#lardna minch

[eegasleega-will-change-this-l8r]

Anybody ever think about how absolutely CREEPY Beauty & Tasty is?

Porky built a restaurant filled with robot copies of his dead mom so they could serve him for eternity

Specifically programmed to be completely docile and encouraging in the way the real Lardna Minch absolutely was not

Everything about this place is so unsettling, the way they're all just grinning blankly, some of them completely broken down, all with the bright, childish colours and the playful but totally off music

Really exemplifies the way Porky just twists everything to cater to and indulge him, and how wrong and divorced from reality it is

#mother 3 #mother series #earthbound #porky minch #lardna minch #emilyramblings #just to be clear my reading is absolutely not some freudian/oediupus thing #it can be creepy without being THAT kind of creepy >:T

[moomingitz]

For the longest time there was something about Lardna Minch's character design that reminded me of something from my childhood that I rather not remember. Until it, unfortunately, finally hit me.

#Earthbound #Mother 2 #Lardna Minch #Porky Minch #Nintendo #lol

[andonuts-about-you]

prepare yourselves.

#goku-nba text #mother 2 #earthbound #ness #ness earthbound #king earthbound #paula jones #paula earthbound #jeff andonuts #jeff earthbound #prince poo #poo earthbound #pokey minch #picky minch #aloysius minch #lardna minch #mother 3 #lucas #lucas mother 3 #claus #claus mother 3 #salsa #salsa mother 3 #porky minch #thats a lot of character tags jfc

[john-artbuckle]

The March of Minch 2023 Day: 15, "Family"

#MarchOfMinch #PorkyMinch #EarthBound #MOTHER #mother #earthbound #mother 2 #mother 3 #earthbound 2 #porky minch #mother series #Pokey minch #The March of Minch #March of Minch #March of Minch 2023 #picky minch #Lardna Minch #Aloysius Minch

[minipokeys]

You KNOW it's them

#porky minch #pokey minch #picky minch #lardna minch #aloysius minch #earthbound

[obscure-earthbound-facts-media]

She's Lardna. She's Lardna. Your Lardna. I'M LARDNA!

EarthBound 64 concept art of a woman. In an interview with 64DREAM magazine, Benimaru Itoh states that her name is Lardna. It is unknown if she is, or has any connection, to Lardna Minch.

#earthbound #mother series #mother 3 #earthbound 64

[twothpaste]

Ok so we know about Claus and Porky...but what about Ness and Porky in your AU? How did that fall apart and where are they standing now? I havent' read too much into the fic...

Intermission Ness & Porky are the same old story, minus the divine intervention. The fallout between these two has always been one of my favorite parts of EarthBound. There's something so raw and relatable about it - I think most folks've can recall experiences with childhood friends that, in retrospect, weren't so nice. Friendships between kids often drift apart over time, or rupture cataclysmically, or crumble under the pressure of something petty. Ness n' Porky were besties from a young age, but come adolescence, there's this sad realization that they're growing into totally incompatible people. Porky started mirroring his parents' behavior, lashing out, taking on all these manipulative tendencies ('cause his needs simply weren't being met). Taking advantage of Ness' naivete & unconditional kindness. Treating him like a plaything instead of a friend. But around 12/13, Ness was finally getting old enough to grasp the difference between lighthearted teasing & outright maliciousness. He came to understand, the hard way, that no amount of goodwill or forgiveness on his part would get his friend to stop hurting his feelings. The downhill from there's not explosive fights with baseball bats, time machines, and alien spider mechs. It's just the ordinary bitter, jealous, festering sort of fallout that real teenagers go through all the time. More under the cut.

I like to imagine they had a really sweet & genuine bond as little kids. Couple of dorky chubby nextdoor neighbors who probably got bullied at school, but found endless fun & solidarity together. From perhaps too young an age, Ness got the jist that Porky's home life wasn't so great, and wanted to provide his best bud with all the fun and safety he could. And ended up bein' kind of glued to him at the hip. Porky felt that Ness was the only person he was allowed be himself around. He could be confident with Ness by his side, and use that confidence to uplift them both. Because they were so close, a little dependent even, the wound is really raw for years to come. Ness feels a weird sense of responsibility for Porky. Like it's somehow his fault he turned out this way, or like it's his job to protect others from him going forward. Porky feels totally abandoned - essentially betrayed - by his dearest friend. Ness used to always put up with his antics, and then suddenly stopped, and poor little ol' Patrick Minch doesn't understand what went wrong (he does) (he just won't admit it was his fault).

