Peach the day she meets the infant Bowser Jr.! She's pretty bewildered that Bowser even

a son. o3o The doodle was made to accompany the headcanon on how Peach met the young prince, but it's also a response to the many questions I got about whether or not I'd draw the Nintendo Princesses. I haven't actually sat down and properly translated Peach in my style, but I do like how she came out here. <: As for the headcanon, here it be:

The entire time Bowser was with Neo (my headcanon version of Jr.’s mother), Mario and co doesn’t hear anything from him for about a year. But one night, at least a couple of weeks after Neo runs away, he outta nowhere shows up at Peach’s balcony. After nearly scaring her shitless, he asks to come in, and it’s in the way that he asked (so quiet and subdued, tired,

. Bowser never sounds defeated, even when he is) that compels the kindly princess to let him in even against her better judgement.

When she asks what exactly it was he wanted, he basically dumps his son (carefully) into her arms with the quiet admission of “this is my son. His name’s Jr.” And she’s

. “

son?” is all she can really manage at first but, yep, this is definitely Bowser’s son: albeit lighter in color and yellow eyes instead of red, the child looks

like his father. It’s no wonder he was gone for so long.

It takes a moment for her to settle onto her next question: “Where’s his mother?” Bowser can barely say anything more than a sad, almost bitter “she left us.” and after a long, awkward silence, Bowser finally tells her what he came to her for.

For help.

He hasn’t slept properly in weeks since Neo left and he doesn’t know the first thing about being a father. But Jr’s counting on him to be the best he can be, and he’s afraid he’ll end up like his own parents in the wake of all the stress: ignoring his child. He’s scared, he doesn’t know what to do, he doesn’t know where else to turn to other than Kamek or Bowsette but both are out of country and it’s just him, alone in his castle and

and–

And Peach stops him with a hand on his arm. And she tells him that she’ll help him.

This is largely the reason why Jr. originally believed Peach was his mother: she basically helped raise the child. This night also marks the beginning of Bowser and Peach’s friendship (sorry Peach x Bowser shippers, no romance to be had here o3o).





Originally wasn't going to post this into my gallery and just leave it as a status but I got asked by a couple of folks to just throw it in here. And hey! I suppose it won't hurt any. uwuI actually have quite a few headcanons and artwork to go with them for the Nintendo world. I'll eventually start posting them. Until then have some links!