#they take him to a facility they take his belongings his spellbook his magic his frumkin

[arowizards]

dear tumblr tonight i dreamed an elaborate shadowgast au

[kariachi]

Some reboot fic. Just because Hex cast aside his apprentice, doesn’t mean everybody agrees with the decision.

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“Shortsightedness always was Hex’s most damning trait.” There was a brief time they’d thought Kahina had broken him of it, but no, apparently even to this day he focused too much on the now to see the potential of the future. With a flash of teeth like sabers she glanced back at the human child trotting in her shadow. Really, casting aside an apprentice so young for behaving childishly, as if she didn’t remember well when he had been the one with an underhanded hunger for knowledge and power. How many times had she and Kahina spoke of his attempts to steal spellbooks far beyond his skill?

Between him and her own chick, she was quite proud of that generation.

“So, where are we going,” the child asked, finally. He’d followed without question when she’d appeared and bid him come with her. Most human children did, when faced with a dragon. Those that didn’t flee in terror, useless to her, or insisted on finishing whatever matters they had at hand first. The latter tended to be the most steady, but then it wasn’t as if ‘steady’ was what she was going for with young Kevin.

“My halls,” she answered simply. “I’ve looked into you, your accomplishments and failures-” he hackled at that, how amusing “-and I’m quite interested in seeing you reach your full potential.” That calmed him, it seemed. There was the excess projected confidence of the insecure, but there wasn’t fear in excess. A good sign.

“I am pretty awesome,” he said. “And Hex said I would make a good sorcerer.” She didn’t doubt it, he had had so many words at his last visit, but still she barked out a laugh that made the boy tremble at the force of it. Her tail twitched over his head.

“A sorcerer, child I see much more than spells for you. Magic in your poetry, magic in your watch-” he clamped his hand over it, as if she might try to take it from him. Poor thing, thinking it was power enough to tempt her, who was older than knowing. “-no child, you are an artist first-” another word that calmed him, good “-and artists make for enchanters.”

She was happy to see a curious, thoughtful expression cross his face. There’d yet to be a proper enchanter in this age, the last fallen centuries ago to plague brought by those foreign to him.

She’d liked that one.

~~

A long, low whistle came from the child as they reached the back of the cave and the glowing portal that sat there. It stretched wall to wall and floor to ceiling, more than large enough for even her bulk to pass through.

“Go on,” she urged him, and with a quickly hidden glance back for reassurance- trying so hard to not seem the child he was, poor dear- he did as he was told and stepped through.

“There’s nothing here,” he called a moment later, storming back from the very back wall of the cave with a glare on his face. “What gives?!”

She bit back a laugh, then walked through herself, taking a quick glance around her home before turning around and returning to the cave. He was staring at her. After all, the space he’d seen had been far too small to hold her. Calmly, she stepped passed him and curled up against one of the walls.

“My front door, as it were,” she explained. “Your test is to figure out how to get through it. I don’t care how you do it, magic, science, or what have you, as long as you do.”

He stared some more, schooling his face into a mask of cockiness.

“Easy.”

~~

It took him an hour to stop trying to brute force it. Once he sat down to rest and look around, it took him ten minutes to figure out the trick. Then, another five to properly copy the runes on the walls and her scales onto the strap of his watch.

He was going to be a good one with a bit of teaching in him.

~~

The portal had impressed him, but the sight of her home struck him mute and gaping. She couldn’t blame him, she had been forming and residing in these halls for millennia, her ambient draconic magic twisting everything within to brilliant opal. Every corner and carving shone.

“Those runes are important,” she explained as she entered behind him, sparing him any need to speak. “They can only be written if they’re the truth, and declare you welcome and pure of intentions.” He gave a small laugh.

“So, people need the runes to get in, but they can’t write the runes unless you want them here.”

“Yes.” He shifted slightly as she sent out a flare of magic, spurring an end table to go fetch some of the guest food. She was sure most of the others had been larger than him, and she would not have him poorly fed. “I have many portals around the world, all with the same runes. Just think about where you’d like to go, and the portal will take you to whichever of them is nearest your destination. You can then use it to come right back here.” Again he laughed, a grin beginning to grow on his face.

“Coool…” It was rather charming, really.

“One of your first lessons will be on reading and writing runes-” Hex had to have at least given him a start, he was too good not to “-so you’ll be able to put your own set around the entrance to your rooms.”

“Rooms?” His eyes went wide, and the grin stretched to match them. She couldn’t help her eyes crinkling in a draconic smile to match.

