im really really curious what the cast’s personas will be based on in 6. we already have
persona 1: mostly japanese mythos for the cast with some irish and egyptian tossed in
persona 2: greek/roman
persona 3: greek/roman
persona 4: japanese mythos
persona 5: vigilantes and rebels
persona 6 is said to have an occult theme but that doesn’t really tell us anything. the princes of hell maybe? The girl who was leaked seems to be wearing a priest outfit. then again its also based on urban legends? maybe things like yuki-onna and hachishakusama? that’d be sick
I like the idea of Bowser actually being afraid of Mario. Like one day, he kidnapped peach, he destroyed parts of the mushroom kingdom, but he also hurt Luigi. He hurt him bad.
Bowser didn’t think much of it, until Mario arrived. He expected the typical fight, but Mario was different. He punched the koopa king hard enough to crack his shell.
He wasn’t smiling, his eyes full of anger. This wasn’t frustrated Mario, this was not annoyed Mario, this was Mario running on pure rage.
Bowser didn’t stand a chance, Mario beat him down. Bowser was laying on the ground as Mario put his boot on his neck.
Bowser could see it, the rage, the anger. Mario was going to end him. But then
“Mario?”
It was the green plumber, walking out with princess peach, both of them were okay.
Mario’s anger faded. He rushed over to them, his smile returned.
Bowser NEVER forgot. And that’s why he is careful with his invasions and kidnappings. He’d never admit it, but Mario was a different beast.
Allows you to choose the origin of where you want the name to be from, whether you want a more feminine vs masculine vs androgenous name (as voted by users), random surname generator, and clicking on the name gives you important info like if there are any famous people with the same name, where it’s from, how common it is, and how people tend to see it, etc.
You can also search their name database by letter or meaning or origin, so if you know you want a character who has a name/surname that starts with an A from Ireland, there’s a whole list for you to choose from.
Census sites
Especially useful if you’re looking for a name from a specific place and/or time period. Just search “(country) census (year)” and you’ll find a database of real people who lived in that place at that time. No one can ever call your names unrealistic again.
For coming up with place names:
Fantasy name generator
This site can basically come up with any name for any person, place, or thing you might ever need. There are also specific generators for different fandoms if you’re looking to make an OC in an established world.
For finding that one word on the tip of your tongue:
One Look Thesaurus
This is my go-to. Not only can you find synonyms like a regular thesaurus, but you can also describe words like “unhappy smile” or “quiet laugh” to find the more specific word you’re looking for.
WordHippo
Works as a thesaurus (very similar to One Look) but also includes search options for words that rhyme, words that contain a specific letter or are a specific length, different word forms, sentences with a specific word etc. etc. It's like Thesaurus++
For coming up with ideas:
Word cloud
When I need to inspire a new idea, I write down all the things I’m interested in (hauntings, academia, lesbians, etc.) and put them into a word cloud to shuffle them next to each other. Sometimes seeing a concept in a new context can spark new ideas!
WWF Discord
This is my discord channel (shameless plug) for when you need to brainstorm off other people but don’t have anyone irl to talk to. We’re also happy to read and give feedback on writing, answer writing questions, or just chat!
For visualizing places and characters:
Pinterest
Pinterest can at times be a bit too sterile for my tastes, but if you use the right words, you can find more realistic photos of places. For example, adding “aesthetic” after basically any word will bring up a more broad collection of photos to help you flesh out places.
This is also a great way to find photos of people and fashion to help visualize characters. I’m bad at describing clothes, so I usually collect photos of outfits to help me know what my characters are wearing. Searching up “character inspiration” will collect more interesting photos and drawings of people who might not exactly be of our world.
(However, to make Pinterest not show you AI results, you have to go into your settings and check the “reduce AI” box. Luckily, it does mostly work.)
Death to Stock
Like pinterest but completely AI free (hooray!) Only drawback is that you have to pay a monthly subscription (about $20 CAD).
Cosmos
Very similar to pinterest but slightly more "artsy". I'm not super familiar with this one but I believe all the photos are human and you can save them and create collections with a free account.
Dupe Photos
Royalty-free stock image site with very Pinterest-core photos!
Minecraft
If you haven’t built your entire fictional city in Minecraft instead of writing, why not? It’s fun.
The Sims
This one is dual purpose because you can not only create your characters in Create a Sim, but you can design their houses. If you really want to go for it, you can bulldoze all the lots in your town and build your world from scratch.
Hero Forge
This character creator is intended for making D&D minis, so it has more fantasy-like options over the Sims if your characters are a bit out of this world.
House Plans.com
I was introduced to this resource through the comments on this post and it has quickly become one of my favourite things to use. If you struggle with the layout of buildings, this site lets you choose beds/baths/sq ft etc. and will show you house plans created by designers that most closely match your specs. You can also search by style instead if you're more interested in the aesthetics.
For checking grammar:
Grammar Girl
Easy to follow definitions and examples, and if you learn better by listening, every article comes with a podcast to follow along with instead.