There were a bunch of breaking points. Ness befriended Paula in middle school, which drove Porky absolutely feral with jealousy. He still maintains that she "stole" Ness from him, that Ness is an impressionable little ball of dough who got molded against him by his smartass new "girlfriend." There's also, uh. A nonzero amount of transphobia trickling down from Porky's conservative parents. My Ness spent his early childhood a quote-unquote "tomboy," but he proudly declared he was Actually Just A Boy at age twelve. And Patrick had so much internalized nonsense caked into his brain, he couldn't make heads or tails of it without barfing up Aloysius & Lardna's influence. (Which really hurt Ness, coming from his longtime closest confidant.) Porky's folks were breaking out into divorce and mayhem around the same time, while Ness' family seemed perfect as ever. I think some degree of envy was going on there. Porky's growing consciousness of the stability afforded by Ness' happy home life, versus Ness' growing consciousness of Porky's outrageous wealth. Some nasty tweenaged arguments might've flown in both directions, back then.

It broke Ness' heart to forsake Porky, but he bravely did it and stood by it. By the time they hit high school, the two of 'em were thoroughly cut off. Though Porky still made frequent efforts to fuck with Ness, hoping to snag his attention back… Stealing his stuff, threatening him, leaving cryptic notes begging Ness to come find him in isolated locations. It, uh. Never worked. At least never as intended.

The big thing about Intermission Porky is like… in EarthBound, he Phase Distorts away, becomes an immortal thirteen-forever manchild, and artfully dodges all consequences forever. Here, though, he's granted no such luxury. He's literally just some guy. He's forced to grow up, kicking and screaming. Expected to act his age, just like everybody else. And all the while, he's bitterly comparing himself to Ness. Watching his old bestie grow into a happy, likeable, well-adjusted young adult. Ness maintains jobs & internships. Makes new friends everywhere he goes. While Porky drives away everyone he knows, skirts by on his parents' wealth, runs ill-fated crypto schemes 'cause he's too good for (read: genuinely terrified of) any sort of employment. The bitterness is eating him alive from the inside out, and corroding his sense of self worth, but he'd rather die than apologize or ask for help. So he just sits in his rut, secretly mortified by the progression of time & the lonely mundanity of his plight, taking it out on the version of Ness that lives on in his head. The more I think about it, whatever the hell Intermission Porky is going through might just be canon Porky's worst nightmare. Huh.

Ness, on the other hand, has this huge sad sore spot in his psyche where Porky used to be. Because he's such a hopelessly sappy little dude, he still feels all kinds of pity & nostalgia & loss about it. But he's also grown a spine since his youth. Learned his lesson, for sure. He treats Porky with an excessive degree of caution. Avoids interactions at all costs, and encourages others to do the same. He's got this funny thing where he's normally the most laidback guy you'll ever meet - but if Porky comes up, he instantly becomes uncharacteristically jittery and irritable. There's a bit in Intermission (the fic) (the first one) where he stands up for Claus by confronting Porky - it's the only time I've ever written Ness shouting or swearing. All in all, though, he's recovering mostly peacefully. Learning how to move on & let it go. There will probably come a day when Ness is in his thirties and he thinks back on Porky and he realizes, with a contented sigh, that he's more or less over it. (Which is also, probably, one of Porky's worst nightmares.)

Bonus: Here's a snippet from Hatchback. Ness reflecting on his friendship with Porky (they're like 9 or 10 here).

#ask tag #long #thank youuu #intermission au

[sleepyseraph]

Mother 2/Earthbound community, question (TW: Bugs, Abuse, Fat People) :

Is it just me who found it weird that the general idea of what kinda bug Buzz Buzz was when first playing the game always gravitates to him being a bee like creature?🐝

I find it interesting since Porky’s mom Lardna straight up calls it a beetle, the wrong kind but that throw away joke seems to be disregarded when first playing through the game. Is it because we’re predisposed to not take what she says seriously? I think the actions of the older two males of the Minch family veils our perception of the family as a whole and we become distrusting of Lardna as a result. I’m by no means saying she’s a saint either (it’s implied she also beats her kids) but I think it’s fascinating to think about how Mother 2 is able to guide our trust which misleads us to certain details that we may not find out till years later.

