What Is Your Favorite Headcanon For Ludwig Von Koopa The Best Koopaling Ever

What is your favorite Headcanon for Ludwig von koopa the best koopaling ever ❤️❤️

Favorite headcanon? Probably that Ludwig is a Romantic at heart. I'm unsure how art eras are taught in your region, but Romanticism is an art period between ~1798 and 1837. The person Ludwig got characterized after, Ludwig Van Beethoven, comes from that time period. And it naturally reflects in Ludwig Von Koopa, too. How exactly?

Emotion and passion

his art is a reflection of all of his feelings that are most often trapped. Sure, most of the emotions he displays are negative, but they're intense, grand, Romantic, overwhelming. He's not half as stoic as he makes himself out to be. That's what I remember about the Romanticism the most, and that's what seemingly defines Ludwig, his grand emotions. His huge sense of pride, his sardonism, his jealousy of Bowser Jr, every single feeling is grand and all over even if he's trying to repress it.

The critique of progress

he literally abandoned his inventive work of making machines in favor of focusing on art. And guess what, the Enlightenment period that preceeded Romanticism is most known for the industrial revolution. Almost as if he entered a whole new art period during puberty, going from Kooky to Ludwig, finding a new purpose that is much more emotionally fulfilling.

A return to the past

he fixates on history, old art, human civilizations for a reason. He's seemingly fascinated by the old, by what made the Dark Land what it is today, eager not to repeat his ancestors' mistakes.

An awe of nature

a lot of his work, both musical and even mechanical circles around the nature. He actively doesn't like whenever Bowser attempts to do something against the nature, and he treats it as something pure, without any political chaos or wars. Animals just want to survive, they never have ill intent.

The purity of childhood

why is Ludwig so protective of the Koopalings? Why he's acting all like a helicopter parent whenever they do have to go on the missions? This is the reason. Not having much of a childhood himself, he wants to make sure the other Koopalings (and reluctantly, Bowser Jr)'s childhoods remain as innocent as possible. He believes each kid deserves a loving and safe environment, and it hurts him that the circumstances forced him to run the Koopaling Clan for survival. He tries his best to protect his siblings whenever he can though, especially if they're minors. (Wendy, Morton, Larry)

 The Search for Subjective Truth

he often diverges from Bowser's narratives, why? You guessed it, another Romanticism specific value! He often ignores his mentors and advisors, he's eager to dig into the information outside of the status quo, and often discovers knowledge that would be otherwise unavailable to him if he had blindly listened to Bowser or anyone else for that matter.

The Celebration of the Individual

I'm the oldest Koopaling! I'm the self proclaimed clan leader! I'm different, I'm unique! I don't think I have to explain this one. Ludwig is highly individualistic and self absorbed, to the point it comes off as pompous and brusque. He doesn't want to be a part of the group, but an individual with his own opinions and beliefs, independent from everyone else.

A Break From Convention

which of course, extends to his work flow! Since he's the individual he can do whatever the hell he wants! A lot of his decisions and changes of plans are chaotic, dare I say artistic, surprising everyone. He sees the bigger picture, and will act on his own accord, being two or three steps ahead.

Spirituality and the Occult

Nintendo isn't exactly religion focused, so this part is completely headcanonized. Since he's searching for the truth independent from everything, to me it only sounds natural he'd be interested in exploring the unknown, the irrational, metaphysical even. Like the star wishing, or anything Rosalina related, or even just boos. He's drawn to the unscientific not just to rebel against his childhood self, but to potentially discover something nobody else has.

Freedom

this is also something significant. Romanticism is an active rebellion against tyranny of the previous period. My AU takes place in a middle of a war between the Dark Land and the Mushroom Kingdom, and Ludwig resents the system. He secretly hates *both* Peach and Bowser, who are throwing wars over their political schemes. He sees his targets as equals, both him and the other side being victims of a broken system, system he's eager to fight against.

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link to the article I was referencing: https://prowritingaid.com/romanticism-characteristics

However, there's one important detail; Ludwig is living in the present day. He's careful not to fall onto logical traps that Romanticism brings (example: women are just pretty objects to stare at, all science is bad). My headcanon is that his heart is in within this time period, not that progress wise he's stuck in the early 19th century. Sorry for making this so long!

ah a fellow Ludwig liker, I see. Can I ask what made him your fave? /lh Like. What made you start liking him?

That fucking laugh in NSMBWii 🥺 Made all the suffering in world 7 worth it. A love at first sight if you will

- Vaika

Ludwig's red string of fate is tied on the middle finger 😭

- Vaika

hi what if soul ties existed in some capacity in the Mario Universe

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Koopaling clan Headcanons - Human Culture

So we're both aware that dimensional travel between humans and Mushroom World citizens is canon. Mario and Luigi are canonically italian plumbers from Brooklyn, and some other characters are human in the Mario setting, an alien species in this world setting. An event common enough in my AU to gain a special division in Bowser's army! So how would the koopaling clan treat these aliens?

Ludwig owes his pianist career to human music. In the mushroom world, pianos are way too difficult for four fingered creatures, and having to tune them? They're treated mostly as rich people decoration, because trying to play anything is too much of a hassle. Ludwig tried to learn it by himself, however with barely any piano players and zero access to tutorials, he sounded terrible, to the point where people joked he's partially deaf. If it wasn't for Luigi who noticed him trying to steal his classical cassette player to try to replicate the pieces, and gifted him piano books and sheet notes translated by hand to darklandian, he would've been stuck smashing the keyboard for arguably the rest of his life. It's not just piano for Ludwig, either. He likes any art that comes from humans, intrigued by how good humans can get at it with zero access to magic! His favorite art period is Romanticism.

Lemmy has a lukewarm treatment of humans. He wants his tricks to be original, and it always annoys him when he discovers that his stunt, yet again, was made by a human before. But at the same time, they're fun to be around, certainly Luigi to pull pranks on him!

to Roy, human stuff is for NEEERDS. Wait. They have Jackie Chan? Okay, maybe human stuff isn't that bad..

Iggy uses human resources as a reference to his experiments. He loves discovering how different the experiments go, from different atmosphere and unique, earth specific factors. It's less biased than native research, either claiming that toads good koopas bad, or vice versa, and he really appreciates it. He also loves learning about human pets (carefully, to not make Ein jealous), especially insects!

Wendy enjoys learning human fashion, and snatching up pieces of the styling knowledge to herself. She also begs Luigi each time he goes back to Brooklyn for soap operas, because the darklandian television would've never dropped so low, and god is it entertaining.

Morton isn't interested in human culture too much. He once tried an Earth protein recipe and couldn't handle how much of it humans could have in one sitting. It took him a solid month to trust that Luigi's pasta isn't packed with powdered protein. (Don't even try to tell him that some people eat the protein raw)

And where's Larry, in all of it? He's too lazy to get interested by himself, he'd need a solid motivation to form an opinion on humans. Though he would absolutely love the meme culture if he ever discovers it, and God have mercy if he ever does.

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- Vaika

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