Grammar Monster
This one is my favourite for checking grammar rules because there’s tons of examples in graphics that helps for any situation.
Reedsy
Among other things, reedsy can connect you to professional editors within your budget.
For writing advice:
One Stop for Writers
This one was recommended from my discord channel and has all sorts of tutorials and resources for the writing craft.
My Blog Directory
Another shameless plug, but if you need writing advice on something specific, you can search through my directory to see if it’s there. If it isn’t, you can always send me an ask about it!
For an alternative to Google Docs:
Ellipsus
Think google docs but without AI. Yay!
Scrivener
A more comprehensive writing software created specifically for writers, however there is a one-time payment to use ($80 CAD).
(will update this list with any more suggestions or resources I discover 😊 Thanks to everyone for your recs!)
That time when I yap about stuff that I'm obsessed over and y'all have to put up with my nonsense 😅.
This is something I've been wanting to do for a while, and I finally got around to doing it. I absolutely LOVE these two (probably less than all my other Mareach lovers on here, but I digress), and I got a ton to share about all of them :3
Basically, this is me taking all the headcanons I have of these two idiots, blending them in with the movie, and going insane for several minutes with an essay of how and why these two are attracted/attached to each other. So... if that's not what you came here for, you're free to go lol.
Trust me. I'm not holding back here.
So, because this is really long, I'll be cutting this up into two parts. Starting with: Mario.
Starting off, Mario has a lot of insecurities. A LOT. He has a lot of things many back in Brooklyn would have considered "undesirable." Just as a few examples:
He's not conventionally attractive by typical standards.
His family isn't very well off.
He comes from a VERY Italian family and takes great pride in their culture.
He works a job many consider "disgusting"
He's trans
He has both ADHD and BPD
He struggles with academics (reading and math especially)
Needless to say, based on everything those around him said to him, and his own insecurities getting to him... Mario doesn't see himself as someone Peach would ever be associated with.
However, Mario is not the type to voice these kinds of concerns. In his mind, he has to be the bigger person, so he shoves them all down HARD. As such, he sometimes comes across as fairly chill or even nonchalant when, in fact, the opposite is true.
Failed a plumbing job? Eh, it's fine; just deal with it later.
Screwed up at a work meeting? Whatever, he didn't like that job anyway; the pay was shit.
Someone outright says they don't like him? Cool, he didn't need them anyway; he has Luigi, and that's all he needs.
The idea of telling anyone these kinds of things is way too foreign to him. His biggest fear is being rejected by someone he cares about and being left to deal with the aftermath of it all by himself. So, he takes that opportunity away before anyone else can do so.
That's not to say he's an asshole; quite the opposite!
He's one of the nicest people you could ever meet (so long as you don't give him a reason to hate you, of course). He was always the one who did odd-jobs just to make himself useful. That way, others wouldn't see him as "less than" or "small."
Essentially, he overcompensates, not even caring how much of a toll it takes on him.
His friendly exterior is his way of appearing "normal" in front of others; he's nice, but... not really so much to where you're all that close with him aside from a friendly acquaintance. The number of people who are at that level is really slim. Except for one person:
Luigi.
Out of all of his friends, Luigi is the only one who really knows Mario (understandably since they're literally grown up together). Luigi's seen Mario at his worst spirals and insecurities, and can immediately clock when he's at the start of one.
When Mario's around other people, he puts on the happy mask. He's a massive extrovert, and you wouldn't know by looking at him that he even has insecurities. Luigi, meanwhile, is quite the opposite. If anything, he rarely speaks whenever Mario's in control, except to add his own sentiment (partially from insecurity over his stutter, and because he's shy).
When they're alone, however...
Mario tends to withdraw. Having to constantly keep up the appearance that he's "fine" really takes a toll on him most days. Thus, when he's alone, everything he's felt throughout the day comes flooding back.
And Luigi is, as you can probably assume, the opposite.
For that reason, he's the first to notice when Mario starts to develop feelings for Peach. At first, it was little things when they were alone together; Mario would ONLY talk about the princess, he was actually smiling a lot more when he was alone, and one time Luigi even found a love letter that he'd written (he trashed it).
While that was big enough on its own, Luigi soon noticed that Mario showed signs even in public.
To most people, Mario's expression is really hard to read (mainly due to him always smiling, but also because his eyebrows make him look angry). However, Luigi would say otherwise, as long as you know when to look.
For instance, he began noticing that Mario would stim with his hands more often around Peach, even when he tried to hide it. His face lit up whenever she started speaking. And even his voice changed entirely, becoming a lot more awkward and formal.
That finally convinced Luigi that his big bro had it bad.
He waited a while to confront Mario, even though he already knows he would deny it upfront... and he does.
It took some time, but eventually Mario relented, finally telling Luigi about everything he'd been feeling towards Peach. Most of it was stuff the younger brother already assumed just from knowing Mario:
He didn't think he was attractive enough.
He didn't want to ruin the friendship between them.
He was scared that by loving her, he'd idolize her.
He was scared she'd reject him.
