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• Toffee became a lizard general in the monster army back during the last Monster-Mewman War. Based on Star's pop-up book, this was far from the first time the two races had clashed.
  
• The war went badly for the monsters and their leader was prepared to sign a peace treaty, but Toffee wasn't ready to give up. He's practically immortal, after all, and much of his army is too. As such, he betrays his ruler and breaks the armistice in order to stab Moon's mother in the back and deal a serious blow to Mewni.
  
• When Moon comes to his camp, Toffee believes she can't possibly have enough magic skill to kill him, so he watches, amused, as she tries her little parlor trick. But when she (purposefully, watch her eyes) shoots his finger off and it doesn't come back, he is no longer amused.
  
• Monsters aren't exactly the brightest or most courageous bunch (at least if Ludo's goons are any indication), so when they see Moon can and will murder them all, regeneration or not, they flee. With no army at his back and his own life at risk, Toffee leaves in a huff.
  
• Toffee knows he'll only get the same result if he goes up against Moon again, especially after Moon crushes the army remnants and the monster leader signs the peace treaty. As such, he bides his time and spends what's probably around two decades researching Mewni magic. This is probably when and how he learns about stuff like the Whispering Spell and the fact that it can blast you to the Source of Magic, let you communicate through a wand, and affect the real world to a limited extent. This all must have happened to someone else first, someone who wrote it all down (and probably went through an episode-worthy story).
  
• Toffee also probably learned about the tradition of handing down the wand to the princess and that Eclipsa's chapter in the Book of Spells has a nasty habit of turning people into magical conduits.
  
• Toffee watches as Star grows up and Ludo becomes her bumbling arch-nemesis. While he was uninterested in taking part before since doing so might have tipped off Moon, Toffee takes the first opportunity to insinuate himself into Ludo's crew after Star gets the wand. This is, after all, when the wand is most vulnerable.
  
• Toffee notices that Buff Frog is the only monster smart enough to be suspicious of him, so he gives him a portal mace that either only works for him or only works on Mewni and convinces Ludo to fire him when he inevitably fails.
  
• Toffee slowly endears himself to the rest of Ludo's crew, and once Ludo fails badly enough he takes the opportunity to talk the other monsters into letting him take over.
  
• Now that he has Ludo's resources at his complete disposal, Toffee puts his long-awaited plan into action. He uses Ludo's goons to the best of their abilities (a skill he demonstrated during "Fortune Cookies") and sets up a magic-resistant cage so he can use Marco as a hostage. The cage material was probably another fruit of his research.
  
• Star dipping down wasn't something Toffee expected, but fortunately for him it didn't matter thanks to the cage material. He gets Star to use the Whispering Spell and lets it blast him into the Source of Magic.
  
• Toffee begins corrupting the Source with his hate and anger, slowly making it ineffective for anything except destruction. He melts into it either willingly or because magic has some sort of caustic property.
  
• Toffee knows that Star has a new wand because the Source links to both of them. However, its solid design means he can only really affect the unicorn inside and strengthen Star's connection to green magic.
  
• Reaching out with his new magical senses, Toffee discovers Ludo floating in the void and figures he can use him as a cat's paw again. He opens a portal to Mewni and throws a green blast of energy to push Ludo through.
  
• Once Ludo gets his feet under him, Toffee sends a vision of Star to lure Ludo to the second crystal half, a crystal half he turned into a wand using a handy piece of flint and the bones of his own right arm.
  
• Toffee calmly waits for Ludo to learn how to power his wand, because at that point Toffee can speak to him directly. He obliquely suggests that Ludo should steal Star's book (Ludo takes "steal her wisdom" literally since he has no imagination, but it's obvious what Toffee meant in hindsight).
  
• Ludo uses the rats he cowed to smuggle corn and create his own fields, with Toffee advising him every step along the way. Later, this develops into an operation that uses monsters as mostly coerced help and involves setting up a miniature Butterfly Castle so the rats can learn its streets and train to infiltrate the Mewni capital. Presumably Toffee doesn't trust monsters after they abandoned him on the battlefield.
  
• When Buff Frog shows up, Toffee figures he could get BF's help since he was so loyal to Ludo. It doesn't go the way he hoped, though.
  
