#rhombulus rewrite

Season 4 Buildup to Finale

I was going to change some of “Sad Teen Hotline” by adding subplot stuff to it, but tbh, it’s fine on its own. The main issue with it was the fact that there was no proper buildup to Tom breaking things off, so actually having that emotional setup just makes this the emotional payoff. This is one of the last few “normal” episodes before shit really hits the fan, and it’s already going to be a bit emotional, so hopefully the viewers will be prepared. I think that Star and Tom will be able to remain friends post-breakup, they’ll just need some time apart for a while.

Jannanigans

During “Jannanigans”, we have an important subplot regarding the MHC that explains why the portals aren’t working. I actually did plan to have Hekapoo and Omni work with Mina before getting a redemption arc, but that ended up not working and I got pretty stuck, so I changed things and eventually came up with something.

Rhombulus is with Mina, who is acting a bit odd, and her lines foreshadow that she plans to kidnap Meteora and that something bad is going to happen to Eclipsa. However, Rhombulus sees it as Mina just acting kind of weird like usual. Hekapoo rushes up to Rhombulus and tells him about how the portals are no longer working entirely, and they think Eclipsa is behind it. Mina has a slightly weird reaction to this, something that Rhombulus notices, but mentally dismisses. He quickly says goodbye to Mina before the MHC confronts Eclipsa (though Rhombulus is a bit more neutral and even tries to defend her a bit). 

Eclipsa is holding Meteora when they go to confront her, and since it’s clearly serious, she hands Meteora off to a trio of servants. I’ve been thinking up a lot of new ideas to add even more recently, and one of them are a few Mewni gag characters since multiple people mentioned that the average Mewmans feel pretty bland). These guys have a recurring gag of Eclipsa needing to hand Meteora over to someone, and she usually hands her to these three, who think Meteora is very cute, and they fight over who gets to care for her, sometimes resulting in them forgetting to actually focus on her. That might honestly happen in “Meteora’s Lesson”, distracting them long enough for Glossaryck to take her, which could be foreshadowing for the end of this episode. Moving on.

An important little sidenote for the confrontation is that Omni will be physically in the room for this scene rather than using his crystal ball because he and Hekapoo are worried this confrontation could get physical (this is also mainly for plot stuff). It’s generally a very tense scene, and emotions are running high.

It takes a minute, but at one point, one line that either Hekapoo or Eclipsa says makes Rhombulus realize the truth: Mina is likely behind all this, or at least knew what was going to happen, and now she is planning to kidnap Meteora. He rushes to Meteora’s room, with Eclipsa following him, and finds it empty, with the window open, and he realizes that she’s been kidnapped by Mina. That’s when the castle is attacked by the Solarian warriors.

Door in the Lakes

I was originally just going to take “Mama Star” out completely, but then I created the rhyme with the door and stuff, and I realized I could definitely keep it a little bit. Here, it will be called “The Door in the Lakes”. The main plot will involve Star and co. traveling through the Realm of Magic and losing their memories, but Marco keeps getting drawn to this mysterious door that keeps appearing. He might even see Celena calling out to him again, or she starts guiding him towards the door, but he keeps getting distracted by the others.

The B-plot of the episode (or perhaps the A-plot?) cuts back to the MHC after Mina has started attacking the castle.

While I was going to have Omni and Hekapoo help Mina before switching sides, things didn’t work out. So then I had them stay out of the fight before finally joining once Rhombulus was in danger (which did work pretty well in some areas). However, that didn’t work quite as well either due to how I was organizing the order of certain events. I didn’t actually have a good point for them to step in, and had already solidified certain stuff. I had made the mistake of coming up with plot points before finding a good order to put them in, and things got messy. That was actually part of why writing this all took a few weeks. I ended up just letting them help anyway, which made things flow a lot better, so in the end, I stuck with this (even if it’s a little bit less fun and dramatic).

So here, even though Hekapoo and Omni don’t like Eclipsa and Hekapoo is less sympathetic towards monsters, Omni is shown to be more neutral towards them and doesn’t want innocent civilians to get hurt. Hekapoo, meanwhile, is mad that Mina would purposefully disrupt the portals, and wants to stop her in that regard. Thus, they are willing to fight against her.

Hekapoo tells Rhombulus to go and find Glossaryck since he might be able to help them find Star and her friends. Rhombulus starts searching the castle, and eventually, he finds Glossaryck. Rhombulus asks him if he knows where Star and co are, and Glossaryck is cryptic at first, before Rhombulus gets frustrated and lashes out, possibly even crying. Glossaryck feels bad for once, and suddenly transports Rhombulus to the Realm of Magic, where he finds Star and friends and takes them to Mewni.

Ready, Aim, Fire

The next episode, “Ready, Aim, Fire” (as I like that name) starts with Star being shaken awake by Rhombulus. She looks around to see that she and the others are all in the castle, with everyone slowly waking up. Star is a bit surprised to see Rhombulus, especially due to realizing that he probably helped them get out. She asks him how he didn’t go crazy, and he reveals that since he’s a being made of magic, he’s able to resist the effects of the madness. 

Star then asks what happened and why the portals are closed, and Rhombulus quickly says that there’s not much time to explain, but the basic rundown is that Mina and a bunch of Solarian warriors are attacking the castle and trying to overthrow Eclipsa. Also, they kidnapped Meteora and nobody knows where she is. This is a lot of info to take in, but the point is that things are bad, and it’s time to battle.

They hear a rumbling from above, and Rhombulus says they need to hurry. They all rush outside to where the action is. Globgor, Hekapoo, Omni, and Eclipsa are battling the Solarians (who don’t have armor in this version) as best they can, with a lot of our focus being on Eclipsa and Globgor since the MHC will get their own cool fight scene later. E&G are very clearly pissed, fighting ruthlessly, and Eclipsa even uses some very powerful spells. Unfortunately, neither Mina nor Meteora are anywhere in sight.

Eclipsa grabs one of the Solarians and demands to know where Meteora is. The Solarian chuckles and says that she’ll find out soon, to which Eclipsa responds by blasting him, sending him flying with an “AAAAAaaaaaaaahhh!!!” Star calls out to Eclipsa, who turns around to see her and the others, and she is relieved to see them, but is forced to get back into action when another Solarian attacks.

Star, Tom, and Marco start working together to help fight off the Solarians, while Janna helps civilians evacuate into the Monster Temple. Everybody is looking rough, and a ton of monster civilians are injured because of the blades.

