Jay🌈

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Picture a scene of tranquility, of light dancing between cosmic clouds, and quiet. Heartwarming, soul-healing quiet. This is space. You'd like to go there, wouldn't you? Yeah, I'm sure you do.

Me? I live in space all the time. And it's wonderful. But it's not quiet anymore.

No, it's deafening. Ear-piercing. But not because someone's threatening my galactic abode.

(And if they did they'd get ---------->yeeted✨)

It's me that's ruining the quiet. Because my heart won't stop trying to implode inside my lungs and set them on fire. Why?

Because I have a girlfriend...

...and she's HOT!!😭 

And funny! And sweet! And everything I hoped for and more...

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Picture a scene of activity, of sunshine dancing between parched desert clouds, and noise. People noise, selling their daily wares. Wind noise, painting every surface with rust-colored sand. Engine noise, with little Karts darting around between larger trucks and planes. This is my kingdom, Sarasaland, and I am their princess.

I like the noise. But sometimes it stops like a broken hourglass...whenever my girlfriend appears. Why?

Because she's HOT!!😭 

And charming! And kind! And everything I could've possibly dreamed of...

🌻There's no way🌻✨she actually likes me!✨

-----[Peach👑]-----

In the Mushroom Kingdom, it's no big deal to have a partner, or multiple partners, of the same gender as you. This is also the case for places like Volbono and Bonneton, and more Kingdoms are joining in to enforce equality for all. So when the Bros. first brought up "Pride Month," it seemed strange to us leaders that anyone's gender or love life should be discriminated upon, but that's not to say that queer people have never been a minority even in our world.

I am Princess Peach Toadstool, ruler of said Mushroom Kingdom. And I'm preparing to celebrate Pride. I happen to be attracted to people regardless of gender, which, according to Luigi, makes me "pansexual." I also happen to have a lovely boyfriend by the name of Mario. 

He will not stop staring at me writing, and he thinks I think it's because he likes my handwriting, when in reality he likes staring at the movements of my chest created by my arm—

"Heyyyy, that's not truuuue!" Mario lied, rubbing his head with a look of feign innocence. "Your writing is soo pretty. It's, like, a gentle river of thoughts..."

I closed my diary with a playful roll of my eyes, getting up to hug him. "You could just ask, y'know," I teased him.

"Ask what?" Mario smirked, continuing in his "denial." Yet he reached for my hips in the hopes of rubbing my rear end.

I gently slapped his wrist like a child. "You know exactly what you're doing, sir," I chided him, though I couldn't pretend I didn't enjoy any opportunity to feel his silk touch over my body.

"You like it, don'tcha?" he murmured, reaching up to plant kisses on my ear and jawline. "'Cuz I'll stop if you don't."

"Of course I like it, dear..." I smiled, kissing him back. "I just wish you would be honest. If my chest isn't the reason you like watching me write, then what is?"

Mario paused. Before he could answer, my phone rang and I glanced at the caller ID. Usually I avoid the phone on weekends, especially when this upcoming week is going to be very busy and I need time to prepare. But when I saw that my best friend, Daisy, was the reason for my diary to be shaking from my phone's vibrating ringtone, I immediately picked up.

"Hey, honey!" I greeted her, laying down on my sofa. Mario followed and laid on top of me, and I caressed his milk chocolate curls as he kissed my belly. "How's it going?"

"............I'm doomed..." she groaned. "Completely, utterly ruined....."

"What are you talking about?" I asked, concerned that she was in danger. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine....it's just, y'know...it's Pride Month!😭" Daisy wailed.

"So?" I blinked. "You have a girlfriend...you'll be celebrating, right?"

"..."

"What's wrong? You didn't break up, did you??"

Daisy let out a long, overly dramatic sigh.

"Did you forget you invited me and Rosie to Bubblaine?? For the 'WorldPride' stuff???`(*>﹏<*)′"

I actually did forget.

You see, Daisy is girlfriends with my long lost sister, Rosalina. And they are adorably shy. As I'd reunited with Rosie, Daisy appeared. She'd journeyed to find us, saying that she and my sister were meant to be according to some magic book. (I'll have to tell you more about that.) They started hanging out, and in a few months I heard "through the grapevine" (as Mario says) that they'd shared their first kiss.

