Morton Koopa Jr - Tumblr Posts

Interesting! 👀

One thing I especially like is how the magic to transform into a "magical girl" is already familiar to the users (because usually in magical girl animes, the protagonist(s) is usually a newbie who's unfamiliar with these abilities.)

Also, the fact that instead of using their magical powers to fight evil, these kids basically just like to fuck around and cause chaos. A very Koopaling thing to do.

The best part of all of this imo? The ability for a Koopa to change into a human form is actually not too-far fetched for the Mario universe. Sort of. (For context, the Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon had an episode where Kootie Pie—aka Wendy O. Koopa—was turned into a human form to distract Mario in another one of their wacky Koopa schemes. "The Beauty of Kootie" it was called. Boy, was that a thing.)

Anyway, very interesting lore! Definitely gonna keep an eye out for more.

How did these guys become magical koopas (? Is that what we should call them?)

yes, magical koopas is the best way to describe them LOL also!!

i love the fact that magic is already a major part in the Mario lore, especially surrounding Bowser, Kamek, Jr, and the Koopalings! so i decided to lean into that already-existing lore!!!

i like to think certain species of Koopa are more likely to be magic-users, with Magikoopa and the more dragon-like Koopas like the species Bowser, Bowser Jr, and the Koopalings are being the ones with the strongest connection to magic and Koopa Troopas being the ones with the weakest connection to magic

since Kamek is Jr and the Koopalings' teacher and grandpa, he's the one who helped them learn transformation magic. while he himself can't hold his humanoid transformation very long anymore as he gets older, he found it best to teach the nine children how to do so for many reasons. for one, it's a good disguise; despite their humanoid forms still having features similar to their Koopa forms (namely hair, eyes, and some accessories), they can accomplish some tasks easier... or mess with the students at their school for fun if you're Iggy. another reason is because it's a good way for them to practice for their future positions in the Koopa Army, since having troops that appear human is a good fake out for certain opponents!

and finally, the reason they were all excited for this in the first place: they could live out their anime battle fantasies, because why learn how to have a humanoid disguise if you're not gonna use it for fun AND practicality?

in fact, Rose was the one who had the idea for them to use their humanoid disguises to be a magical girl inspired troupe! outside of generally using the transformations for fun, they also use their human forms at school (with the exceptions of Rose and Jr, who are homeschooled by Kamek since their magic is still somewhat unstable) since it's practice for future battles on the front lines. it helps them learn how to hold their humanoid forms for long periods of time, and the schools all know that it's part of their magic homework from Kamek; if they get tired during the school day, they can go back to their Koopa forms without being accused of being a different student or skipping class.

Ludwig, as the one with the strongest magic, can hold his form the longest. Roy, Morton, Wendy, and Iggy can all hold their transformations around the same time frame as each other, with Iggy being able to hold his form second longest. Lemmy and Larry also hold their forms for similar lengths of time, with Larry being the one who holds his form just a few minutes longer than Lemmy. Rose and Jr, however, hold their forms at different lengths of time each attempt; their magic is still more unstable and erratic due to lack of practice, hece the homeschooling from Kamek.

(also my first ask being about worldbuilding is so perfect because it gives me an excuse to yell about all the worldbuilding ideas™ ive been cooking for MONTHS.)

working on a group shot of the main characters while procrastinating on designing the new characters

have the pencil sketch and the more refined sketch for now, it'll be finished up digitally in ibispaint and then posted here eventually

Honestly I really like the designs. … dunno how to put it in words other than I’d eat the artstyle.?

I wanted them to look younger....I think they don't look too bad anyway

The illustration is an aged up redraw of the cover page from a Nintendo magazine that came out in the 90s: "Adventures of the Super Mario Bros: Bowser Knows Best"

I started drawing this two years ago, but with the sudden illness and death of my six years old cat Merlina, I lost all motivation to draw for about a year and a half. Recently, I had to take some days off job because I was sick, and suddenly found myself returning to this piece and not letting go of it until I saw it finished.

The quality looks a bit wonky in places because my phone is quite old by now, so the camera resolution os not good at all. I might eventually reupload the picture when I have access to a better camera or scanner ♥

Bowser Daddy comes to Tumblr too! With his Koopalings <3

Still trying to figure out a name for my au but made art of the designs

Art dump <3

Art

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.

