It's been a little over a year since SVTFOE ended and I still think we should've got either a flashback episode centring around Eclipsa's life as a teenager, or a time-travelling episode where Star and Marco got to meet her family before the Magic High Comission ambushed them...

Or both.

Definitely both

Still thinking about this

These two were only together for 10 minutes and they already have a better love story than Twilight

“Can we do the shoulder thing?”

The tapestries

@full-moon-phoenix @thelovablycynicalerinmac @mysticcollectionbee I've always wondered the same thing as you regarding the tapestries. And the only explanation I can find is that their portrayals in the tapestries are not only a result of their actions in life, but also the role they were supposed to have in Mewni History.

Thanks to Into the Wand and The Magic Book of Spells, as well as Glossarick's nature, I've come to the conclusion that anything related to Glossy's magic (the wand was created by him, and he chose to start living in the book when Skywinne was queen) had some kind of clairvoyance. I believe those objects knew their fate and the fates related to every single user.

Don't forget Rhina's poem foreshadowed either the destruction of the book, or magic altogether.

So I think the tapestries are supposed to reflect how past Butterflys' actions affected the events that transpired and Star's final decision of destroying all magic.

If you ask me, it makes sense that Jushtin and Estrella's tapestries, even Festivia's, are so boring in comparison to Moon's or Eclipsa's.

Their actions as rulers/magic users weren't relevant at all to the story.

Jushtin was a great mathematic, but he didn't have the talent to be a mage; his spells added nothing of value, unlike Star's, which vary in a great amount of uses—and that was before she even learned to dip down.

In other words, his actions had no impact on Mewni's future (besides, even if he had been a proficient spellcaster, he would've lost the throne to Solaria).

Estrella wasn't even mentioned during the entire show. Glossarick even admitted in the magic book of spells that she never used her wand for anything that wasn't drawing, and that she was popular amongst Mewmans because nothing changed.

I'd like to move on to the most "controversial" tapestries: Festivia's, Crescenta's, and Comet's.

Festivia turned out to be an important character for the show (I remember being surprised she had any relevance whatsoever); she was the first ancestor of the Faux Butterfly family and, in the long-run, the reason Meteora went on a rampage and tried to get the kingdom back; she lost everything to an orphan with no connection to the Butterfly family. Heck, she wasn't even a citizen of Mewni!

However, as Queen, despite her popularity, she wasn't much better than Rhina or Estrella... Her entire rule was based on partying to keep her people distracted from the war. Because that's what she was: a diversion.

She was the High Comission's façade for the crimes they'd committed against Mewmanity and Eclipsa's family. They thought what happened to Eclipsa and Meteora would never go back to hunt them as long as people believed Festivia was a true Butterfly.

She never really made her own choices, she'd been heavily influenced by the MHC her entire life, she didn't even have offensive or defensive spells! She just spent her time partying, locked away in the castle, while Mina fought off the monsters.

When it comes to Crescenta, I think her tapestry isn't anything grand either because her most important act, which involved Ludo's family, was resolved fairly early in the story.

The Avarius lost their power long before Toffee even faced Moon, and Ludo found closure not through Star's actions, but his brother's.

And finally, we have Comet.

The fact that she's only ever portrayed if Moon is in the picture has been frustrating for many, myself included. But I think I finally have the answer for why her character is so dependent of Moon's.

Despite her best efforts at uniting Mewmans and Monsters, Comet's importance within the plot is not her own story, but her daughter's.

It was her death what encouraged Moon to take the decision that would lead to her very own tapestry.

It was her death at the hands of a monster what made Moon so distrustful of their kind and of Eclipsa that she only went on worsening her people's relationship with them, instead of finishing what her mother started.

It was her death and Moon's early coronation what eventually made Moon incapable of letting go of her role as queen, and thus, betray Eclipsa and Star.

Comet is important in the story, because she's Moon's backstory.

This got really long, and it probably doesn't explain everything (or I might even be mistaken), but at least it does provide some more satisfactory explanation (I hope).

The tapestries

I can’t believe Marco’s dead

Meteora The Halfbreed Sorceress

I haven’t really seen any AUs talking about the idea of Meteora actually becoming Queen of Mewni when it was her time, so I felt like doing one myself!

In this AU, whatever happened that got Eclipsa imprisoned, happens again. Only that this time, when the Magic High Commission presented Meteora to King Shastacan, instead of following his rules and finding a replacement for her, Glossaryck refused and told the king and his partners that giving the throne and the wand to a non-Butterfly would cause all magic to weaken as a result (since Baby hadn’t seen an affinity to it like Star’s since Eclipsa). And so, the only option would be to keep the child and raise her to fulfill her destiny.

Even so, they wouldn’t free Eclipsa and Globgor causing Meteora to live practically by herself. The only real company or ally she’d have would be Glossaryck because of Shastacan’s disdain towards her and the MHC wouldn’t (or aren’t, for that matter) be too keen to monsters either. Even at a young age she’d perfectly feel the hatred and fear her subjects would have of her. 

“A monster princess/queen! The audacity!”

All she would have to feel loved would be her dolls and Glossaryck’s tales of her parents undying love for her. And with only that she’d smile. 

Over her pre-teen years she would earn the nickname of “The Halfbreed” as a constant reminder of her heritage, extremely dear to her but a shame to “her” people.

On her fourteenth birthday, she obtained the wand, and his mentor and father figure, Glossaryck (of course), finally revealed her whole backstory to her. Shocked by her family’s past and many hardships, her resentment to Mewmans would grow stronger and deeper than ever, but not as much as her determination to prove herself and to bring honor to her mother’s name. Starting by learning magic, and uniting Mewmans and monsters alike, for she herself was a symbol of love and peace between both species. And because no other Mewman was aware of how it felt to be treated as if you were a mistake made by Mother Nature.

Over the years she’d learn to combine dark magic, a talent she inherited from her mother, and light magic, to keep her people at ease. And, even if it took her years to achieve it, she succeded in joining the citizens of Mewni and monsters together.

Thanks to her spells and hardworking nature, she would gain her people’s respect, and later on, her nickname,“The Halfbreed”, would become her royal title, in honor of her unique story and the origins of Mewni’s cohabitation. 

And so, Meteora The Halfbreed Sorceress was born.

This is, by far, one of the best things I've written. And I was actually right about her friendship with Glossaryck


Meet daughter of Recluza Spiderbite and Jushtin Butterfly, Sunset Spiderbite~ 
Her parents’ marriage was fruitless for a long time, and she was a late and desirable child (born when Eclipsa was +-20). All her life she lived in the remote castle of the Spiderbite family like her parents after their wedding. She was never trained in magic and never held a wand in her hands.