(I'm sending this on her behalf, she can't send asks on her own account for some reason, so she'll send things through me. Like a loser. Hehehe)
My friend brought up a good point that if her blog is a side blog, then she can't send asks from it, only her main. But if it's not that then I can't help you.
Anyway, it's definitely been a while since I've looked at her blog so I've forgotten a lot. But Iggy is the most memorable of the group for me. He's so timid and cute eueuueeu. I want to see him stand up for himself against Pom!! He can do it, I believe in him.
I love how you draw Topper. He's so creature. He looks like a Squishmallow lol. And I think the Broodals having German (I think?) accents is cool! Lowk what inspired me to give my Toph a German last name.
Also, I adore your OCs! You should post them more!! Izzy and Ozzy are probably my favorites from the crossover with KAS. If I remember right, Izzy is the pink one and Ozzy is green? Ozzy and Topper's friendship was so lovely to watch. And Izzy is an epic girlboss. Gotta love a girlboss.
wasnt the snow world 4 and the water world 3, not the other way around? You are technically correct since you pick between them in nsmbu, but they do have official numbers in materials
also the random swimsuits appearing in the beach one, gotta love plot convenience
I did tag NSMBU just to kinda get as much coverage as possible if that makes sense, but the world numbers are based off of Wii. And I ASSURE you 3 is Snow and 4 is Beach.
Also, those are their underwear, not swimsuits. Don't ask how it doesn't show over their shells, that's ✨️cartoon logic✨️
It was a few weeks into Summer Break. With school out of session, finally, the seven princes and princess of the Darklands were free to do whatever they wanted, with endless time on their hands! So, what did they do?
Well, all of them were hardly ever seen. Lemmy played dolls by himself or doodled in his room. Larry always sat on the couch, fully immersed in video games. Wendy laid in bed With a screen time of ~19 hours. Iggy and his chain-chomp were always reading alone. Morton wasn't alone—He had his anime body pillows and box of anime DVDs to keep him company! Roy was ALWAYS out of the house with who even knows, and Ludwig was always playing piano or reading.
Bowser would occasionally stroll the halls with worry. If he ever happened to see a kid it was only because they were going to the bathroom or getting a snack, and they usually had their face buried in a screen or book. That just wouldn't do. It was concerning.
Or at least, that's what he said. He was SO worried. Yeah. Thus, he suggested the kids go out together on an ADVENTURE. A family trip, just the seven of them, isn't that fun! It became pretty apparent what his true intentions were, once the location of the trip was stated.
It had been well over a year since the last princess-napping event. And if the increase in soldiers around the castle were any indicator, another one was coming up very soon. Bowser wanted each of the Lands Mario has to go through surveyed. Killing two jibberjays with one stone, he'd seem like a responsible parent, making the kids touch grass AND have any notable features of his seven worlds reported on without having to go inspect it himself. Genius.
So. The seven kids sat around in an airship which was transporting them to some grassy mushroom plains, teetering on the coast of the Mushroom Kingdom. Bowser had given them a notepad to uh y'know jot down anything cool or interesting you see on your adventure! Ludwig immediately handed it to Morton to draw big-breasted anime girls on.
Wendy sat in the comer of the ship with her glittery pink phone, scrolling like three sites at once, all with her phone still on the charger, so it'd stay at 100% until it's time to go... Roy was in the cockpit, undoubtedly flirting with the female pilot in there. Larry and Lemmy, two sleepy kiddos, laid on the wooden ground. Ludwig sipped coffee while sitting on a spinny stool. Iggy sat beside him, slumped against his older brother, looking very sad. Sad to be without his emotional support pet, and really, really not wanting to deal with this nonsense adventure...
A small thud and shake had everyone jump up. Right afterward, Roy was sent flying out of the cockpit and landed flat on the floor. "OOF." Everyone looked up to the cockpit door, where a pretty young pilot stood. "You have arrived," Her unimpressed voice said. And so they all got out.
As far as the eye could see, there was luscious green grass and green hills, with a clear blue sky. In a few spots, there were huge gaping pits! All marked with "CAUTION" signs. Huge mushroom platforms sprung up from the pits. Red, yellow, green, and blue, all with white spots. So colorful and pretty... Lemmy's eyes immediately seem fixed on them. Among the wooden "CAUTION" signs, there was one that simply read "W1".
