#Reynaldo the Bald Pate

[meteoratheopposed]

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[darkmasterofcupcakes]

Another poll focused on SVTFOE, because I’m still basically obsessed;

[bananahkim]

Thoughts on Rhombulus and/or the rest of the MHC? Personally, I felt that they were made scapegoats for the show's anti-racism metaphor instead of blaming the actual aggressors (Mewmans/the Butterflies)

I didn’t care much about the MHC in general? I think they were either flat characters, like most of the other side characters, or meant to be round characters but the crew just couldn’t portray them right.

So here’s my thoughts about each of the members :

Rhombulus was a huge asshole. I don’t usually say this to people because I don’t want to be mean to them, but since he’s dead and also a fictional character, he should have acted his age.

Glossaryck was annoying. I mean he had some major heartwarming moments but still. Not the worst character in the show though.

Hekapoo was probably the most intelligent member (of the MHC). Cynical and calm but hot headed at times, her personality makes her noticeable. Which doesn’t justify her actions. Also I don’t understand why she acted like she and Marco(15) were dating.

Lekmet(rip) was a sweetheart.

I was disappointed about Omniatrix prime because at first I thought he would be a wise space entity, but he turned out to be some stubborn guy.

Reynaldo: uhmmm totally forgot about him. No opinion.

Also I really like how their designs express their status and powers. The svtfoe crew must have been enthusiastic about creating them.

I do agree with your opinion about the MHC. The whole racism problem was originally created by Mewman settlers. The MHC and the Butterflies worsened the problem.

[orangecreamsoda]

Day 20: Monster

[dubiasdead]

Local single father that always screams to his 5 children to “git gud” Based on the comic of @moringmark ‘s latest panel (???

[kazukijamesfinch]

Reynaldo the Bald Pate.

Sketched this (powerful) lonely long neck weirdo.

[superdorkcat]

Rest in peace, you poor bastards...

[new-moon-over-septarsis]

Okay, I've made my decision. There's a lot more to the Reynaldo story, though I won't get into the full details until at least the second arc (The Promise Arc), but I'll share the gist of it for now:

After Rhina cursed Reynaldo to speak in riddles, he spent a lot of time bathing in the Realm of Magic hoping the curse would be lifted off. It did...but only in the amount of time it took for Rhina to make her next big mistake: accidentally killing her husband.

Reynaldo came back cured, only to find the Lucitors demanding payment for what she'd done. The price to prevent war: her first born child. It took a lot of convincing to sway the Demons from this course of action, but with Reynaldo's clever thinking he got them to leave Rhina and baby Celena in peace.

He never got the chance to tell anyone his curse was cured, but that was for the best. The ordeal with Rhina left him horrified and her in tears for quite some time, and seeing Rhina almost lose her child at last opened Reynaldo's eyes to what they did to Toffee and Juno. He started to regret stealing Festivia, wishing he could take it back, and pretended to stay cursed so the MHC would fire him. He didn't have the heart to tell them he was ashamed of his job now.

[cadenreigns]

The MHC and Me

or, Why I don’t completely blame Hekapoo and her dumb brothers for the corner they’ve been written into.

I originally had hoped we’d get some more clarification on the Globgor/Eclipsa crystallization/Meteora swap before I made this since I think confirmation on a few things there would help my case, but since one of my favorite characters has been moved into the “evil camp” I’m putting this together since my theory supports why they might have gone down their current path even if I don’t think it was necessary to the overall story. I’m pulling this together from what’s been seen in the show and portrayed in the books “Star and Marco’s Guide to Mastering Every Dimension” and “The Magic Book of Spells.” If someone with a writing credit has said something that disputes/confirms any part of this theory I’d love a link to it. Voice actor comments don’t count because things they’ve said have been disproved later in the show (Marco’s time in Hekapoo’s dimension fading from his memory like a dream being the biggest one I know off hand).

Before directly addressing the MHC I want to address the timeline that led to Meteora being swapped out and her parents being put in crystal because I’ll be referencing it later. Based on what characters have stated within the show and in the magic book of spells I believe the most likely series of events is as such:

· Eclipsa runs away with Globgor

· Meteora is born

· Eclipsa and Meteora are captured somehow, most likely at Shastacan’s order

· Shastacan gives Meteora to Saint Olga and orders a Pie Folk girl used to replace her as the new princess, seemingly without anyone on Mewni outside himself and the MHC knowing.

· Globgor eats Shastacan

· Globgor and Eclipsa are crystallized

The big take away from this is that while the MHC are the ones who did the dirty work, they did so under the orders of Shastacan (as proven in the episode Butterfly Trap when the Box accepted the story as the truth). “But Caden,” I hear you wonder, “why would the MHC take orders against their queen when the Butterfly Kingdom is a matriarchal society?” Good question. Keep it in mind as I’ll be coming back to it later.