• With Buff Frog aware of Ludo's operation and very possibly working with the royal family, Toffee tells Ludo to abandon the caves and set up his new headquarters at an ancient monster temple. At some point after this, Dennis spots Ludo during a flight through the mountains.
  
• Being connected to both wands and the Source of Magic, Toffee is aware of the moment when Star brings his finger out of the wand. He realizes this could be the best way for him to regain a physical form, but there's nothing he can do about that yet.
  
• Toffee (through Ludo) sends rats to Earth to spy on Star. When Toffee realizes that Star is distracted by her feelings for Marco on the night of Bon Bon's death day, he gets Ludo to ambush her when she's at her weakest. Presumably this need to relay information and prepare the clown costume is why several hours pass between Star going to the graveyard and Ludo appearing.
  
• Toffee figures Glossaryck will be loyal to the Butterflys and uncooperative, but Glossaryck surprises him by being forthcoming. As such, he steps back until Ludo gives Toffee an opening to manipulate his insecurities and talk him into reading Eclipsa's chapter and becoming a magic conduit. With that done, Toffee can now possess Ludo directly, but he continues to let Ludo stay himself most of the time. This may be because possession is taxing, Ludo's minions would be suspicious of a personality change, or both. Incidentally, Toffee knows Glossaryck because he's been watching this whole time and Glossaryck knows Toffee because the dude killed a Butterfly.
  
• As the Book of Spells' new official owner, Toffee orders Glossaryck to hide himself where no one can find him. This is both to prevent Ludo from becoming too powerful and to keep him out of the way during the inevitable Butterfly reprisal. Glossaryck is able to do this (and make it look easy) because he's practically omniscient. He also creates a fake copy to distract them, but it's mostly unneeded since Moon decides to talk to Ludo one-on-one.
  
• When Moon and the Commission arrive, Toffee waits for an opportunity to ambush them, an opportunity that comes when the Commission leaves Moon alone with Ludo. He can then curbstomp the Commission because they are Mewni magic creations, Mewni magic has weakened from his corrupting influence, and he's pretty much made of the stuff at this point.
  
• Toffee takes a moment to fuse the wand with Ludo's arm, both to control him more easily and to prepare for the later finger exchange.
  
• When Moon revives, she's only able to keep him at bay because she's weakened too, she was never that strong in magic in the first place, and Moon would rather avoid using the Darkest Spell chant.
  
• Toffee brings up Star and his finger to psyche Moon out, which works out better for him than he probably expected. Not that it matters much with magic almost completely corrupted after he drained the Magic High Commission.
  
• With Moon in hiding and the Commission out of commission, Toffee wants to move immediately to conquer Butterfly Castle. He can't stop Ludo from getting all huffy with the Book of Spells (which may in the end have followed Glossaryck's agenda), but after the book burns he gets Ludo to stop wasting time.
  
• The conquest of Mewni turns out even easier than Toffee had expected: the magic defenses are down because of him, but all the soldiers are also partied out because River is a terrible king who forgot the "safe" part of "happy and safe."
  
• With the battle over and Ludo in charge, Toffee starts driving him even more insane than usual. This is probably to make it easier for him to step in and take over once he gets the chance to regenerate his body.
  
• When Star shows up, Toffee captures her so he can ransom her for his finger.
  
• When Star starts to realize that Toffee is in the wand/Source of Magic, he avoids contradicting her or telling Ludo to stop her. This is probably to avoid suspicion and also because he feels confident in his control of the Source. Whether she dies in the Source or in the dungeon makes no difference to him, and he figures she'll be equally unable to stop him either way.
  
• The ransom exchange takes place, and Toffee uses the wand to reunite his body and spirit once more. Between his invulnerability, the complete corruption of magic, and the fact that he's still partly made out of corrupted magical energy, he has nothing to fear from Moon, Marco, or anyone.
  
• Toffee's final step would probably have been to convince the rats to obey him directly and take complete control over Butterfly Castle and the capital of Mewni. Unfortunately, that's when Glossaryck's long-term plan paid off (Star found a brown seed that glowed yellow which Glossaryck was only able to create over the flames of the burning book) and Super ButterFly 3 Star hit him with a full-bore Joy blast.

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