News outlets and tabloids occasionally made up rumors about the Koopalings... Trying to turn them into more of tropey characters for some narrative. It was always interesting to see what they came up with. The funniest idea was that Morton is stupid. VERY stupid. And that he talks in the third person, like a caveman. Morton actually enjoys playing along with it sometimes. It makes everybody laugh. The rumor of Roy being a "Teenage Heartthrob" has gone to his head and become his entire brand. Wendy being a tomboy with beef against Princess Daisy and Lemmy not liking Bowser and wanting to abandon him for the circus were... Interesting takes. Very creative, for sure.
The most interesting portrayal from the tabloids was that Iggy is crazy. NO CLUE where that one came from. Maniacal laughter, IQ of a billion, erratic, were all things they'd said. And that couldn't be further from the truth. Iggy is quiet and sweet and probably couldn't hurt anyone. Currently, he's holding onto Ludwig's hand for dear life, looking as unhappy as a mildly soggy noodle. Then again he kinda always looks like that.
"Wait a minute! I know this place!" Larry ran up to the front of the group and twirled to face them. "This was MY world!" He proudly pointed to an old pile of rubble. "That's where my fortress was!" The others watched him trot around, pointing out minuscule land marks. "Those hills look like butt-cheeks! That's why I named them Mount Buttocks," he giggled, warranting a squint of disapproval from Ludwig.
"Man... I can't believe Dad sent us out here without us even getting breakfast..." Roy complained, crossing his arms. "Oh- here!" Larry jumped away from the pile of rubble and seemed to be... Looking at the sky for a moment. Measuring. Suddenly, with his fist in the air he leaped! Above where his hand was, an invisible block became seen, and out of it, dropped a red mushroom. Everyone stared. "Here ya go!
"Won't that make him big?" Lemmy asked. Larry shook his head. "Only the Mario Bros get that effect." "How did you know that was there?!" Wendy demanded. "Well, when we were here last time, I forgot to bring my DS. I had nothing to do but watch Mario! So l've figured out where all the good stuff is!" He then dashed off, calculating for a few seconds each time before jumping up, hitting invisible blocks, and coming back with it all. Red mushrooms, green mushrooms, and even a few acorns. "Let's have a picnic!"
Out of literally nowhere, Morton pulled a big red and white checkered blanket and set it on the ground. "Let's feast!'" Everyone sat down as Larry proudly placed his gatherings in the center. Roy was still holding the first mushroom he was given, only now biting into it. It had the texture of a foam stress toy, and tasted almost like.. Chicken nugget? An "Mmmm..." escaped his lips, and the others quickly dug in.
The green shrooms were slightly thicker and had a taste more like York peppermint patties. And the acorns, they were like caramel peanut butter toast!
"Maybe this trip won't be so bad..." Wendy muttered while shaking her head before biting into a mushroom. The picnic blanket was comfy enough to sit on, and tall grass at the edges gently brushed against the kids, not bothering them at all. There were a few pretty flowers blowing in the wind nearby. After Lemmy gobbled down his acorn, he quickly got up and began running around, plucking flowers. "They're so PRETTY!" he cheered in the distance.
Sniffe. Ludwig pulled some Kleenex out of his shell. "Speak for yourselves..." He muttered softly. Allergies. Roy wasted no time eating more of the food. "Can't believe this, man, we're living outside and having to hunter-gather-forage typeshit. This is crazy." he said through a mouthful. "| know. Touching grass. Unheard of." Wendy rolled her eyes, warranting a chuckle from the others.
Iggy reached his arm out to adjust the picnic blanket, and suddenly, a Waddlewing swooped down, and landed right on his forearm! Le gasp. A chonky, fluffy, marmalade colored creature, twitching its nose. Stunned silence... "Oh my god..." Iggy whispered quietly. Slowly moving his other hand to the Waddlewing's face for a sniff inspection. The little creature sniffed before squeaking and rubbing against lggy's hand like a cat. Heart melting. The Waddlewing then chirped, seemingly looking at the bowl of food. "Hm? Oh! Of course! Here ya go!" Iggy handed it a whole acorn. The Waddlewing chirped happily and flew away.
"Okay. Yeah. Maybe this trip won't be so bad." lggy said softly, as if still speaking to he Waddlewing. The group continued to feast. ... "Where's Lemmy?" Everyone began to look around. A faint, repetitive boing noise could be heard in the background. "LEMMY!" The group rushed over to the smallest, most colorful of the bunch, bouncing from shroom cap to shroom cap. "WHEEEEEEE!!"
