GUYS. I went to bed last night and dreamt up the craziest scenario for the final section of brothership, specifically the fake Mushroom Kingdom part. I HAD TO EXPAND ON IT.
Every time you say no, Peach gets a little more frustrated, but she's smiling through it. And what throws the bros off is that she initiates a battle with them because of this. She's in no fighting position, just beaming at them with her hands folded. Her level is ????? and named Peach?
When it's Mario or Luigi's turn to fight... the thing is that they don't; they don't want to fight Peach. I was thinking:
the Bros. attacks, Jump, and Hammer boxes are grayed out, or
You CAN choose Jump or Hammer, but the bros take one look at Peach, stop themselves and go back to their original positions, letting the player choose their action again.
So you would only be able to use your items if you needed to or rearrange your plugs, which would be Brothership's version of "sparing" Peach. Even if she's fake, if she's someone she's not, they couldn't bring themselves to fight their princess!
When the bros' turns are up, Peach says some more optimistic dialogue while she performs attacks on them with her umbrella. They're not too strong because it's Peach, who isn't renowned for damage dealing, but more of giving paralyzing or dizzying attacks. Though it is IMPOSSIBLE to dodge this Peach's attacks, so either bro will always take the same amount of damage whether they emergency guard or not.
But THEN once Peach is tired of going back and forth with the bros (say after five turns), her facade breaks immediately and she becomes Glohm Peach (but make her more edgy-looking, kinda like Shadow Queen Peach). She readies a deadly beam from the tip of her umbrella that would kill either bro instantly... internally. Externally, I think it would make them either super weak-minded or wipe their memory clean, for good. But we don't want that, right? (...right?)
Who the beam goes to is random, and if it does hit either of them, then it would show a Game Over screen with the conscious bro hovering over the unconscious bro with their hands out to hold him. But if they hit the beam with their hammer on time, it ricochets off it and goes back to Peach, making her take a LOT of damage and sending her toppling over (no xp is earned because it's all in the mind).
We cut back to the castle and now we see an effed up version of Peach, merging her and Reclusa's appearance together (Peaclusa? Reclusa Peach?). Her voice sounds very distorted, a hint of Reclusa's voice slipping every now and then. Reclusa delivers a few more chilling lines before collapsing, as he's too weak to deal with the bros at the moment, but recovers quickly by the time they meet him in the real world. But for now, Mario and Luigi run past the fake Peach to get their heads out of those flowers.
