#svtfoe finale

[noperopesaredope]

SvtFoE Rhombulus Rewrite (Pt. 6)

Hey, it’s been a while since you saw my face-

All jokes aside, sorry for being gone for so long. In my defense, I was in college, then I had seasonal depression which made it hard to do much of anything creative-wise. This is admittedly one of my favorite fan projects, so I always feel bad about not updating it. But I have managed to get back into it again (finally) and wanted to release one of the easier parts to do. (@bawfulio @sagesilentfire​ tagging you since you guys have been following this AU since the beginning and have been waiting the longest for an update)

Anyways, Monsters and Mewmans, Crystals and Chimeras, welcome back to my Rhombulus Rewrite! Check out this post if you have no clue what the heck I’m talking about or you want to read the previous parts. As I said in Part 4, this part will be one of the two possible ends I have to this AU. Ya’ll can choose which one you prefer. This one is called the “Closest to Canon Ending” and is also sad. It will not focus on the problems with the ending as a whole and shall instead be more about fixing Rhombulus’ part. I’ll admit, though I prefer the second ending as a finale, I’m pretty proud of this one as well, as it has some stuff I’m pretty proud of writing wise. I did make myself sad though, so there’s that.

Closest to Canon Ending (AKA Ending 1):

- This ending is kinda if I switched Rhombulus and Hekapoo’s parts, but Rhombulus had a more proper and fitting redemption. Also, it might make some character choices make more sense.

- So, the first big changes happen in “Ready, Aim, Fire”. We overhear Rhombulus arguing with Hekapoo and Omni about how to handle the Mina situation, saying that even though they may not like it, they need to protect Eclipsa and her family since it’s the right thing to do and they can’t let Mina take over. 

- This is when Hekapoo reveals that they have been backing Mina the whole time, which horrifies Rhombulus. He says that he is disappointed in them, and will go out to support Eclipsa and co, even if he has to fight Hekapoo and Omni. He then runs outside.

- We don’t see what happened to Rhombulus until “The Right Way,” where he jumps into the battle as things are looking dire. We get some pretty cool action stuff from him, which should be fun. 

- He even helps out various monsters, using his crystals to protect them. It brings his arc full circle, showing him go from someone who fights monsters to someone who protects them like he would protect any other innocent civilian. It’s a good moment for him. 

- But unfortunately, Rhombulus gets seriously hurt by the Solarian Blade multiple times, and since he and the rest of the MHC are basically monsters, the blades actually work on them. I think it’ll be the most shocking (and plot convenient) if Rhombulus loses his tails, as they are his main weapons and method of self defense. 

- He’ll manage to play it off like he is fine, but will need help soon. Maybe he’ll convince them that he probably won’t die. He might not even realize the blades work so well on him, especially since his magic is making him more asymptomatic. He’s good at hiding how bad he is doing, mainly because he is still able to walk and run and other stuff. But he can’t fight and needs to sit down a lot, so he won’t be able to do much during the Moon reveal.

- Instead of that horrible first kiss scene between Star and Marco, I have decided to give them a platonic love scene in a way, since I want the ending to not seem too random but still keep things platonic.

- Star is clearly upset and overwhelmed by everything, even though she might not be able to express it properly. She eventually tensely says that she’s going to do [insert helpful yet distracting task], and Marco offers to help her. She agrees, and while they’re working, Marco says that he knows something is bothering her, and she can talk about it if she wants.

- Star confesses that she’s been feeling extremely alone and scared lately. Multiple of her friends are severely hurt and could easily die, and she can’t do anything about it. She fought so hard and is trying to stay strong, and even despite all that, she feels like she’s failed at keeping people safe.

- Marco says that she is the reason less people have been hurt, and that everyone chose to fight and stand up against Mina, knowing the risk they would be in. It’s not her fault this happened. He then assures her that no matter what, they will always be best friends, and he’ll be there for her no matter what. 

- Pretend we’ve also had a lot more great friendship moments between them this season, so that the show clearly shows their dynamic as important to the plot.

- Anyways, back to everything else. This rewrite is called the Rhombulus Rewrite after all.

- “Pizza Party” will be renamed “Where the Blame Lies,” and instead of the MHC having a pizza party, we will see Hekapoo and Omni arguing over whether or not they made the right choice, and if they should go after Rhombulus. It’s a very short, tense scene, where Hekapoo believes that Rhombulus is wrong, but they should still go look for him to talk, and Omni believes that Rhombulus is “too far gone.” 

- They decide to split up, with Hekapoo choosing to go after Rhombulus, and Omni choosing to do his own thing.

