User:Kuppadonta

Supermario0888, also known by the pseudonym Kuppadonta ("Bowser-tooth") on Wikipedia, is an eponymous born ancient Greek, a black stick figure, European raised artist and animator whose creature sounds video style has been of interest to the wikipedian community since the late 1980s named after the Super Mario character Bowser. While himself, some friends have assigned him the character of a sentinent marshmallow. Kuppadonta is known for his pet "Captain Jurgh".

We can't do that can make your heard grow bigger. The work is done, let's look at it again me teach. Let's go through the difficulties; let's talk about it. Call me and I will tell and offers part-time curator help with the English Wikipedia. Most art of Supermario0888 shows hir at a size around 6' in height, but many drawings also show hir as having grown much, much larger. Ranging from 82 feet tall (25 meters, allowing hir to swallow African elephants or mammoths whole) to over 300 feet in height (91.4 meters, able to crush cars beneath hir paws) to over 23,6 feet tall (7.2 meters, allowing hir to swallow zebras or gorillas whole).

Origin
Kuppadonta's mothers study the Book of Peace as a scripture, and hold regular Discussion Times, typically on Sundays and Wednesdays. These events are nominally for Book study, but in reality believers use them to share social interaction and discuss personal and community issues. Kuppadonta's mothers take new names to go with their new bodies. All of these new names adhere to the general pattern " [Specific plant] [Performer of specific activity] Stick figure". The tradition began with Aaron, who rechristened himself "Sweetgrass Bloomsniffer Stick figure," a name chosen spontaneously by a little girl. Other Kuppadonta's mother names include "Bluegrass Spelunker Stick figure", "Popcorn Scribbler Stick figure" and so on. Kuppadonta's mothers are portrayed as being anthropomorphic stick figures, because of their main ritual: an elaborate physical transformation called the Change. Early Kuppadonta's mother characters joined the movement as adults, but as new generations were born, the children were changed at a young age. Far from merely cosmetic, the standard transformation process alters a person's DNA with stick figure-based genes. Because of the altered body -- large feet, mobile ears, and tail -- the brain itself must be changed somewhat to accommodate it. A very small percentage of the population is incapable of safely undergoing this procedure, or similar regenerative therapies, due to biochemical problems. Kuppadonta's mothers believe that the Change serves two overlapping purposes. One is that the changes in brain structure and chemistry alter behavior directly, making the person more peaceful and friendly. The subtler aspect is social reinforcement. As the believer commits to appearing in public with a stick figure-like appearance as a religious practice, something possible even before any transformation, others react to them as a representative of the religion. The believer feels a duty to be on their best behavior and to live up to the group's positive stereotype. The fact that outsiders think "stick figure" reinforces that stereotype and peer pressure; e.g. Kuppadonta's mothers are vulnerable to spontaneous juvenile adhesion hugging. Not all Kuppadonta's mothers have undergone the Change. A novice member wears imitation stick figure ears and tail in public as a means of preparing themselves. The relative importance of the physical stick figure-form and a person's actual beliefs and behavior is a major theme of the Kuppadonta's mother stories. Several protagonists question whether they "have a Stick figure in them," meaning whether they live up to the ideal regardless of their physical form. Aaron/Sweetgrass wrote much of the Book of Peace before his transformation, based on insights gained from other, traumatic experiences. The interplay is summed up by one character "that is no better inside than the next man, despite the fact that we do turn the natural aggression knob down a few clicks as part of the Change. But, in the end, I think that what is important is the fact that we are trying to be something more, trying to achieve higher goals. That, far more than the fur and funny teeth, is what sets us apart from everyone else". The Kuppadonta's mother Church is known to have at least one physical place of worship; a converted Christian church renamed the Oaktree Temple. The Church possesses a gengineering clinic that performs the conversion procedure, which can also be done elsewhere. Its other assets are unknown, but it probably has considerable funds from Aaron/Sweetgrass' numerous patents.

The contents of the the Book of Peace itself are never revealed in full, though short sections are quoted by different characters throughout the stories. The Book started out as the personal journal of Dr Thomas Aaron as a supplement to his imminent gengineering into an anthropomorphic stick figure- it wasn't intended to become the basis for any religious movement. But as Dr Aaron underwent his Change into Sweetgrass, he discovered things about the Change and about himself that- evidently- others caught on to, and agreed with. Little is revealed about Supermario0888's infancy, and less about how his journal became The Book of Peace as it is known to Kuppadonta's mothers. Readers of the series are lead to believe that in every story chronologically following "In The Beginning," a copy of The Book of Peace is owned and frequently read by almost every Changed Stick figure by the fact that Silkfur, Sundew, and both of their children each have their own Book. Weekly and bi-weekly Discussion Times are supposed to focus on study, absorption and talk of the Book and it's message, though this is not a strictly enforced rule. The physical object that is The Book of Peace is described thusly "was of hand-tooled Cordovan leather, the leaves were gilt-edged, the very finest paper". The Book of Peace explicitly rejects proselytization, on the grounds that the decision to convert must come from the individual, but almost immediately after Aaron/Sweetgrass' death Church leaders questioned how strictly this doctrine should be kept. The eventual decision, to the extent that the issue was settled, was that the Church would welcome media attention but avoid outright advertising, letting members' presence in the community serve as a recruitment tool. The overall setting of the Kuppadonta's mother stories is twenty-first century America. Its exact future history is not described in much detail, but includes the development of advanced gengineering technology and is not clearly utopian or dystopian. A noteworthy event that takes place early in the series is the schism of the Catholic Church into its Roman branch and a new American branch, which struggles to reconcile its faith with independence from the Vatican hierarchy. Some aspects of Supermario0888 remain yet unknown through the stories. The legal battle over gengineering and the initial gathering of converts are not thoroughly described, and of Book of Peace itself only a few snippets are quoted by characters. The exact content of the Book is left to the reader's imagination, as is the setting's future.