Does anyone know that feeling when you have an idea for a character like "they turn evil out of spite and manage to hack their own system, the power quickly getting to their head and turning into an actual threat" but none of your characters are smart enough for that so you take the dumbest one and make an au for him

For my magic system on the limitations i have made it so that everyone only has a limited amount of magic they can use like a battery that recharges itself over time! If they run out and still try to do magic, it will use your physical power and first Weaken you then start breaking your bones. It's pretty cool to have a list like this!

Simple Tips for Magic Systems

Typically splitting the writing/explanation of the magic helps me to convey my point.

What is it?

just a general explanation of what the magic actually is, maybe a vague explanation of how it works. Who can wield it? Is it genetic or learnt? What does it look like? Stuff like that.

Purpose

The narrative purpose of the magic is it used for flashy fights that hold more emotional weight through the outcome of the battle, or is it the enchantment of an item and the giving of such an item, means something?

Origins/history

This is self-explanatory and I personally believe this is important, although really only works with medium-hard magic systems, soft systems can have it but may cause issues in world-building.

Techniques/methods/Casting

Obviously, it must be explained to some capacity how magic is done and what happens. eg. if 𝑥 is added to y then 𝓏 will occur. Of course, this is respective to what the magic is itself. It’s mainly the place to further expand on the ‘what is it?’ section.

Limitations

THIS ONE IS MY FAVOURITE. Please, cripple your magic to hell, and bring those who wield it down to a level only slightly above the normal person. OR create a cost that is great enough to be debatably not worth it in certain situations. of course this really depends on the hardness of your system. This is also where you put something like the cost and price of your magic.

Progression

how does the magic evolve over the course of a wielder’s life? whether they learn or have it genetically handed down how does one get better at magic?

I’ll be posting an example of how this looks when paired with an actual example soon, so you’re welcome to follow for that, otherwise, I hope this helped! Have a great day :)

A story in two panels

Hey you!

Yes I'm looking at you, random super paper Mario fan or whatever it's not really just that but mostly Mario stuff

Have you ever wondered what happened after the ultimate show? What if Dimentio got a redemption? How did Luigi realistically survive that shit?

Well I've got just the right thing for you!

Powerfly!

No not the bike brand yes i know it has the same name i didn't know and i can't be bothered to think of a new one but that's off the point!

Powerfly is a Mario au created by me that focuses on 2 kids from our world that were so miserable Egadd decided to give them a new chance and gave them robotic bodies in the Mario world and have them be assistants to m&l

It's set around 3-4 years after SPM and has pretty adult topics so yeah go give it a watch please

It has one 2 part episode at the time of watching this but I'm working hard on animating the next part already!!!

https://youtu.be/acLFHNxryr4

Here's the Link

If you want to ask the characters in there (plus Dimentio) anything feel free to do so

Lin mains Rosalina in Mario kart it's canon

"why do ghosts only wear old clothes" because to become ghosts they need to have their soul forged into the living world through the sacrifice of another who gave up a small part of their life to create something

Ghosts stay through paintings which are way more uncommon now than they were in the olden days

Ok so welcome to Lin's worldbuilding rambles while I wait for my rubix cube to charge

In powerfly, if you are a wizard you have 2 stats:

Physical power

And

Magical power

And those two cooperate very well. Magical power is used to do anything that a regular human in this world couldn't do and usually it's enough for most magic. If you don't let it recharge though, it could lead to your body using physical power instead and this means you can get very tired and some ribs break. If it keeps going, your limbs might start to burn or the bones inside to break as well but unless the reason for using THAT much power is emotional you can't really get to that

Meanwhile as a wizard you could also stay up longer and heal your own wounds faster because of the magical power so it would only take around a week for a broken bone to heal if you're well off with magical power

Of course If you break your bones from revenge you'll have to wait like 2 weeks to get your powers back because the little magic that gets reloaded just immediately goes to healing the body

Luigi: ah fuck who is that guy? I'm sure I've seen him before somewhere, and i don't like him but where-

Mario: not that fucker again can't we just go home

This is my own take on him btw

Let me present to you, shady koopa guy. A character made by a friend of mine. Shady koopa guy has anything if it's illegal and steals tires. I'm sure he deals drugs and he somehow got his hands on a super secret watch from one of our roleplays that can travel thru time and space. But that's not his main thing, his main thing is boosting the go-karts in coconut mall so they go hella fast and burn down the mall and stealing tires from cars. His horns fell of but he keeps gluing one of them to his head lmao

Ok but have you guys ever thought about if children's game characters that learned to deal with shit with magic and stuff suddenly had to deal with problems from a way more realistic universe

Just a little example, i was in a roleplay the other day and my character (Dimentio) was hanging out with a few others. Later on one of these got killed and their corpse stayed there

Dimentio had never seen something like this before, in his universe once you die you just get teleported to the afterlife it's simple. He's now super traumatized

Any of y'all got similar ideas for things like this?

Lmao I'm back currently only in the mood to draw dimentio feel free to ask questions about this man in powerfly i dunno his lore here is way more different from canon lore

I stroke my fine moustache as i say my catch phrase, unbeaten for years. "I never needed a prophecy" i say, "Because of course-" i continue, the tension around me building up and up, everyone is waiting for the question. "ITS A ME- MARIO"

You’ve just defeated the dark lord, as you were prophesized to. But as you walk back into camp, everyone looks at you, shocked. “There was no prophecy,” they explain. “We just told you that to give you confidence. How on earth did you kill an unkillable sorcerer?”

Heya! I have decided to dedicate this blog to explaining my Mario based robot-species thing, if you have any questions just ask ig here's a paragraph about them

Basically they are technically robots, their skeletons are made of metal (for the older versions like Stella and Dima it's also the upper body completely because it's covered up by clothes) and they are made to be as close to an actual human as possible, meaning they have artificial blood and skin. In the past, beta designs for Dima that feature wasn't existent yet, that's why he covered his face with a hood. In the parallel (aka the human) world the chosen ones, usually social outcasts, notice a shop in an alleyway scattered all across the world, that sells them exactly one copy of the game for $10. The children then sign up, no one reads the ToS and they wake up in the mushroom kingdom. To skip the step of familiarizing the subject with the Mario bros, the information Egadd had tracked during the usage of his products was also put into the Powerfly OS and because Dima was a failure the subjects have most of their memory erased. The os IS stored on a type of cloud meaning if a subjects body was destroyed their body could be rebuild and you had the same person. While the subject is unconcious/Dead their consciousness transfers back to the human world

TL;DR: Animatronics but more realistic.