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kerrtesy · 6 months

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A Heads Up

Hello everyone, I hope you all are having a great day or night, whatever time it is for y'all.

Making this post to explain and elaborate on some parts of the recent AU (Bowser's Bodyguard AU, which I'm thinking of renaming) I've been working on. This is going to cover the general story idea, overall vibe, and the games I'm covering with this along with questions I think people may have about the general au.

Don't worry I'll always have this AU tagged, so if you don't like it you can block it easily.

So as stated above this is more of a clarification post and just generally covering my plans for this AU just so people know what to expect.

So I want this AU to be around 6 to 8 main chapters, where I will see if I can combine the Paper and Mario & Luigi universes into one. The first chapter will be on the Mario Movie.

What games will you be covering?

So below are games I definitely want to cover, please note the games are listed in no particular order at the moment.

Super Paper Mario

Paper Mario Thousand Year

Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga

Bowser's Inside Story

Dream Team

All games are going to be rewritten within mind of the character/setup changes. I'm not a huge fan of just writing something that is a paint-by-numbers retelling of the original story; if that's your cup of tea more power too you this is not to throw any shade on that!

For both Superstar Sage and Inside Story I do want to include the side stories the remakes added.

I will say Bowser's Inside Story will be heavily rewritten and I plan on calling it "Fawful's Revenge." The two main reasons are that I'm having Luigi prevent Bowser from eating the vacuum shroom which prevents a lot of the original plot, and I just don't want to draw the inside of Bowser. I don't know what else to say here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Games that will either be short stories or I'm torn on covering:

Super Mario 2

Mario Galaxy (combining 1 and 2)

Mario RPG

Mario Odyssey

Origami King

Mario Sunshine

Luigi's Mansion 1 & 2

Rabbids Spark of Hope

Paper Mario 64

Super Mario 2 is going to cover Luigi's history with the Shy Guys, particularly with him usurping King Wart. This one might become a full/long chapter.

Mario Galaxy is one that might become a full chapter. It depends on what I end up covering. For instance, at the moment I'm debating on whether to have a semi-character death in it. It's weird because on one hand I don't fully consider this a character death, but it also kind of is because they leave the comic at this point and this does heavily impact the cast. So I'm unsure how to fully label this yet.

Mario RPG is a game I am very intrigued by and I would like to incorporate it into the story, but I do not know the plot of the story so it is on the fence right now. I do have at least a few short comics planned for it.

Mario Odyssey is just going to be a few short comics.

Origami King is where I don't know the full plot, but I'd like to do a comic about Shroom City just for some fun world building.

Mario Sunshine I am so torn on whether it would be a full chapter or just a short. I'm going to have to see where I go with it. Whatever it becomes I do plan on calling the chapter/comic "Obligatory Beach Episode."

Luigi's Mansion I'm going to be combining the first two games. I really want this to be a full chapter, I have just been struggling to plan out a full story for it along with fitting it into the rest of the games. I do want to try, but just in case I can't I'm slapping it into this category.

I need to give Rabbids a Spark of Hope a comic or two as Luigi and Bowser have a mission in there that is solely tied to their characters called "The Brains and the Brawn" which helped me think of their setup in this.

Paper Mario 64 will be another backstory one where Luigi attempts to use the Star Rod to send him home, to mixed results.

Games I am not covering:

Please note the games listed below are NOT because I think they are bad games, it's more because I haven't played them and/or I just don't have good ideas for how to fit them into the story.

Color Splash

Sticker Star

Paper Jam

Partners in Time

For Color Splash and Sticker Star, I just don't know the full plots of these games. Though I might do the train scene that occurs in Color Splash when Mario talks to that one Shy Guy.

Paper Jam is similar to the two listed above where I just don't know the plot and I don't want to deal with the multiverse. As in this I'm trying to combine the Paper universe with the Mario and Luigi universe into one.

Partners in Time could change, but at the moment I'm counting it as not covering as I'm just using the concept and the machine E Gadd builds. It won't deal with time travel, but instead the concept of looking into someone's memories. I don't like covering time travel so I'm just skipping it. Like I said I might cover the Cobalt Star and Princess Shroob, but I don't have a lot of ideas going for this so it might just be skipped entirely with her and her sister as villains.

Will there be shipping?

No, I'm sorry if you were hoping for anything. The most there will be is probably implied Peach x Mario, but that's it for the moment. If any of this changes I'll give a heads up just so no one is caught off guard. But romance isn't really the focus of this comic nor do I want to write romance. Listen just trust me on this you don't want me writing romance, I'm not good at it, this is for the best.

Just in case I am also just going to flat out say this so no one gets mad or feels misled when reading these comics. There will be no Bowser x Luigi in this story. Listen it's a funny and shockingly mostly wholesome ship, but it's not happening here. So I'm sorry if you were hoping for it, but I'm not doing it.