It seems like the Solarians are gone for the moment, but they say they’ll be back soon, and if Eclipsa doesn’t surrender, Mina will destroy everything and everyone she has ever loved. Everyone is exhausted, taking a moment to watch as the Solarians fly off, before they begin helping people get into the Monster Temple. Eclipsa continues staring in the direction in which the Solarians went, eyes distant. Globgor finally walks up behind her and puts a comforting hand on her shoulder. She looks up at him, before they sadly walk inside.

We then transition to Mina planning ominously in her hideout, with Meteora near her. She turns to look at Meteora with an ominous smile, but Meteora looks back up at her happily and reaches out to her. Mina briefly sees Solaria in Meteora’s face, or at least her smile. Mina is beginning to regret things a bit, but she is pretty stubborn, and continues on with her plan. “Soon, little baby. Soon, your grandmother’s mission will be completed.”

The Right Thing

The mother from “Down By the River”, Pepper (I gave her a new name), is put in charge of looking after Meteora while Mina and her crew prepare for battle. We see Pepper try her best to take care of Meteora, and she ends up liking the hybrid child. This causes Pepper to question if she’s doing the right thing. In this AU, this character was initially introduced in a sympathetic light, and while she was a bit more resentful towards monsters, she is clearly capable of change. Mina eventually asks her to hand the baby back since they are going to use her as a hostage. The lady reluctantly gives her back to Mina, but after Mina leaves with some of the others, the lady ends up going to Moon, who is unaware of all the crazy stuff happening behind her back. While we don’t see the conversation on screen, we do see the lady say that she has to tell Moon something important.

Moon says that she’s going to go to the Monster Temple and help. Pepper thinks for a moment, before she decides to do something. She goes outside to the middle of the village and rings the village announcement bell. All the villagers come out of their houses and crowd around her, looking at her in confusion. 

An important sidenote is that not all of Moon’s villagers sided with Mina, even if some of them knew. They just had the same attitude that Moon did in the OG “Ghost of Butterfly Castle”. They aren’t all great people, but they aren’t irredeemable racists, and thought Mina was mainly planning to just take down Eclipsa, not the genocide stuff.

“My fellow villagers!” Pepper shouts as she stands up on a box, “I have an important announcement to make! As some of you may know, Mina Loveberry is planning to attack the Monster Temple and dethrone Queen Eclipsa. A lot of you turned down that offer, but never mentioned it to anyone since you felt like it wasn’t your problem. But it is. It’s everyone’s problem. I know you don’t have the best history with monsters, but the Solarians are going to end the lives of hundreds of innocent people. She’s even holding a baby hostage!” The crowd gasps. “Even if we did lose our homes, it doesn’t mean we should sit back as people lose their lives.”

“But we’re just villagers. What can we do?” one villager asks. Moon, who was about to leave, speaks up. “That may be so, but it doesn’t mean you can’t do anything. You’ve learned so much these past few months. You don’t need to fight to save lives.”

Pepper nods. “It’s about time we do the right thing. So, who’s with me?” She pumps her fist up into the air, and the crowd cheers and does the same. Pepper looks at Moon and smiles, while Moon looks back at her proudly.

We may also get a joke of River saying something like, “I’ll go pack some meat!”

Hopefully the timing and stuff for this episode will be good, since I had to shuffle things around to make stuff fit. I think it might work, though.

Attempts at Persuasion

Mina has finally come to the castle with Meteora, and Eclipsa says that they’re going to need to fight her off. Rhombulus then disagrees, saying that he’s known her for centuries, and he has a strong feeling she is capable of change, she’s just not in her right mind. He suggests that he and the rest of the MHC go out to try and persuade her or something, while everyone else stays inside to create a backup plan. Everyone hesitantly agrees to this plan, and we cut to the MHC outside, ready to confront Mina. Mina cheerfully greets the three of them, and Hekapoo and Omni are immediately hostile.

Rhombulus is clearly still pretty hurt by her betrayal, and Mina says that he’s still pretty young and naive. She also says does feel bad for tricking him, but it was necessary and for his own good, which Rhombulus disagrees with. Rhombulus genuinely does present a good argument to her regarding why she should stop, slightly getting into the themes of change and Mina’s underlying issues regarding it. Unfortunately, this ends up striking a chord in Mina, and she says that he’s too far gone, before she swings her sword down towards him. Suddenly, Rhombulus is pushed out of the way by Hekapoo, and Omnitaxus starts fighting Mina. The three of them begin to fight together while also fending off other Solarian Warriors.

We cut back to the inside of the castle, where everyone is sort of trying to come up with a plan, but are having a hard time doing so. This is the point where Moon finally arrives with all her villagers, who are here to help. The villagers start rushing around to treat people’s injuries, carry in supplies, and a few even start preparing for battle themselves.

Moon tells everyone Mina’s plan is to use Meteora as a hostage, then once Eclipsa has given up the throne, she will kill all the monsters. Moon says that they need to come up with a way to defeat Mina, and asks Star what she wants to do. Instead of deciding to destroy magic, Star wants to figure out how to undo the spells cast on Mina and the others (that’s where the Spell With No Name will come into play).

Things finally click together for Marco, and he realizes the meaning of the rhyme in his dream. He suggests they simply ask Solaria, since she’s the one who created Mina in the first place. Star says that talking to Solaria is impossible, before Marco mentions that he saw her in the Realm of Magic. 

He finally talks about his dream where he talked to this Mewni woman with moon cheekmarks and a fan who told him this weird rhyme and showed him the door he found in the Realm of Magic. Star interrupts and asks if she looked like [insert description of Celena], and Marco says she did, and Star realizes he might be onto something. Marco continues describing a bit of what happened, and they start to put together a plan. They do wonder how they will navigate the Realm of Magic without losing track, before Star remembers what Rhombulus said about how he can remain sane. So they decide that Star, Marco, and perhaps some others will go to the RoM, find this door with Solaria, get the spells from her, and defeat Mina. Suddenly, they are interrupted by Rhombulus barging in to tell them that Mina is coming, before Mina suddenly tears a hole through the wall.

Mina planned to convince Moon to take back the throne, arguing that Eclipsa separated Moon from her family (you see what I did there?) and pointing out how irresponsible Eclipsa is as a queen. While the others refute this, Eclipsa does make a guilty facial expression, like she knows Mina is somewhat right. Moon says that she’s done being queen and that Mina needs to stand down, and she dips down, transforming into her butterfly form before preparing a spell and aiming at Mina, a powerful threat.

