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(. ❛ ᴗ ❛.) Hi I'm Moni 28 year old trans gal She/Her He/Him They/Them It/Its I stream and draw sometimes Howdy! ( ╹▽╹ ) 🌾🍄🌻🐏⛅
![Continuous Standardization of Toad Designs in Successive Iterations of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
[Toads in prototype version have odd cap shapes, nonstandard colors and exaggerated faces. In the GBA version, the colors have been made more standard and the caps have been normalized. In the 3DS version the Toads are just recolors of the regular Toad design]
Note that Toad NPCs have been shuffled around between versions so there is not always a 1:1 correspondence between which Toads use which designs.
Source: tcrf.net user "Supercoolsonic", tcrf.net/Proto:Mario_%26_Luigi:_Superstar_Saga/Early_Sprites/NPCs](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:heeihz7xdhf7dbjx4befobqw/bafkreiggkxcbn4orte3lqcqya6hjgafopvvzq7r6zuzphc6kyfx32dcbgi)
![The rim lighting effect in Paper Mario is created in an extremely simple manner.
[the sprites are taken, copied, recolored black, then the black version is offset, made transparent, and trimmed to the original sprite]
Note how this coincidentally results in a realistic shadow of the cap on Mario's face because the shadow is just the brim recolored black
Source: info: YouTube user @JasperRLZ, youtube.com/watch?v=K3OrK0nvWCg; presentation by Supper Mario Broth](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:heeihz7xdhf7dbjx4befobqw/bafkreifokse6ijqxcni6odqwkvo7nwqftjnkwczah5zlnnvt3mz3wxw2rm)
![This is the box art for Paper Mario.
This is likely the only place where most players would see official art of Kooper, and it depicts him with a bandage, suggesting it is part of his character design.
The bandage is part of the audience's image of Kooper.
[various fan art depicting him with a bandage]
Art by jacksondunson on Instagram
Art by DinoRando, on Twitter
Art by ichiarto on Tumblr
Art by MaskedGolem on DeviantArt
The bandage does not appear in any of his in-game sprites, but this is easy enough to overlook given how small their resolution is. Official art often includes details absent from sprites.
However, there is another, much rarer piece of actual official art depicting him without a bandage. So what is the truth?
It turns out the bandage art was likely meant to be paired up with art of Mario with the same bandage. Due to only Kooper making it onto the box, the context was lost and it looked like his design.
Source: info: @flabandbabs; art: instagram.com/p/CIRxSpMulyJ/, ichiarto.tumblr.com/post/139308869311, x.com/DinoRando_/status/1693264120240369903, deviantart.com/maskedgolem/art/Kooper-811374044](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:heeihz7xdhf7dbjx4befobqw/bafkreihskwwzsitxraey75ghhponp42fuy5qe56two3o2d7piavkamhdgq)
