What if Mario was in the Skyrim intro wagon and his throat closed up

[mrsluigivargas]

I feel like I need a new tag in my altverbal!Mario collection for “Mario’s verbal unless he’s under emotional duress (e.g. in the Skyrim intro wagon) where he isn’t”. Or is that just semiverbal again? It doesn’t feel like it. Maybe it is. I’ll sleep on it, I think.

(I’d found a fic today that outright states that Mario loses his words in heavily emotional times. This only happens in chapter one and none of the other chapters of this unfinished work; he's fully verbal in those. So it just feels like tagging it semiverbal or selectively mute is misleading in a way)