There might be some one-sided Luigi x Daisy (honestly thinking about doing Daisy x Waluigi because their Mario Party team name is Awkward Date and that is hilarious), and/or one-sided Luigi x Peasley, but in this Bowser will be majorly crushing on Peach. Bowser and Luigi are just platonic co-parenting the koopalings (think the Dungeons and Dragon movie with Sofina and Edgin). I just wanted to state this here so everyone is on the same page.

Quick side note: This isn't about shipping, but character-wise Donkey Kong and anything related to his games will only be in the first chapter. I struggle to write him and I don't know how to involve him in the other storylines so I'm just gonna have him chill in his kingdom. He will probably be making a reappearance in Dream Team as that is where I plan to end the comic.

What is the overall story/vibe of the comic?

The main story is going to focus on adventure and learning to love yourself. That's really the main premise. The story itself is going to focus on Luigi learning how to like himself for who he is and reconnecting with Mario and others while going on adventures. The big overall conflict will be the Chaos Heart itself. In this I really want to play around with the concept of the Chaos Heart and what if it didn't just go away after Super Paper Mario. I don't want to say too much about it at the moment as I don't want to spoil that part of the plot.

I feel bad because with the initial comic/sketches of this au, I made it seem a lot more dramatic/angsty than it will be. Sure there's going to be some drama but it really is more focused on the fun of the world, the adventures the characters go on, and the friendships that form out of them. I swear it's not as angsty (or I guess edgy, not sure if it was or not??) as the original comic made it seem so I apologize if that is what you were looking for.

Why I am calling Luigi Mr. L in this?

So in this, I am having Mr. L be more of his 'work mode.' It is designed to be more of a persona he puts on so he can do his job more effectively, but it is also still a part of his personality. I want to include more of his temper which is often portrayed through animations in Mario & Luigi (you know his stomping tantrum animations). Along with a few other notes, like how in the first Luigi's Mansion you kind of find some pretty sassy/sarcastic remarks through the pictures he takes with the Game Boy Horror, along with some of his dialogue in the Paper Mario games. I also want to play into him having a bit of an ego as well (playing more into the Mr. L in Super Paper Mario).

However, at the core, I do want to keep him a more socially awkward, easily frightened, and a very kind person outside of the mask/persona. At the end of the day he really just wants what is best for his friends and family. And that he is always ready to help someone even if he is scared out of his mind (though he might complain about not getting paid, or take a bit of convincing when it comes to dealing with ghosts.) I am also keeping the self-esteem issues, more so dealing with the fact he feels like all he has done is stumble through life making one mistake after another, and never being enough for the people he cares about in his life.

What are the inspirations for this?

Ghibli movies, particularly Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited Away. I love their world building and how they handle character stories.

Magical Girl animes, I cannot stress enough how much the masks and his powers/setup are based on the magical girl shows I grew up on.

Majora's Mask, I want to do quite a bit with the masks themselves in this setup. I'm not going to elaborate much on them yet, because I prefer to reveal how they function in the comics than through this ramble.

Funnily enough, the character design that kicked off this au, or at least Mr. L's design was Death from Puss in Boots the Last Wish. I can explain, it was his cloak and his whistle. I've been playing through Super Paper Mario and I kept wondering what if they incorporated references to Luigi's Mansion more like maybe putting in his whistling, or going with a more horror aesthetic for him. Or even goes more into the concept of shadows as well, playing not only his ties with ghosts but also how Luigi feels like he is constantly in Mario's shadow. And when I saw the Mario Movie and that he was captured by the Shy Guys I was like hey wait a minute, I can do something with that.

So this story is just me playing around with those thoughts. Don't get me wrong though, him building robots to fight you along with the absolute banger of a jazz theme, and his cocky/petty attitude I have no notes and I like how he is done in the game.

So yeah this pretty much covers everything, if you read all of this kudos, I know this was long, but I hope I clarified what this comic is going to be like. Though please note that I have a job and I'm going through school, so this is going to take a bit to get going. I'm still writing out the base story, and I like to have one or two chapters fully drawn before I start posting it. I do plan on posting some of the short comics and doodles while working on the main writing.

Thank you for reading my rambles. I hope you all have a good one! : D

#bowsers bodyguard au #mario and the phantom #i think that might be the new name i call this au #im gonna test it out

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earthnashes · 3 years

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Not sure if you answered this question but how on earth did you even start all this au stuff? Bouser has always been my favorite Mario character and I kinda came up with some cringy stories after the game Mario & Luigi, Bowser's inside story or whatever the game is called. I even wanted to make a tumbler account where I would draw and make comics of his children. They need more love.