Headcanon Dump - Mortimer Von Koopa Junior (Morton)

age: 16

MBTI: ISFJ-A

birthday: December 9th

alignment: Lawful Good

he actually shares his birthday with his dad, that's why he's Morton Jr. (their parents aren't exactly known for giving serious names, just slapping the name of whoever famous' birthday matches..except for Larry)

despite being the second youngest, he's the biggest Koopaling clan member.

after the incident that made him and Roy get adopted by Bowser, he had suffered brain damage, which manifests as Broca's aphasia.

Because of his speech disorder, he's often incorrectly labeled as aggressive and stupid

meanwhile in his childhood he was actually one of the "smarter" Koopalings, as Big Mouth. Tragically he's not as listened to nearly as Iggy or Ludwig due to his struggles with expression after developing aphasia.

Even back then he wasn't book smart - he's way more street smart, filling the informal and social knowledge Iggy/Ludwig desperately need

He often blindly mirrors his big brother Roy - not helping his "brute" reputation. Half of the times he doesn't mean to be so rude, he's just doing it because Roy's doing it

By all means, Morton is a gym bro - not to intimidate others however, he just wants to get stronger to protect his family

this also extends to his cooking - which often goes unappreciated because Bowser Junior hates healthy food

His sense of fashion reflects his personality - sporty, simple, comfortable, and a little bit intimidating

The star on his face is actually painted on, similar to Wendy's constantly changing mole. He just thinks it looks cool (and it is cool)

to add on to it, his favorite genre of music is rock/metal, he often times his slamming to the beat.

Out of his siblings, his ride or die is Roy. he's the first who fully accepted his speech disorder (he didn't even knew Morton was disabled at first - he just thought Morton was intentionally speaking like a caveman and treated it as something badass). It's a similar thing that is going on between Larry and Ludwig - Morton looks up to the older and cooler brother, parroting him, Roy is protective and eager to teach him, and also a little pissed at the parroting.

You should never pair these two together without anyone else watching, though. When together they're losing all their brain cells for the funny. You know it's bad when the fun guy Lemmy is correcting them.

Morton also gets along with people who don't dismiss him as stupid - he's not that argumentative inside, he's just copying Roy to look scarier

examples that he's actually nice include but are not limited to: watching whatever Wendy/Iggy want, learning chess to play with Ludwig (it was fun until Morton actually got better than him, Ludwig is a sore loser), being the group's chair and lifting up smaller koopalings to see better (which pretty much means everyone), playing sports with Larry, cooking for the group (excluding Wendy they'd all live off instant ramen)

His role as the clan member is being THE tank, as the strongest physically Koopaling. He needs a solid reason to start throwing punches, but when he's given a proper reason, oo, you're done.

weapon of choice? he'd answer you that it's his fists. But he likes using anything heavy to better control his movement, like hammers and axes.

His weakness is his lack of magic. It does exist technically, but think about it. It requires good memory to cast proper sigils, and it requires speech to incantate spells, neither of which Morton has.

He's very protective of his siblings (including Bowser Junior), he often covers Larry's ears when he hears something inappropriate, or yells at Ludwig to take a break. A mom friend if you will, which is quite funny for the second youngest (third youngest with Junior).

He is a very sweet person underneath his "evil tank" persona. He always ensures everyone is included and has fun, he's not even that mad when Junior ruins his gaming streaks by playing on his account.

Somehow he's the one Bowser Junior tolerates the most, despite numerous complaining to stop acting like his mom, Junior appreciates the stability Morton brings.

As simple as it is, Morton cares about food a lot. Cooking helped him immensely in his recovery, with straightforward instructions and a clear answer when something went right, or wrong. Usually it's Larry who's giving the feedback so the answer is very straightforward.

Which proves my point that Morton isn't stupid (without Roy). He knows a lot about exercise, nutrition, recipes, even with his memory problems. It shows just how much he cares about health, that even his limitations can't stop him

Because of this, his love language are acts of service. "you eat today?" "Morton help" the second he spots something is off he won't go away until he feels you're okay again.

His biggest flaw is actually being docile, in an ironic way. He's well aware of the sheer power he has, and he's hesitant to use it, scared of being labeled as (more) aggressive.

Roy may be seen as pushing Morton around, but he's actually helping him set boundaries. It's better to have a safe person teach him what is or isn't okay, than get manipulated by somebody else.

do you have any headcanons for the koopalings?

Y e s👀👉👈

(I can't think rn so these might come off as vague as possible my bad; ;)

-Bastards. All of them

-Act like any other siblings and try to piss each other off.

