#zettel #gaming #potentialessay sourced from: [[Super Paper Mario]] # Every Chapter in Super Paper Mario is a Wedding Vow There is an overarching theme of love in this game in Super Paper Mario. I mean, Pure Hearts, the game STARTS and ENDS with a wedding. The start is out of a false, forced love, and the end is a true marriage. ==The idea of love in each chapter reads like wedding vows==. Love is timeless. Love is pure and powerful enough to triumph over any obstacle. Love is mutually given through trust. Love gives us meaning. Love creates forgiveness / resolves conflict. Love endures all hardships. Love is giving despite circumstance. Love can save us from ourselves and the darkest of places. ## Examples: - Chapter 1: Merlumina as a joke, but also a love for all future generations, love is giving yourself for those in the future who you'll maybe never meet. Love was here before you, and it will be there after you. (Love is timeless) - Chapter 2: Mimi's love of Rubees is impure, meant to be something the player looks down upon, love of money as a means to fuel evil,. Despite the invincibility from Rubees and Bleck's power, the pure heart break's Mimi's powers which allows the heores to triumph - (Love is pure, powerful and allows us to triumph of any obstacle) - Chapter 3: Francis' obsession is a toxic form of love, we should aspire to not be obsessive collectors, and Tippi's love for us generating a pure heart - (Love is Mutually given through trust) - Chapter 4: Squirps is operating off of the love of his mother her request for his duty - (Love gives meaning) - Chapter 5: King Croacus is only acting from the love for his people, but has become blinded by rage from literally being poisoned, toxic love. And only after we acknowledge the faults from both parties can we get the heart and heal both sides - (love can allow us to forgive, or perhaps forgiveness brings love) - Chapter 6: Love endures despite the end of the world, also this is where we see the confirmation of bleck and Tippi being Blumiere and Timpani - (Love endures all hardships) - Chapter 7: Luvbi, Jaydes and Grambi as a familial unit, found family to some effect, but they love each despite knowing Luvbi's eventual fate and sacrifice. Despite the obvious knowledge that they will be hurt, they love anyways. - (Love is giving despite circumstance) - Chapter 8: the conclusion of the bleck and Tippi story, and the main story. You literally go into the darkest place in the game to save a man from his own actions, and the game ends by rejecting the darkness and void and admitting love still exists. - (Love can save us from ourselves and even the darkest of places) hoooooooooooooly shit