I actually have been asked this a few times throughout all my years of being an online presence. "How do you come up with your AUs?" There's no secret to it, I just really like thinking of stories and wanting to figure out what happens if I take an idea and turn it on its head a little bit. What if the whole "Super Mario" deal was just an act or an event? What if Ganondorf was good? What if Twilight and Rarity were set up in an arranged marriage? How would that work, why would it work, what changes about the characters? I think it's a lot of fun to answer those questions and I usually just stumble into the answers because I never really plan this stuff out right off the bat.

Soooo yeah. My secret sauce is just doing what I think is fun. And if I stop having fun with it? I put it down, and work on something else. I might revisit the AU and revamp it into something more enjoyable for myself (which I've done for nearly every AU I've made) or I simply discontinue it all together if I can't find anything to enjoy about it anymore (I rarely do this but it has happened).

One thing I do wanna mention though: don't think your own stories as "cringey". I've always hated the word personally, specifically how it's used; there's nothing cringey about having some harmless fun. I'm assuming you haven't made or shared that AU on the basis that it's cringey, so if that's true, I'd say make it anyway. I don't think it's cringey but it's easier said than done to not think so about your own work, so it'd be a good idea to start telling yourself "who cares? I'm having fun" repeatedly. That tip on "fake it till you make it" does have merit, and this is one of those instances.

I'm not entirely sure if you were looking for like, tips or anything so I didn't make a list or anything of that sort. But yeah.

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madd-fandomlife1st3rdpov · 2 years

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Parcosm 9th Anniversary Celebration: List of Canon/Original Settings/Places in 3rdPOV

2/11/13

2/11/22

HAPPY 9 YEARS TO MY SLOWLY SPIRALED MADD THAT IS NOW ONGOING DAYDREAMING at a regular pace and controlled habits, no worries my paras today are way better than any other years! (Even the most longtime one!)

well I gotta do something to celebrate!!! I will try to go chronological

List is under the cut!

2010 - I played a certain Mario and Luigi RPG AlphaDream game at an early age. These settings were for imaginative purposes at first. Daydreaming wasn't that maladaptive yet, but I kept looping In The Final over and over during a long car ride. I started to imagine the final battle, then Okey Dokey! when Mario and Luigi dancing to the music.

Toad Town

Dark Bowser's Castle

Bowser (just gonna leave it at that... not telling title.)

2011 - I collected these Pokemon toys and did my very first dark story plot, "Snivy Gets Water Poison." I don't know where I got the idea from. Maybe I was just getting tired of my "school friends". Or the Where's My Water purple water thing gave me the idea.

Pokepark

Pokemon Zoo

2012 - began writing stories for the first time on the very old notes app format like iPhone 2 format. Daydream started to get more interfering, cause I actually attempted drawing comics of my original Club Penguin characters during school work.

Elite Penguin Force HQ

Club Penguin Wilderness

Penguin Band's House

DJ Cadence's Nightclub

Gary's Lab

Other Club Penguin settings

2014 - Suddenly, a paracosm was made out of in real life settings but with adjusted fantasy element for the rest of the years. It stuck that way in 2015, however, paracosms keep coming today depending on hyperfix.

I started to act out more than 10 paras.

The Log (Apartment)

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Freddy Fazbear's Pizza

Paras' Igloos

2015 - weather in 3rd POV was exhaustingly stormy and rainy. Or that's just because I kept looping Undertale songs to cope. Then sunny days when imagining Frisk dancing to CORE/Death by Glamour.

Office of Paperwork (Workplace)

Dreemurr High School (attempted a school AU...)

Snow Bubble Express (bubble tea inside the train!)

MTT-NEWS

Mt. Ebott, they were able to enter and fuel magic at any time

2016 - lots of daydreaming happened here and I was never aware of it. Paras... fighting? feuding? arguing and ranting? Me, just commenting all the paras' comments?? Me, talking back to myself in various voices?? yeah, daydreaming was very much present.

Philippines' hotel real life settings but with adjusted elements

The Adobo Household

(They rode Tower of Terror before shutdown and I daydreamed a lot of disney scenarios!! oh wait thats not a paracosm sorry-)

2017 - this was the worse year and showed most signs of negative effects I gained from MADD. A para renamed themself to Fruit and tried to be "savage". My daydreaming led me to slamming car doors and yelling "ITS MONDAY ITS MONDAY" in Fruit's bland sarcastic voice. but I will explain more in detail since this is on paracosms. also Tears of Patience was a thing. Splatoon 2's bright colors intensified everything. I made a lot of dark plots during this year and my relative didn't want to talk to me anymore.

PvZ Battlegrounds

RV Good Times (main para named the paracosm due to Fruit's neg. actions.)

