It’s me with my dopey view on the show again.

Today I try to explain what I think really happened in Star vs the Forces of Evil Season 1 and 2.

Again my warning: If you want to continue your happy shipper-lifes, you should stop right here. Do not continue to read.

This is a contiuation of my first thoughts in

https://therealwonkothesane.tumblr.com/post/167406794628/what-happened-to-our-beloved-star-vs-the-forces-of



It is very helpful if you read it first. I’m not going to explain everything again.





Ready?



Again I’m assuming the show does the same as the movie “Inside Out”, but on a far more complex level. The show never tells you things straight in your face. It works with symbols and metaphors, which can be confusing when you watch the show in the “little girl has funny adventures with her best friend” way. I won’t go too deep into details, most of them are child-friendly storytelling.

First we have to get your analogies for the first 2 seasons together:

Star: This is Star herself, her awareness.

Moon: the bond to her real mother in the real outside world

River: the bond to her real father

the Magic: this is Star’s essence, her happy thoughts and her happy feelings

Marco: he is the representation of her happy childhood

the Monsters: these are her bad feelings and thoughts. She blasts them away easily with her strong happy feelings

the Septarians: these are special monsters, they grow back. These are the bad awful feelings you cannot get rid of. You can blast them away, but they always slowly keep growing back. They are nearly undestructible.

the Wand: Glossaryck told us in “Inside the Wand” - it contains her memories.

the “Soup”: this is Star’s subconsciousness. You can only skim the surface with your memories. If you want go get really into it, you have to “dip down” yourself.

Glossaryck: he is the “explain guy”. He gives advices. He is also a connection to the outside world, where advices come from.

the Secrets Closet: in there she locks all her embarrassments away and things she does not want to deal with

The rest of the Magic High Commission are very one-dimensional characters, because they are basic functions of her brain:

Hekapoo: she makes scissors to open portals. She gives the possibility to make journeys in your brain and to experience new things.

Rhombulus: he locks away “evil” things, which may be dangerous to you. Or he keeps things from you, you are not ready for yet.

Omnitraxus Prime: he shows you all your “dimensions”, all possibilities you have, and what you can or could have become.

Lekmet: he is the healer. He usually is in the background and heals things in your mind without you noticing.







Okay. Let’s use this now and look into season 1.

Show’s view:

Star lives this happy life, she blasts monsters away with her happy magic and everything seems ok. As long they are led by Ludo everything is easy.

But then this undestructible lawyer monster Toffee takes over. He steals Star’s best friend Marco and threatens to crush him. She can not defeat that monster with her normal magic, he is too powerful and keeps growing limbs back and makes Marco’s prison stonger.

The only way to defeat this monster is to destroy the wand and split it in half.

Outside view:

Something very traumatizing has happened to the real “outside” Star. With Toffee looking like a lawyer and River being thrown out of the castle, my best guess would be her real parents’ divorce. She can not deal with it. She can do nothing against it. It threatens to crush her happy childhood! Even worse: she blames herself for it!

The mental pressure on Star is so amazing strong, the only way she can solve it for now, is to split her memory (the wand) in half. She puts the awful feelings (Toffee) into the half she leaves unnoticed behind. But her remaining half is badly damaged now. On the second crystal Toffee still has his grip on!







Season 2 and Battle for Mewni

Show’s view:

In the first episode Marco gets locked into Star’s secrets closet by Glossaryck. He tells Marco “You know I do this because I love you”. Finally she frees him by dipping down.

Outside view:

Somebody told Star, she has to pull herself together and act like an adult. It would be for her better good. She is made being ashamed of her childish behaviour. But her love for her childhood is too strong and she gets it back.

Show’s view (quick summary)

The magic is corrupted and starts disappearing. The Fritz starts unnoticed by Star, but the MHC members and the Queen notice it, but can’t explain why it happens. Star’s spells get worse, she gets into the wand and pulls Toffee’s finger out. But she doesn’t get rid of it, just throws it into her closet. She seems better now. But then it starts again. She messes things up, loses Marco to Jackie, everything is awful. The MHC members get killed by Toffee, but Lekmet revives Queen Moon. In Battle for Mewni Star starts this self-destucting behaviour to defeat Toffee. She blasts the other crystal and gets sucked into a black void. She meets Glossaryck there, who tells her she is not dead. She dips down, gets reborn and blasts Toffee to goo.

Outside view:

Star’s happiness starts disappearing, and she does not know why. It starts very slowly and unnoticed at first. She begins to feel bad all the time. Her mind can not really decide what’s right and what’s wrong (the Rhombulus episode). It gets better and it gets worse again.

So what is happening here? Star is developing a major depression! This is how depressions start - slowly, unnoticed creeping onto you until it’s too late. You feel miserable and you don’t know why. You can not think straight anymore.

I think the episodes “Baby”, “Into the Wand” and “Face the Music” were in fact psychological sessions Star had. But they didn’t really help, she gets a first breakdown: the death of the MHC. The only member left is Moon, the strong bond to her mother. Her mind is now defenceless.

In Toffee she has her major breakdown: the falls into this deep dark pit of hopelessness. She can not free herself without external help. Even the bond to her mother breaks.

She feels like drowning and then like dead. This is how you feel with a really bad depression! But she is not dead, Glossaryck tells her.

Remember Glossaryck is the advice from outside? He is the embodiment of the doctors, who help her now with medication.

Then she gets reborn. The medication works and Star wakes up. She blasts Toffee with all her might of her new positive feelings to goo. Her mind begins to regenerate (the magic well). But she is not completely healed yet, because Lekmet is still dead. She will still be unstable for a long time.





I know, this is just a very quick view onto this.

There are many many more details on this topic in season 2 to be interpreted. I think you can figure them out by yourself now! I trust you!



I thank you very much for your attention.