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Sicktember 2024 Day 30
Sep. 30th, 2024 05:40 pmWaking Up
Luigi almost missed the moment when Mario’s fingers twitched.
Fandom: Super Mario
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Mario, Luigi
Relationships: Mario & Luigi
Additional Tags: Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort
Length: 500 words
Sicktember Prompts: 30. Past Prompt of Your Choice - Confused/Disoriented [2023], Alt. 1. Hospital Bed
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This fic exists because I couldn't stop thinking about the idea of Mario waking up from some sickness or coma or whatever, and the first thing he’s concerned about is not his own wellbeing or circumstances, but that his brother went so long without shaving or brushing his hair and how fucking weird and uncharacteristic that is. Eventually what that lack of personal grooming implies about Luigi’s mental health state pushes its way to the forefront of Mario’s mind, but initially it’s just “???????” for a solid couple of minutes, at least.
I was envisioning Mario having gotten hit by a curse or something that rendered him unconscious. Actually, I was thinking of it like a Princess Peach game; Mario goes down, and Peach is the one going out and getting what they need to wake him up. The castle would be the hubworld, and when you returned after every level or every world you could find Luigi in various parts of the castle; near the beginning of the adventure he’s almost exclusively by Mario’s bedside, later on he’s in the castle library gathering intel to figure out where Peach needs to go next, and later still he alternates between the previous two locations or wandering the halls or standing outside in the gardens a little more relaxed and confident that they’ll wake Mario up soon. Maybe he even joins Peach in the final boss battle, if there is one.
Luigi almost missed the moment when Mario’s fingers twitched.
Fandom: Super Mario
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Mario, Luigi
Relationships: Mario & Luigi
Additional Tags: Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort
Length: 500 words
Sicktember Prompts: 30. Past Prompt of Your Choice - Confused/Disoriented [2023], Alt. 1. Hospital Bed
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( Here's the fic! )
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This fic exists because I couldn't stop thinking about the idea of Mario waking up from some sickness or coma or whatever, and the first thing he’s concerned about is not his own wellbeing or circumstances, but that his brother went so long without shaving or brushing his hair and how fucking weird and uncharacteristic that is. Eventually what that lack of personal grooming implies about Luigi’s mental health state pushes its way to the forefront of Mario’s mind, but initially it’s just “???????” for a solid couple of minutes, at least.
I was envisioning Mario having gotten hit by a curse or something that rendered him unconscious. Actually, I was thinking of it like a Princess Peach game; Mario goes down, and Peach is the one going out and getting what they need to wake him up. The castle would be the hubworld, and when you returned after every level or every world you could find Luigi in various parts of the castle; near the beginning of the adventure he’s almost exclusively by Mario’s bedside, later on he’s in the castle library gathering intel to figure out where Peach needs to go next, and later still he alternates between the previous two locations or wandering the halls or standing outside in the gardens a little more relaxed and confident that they’ll wake Mario up soon. Maybe he even joins Peach in the final boss battle, if there is one.