Mina finally shrugs and says that she doesn’t need Moon, since the MHC found a replacement before, so she’ll probably be able to do the same. Moon, knowing that there’s no bargaining with Mina, fires, but Mina manages to block the attack with her sword, causing it to fly off in a different direction. Moon, Hekapoo, Omnitraxous, Tom, Ponyhead, Sea Horse, Kelly, Rich Pigeon, Jorby, Talon, Quirky Guy, Janna(?), and possibly a few other characters all attack, and the final battle begins.

Rise to the Occasion

Moon tells Star to help get Eclipsa out of there and enact the plan, and while Eclipsa protests, wanting to fight to save her daughter, Globgor says that he doesn’t want to lose her too, and Mina is trying to target her, so it’s best if she hides for now. They kiss, before Eclipsa is practically dragged off by Star. Star also drags Rhombulus along with her, promising to explain everything on the way.

While heading towards the portal to the RoM, Eclipsa admits to Star that she slightly agrees with Mina, as she doesn’t feel like she is a very good queen. Star tries to comfort her, but Eclipsa shuts it down and reveals that she doesn’t even want to be queen, she just wants her family to be safe and happy. She actually was wondering if perhaps Star would like to be queen instead. 

I was writing out some stuff regarding Moon during the finale, when I noticed a recurring thing I kept adding to my writing, and I realized it would be interesting if I took things a certain direction. I realized that Eclipsa really isn’t the best queen, and I kept integrating that idea into the story in a lot of ways while keeping her sympathetic.

Star is shown to be a genuinely pretty good leader in canon, or she would at least make a pretty decent queen, and spearheads a lot of stuff to make improvements. She also cares about things like Monster-Mewman equality and puts in the work to bring peace to both sides, and she understands the complexities and nuances of fixing these issues. Not only that, but she does have a slightly more modern perspective compared to Eclipsa, focusing a lot more on the kingdom rather than her own personal relationships. I did add a theme of the new generations being the key to progress, and Star represents that idea pretty well throughout Season 4.

Eclipsa points this out to her, which is why she’s making this suggestion.

Star says she doesn’t want to take that away from Eclipsa or Meteora, and Eclipsa says that that doesn’t have to be the case. Star could be the queen until Meteora comes of age, since Meteora is already doing stuff to bring people together, and since she is a hybrid, she would likely make a great queen. They agree on this idea, and hope to possibly go through with it.

Suddenly, they hear the sound of the battle coming closer. Eclipsa says to Star that before any of that (the whole Star being queen thing) can happen, they need to get Meteora back. Eclipsa is done hiding. She’s going to go and save her baby.

Star says that she’ll see her on the other side, and Eclipsa wishes her good luck. They part ways, with Eclipsa heading towards the fighting and Mina, while Star, Marco, and Rhombulus head to the portal.

We cut back to the battle, where unfortunately, Globgor, Hekapoo, and Omni are cut by Mina’s blade, incapacitating them. Hekapoo is actually pretty surprised to see that she and Omni can be injured by the Solarian Blades at all. Globgor points out to them that they aren’t that different from any other monsters. The only real difference is that the MHC has power and they were created using magic. But even then, that’s pretty surface level. Omni thinks for a moment and admits that perhaps they were wrong about a lot of things, and Hekapoo agrees. Globgor chuckles and says that if they survive this, maybe they can start working towards peace. The other two agree, before Mina tries to attack them again. Suddenly, a magical blast blows Mina’s hand away. Eclipsa is here.

Eclipsa confronts Mina, and another Solarian floats up next to Mina, holding a crying Meteora in his arms. Mina asks Eclipsa if she’s here to surrender. Eclipsa does say that she doesn’t plan to be queen anymore since Star is a pretty good queen. This pleases Mina, who is happy that she is going to get her way, but Eclipsa says that Mina isn’t going to win this. Meteora will remain the heir to the throne, and Monsters and Mewmans will live in peace together, and there’s nothing Mina can do about it. Mina is enraged, saying that none of that can happen if she “ends them.”

Eclipsa sees red, and she demands that Mina give her back her baby, before for the very first time, Eclipsa finally dips down.

A small note to make regarding Mina:

During the Season 3 finale, I think Mina’s quick defeat really weakened her presence as a villain and made her feel like a downgrade. This is why, if I already planned ahead properly for her to be the final villain, I would use the Meteora conflict to improve this. Maybe we wouldn’t see the whole fight, but we would see the climax of it before Mina gets defeated.

This fight is clearly devastating, and it’s when we get to see just a glimpse of Mina’s true power. It might also have a little foreshadowing. During the meeting, Star will ask if anyone is currently holding off Meteora, and the general reluctantly says that, despite being retired, Mina Loveberry decided to go rogue and fight Meteora herself. This causes Star to groan, and the general strongly suggests that they send reinforcements so that Mina doesn’t end up destroying all of Mewni in the conflict.

Then, when Marco’s team arrives, we see a tiny bit of the fight between Mina and Meteora. They are really going at each other, and are basically equals in terms of fight power. The whole thing is kinda terrifying in how intense it is. Maybe not as intense as Star vs. Meteora will be, but still pretty crazy. Rhombulus mentions that it’s weird to see Mina hold back like that, and she should probably take this more seriously. The others are shocked to hear that she’s actually holding back, and Hekapoo casually mentions that Mina is considered Mewni’s champion for a reason.

Mina even manages to knock Meteora down for a few seconds, long enough for her to assume she’s won. However, the moment Mina has her back turned, Meteora gets up again and steals her soul. This causes Marco’s team to run ahead a bit and enact their plan.

So, now that we have that out of the way, let's continue.

Season 4 Rewrite Changes:

Just like in my original outline, Rhombulus appears in “Butterfly Follies” where he attempts to have a conversation with Star, and then the rest of the episode stays the same, as well as “Escape the Pie Folk”

The outline for “Crystal Prism Prisoner” remains the same

The outline for “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” will remain the same, though there is a high chance I will take out the part where the MHC asks Rhombulus to spy on Eclipsa, as that goes against a lot of plot stuff I’ll be doing for this season. I might have them have a meeting related to Eclipsa, though, and Rhombulus tries suggesting some things, but is pushed down. This probably makes him realize how little he is included in the MHC, and he needs to start making his own decisions. This change will also require him to be taken out of “The Ponyhead Show”. 