Side note, I think the fact that her husband straight up leaves her to raise Picky by herself is often overlooked, like this lady can’t catch a break. That makes Picky today’s biggest loser.

Side side note the only reason I’m obsessed with the fact that Buzz Buzz is a beetle is because they’ve been my current hyperfixation. I mean, come on don’t they look so damn cool???

#earthbound #mother 2 #buzz buzz #beetles #vtuber #twitter refugees #possible undiagnosed autism

[whistlingstarlight]

😇😡

😇 - what character do you want to pat on the head. ough tiny litle guy awwww the scrunkly

Honestly all the main characters from Mother, but mainly Lloyd. He's just a teeny tiny itty bitty little guy who deserves so many friends 🥺

😡 - what character do you want to BITE. what fucker do you hate with every cell of your body. who's your fictional mortal enemy

Well, I think it would be very immature and petty of me to hate a fictional character so much- Aloysius and Lardna Minch from Earthbound. They are Fucking Terrible people I hate them So Much.

#pokey is an awful kid yes but if aloysius and lardna weren't such awful parents he'd be at least marginally better #thanks for the ask david! #ask game #earthbound

[rustedleopard]

Knowing Earthbound's sense of humor, Buzz Buzz probably would have been immediately picked off by a bird if Lardna Minch didn't crush him first

#earthbound #buzz buzz: n.ess you are a brave and strong boy. allow me to diverge further into the prophec-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #nature is both cruel and beautiful

[zarbol]

this is not a RP blog i just think lardna minch is funny

[eegasleega-will-change-this-l8r]

I MOSTLY do pencil stuff, but a lot of it is just random doodles on my schoolwork

Here's a few of the families from the MOTHER series :3

First are my designs for George and Maria (and is that some...thing... else with them...?) They're honestly some of my favorite characters to mess around with - we know VERY little about what they were actually like, so I really went crazy with my headcanons for them. I think it'd be really fun to do, like, a biiiig post about all my character headcanons, I have a lot of fun with them ^^

Next is Ness and his family (most of it) I actually have a design in mind for Ness's dad, but I've never gotten around to drawing it properly. He looks a lot like the dad from Totoro in my head (who was actually voiced by Shigesato Itoi in Japanese!!!)

Ness doing the fuzzy pickles pose, of course

And finally there's... oh great, it's the Minch family. Aloysius, Lardna, Porky, and Picky. Not quite as happy as the others, are they? At least Porky's having fun with it- oops, nevermind.

Aloysius and Lardna really suck :P

these were all actually for a school project if you'd believe it

#earthbound #earthbound beginnings #mother 1 #mother series #uhhh what do you tag for george and maria #george mother 1 #maria mother 1 #queen mary mother 1 #ness #tracy earthbound #aloysius minch #lardna minch #porky minch #pokey minch #picky minch #giygas #giegue #sorta #do i tag the phone #emilyart

[fat-ugly-bus-driver]

Porky Minch (ポーキー・ミンチ), called Pokey Minch in EarthBound, is the secondary antagonist of EarthBound and the main antagonist of Mother 3 being one of the overall main antagonists of the series alongside Giygas, but also appears non-canonically in Super Smash Bros. Brawl as a boss. A portly, rude, and arrogant boy, he is Ness' neighbor in the suburbs of Onett, the son of Aloysius Minch and Lardna Minch, and the older brother of Picky Minch.

I TOUGH T Y OU MEANT THE PIG ....i don t know the Vid e o G ame s...

[lardna-minch-imagines]

#earthbound #mother 2 #lardna minch

[pkawesomeness]

Okay, I don't actually remember what this screen is supposed to look like, but I am pretty sure it was blue and not pink.

Yep, so far so good. Lets move on.

Okay, everyone has been named. There were a couple problems with naming Lardna and Aloysius since their names were so long, so we now have Lard and Al.

Also, Pokey is Porky so that the beginning isn't so confusing.

#earthbound #pokey minch #porky minch #picky minch #lardna minch #aloyisius minch #game hacks #Porky Strikes Back

[earthboundfacebook]

#mary #ness's mom #kumatora #lardna minch #mother 1 #earthbound #mother 3 #source: tumblr (tittily)