Glinfrit - Splatoon but friendlier. I forgot the motto-

Team Booyah! HQ

Splatoon 2's canon settings

2018 - A lot of my headcanons somewhat impacted almost every para in my POV and some of them highly drifted from their canon personality. I removed their magic abilities too for more real setting but that didn't go well when paras from media AUs started coming in. That's when I knew I couldn't stop this "imaginative play" forever.

Happy Container ("frisk please stop renaming youse- "Captain Sprinkles - u -" siGHH - me years ago)

Disney World Hotel but better and more decorated

LEGO

Bricksburg

Monika's House

2019 - Engaged in hobbies and went to a lot of places. also how does a para start being the spotlight of the show after entering smash and changed personality to a more happy person-

Syspocalypsestar

Systar System (like solar system)

Hobby Stores but much bigger and turned into a Entire Hobby Mall

Little Mac's Kickboxing Gym (Paracosm was created the same day Sans' costume got in Smash)

2020 - OHHHHHH we love this parts when I transformed my entire house into a whole paracosm /s also VR PORTAL AHAHAHAH

VR Portal - literally EVERY SINGLE PLACE I went to. and keeps paras unaware of current event situation (then failed the more I got aware)

Sardine Bar Grill - Kitchen

RC Museum - A shelf filled with RC Cars

Epic Gamer Bar

Spas - bathrooms

Lounge Lobby

FanonSkeletonStuff Studios - UTAUs....... gave my brain a terrible spawn.......

Apoluscalypse

2021 - I discovered MADD at the end of the year. The paracosm I was not able to spawn was my Animal Crossing island haha

Skeld

Mira HQ

Polus

Airship

well that's all I can remember from last year, most is just at home

Long car trip to the disney happened too and I did an entire chatroom of paras wOOOO

Disneyland Hotels but better and more decorated

okay im gonna go try out Antar when I wake up its 5am I spent 3 hours on this gn!!

#madd #actuallymadd #paracosm #para #paracosms #paracosm anniversary

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diamondsableye · 7 years

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Super Swap Saga Story Overview

What do you like about this:

The artwork is usually great at best and about almost decent at worst, so that's a start

What do you dislike about this:

The fact that outside of the villains and some storylines, nothing else other than that seems to have changed and overall it doesn't feel that original.

Can I Make a Fan Work for this:

Yes. Heck, write chapter after chapter of smut if you want I really don't care, as long as you don't claim the ideas as your own. (But if you do try to steal the idea technically you can't put a copyright on Ideas so...)

What do you do for this au:

Drawings mostly. But if anyone's into sketch comics, I'll put be doing some of that hopefully in the near future.

Do you take requests:

Yes if it's related to Swap, and sometimes if it's not. Just depends on my schedule you know.

I might be once I get my schedule in order, I mean, even high school sophomores have busy summers.

Who doesn't? Heck 9/10 I'll probably reblog it if I like it.

Closing Statements:

Do whatever you want with this except stealing of course and just have a good time.

Story Overview:

Basically in Super Swap Saga, Fawful is after the Dark Bean, a powerful object formed by the gradual consecration of all the negative thoughts and actions of the beanish people. However, it's power could only be used if it was awakened by the powerful and grating voice of a tough as nails warlord, (such as Bowser) Bowser's voice was stolen In it's original form, but thanks to some clever wordplay and careful planning, Mario and Luigi managed to replace it with a Yoshi's, this leads to the fight in Whohoo Hooniversity, and once Fawful's defeated, with the help of Cackletta, he possesses an amnesiac peach who had been traveling with the legendary thief, Peasly.

After Rivals in Time, Cackletta plans to steal the Shadow Star, an object able to grant the user’s most coveted desire. It was originally another Beanish artifact but it was moved to the Mushroom Kingdom remembering how the last object of power located there led to disaster. It was stolen by Bowser unknowingly however, and rests deep inside his treasure chamber. Knowing that it would be heavily guarded, Cackletta takes refuge in bowser sewers for a few years learning all about the castle's defenses. Once she puts her plan in motion, Bowser's minions begin to develop swirl pox, a dangerous and highly contagious pathogen with magical properties. Seeing how bowser's minions are getting sicker, he goes to the mushroom kingdom to ask for the bros. assistance, but his reputation betrays him as he is defeated by Mario

once more, that is before taking the princess with him out of spite, unfortunately due to an equipment malfunction, Peach and Bowser are separated in the chaos of the failing koopa cruiser. Taking this opportunity, Cackletta manages to stealthily sprinkle peach with some of her vortex dust, a powder she manufactured with the intent to make peach absorb the three biggest threats to her directly into her soul. After being able to secure both peach's and bowser's castle, she tries to use the Shadow Star to wish for ultimate power, but peach manages to stop the process before it is completed, and the lingering energy takes hold of peach, creating a dark copy of her that the defeated dark bat Cackletta takes refuge in.

(Fill in the gaps of the story with that of the original one, and there you go.)

#writing #superswapsaga

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