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So... I feel like I've come up with an amazing antagonist for my upcoming series of Mario fan fics by expanding upon a rather underutilized (and perhaps even loathed—no, seriously, I always thought it was stupid) piece of fanon that originated on the Mario fansite Lemmy's Land:
DAD: The first Koopa, now viewed among many Koopas as a god of sorts. You know, as in "Oh my DAD!!!" Koopas who worship DAD are known as Familikoopas. (Important Terms)
A Google search of the site reveals that Familikoopism was only mentioned in the above quote and in six submissions and from the looks of it was only ever considered the Marioverse's form of religion. "DAD," being the website's swear substitute for "Oh my God," obviously saw much more use. I even recall reading stories where DAD was more than a swear word and was an actual character (usually the antagonist).
My story won't feature DAD, but rather, the concept of Familikoopism as a historical belief system. My idea is as follows:
There was at one time a sect of Koopas, known as Familikoopas, who worshiped their ancestor as a god, referred to as 'The First Koopa' or just 'The First.' However, a Koopa warlord—an ancestor of the current Koopa Royal Family—waged war against them and their civilization fell. The warlord wiped the majority of them out and the remaining few assimilated into the warlord's new kingdom. He proclaimed himself king of this newly established 'Koopa Clan' and ruled with an iron fist. Nearly all records of the Familikoopa society were turned to ash by the warlord-turned-king's own fire breath in an attempt to prevent rebellion of his newly-conquered subjects. Due to this, Familikoopism eventually died out and, today, not much else is known about the religion or the society that practiced it. Rumor has it, however, that Bowser's Royal Adviser, Kamek, possesses a few documents that escaped the burning hidden away in his private study...
In a sort of meta sense, the belief system dying out mirrors the fact that Lemmy introduced the idea in his "Important Terms" section of the website close to the beginning (like, at least 2003, possibly earlier) and hardly anyone used it (with the exception being DAD as a swear substitute).
Also, because it has mostly died out by the time of my story, I don't have to explain the actual beliefs of Familikoopism in much detail so it won't be based on any real world religion (I'm pretty sure one of the people who chose to elaborate on the concept did just that and it didn't turn out well at all).
Now, you might be wondering, "Wait a minute, what about the villain?" Well, as I said, it isn't DAD, but it is someone who believes in him. As I'm typing this, I don't want to reveal too much because it'll give away what is arguably the best twist in the story. I will say, however, that the villain is a descendant of the original Familikoopas and still believes their ways. He appears at first to be a sort of a religious extremist, but there is much more to his character than that. Again, don't want to spoil too much...
Anyway, I'm excited that over time I was able to turn what basically originated as one-sentence back story for a swear substitute into this really cool villain because of what it implied. I'm kind of geeking out about it since I haven't even mentioned the best part but I want to keep that a surprise.
I suppose I should also note that this villain is not the one from "Silva," but from a sequel story (there's gonna be at least two).
2017 Edit: This info is slightly outdated now. I'm still using this idea, more or less, but in a way that's more nuanced, with The First doing something that led to him being revered by his followers. Eventually, this reverence morphs over the ages into the myth-like status he has in the current day as being a "god." So... he's not truly a god. In fact, I think I'm downplaying the "historical belief system"-thing further than I initially planned as even a generic thing like that leads to it being too close—at least, in my eyes—to real-life organized religion.
Edit 2: Well... after some thought, I've realized that in changing things up like that—i.e. making The First Koopa not really be a god—I kind of messed up some other quite important plot points for my story. Yeah, I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing when it comes to this. Perhaps the "role" can be split into two? Like, there's a real "DAD"/"The First Koopa" and a fake one who takes on his name after doing that "thing" that led to his followers revering him. Hmm... Yeah, I think that actually fixes the problem I was having and sets up something later in the story quite well...
EDIT 3: Oh my DAD! I only just now realized why they were called Familikoopas! "DAD" is the head of their Koopa Family—the literal father of all Koopas. I'm an idiot.
EDIT 4: Wait, that means that in changing the name from "DAD" to "The First Koopa," I've removed the entire reason for them to be called Familikoopas... Crap. Maybe something like The Father of Koopas could be a middle ground between the ridiculousness of "DAD" and the more reverent and realistic-sound of "The First Koopa."
EDIT 5 (2018): Finally came up with a name that fits the above criteria.
Felt like this was too long to be a status update
Took most of last year "off" from writing and/or planning my fan fic (after the 10,000+ word marathon I pulled, I was kind of burnt out) but recently picked up working on it again (read: literally today). Also have a neat project I started working on a couple weeks ago that's a nostalgic re-imagining of an absolutely crazy subplot in an RP I used to be a part of (SSBRP). It's basically a short retelling of the events (since they aren't available anymore as the RP was deleted) and an accompanying piece of art (albeit edited from some official artwork since I'm too lazy to actually draw this one).
[...huh, think I may have used a tad too many
Brief update
I made more progress on my fanfic during the past week than I did in the entirety of last year. Granted, I tend to work on it in short bursts, but this was different. I sort of had a "eureka" moment and the individual pieces of the overarching plot began falling into place as if the story was an incomplete jigsaw puzzle that I just haven't assembled yet. And... it kind of is one.
Since the beginning of this project, I've really been wanting to make sure that the events of the story don't merely happen without reason but, instead, flow together naturally and, to that end, I've been trying to almost "discover" how the story unfolds rather than
Been a while...
Between work, school, and other developments in life, I haven't had much time for—or interest in—writing or art (Mario fan fics/fan art, in particular). Thus, I haven't made a ton of progress on my planned fan fiction project which was tentatively titled Silva (I say tentatively because it has since morphed into something that doesn't really revolve around the previously-titular character much at all and I need to come up with a new title for it*). The biggest developments with this project in the past year or so have been me planning out almost all the major plot points of the narrative and deciding to change the format of the st
Update on the fan fic I'm reworking
I mentioned in my last journal that I'm re-imagining an old fan fic of mine. Well, I've been making a lot of progress on it and have it nearly all planned out. The main thing I'm missing is a primary antagonist for the story (and I have it written in a way that requires one). Sure, I have Silva himself, but he can't really be the main antagonist anymore because his role in the story has changed. So, I'm still trying to figure out what I'm gonna do about that...
Um... anyway, here's some info on the story:
The premise for the story is basically the following: After finding out he and the other Koopalings aren't related to Bowser,* Ludwig fl
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Oh I remember DAD, the supposed god of all Koopas in LL fanon. Your story looks an interesting idea and will look forward to how it turns out.