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heres another totally new art piece for mario day (which is only one day apart from miku day apparently)
Happy Mar10 day!
Hunter as a Goomba lol
HAPPY MAR10 DAY!!
Happy Mar10 Day everyone!
one more Mar10 Day sketch of Our favorite duo, Mario and Luigi!
Happy Mar10 Day! I beat Mario Rabbids Sparks of Hope and wanted to Draw one of my favorite characters, Rabbid Rosalina.
So this was originally supposed to have a kickass artwork of the bros using the power- up and stuff but then I got sick and then I realised Im out of time and here we are so uh hieee everyone and welcome to my post-
Happy MAR10 Day! For the occasion, let's go back to the (not discussed in a long time) Power-Up headcanons. This time I'll focus on the Ice Flower (most of the lore under cut like last time)!
This was surprisingly requested by some (3) people. I'm going to be honest, I barely remembered this one at first. I kinda know how it looks and generally what it does, which will have to be enough to base this entire thing on. With that being said, I did some thinking and here's what I've got:
General headcanons;
This one has difficulty surviving outside of it's original environment. If you want to keep a batch in the house your best bet is to use the fridge/freezer, otherwise it looses both it's blue look and the stored energy. See, the Ice Flower originally wasn't (and still technically isn't) it's own flower species. Let me elaborate:
Nowadays the conditions there are not as harsh, however a rather long time ago travelers heading towards places like the Snow Mountain needed to be both be specially trained and very well equipped to even attempt a climb. A heat source was a big must, and it so happens that it often consisted of Fire Flowers. They'd put some in their coats to keep warm, as well as store a few in the backpack just in case they needed to protect themselves from monsters. When setting camp during their journeys these hikers would use the Power-Ups energy to start fires and cook food. After the flowers were depleted of their energy and entered their hibernation stage (I talked about it in my Fire Flower post), they would be simply thrown away like trash. Waiting for them to recharge was often not beneficial, especially in conditions like this, so there was ultimately no point in keeping them. However like I mentioned before, Fire Flowers are very adaptable, which actually wasn't that known at the time. Instead of wilting, these stubborn plants would try gathering energy like the usual, but since it was very cold and direct sunlight was limited, they decided to collect something else. While not all flowers made it, a few managed to amass the eminating frost and turn it into a new kind of energy which proved to be enough for their survival. With time even their petal colour changed to blueish hues. And thus the Fire Flowers in the area became Ice Flowers and over the years started populating the mountains and snowfields.
The Ice Flower is a multiple use Power-Up in theory but more often than not you'll find yourself without a place to freeze it after using one. If it's not placed in a cold environment during it's hibernation it'll simply revert back to being a Fire Flower after a long process.
Mario and Luigi specific headcanons;
While the idea of being able to freeze stuff sounded cool it wasn't very fun to learn.
In Marios case imagine: you're good at something, really, REALLY good at something. Okay great, now imagine being told that your knowledge doesn't matter because now you need to do the opposite of what you've learned. Back with the theme of "elements don't mix", Mario absolutely hated how much effort he needed to put into focusing the newfound energy to barely make a tiny projectile. Even before he got the Firebrand he had enough difficulty with it, so it only got worse from there. This was one of the rare times where learning the bare basics instead of mastering a Power-Up was enough for him.
Luigi didn't really mind. The main complications came more from the vague instructions he received during training rather than his own inability. Suprisingly or not the Thunderhand didn't make this one much of a pain either, I guess anomalies attract eachother. While he doesn't consider this Power-Up as a favourite he still finds it pretty fun that he can freeze and walk on water. Did you know, he used to be pretty good at skating in high school. If you didn't he'll make sure to bring it up at a given occasion. Back to ice powers, he definitely outdoes his brother on this one, even if not by much.
There's probably one more thing I should mention. Despite the contrary belief the Ice Flower does NOT increase ones tolerance to cold temperatures. To be frank it might even decrease it by lowering the bodys natural temperature, making the chances of frostbite higher. And so, they learned it the hard way.
In conclusion, this is more of a situational Power-Up. It's neither easy to find or preserve which can be annoying but despite all this it's hard to deny that it's ultimately a useful tool.
I don't know how much sense I conveyed through my broken wording and less than average writing skills but it's not that shabby if I say so myself. Just like last time some details might change in the future but for now that's the general idea that I have considering the Ice Flower. Once again thank you to whoever took the time to read this!
So it's Mar10 day.
I love this franchise to death, so what better way to celebrate then... a possibly controversial opinion.
So we all remember this movie, right?
Yeah, of course we do.
It's the movie that cursed video game movies for well over a decade. The one that gave all video game movies a bad name. The one that made Nintendo shut down any and all films being made about their properties, and not touch feature films again until very recently.
You all know this movie, so what do I have to say about it? Well, honestly
It wasn't a bad idea.
Hear me out on this one, okay?
Imagine this Mario Bros. Movie never existed. And instead, we got a few decent movies about Nintendo stuff from the 90s till now. Mario, Zelda, Metroid, etc. Imagine we got all that and then, much later, someone said "we're doing a new take on Mario. A more dark, grungy take that tosses away the magic mushrooms for Firepower." How would you feel about that?
If you're still weirded out, yeah, of course you would be. But at the same time, Mario's been the same thing for so long... it'd be interesting to see.
In my opinion, the Mario Bros. Movie idea of a more Mad Max, grungy punk look for the Mushroom Kingdom is a very interesting idea.
It just came out at the wrong time. It should not have been the first Mario Bros. Movie
Again, if this had come out nowadays, I have no doubt that there would be a lot of people praising it for taking such a different direction, and it would probably get a big following. But for the first time around, you probably want to do something a bit safer so that people actually know "oh, this is Mario. I like Mario." Then come out with a new the to intrigue them.
Now, do I think the movie would be perfect if it came out today with NO changes? Of course not, there's some stupid ideas in the movie, like the goombas and stuff like that. It wouldn't be perfect, and it would probably still get slammed by critics.
But again, the idea is sound. And I think that's the important part of this. People write off this movie because of the dumb elements and what it did. And yeah, thats fair. But I feel like just saying there's "nothing redeemable about it." Kind of spits in the face of experimentation.
Besides, you'll never convince me the casting wasn't great in that movie. Specifically Bob Hoskins as Mario, and I'd even argue for John Leguizamo as Luigi.
The characterization is a bit off, yeah (though to be fair, it was the nineties, there really wasn't much there for the bros. At that point) but I look at them and I honestly do see a live action Mario and Luigi. Again, specifically with Hopkins.
I'll even say I like the general idea of the plot, with Daisy interacting with the brothers rather then Peach, since Daisy is the more active one out of the princesses, so it makes sense to make her the action girl of the movie.
I'm just saying, with a bit of tweaking, and if this WASN'T the first Mario Bros. Movie... I feel it'd looked back on a lot more fondly.
Little doodle for Mar10!
hey! it's miku d- wait what do you mean it's mar 10th
hey! it's miku d- wait what do you mean it's mar 10th
hey! it's miku d- wait what do you mean it's mar 10th