Mario Mizuno

Mario Mizuno is one of the main 6 characters in The Literature Club: Something Different. He's the deuteragonist of the series and is the vice president and one of the founders of the Literature Club. He's Mia's childhood friend and neighbor and is Mia's main love interest in the Mario Ending. He's the character swapped with Sayori from DDLC.

## Appearance

Mario is usually depicted having light brown hair, black ovals for eyes, a black mustache, and a school uniform that's usually unbuttoned with a "M" on the left and a pocket with a pen on the right of his school uniform. @NintenBen98 also says that he might conceptually have sky blue eyes. His school uniform consists of a gray blazer, unbuttoned yet untucked with a few motivational pins on the bottom left of the blazer, a white dress shirt and a brown blazer underneath, a red ribbon on the top and dark blue jeans.

Casually, Mario wears either a red or pink shirt/sweater with some light gray sweatpants.

## Personality

Mario is usually depicted as as enthusiastic, charismatic, and extroverted person. He always tries to be kind to everyone and always tries to resolve fights or disputes. Mario usually talks and hangs out with his best friend Mia Tanaka. However, he also has other friends in the club he also talks to such as Marcus and Jonathan. Mario is known for being a bit paranoid at times and can be clumsy. Mario deeply cares about his friends and Mia, he usually tries to get Mia to be less introverted and for her to talk more to other people. Mario is also the one to invite Mia to the Literature Club, so that she can have other friends. Mario is also known for being childish and usually shows signs of this.

Mario founded the Literature Club during his 1st semester of 9th grade with Ben Rokuhara, since they both had a passion for literature, making literature, and just creating a hangout place in general. Mario is interested in playing board games being an expert at them, he's also interested in the outdoors, where he typically makes his poems and plays his games. Mario obviously, likes to make poems and has quite a collection of poems throughout his career in the Literature Club. he also usually shares his poems with the other members during meetings. Mario also likes to read literature, his favorite genre of literature is romance and typically adds elements of romance into his poems. Mario is also a fan of video games and usually plays games from the Super Mario series or the Pokemon series. His favorite games are Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Pokemon Sword and Shield.

It is later revealed that Mario has schizophrenia and typically has really disturbing nightmares and hallucinations that all revolve around Ben. Because of this, Mario is somewhat paranoid and has a fear of being alone, despite usually being alone. Mario is also known for having disorganized thinking yet despite this it seems he can still start and finish on poems. He has issues beginning to start things such as cooking, studying, and sleeping. Mario also has insomnia due to this, spending until 12AM awake. Despite this, Mario is able to live a somewhat normal life.

## Role (Jonathan, Luigi, Marcus, and Ben Endings)

Mario doesn't really have much of a role in these endings despite being Mia's childhood friend and supporting her with whoever she has as her love interest. Mario in these endings is pretty much all the same. He does end up telling Mia about his mental condition and Mia helps Mario overcome his hallucinations. Outside of this, Mario doesn't really have much of a role in these endings due to these endings more focusing on Mia's main love interest in the endings.

## Role (Mario Ending)

In the Mario ending, Mario is the main love interest of Mia. Mario has also developed a little crush on Mia in this ending. The two of them become even better friends and spend almost every day together hanging out, working on homework, making poems, or finding new hobbies and interests. Mario ends up helping Mia with her poems and collaborating with her on her poems.