In “The Ponyhead Show”, when Eclipsa sings her song, people will dislike it at first, but then Meteora will wander up to her mother and start singing in little growls and stuff that actually sounds very pretty and cute. While some people are still hateful, quite a few are charmed by it, and even a bit curious at the idea of a Monster-Mewman hybrid. It doesn’t 100% fix everything, but Meteora does indirectly start to change people’s minds a bit, especially when seeing her relationship with her mother.

The outline for “What’s Left of My Family” remains the same

The rewrite I made for “Down By the River” will remain the same, but the end of the episode will involve a mysterious person (implied to be Mina) approaching the mother of the family and offering to help her do something about the whole Eclipsa and monsters problem.

In “Out of Business”, Marco will mention that he’s been having some weird dreams recently, which will be important in the next episode.

I have decided to take out Marco and Kelly’s romance since I don’t know what to do with it and I need room for other stuff. Sorry Kelly.

Instead, this episode, “Dreaming of Wands” will continue the plotpoint regarding Marco’s weird dreams. It starts off with Marco dreaming about being inside the Butterfly castle, which looks slightly off. He sees a shadow go down a hall, and decides to follow it. He passes by a few paintings of various queens of Mewni, but then he passes Celena’s, and the next painting is Celena’s painting again. And the next. And the next. And the next. He stops at one and looks up at it in confusion. Suddenly, the Celena in the painting looks down at him, and he jumps back in surprise.

A breeze brushes over him, and he turns towards it, only to see Celena herself standing at the end of the hallway, her fan in front of her face. She pulls it down slightly and mouths something to him, but he can’t hear it. He begins running towards her, but she disappears.

Marco tries navigating this dream castle to find Celena, and ends up stumbling upon the painting of Eclipsa’s father that he met during the night of the Blood Moon Ball. Marco asks why he sent him there to get cursed, and the captain sighs and admits things didn’t go according to plan.

“Your Destinies are intertwined, but alas, Destiny is a fickle thing, and the Blood Moon’s curse has tied you together too tightly.” The basic idea is that Star and Marco do share a destiny, but not the kind that the Blood Moon creates, and they may need to break the curse since it’s disrupting things in a harmful way. Marco wonders what the correct destiny is, but the captain says that it’s not his place to say, and he needs to ask the moon maiden he’s been looking for.

Marco finally finds Celena again and manages to confront her, and she says this (accompanied by trippy visuals that will be important later):

Into the realm with lakes of gold

Exists a door that’s centuries old

Ghosts of the past, the room does hold

When secret truths are finally told

A Nameless Spell will be controlled

And new beginnings will unfold

Marco wonders what it means, before he finally wakes up and realizes it was just a dream.

I initially wasn’t sure what to do about the Blood Moon episode and considered just leaving it alone, but then I thought up the idea with Eclipsa’s dad, and ended up moving things around a bit. Inspired by the dream, Marco suggests to Star that they try to break the Blood Moon curse. He doesn’t exactly feel like explaining why he suddenly wants to, but at least implies that he’s been thinking about it due to some dream stuff, and all the previous stuff involving the Blood Moon has made him realize how much of a problem it really is. Star agrees, and they decide to go and break the curse. 

I’m not exactly sure if I’ll change anything else about the episode or what I would change at all, but the main idea is that Star and Marco do have a connection and deeper emotional relationship, just not a romantic one (though this rewrite does end with both of them being single, so there’s still potential there if the viewers truly want it).

One of the new big changes is “Ghost of Butterfly Castle”, since I’m changing Mina a lot here and giving her a better subplot.

Rhombulus is still thinking about his dream he had in “What Remains of My Family”, and decides to walk around a bit in the ruins of Butterfly Castle, before he stumbles upon Mina.

They’re both clearly happy to see one another, and Rhombulus says he hasn’t talked with her much in the past decade or so, then asks where she’s been lately. She says she’s mainly been hanging out in the old Butterfly Castle since things have been…weird lately. She then quickly changes the subject because she needs his help with something.

Mina knows that Rhombulus knows a lot about gems and jewels and stuff, and she needs his help finding a few special ones. They have a goofy little adventure trying to find it, with us getting hints as to them having a pretty long history together and knowing one another well.

After finding it, he asks what it’s for, and she finally shows him a strange machine from long ago created by Solaria, as well as her special armor.

I wanted Mina to make her Solarian army (just without the armor), but I refused to include Moon’s betrayal because fuck that. I came up with a ton of ideas, until I finally said “fuck it,” and created the weird device that makes Solarian Warriors. At some point during the war, while working on the experiments to create the Solarian Warriors, Solaria created a device that would be able to create the warriors on its own.

Mina starts talking to Rhombulus about wanting to take down Eclipsa, but he turns her down as politely as possible and basically tells her she’s being crazy and shouldn’t do that. Mina lashes out at him, and storms off, but Rhombulus decides to follow her, since she was his friend for a long while.

They both start reminiscing a little bit, with us seeing just how close they used to be, as well as the fact that they fought alongside one another a lot. Mina says she misses those times, back when things were a lot less complicated and confusing. Rhombulus tells her that he wants to focus on the future, not on the past, and she should too.

In her usual goofy way, Mina gives an exaggerated “hmm” before declaring that she sees his point, and she’ll try. Rhombulus is delighted by this, and naively thinks she is being completely honest with him.

Mina then admits she doesn’t have anywhere else to go, and Rhombulus suggests she stay with him, since he’s been a bit lonely ever since Lekmet passed away (he’ll also give her Lekmet’s old dimensional scissors, which will likely be important later). Mina says she’ll pack her things up and meet up with him later, and Rhombulus leaves happily.

Upon walking to her room, we see that the Yada Yada berries are in there, along with a ton of anti-Eclipsa stuff and a whole bulletin board of plans for how to take Eclipsa down (might even have a giant label over it titled “Plan to Take Eclipsa Down and Destroy the Monsters”). She says to herself that this is even better than she planned, and will make things so much easier for her. Sure, Rhombulus might be a bit upset that she’s manipulating him and using their friendship for her own personal motives, but he’ll forgive her once she is able to make him see the truth again. She just needs to be a little bit patient.

The changes I made for “Cornball” will stay mostly the same. However, Meteora comes with Star to the Cornball game, and she is one of the first to start playing with the other kids. They might even be a bit curious about her being a hybrid, but generally don’t really mind. They just say that it’s kind of cool and start playing together. Meteora might even gather together a small group of babies and they work together to cause minor chaos.