- Meanwhile, Rhombulus ends up fleeing with Star and co, pretending that he is fine, until he ends up collapsing while they are running. Mina declares Rhombulus a traitor, and attacks him, causing yet another major blow to his body, where many of the other scars have already spread far. 

- As Eclipsa and Marco help him up and try to support him, Mina declares her plan to wipe out all monsters and monster-supporters. The group tries to escape, but are soon surrounded. Mina goes in for the kill, but a portal opens up under Star, Marco, Eclipsa, Moon, and Rhombulus, whisking them away. They find themselves in the middle of a forest, saved by Hekapoo.

- This is where “Tavern at the End of the Multiverse” starts. Hekapoo is horrified at Rhombulus’ condition, and after picking him up, she says that she knows a place where all of them can hide. And so she takes them to the Tavern at the End of the Multiverse. This space is also a bit of a safe zone for all different types of people, and has some private rooms if needed. 

- Hekapoo takes Rhombulus into one of them to see if she can help him somehow. Star argues with Moon, but they are interrupted by Hekapoo, who says that she needs them to come over to where Rhombulus is. He’s in terrible condition, with the wounds having fully spread all over him. 

- It’s a really sad scene, especially when he begins telling Hekapoo that he can see Lekmet, and they are going to be reunited soon. Hekapoo is extremely distraught and basically in denial, while Rhombulus is basically accepting what is happening. 

- He tells Hekapoo not to worry too much about it, and that their time is close to ending anyways, he just wishes he could have seen everyone win. He tells Star to do better than those who came before her, and that she will be able to fix the world. Then, my boy dies.

- While I still don’t like the whole “destroy all magic” plotline, I thought that something like this would be cool in helping explain the rationale for a few characters. In Star’s case, this is a bit of a breaking point for her. This is where she begins to have her “I hate magic” moment, because she just lost a close friend due to the damage magic can cause when in the wrong hands. 

- And Hekapoo being chill with Star destroying magic makes a lot more sense. She too just lost someone important to her, basically her favorite sibling, and is in a more apathetic state. Hekapoo is mad and sees that the MHC has fallen down a bad path that has slowly destroyed them. Her attitude is less chill and carefree and more angry and resentful.

For Ending 1, I don’t really have any other changes, because all I really wanted to do for this ending is the scene where Rhombulus dies, so that’s the end of that. I think Ending 2 will be a much better ending as a whole, but I thought of Ending 1 first, and kind of liked aspects of it. It’s very bittersweet, and I wanted to make a version that stays faithful to the OG. 

However, the OG is also terrible, so I decided to make another version anyways, especially since I wanted a version where Rhombulus can live. Stay tuned for Ending 2, which will hopefully be coming soon! Or at least, a special post before that giving extra context for Ending 2 (spoilers, I reworked Mina a bit).

Thanks for all your support, and I hope you like what I have in store, since I’ve been working on Ending 2 for a while now. Hopefully this will keep you company in the meantime.

[justeclipsalover]

Are you satisfied with how the show ended?

oh- YEY THIS IS THE FIRST QUESTION I RECEIVED ABOUT SVTFOE!🥳 hmm okay, actually, at first, when I watched it for the first time, I didn't care much about the finale. However, after I had a critical awareness, I realized that I seriously hated the finale. Here are a few ideas about the reasons and how, in my opinion, it could have been better if it ended; First of all, there are definitely a lot of questions and mysteries left in our minds, and this is really annoying, but when looked at from a different perspective, the fact that the mystery remains in our minds has enabled many people to have their own HC. The thing I hated the most about the finale, DUDE, WHERE DID THE IDEA OF DESTROYING MAGIC COME FROM??!! I mean, really, Star's recklessness made me hate it so much, I mean seriously, you can't just destroy thousands of years of Butterfly history just because you hate it, and on top of that, YOU ARE NOT EVEN BUTTERFLY BLOOD, SO ARE YOU TRYING TO MAKE A ROAD WHEN YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO ANYTHING?? Also, they didn't even care about the other characters who were played entirely for Starco at the end, that is, they cut them into short and stupid scenes after the magic disappeared. Another thing, why does Moon betray Eclipsa ONCE AGAIN, look, I was really starting to think that the producer hated Moon, so why did you turn Moon into someone people would hate when things were already warm between Moon and Eclipsa? I loved Moon and she wasn't that hateful but what she did in the finale made everyone hate her, and while watching those scenes, I said exactly this to myself, oh great, everyone hates her now, what a great episode. Yes, and now let me talk a little bit about what could have been better;