They're deeply in love, but they're so shy that doing basic "couple-y" things are a feat for them. Like holding hands. They were walking one day and Daisy tripped on something, but Rosie had such a firm grip on Daisy's hand that they both fell down, and Daisy said she faceplanted on my sister's breasts. Which Daisy loves, but she's too afraid to make an advance to Rosie. A small crowd witnessed this incident, and they were so embarassed that they refused to go on a date or hold hands for a week or two.

I mentioned that I'm trying to make my kingdom more inclusive, and so is the Seaside Kingdom. WorldPride first started 2-3 years ago, and Bubblaine is the next host city. Queen Shimmer invited me and my citizens to share in the festivities and be a representative. I figured that based on the Bros' descriptions of Pride in their world, bringing my sister and her girlfriend along would give them a chance to relax, have fun with like-minded people and really get comfortable with each other.

Apparently, that wasn't a good idea.

"Are you afraid you'll make a fool of yourself?" I asked Daisy. "Why are you so scared?"

".........I haven't told Rosie you invited her...." the Sarasaland royal confessed.

"Why not?!" I gasped, as Mario gazed at me in surprise. I guess he was close enough to hear through my phone. "Our plane takes off tomorrow!"

"I know!!" she cried. "But, we're going to Bubblaine! The beach! ....That means she'd probably be in a bikini..."

Ah. She was afraid of seeing Rosie in lovely summer attire. Especially for her cups. 

"And I wanna wear a bikini too...but she might explode from seeing my butt," Daisy sighed. She was rather curvy, so I could somewhat understand her being insecure.

"Daisy dear, I don't know what to tell you," I said. "You can't fault yourself for being beautiful, or for wanting to enjoy her looks. Besides, true love is deeper than physical attraction. And neither one of you have to wear a bikini."

"Yeah, that's true. But, c'mon Peach, it's Bubblaine. Plus it's really hot, and that's coming from me. Any significant layers are gonna feel like lava."

"Is that all you're worried about?"

I could hear her flop down in her bed. "No...well mostly yeah but I mean—I don't know. I just...don't want to screw things up. And I haven't told her."

I shifted in my couch as Mario sat up, kissing my cheek and reaching for my phone. "Let me talk to her," he offerred.

I obliged, and Mario leaned back against me and crossed his legs. "Yo, Daisy?"

"Hey, Mario!" she greeted him cheerfully. "I take it you heard everything, huh..."

"Yeah, listen," he said. "Women are hot. You know that, I know that."

"Especially these two," Daisy giggled, referencing their mutual preference for my sister and I.

"Right," Mario chuckled as I shook my head and blushed. "So, what I'm saying is, if you keep letting Rosie get you all hot 'n' bothered, you'll lose your rizz. So you gotta outrizz her."

"...Rizz?" the sand lady queried.

"Yeah, that's what the kids call it these days. Charizzma. You gotta get Rosie to be just as spellbound as you are. Since you're a woman, you can use some of her power against her."

"You say that like only women are beautiful????"

"No, 'course not. But it's an even playing field!"

"Mario," I laughed. "Anyone can have 'rizz.' Gender doesn't matter."

"Whatever, you get what I'm trying to say," my boyfriend chuckled again. "Just do you. Wear something spicy, or don't. Give her a big ol' kiss, or little ones. Hold her hand again. You guys have been dating for how long?"

"Like, a month and a half," Daisy told him. "We were friends a few months before..."

"OK. So you probably know her favorite things. Take her to a fancy restaurant with her favorite kind of food, and act like you had everything planned. Find some remote parts of Bubblaine with some views, just for you two. Or find her some missing volumes of her favorite book series that she hasn't read.

"Or do none of that, and stumble around with both of you having no clue of how to be 'the best girlfriend ever.' Regardless, she'll see you for you, and you'll be inseparable."

"But where do I get 'rizz' from?" Daisy wondered. "I don't wanna use some cheesy pickup lines or something...plus she's already my girlfriend. We're just too scared to act like we are."

