hello, folks

If you've been in the fanart channel recently, you may have seen @Theguestcreator mention something about the "RPG Maker Games". Not to be confused with actual RPG Maker Games, this has been a series where he and a motley crew of friends and creators chuck various characters into a Hunger Games simulator and see what happens, me included. And today, it came to an end, with one last battle against... Fawful. Yeah, that green bean guy from M&L.

One of us has been dealing with a particular creepypasta version of him popping up everywhere, she added him to the games one time, and ever since then he's kinda become a reoccuring villain. And now, at the eve of the tenth games, he's become the main threat, the final boss.

Now, I'm a big fan of goofy crossovers, and with all the different characters we've added in over the course of ten games this is about as goofy as Neil Cicierega's Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, so a few days ago I felt a burst of inspiration take me. And some hours of looking up MIDIs and samples later, I present to you...

A battle theme for King Fawful. (that's what we're calling this souped-up, half-creepypasta half-BiS amalgamated version of him).

Listening to this, you'll probably notice a few familiar motifs. Much of the song's melodies are taken from parts of Fawful's theme and the final boss theme from Bowser's Inside Story, with one part also drawing from Superstar Saga's final boss. And because Guesty is a big fan of Epic: the Musical, there's also a reference to that in here, because... well, why not? One part of Survive worked shockingly well with Grand Finale.

This is a very goofy song, but at the same time, it's the culmination of a pretty fun project between a group of friends, one that created stories and arcs, moments of glorious victory and tragic defeat, and inspiration for works of art, music and writing alike. And as I sit here writing this, knowing that I won't have a series of screenshots showing how one of my characters killed another to look forward to... I smile, knowing that even if it might be over, even if it might not have ended the way we wanted to... it has given all of us a good chortle.

-gote