Lemmy tended to be pretty precise and on-point when it came to agility. Which is confusing because his is BLIND when it comes to everything else. He can't control where his eyes point and can't really see where he's going, often walking into things, and usually needing to be carried or hold someone's hand when going places. And here he is, doing flips and tricks as he bounces around above a huge, dark pit... His siblings watched in horor.
"Get down from there, are you crazy?!" Morton shouted. Lemmy just giggled and kept bouncing. Nearby, a koopa troopa was walking. And. He fell. A decrescendoing cry was heard as he disappeared into the pit. And it was almost fifty seconds before a final "thud" could be heard as he hit the bottom. Oh god.
"What was that?" Lemmy asked, mid back-flip. Silence. "Larry, go get him!" Roy shoved Larry ahead. "ME?!" He nodded. "This is YOUR homeland, dingus!" Grumble. Larry looked around for a moment before leaping across the pit and onto a yellow shroom. That bounced him WAY up into the air, and he landed on the very edge of a green one, with his foot almost slipping. "EEK" the crowd of watching siblings all seemed to say.
Lemmy was in the middle of an air somersault while Larry was soaring downward. In just a few seconds, Lemmy flew into Larry's stomach. Larry wrapped his arms around his litte brother like a baseball mitt. They bounced against a wide red shroom and finally got catapulted away from the shrooms—Towards their siblings! The Lemmy-Larry ball flung into the other siblings and knocked them all over like bowling pins.
All the boys were now on the ground, in the grass, with the smallest on top, and the others all on the bottom, groaning. Lemmy and Larry slowly sat up and giggled. "Now wait... Where's Wendy?!" The pile of boys dismantled, now looking for HER.
She wasn't far, Iuckily—At a DIFFERENT pit, Wendy was laying on a big red mushroom, taking a selfie. "These shrooms are cute! They look like my bow," she said, seeing her brothers approach."
"Y'all just got a death wish, don't you?" Roy asked. Wendy carefully stood up and effortlessly leaped back onto the grass. "Jeez, girls just wanna have fun," she said with a head-tilt. If she had hair, it would've been a dramatic hair flip, but alas, it was not.
Ludwig's cheeks and nose were noticeably pink now, and he kept reaching for more tissues, sniffling quite a bit. And scratching his arms a little bit, too. "You good?" Morton asked. "Allergies." Ludwig responded simply before sneezing into another tissue, followed by a sniffle. "Oh yeah, laying in the grass and flowers probably isn't helping," Lemmy said innocenty, looking away.
"Well, guys, if I know where we're going next, and I think I do, we won't have to worry about allergies any time soon," Roy announced, putting his hands on his hips. Iggy's eyes widened. "Oh, yeah, shoot, we still have a long ways to go, don't we?"
"Well, gang, are we ready move on?" Larry asked. Morton began rolling up the picnic blanket and pocketing any remaining treats. "LET'S GO!!!"
Larry paraded his siblings through the gorgeous greenery, with the calming, reassuring blue skies never faltering for even a second. The shiny, vibrant mushroom caps always sat just out of reach, and someone had to hold onto Lemmy's scruff to keep him from running off and jumping on them again. Flowers continued to taunt Ludwig with their existence, putting him into many a sneezing fit. At the same time, Waddlewings soaring across the sky made lggy quite pleased. Joyous, even. Wendy walked while cropping and putting filters onto her pictures, and Morton munched on yet another mushroom. Roy walked just behind Larry, ready to take over soon enough. But for now, the 9 year-old is very excitedly leading the herd, feeling important for once.
Guys I'm not really used to writing, but so much inspiration is just COURSING THROUGH MY VEINS. Please please please give me feedback, this is so fun!
A random FLOOD of inspiration hit and got me working for like seven hours straight. And lowkey, I kinda want to write fanfics for each part of the journey! So, look out for that!
Bully: "Children mess up sometimes. They want to experiment and make mistakes! EVERYONE does that! It's just a part of life. And I don't think they should be severely punished for that. They just need to know how to make it right."
Maggie here! It was a recent decision for ARF to take place in 2016. Partially because I can't picture characters I love in a post-2020 world (we truly are in the worst time-line) but also, technically, that IS the year ARF was created!
They started as just characters I would doodle in 1st-2nd grade. Then in 5th grade, I rediscovered them and turned them into the more coherent concept they are today. But anyways, yeah, that's my excuse for having them in 2016.
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