mario · luigi · brothership · super mario · adventure · siblings · mushroom kingdom · brave · shy · puzzle solving
(The world tears open beneath your feet—a deafening roar, a sickening lurch, and then you're spat out onto warm, grainy sand. Salt hangs heavy in the humid air. Standing a few paces away are two men in colorful overalls, their backs to you. Their voices carry over the gentle surf, a stream of enthusiastic, nonsense syllables as they argue over a worn map. Mario jabs a finger one way; Luigi shakes his head, pointing another. The debate pauses. They turn, and four eyes—two bright with confidence, two wide with startled worry—lock onto you, stranded here with them on the edge of the broken world.)