As I said in an earlier post, the interaction between Glossaryck and Reynaldo will be a bit different, but another thing I might throw in there is that the episode starts out with Star babysitting Meteora and trying to help her with her magic, since Meteora seems to be showing signs of magic a bit early and without the wand. Glossaryck decides to take over when Star leaves the room for a minute to talk to Eclipsa about something. Meteora also will likely not dip down, but she will be able to use magic without the wand, and Glossaryck manages to help her get it under control a bit.

During “Queen-napped”, while Star is panicking over Eclipsa being kidnapped, Rhombulus mentions that he recently reconnected with Mina, and she might be able to help. Star is skeptical about Mina, but Rhombulus vouches for her, and Mina promises that while she isn’t perfect, she is a new person now. Mina does sneakily try to sabotage the rescue attempts, though we only really learn about that later near the end of the episode.

My rewrite for “Junkin’ Janna” went through a ton of changes, but eventually, I decided to stay consistent with my OG rewrite for it. The issue the meeting will be about is that portals seem to be acting slightly weird again, and there’s some dark magic coming from the Monster Temple like in canon. Mina is hanging around the castle a bit more often and is figuring out how to mess with the portals, as well as framing it on Eclipsa, so that’s the cause of that whole issue.

We continue Marco’s dream subplot in “The Spell With No Name”, which I was originally going to keep pretty much the same, but then things happened and now it’s slightly different again.

Since the OG Spell With No Name essentially became irrelevant and I came up with that cool rhyme earlier, I decided to change the spell a bit. In this AU, The Spell With No Name destroys magic. Not all magic, but anything magical it comes across. If it comes across a person who is magical but not made of magic, it will take away their magic. But for beings made of magic? It’ll just straight up kill them. That’s what’s happening in this episode. I was sort of planning to add more Celena to this episode, but I likely won’t unless I change my mind later.

My rewrite of “Cornonation” will remain mostly the same, but with a few details changed. Eclipsa might imply that she’s not 100% sure about being queen, but Star believes it’s important since it could help lead to Monster rights, saying something along the lines of “if they learn to accept you, they can accept Meteora and all the other monsters, and that’s what matters most.” It’s more strongly shown that the people don’t exactly accept Eclipsa as queen, per say, but accept the family and the inter-species relationship.

Mina appears at the end again when she approaches a villager who we sort of learn is in cahoots with her. The villager expresses disappointment over how the coronation went, especially with Globgor getting accepted, and Mina tells them not to worry, since none of this will ruin their plans. She then tells the villager to give a message to the others, before it cuts to black.

In the previous rewrite, I changed the plot of “Britta’s Tacos” to be mostly about Tom and his journey, and I will keep that. I also changed the B-Plot a bit regarding Star and Marco visiting Earth, but since I’ve taken out both Starco and Kelco, I’m changing it again to just be mostly the same, but without the Starco baby joke because wtf.

Most of “Crystal Children” will remain the same, but with a few small additions. After his conversation with the MHC, we cut back to Rhombulus in his realm with Mina, as they are sharing a living quarters. Rhombulus complains to Mina about his situation, and Mina suggests he let all the monsters free, and it’s not exactly like the MHC can tell him what to do. She pretends that she’s suggesting it so that he can improve things, but in reality, she just wants to free the monsters so she can kill them since she can’t do so while they are crystallized.

Rhombulus thinks that that’s a great idea, and decides to start with Alita’s dad, which will make her super happy. Mina then says she’s off to do her usual stuff, which Rhombulus laughs off a bit, wondering what she does all day while he’s out. The rest of the rewritten episode continues as normal.

Season 4 (Part 2):

- So I forgot to add something important to my last part of the rewrite. Well, okay, the particular episode isn’t all that important, but the part I’m adding might be a bit important. So, as I said in my last post, in “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” (an episode that I made), it is revealed the the MHC basically want Rhombulus to spy on Eclipsa, so I decided to add some stuff to actually show that a bit, starting with “The Ponyhead Show!”

- Rhombulus might offer to host a small segment on the show as an excuse to follow Eclipsa around. In the background during certain scenes, we might be able to see Rhombulus hiding behind things or sneakily taking notes during Eclipsa scenes. He’ll also seem a bit nervous around he, probably due to feeling guilty about spying on her.

- Back to the actually ones that I should be talking about.

- I was not planning to add Rhombulus into “Cornball!”, but oh my god, I’m so glad I did. This isn’t even really gonna be a Rhombulus episode, but it’s gonna have some stuff for him in it. First off, he decides to check out the cornball match because 1) Star asked if he wanted to come and he had nothing else to do, 2) he really likes cornball, and 3) he was curious to see how this Monster-Mewman intergrated teams cornball match would go. He realizes he doesn’t really have a strong understanding of Monster-Mewman relations and wants to learn more about the whole mess, especially since he and the MHC are so highly involved in it.

- Rhombulus tries to find a seat, but some monsters recognize him and choose to avoid him. He then tries to sit near some Mewmans, but is not fully recognized and is seen as a monster. This is the first time Rhombulus has ever fully experienced what it’s like to be a monster in Mewni, and it shakes him a bit at how cold and even cruel Mewmans can be. This whole sequence is done without Rhombulus ever saying a word.

- He decides to just sit somewhere by himself behind the statium, when a small monster girl appears next to him and compliments his snake tails, saying they look cool. Rhombulus awkwardly thanks her, and compliments her tail as well.

- He then asks where the kid’s parents are (as this child is extremely small and should not be alone). The child casually responds that her mama is dead. This is a very awkward thing to hear, so Rhombulus carefully asks where her dad is. The child says “he got crystalized. I haven’t seen him in years, and I’m pretty sure I’m never gonna see him again. I miss him a lot.”

- Rhombulus softly asks why her dad got crystalized. She says that she doesn’t know. She and her auntie tried to find out, but they were denied. But whatever it was, she knows her papa is innocent, and someday, she’ll save him.

- This is important. Very, very important.

- One important thing about Rhombulus is that since he represents childhood, he is really great at getting along with little kids. So he asks if she wants to do something else besides sit around.

- The little girl jumps up at this, and she takes him over to meet her friends, who are joining in on the match. She asks if he wants to play too. Rhombulus says he’d rather just watch, but that he’ll cheer her on. She nods and runs off to join the game.

