tabularasa_rp | (open) Beware the Forest Mushrooms

In early February, before the cases of Overgrowth begin, Bowser sets out from the Merlaut in the morning. He wears a new outfit the void has given him, which is the garb of a doctor, though he’s currently not wearing the head mirror or stethoscope that came with the outfit. Specifically, the berries that grant immunity of fire and heat, and taste very spicy. His plans for them, however, do not have to do with either trait.

Once he has them, he goes to the Heavenly Blanc, using its kitchen to put the berries into bowls, leaving some unharmed, dicing some into small cubes, grinding others to dust, and mashing some into paste. The altered berries are mixed with various other substances, some with water, or lava, or paint, or whatever Bowser thinks will make some kind of reaction. Some are even set on fire. Though Bowser is no chemist of any sort, his hope is that the void, in its complete ignorance of actual science, will allow the concoctions to work anyway.

After all this, Bowser goes to the volcanic region of the Wyndon Simulation Joint. One by one, he drinks each of the potions he has created, and tries to breathe fire.

Shortly after they appear, Bowser begins using the rhythm games at the BATHzone very frequently. The shower and bath themselves are of no interest to him. The only thing he goes there for is to have the highest score.

This is what leads to Bowser standing in front of the scoreboard in the bathing area, wearing only his shell. He stands in silence, looking at the board. The score is certainly good, far better than most could attain, but it’s still far from where Bowser wants it to be.

When not doing research, Bowser’s lab coat and a satchel have become parts of his normal outfit along with his shell and spiked bands. However, though he’s only recently regained the lab coat, he ends up coughing blood onto the sleeve while walking through the caverns of Mt Silver. However, he also coughs up a petal, which he catches in the air between his claws.

As soon as he catches the petal, however, it ignites. As quickly as it appears, it is reduced to ash. Bowser looks at what little is left of the petal for a few moments in confusion, only saying the word “What?”

Eventually, Bowser moves on from coughing up combustible petals and starts coughing up entire flowers: fire flowers, to be precise. To his dismay, Bowser finds that these flowers don’t have any power-up properties, but whenever he coughs them up, he tries to preserve them. Once one is produced, he quickly buries the roots in the ground, then scoops up the soil and the flower to bring them home to place them in a pot.

However, if he thinks he’s likely to be caught in the act, Bowser quickly hides the flower in his satchel before he can be seen. By now, he understands Overgrowth, at least somewhat, and is trying to keep secret that he actually has it, and tries even harder to keep secret that he’s trying to preserve the results of the symptoms.

Edited 2021-02-26 03:53 (UTC)

In the last stages of overgrowth, vines grow out from inside Bowser’s shell, with any wounds created by the disease covered either by Bowser’s shell or lab coat. There is only one visible wound, which is on his head. From it grows a vine that coils around Bowser’s horn.

Bowser sits at his usual spot in the Heavenly Blanc, eating red berries and drinking hard liquor, not that it actually makes him drunk. If someone approaches, or sits across from him, he speaks slowly and with a hoarse voice, saying “What do you want? I’m not giving you any kind of confession, so if you’re here for that, get lost.”

Edited 2021-02-26 03:53 (UTC)

Bowser's at a ley line in Takoba Beach when he discovers shapes, blue triangles, squares, and circles. At first, he merely things Huh, these are new. they seem to be most prevalent near where he is, and as he gets closer, the shapes become more frequent. When he gets close enough, he reaches an arm out, and they seem to be absorbed into him.

Then, he breathes out a blast of flame. Once the flame is gone, it is quickly replaced with roaring laughter. "GWAHAHAHAHA! CAPTAIN FLAME IS BACK AGAIN!" Having said this, he turns his attention back to the shapes, quickly realising that they are like the magic of his world. He finds he can manipulate them with his thoughts, and use them to cast basic spells. By arranging the right shapes in the right ways, he casts a spell that transmutes a bit of sand into a gold coin, then shoots a jolt of electricity at a nearby piece of metal. He laughs again, then continues experimenting.

Bowser looks at the back of the throne with the list of names with seething rage. He didn't really know any of the people who are gone. Not all that well, anyway. But there are so many. His own name, "~~Bowser Koopa~~" is there, engraved in, scratched out, and then engraved in again, a little deeper now due to the repeat.

But what really gets his attention are the names "~~Ren Amamiya~~" and "~~Goro Akechi~~". Not that he was close with these people either, but because he'd heard that both had gone home, and at around the same time. They probably had some kind of answers, Bowser imagines, that are now locked away from him. Probably forever. Or maybe they'd have nothing, but now Bowser had no way of knowing, no way to ask as he had intended to.

More than that, there are so many people that had been there from the beginning that we gone as well. Aerith, Damien, Tifa, Izuku, Leo, Cloud, Hornet. All people from the beginning. All people he'd only interacted with once. The last of these people he'd even fought. There was some fear, that the entirety of the first generation of void people would be gone and that Bowser would either be the only one left or disappear along with them and be nothing again. However, there was also regret that he had not known these people better. He could have had a good rivalry with one of these people, even made a good nemesis. Or even, just maybe, he could have become friends with one.

The only one of these emotions he lets out is rage. He grips the throne, his claws almost digging into it, and lets out a primal, animal-sounding roar.

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