Fic: you're at the bottom, this is it

[mrsluigivargas]

you're at the bottom, this is it
After so many kidnappings and unwanted advances by Bowser over the years, an especially trying night at the end of which she’d gotten kidnapped by him again has Peach finally snapping and letting him have it. This is some of the aftermath.

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

This fic exists because I had a hankering for writing this part of the timeline, the low point Bowser has to hit and the uncomfortable truths that have to be dragged forward for him to truly be part of this polycule. Also, I had the image of Kamek kneeling next to a Bowser in his shell, talking to him and threading a hand through his spikes, similar to how he did in Chapter 9 of A Dream of Sunny Skies.

What Peach says exactly isn’t very important, so I didn’t bother writing it. The only important thing was Bowser’s reaction. And sure, he had been terrible to her in the past and she’s definitely justified in snapping and letting him have it, but her words are still allowed to sting, you know? I didn’t want there to be any winners here. Not Bowser, who’s fledgling character development was just harshly stuck down, not Peach, who was filled with a fury she’d never felt before, and now has to sit with how cruel she’s capable of being and the emotional crash that follows, not Luigi, who inadvertently kickstarted this whole mess and had had his own fair share of being yelled at, not Mario, who is forced to be a bystander to this entire ordeal. But they’ll recover from this!