Thread:The Ambiverted User/@comment-34212301-20190222023733

someone's headcanon Jr.’s mother was the equivalent to a “highschool sweetheart” to Bowser: around this time, a country wide education system didn’t exist yet for the Koopas. Anyway, Bowser met her on one of his many campaigns to bring the Koopa tribes together under a united banner, and he was absolutely smitten upon first seeing her.

She was taken with the young, awkward but admirably driven koopa herself: many of the males of her village were a little too rowdy and pushy for her own tastes, but more than that, none of them looked at her: they deemed her too small, therefore unsuitable to be a worthy mate.

The two hit it off well and quickly became friends, and from there their relationship became a bit more intimate during Bowser’s visits to her tribe. Eventually though, even with years of companionship between them, Bowser’s newfound duties as king left him unable to visit the lady koopa as often as he’d liked, and she had ambitions of her own, so the two ended the relationship on good terms.

Fast forward some years, and the gal suddenly shows up once again in Bowser’s life, and quite by accident: Bowser was visiting one of the neighboring tribes as requested by one of his advisers to see to some sort of issue, it doesn’t really matter what it was, but the two literally ran into each other here.

It was a bit awkward but it was good to see each other once more, and after making time to hang out and reacquaint themselves, the two made plans to see each other more often. It’s around this time they rekindle their relationship. Everything was going smoothly, but then she fell pregnant.

It wasn’t a planned pregnancy, but Bowser was overjoyed by the prospect of starting a family: the two had already had talks of marriage and Bowser had begun to make plans on officially asking her in private.

She, however, wasn’t as excited. A kid? So early in her life? She didn’t feel herself ready for it, at all. But instead of talking to Bowser about it, she kept quiet about her reservations. Not that Bowser was entirely innocent either: he was far too blinded by his own happiness that he didn’t truly see that his mate wasn’t ready to have a child in the first place.

Months went by, and then Bowser Jr.’s born. Bowser is filled with love the moment the tiny koopa is settled in his arms: he knows he’d do anything for his newborn son. And the mother… feels nothing. She looks at her son and feels a strange array of things, but the connection Bowser felt upon seeing the baby is not something she experiences.

She’s not the same after that: she rarely smiles, she ignores Jr for the most part, barely talks to Bowser, she withdraws into herself. No matter what he does, she no longer responds to Bowser like she used to, and he’s worried. What was wrong? Was she sick?

He never fully receives an answer, because a few weeks after Jr.’s born, she leaves. There’s not a trace of her left in the castle but the son she’s walked out on, a vague but teary apology note with her necklace on it, and Bowser’s broken heart.

Bowser hasn’t seen her since, and that note haunts him to this day. 