Princess Boo

About

Princess Boo, also known as Princess King Boo, PeachyBoo, Booette and Boosette, refers to a genderbend Super Crown fan art of the Nintendo character King Boo as a princess. Alongside Bowsette, the character saw a surge of fan art amidst a wave of Nintendo characters being drawn as women after the introduction of the Super Crown mechanic into Nintendo lore.

Origin

Princess Boo was inspired by the "Super Crown" mechanic which turns the character Toadette into a Princess Peach lookalike, which Nintendo showed during a Nintendo Direct advertisement for New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe on September 13th, 2018 (shown below, left). Six days later, Twitter user @ayyk92 posted a comic Bowser undergoing a similar transition (shown below, right), leading to a surge of Super Crown fan art drawings of that character as well as other Nintendo characters.

One of the most popular characters after Bowser was King Boo. On September 24th, the hashtag "キングテレサ姫" began spreading on Japanese Twitter, where users posted fan art of the character. On September 24th, 2018 Twitter user sameduma uploaded a gif of Luigi being chased by said character (shown below).

Spread

Fanart featuring Luigi's Mansion remained a common theme amongst other pieces, due to King Boo serving as the final boss in the games. Later that day, user @ninouchiirazu^[1] posted art of the scene gaining over 24,000 retweets and 80,000 likes (shown below, left). Other popular edits from that day include a drawing by Sofraaaaa (shown below, middle) and another by mashiron1020 (shown below, right) that gained 117,000 and 70,000 likes, respectively.

Although eastern fans of the character quickly settled on naming her Princess King Bowser, western fans also started referring her as Booette and Boosette due to the Super Crown edits of Bowser being called Bowsette. The same day, two subreddits devoted to the character launched: /r/Booette,^[2] which quickly gained over 7,900 subscribers; and /r/Boosette,^[3] which gained over 2,200 subscribers (top edits shown below).

Fanart of the character also drew inspiration from the original Bowsette comic by ayyk92. Two of the earliest examples of this were created by Tumblr user Rakkuguy on September 24th, who drew a comic in which Luigi gains a similar idea to create King Boo into a "Peachette" version after seeing Mario and Bowsette together; of which a recolor (shown below, left) managed to gather over 21,000 notes over 4 days compared to the original with only 4,500 notes over a similar timespan. This in turn lead to further comic continuations by other artists (examples shown below, middle and right).

Peachyboo

Another popular edit of a boo with under the effect of the Super Crown went by the name Peachyboo. The character was coined by Twitter artist MikeLLunsford on September 23rd, 2018 (shown below).

The conception of the character led fans to create fan art of his design and cosplay the character (shown below).

Various Examples

Search Interest

External References