Now onto the Magic High Commission Family. Starting with the father of the group, we have Glossaryck. Always explaining things in a roundabout way, Gloss states in the book of magic spells that he’s always existed but wasn’t truly born until after the first mewni queen found the wand. Thanks to the episode Meteora’s Lesson we know that he actually created those conditions when he gave “Moe” the rattle-wand and made the first queen, thus while not a lie it shows he’s not above excluding certain details when it suits him. Exactly what suits him is questionable at best though. While initially portrayed as being tied to the book it was shown when Ludo had it that he wasn’t always around and he’s stated in the book of magic spells that he can “go anywhere” and in Meteora’s Lesson he states that he can travel in time on his own well. Perhaps everything he’s done since the first Mewmans emerged from the magic goo has been some long con to teach Meteora or Star some lesson, but keeping in mind he always seems to at least have an idea of what and how things are going to go down here are some things he’s done as part of his “service” to the crown:

· Laid the groundwork for the Mewman-Monster conflict during Meteora’s Lesson by telling part of Mewndipence Day story to the brain-addled settlers

· Reignited the Septarian resistance that had been dying out (Comet’s chapter) by having Meteora prove Toffee right about mewman magic being dangerous. This lead to the death of Comet and the eventual release of Eclipsa

· And created what I claimed was the topic of this post, his children, the Magic High Commission.

In his own words, Glossaryck “created the beings of the magic High Commission to provide Mewmans a means of understanding and interacting with magic” (Guide to Mastering Every Dimension) and so they could “manage the contact points between the queen and the Realm of Magic.” So essentially, they were created to teach and serve mewmans who “hate change” (Estrella’s chapter). Or in other words, they were created to maintain the status quo. And what would the status quo have been by then? Basically bad monsters living in the forest of certain death, good mewmans living in the kingdom.

It’s only when this balance is threatened that the MHC acts out. During Solaria’s time they called for war when the monsters were attacking, but then suggested a ceasefire as soon as the monsters started to retreat. This is repeated by Festivia’s reign when the Solarian soldiers had the monsters on the run and the MHC suggested peace and in Moon the Undaunted because they didn’t think they could win against the septarians. So, keeping this in mind for what happened to the Eclipsa family, the MHC followed Shastacan’s orders because Eclipsa remaining with the monsters or a half monster ruling the kingdome would have upset the balance they were made for.

“But Caden,” you chime in again, “isn’t enforcing a status quo still kind of villain-like?” And in general it is a trope that’s usually intended for keeping some group or another down, but remember that the MHC weren’t born and raised into this roll, they were created for it. As magically-crafted beings they’ve had this ideal hard-coded into them. It’s like being angry at a toaster for heating food instead of freezing it. Because, as much as I hate to admit it about Hekapoo (and her dumb brothers I guess), that’s essentially what they are, pre-programmed machines. They have free will, but it’s in service to what they were made for and what they believe is right. Obviously seeds of doubt have been planted here and there, mostly in Hekapoo (phrasing?), but like is usually the case with these things in fiction it’ll probably take some big speech or action from a main character to finally cement those changes into place (one would hope).

“But Caden,” you interrupt yet again, “doesn’t that still kind of make them villains, even if they think what they’re doing is right?” It certainly doesn’t make them right just because they think what they’re doing is right, but you have to consider who made them that way. Glossaryck created them with a purpose in mind, and while he’s shown contempt for the way they go about that purpose (mostly the bureaucracy of it), to my knowledge he’s never actually stated that anything they’ve done was wrong. So do I think the MHC should be straight up forgiven for what they’ve done? No. But I definitely don’t think they shoulder all the blame for their actions. And really it won’t surprise me if everything they’ve done and that’s happened because of the events Glossaryck set in motion are all part of some plan of his. Perhaps not an evil plan (though one of the things on his to do list was own a dimension and being the mastermind of a world’s political strife would be a kind of ownership), but a plan of his making none the less.

…

Also it was a dumb corner to write them into and H-Poo better get her redemption.

 TL;dr – The MHC are doing what they were literally made to do and you should be more mad at Glossaryck for making them that way and creating the situation that calls for them to act that way. Also, Shastacan was a douche and the who actually ordered the baby swap.

[colouredteapot]

a biiit late post of appreciation to this giraffe guy.

[meteoratheopposed]

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[darkmasterofcupcakes]

Maybe I missed it in the book, but...what was Reynaldo’s original purpose? Because each member of the MHC was made by Glossaryck to serve a specific duty/teach Mewmen about something...but I don’t remember anything about what Reynaldo was supposed to have been made for. 

And I know he’s ferryman for the River of Time, but I’m pretty sure he was given that job once he was cursed by Rhina, because Glossaryck and the others got annoyed at his speaking in riddles all the time. I’m wondering about what he was supposed to do before that. 

[araminakilla]

What some people think of Reynaldo

What some people think of Toffee

And Both of them were cursed by a "Butterfly" Queen who practically ruined their lives forever.

Why the writers have to make suffer my sons!??

[full-moon-phoenix]

So, I, uhhhh....

...recently planned a scene with the deaths of the MHC that actually made me really sad to think about and is probably gonna make me cry once I write it. And...I didn't expect that. I didn't expect to humanize the MHC on their death beds, but I did. I guess even now I can't stop thinking about all the episodes that built them up and formed a relationship between them and the audience.

I mean, I still drink their tears, but there's no denying I'm a sucker for the "villain acknowledges their villainy on their deathbed and regrets having lost the chance to make things right" trope.

[festivefraud]

"Is the truth really so much to ask for?" Festivia snapped, looking up with a glare. "Are you really just going to let it kill us just to pretend you haven't been lying to me?!"

My take on Festivia finding out