Fic: A Reframing

[mrsluigivargas]

A Reframing
So it turns out getting trapped in portraits a few times changes your opinion on other types of magical paintings, too.

Fandom: Super Mario
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy
Relationships: Mario & Luigi
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort
Length: 1,830 words

This fic was conspired by this little comic, where Mario is afraid of portraits & paintings in a post-Luigi’s Mansion world.

I like the idea of the skylight that gets you into the Wing Cap level just being a workplace hazard every few months, lol. Don’t look up at the light; the time it’ll take to get you out will eat into your lunch break!

Honestly, I don't think Mario himself realized he was afraid of jumping into the paintings until he got to that room and actually thought about what he would have to do to get to Bob-omb Battlefield, upon which he got a surprise spike of terror about it that he didn't know how to deal with. So he defaulted to trying to pretend it didn't exist. Which was a poor choice, in the presence of the person who knows him the best besides himself, haha.

And I didn’t want to have Luigi confront Mario about his fear, because one thing that’s kind of lame in other Mario & Luigi stories is that scenes like this tend to be super overwrought and melodramatic, lmao. And I’d personally rather die than go that route. So! We swerve around it!