Ok so I made a handfull of posts (I'll link all below) on several koopa characters that are never addressed again ever, I decided to just do stuff with them
note: all my designs and ideas here are mostly spitballing, if you have a fun idea, feel free to tell me
first we got Zappa, Nippa and Ippa (that order in image)
They are from a book called Super Mario Bros. Monogatari from 1989 (all officiel info i have on those guys is from the mariowiki)
In the book they are bowser's children and part of the koopa troop (kinda just early/alternative versions of the koopalings) I kinda want them to not have any relation to bowser at all, just have them be some regular group of kids or something.
Zappa
He's the youngest of the three, the only thing the wiki said about him is that he's a nerd.
Yes, that is one of those bendy rulers on his arms and yes, I gave him a watch that he's wearing the nerd way and yes, he plays DnD. Despite them being in a more casual context I want him to keep the googles since I like how they look but idk why he's wearing them he just does ig.
Nippa
The middle child, I drew her with a different beak to fit in with her brothers better and drew her with different hair due to utterly failing at the more accurate hairstyle. She's pointed out to see herself as a lady but not to be the romantic type (happy aromantic noises) She is also said to long to be like the little prince riding a white horse... there is no white horse in the little prince wtf is this about? I'm just gonna say she likes that book and holds the morals close, and does horse riding. ig she can meet Larry there.
Ippa
Oldest brother, said to be sneaky and dishonest. he's based on a boxing-manga called: Haijme no ippo, I have not read up on what that is and I don't feel like it soooo I'm gonna ignore it for now. I'm also not drawing the whole gear but he gets to keep the pants and shoes on. He's said to take pride in bulling the weak, that sucks for Zappa.
Those wired guys from fun with numbers
the only reason they exist is because there weren't enought koopalings to teach numbers, theire whole "canon" existence is confined to a game in the same series an Mario is missing and they have nothing, not even names. the wiki says that the blue one is a Ludwig cosplayer but if that is true than who is the red one? is he just colourblind? I'm gonna ignore the cosplaypart and make them twins that have noting to do with Ludwig. I also put stickers on thiere plastrons, I wanted to keep the numbers somehow.
feel free to suggest names btw
Ilky Iyyy
Technically speaking, they are just supposed to be Iggy but the game (Fun with letters, again same series as MIM) has two different hairstyles for him and at one point has the text Icky Iggy portrayed as it is in the top right of the image, making it look like Il'ky Iyyy, So I'm calling her that. On the post I made someone called her Iggy's long lost twin sister or something so I'm making her a girl now. the lines on the arms are supposed to be hair ties, and the braces of course to give her that awkward school photo smile. And autism of course
Bibinba
that is the only image that exists. Again I'm making these characters without relation to Bowser, she's just of the same species. I don't have much on her yet, she kinda has ballet vibes, also she's a mother, of who you might ask
Koopa kid
I'm gonna need an actual name for this gremlin. Again I don't have much on him, the only thing I have is that I'll mke her trigender and when I figure out how she has the abillity to split into the RGB koopa kids, each of them gets a gender.
Again feel free to point stuff out to me or tell me obout ideas you have :)
Posts:
Ippa, Nippa, Zappa and the twins
Ilky Iyyy
Bibinba
I also need a name that includes all of them, I'll use Lost to time Koopas for now
They're from some old book or so someting idrk i have them from the wiki, if somebody has read that book or knows stuff about them that are not on the wiki feel free to tell me :)