“Rooms, plural”

~~

They had belonged to one of her chicks, and since they’d flown away had seen little use as anything but storage. But they were the closest to a fitting size for a human child, and she had cleared them out, magicking up some proper facilities, before going to fetch him. Besides, he seemed the sort who would appreciate the streaks of obsidian that still graced them.

“Make a list of what you’ll need,” she said as he darted around like a chick on their first visit to the outside, “and we’ll make sure you have it.” As it was, she’d had no wish to decorate for him. She intended to see him taught whatever he could learn, in all the subjects he should- from magic to literature to modern technology- and for that he needed to be comfortable. So, she’d made sure he had a bookshelf, a desk, chair, and bed. Nothing more. “You can assign whichever of the rooms whatever duty you need.”

He didn’t answer her, just nodding as he flashed passed. This time she allowed herself to chuckle once more. The end table went passed her, settling against one wall, loaded down with meats, fruits, cheeses, and drinks to the point if it hadn’t been magicked the stability of its gemstone form would’ve been in question. Hopefully it would be enough.

“I’ll leave you to it,” she said, backing out into the hallway. “The table will lead you to the dining hall for dinner, we can discuss matters further there.”

Yes, this would be worth the time and the effort. There were so few with the knack, even among dragons, it simply wouldn’t do to leave it to wither and die.

[theory-lord]

Star Vs Theory: The purpose of the Council (some gravity falls references)

So, needless to say, if you have not seen all of season 2, do not read this until you have because I will spoil much of the plot. OK. Here it goes.

The purpose of the council is simple: defend the Mewniverse from cosmic threats.

I define the Mewniverse as the portion of the overarching multiverse which the council exercises it’s power. It is not, in fact, separate from the rest of the multiverse. It shares it’s approximate region with the Rickverse (the section of the multiverse under the vague and neglectful influence of the Council of Ricks), and it consists of all of the dimensions Star has visited as well as a few (but not all) that appear in Journal 3 a la Gravity Falls. This theory posits that Star vs takes place slightly after the events of Gravity Falls in the same world and, oddly enough, on the same side of the united states. This is based off some evidence from the live chats and a few easter eggs in the show.

Now to determine the exact role of each council, we will look at their exact powers.

Hekapoo is the crafter of all dimensional scissors. Aside from various combat-centered abilities, she has the ability to create the devices which link the mewniverse together. This invention allows the council and any resources which it possesses to be relocated at a moment’s notice, and encourages extra-dimensional commerce on a vast scale. (she can outproduce any competing method of travel because her chosen dimension has such a fast frame rate, so to speak) However, Hekapoo has a series of other powers as well which give her a massive degree of control over the scissors. She has a limited ability to track where the scissors are gating too and from, and she is able to recognize who the scissors belong to by their magical signature. She is also able to alter the location to which the scissors gate to, keep portals open indefinitely, close them at will, and even once opened a portal between two different dimensions that she wasn’t even in. This allows her to regulate the use of the scissors so that unauthorized beings cannot use them. In this way, she can effectively wall off particularly dangerous dimensions, which includes all dimensions not part of the overarching Mewniverse, plus the Nightmare Realm. However, this does not keep other beings from opening up portals themselves, it would simply take more work to do so and could be very dangerous (for example, the Mystery Shack Portal could punch a hole to any dimension, but it risks tearing apart reality in the process, and Rick’s portal gun can open gates to any adjacent dimension, but cannot gate as far as the scissors can). Thus, Hekapoo controls an enormous asset to the council. If you take her appearance to indicate relation to Tom, her very existence and utility might be the reason why the council has not yet taken action to control the Hell dimension. More on the Hell dimension later.

Omnitraxus Prime’s powers have not been fully explored, but his main job is fairly apparent. He is able to view all dimensions in the mewniverse at once, and is capable of narrowing his focus to a single dimension in order to view all possible timelines of that dimension at once. He can also teleport to any dimension he views without scissors. The first part allows him to detect problems in the mewniverse, the second allows him to troubleshoot the problems by comparing that reality with all others for that dimension, and the third allows him to get to the location and fix things before anything got out of hand. You may be wondering “why didn’t he do something about Bill?” Well... I don’t think he actually could have. Omni was probably well aware of the enormous quantum shield surrounding Gravity Falls, and knew that if he went there to fix things he would get stuck, just like Bill did. I will write a theory on how Bill could have easily escaped the bubble later. Anyways, so Omni is like a big magical cosmic troubleshooter.

