Fic: This Tower (of Strength)

[mrsluigivargas]

This Tower (of Strength)
Mario, cursed to be trapped in an old, forgotten tower until the day he died.
Bowser, who had only expected to feel an amused glee about Mario’s misfortune.

Fandom: Super Mario
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Mario, Bowser
Relationships: Bowser/Mario
Additional Tags: AU – Rapunzel Fusion, Angst with a Happy Ending, Enemies to Lovers
Length: 3,502 words

Remember those Bowsario AUs that I’d written about last year? I put the first one on AO3! I’m doing so partly because I realized that this fic was 3.5k words, so honestly this amount of work deserves to go on the Archive, partly because I’m trying to post at least one fic a month and this is a quick and easy thing to clean up so I can spend the rest of August working on my Sicktember fics, and partly because one of those Sicktember fics is set in this AU, so I wanted the context to be easily accessible.

But yeah, this fic is very “Mario has a bad time and Bowser is also there”, haha. It has some similar emotion writing to Ti voglio tanto bene. It’s a nice space to swirl around in, as I’ve probably said before.

I really love the closing lines for this fic. I’m almost sad that I used it up here, on a glorified outline. Oh, well.