He was embarrassed about his work compared to her.
He wasn't sure she liked him back (Luigi nearly had an aneurysm because it was so obvious to him--)
He didn't know how he was going to tell her.
He was worried about how he should treat her.
However, the most surprising one was something Luigi could have never anticipated.
See... in Mario's eyes, Peach was absolutely perfect.
She didn't have any flaws as far as he could tell, even when she outright told him about the things she didn't like about herself (not knowing her birthday, disliking crowds, feeling guilty that she needed to be alone after every royal meeting), he still saw her as perfect.
And therein lie the problem.
Peach could like him, maybe even be friends with him... but that was it, as far as he was concerned. Someone as beautiful and perfect as her deserved only the best the world could offer. She was a woman of status and regality. She had far more important things to concern herself with aside from love from someone she didn't deserve.
That was the reason he loved her.
Perfection.
... but he was scared that it could never go farther beyond that.
She was too perfect, in his eyes.
And in due time... she would forget about him.
And with her being engaged to Haru (at the time of meeting her)... it seemed like a very real possibility.
As always, Luigi did his best to keep him from thinking like that, telling him that any girl in the kingdom would be lucky to have him as their partner because he was Super Mario. That, alone, was reason enough, at least to him.
And even though Mario heard the words, Luigi could tell he didn't quite believe them, as always.
Mario always had a way of letting anything good slipping his mind when he became fixated on everything he didn't have, or he began to fear when Peach would forget him altogether. Luigi could tell Mario that he loved him, as well as Peach, until his voice grew hoarse.
But as soon as Mario's own brain caught up to him, it was a losing battle.
It's not that he didn't want to believe anything Luigi said. He was simply far too fixated on the idea that no one could love him, so he preemptively prepared himself for "inevitable" rejection.
However, that didn't mean he avoided Peach altogether.
In fact, quite the opposite.
Even if Mario denied himself from loving her the way he wanted, he went above and beyond to show her the love she deserved (as a "friend" of course).
One thing he loved about her was simply how fascinated she was by anything he'd consider normal. Even something as simple as "going out" was an adventure in her mind. As much as he wanted to give her that, however, there was Toadsworth to consider.
And... he wasn't quite as flexible.
Of course, that didn't stop Mario from making Peach little gifts from his own world (some with Luigi's help, of course). On her "birthday," he made her the parasol she still uses. And it only got bigger from there.
He repainted the stained-glass window once the colors began to fade.
He took over some of the duties in Toad Town whenever she couldn't (either due to other plans or her own personal things).
He'd come over to visit her whenever she got sick; sometimes even bringing along soup (Luigi did that part).
He stayed with her when she expressed her dissatisfaction with the arranged marriage, even though she knew it would benefit the kingdom most (as much as it hurt, admittedly).
He'd sneak in through the windows whenever he knew she'd had a rough day, just to check in on her.
Hell, at one point, he even considered getting her a cat because she had expressed an interest in one! That didn't end up happening as he lacked the money to do so, but still. He came very close.
In Mario's mind, the best thing you can do for someone, is show your love through your actions, whether you're a friend or a partner. Words could never be enough to tell Peach that he loved her. And simply staying beside her felt like it was never enough either. So... he did the only thing he knew he could best do by giving her pieces of himself.
Eventually, he did end up confessing to her, though it took a lot to do so. He still struggles to believe she could love him, but he's never once regretted telling her.
Saying "I love you" to her is always the hardest part.
Even the day he confessed it, his chest felt tight, and his eyes welled with tears... he finds it embarrassing, so he uses it sparingly. He'd rather use his actions than his words anyway.
He loves her more than life itself. Many times at night, he sometimes imagines her before him, living together with him until their last breath. Whenever he can't sleep, he thinks of her, and that's nearly enough to send him drifting off.
He no longer sees her as perfect, either, which he recognized as a flaw on his part soon after.
She was never this immortal goddess he envisioned her to be (as much as he liked to believe she was)... she was simply Peach.
She was the one person he could be himself, fully, without judgement. He'd shown her his worst moments, and she never once blamed him. Even if he did act hurtful (a few times, he yelled at her, but it never went further beyond that), she was honest about it, but still reassured him that it never changed her opinion of him. Plus, he always made an effort to rectify his mistakes... so why would she punish him?
That was the exact reason he soon made the decision to call her his wife, in due time.
My brother saved this document and everytime he gets angry at our neighbours for being loud he prints it to their wireless printer and you can hear the wife shout “Why the fuck would you print this AGAIN?!” to her son.
1. If you were wondering, you can type the numbers in the works cited into google and they appear to be medical journal articles about using medical imaging to detect and diagnose a rare form of Gastritis.
2. Please enjoy the offical powerpoint presentation of this paper at an academic conference by the original author, complete with Q&A:
When I saw this cross my dash tonight, I smiled and thought “yess, the chicken chicken chicken post, I get to reblog it again and inflict it on all of the people that have followed me since last time”, and then I scrolled down more and to my utter delight there was A VIDEO, needless to say my night has been made
