Companions! (HC)

Everyone, meet the dino friends of the Super Mario gang! :)

I know it's mainly because Mario is the main character and therefore needs a "trusty steed" of sorts, I.E Yoshi, but there are times where I wished Luigi and Peach had their own buddies, so that's exactly what I did here! Birdetta is Peach's companion, Peppers is Luigi's, and of course Yoshi is Mario's. uwu

Yoshi follows Mario around and joins him on his adventures, thereby making him a Spec-Op of the Mushroom Kingdom as well. Long story short he's essentially Mario's partner; he watches his friend's back just as Mario does his!

Birdetta met Peach when they were both youngsters, with Birdetta's mother having worked in the castle kitchens. The two became good buds and would play all around the castle, something Peach remembers very fondly because at the time she didn't really have many friends. In fact, Peach would probably say Birdetta was the first legitimate friend she's ever made, Daisy the second. Today, Birdetta aids Peach as a royal messenger, where it's her job to run throughout the kingdom to deliver important documents between jarls. She's exceptionally good at her job due to her speed, and sometimes have been tasked with getting messages to neighboring kingdoms.

She and Yoshi are mates. :)

Peppers met the brothers through Yoshi, since she was in a neighboring tribe and often came to Yoshi's tribe to play. She accompanied the boys when they all made the decision to travel to Mushroom Kingdom, and when Luigi first opened his bakery Peppers was adamant about working in it, so it was pretty much a natural progression since they were already roommates. :)

While we're on the topic, please have some headcanon regarding Companions and how they work:

Companions are animals with human-level intelligence. This generally means that while they don’t necessarily have their own kingdoms, they usually reside in simplistic societies with clear structure and culture, and as such they are considered sapient. Companions typically aren’t able to speak (or if they do, it’s extremely limited due to their vocal range) but can very clearly communicate regardless through other means, whether it be through universal form of Sign Language or some other way.

They got the name “companion” since in general terms they are friendly and are sometimes known to have families to host them when they travel into much larger, much more modern cities and towns. As such there were laws put in place to make sure the hosting families did not treat these beings as pets or even live-in servants, something I can imagine being an issue before the World Convention was formed. As time went on, the Convention had begun a program where companion races can petition to be recognized as a Kingdom and join their ranks. The requirements of such include having one or more Sponsor kingdoms, their own land/island, and clearly having an established body of government of some form (that is in some ways democratic in nature).

The very first “companion race” to have done this are the Kongs and the Kremlings, in which they were officially named a kingdom under the name D.K Isle.

Other companion races include Birdos, Yoshis, Rexes, and Nintendogs.

Now, Pets are animals who do not hold human-level intelligence and are, typically, domesticated from their much more feral counterparts for a variety of purposes. Sometimes its for companionship, sometimes for livestock, beasts of burden, whatever it may be. These animals include Spinies, Buzzy Beetles, Reznors, Poochies, Dhino-Rhinos, so on.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand uh yeh! More content to come soon! owo