accidentally) kind of fell into the trope of the Smart twin and the Sporty twin, with Mario being the ladder. This messed with his head in a way he couldn’t really articulate, being expected to be a Meathead like the other guys on his sports teams did actually cause his grades to go down, especially in Math which use to be his best subject, which of course caused a lot of concerned backlash from their parents, especially his dad. Now he has it locked in his brain somewhere he’s stupid when he’s not.

He’s bad with people. Luigi’s a lot more of a people person than he is. He has a hard time connecting to people, or making simple small talk. He can be pretty blunt, or awkward, and maybe a bit aggressive sounding, especially to someone not use to how loud and confidently he speaks. As he gets older he gets quieter, speaks less, falls into a much more comfortable selective mute life style, and it suits him much better than trying to fumble through talking to people. He prefers to listen

He’s definitely a workaholic, he’d gotta be busy busy busy all the time. A lot of people will see him run from one project to the next, never turning down a request for help with something, constantly juggling tasks and working on something in his spare time and think it’s all because he’s such a nice, hard working guy. But no. It’s the stress of not doing enough. Or because he anxious being alone. Luigi’s the only one who knows Mario will keep going till he crashes, and is the one to always stop him and remind him he’s doing enough, he’s enough. Take a break.

Mario’s always struggled with separation anxiety. He’s never been one for the whole concept of “alone time”, he’d much rather be near people he loves and trusts and can relax around. He use to joke it stems from being born first, those few moments before Luigi was born was more than enough alone time for a life time. He tries to wave it off occasionally, but it really is a problem. If he is ever left alone, say Luigi goes off on some grand adventure without him, he finds things to work on until he passes out, and then just sleeps and lays about until Luigi comes back.

#Mario #Headcanon post #Emile's Writing #I forgot to tag my last few random headcanon dumps with that oops kfdjgkdfjkg #Also included of course is any insomnia and nightmares the movie and other such adventures would inflict #My personal Mario timeline is the Less Mario talks in any given game the older he is #Minus the first 3 2D platformers where there's barely any dialogue #Those are early adventures to me as well just also with Luigi #So we start at like 23 Movie Mario and eventually get to Early 30's Super Paper Mario #With any game with Jr in it being later in the timeline as well because Jr was born After Mario showed up personal headcanon #and is like 6 in Sunshine so kfdjgkfdgk #I do NOT have the mental energy to be talking about a purely headcanon based Mario Timeline actually #Here's all my personal ideas for Mario's mental weaknesses because to me he's a 3D human person with flaws and struggles #While also being just a Really Good Guy #I love him #Aight it's 2am I should be off to bed now I GUESS #Thanks for reading if you did #Lemme know if you ALSO have any Mario personal struggles would LOVE to see more headcanons from people #And Luigi too I know we all have a MILLION headcanons for Luigi Insecurities