- As he watches the kids play, Star might ask Rhombulus what he thinks of all this. He pauses a moment before saying “kids are wiser than adults, aren’t they?” Star agrees.

- Before he leaves, Rhombulus asks the little girl what her name is, and she says that her name is Alita. He asks her what her dad looks like, and she tells him. Rhombulus then tells Alita that he knows the guy who crystalizes people, and maybe he can talk to him and see if they can let her dad go. Alita asks him to promise he’ll get her papa home as soon as possible if he gets freed. He pinky swears, and they part ways. This will come up again later.

- So I included Reynaldo in my all new original episode; “Between a Rock and a Hard Place”. And because he’s in “Meteora’s Lesson”, I might as well talk a bit about that. There is a chance Reynaldo will mention that Rhombulus visited, which Glossaryck will only barely react to, saying that he’s not surprised. Reynaldo also mentions that it’d be nice if Glossaryck came to visit him every once in a while, but Glossaryck basically waves it off. :(

- Rhombulus and Star will not get into a fight during “Junkin Janna”, and Rhombulus will actually appear to feel bad for wasting Star and Eclipsa’s time, and won’t be accusatory towards Eclipsa. So that’s that episode.

- I also decided to add a change that is both major and minor, because as you will see this season, I am changing more than just Rhombulus. Sure, I’m not gonna change everything that I don’t like about Season 4 or feel like they should have changed, but I decided to use this opprotunity to make a few things just a little bit better in my eye.

- This is that change: Kelly and Marco will not break up. Now, I will explain this decision more in my rewriting of the climax/finale, but I just want to stop the shipping drama and change things up a bit, as well as make most fans a bit happier in the process. Kelly was done dirty and deserves better. Starco ended up being a mess and it ended up ruining the impact of the finale for me. So I decided, why not just keep Kelco together?

- The next episode Rhombulus appears in is the extremely important “Cornonation” of course! Now, for this episode, a lot of things will stay the same and a lot of things will be different, particularly the ending.

- While the first half of the episode will remain mostly the same, little details all throughout it will be different.

- First off, Rhombulus won’t get very accusatory of Eclipsa. In fact, he might at some point take the rest of the MHC aside to try and convince them that Eclipsa is innocent. Hekapoo says that there is no way she isn’t the one who did it. Rhombulus swears that he’s been keeping an eye on her the whole day, and at no point did he see Eclipsa try to free Globgor.

- Hekapoo insists that there are no other person it could possibly be, so they will still need to keep an eye on her, which Rhombulus is very reluctant about.

- While guarding her, Rhombulus (while stroking his tails and looking away no less🤔) tells Eclipsa that, for the record, he thinks she’s innocent. She looks at him a bit funny, but thanks him. He also lets Star talk to Eclipsa alone with no questions asked.

- When Star comes back with Globgor, Rhombulus looks kinda nervous and afraid. Rather than Rhombulus proudly declaring that he will crystalize Globgor, Omni will prompt Rhombulus to perform the crystalization process, which he will be slightly reluctant about.

- While Eclipsa and Globgor see each other again and have that cute moment, Hekapoo will say “all right, enough stalling. Rhombulus, crystalize her.” Rhombulus will panic for a second, before starting to crystalize her, causing Globgor to break out, and the whole fight thing will ensue, with all that stuff being mostly the same.

- When Globgor says that the MHC can crystalize him, as long as they let his family go, Rhombulus will hesitate at this, clearly conflicted, before slowly aiming at Globgor. That’s when River inturrupts and makes the whole small speech about being a dad.

- Omni and Hekapoo protest this, saying that Eclipsa needs to be imprisoned for her crimes. But, in a surprising turn of events, Rhombulus speaks up against this, saying that the MHC (including himself) are pretty bad judges, and probably shouldn’t have a say in this. Plus, he’s pretty sure Eclipsa didn’t do it.

- Omni says that it is their duty to imprison the couple, but Rhombulus reminds them that actually, that’s RHOMBULUS’S job, and only he has the power to crystalize people. And he refuses to use it on them without at least giving them a fair trial or something like that.

- Everyone is slightly shooketh, and there is a pause until Eclipsa suggests letting the people decide. Then the whole scene plays out mostly the same, and it all pretty much works out. Omni and Hekapoo are a little moody about it, but accept this.

- After the cornonation, Globgor approaches Rhombulus in private room away from prying ears to ask him a small, simple question: “Why did you free me?” Rhombulus nervously chuckles, asking if he meant why he didn’t recrystalize him during the Cornonation.

- Globgor says no, and that Rhombulus knows what he really means. Rhombulus denies this at first, but he’s never really been good at lying, and Globgor pushes him into confessing that yes, he was the one to set free Globgor at the Monster Temple.

- Rhombulus admits he’s made mistakes in the past, and there’s probably a lot of people he unjustly imprisoned. He realized this recently and felt really bad about it, and because of his impulsive nature, while standing in the Monster Temple, without thinking, he decided to free Globgor. What was the worst that could happen? As soon as Globgor stormed off, Rhombulus immediately began to regret his decision, but didn’t know what to do about it. So he didn’t say anything.

- Globgor understands this, and thanks him for reuniting him with his family, even if it all ended up a little messy.

- I’m not exactly sure how to end “Cornonation”, but pretend I wrote down a good ending to the episode. Maybe some Mina foreshadowing or something. I’m such a good writer. Totally not just telling people to finish the rest themselves. Amazing. Fantastic. I’ll win all the awards.

- Instead of “Britta’s Tacos”, we should have gotten an episode centered around Tom and his trip, which will explain his decision to break up with Star. Wouldn’t come to the conclusion that he should break up with her, but would come to the conclusions that lead up to him choosing to break up with her. I’d like an episode like that. But I’m not gonna write it down, because I feel like someone else should do it. Still, pretend that in this AU, that episode exists.

- Sidenote: The B-Plot to that episode would be Marco coming back to Earth to introduce Kelly to his family, and maybe Star comes along? During that, we can catch up with the characters we left behind on Earth. The joke about Mariposa being a Starco baby will not happen, because ew wtf.

- “Gone Baby Gone” is a cute episode. But it is also expendable. Which is why I shall be replacing it with a different wholesome episode centered around Rhombulus character growth and also Alita. I’m not sorry.

- This new episode is called “Crystal Children”. The synopsis for this episode would probably be “Rhombulus follows through on a promise.” That’s basically the episode in a way. But it’s also so much more than that. It’s the near completion of his whole arc up to this point.

