About your Little Turtle AU, the one with blind Luigi:
How did Baby Bowser get into the sewers? What happened to him? What did he think of such a weird creature? And how did he track down Luigi years later?
Sooo...
Sorry for the delay.😁
The whole thing took some time ^^;
Have a little something to hopefully answer your questions. (I hope it's understandable.)
Bowser is a curious child and wanders off a lot. Especially when having lessons he doesn't enjoy at all. One evening, he escapes during one of those and roams through one of the few green spaces in the Dark Lands. While doing so he finds something interesting...
He climbs into the green pipe and finds himself somewhere completely new.
Scared at first, but more curious he wanders the place until he finds something that could be an exit of sorts.
(An uncovered manhole.)
I hope it's the right name XD
Water flows down in drops and streams. It clearly rains out there, but he wants to try and climb out anyway. There is a whole new world out there, waiting to be explored by him!
He manages half the way but slips and falls back down, hurting himself in the process.
No chance! Now it's time to retreat. But he is having a hard time moving, so he does his best to crawl back. Everything just hurts.
Then, just a short time after his fall, it doesn't take long until he hears something else crushing down where he did before.
A pained scream, then shouting for a name and someone to help, but the rushing water is louder outside and drowns the cry for help.
Again, Bowser, being too curious for his own good, crawls back to take a look at that creature that made such noise. By doing that, he hurts his injured arm and lets out a painful cry himself.
This alarms the freshly fallen creature in front of him. But it doesn't seem scared. Instead, it crawls in Bowsers direction.
Does this horrendous looking thing not see how scary and intimidating the prince of the Dark Lands is? Is it blind??
Slowly, it gropes forward, fumbling in the air seemingly to find its way. Bowser is alarmed and shuffles backwards just to make more pained noises to follow.
Then, the creature starts talking in soothing ways and inches even more slowly towards a now growling koopa prince.
He would not let himself be lulled in by this thing! That is obviously a trap!!
Yet it kinda works.
It moves gradually, sticks out its hand, and does nothing at first. Bowser looks at it and sniffs at the hand for just a brief moment. This kind of smell seems so foreign to what he's used to.
The creature asks if he's hurt, calling him "little one" -THE AUDACITY!! Then it seems to check on him for injuries of sorts and it dawns on Bowser.
This thing truly is blind.
Completely frozen at this point, the young prince studies every move the thing does but relaxes eventually. It won't hurt him - if it wanted to, it would have done so already, wouldn't it?
There are lots of scratches, a big one on his snout... this is gonna scar for sure. But his left arm hurt the most... that creature didn't look any better, to be honest.
And again the words! This time it calls him "my little turtle" -can you believe it??
The thing takes off the cloth it wears around its neck and starts bandaging Bowsers most painful arm with it...
While it hums? It sounds weird. Not quiet out of tune, but... somehow not yet off?
It sounds awful!
And... calming...
More like awfully calming, really.
A long while later - after a needed nap, Bowser has enough power to make his way back home. So he slowly and carefully wiggles out of the arms that kept him warm for the last couple of hours. Of course, he looks back more than once. It still sleeps.
Can he leave that thing like this?
Of course he can! That's not his problem!
After long a debate with himself, he leaves.
Back home, his thoughts wander off a lot to that day, to that creature. But he never finds the chance to go back, even if he thinks about it a lot...
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Years later, Bowser wanders his kingdom. He rarely finds time to do anything like this and just goes where his feet lead him until there is a somehow familiar place.
Green, almost forgotten and completely overgrown.
Bowsers' memories of this day all crush back instantly. He never really forgot, but after all this time, all of his duties it faded ever so slightly.
But he is here now.
And with that unusual smell he still remembers of this Creature, he'll find that horrendous little thing for sure.
To thank him!
And maybe give back this little piece of cloth!
It is overdue!
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This is part of the Little Turtle story!
Have a nice day / evening ^^
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