Who is Booette? (What You Didn’t Know)

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Meet Princess Booette of the Super Crown family

Who is Booette?
Booette is a fan-created character mashup between Nintendo’s King Boo and Peach. In this article, you’ll learn exactly who she is and how she came to be!

If there’s anything we’ve learned from Bowsette, it’s that the internet isn’t done with the Super Crown just yet. Inspired admirers all over the world have struck again, but this time, with a new mashup princess, who we now know as Booette. She’s now one of the many fan-created hybrid characters transformed by the whimsical powers of the Super Crown. But this time, it’s King Boo, instead of Bowser, who uses the magical crown to transform into a human female version of himself. Booette, who is also commonly called Princess Boo or Boosette, is a hybrid between the ghostly King Boo and the beloved Princess Peach.

Similarly to Bowsette, Booette also became a viral overnight hit, with thousands of fans posting their depictions of her in fan art and cosplay on social media. Within a matter of days, she became yet another beloved Super Crown princess and cemented herself into cosplay history. In the rest of this post, we’ll go over the brief history of Booette, what she looks like, and how the internet turned her into a viral sensation.

The history of Booette

The story of how Booette came to exist is very similar to Bowsette’s. Booette was born with the announcement of the Super Crown, which happened on September 13, 2018, when Nintendo released the new Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe trailer. In the trailer, we learn that Toadette, who is Toad’s female counterpart, will be a new character in the game.

We also find out that in the game, Toadette has the ability to use the Super Crown power-up to transform into a human version of herself, called Peachette. Peachette is basically a mashup of Princess Peach and Toadette. She looks quite similar to Peach, except she has a slightly different dress, and of course is wearing a different crown.

Bowsette is born

Once the world learned about Peachette, she became an instant source of inspiration for fans all over the world. Over the next few days, many admirers eagerly shared their own fan art and cosplay depictions of her on various social media platforms.

But one fan took Peachette even further. He created an entirely new narrative with the Super Crown, and singlehandedly created a new mashup character. On September 19, 2018, Twitter user @ayyk92, a freelance artist from Malaysia, shared his comic and introduced the world to Bowsette.

His comic shows Mario and Bowser each offering romantic gifts to Princess Peach, both trying to earn her affection. After she rejects them both, Bowser comes up with the idea to put the Super Crown on himself, which immediately transforms him into a female human, who also takes on certain features of Princess Peach, like the long blonde hair and the blue amulet and earrings. The last frame of the comic shows this new princess mashup, who we now know as Bowsette, walking off into the distance with Mario. And thus, Bowsette was born, cementing herself into history.

The world caught onto Bowsette like wildfire. Within a matter of days, people all over the world joined in on the Bowsette craze. She quickly became even bigger than Peachette. Bowsette started showing up everywhere from fan art to cosplay, to an extremely not safe for work subreddit, and even on adult content websites. In such a short amount of time, Bowsette successfully gained hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of faithful admirers across the globe.

Make way for Booette

Just a few days after Bowsette was created on the internet, fans in Japan started circulating images of a new princess character who they call Kingu Teresa Hime” (キングテレサ姫), which is a combination of King Boo’s Japanese name Kingu Teresa and the word “hime,” meaning princess. Of course, in English, we started calling her Booette (and sometimes even Princess Boo or Boosette). Fans and admirers successfully morphed the initial Peachette concept once again into another widely loved character, who is a hybrid of King Boo and Princess Peach.

And just in case you need a little refresher, King Boo is the leader of the Boos and ghosts and an ally of the evil Bowser. He also happens to be the main antagonist of the Luigi’s Mansion video game series. He has a ton of unique magical abilities, with one of the most notable being the ability to materialize objects from thin air. He definitely brings the evil side to Booette. Princess Peach, on the other hand, brings the innocence to Booette. Peach is the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, often playing the damsel in distress role and Mario’s love interest. She also is what makes Booette human!

Booette gained fame in what felt like a matter of hours. The amount of fan art and cosplay that has popped up for Booette so far is staggering, especially in Japan. Although she is still not as popular as her look-alike, Bowsette, she has taken her rightful place in the Super Crown princess family. And it looks like she is there to stay!

So what does Booette look like?

As we mentioned above, Booette is a true hybrid between King Boo and Princess Peach. She features physical assets and character traits of both characters. And because she was created by fans, and is not an official Nintendo character, she has no official look, meaning there are a ton of different versions of Booette that exist in the universe. Some components of the ghostly princess though are non-negotiable, meaning without these features, she wouldn’t be Booette.

For starters, Booette has long flowing, platinum white hair. Her hair is styled similarly to Peach, but she isn’t blonde. Her white hair is part of Booette’s signature look and really distinguishes her as a ghost. She also gets her amulet, earrings, and white gloves from Princess Peach. The long white gloves are a crucial element to Peach, and Booette wears them too. Booette also dons an amulet on her neck or chest and the matching earrings. Yet, instead of using the traditional blue color for her jewels, Booette typically is seen with purple or red jewels.

Most of what Booette inherits from King Boo has to do with her coloring. Mostly everything she wears is white so that she can appear more like a ghost. She wears all white apparel, which almost makes her look like a ghostly bride. She also wears a wedding garter on her neck, which acts as a choker. In some depictions, Booette has fangs, which of course also comes from King Boo. The last major feature of Booette is the Super Crown. You can’t forget this in Booette’s look because it’s the single item that transformed her in the first place. Without the Super Crown, there is no Booette!

Ultimately, the beauty of the ghost princess is that her final look is subject to interpretation and fans all over the world have put their own spin on what Booette looks like. There’s not one single way to design or look like Booette, which is what makes her so universally appealing!

Fans love Booette

Booette fans have quickly taken to the internet to share their various pictures, artwork, and videos of her. She first started showing up in fan art, where admirers created original hand drawn and digitally illustrated depictions of the ghostly princess. A lot of this art shows Booette sticking her tongue out in a playful way, which is a common characteristic of the Boos.

Soon after the fan art of Booette started to pop up, cosplayers began to weigh-in. She quickly became a staple in cosplay, with fans around the world creating their own costumes and real-life versions of Booette. Cosplayers were also quick to display their Booette costumes at large conventions and gaming events like New York Comic Con and Fan Expo, which were held just a couple short weeks after her initial creation on the internet.

If you’re interested in dressing up as Booette yourself, check out our full post on how to make your own Booette costume.

Will Booette live on?

We sure hope she will! And it’s highly doubtful that her fans and admirers will let her quietly fade away into the distance. Even though Nintendo has decided not to comment on any part of the Bowsette and Booette craze, it could be possible that these fan-created characters eventually get adopted officially by Nintendo. It’s hard to imagine that Nintendo won’t want to bring these bad-ass princesses into their Mario series. For now, we’ll keep our fingers crossed!

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