Before this entry gets to its main point, all who are reading this, including the new (and current watchers can take the time to get up to speed, and that can simply be done by checking on the other various linkage:
ruinc.deviantart.com/journal/2… <-Q&A set 1 & posted info
ruinc.deviantart.com/journal/2… <-Q&A set 2
ruinc.deviantart.com/journal/2… <-Q&A set 3
ruinc.deviantart.com/journal/2… <-Q&A set 4
ruinc.deviantart.com/journal/2… <-Unposted info
ruinc.deviantart.com/journal/2… <-DA achievement list
Now that the speed is up, it's time to get on with the show. Anyway, this will be the last journal created over this first episode of Mario Project--though it will be updated later. Next is the donation door, some of the readers of the project like what is shown and want to show their support as expected, and some will feel like they want to pass some gratuity to the cause, which is more than welcome as you know. Rest assurred that, and this is important to the skeptics,
100% of all donations go toward the project, guaranteed! So if you decide that, after the donation door is opened, you want to give $5 to the cause,
all five dollars goes towards the episode(s) in addition to the raised funds on RUinc's behalf. No one is cheated and nothing is wasted, it all goes towards pages of the episode, and even some added secret pages of certain episodes--and on that note, the first episode has one secret page
Purpose of name- As you know, this is called the "Mario Project", but why? Well, the reason for this naming, aside from the obvious fact that it is an satirical experiment, is to display what was learned from college psychology classes using the Marioverse. As stated from Page 0, this is done for the purpose of satire, but the storyline is based on two specific stages of a person's development: The socialcultural stage in which we as individuals go about the lives we live, do the things we do, interact with others and are interacted with until the end of our sentient existense; the genital stage in which we as individuals learn about our person and the person of someone else in a sexual sense not limited to sexual instance, sexual maturity/discovery and sexual interaction. Here's a visual example of the genital stage:
These pages are the perfect example, mainly because a lot of shit from the critics came from this point, so much in fact that the actual script had to be re-written on the fly for this segment. To clear up things, this bit was taken from an episode of Family Guy, the episode where Stewie tries to teach an British girl how to speak
American English. During a segment, Stewie sits at the table with the girls and flicks a coin away from the table and this girl goes to get. During this process, Stewie watches the girl walk away from the table, bend over to collect the coin, then for a moment, the screen shows the scenario from Stewie's POV, where he's looking up her dress; as a reaction of seing the girls panties, Stewie shrugs it off (look for it on YouTube, but wait a while as it's going through scheduled maintenence). Instead of a shrugged expression, Baby Luigi is shocked to the point that it kicks his bladder into gear, but Baby Mario decides to show interest in it and polaroid the instance
It isn't meant to be portrayed as a sexist joke as some of the Deviants her thought and voiced about in their posts, it's simply a modified bit that gives exception to that old rule on "Girls mature faster than boys." when in fact, maturity is the same age range for both genders... 4-6 months.
Children have a better and more impured sense of sexuality than adults, as love, infatuation, and even visual stimulation are more genuine and fade over time. Another example is Ponyo and how much baseplay Sosuke gets from Ponyo though you probably won't catch it (or even know what to look for). The socialcultural and genital stages are apparent throughout every episode, but there are also bits that are planned for readers to learn from.... that's where the footnotes will play role to.
Storyline- The storyline really shouldn't be explained at this point in time, but since the situation is compromised that all of the pages can't be posted, I will fill you in. Yes, there is sex, it's part of one's genital stage(s) of life, but if you've noticed, things are about couples and characters pairing up.
There is no main character to this project, however, the events of this story are about an actual event that dates back to Greece and the history books of the internet (and most modern libraries) forbid to discuss; there was a festival in the spring to celebrate new life and many festivities were had, but the "nail in the coffin" of this festival is a competition known as "The GUTS"; GUTS being an acronym for its full name, The
Geste
Union of
Two
Sentients... that's all that will be said on the matter. As mentioned before, there are two places where all pages can be seen: Palcomix where all Mario Projects call home (and in color), and the minus world backup of each page in the gallery here
www.furaffinity.net/user/aryu/ and remember that this isn't for anyone, as mentioned in Page 0.
There's a lot of storyline that goes on in Mario Project, a lot more than what is posted in its pages, so after each completed episode, its script will be posted for all to read at the posted link and feel free to compare when the time arrives. Also, if you've noticed, the supporters wall is on the DA page and its supporters will be added over time.
Players- Who is involved in the storyline of the Mario Project and its episodes? With the exception of created characters (mostly by friends/supporters), all the characters involved in secret pages or not,
have some sort of ties to the Mario characters, either from the games or the anime/animations. Kelly is the odd character out at this time as she never appeared in the games, but was the main retainer Peach went to when it cames to wardrobe in Mario Anime. This fact is further supported in Kelly's "Project Profile", and all characters will have a project profile, guest or not, but guests will be asked about kind words said about them in their unique project profile. Project profiles are posted here and on the posted minus world link.... including the profiles of characters on secret pages as the characters on those pages
will not be posted on DA readers.
All questions and comments are welcome, especially since the polls aren't getting answers
