#magikoopa

Chapter: 29 - The Last Dance

Summary:

Its the final confrontation and the question remains, does this story end well or am I an angsty author who doesn't believe in happen endings.

Bowser Day 2021 - Poster

Over two and a half years ago, I first put together these sketches of what I imagined a Magikoopa would look like underneath their robes.

You can read the original post here. Since then, several things have come to my attention, and I decided to make a follow-up post!

Most importantly, I made a 3D model! Well, I hastily edited together two models into one.

Kamek's model is taken from Super Mario Party, while for the shell I took Koopa Troopa's from Super Mario Odyssey. Both taken from The Models Resource (here and here)

Now here's what I learned since then:

First, Kamek's eyes are (very briefly) visible in the intro of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island! So that's what I based myself on for the model. (Even though I find the full eyes to be cooler, this one is definitely funnier)

Second, Magikoopa heads are actually fully modelled and textured under their hats in Super Paper Mario and Dr. Mario World, even if never seen in-game! Credit goes to Fawfulthegreat64 and _kairy_draws_ for these images, respectively. I only learned of the Dr. Mario World model after making mine, annoyingly, but I still used it to do some touch-ups on the head's shape.

And lastly, we have our very first, completely official in-game look of Kamek's head in Mario & Luigi: Brothership! No need to mess with models or anything. Trust me, I'm as surprised as he looks about this. (Thanks, _kairy_draws_, again for the image)

So it looks like they really do hide that shiny bald dome under their oversized hats. Not entirely unexpected, as most Koopas are bald anyway, but stil cool.

Well that's it for my follow-up post, I hope you enjoy seeing this old bald turtle as much as I did while making this!

My version of Kamek ^^!

If you want to know how he loose his leg, I invite you to read my fanfiction "Trust" in AO3 Xd!

In Mario Party Advance you can go to the desert of Shroom City and find Kamek inside of a pyramid.

Kamek claims to be the Game Mage and holds the title of Game Master, a title he gives to the player(Mario, Luigi, Peach, or Yoshi) if they beat him. A gamer title he had previously given to Bowser, but he took away from him. This is because Bowser had became arrogant and Kamek deemed him unworthy of the title. So after he taught Bowser a lesson he defected from the Koopa Troop because of the whole situation.

After the events of Mario Party Advance he and Bowser would make up and Kamek would forgive Bowser, and from there rejoin the Koopa Troop.

Now this shows us that Kamek is actually not a yes-man like his movieverse counterpart. This also shows if Bowser does something Kamek strongly disapproves of, he will straight up leave the Koopa Troop. Written by Eris the Lorekeeper