I think it's about time to actually do a little focus piece on the titular characters of the franchise themselves, no? >:]
Finally and officially introducing Mario and Luigi for the Super Mario AU! owo
SO! Some lore about the brothers:
The two are fraternal twins, born into the adoption system of this world. Since world peace is essentially achieved for the most part, the adoption system is generally worldwide and very well funded, focusing on quality of life for the children in the system and making sure they're placed into qualified, loving homes. A part of this system is
The Special Stork Delivery service (or simply known as the SS delivery), which is a program of which people may sign up to when theyd like to have children. The service specifically deals with adoption, so the children arent blood related to the parents theyre shipped to, but they are wanted all the same!
As such, the brothers are obviously adopted! The couple they were eventually brought to were toads who lived in a small island village, where the bros grew up in a happy community. The two eventually ventured out into the world when they were old enough, specifically around the time Bowser was crowned King of the Koopa Kingdom. This is important because, as a show of good will and as a means to be reintroduced into the world alliance, the Koopa Kingdom and the Mushroom Kingdom collaborated on a huge, elaborate event called the Super Star Saga. It's basically an expanded version of King of the Hill: all participating contestants go through a set amount of "worlds" to battle their way to the final world, where they must do combat with King Bowser himself in order to both win the grand prize
and get to meet the ruler of Mushroom Kingdom.
Basically the original Super Mario games, but with the clear twist of it all being literally that: a game show. :]
Mario and Luigi are the ones who ended up winning the very first event, which is how they ended up meeting both Bowser and Peach at the same time, and ultimately started their friendship this way! owo
FUNFACTS:
-Mario and Luigi both started out as simple handymen in their village; whatever needed fixin', ya came to them! When they moved closer to the capitol of the kingdom they undertook new careers: Luigi started his own bakery, the Waffle Kingdom Bakery, while Mario went on to become an agent in network with CASO
(Convention Alliance Special Operations), which is the organization responsible for keeping the world alliance safe and maintaining the peace.
-Mario is selectively mute. It's common for him to say a word or two but generally he communicates through sign language. In this universe, sign language is universally taught in all kingdoms of the world alliance as a mandatory, so just about everyone, at the very least,
understands it even if they may have a hard time using it. Luigi, while
not mute, doesn't talk very much due to being rather shy, so ironically Mario is the more talkative of the two. owo
-Peach, Bowser, Luigi, and Mario are all very good friends! A romance will eventually blossom between Luigi and Bowser, but how that occurs and whatnot is for another day. uwu
-The brothers' adoptive parents' names are
Salto and Lady! Salto is a humble plumber while Lady is an artist. Neither brother knows who their birth parents are, but it is of little concern to them.-Mario and Luigi were targets of an attempted kidnapping during a stork's delivery mission: the abduction was carried out by the pirate crew Wart and the 8Bits. Their failing to successfully nab Mario sets into motion the basic plot of Melon's Adventure, in which illustrates how Melon met Mario (and eventually Luigi) and began his journey to bring the brothers to their original destination: their new home and family.
You can start on that story HERE!----------
Aaaand that's all for now! I hope ya'll like the art, more to come soon! ^.^
More Nintendo Stuff:
SakuraStageANI
Entire Master Course Series 
PRINTS!: www.rossdraws.com/shop
asked for my interpretation of what an Old Testament angel style version of Starclan would look like. so wing, halos, way to may eyes, FEAR NOT, ect. Kinda like it tbh
GS on Patreon (two pages ahead) | the beginning of the month is the best time to pledge..!