-An angry Wendy however, is never a good time.

-The only time they form an alliance is during missions or in order get their way.

-On duty as Bowser's elite force, they take their job's in high regard and with maybe occasional goofing off (depend on who we're talking about) Off duty though, they act like literal clowns.

-The Koopalings have their weekly karaoke nights and either take turns paying or invite a guest only to ditch them last second, leaving the payment onto the guest.

-They are usually in charge of Junior when Bowser's gone or if Kamek decides to dump them with the responsibility. They definitely draw straws.

-All of them are musically talented! (Singing as well but all of them have completely vast stylesfnndnddn).

Larry: Dj mixer and preferably midi fighter since he likes the lil dial's bright colors:)

Wendy: Harp and bass

Morton: Drums

Iggy: FUCKING KAZOO or literally any instrument that gives off chaotic vibes

Roy: Electric guitar😎

Lemmy: Calliope! Cornet as well

Ludwig: Bruh, mf can and will play every single instrument in order to prove his superiority LOL (his only weakness being brass instruments bc of his tooth; he will burn you to a crisp instead)

All his children are reunited again! But someone is missing...

A very happy family reunion 💚

Thanks for participating ❤️

Gracias por participar ❤️

Weird…

finally came around to making doodles of the turtle brats heeheehee

this took such a long time to perfect but very much worth it!

if you asked me who my favorite koopaling is, it’s a very tight tie between Lemmy and Ludwig. I really love Iggy too.

I’ll be sure to draw them a little more often!

can we see ALL of the characters in your [very pretty] art style?

here you go!!! Srry it took so long this took me hours to make. I hope you like it!!

Koopalings meet Luigi

requested by @luddyv0nkoopz

Wendy: Well alright!! Let's see what you got green stache!!!!

Yall, I know the art's a bit crappy. I had went to the dentist today, so not feeling great lol. But hope you enjoy it anyway :)!!

Ya'll I've never drawn Luigi in my life, so cut me some slack. 🥲

Requested by @luddyv0nkoopz!!!

Requests are still OPEN!!!?

LOOK AT MORTONS FACE AND TELL MY YOU DIDNT SMILE.

YOU CANT!!!!!

The Rise of Koopa Kid Final Part

Junior: Troopas! TROOPAS! Wake up!! Please wake up! I know you can!!

Morton: Troopas…dead.

Junior: No. NO!!! I refuse it! I refuse to believe it!!

Morton: He…he lost much blood.

Junior: no…no…Troopas…

Morton: *sniffle*

Junior: Hey, Morty, what’s wrong? :(

Junior: W-what? But…but…you saved me!

Morton: Yeah, but Bowser says if one of us sibling hurt each other, we will be severely punished. And Morton broke rule saving you.

Junior: But…but…BUT SO DID KOOPA KID!!!

Morton: But…Koopa Kid dead.

Junior: …

Morton: *sniffle*

Junior: …

Morton: What does Junior mean?

Junior: I mean—we can’t tell anyone! He’kk never know! But we can’t tell anyone! Not even Ludwig, got it?!

Morton: …

Junior: I! I mean, if that’s okay with you…

Morton: *nods* :3

Junior: Wait, really?! Even after I was a jerk to you?!

Morton: All Morton want to do is protect Junior. :)

Junior: *sniffle* :)

Morton: Morton is now bodyguard.

Junior: :D Okay, okay!! But first I have to explain this to Trooper and Troops…

…

The End

So…hope you liked the story, there will be more to come! Dusk & Dawn is currently in action!!

Also there will be an aftermath post of this story called “The Damage of Koopa Kid” including The Troopa family crisis, Junior & Morton after, & the fate of Koopa Kid

And Thank you!! :3

What's everyone's favorite color?

(mic drop)

Ludwig: Blue and orange I guess.

Larry: Cyan rocks!!

Morton: I don't know, maybe black?

Roy: Purple and black.

Iggy: OooOooh, GREEN!!!

Pom: I like green too :)!

JR: Red is the best color!!!

Op likes green! *mic drop*

What are all the Koopalings opinions on Jr?

AAAAAAAAAAA

I forgot :(

Happy (belated) birthday, Morton!!!!

(It was one of my family members birthdays too yesterday)

YEAHHHHHH, I NEED to stop forgetting my characters birthdays :/

Tbh I was reallyyyy busy yesterday.

even if I wasn't, I still probably would've forgot.

Sorry for no drawing; I don't have access to my sketchbook rn. :[