Prince Taylor Koopa

King Bowser Koopa ll (Grand-Nephew)

**Prince Taylor Koopa** was the second and youngest son of Queen Mariah Koopa, being one year younger than his brother King James Koopa VI (thirteen months to be more precise). He was a prince of the Koopa Kingdom and the grandfather of Tyson Koopa. He appeared in the *Bowser's Koopalings* episode "Time Travel Trouble III" as the secondary antagonist behind Lieutenant Gunn, where he was shown to be very jealous of his brother James, as he believes his mother Mariah favors James over him only because of his position as her heir.

Taylor was shown to be grumpy, egocentric, short-tempered and overall unpleasant to be around, and often used his position as a prince as a way of showing power over others. He passed away in the year 1948 at the age of 79, outliving his older brother by sixteen years.

## History

### Backstory

Prince Taylor was born in the year 1869, being the second son of Queen Mariah Koopa and her husband, who died while Taylor and his brother James were still children. Taylor is shown to have resented James all his life, as he believes that his mother Mariah had always favored him for being older and her heir to the throne.

### Time Travel Trouble III

Prince Taylor appears in the episode "Time Travel Trouble III", in the year 1889, as a supporting antagonist. Here he is shown to be bitter about James' decision to let the Koopalings stay over at the Koopa Castle and Mariah trusting James' judgement. Throughout the episode he continues to act rude towards the Koopalings, even when they try to be nice to him. The final straw for Ludwig and Larry comes when Taylor bans all the Koopalings from attending Mariah's party, despite James giving them permission to do so and Wendy being his date. Taylor punches Ludwig after he calls him out for doing nothing but complaining about his life, which causes Larry to attack him, following which they are arrested and put in prison alongside Lemmy and Morton (who had eaten Mariah's feast for the party), Roy (who had tried to flirt with the maids of the castle and was subsequently accused of sexual harassment), and Iggy and Wendy (who are only arrested for their other siblings' actions).

Later on in the episode, Taylor comes across Lieutenant Gunn, who tries to kill him. Taylor, in a desperate attempt to save his life, tells Gunn he will give him whatever he wants if he spares him, to which they then reach an agreement: Taylor brings Gunn to the Koopalings so he can murder them and James, which would mean Taylor becomes king after Mariah and Gunn gets a job in the Koopa Troop as an engineer. However, Gunn then betrays Taylor because his goal is to end the Koopa monarchy and serve Major Burrows, who had been encased in ice for thousands of years. To Gunn's surprise however, Mariah intervenes and has the two of them imprisoned, saving James and the Koopalings. She then proceeds to kick Taylor and ground him by sending him to his room for trying to betray James.

### Later Life

After the 1889 incident, Prince Taylor would go on to marry Duchess Evelyn Amvrosiy and have three sons with her; Princes Tyler, Filmore and Hayez Koopa in the years 1896, 1913 and 1915 respectively. Judging by the birth years of his sons, is likely that they were all born in an attempt of one of them taking the throne in case his brother James, who became king James VI following Mariah's death in the year 1901, died childless. Unfortunately for Taylor, James went on to have a child, Prince Bowser Koopa, in 1912 who eventually inherited the throne in the year 1932 upon James' death and became King Bowser Koopa I.

It is known that Taylor went on to arrange the marriages of his three sons, likely as a desperate attempt to try to secure a place in the line of succession for his descendants. The marriage of his eldest son Tyler to Lady Julia Gardenia in particular was important for him, as not only was it done as a way to keep Tyler's homosexuality a secret from others, but because his grandson Tyson Koopa was born from said marriage.

Prince Taylor spent the first sixteen years of his nephew's reign as heir to the throne since he had yet to produce an heir. However, Taylor ultimately died in the year 1948 at the age of 79 years old, likely of natural causes, having outlived his older brother by sixteen years. Upon his death, his eldest son Prince Tyler became Bowser I's heir up until the birth of Prince Joseph Koopa in the year 1950. Tyler would regain the position of heir after Joseph's death in the year 1968, but yet again lost it after the birth of Bowser I's second son, the future King Bowser Koopa II.

## Appearance

Taylor is a dragon koopa with pale yellow skin a grey head, blue gray hair, and blue eyes. He has a grey spiked shell with white spike rings and his horns also has white spike rings.

## Personality

Taylor is shown to be jealous of King James Koopa VI and like his grandson Tyson Koopa, he also wanted to become king of the kingdom. Taylor is rude and sometimes mean to his older brother been popular than him. He also has a short temper shown he angrily punches Ludwig after he telling him off about him what he is and he is never going to be king. However he is shown to have a bad side on him when he turns the Koopalings to Lt. Gunn, but is unaware why Gunn is really here is because to end the Koopa Monarchy.