- We start out with Rhombulus talking rapidly in front of a bulletin board that looks more like a conspiracy theorist board. He is talking about ways they could change the justice system in Mewni. This part is a bit short, but very rambling and slightly confusing. He finally says, “so, watcha think?” and we cut to Hekapoo and Omni, who are sitting on chairs as his audience. There is a pause before Hekapoo says “no” while Omni says “absolutely not.” Rhombulus, clearly devestated, exclaims “WHAT?! But why!?!”

- Omni states that Mewni’s current system works perfectly fine, and there is no point in overcomplicating things and changing it. Hekapoo agrees, and Rhombulus is forced to pack up and go home.

- In the next scene, Rhombulus sitting in his lair and looking around at all the frozen monsters, which he feels bad about. He sighs and says “I wish I could free you guys. Then I could make up for everything.” He sits there for a few seconds before popping up and exclaiming “wait! I control the crystals! I can do whatever I want!” He runs over to a crystal and is about to unfreeze it when one of his snakes holds him back and reminds him that it’s probably a bad idea to just randomly unfreeze anyone, and he needs to think more carefully.

- They decide to instead freeze someone that they are much more sure isn’t evil. Rhombulus remembers Anita, and goes to look for her dad. He wanders around the lair for a bit before spotting him. Anita’s dad is admittedly pretty scary looking, and there is a moment where Rhombulus questions if this is really her dad. But he checks around, and it really is him. Rhombulus then has a moment of unsurety about freeing Anita’s dad, but he gathers his resolve and does it anyways.

- Anita’s dad wakes up in flight mode and immediately begins to scramble away from Rhombulus, who is also caught off guard. But Rhombulus manages to calm him down, and explains that he is taking him back to his daughter again.

- They then have a little escape adventure thing together (IDK I don’t have a full plan for this episode and really just wanted to get this post out) in which Rhombulus learns more about monsters and Anita’s dad (who will be named Crelin) learns about Rhombulus.

- It ends with Anita and Crelin being reunited, and Anita thanks Rhombulus for doing the right thing.

Season 3:

- While bring young Moon to meet Eclipsa in “Moon the Undaunted”, Rhombulus will be slightly more nervous and caucious about showing Eclipsa to Moon. Moon might ask Rhombulus what Eclipsa is like or what she needs to know before meeting her, and Rhombulus will say that Eclipsa is terrifying or something. 

- He’ll then admit that he doesn’t remember that well because he was only about 100 years old by the time he froze her, but he does remember the rest of the MHC talking about how big a threat she was, so she must be pretty scary.

- This not only gives us an idea of how young Rhombulus is in comparison to the others, but also the fear and jumpiness surrounding Eclipsa despite very little knowledge about her or what her deal is. There’s only a few primary sources, and all are biased.

- When Rhombulus refreezes Eclipsa, he says “phew! That was close! She didn’t do anything evil-y, right?” and Moon responds with “no, no, she was...helpful, actually. She didn’t seem that evil.” Rhombulus says “oh, trust me, she’s definitely evil. Even my gut agrees!” before leading Moon away, who looks back one last time before following him.

- “Rest in Pudding” is going to be pretty important to Rhombulus’ arc, even if he won’t be in it for to long. Due to being the one closest to Lekmet (seeing him as a parental figure, taking care of him, kinda being raised by him, being a close confidant), Rhombulus is clearly one of the most heartbroken by his death.

- In contrast with often being very loud and energetic throughout most of his scenes, in this episode, Rhombulus will be a lot more quiet and spacey than usual, and not at all like his typical self. He’ll also be wearing his hood up, and might not even be there at the beginning.

- The little moment between Rhombulus and Star at the beginning will be a bit different in this rewrite and even more sad. Star will notice that Rhombulus is nowhere to be found. She sneaks out into the hallway and finds Rhombulus curled up under a table and staring at the wall with a blank expression on his face. 

- She gets under the table with him and sits next to him. After a few seconds of silence, Rhombulus quietly says “I never even got to say goodbye,” before bursting into tears. Star offers him a hug, and he accepts. They sit together a bit as Rhombulus cries, and at some point says “I always told him that spell would get him killed someday, I just didn’t expect it to be so soon.” Star pats his head and says “I know,” not exactly sure how to comfort him. 

- Rhombulus wipes his eyes before telling Star that she should probably go back in, and also that she should probably give the can to her dad, since River and Lekmet have been the only people who could eat those things. Star stands up and also asks if he’s coming, but Rhombulus says that he just needs another minute alone. Star tells him to take his time, then heads back in. The scene with the punch bowl then happens.

- Me: *Rereads this part*

Me: *Burst into tears*

I made myself sad, mates

- During “Stanger Danger”, Rhombulus does seem to be helping scan Star not just because of the fear of Eclipsa’s influence, but also out of legitimate concern. This can be shown in him saying things to try and reassure Star that they are here to help and also asking her if she’s sure that Eclipsa didn’t do anything bad to her.

- This is a similar case in “Monster Bash”, where Rhombulus appears both mad and also worried, but also occasionally forgets that he is supposed to be an adult.

- The rewritten scene: Rhombulus walks up to Star, who is sitting outside the Monster Temple with a blanket around her shoulders. “You are gonna be in a ridiculous amount of trouble when the rest of the Commission finds out about this, Star!” Star protests, saying they weren’t doing anything wrong, they were just having a party. Rhombulus fires back with “well we detected a huge surge of magic in the dungeon earlier, so someone must have been doing something they weren’t supposed to!” Star, remembering this, chuckles nervously at this and says “oh, yeah, that...I forgot about that...”

- (Continuation) Rhombulus sighs, exasperated and shouts with frustration “do you even know WHAT this place even IS?!” as he waves his arms around. Star sheepishly says “a fun place to throw parties?” Rhombulus forgets that he’s supposed to be angry and says “I mean, it used to be. Jushtin threw a few banquets here, and Festivia threw a pretty rad rave once...” He then remembers what he’s supposed to be scolding her, and says “BUT IT’S NOT FOR THROWING PARTIES ANYMORE, IT’S-!”

- (Cont.) He cuts himself off and stumbles to find out what to say next. He’s not supposed to say, and he’s not used to being the adult. “Well, it’s, um, actually, I’m not even authorized to tell you!” He then conspicuously whispers to her “that’s how bad it is!”