Mario's eyes narrowed with determination. "Tell you what. Luigi and Bowser are comin' on this trip (right, babe?). I don't know how my lil' bro managed to pull a dragon king but he just oozes rizz. Both of 'em, really. They'll help you."

"You think so?" she replied with a hint of hope. "I mean, Green Bean is pretty cute, so I'm not surprised Bowser fell for him...Thanks, Mario!"

"Sure thing!" he beamed. "I wouldn't be with Peach if it wasn't for them, so..."

"Daisy, please tell my sister about the trip," I insisted as Mario gave me back the phone. "It'll do you both some good. We're going to have lots of fun, OK? There's nothing to worry about."

Daisy took a deep breath and exhaled, receiving our encouragement. "OK. I'm gonna do it. We'll get ready to pack. I'll call you later, byeeee!"

"Bye, honey!" I smiled and hung up. Mario got up from the couch and started smirking.

"What?" I asked.

"This is about to be pure comedy," he snorted. "Daisy's gonna tell her about the trip and Rosie's gonna call and beg you for help just like she did."

"Oh, leave them alone," I said. "It'll be fine—"

It hadn't been 2 minutes before my phone rang again, this time with Rosalina's ID. I picked up.

"Hey, Rosie! How are you—"

"WHYYYYYYY!!!😭😭" the space lady cried. "I can't go to Bubblaine! Daisy's too hot!"

My face deadpanned, and Mario started snickering as he left the room. "I T O L D Y O U U U U U U," he mouthed.

Stars...might as well get this over with...

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I tuned out of the PSA as I checked my watch. It was the next day, and Mario, Luigi, Bowser and I were waiting for the girls to arrive at the airport. Given Daisy's last minute announcement of our WorldPride adventure, they were running a little bit late. Luckily, Daisy's Funky Dorrie is quite fast, and its trunk space is surprisingly large, so the luggage had no problem fitting in. Rosie told me they weren't bringing that many clothes anyway, because they wanted to get a taste for the fashion scene in Bubblaine. Since Daisy was heeding Mario's "outrizz" advice, she probably wanted to get some fits to impress Rosie, and vice versa.

"Are they here yet?" Luigi asked as he opened a small bag of chips, sitting in the lobby of our airline.

"Last thing I heard, they were just about done with traffic," I replied. "But that was an hour ago."

"What are we gonna do with them..." Bowser grumbled. "They're literally helpless."

"Guys, have some faith! They'll figure it out, I'm sure of it," I asserted.

"Not if they die from cuteness first," my sweetheart said. "Thank goodness we're here."

"Bro, you're one to talk," Luigi scoffed. "Not a day went by where you weren't crying about Peach. 'She'll never notice me! I'm too short! I'm too fat! She doesn't want to spend every waking hour with me (even though she calls me for pipe leaks that don't exist)! She's not making cakes and sending me peach-scented, lipsticked letters because she likes me, we're just fRiEnDs!'"

"I never said that," Mario retorted. "And I was naïve then. I'm a changed man now."

"Oh, really?" I cooed, leaning close to his delicate, chubby cheeks. "In what way?"

Mario's face went redder than a blushing strawberry.

"You see what I mean," Luigi pointed as his boyfriend cackled. "Cut Rosie and Daisy some slack. They're both cute as heck, I'd be a babbling idiot too."

"Why, thank you!"

As if on cue, the royal ladies of the cosmos and the dry seas had arrived, sporting small carry-on suitcases and decorative bookbags. Just in time for our airline to start boarding calls.

"You made it!" I cheered, and all of us except Bowser went to hug them. "Everything went OK?"

"Yeah, it was fine," Rosie replied, releasing her embrace on me. "I just wish a certain someone had told me about this sooner..."

"Sowwwy 👉👈" her sweet girlfriend apologized. Rosalina lightly held her hand in reassurance, and Daisy's cheeks glowed.

"Let's go, guys!" Luigi called. "They called our group just now."

Everyone shuffled about with their bags, eager to rest in our first class seats. Given Queen Shimmer's invitation, she insisted that we arrive to Bubblaine in style. Even though I'm royalty, I try to be as frugal as possible so as not to become "stuck up." That doesn't mean I don't like nice things; and given our 8-hour flight, a comfy seat is much appreciated.

