#eeeeeeeeeeh

Ew why do they look like that

Anyway. Their dynamic <3

My dragonborn and his squad

Yes that second image is a wip because I feel like I'm about to pass out after three hours of drawing and after that awful armour so that's all we're having today. Badly drawn body proportions and all. Save me. 😭😭

Maybe if people like it I'll finish it I dunno

A bunch of Mario Family headcanons:

Because I think a very normal amount about the larger Mario family and very very very much want The Super Mario Brothers Super Show Reboot all about them

G-Poppy and his wife moved to American from Italy in their 20′s, making Mario and Luigi third generation immigrants

G-Poppy’s dream was to own and run an authentic Italian a Restaurant in America, but after the birth of his oldest son, Pio, the need for quick cash to pay rent was more pressing, thus why he got into Boxing

Papa Mario’s full name is Pio Mario Jr, he’s named after G-Poppy

Pio is a good 5-6 years older than his younger brothers, Arthur and Tony, who are only a year apart at most

Sense bills were tight, Pio spent a lot of his childhood being another income to the house hold, working hard labor work like construction to keep the family afloat while his brothers were young

Eventually G-Poppy got too old for wrestling and finally realized his dream of opening a Restaurant; Punch-Out Pizza. This put the family in more financial struggle, forcing Pio to take up more work while Arthur and Tony helped in the Restaurant

Now that G-Poppy is retired Arthur and Tony run the business together. Arthur’s the finance guy, where Tony runs deliveries and hands on manages other employees

It was actually their Grandmother who made Mario and Luigi’s caps for them, she’s also made G-Poppy’s. She passed before Louisiana was born, thus why she couldn’t make her a cap as well

Tony’s a huge horror movie buff, he loves old classics and has a huge VHS collection. Part of the reason Luigi is so scared of the paranormal is from catching glimpses or watching whole movies with Uncle Tony growing up

Another big part of Luigi’s fear though may just come from Uncle Tony loving to scare him. A big pass time for Tony was waiting around corners in Halloween masks to jump scare Luigi, or telling him ghost stories any change he got

Mario also got a bad fear from Uncle Tony’s movies; Pianos. He’d just happened to catch a pretty nasty scene of the lid of a Grand Piano crushing someone when he was younger and it stuck with him pretty hard

Louisiana is about 11-12 years younger than Mario and Luigi, so despite being cousins the three have a hard time relating to one another from the large age gap

Louisiana prefers to go by Louise, though only Mario and Luigi call her that. She was also the first one in the family to use the “Lou” nickname for Luigi, which Mario quickly also picked up

Arthur loves baseball, the Mets especially, but really he’ll watch any team play. He regrets not being on his school’s baseball team when he was younger, due to having to help at the restaurant, thus why he signed his daughter Louisiana up as soon as she was old enough. She’s stuck with it to keep her dad happy

Mia makes 90% of the meals in the Mario household, with the occasional help from Arthur. She learned most her dishes from her own mom, and a good deal more from Pio’s mother after marrying into the family

Marie is absolute rubbish in the kitchen. Mia’s given her multiple lessons and had her help with dinner many times around when she was expecting Louisiana, but she rarely made anything edible. The only one who ate her meals was Arthur, who just wanted to support his wife with all he had, even if it made him ill (which it did. Many times. Tony made fun of him for it)

Tony loves to work on machinery, mostly motorcycles, and has bounced around working part time as a mechanic here and there before his duties at the restaurant drag him back

Pio, Tony, and Mario are the only ones in the Mario family with a drivers license, though Tony was the only one who drove regularly until Mario bought the van

The Mario family owns 4 gaming devices; The Brother’s NES that they bought with their saved up chore money in Middle School, a Wii Marie and Mia do Wii Fit on in the living room, Uncle Tony’s PS2 that’s mostly collecting dust, and the Home Computer that Louise plays Roblox and Minecraft on

The Mario family apartment has 3 bedrooms; Pio and Mia’s, Arthur Marie and Louise’s, and Mario and Luigi’s. G-Poppy sleeps on a chair in the living room, and Tony sleeps on the couch

Louise has already called dibs on Mario and Luigi’s room when they move out, Tony says he prefers the couch anyway so he doesn’t mind

Pio pushes a lot of his own raising onto Mario, as the oldest he thinks Mario should be responsible, a support for the family, not chasing his own crazy dream that could crash down onto them into debt

On the flip side, Arthur puts a lot of what he wanted for himself onto Louisiana, pushing her to do new things and plays sports and do after school activities like he never got to do having to work in the Restaurant growing up

I am still in my rereading phase of “Be Not Afraid” and my heart leapt at all the moments of transformation and I couldn’t help think “Oh man, here I am starving for Mephi’s ingame demon form, but I bet I’ll loose my mind on thinking about true form concepts with even more pacts.” Whiiiiich got me thinking about more pacts.

