SkunkyArt | Kittygirl9066 — [Gijinka Super Paper Mario] Dimentio Refs

A traveling magician mercenary (????? I seem to recall hearing some tiny scrap of lore that he's a mercenary... but when I went to go research about it, I couldn't find anything :/ ) who decended from the bloodline of the magician who created the Pixls*. Formerly worked for Count Bleck/Lord Blumiere, though he had his own ulterior motives.

A shit-stirring little shit who has a lighthearted demeanor (or the appearance of one) all the time, in spite of insisting that he is "always deadly serious." Also has a crap-ton of charisma, and even a little mischievious and bit of a prankster. (Hmm, a little like another jester son of mine. WHO'ULDA THUNKIT THAT I'D HAVE TWO JESTER SONS WHOSE GAMES I GREW UP WITH????????? AND WHO ARE VERY SIMILAR IN MANY A WAY???????????????? w)

Constantly insulting and/or roasting pretty much everybody who is not a friend, but weaves it into his speech in such a way that the average person can't tell that he's being an asshole. (Bleck and the others thought that this was his way of showing familiarity and being friendly when he was working for the count (since sometimes, people who are real close-like will be assholes to each other as a sort of in-joke (when everyone's in on the joke.)) But this was not the case.)

Super fucking theatrical and verbose as hell. He's always making some crazy simile or rather ("And so I strike, like an unseen dodgeball in an echoing gymnasium!" or "...The tears flow like sad chowder!" or "...Once again we meet, like two angry, burly dinosaurs with terrible indigestion!"), and the occasional but quite rare metaphor ("That sucking sound is your free will being plunged from the toilet of your mind!..."). The only person who is nearly as theatrical as this clown is Robert Bande of the Legion of Stationery, and similarly, Dimentio's verbosity is only surpassed by Jean-Pierre Colored Pencils XII of the same Legion.

Really good at acting and storytelling and all that jazz. That's how he was able to decieve Bleck and the others into believing that he had genuine loyalty to the count. (Lies are merely untrue stories, after all~~~)

He's... actually not too much of a fan of hanging around other humans? Mostly would prefer hanging out with non-humans, at least non-humans have fun powers or abilities whereas humans are just plain SQUISHY without magic and the like. (He also doesn't like the fact that humans have basically... Asserted themselves, as humans do, basically pushing everyone else out to make room for themselves, and basically "humanizing" culture of other species, to the point that other sapient species have evolved to look ever-more like humans. IDK, just some misanthropic philosophy nonsense written when I'm tired and sleeby there wwww~~~~)

His hobbies include reading and gardening. Also occasionally performs magic acts.

A self-taught magician, fights with magic of his own creation.

Has the power to manipulate and even create dimensions... Though he hasn't played around with creating new dimensions too much yet. The only one he made is Dimension D, and that one is very small, basic-looking and GREEEEEEEN. (And everyone who enters it gets 256 times stronger. UNFORTUNATELY, 256 just wraps back around to 0 when you go from 16 bytes to 8 bytes!! (I am assuming everything works like in Mario 64 - in this case, like the stuff explained in this video .))

He knows how to float as if there is no gravity, and is rarely seen walking or running. (Besides, when he walks he is entirely too wiggly!! )

Can make endless clones of himself to confuse his enemies. Sometimes so many that it winds up being hilariously too many Dimentio clones.

He wanted to control the Chaos Heart and destroy all worlds because A. he was enthralled by the prophecy of the Chaos Heart and wanted to insert himself into the story, and B. he wanted to completely recreate the entire universee in his image, because he was tired of the way that everyone else acted as though their lives were super-hyper-ultra-mega important, even though in the grand scheme of things, EVERYTHING IS MEANINGLESS compared to the vastness of the universe. (Such is nihilism, which is actually way more radical than you'd think. Have you seen the Nihilism Stereotype vs. Reality picture that floats around the interwebs? Basically that.)

When he was a kid, he lived in the same village as Timpani, which was only a few hours' walk away from the castle of the Tribe of Darkness.

On day, he decided to explore the forest that the castle of the ToD was in, and SOMEHOW managed to find the castle... Even though the path to it was well-hidden by the tribe members to keep normal humans out.

Once in castle, he managed to stealth his way into the room where the Dark Prognosticus was held, and he read the book of prophecies, initially not knowing what it was. But after reading for a bit, he recognized the cursed tome from folk talkes that he had grown up with about the Ancients and the Dark Prognosticus and all. Wanting to come back and read more of the book another day, he made a shortcut to the room with the Dark Prognosticus.

