#bloomp

[naamahdarling]

When Junie drools from happiness she looks like a little old gramma!

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Bloomp

Debut: Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Bloomp should be proud. It's part of a very special club: the club of Mario enemies whose English names are goofy onomatopoeia relating to their behavior! It is not a very exclusive club, but its members take themselves very seriously. I'm just kidding! They're a bunch of goofballs! Sorry, Bloomp, but I could not take you seriously if I tried. Good thing you exist only in the context of a whimsical scrimblo platformer!

Bloomp is, conceptually, very straightforward. A literal balloonfish. It's nothing new. But must it be something new? Must it be groundbreaking? It mustn't. All it needs to do is be Funny. and Boy Howdy, It's Funny! I look at the expression it's always making, and I think, yeah. It WOULD make that face.

But do not let their soft, harmless bodies and silly demeanors fool you! Bloomps are Enemies. Bonafide Bad Guys. You can tell by looking at the air pumps that inflate and launch them. They have skulls on them, just like Bill Blasters! Bowser did this on purpose. He made the express decision to deploy balloon fish here when he had no reason not to use straight-up bullets. It's about the pizzazz!

Of course, anything inflatable must start out tiny, and tiny Bloomps are the very definition of "piddling". This animal does not know how to do anything besides piddle. If it tries to dispute that, don't believe it. It's full of hot air!

It is obvious that the Balloon transformation would appear in a stage centered around these balloon animals, but to me, it's a bit more interesting than that. Other Wonder Effects transform the player into an enemy, or grant them properties of the stage's main enemy. This is basically doing the same for Bloomps, but the Balloon form has existed since Super Mario World. It's like this is retroactively framing Balloon Mario as a Bloomp ability!

Anyway, the Wonder Effect also has these gray Bloomps, who are... my word! They're tied in place! Is this good for them? It does mean they won't run out of air. Maybe this is how they rest? It's not too far-fetched, considering real hagfish can tie their bodies in knots. And they're full of confetti and goodies! The Bloomps, not the hagfish. Hagfish are full of slime, and no confetti. That's a good thing! I don't want any animals to contain confetti.

[the-eclipseler-draws]

Time to do the Mr JunkBox au lore dump post, and a special thanks to all 31 people who voted

(Me included)

Mr JunkBox: at the end of the puzzle vision movie, instead of puzzles landing in a dumpster, he landed in a junkyard instead. As his tv head landed in a pile of rubble, it bent his antennas and gave him a bit of brain damage, meant he has to memory of who he was or what he has done. Luckily the owner of said junkyard found him and was in a good mood, since the junkyard was in dire need of more employees he hired him as soon as he could. And he even gave him the name of JunkBox, which just kinda stuck around after a bit. While he has no memory of “puzzlevision”, he does tend to keep some old habits of his former self with him, like a constant need to be popular, random moments of anger, memories that he can’t recall, and a weird fear for blue plumbers and meat-mallets. He can still use his powers also…..just once he learns he has them and how to use them, that is.

Mr wpnz: his intro is pretty similar to the canon, it just changes when he meets JunkBox. He dragged his unconscious body into the junkyard and tried to fix him as best as he could, that’s why in the ref sheet wpnz has theirs some bandages on his limbs and all. While he can still use some of his arsenal, the heavy ones like the machine gun aren’t working properly. He was repaired in a “JUNKYARD” afterall. So until he is properly fixed, he’s stuck in the junkyard till then, but it ain’t so bad. Atleast he can hide from the massive target on his back sent by Hitman.Co.

Mr DAGR: he is Mr wpnz oldest friend rival. When they were younger they got along well, but as time passed they grew more distant, and even have their fights every now and then, or at least they did until wpnz left. He’s not much of a talker, and like his name suggests, he is very deadly with the right tools. Once the Hitman.Co higher ups found wpnz whereabouts, they sent all possible Hitman, assassins, bodyguards, and anyone at disposal to retrieve him at all costs, dead or alive. Unfortunately Mr dagr is the only one still hunting him down to this day.

The Hallucinations: back to JunkBox, not all of puzzles is gone per se, more or less just pushed down way deep inside that little gray head of his. Puzzlevision is constantly trying to regain their body and get revenge, but so far is only able to give JunkBox some nightmares, trauma, and even pain in his dreams that transfer to the real world. Then they got an idea to manipulate JunkBox into doing his work for him, and then wait for a moment to take control over their body once again and ending those stupid losers and that blue pest of a plumber.

Bloomp: he just showed up one day, nothing much about him seems interesting that much besides him being a great engineer, chef, fixer, and friend to JunkBox. (OOC: he’s just acting stupid to not blow his cover of being an alien sent from another planet to study earth about friendship because why not)

I’ll probably make a part 2 to this to see if I can add some explanations to the story. Like “does he meet leggy?”, “what about wotfi 2024?”, “what is wpnz?”, and such. But for now this is the lore dump I have for now about my puzzle au “Mr. JunkBox”.

[sparkletunnel]

my paintings 😘

[the-eclipseler-draws]

I’ve made the Junk-Box au for toomp

This is Bloomp, he just kinda showed up one day and stuck around. He’s a little on the dumb side, but is helpful when needed. He also took puzzles hat and bow tie when they first met. And know he was already working at this junkyard before puzzles did.

[sparkletunnel]

2021 | Oil on Wood Panel | 10” x 10” #bloomp (at Fort Worth, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/COgu6DKnLCV/?igshid=2saaiuhnrib1

[sparkletunnel]

2021 | 10”x 10” | oil on wood panel #bloomp (at Fort Worth, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNG-ldaHfzf/?igshid=1upg6fr0ga2y0

[sparkletunnel]

painted a surprise gift for my pal @leekroll from his insta feed. #bloomp #oilpainting (at Half Moon Bay, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CI33rosnBG2/?igshid=1ek2vpbp8mjzy