This was a post I’ve been thinking about writing since about a week after the series finale of Star, which I guess was the last day I was on this account. I made plans on how to take things from that point onward, and just…poofed. Sorry about that.
Suppose it’s because, like some folks out there, I really didn’t have many good feelings about the finale. But everything leading up to that and the immediate fallout wasn’t great for me either, specifically regarding my muse.
This was a post I’ve been thinking about writing since about a week after the series finale of Star, which I guess was the last day I was on this account. I made plans on how to take things from that point onward, and just…poofed. Sorry about that.
Suppose it’s because, like some folks out there, I really didn’t have many good feelings about the finale. But everything leading up to that and the immediate fallout wasn’t great for me either, specifically regarding my muse.
This was a post I’ve been thinking about writing since about a week after the series finale of Star, which I guess was the last day I was on this account. I made plans on how to take things from that point onward, and just…poofed. Sorry about that.
Suppose it’s because, like some folks out there, I really didn’t have many good feelings about the finale. But everything leading up to that and the immediate fallout wasn’t great for me either, specifically regarding my muse.
This was a post I’ve been thinking about writing since about a week after the series finale of Star, which I guess was the last day I was on this account. I made plans on how to take things from that point onward, and just…poofed. Sorry about that.
Suppose it’s because, like some folks out there, I really didn’t have many good feelings about the finale. But everything leading up to that and the immediate fallout wasn’t great for me either, specifically regarding my muse.
Remember when SVTFOE had potential? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Telling me the writing got f’ed up because of Disney rushing production of the last seasons and not letting it have a fifth has been all that’s kept me going the past few months. Now I’m just…numb about it tbh.
This was a post I’ve been thinking about writing since about a week after the series finale of Star, which I guess was the last day I was on this account. I made plans on how to take things from that point onward, and just...poofed. Sorry about that.
Suppose it’s because, like some folks out there, I really didn’t have many good feelings about the finale. But everything leading up to that and the immediate fallout wasn’t great for me either, specifically regarding my muse.
It’s not a fun feeling to watch a character you really liked and grew attached to turn out to be a bad person. I’m not going to say it’s necessarily bad writing for that to happen- indeed, it can be handled well, but whether or not the Commission was isn’t for me to say, especially since I’m not in too much of a mood to critique the writing itself. Just to dump out how it made me feel.
Butterfly Trap was a pretty big shock to a lot of people who had liked the Commission up to that point, but I wasn’t quite going to write them all off as shit from there on. Change could certainly happen, and we’d seen them all show the capacity to be relatively mature, responsible people to varying extents- they may have been stuck in their ways, but they could come around in the end, right?
Needless to say, that was not the story we were told.
Now, Hekapoo was probably featured the most of any MHC member since her introduction, maybe tied with Rhombulus. Post-Butterfly Trap, she helped Marco’s team fight off Meteora(for however much good it did), was there for the Coronation and got pissed at Rhombulus for his actions while having a lukewarm response to the reunion of Eclipsa and her family, and then the finale episodes happened. Having the MHC work with Mina was groan-inducing, but if they were just going to keep them being racist a-holes, whatever. However, she was the only one to show second thoughts about Mina at the pizza party(an event which also made me groan). She ended up saving the Butterflies from being killed by Mina, brought them to the tavern, and turned on portal magic again so Star could go to destroy all the magic, killing the MHC in the process and bringing a definitely-not-hackneyed resolution to what was definitely the ultimate conflict in the whole show. She helped, though, right? She’s redeemed, right?
Maybe they saw it that way, but as much as I wanted to, I really couldn’t. She agreed that magic caused more problems than it aided, but that was never the issue in the show. You could take it as an allegory for privilege or power that the ruling class held over an oppressed minority and taking it away would render them unable to cause that oppression, but the problem until that point had always been shown to be the oppression itself and the ideology behind it. As far as that ideology goes, we get no tangible change from Hekapoo. Yes, she changed her mind on helping Mina, but that seemed more to be because she was unstable and not because she was an uber-racist super soldier who she STILL decided to help in the first place. Yeah, she helped them destroy the magic, but, again, magic had never been presented to be the problem until that point.
She had ONE other episode where she featured prominently- just before Coronation, as I misremembered- where they could’ve set her up to have some kind of small self-realization about her prejudices, and even if she flip-flops on them in helping Mina they could still come through in the end when she helps them. Instead, we got...dragoncycling, Tom wanting to fit in with Marco’s friends, and the one-line offscreen sinking of a recently-born ship because of course it wouldn’t matter because Starco is the only ship that ever really mattered to these people.
Yay.
I was kind of hoping to explore an actual arc like this in some post-series canon-divergent RP- Hekapoo getting over those prejudices and actually growing as a person. I can’t guarantee it wouldn’t have been a bit clumsy in places, but just like she could learn to be better, I could learn to write things like that better. Unfortunately, at the time afterward it seemed like most of the prominent RPers seemed content to focus on canon or their own splits from events the way things happened, so I just kinda...bowed out. Not that I didn’t wanna RP again, or don’t want to now. It just seemed like a bad time.
Maybe I can work things out and come around here again, but I just needed to vent out those months-long frustrations I’ve had. I’ve also been thinking a whole lot about projects I wanna work on that might be related to the series and expanding some untapped potential, but that’s another matter entirely.
As is my much more passionate hatred for what they did to Moon and how it vindicated the people who were shitting on her for mistrusting Eclipsa and letting Star do her own thing.
“This is great! If you’re still here, the magic can’t be gone, it’s just…hiding somewhere.”
“Look at me, Mina! I’m not here. Not the way I was before. I’ll give you that there’s probably still magic around, but I’d bet it’s way weaker and less abundant than it was before. Not enough to be weaponized, and definitely not enough to juice you up so you can declare war on monsters again...not like there’s anyone left who’d do that for you anyway.”
"I can't imagine neither you nor your former compatriots will continue conspiring together. What changed? Why would you offer Star your blessing if it meant allowing me to live?"
“It’s like I said- magic was doing more harm than good for a long while now. It had to be destroyed sooner or later, and Star was the one to do it. As for you...if I wanted you dead I’d have left you to be skewered by Mina. But after Rhombulus’s little stunt and Mewni’s acceptance of you and your husband, I didn’t even want you imprisoned anymore. Deposed, sure, but you’d have kept your freedom and family. Of course, without magic, one of the big reasons we distrusted you goes away. So...things would be different anyway. And now they are.”
Gonna get to editing those icons for that one post-finale idea after dinner. Many thanks to @hatofmischief for the baller idea I’m gonna go with for them!
“We’ve literally had our souls sucked from our bodies, and we couldn’t even talk to each other then. It could be worse. No use whining about it if we can’t do anything about it.”
hatofmischief replied to your post: Alright so here’s what I’m thinking re:...
{What if she was b l u e fire}
(yo holy shit
I mean I imagined the MHC ghosts being color-coded bc idk and having her form be red-orange would be more appropriate for that but blue fire ghost god damn that’s good )
Alright so here’s what I’m thinking re: post-finale stuff, at least in regards to canon-ish verses.
The MHC were made of magic, but they all had souls, right? What Meteora did to Mewni mirrors what Toffee did to them, and Meteora’s thing was described as sucking out souls. While their bodies were destroyed once the magic was gone, I feel like their souls could’ve lingered around.
In other words I am currently considering having H-poo around as a ghost. With little flame trails and smoke coming off her since I love when ghosts have some elemental factor of who they were to them.
But what I’ll probably do more of is having the magic sealed in a way that they can’t use it anymore but they can still exist.
