The Painter

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Not to be confused with Lost Painting, who has "The Painter" as one of her aliases.
The Painter is a horrorbrew created by @pake00_. He is the spirit of a very perfectionist artist who worked at Nintendo and now possess a copy of Mario Paint, the game he helped develop.
==Appearance==
In his disguise, The Painter has the appearance of the artist Mario seen on the game's cover, but with some small differences such as slightly desaturated colors, fluffier hair, and he is also slightly taller. You can also notice that he almost always has a brush in his hand.
In his revealed form, The Painter takes on slightly different colors and becomes a tall, “twisted” creature, having a rounder, “fatter” body, long, slender arms, large hands, and an elongated neck. His clothes are slightly dirty, his shoes are now pointy and his hat now contains the letter P instead of the iconic M, which can barely be seen behind the P. On his face is now a wide sinister grin, with only a few yellowed teeth, his mustache has become spiky, and his eyes are completely removed, revealing only two holes, and a similar hole can also be seen inside his mouth. Much like his disguised form, he is almost always seen with a brush or paint palette.
==Personality==
When in disguise, the Painter tries to have the kind, cheerful, playful and encouraging personality of the heroic Italian plumber, helping those who are making art in the game, but as soon as someone starts to fail too much or draw something that Painter doesn't consider "good" enough", his perfectionist, impatient and selfish side begins to appear.
In his revealed form, the Painter is at his limit, and begins to become completely aggressive towards those who "fail his art", even going so far as to become mentally abusive towards players.
==Biography==
At the end of 1991, a Graphic Designer at Nintendo proposed the idea of ​​a Mario game that would break out of the chain of platform games that the franchise had offered up until now, a game where the only objective is for you to use your creativity to produce whatever art your imagination desires, the game would be called "Mario Paint", the higher-ups liked the idea and in a short time the development of the game would begin.
Some time passed, and the Graphic Designer worked on the game with great pride, as if it were his personal creation, until one day he was called to the higher-ups' office, and there he received the worst news he could have had, he was fired because they considered his art too “atypical,” they suggested he do more “simple and franchise-standard” art, but the proud designer refused to change his style, so they decided he would no longer be useful for the development of this game and the company's future projects.
Agonized by the decision of his superiors, the Graphic Designer goes into more and more denial about it, they hurt his ego, hurt his pride as an artist, and took him away from his beloved creation, he couldn't let it slide. One day, enraged, the Graphic Designer invades Nintendo's headquarters and goes to his old office. In his office, there was still a copy of Mario Paint that he intended to take for himself, when he got there, he was suddenly cornered by the place's security. With no way out, the Graphic Designer looks at the open window of his office and has an insane idea, he jumps out the window with the copy in his hands, and the last thing to cross his mind is that he was about to create a beautiful work of art.
A few months passed, the Graphic Designer case was completely hidden by Nintendo, and the Mario Paint game release normally. In one of the copies of the game, the Graphic Designer suddenly becomes conscious and wakes up in Mario's body and realizes that he is inside his favorite creation, and then, The Painter is born.
==Powers and Abilities==
*Brush and Paint Palette: Although they are just normal items in the game, The Painter uses them to assist him in some of his other abilities.
* Disguise: The Painter has a disguise almost identical to the artist Mario, which he uses to trick players into trusting him more with his art guides. When he transforms, The Painter tears off this disguise as if it were a costume.
*Shapeshifting Art: Using a brush, The Painter can change the shape of anything or anyone, and can even be used to create something new or regenerate.
**Shapeshifting: Although The Painter uses his brush to do most of his shapeshifting, he can also shapeshift his own body to some extent, mainly doing so with his stretching neck.
*Psychological Torment: Using his paintings, The Painter disturbs players to extremely abusive and fatal extents.
*Video Game Manipulation: The Painter is implied to have almost complete control of his copy of Mario Paint.
=== Weaknesses===
* Game Limitation: Although The Painter has never actually tried to leave the copy of the game he is in, it is implied that he is completely stuck with it, at least until proven otherwise.
==Trivia ==
*The Painter can stretch its neck, and will usually do so to disturb the player.
* In his disguised form, the Painter prefers to assist players in making art, but in his revealed form, he makes his own art, which typically consists of disturbing, abstract or “photorealistic” artwork.
*It is unknown whether the Painter can move on to other games, as he has never tried before.
==Gallery==
File:ThePainterOfficialRef.png|The Painter's official reference sheet.
File:PainterCreations.png|The Painter's creations.
File:PainterIcon 2024.png|The Painter's Art Fight/Toyhouse icon.
File:CreepinNDrinkinBar.png|A painting of Victim #1 by the Painter being used as decoration in Creepin' N Drinkin'.
File:HorrorbrewsAttack.png|A painting by the Painter of some "Mario buddies", includes BOTTOMLESS, Manic, Koyo, DE4LM4KER and Dr. Malice.
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Category:Characters
Category:Antagonist
Category:Abusers
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Category:Haunted
Category:Ghosts
Category:Mario Paint-Based
Category:Mario-Based
Category:Non-exe
Category:Mario Paint based EXEs