After this, things get a little more intertwined, because we are going into Lekmet and Butterfly territory.

Lekmet is the leader of the council by virtue of the fact that he probably founded it. A coalition of powerful spellcasters banding together for the common good of reality sounds like exactly the sort of thing he would start. Lekmet’s powers are fairly simple, but are extremely powerful nonetheless. He can bring people back to life, a feat of power Tom could only sort-of imitate, and he can do it repeatedly. I believe that not only did he found the council, but he also literally made Rhombulus. More about that later. In any case, this allows the council to keep coming back and responding to threats.

Rhombulus is a very interesting character, as he consists of three (possibly five counting his legs) separate entities working together. In any case, his job is three-fold: capture and contain cosmic threats, produce magic focus crystals, and translate for Lekmet. These three facets alone account for his place on the council. Rhombulus is gifted with the ability to freeze enemies in place, fire crystal shards from his hands, and detect the source of major threats to the cosmos, though he lacks the facility to tell what they might be or to see the nuances of the problem. His job is actually to shoot first and ask questions later, so as to better eliminate threats, and because his freezing skill is non-lethal and he can un-freeze his targets or parts of his targets, at any time this strategy is actually a valid one. However, this kind of power can be dangerous when in the wrong hands, which is why his hands are autonomous. If he ever starts misusing his powers, his hands will turn on him, forcing him to incapacitate them and thus make it more difficult for him to act. Rhombulus is a giant focus crystal and he can make more of them at will, and even by accident. We know that Glossaryk’s focus crystal was given to him by Rhombulus, and so we can probably say that the crystals on the Spellbook, Baby’s forehead, and even the Wand probably came from him as well, making him an enormous asset in that regard as well. Finally, Rhombulus is a capable translator and bodyguard for Lekmet. It is my theory that Lekmet may have originally crafted him for this purpose, but then gained an emotional attachment to him that grew into a grandfather-grandson relationship.

Glossaryk’s job is simple, yet it makes him EXTREMELY powerful. He is the teacher of all of the butterfly princesses. As such, he has magical abilities enough to effectively instruct and demonstrate magic to the most powerful being in the Mewniverse currently allied with the council. His memories consist both of his personal memory from his physical existence and rote knowledge of every single spell written in the spellbook, and his magical power emanates from the crystals on the cover of the book. His unique position makes him the single most powerful member of the council, and the most knowledgeable wielder of magic period, with the possible exception of Bill Cipher. He is magically bound to the purpose of the book, preventing him from abusing this power himself, though an unscrupulous owner of the book could take advantage of this. Glossaryk is included in the council because of his role as the teacher of it’s most powerful asset, the princess, and his vast knowledge of everything magical.

The final actual member of the Council is Moon Butterfly, the Queen of Mewni. It is my belief that she is the only fully mortal member of the council. The reason why she is included, aside from her extremely large degree of power, is threefold: to keep the Mewman royalty happy, to keep their most powerful asset on their side, and because as the leader of an extremely warlike people, the Queen is extremely useful in formulating battle plans and utilizing combat magic. The last is very evident in the finale, as she leads the council into battle. The middle refers simply to the Princess of the Butterfly family, who for lack of a better term is somewhat of a loose neutron bomb, as the wielder of the wand. The last has something to do with the very founding of the council as a thing. Here comes Eclipsa/Toffee territory!

The Butterfly family far predates the founding of the council, but I do believe it first came into power around the same time Rhombulus was created, as evidenced by the presence of the gem in Glossaryk’s head and the presence of the wand itself. I believe Lekmet knew Selina the Shy who, for lack of any other major figure, likely created both the wand and the spellbook. Shortly after her death, Solaria the Monster Carver took her place and invaded the land that would soon be called Mewni, gaining her title in the process of that brutal conflict. I theorize that Toffee was present at that battle. Not only that, I would like to propose that Toffee was her primary enemy. This is only based off his supposed immortality and the fact that he took Ludo to the “ancient Monster Temple”. I would propose that Toffee was, in fact, a kind of living god to the monsters, gifted with magic (which they notably lacked) and a healing factor that would make deadpool jealous. Toffee would see himself as the absolute master of his people, and the Mewmans not just as invaders but as heathens. He was willing to sacrifice the lives of his own people to drive them out. However, he lost and was driven back.

