#gushen

Hey, look at me!! Posting stuff about the Nintendo Fun House Rewrite I’m doing with @gittyokoppa39 that isn’t outdated!! So Sparkles, right? any NFH fans remember her? If you don’t I understand cuz bro she was literally a goddamn statue in canon that Got Killed LMAO. I love her though so I decided to actually do stuff with her!! If ya wanna read more on her and a bit of the rewrite, my scattered thoughts and yapping is under the cut!! :D

"have u seen what its' butt does when u have the hat on it? im asking for a friend"

Name: Gushen

Debut: Super Mario Odyssey

Time to GUSH about a flapjack octopus! At least, I think it’s a flapjack. It sure is delightfully round cephalopod at least, and rounder still is its orb of water it lives in! How do you think it does that? Psychic powers?... Silk?! Maybe it’s like a reverse diving bell spider!

Like real octopuses, Gushens move by propelling themselves with jets of water, but unlike real octopuses, Gushen does this from the center of its arms, where the beak would normally be! Is this its siphon? Or perhaps it’s just a cartoon octopus with a disgusting fleshy lip mouth, like Hank from Finding Dory? I guess the real mouth could be hidden by the mustache, which I’m just not vibing with, sorry.

Whatever their anatomy is, it sure is fun to Capture and play as Gushen! Having free flight in a 3D platformer is always pretty magical, I think. This, of course, is even better when it’s a mollusk doing the flying.

The Gushens are led by Brigadier Mollusque-Lanceur III, Dauphin of Bubblaine, who earned his position by being the biggest and the most French. He’s slurping up all the kingdom’s precious Sparkle Water through a bendy straw, confirming that this on his face is, in fact, a mouth! I guess the thing on the bottom is the siphon after all. LOOK at those realistic octopus eyes! A splendid touch!

He has quite a grand boss fight, too, which involves chasing him through the entire kingdom as a Gushen, giving it quite a grand scope! The rematch even takes place in a rainstorm, so your water never runs out, letting you achieve TRUE unlimited flight. I just don’t get why he can cover his head in lava. That’s pretty close to the bottom of my list of “things an octopus would do to attack”.