As he kept coming back to read more and more of the Prognosticus, he became more and more fascinated by the prophecy of the Chaos Heart, to the point where he even slightly wanted to see it happen with his own two eyes.

One day, Blumiere caught him in the room with the Dark Prognosticus, and quickly shooed Dimentio out of the castle (not knowing his name or anything.) Afterwards, Blumiere started to regularly check on the room with the DP, and more consistently managed to catch Dimentio when he was reading the book. By this time, however, Dimentio had already read most, if not all of the tome, and had become enthralled by the prophecy and wanted to make himself a part of the story.

He managed to overhear Blumiere's final conversation with the latter's father, and rushed in in an attempt to prevent Blumiere from destroying the dimension that they were in. This attempt half-failed, and Dimentio was accidentally sent elsewhere while the dimension got destroyed.

After teaching himself how to travel between dimensions, he began traveling the dimensions pretty aimlessly, believing that he would never again have the chance to read the Dark Prognosticus or even take part in its story. But who should have appeared on the young magician's path but Count Bleck!!

Not wanting the count to possibly recognize him, Dimentio donned his mask, dyed his hair and grew it out long, and approached the count with the offer of joining him. Bleck turned him away at first (after all, Dimentio was basically unrecognizeable and pratically a stranger anyways), but after seeing that there was one with a similar description in the Dark Prognosticus, he reluctantly recruited the magician mercenary.

A few days before the start of the Chaos Heart Incident, some random universe-traveler claiming to be the "Priestess of Chaotic Love" showed up at the gates of Castle Bleck and demanded that she, too, be recruited, for she was (supposedly) someone who was chosen to help confer the Chaos Heart's power into its summoner. When asked why she wasn't mention in the Prognosticus, the traveler said that she had hailed from a dimension unknown to the Ancients, and therefore could not have been predicted in the book. This, traveler, who gave her name as Emiko, was also reluctantly recruited. (The truth was, though, that she was only looking to save Dimentio, and NOT to work for Bleck. She wasn't even the priestess that she claimed to be.)

Emiko and Dimentio almost immediately formed an alliance with each other, since their plans seemed to align perfectly and since there was... LITERALLY no one else to ally with. Emiko then acted as a sleeper agent in the heroes team, pretending that she had briefly been brainwashed by Nastasia and had been forced to act according to the villains' plans (when, in reality, she was in full control of her actions from the beginning.)

When the heroes defeated Super Dimentio, Luigi, Dimentio, and the Chaos Heart were all ejected from the magic puppet, quite beat up... Which then exploded. Emiko furiously attempted to persuade the heroes to not kill Dimentio for his actions, but believing that the heroes were too goody-goody to EVER kill someone, no matter what, he just asked her to move off to the side. And then of course, as soon as Emiko quietly moved out of the way, Timpani used her new Purity Sword** to stab Dimentio in the heart.

In a final attempt to make sure that his plans would at the very least semi-succeed, Dimentio poured his power into the Chaos Heart, trying to keep it "alive" long enough so that the Void it summoned would finish swallowing all universes.

When Timpani and Blumiere exchanged their vows for each other, Dimentio succumbed to the Purity Sword's effects**, the Chaos Heart was destroyed by the reborn Purity Heart, and all of the worlds that had been consumed by the Void were reborn.

Immediately after the events of the Chaos Heart Incident, Emiko gathered a BUNCH of powerful magicians (mostly those who could use strong healing magic or revival skills) from across the multiverse, gathered them in the Mario universe, and had them all help her revive Dimentio. This succeeded, and the universe-traveler sent the other magicians away.

Afterwards, Emiko just told him, "Yo, I'm sorry, but I can't stay in this universe all the time and protect you. You're going to have to lay low for a while and fend for yourself." She then left him to his own devices.

Then Dimentio just started... Traveling again, but this time taking care to keep up the belief that he was still dead.

On his travels, he encountered many others who had crossed or eventually would cross paths with Mario. Some of those instances were meeting a confused partial demon in passing just after said partial demon had become partially demonic, giving a runaway knight-child (not a child) the power of floating, and even befriending an aspring actor/playwright. (Yes of course those are all LoS members. Half of them interacted with m'boy at some point in my headcanons. This is how it is.)