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Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 5h

Anyway that’s my whole Brothership rambling thread I randomly decided to make, keep in mind this is just my interpretation of the game and shouldn’t diminish anyone else’s view on it 🙏

Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 5h

I think this quote sums it all up quite nicely - “People want to blame all the world's problems on some single enemy they can fight, instead of a complex network of interrelated forces beyond anyone's control." - Pearl, Steven Universe

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Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 5h

Sure, Mario & Luigi may have brought Concordia back together. But they didn‘t (And shouldn’t have to) fix the deep, rooted problems facing Concordia as a whole. It isn’t something that any one person or small group can just be expected so solve.

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Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 5h

In a sense, Reclusa represents lies and complacency used to hurt people, to run away from the big problems.

While Cozette/Zokket represents the byproduct of what happens when those problems aren’t faced head on. It leads to short-term solutions that don’t actually, truly fix the problem.

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Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 5h

Reclusa twisted Zokket’s desires into lies to further his own goals, to destroy the problems of another world in order to avoid harsh truths.

Even when Zokket is Cozette again, Cozette still expresses Zokket-like behaviors: to be alone, to isolate… the two are one, after all.

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Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 6h

Zokket represents the part of someone that can be locked away, their resentment, their desires to grow and change beyond what they were “chosen“ to do, for better or worse.

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Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 6h

(cont) realize how complacent they’ve been, how they shouldn’t take what they have for granted.

Cozette’s deepest, darkest desires were fulfilled as a new identity, Zokket. He is a person that can’t bring himself to care about others or remember their names except for when they get in the way.

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Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 6h

It’s the whole reason why Cozette was the perfect person to help enact Reclusa’s plans. Everyone already treated her like a machine. If he gave Cozette a push in the right direction, he could help her become someone else, escape responsibilities from people who truly don’t care and make them (cont)

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Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 6h

When Reclusa says Cozette was ”brainwashed pretty good”, he is still lying. Even after Zokket’s boss fight, Reclusa still tries to manipulate Cozette by trying to get her to believe the lie that Cozette didn’t break Concordia apart. That the blame could be shifted, foisted onto someone else.

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Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 6h

Reclusa traps people in their fantasies, allowing them to avoid harsh realities while he allows worlds to expire, aka getting rid of any bigger problems by just eliminating everything at once. (Eerily similar to Super Paper Mario now that I mention it)

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Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 6h

Back to Cozette, it might seem at first that her time as Zokket was just Reclusa using her a puppet for his own schemes, right? He even says it himself after you defeat Zokket.

However remember this. Reclusa is built upon lies, he is built upon complacency.

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Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 6h

This is so blatant in the game itself, The Great Conductor sat there and relied on Mario & Luigi to save Concordia when Cozette was unavailable, and his quest even showcases how lazy he is. (Note: I don’t hate him, this is an intentional character flaw that allows the events of the story to happen)

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Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 6h

But everyone else only saw Cozette as some kind of equivalent to a machine, a product that keeps them happy and satiated.

All the Concordians worship bonds like a religion and yet when Concordia splits apart, they don’t do anything, they wait for someone else to provide a fix to the problem first.

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Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 6h

They never ask how Cozette is as a person. She has a gigantic burden placed upon her, having to sustain the Uni-Tree WHILE also training Connie to be the next Wattanist.

Ofc Connie is innocent in all this, of course a child would look up to their mentor.

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Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 6h

The biggest example of this ingame I can think of is Cozette/Zokket’s whole deal.

When playing through the game, hardly anyone if ever talks about Cozette as if she were a real person, they always build up her accomplishments and how she’ll be everyone’s savior and yada yada

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Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 6h

(SPOILER WARNING PAST THIS POINT)

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Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 6h

It may just seem like a game about making new bonds, but it also tackles deep-rooted issues of complacency, how people will more readily accept what’s easy to believe to keep themselves happy rather than face a difficult truth, a difficult problem that can’t be solved in just one day

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Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 6h

Something I love about Mario & Luigi Brothership is despite how simple the game seems at first, the storyline and characters (especially a certain wire-cutter man) have more depth than pretty much any other Mario game when you examine the game deeper than surface level

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Kirika @ridillsword.bsky.social · 8d

Hot take but most times angst/fucked up sttuff tha works works precisely because there's lighter stuff to balance it out, and characters to care for.

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Westy 🔹🐻‍❄️🔹 🔜 Furpoc (𝓒𝓞𝓜𝓜𝓢 𝓕𝓤𝓛𝓛) @westboidave.bsky.social · 12d

The REAL space diva! ⭐✨
(Move over, Rosalina!)

Illustration of Lubba from Super Mario Galaxy 2 with three multicolored lumas floating around her. She's seen proudly patting her belly while winking towards the viewer.

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Jayjar100 (Author of Welcome to Bugaria) @jayjar100.bsky.social · 12d

Did Silksong really have to have a required boss fight with a bunch of constant flashing lights, I tried it a few times before having to quit and my eyes still feel weird the next morning

Yeah idk if I’ll be able to beat this game, did it never come up to add an accessibility option for this?!

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Katie || Adante @adanteallegro.bsky.social · 15d

Bugtober Day 5 - Dysfunctional Trio

Whenever Alphie isn't shown in a comic, all of the other characters should be asking, "Where's Alphie?"

#comics #bugfables #bugtober

Dysfunctional Trio
Panel 1:
Mothiva gloats, "To get back at Team Snakemouth, we need a third team member!"
Zasp says, "OK"

Panel 2:
Off screen, someone says, "Did someone say THIRD TEAM MEMBER?"

Panel 3:
A totally radical Aphid guy shows up. He looks like he came straight out of the 90s. The bubbles say, "It's Alphie!" "Radical!" "Don't do drugs!" "To the X-TREME!" "Original Character DO NOT STEAL"

Panel 4:
Mothiva and Zasp just stare at Alphie. Alphie is still posing.

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Katie || Adante @adanteallegro.bsky.social · 20d

BUGTOBER 2025 IS HERE!

Here is this year's prompt list for Bugtober! Do all of the prompts! Do some of the prompts! Do one or two of the prompts! Do none of the prompts? It's up to you! Most important thing is to have fun!

If you'd like, you can tag your works for this as #bugtober . #bugfables

Bugtober 2025 prompt list.
1. Snakemouth Den
2. Puzzle
3. Spell-Casting
4. Forgotten
5. Dysfunctional Trio
6. Narrow Escape
7. Tournament
8. Ominous
9. Brambles
10. Favorite Character
11. Copycat
12. Flood
13. Test Subject
14. Cave-In
15. Flashback
16. Adventure
17. Hobbies
18. Snack
19. Empower
20. Favorite Boss
21. Chaos
22. Bad Endings
23. Technology
24. Close Call
25. Crossover
26. Uneasy Alliance
27. Fishing
28. Rebellion
29. Celebration
30. Stars
31. Everlasting

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