- (Cont.) Star deadpan asks “you don’t know what it is, do you?” Rhombulus gasps scandelously, and shouts “of course I know! I know more than anyone else what this place is for! It’s-” One of his snake tails cuts him off, and reminds him that he took an oath not to say. Rhombulus then says to Star “you see?! I had to take an oath not to say! That’s how serious it is!”

- (Cont.) Star looks kinda sad and embarrassed, and mutters “I just wanted to throw a party.” This makes Rhombulus feel bad, and he drops the act. “Look, Star,” he says “I know what you’re trying to do. But this kinda stuff isn’t going to help. Maybe do something a bit more contained and...authorized next time.” he pats her on the shoulder. I gotta clean some things up and do crime scene stuff. Stay here.”

- (Cont.) He turns to walk away before stopping and turning back to her again. “And call me if you need anything. I’m always around to talk about stuff.” He then walks off. The rest of the episode plays out the same as the original.

- “Total Eclipsa the Moon” shall be the same as canon.

- “Butterfly Trap” is honestly one of my favorite Rhombulus episodes (despite not being Rhombulus centric) and a very important one in his arc. This episode will also be the kickoff for his arc for the rest of the series. While not much about it will change, it will still be the start of a lot of change for him.

- First, let me just write a small mini-rant about how important this episode was to establishing his character in the OG show.

- This episode shows how Rhombulus has the strongest moral compass among the MHC, which makes sense since his powers involve him imprisoning people for their crimes, and he needs to have a strong sense of justice to do that. Much like a little kid, he has a somewhat black and white view of the world, and judges based on that line of thinking. So Star pointing out the MHC’s hypocricy makes him feel really guilty, and that’s pretty interesting to me. He also doesn’t make any excuses or shift blame, he just accepts his wrongdoing and feels guilty about it.

- IDK, it just showed how he actually follows through when he realizes something is wrong, and despite always acting very sure of himself, he’s the one most willing to admit that he might be wrong. This also seemed to be the start of some growth for him. He started out being quick to judge and overly sure of himself, to admitting that his judgement was wrong and that maybe he and the rest of the MHC should change. Ugh! I just love it!

- But anyways, onto the episode.

- A small, but important moment shall occur right before the trial starts. Because I decided to give him some ADHD energy and because I want to, I gave Rhombulus a few reoccurring stims that will appear throughout the episodes (they are there, I just didn’t mention them). One stim is grabbing onto and stroking his snakes when he’s nervous, similar to someone playing with their hair. The second is pulling his hood over his head when he’s embarrassed or guilty. The final is for when he wants to show someone something, he’ll repeatitively pat someone’s shoulder for their attention while bouncing from one foot to the other.

- He often is shown patting Lekmet’s shoulder for attention, and right before the trial starts, he notices something and is about to pat Lekmet’s shoulder, when he remembers that Lekmet isn’t here anymore, and he gets sad again. This will be important later.

- When the box asks who everyone has a crush on, Rhombulus will not say Queen Moon, because that feels weird. Instead, I think it would be interesting to change his answer to Queen Skywynne, as she was an adult when Rhombulus first met her, and he looked up to her a lot at the time. He’ll get slightly embarrassed, but only for a second.

- Throughout most of the trial, like the rest of the MHC, Rhombulus acts very accusatory.

- But when Eclipsa stares fawning over Globgor during Hekapoo’s question, Rhombulus stares for a second, before looking away and pulling his hood over his head. What does he feel embarrassed/guilty about?

- When his turn to ask a question comes, he quickly pulls down his hood and gets very accusatory again.

- When Eclipsa asks where Meteora is, Rhombulus will looked somewhat...panicked, and immediately pull his hood over his head. He actually won’t give an answer at first, merely looking away or tugging his hood further over his head. 

- Just like in the episode, he’ll be the one to confess, and that whole part will stay the exact same. When Hekapoo says “what the heck, Rhombulus?!” his reply will be the same, but with a slight amount of frustration, and he might quietly add at the end, “besides, we shouldn’t have done what we did.” Hekapoo nearly responds to this, but is cut off by Eclipsa saying “tell me what happened.”

- For the rest of the scene, Rhombulus is quiet. He looks surprised when Moon and Star reveal that it was a trick, but before that, when the box does look at him, he makes eye contact with it before bowing his head in shame.

- So that was a pretty big episode. Anyways...

- I haven’t decided which episode this happens in, but at some point, there will be a small scene between Eclipsa and Rhombulus. Rhombulus slowly approaches Eclipsa while she’s alone and says he’s sorry about what he and the MHC did to her baby. Eclipsa carefully admits that she’s still a little bit upset about the whole thing, but she appreciates the apology. 

- (Cont.) Rhombulus, noticing that she still looks pretty sad about it, tells her that “if it’s any comfort, we did send her somewhere very nice with a lovely lady whose whole job is to raise kids. Your daughter lived a very happy life. Probably.” Eclipsa thanks him for that, and Rhombulus admits that Eclipsa is a lot less intimidating than he remembered. Eclipsa is slightly surprised by this, and asks if he really found her intimidating. Rhombulus pauses at this, before quickly saying “anyways, bye!” and hurrying out the room.

- Okay, now, during “Divide”, when the MHC comes in to council Star, Rhombulus nearly protests against this, before pausing, and saying, “yeah, actually, that’s fair.” He doesn’t protest when Star makes them leave the room, only looking back sadly one last time before exiting.

- Later, when Marco gathers up a small force and invites Hekapoo, RHombulus comes along with her. This is to 1) add forshadowing for stuff, 2) give Rhombulus something to do because his powers can be pretty cool for fights, and 3) slightly flesh out Rhombulus and Hekapoo’s relationship dynamic a bit more.

- Marco asks who Rhombulus is, and Hekapoo quickly introduces the two of them to each other.

- When they finally see Meteora, Hekapoo asks Rhombulus if he can freeze Meteora. Rhombulus says that he’s not sure he can crystalize something that big. Hekapoo retorts that he’s crystalized bigger, but Rhombulus shoots back that it was in a much more confined space with less room for someone that big to run around in.

- They continue to argue before realizing that they need to fight Meteora since she’s coming straight for them.

- Cool fight scene ensues, yadda yadda yadda, but at some point, Rhombulus gets his soul sucked. Hekapoo seems extremely worried about him in particular, since she sees him as her little brother and also she didn’t really plan for him to come. Pretty sad, etc, etc.