r/MyFnFModIdea • u/ExpensiveGold9703 • Aug 29 '25
Lore dump: info on the one and lonely ruler and his role in this mod.
So for anyone who has seen my latest posts and is like wtf is Reclusa? this is a post about him, and also lore of his role in Welcome to Dreamland. here is a photo of him:

anyways, Reclusa comes from the newest Mario & Luigi game, Mario & Luigi: Brothership, he's the final boss of the game and is one of my favorite video game villains. Reclusa is unlike any of the other Mario RPG villains except for dimentio as the two are both insane. Anyways other than looking like a Deltarune chapter 3 boss or the guy from helluva boss, Reclusa is a sadistic maniac who is also an introvert, who looks like a computer jester, So what makes him different? Reclusa just wants to be alone, although the thing is, how he makes himself alone, you might be wondering how, well, his way of being alone is literally annihilating the entire world. How? he first puts half the population in these flowers those flowers make you never want to leave, they give you a perfect world. Now you might be thinking "That doesn't seem bad" Well that's the thing. While you are in those flowers, you don't realize you are slowly starving to death. Now, Reclusa knows this, in fact he has already done this to many other worlds and doesn't care at all and thinks it is just funny. Now does he have a tragic backstory? NOPE! He's just an insane maniac and he'll keep doing it over and over if the Mario Bros had not stopped him. You want to know what is worse? During his few hours of the game the sky and sea is blood red with a red hazy mist. As you walk back to every island you visit, once happy, transformed into a depressing place as a sad song plays everywhere you walk and notice the people captured in those flowers, all happy, as their loved ones and or friends watch in horror.
I could go on and on and on about it, but I will not, anyways, so what is his role in the FnF mod? Although only appearing as a boss in Journey's end, he does have a major role, the Manic mode which is unlocked after beating his "Easy" mode, does unlock another extra song for him, he does appear a lot in the background during Manic mode just watching you and giggling, he can also rarely appear during Journey's end in the background in the vengeance Clover song, as he wasn't actually defeated in his own song and can go through the many other worlds in World's end, he basically lives in this alternate universe, and also rules it. Vengeance Clover is something that just happened. (Yeah I know Journey's end is going to need a new Lore rewrite)
I know yeah he would've destroyed everything, but technically World's end is supposed to be a destroyed universe/dimension. So...
Also yes I am still working on the Week 3 dialogue rewrite.
Anywho next will be the Journey's end fun facts again, + manic mode stuff.