First of all, I think we definitely needed a 5th and 6th season. But if it had to end, I think it could have ended peacefully and in a way where everyone was happy. Yes, I think what I'm going to talk about now is exactly the same as my final HC. As mentioned in the final episode, a battle in which Eclipsa, Star and Moon combined their powers would be a much better option, but it is a little different, I think all three of them (even Meteora) could have cast a spell for the battle, that is, like the spells written in the spell book, the three of them could have created a very powerful spell together. After completing the words and designing the spell's operation, they went to the source of magic together, made Eclipsa and Meteora turn into Butterfly form, and after Star and Moon took their form, they went in front of Mina and did the dip down thing together. They would cast the strongest spell they could and destroy Mina, and the war would end. Afterwards, the kingdom would stay at Eclipsa and they would repair Butterfly Castle and move there again and bam, a great finale. Everyone would see the happy states of their ships and the cartoon would end with a perfect ending.

oh this was a bit of a long post, anyways in conclusion my dear friend I'm definitely not happy with the finale and even by just fixing a few mistakes they could have had a great finale, and I swear this episode is my most hated episode ever in svtfoe, thank you for reading:)💖💖

[bazookaboi]

A bunch of old, sh*tty drawings from one big one that I never finished.

[nerdycartoongal]

It's the end of a story driven Disney TVA era

[shionsky]

i love u star butterfly 💗

[cure-orchid]

Happy tenth anniversary to Star vs The Forces of Evil! As someone who watched it since episode one let me tell you it was an emotional rollercoaster. I got so involved in the fanbase, maybe more than any other fandom. I have so many amazing memories (and anxiety worrying over fictional characters) of watching Star and Marco's journey. Yes, there are controversies over story and shipping, but I love the show and love it with my whole heart. Star and Marco are still my highest OTP and some of my favorite characters of all time (Star is my third favorite character ever) and any time they pop up in places like Chibiverse it fills me with joy.

Thank you SVTFOE, thanks for the memories

[galaxyspark-6e16]

from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free

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[maxfrormers]

I know it’s Late for this but:

[incorrectstarvs]

Marco, utterly defeated: love is an illusion Star, patting his head: Aw, c'mon buddy! I'm sure I can uh, salvage this situation somehow! Marco, head in his pillow: how?? Star, humming in thought: I could uhhh... ask her to also date you??? Marco, in disbelief: would she really want to date me? Star, checking her phone: Well, I just texted her and she said yes sooooo Marco, tearing up, stars in his eyes: love is real

[lil-oreo-cookie]

The Eye In The Closet [Pages 15-17]

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[420technoblazeit]

i cant believe we live in a world where the riverdale bitches were poly but not the svtfoe kids

[noperopesaredope]

Currently getting back into my Rhombulus Rewrite a bit, and oh god has it spread beyond just rewriting Rhombulus. Yes, I did make an ending to his story that fits with canon, but I also wanted to make a version of the finale that brings a legitimately satisfying end to his story. Part of the point of the rewrite was making him a more fleshed out character and even a major one, but without replacing Star as the protagonist. And it's hard to write an interesting ending to the character when the rest of canon is still shit.

Then I thought of an interesting idea that would result in tying Mina and Rhombulus together in a way, as well as connecting to one of the major themes of the show (and the rewrite). This caused me to add some changes to Mina during my rewrite.

Then things got a bit out of hand and it lowkey became the Rhombulus (and Mina) Rewrite. Then I realized that I couldn't rewrite Mina without rewriting some of the main plot for Season 4. Then I finally decided "fuck it, let's just rewrite the majority of the finale and much of the plot of Season 4. We'll keep some of the stuff we already changed and the episodes we still kept, but the whole Mina subplot will need to be completely reconstructed from the ground up."

Next thing I know, I'm writing out multiple scenes that have nothing to do with Rhombulus and I'm crying over Mina's new death scene.

God I am so excited to release my next proper Rhombulus Rewrite post.

[bigtittiecomitte]

Seeing people refer Nuzi as the new Starco gives me so much whiplash because I used to be obsessed with Starco when s1 and 2 came out 😭 things never change guys

[bawfulio]

My Thoughts on the Star vs Pitch Bible

So, a few months back, the pitch bible for Star vs the Forces of Evil leaked but nobody (including myself) really noticed. It wasn't until the recent major leak of multiple pitches and pilots for both released and unreleased shows that the svtfoe pitch bible was reposted. It was only then that I found out about it and downloaded a copy for myself. I have to say it's pretty... interesting to see what the show could have been

Below are my thoughts/reactions to the things I read

Echo Creek Academy was originally a boarding school? But Star still lives with a host family??? It does get called a private school later in the bible though…

Moon was originally named Moonbeam. Slightly less on the nose

Wand is stored in case by Queen until the princess turns 14 Star had apparently always wanted to go to an Earth school and longed for a normal life. Wonder why they changed it so that the Queen keeps it until then

The Diaz family was originally The Juans (note: Juan is apparently a Spanish given name but I did find census data indicating that it is used as a surname, commonly among Hispanic families)

…yikes…

So St. Olga's darker nature doesn't seem to have been thought up yet.