Personally, I would love if Barbados is the first of the three because, uh, well, okay, so I noticed that his glow stick, “sin-stick”, is yellow. As in greed! Which was like!!! Which I was like “so Luke is Envy which, no yeah they show him with jealous tendencies, but….if he’s greedy” Which I sort of imagined means he might demand ask for a pact if (once?) he falls in love with the MC. Which would be….kind of what might tip him over to “fun” character for me XD To be so greedy to try to own something you let them own you back. XD the ultimate gamble.

I feel like Mephistopheles whole DEAL is still being hidden away, but I want Ingame demon form SO BAD also just, god, as a pact, the level of drama and bickering he would have with Lucifer over MC makes me laugh. So I imagine he might be right after Barbados.

And Lord Diavolo….definitely end game. Like they played around with it in season 3 for like, the length of a sneeze, but like, I’m assuming that’s a season 5 thing. Like maybe he throws that idea around when the cast goes romping i ln the celestial realm and Micheal loses his collective mind over it.

But I’d really love to know you’re thoughts on more pacts in general!!

Oh boy do I have Pact Thoughts. Warning: long rambles ahead from someone who is only mid s2 (but has seen all the spoilers)...

I'll start with Mephistopheles because I know the least about him. I'm of two minds here. The impression I get from him is that he feels like he's been betrayed before, and that he's desperate for acknowledgement (maybe even because of that betrayal). A pact for him could be a promise of commitment, but that's only from one end. He'd have to be sure that whoever he has a pact with would be as committed to him as he would be to them. On the other hand, if you were to start a relationship without a pact, it could be empowering for him. But hey, I know nothing about the man besides what I've seen in screenshots, I could be totally off-base on this one.

For Barbatos, I'm not actually sure where I stand with him and pacts. He holds one with Solomon, indicating that he's not opposed to creating pacts with humans. But on the other hand, he's been locked into his contract with Diavolo for millennia. This is supposedly one of the people he's supposed to be closest with - and yet he's contractually bound to him. And there's the other wrench in that Barbatos kind of just gets to choose a timeline where he does or does not get a pact from MC. There's very little agency on both sides. I think a pact with Barbatos would come with a lot of communication and affirmation, but it's definitely not impossible.

Diavolo and pacts? Now that is something I could talk about for hours. For starters, you have his position. I imagine a lot of his upbringing included education about the power dynamics between demons and other species, and part of that would've been about pacts. His position means that if he were to ever submit to a pact with another being, then that lucky pact holder would basically inherit his power (physical, magical, and political). Basically, anyone who has a pact with Diavolo would become a monarch of Devildom beside (above) him. So whoever he chooses to form a pact with, they have to be responsible, and respect the work he's done and the vision he has for the devildom.

And, well. That's where the rub is. Because pacts rely on mutual trust between demon and pact holder. It's the demon submitting to someone else, a selflessness that isn't common to their kind. And Diavolo has a huge problem with that. I've definitely talked before about his Machiavellian tendencies and his unwillingness to respect boundaries if it's for 'the greater good', and so far (from what I've seen), there's been very little reciprocation. No apology, no submitting to the wishes of someone else.

I think a pact with Diavolo would be such a satisfying moment - a true turning point for his character. But that's only if it's done correctly. Creating a pact with him shouldn't just be an apology for-all-those-other-times, it should be a commitment. An acknowledgement of mutual respect and a promise to do better in the future. And he's definitely making small steps towards that! But then he also takes giant leaps back, so....

and like...... yes? i’d like to bake cookies for the spooksy friends in the woods? i’d like to have an in-depth conversation about history with a vampire? some of us aren’t wildly fucking horny? please don’t?