(I forgot to post this yesterday. I had some things on my mind)
This was requested by @kutekite in trade for some art work
They asked me to talk with Luigi about what it can be like to be overshadowed by Mario.
[Interview start]
Garth: Thank you for talking with me today Mr Jupmin.
Luigi: You're welcome and you can just call me Luigi.
Garth: I'm trying to be formal.
Luigi: Well Mister Jupmin was my grandfather's name. Mister Giovanni Jupmin.
Garth: Giovanni Jupmin?
Luigi: No. I said Mister Giovanni Jumpman.
Garth: So his first name is Mister.
Luigi: Yes.
Garth: Uh...why?
Luigi: Well. Back in Italy, my great-grandfather, Lorenzo Jupmin was trapped in a tunnel. The man who saved him went by the name of Mister.
Garth: And he was named after this man.
Luigi: well it was either that or Tharowup (pronounced throw up).
Garth: Okay
...
Garth: So anyways. The question I wanted to ask you. Do you feel like You Are overshadowed by Mario?
Luigi: Uh. That's kind of a complicated question.
Garth: I have time we don't have to get to the airport for another hour.
Luigi: Uh. I guess we can talk on the way. But only if you help me get polterpup into his cage.
Luigi then pulled out a cage that was obviously modeled after a poltergust.
It took us about half an hour to get the polterpup in his Travel Carrier.
Luigi: Hurry up and get in the shuttle. We have to be at the airport in half an hour.
Garth: Alright. Alright. But still you said you would tell me what it's like to be in your brother's shadow.
Luigi: Sigh. Fine.
Luigi: When we were younger, we grew up in Brooklyn. I was always considered the weaker brother. I was always picked last to play basketball. It took me longer to learn how to fix a leaky pipe.
Garth: Wait weren't you taller and could jump higher than Mario. Wouldn't they pick you first to play basketball.
Luigi: It was more about how I acted that made them not want to choose me.
Garth: Well how about when you were older.
Luigi: Me and Mario in high school and college we we're still trying to figure ourselves out. But we were a bit more balanced in our lives. It really wasn't until we had a video game based on our adventures that I started getting the short end of the stick.
After a major plumbing accident happened in the New York sewers. We were hired to fix them. This drum up a lot of business and got the attention of a game designer called Shigeru Miyamoto.
He's already spoke with my parents about what happened with Cranky Kong after a deal with trying to make a game about Popeye fell through. That made the Donkey Kong game.
He wanted to continue and make a game based on our plumbing escapade.
That game happened to be Called Mario Brothers.
Garth: But wasn't that an adventure that you both had.
Luigi: Apparently they changed it for brand purposes. They even did it when we went to the Mushroom Kingdom.
Garth: Side note. How did you and Mario get to the Mushroom Kingdom, I've seen some alternate interpretations.
Luigi: Okay. One day a woman called us up to fix her bathtub, she had to get ready for a party or some other event.
Garth: Whatever happened to her?
Luigi:Not sure. But I want to get back to the story.
Luigi: So me and Mario travel throughout multiple locations to try and find the kidnapped princess from King Bowser Koopa. We eat some mushrooms and fire flowers. We use a power star but because we didn't know it's true power it just gives us invincibility. We meet Toad and he gives us a rude gesture (not the one you're thinking of). Rinse and repeat 8 times till we find the princess.
Garth: Oh I know it happens next. You both move to the Mushroom Kingdom after Merida offers you both the title of SUPER. But I still don't understand why you didn't want the title.
Luigi: It was a personal choice. I didn't want it. I didn't know that much about it or understand why a robot dressed in Tweed is talking to us about being a hero. I'm willing to help my brother and others. But I didn't understand the concept enough to accept it.
Mario however was the more heroic of the two of us. So he took the offer.
Garth: So it is true. Only a willing person can become SUPER.
Luigi: That's nice and all but I thought we were having this conversation about me feeling overshadowed.
Garth: Oh sorry. Please continue
Luigi: As the years passed I felt a bit...Small. it would always Be the "Super Mario Brothers" and never "SUPER Mario and Luigi". In fact I would sometimes not even appear in games regardless of whether or not I actually went on those adventures.
Garth: Must have been tough. Was there any way that you coped.
Luigi: Well there were things that I did to try and get my mind off of it. I played sports like tennis and golf. Of course there were also some unhealthy ways to process this. I can give a pretty deadly stare if someone passes ahead of me while driving. When I go use the poltergust (which is an entirely different matter I don't want to get into right now) I can get the little rough when capturing a mean ghost. And of course it is my power star form. Negative Zone Luigi. Which is the literal obvious representation of me being in my brother's shadow.
Garth: Man. That is..Something.
Luigi: That isn't the last of it though. During the events of the Pure Hearts and Count Bleck. I was hypnotized and became Mister L.
Garth: Oh. So you also reference your own grandfather while also chaneling your possible rreincarnation of Bleckss Grandfather.
Luigi: Look if you know the story as well as I do. Why don't you tell it.
Garth: Sorry. Uh. Please continue.
Luigi: After the whole fusing with Dimentio thing and returning to the Mushroom Kingdom. I had a talk with Mario. I actually revealed that I wasn't entirely under the control of Dimentio's spell. It was just that that piece of me that wasn't under control was my resentment.
[Flashback]
Flashback Mario: So You are...upset with me?
Flashback Luigi: Well...kind of.
Flashback Mario: You don't have to tell me if you don't want to.
Flashback Luigi: No. I feel like things won't get better unless I confront these feelings head on.
Flashback Luigi: Mario. I feel like I am not respected.
Flashback Mario: I respect you.
Flashback Luigi: I know that but it doesn't feel like that sometimes. I mean with the video games and how people react to you compared to me. There was evan that time where I won that tennis game and you stepped on my foot repeatedly WHILE I was receiving my trophy.
Flashback Mario: Yeah. Sorry about that. I hadn't had enough sleep and I was a bit groggy after that night. But I did let you pull my mustache as revenge.
Flashback Luigi: Look. I don't want to talk about revenge or punishment. I want to talk about the root of the problem.
Flashback Mario: Oh. Well if you want to. Go ahead.
Flashback Luigi: I feel like I don't get enough respect and that I'm in your shadow.
Flashback Mario: Luigi. You know you're my equal.
Flashback Luigi: Do I? Because it seems like most of the time I get the short end of the stick. Super Mario Brothers instead of Super Mario and Luigi. My first ever game was an educational game based on an event that never happened. And the second game to focus on me only got made because of us both getting tricked by some boos plus the fact that Kopai needed something to show the Game Cubes effects.
Flashback Mario: Woah... Luigi. I didn't know you felt this way. Or at the very least is this deeply.
Flashback Luigi: Well I do. I'm hoping we can talk about this more.
Flashback Mario: I hope so to.
[Present day]
Luigi: We make sure that we talk about our relationship every once in awhile. And we're better brothers because of it.
Garth: Well that's nice to hear.
Luigi: Yeah it sure is.
Shuttle Driver: Hey. You two. The story was nice and all but you have to get off the shuttle. We arrived here 45 minutes ago.
Luigi: We better get off. We are late and our flight is in 5 hours. The rest of the game probably arrived here before us.
Garth: Okay but I have one last thing to ask.
Luigi: Make it quick.
Garth: Where's Polterpup
Luigi: That's easy. He is in his ca...
Luigi: Where is he!?!?
Garth: I think he's eating that venders kebabs at that kebab cart.
Luigi: [While running after Polterpup] POLTERPUP!!!
[Interview end]
Garth signing off.
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