We showed our tickets and passports, walked through the tunnel, and made it to our plane. The princess of the sun offered to put up her cosmic darling's bags in the cabin, and I caught my sister staring at Daisy's bum as she did so. I lightly poked Rosie's side as I made my way to sit with Mario. Her head snapped up in embarassment, and her eyes turned into playful slits. I stuck out my tongue in response. I guess Bowser had witnessed this, being a head or two taller than most of us, and he groaned in annoyance. I don't see why Rosie and Daisy bother him so; I'm pretty sure he and Luigi have plenty of moments like these.

Before fastening my seatbelt, I planted kisses on Mario's head and thumbed his face. He lit up, and his cheeks crinkled up in the smile I love and adore. Our first class seats had long barriers about them, so we wouldn't be able to hangout unless we squeezed into one seat. As we prepared for takeoff, we could hear the girls attempting to hold hands through the wide gap.

"Just...scooch over a little," Daisy was saying. "The gap's not that big."

"Babe, my seatbelt's tight," Rosie told her. "I can only lean so much."

"Well you'll take it off eventually! So practice that."

"It's...still weird. Hold on let me—yeah. Maybe we can hold it up high."

"Our arms are gonna get tired like this—try it like that."

"I can barely grab you, I'm literally on the edge of my seat."

Rosie and Daisy shifted and "scooched" as best as they could, but they soon realized the seats were an impenetrable barrier of their affection. Mario leaned over and looked at me, and we both pitied the girls' forbidden hand holding.

"(*sigh*) I don't think we can do it, sweet pea," Daisy lamented.

"It's alright, my love," said Rosalina, briefly standing to kiss her lover's hand. "We'll probably take turns coming over to our seats anyway."

After a 5 minute pause, our plane began moving to the runway. Rosie hadn't been on planes much, so she was fascinated by the flight attendants' safety demonstration. Meanwhile, Bowser had already fallen asleep, and Luigi started playing on his Switch 2. That left my boyfriend and I to find some meaningless movie to watch together, even though it would be on 2 separate screens.

But it seems my sister had other plans. After we got in the air, she'd turned on airplane mode on her phone and sent me some DMs:

[Help me pls

Ur so cool with mario how do i be cool with her

What do you do at Pride

And i don't know what to wear

I need something to combat her hotness 👙

Shes so cute 😖]

Reminded of Mario's "rizz" conversation with Daisy, I picked up my phone, determined to make my sister the finest thing Daisy's ever laid eyes upon.

That is, if Cupid didn't murder their hearts first.

Hope you're enjoying the story so far! Given the rarity of this ship, as well as the fact that Rosalina and Daisy come from vastly different worlds, I thought it would be fun to portray them as I have, being so shy. Rosalina probably hasn't had much interaction with humans, and she's worried that she'll come off as "haughty" to Daisy given her background. And while Daisy's definitely more of a social butterfly, the shock of such a mysterious woman being her girlfriend is a lot for her to process. But I think that makes their love beautiful, for them to explore the unknown together and balance each other wonderfully. I have lots of ideas with them lol. It's just a question of deciding whether to make them fics or art, especially since iIve been experimenting a lot with my art style.

Thanks for reading! ^^

I'll start with the white rose: the rose itself can be used to represent gay men or women, along with commemorate to those who've died of AIDs or violence. However, the rose is also tied to the trans community, mainly in the phrase "give us our roses while we're still here" both to memorial the trans people who've lost their life due to violence but to also celebrate those who are still alive. I chose white for the roses colour since white roses symbolise rebirth. It's on Marios hat for really no reason, other then I like how I look.

The flower Johnny has a green carnation, which when worn on the lapel symbolises being a man with a male lover. Often this is used to represent having a secret male lover. This symbolism was inspired by Oscar Wilde, a gay man who lived in the 19th century, when he had his friends wear green carnations on their lapels to his play. Since Johnny doesn't wear a suit jacket, the placement of his flower probably doesn't match the lapels location though.