Proto-Ludo is even more obsessed with the wand than canon-Ludo

So multiversal travel was through finding and entering cracks between worlds instead of dimensional scissors in the earlier drafts. Interesting

So Proto-Rafael and Proto-Angie were tree doctors/world travelers who were particularly obsessed with Mewni and were chosen as Star's host family because of this

Proto-Ponyhead was not just a ponyhead. She's just like that because she can detach her head from her body and fly around??? And they would cut to what her body's doing in at St. Olga's??? Apparently she also spied on Ludo for Star

Yikes again….

Proto-Marco (aka Sol/Santiago) practiced Tang Soo Do, a Korean martial art that's based on Karate instead of karate itself. He's also pretty into Japanese culture which apparently makes living with Star more manageable

The "How it Works" sections all but confirms that the show was pitched as an episodic comedy about Star and Sol's adventures. This unfortunately means that all the worldbuilding, twists and plot hooks introduced much later in the show's life means that they were likely conceived of right at that late point in production. That does explain a lot sadly…

Also, Ludo uses a secret passage way to get between Mewni and Earth, which is apparently the only other way to travel between worlds No mention of the Monsters being the victims of colonization, oppression and genocide. They're apparently just "hideous and unintelligent" creatures who are "mostly gullible" and Ludo rules them because "he's smarter than them"

Toffee. We've had conflicting statements about his motives. He's apparently both "a Magneto-like villain doing the right thing in the wrong way" and someone who went to all the trouble of corrupting magic to "just get his finger back". With the pitch bible, I was hoping that, even if it's just an early idea that was scrapped, there would be some hint of what he was originally wanting out of his plan. And I got it Toffee, in the earliest form of the show, was just Ludo's advisor who planned to takeover if/when Ludo gets Star's wand. He wasn't a charismatic general nor rebel fighting to end the oppression of his race. He was just a guy that Ludo hired.

Admittedly, Toffee treating the whole deal like a 9-5 office job is kind of funny. No matter what; he clocks in and out on schedule regardless of any chaos or impending disaster, he sticks to his legally mandated breaks and puts in his 40 hours of week because he refuses to be paid a flat fee and Ludo won't pay him in overtime. Not to mention how he apparently he has a family he comes home to complete with a kid to take to soccer practice Still though, the fact that there is no hint of any greater mystery or conflict in his sections pretty heavily implies if not confirms that every mystery, plot hook, even the few answers we got via the finale AMA about Toffee and his motives were thought of the moment their respective episodes were written/the moment the question was asked on reddit

So the Proto-Diazes live in Echo Creek because of the mystery surrounding it and that it's a "weakening dimension"… It was mentioned earlier in the pdf that it's the place where the dimensional rift is particularly thin and accessible

Star…. Star, just… Just don't

YIKES. NEFCY WTF?!?! This does explain how the fantasy racism metaphor was written in the final show but still... Why would you have two of your very few poc characters in your pitch say this to the BLONDE WHITE GIRL MAIN CHARACTER???

Oh, hey it's the bully character from one of the og Star comics. Neat! Followed by Proto-Starfan who's not as concerningly obsessed

Apparently August (Proto-Alfonzo) and Proto-Ferguson had crushes on Star. Considering the shipping mess in the later half of the final show, it's probably for the best that it was dropped

Oh, hey it's another og comic character! Who is apparently Sol's cousin and was sent to Mewni in the foreign exchange program! Poor kid

Apparently there was another antagonist early on that would be after Star. That wanted to steal her hair for her collection. Eh….

So Cashew from the og comics would have been Sol's cat instead of Star's. Then was written out completely

And we end this pitch with some members of Echo Creek Academy's faculty, one of which is a prototype Skeeves. Kind of interesting that there could have been more presence from the school staff instead of just Skullnick.

If anyone wants to read for themselves, just let me know and I'll drop a link to the pitch in the replies

[nerdycartoongal]

The Disney TVA portal trope:

Keeping and merging them together is too destructive and bad

But a permanent goodbye and never seeing them again is too sad

But The Owl House does it so Luz can be in the human world and come to the Boiling Isles whenever she wants and it's just right

[holdingontodust]

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