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EHE Thank you sm anon! 💕 And don't worry I always take that in a positive way, I want to do that to the man myself constantly

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In the wake of the Star Festival, Peach’s garden shifted. The hedges became a meticulously manicured maze; beautiful fragments of a lost world turned whole again. In the flowerbeds, gardens grew strange and wondrous new flora that bloomed with alien colors, their origin thousands of light years away. 

The fountain was an established ornament of the garden, a centerpiece. The mosaic at the bottom of the waters were unchanged, each fixture and pipe in place. But in the fountain now laid a small statue, the dedication warped and worn, a mix of traditional and foreign scripture. Scholars couldn’t find evidence in the royal libraries, despite the age of the statue, how natural it sits within the fountain display; yet, Toadsworth had walked past that statue, day after day with hardly a passing thought. Each one of the castle staff in the western wing had to pass through the courtyard to reach their quarters, the many gardeners and groundskeepers who had dedicated every day to those grounds had not a word to say. The statue had simply appeared fully incorporated in the gardens, and they had accepted it in its entirety.

It was Master Luigi who asked about the flowers in the courtyard that the gardeners and groundskeepers had delicately tended, yet none could remember the name of when asked. It was Master Luigi who had first asked about the statue, when Toadsworth had spotted him translating what remained of the dedication with a deepening worry to his eyes. It was Master Luigi to whom the statue was dedicated to, in a fountain constructed decades before either brother fell through that fateful Warp Pipe.

It was Master Luigi who, despite being clearly and unmistakably alive and well, was supposed to be dead.

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the universe would not have survived much longer if Rosalina and the lumas hadn't intervened. in the reset, elements from other universes – universes that survived past this moment – were used to repair and reset the original timeline. most things are back to normal, but because none of the adjacent universes were exact, some....issues were created in the process.

(the world was reset to before the Star Festival. in this new timeline , the galaxy incident never happened -- Bowser's galaxy reactor malfunctioned, rendering months of planning wasted in a single moment. the reactor relied on the energy from the comet to jumpstart, rendering the reactor useless for another 100 years. The citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom are able to peacefully enjoy its once-in-a-lifetime comet viewing experience)

Due to their proximity to Rosalina and the active End of The World, Mario and Luigi were strangely affected by the reset, as they both remember the galaxy incident when no one else can. it is still kind of terrifying, being able to remember something that definitely, clearly happened (reminding them of their first couple days in the mushroom kingdom). But besides that, they believed that nothing else major was affected by the reset

Until Mario references the time that Bowser corrupted all of the paintings in Peach's castle into portals, the two of them having to rescue the princess from one of these painting-portals. something which Luigi Does Not Remember in the slightest. Something that Mario swear Definitely Happened.