Several hundred years past, with Toffee constantly trying to bring down the Butterfly family, when the key to victory was suddenly dropped into his lap. The most powerful princess since Solaria recently began to show interest in a powerful monster of an unknown name, who possessed red skin, 4 eyes, and a pair of horns. Toffee took advantage of the situation and encouraged the monster to pursue the relationship, in hopes that he could win the princess over to his side and turn her on her people. It would have worked, if not for the efforts of Rhombulus and Lekmet, who arrived just in time to freeze Eclipsa before she killed all Mewmans. However, Eclipsa already had given birth to two children. One was with her actual husband, and she would become the new Queen of Mewni. The other, was Hekapoo, the half-mewman half-monster hybrid who inherited much of her mother’s power. Lekmet saw the potential devastation and decided that something had to be done. He founded the council to prevent anything like this from happening again. In a certain sense, Eclipsa and Toffee were the reason the council was founded in the first place.

Hekapoo then went off to Earth Prime, the land of the humans, and married a human man in the form of Isis, the godess of magic, life, and fertility. Her children became the first “demons”. She used her powers to given them a secret realm in a pocket dimension embedded in Earth Prime. While Hekapoo herself is not evil due to Lekmet’s influence, many of her children suffer the taint of Eclipsa’s dark magic and become wrathful, petty tyrants. There are actually very few demons in the Hell dimension. Most are simply dead people and animals reanimated by those with the strongest Mewman bloodline for fun.

The Queen and Hekapoo were incorporated into the council at about the same time, and Omnitraxus Prime joined later.

The council also has a number of other important figures under it.

Sean runs the council’s tower in their collective mindscape, and is indeed part of the tower. he is in charge of security and maintenance, but does not really take his job seriously. He and the tower were created by Lekmet and Rhombulus working in concert.

Baby is in charge of determining the progress of the princess, given Glossaryk’s unreliability. She was Selina’s chief adviser, a common mewman who went through mewberty and never came out. She is somewhat near the power and skill of Glossaryk, but her power is fueled by an enormous metabolism that makes long term deployment unfeasible.

King Butterfly is always chosen from a royal family of Mewni, usually the Queen’s own extended family. Prolonged inbreeding has reduced the potential of the royal family somewhat, but the current king’s new blood has resulted in a sudden boost in the power of the bloodline. The purpose of the King is to be a father to the princess and to handle the common affairs of the kingdom for the Queen so she can continue to handle cosmic threats, making him somewhat like a prime minister. His mewman nature means he does have some magical power, but not much.

Father Time is an asset that Omnitraxus brought to the council. His existence allows Omni to strengthen the barriers between the Mewniverse and the rest of the multiverse without freezing time for the Mewniverse. This makes it impossible for Rick’s portal gun to penetrate the Mewniverse, but something as powerful as the Shack Portal or the Wand could certainly do it.

The Time Baby is an asset, in it’s own way. It rules the future of humanity with an iron rattle, yet it’s existence in earth’s timeline helps smooth out temporal anomalies and eliminate major threats to it’s safety. Currently Omnitraxus is more powerful than the Time Baby, but when the baby matures into a Time Giant, Omnitraxus may have a contender for master of time and space. As it stands, his existence keeps the entire mewniverse safe for now, as his meddling keeps Earth Prime from being used as a jumping-off point for hostile forces.

The Axolotl is very interesting. It has no official place in the council hierarchy, or unofficial for that matter, but it’s very existence is a massive boon. It is unclear exactly how powerful it is, but it seems to be able to manipulate reality with practiced ease. It generally tries to help people, which is good because it doing the opposite would be catastrophic. If I had to make a guess I would say that Lekmet is at least aware of the Axolotl, and maybe even worked/works for/with it.

The henchmaniacs are just anyone who Rhombulus missed, taking refuge in the one place the council won’t fallow, the shattered remains of Bill’s dimension, the Nightmare Realm.

Finally, a bit of a side-note, but I want to expand on Toffee’s story a little in relation to the butterfly family. I think that in Moon’s time, he attempted to steal the wand in an effort to regain control of Mewni, but Ludo’s family lead a monster revolt and helped moon take back the wand, permanently wounding toffee in the process. Ludo’s family would become recognized royalty for a time, until Ludo was inspired to take the wand for himself and dethroned his parents. Toffee has since grown in hatred towards the wand, the council, the butterfly family, and Ludo’s family, and his scheme reflects this. We wants to reduce Ludo to a puppet, steal all of the Butterfly family’s possessions, turn the Mewmans against him, weaken the power of the council and the stability of the Mewniverse, brake the wand in two, recover his finger, and grant himself the power he needs to restore himself as the living god of mewni once more, all in one fell swoop.

As it stands, he’s doing a pretty good job.