Let’s talk about how incredible it was for Star, who knows how painful having unrequited feelings is, who experienced on her skin how horrible not getting an answer is, to immediately reassure Marco as soon as he talked about his feelings. How she immediately tried to make him feel less awkward, less… unwanted, to let him know that everything is still ok.

And how even after the kiss she doesn’t direct her emotional freak out at Marco even for a moment, but still tries to make him feel like everything is alright,

because even with all the changes in her life, with all her “boxes”, with all the Heart VS Mind dissonance that still dominates her love life, she still values her bond with Marco over just about anything. She doesn’t hold an inch of grudge, and doesn’t want him to ever go through what she felt.

Star put her feelings for Marco in an easy to manage “Squire” box when she thought he had exited her life “forever”. This episode showed us that the box never did anything to make Star’s emotional bond to Marco less intense, just “filtered it”, and now it has been damaged to the point of no return.



Star’s mind and heart are soon going to agree once more, just like they did at the very end of S2, and this time Marco is going to know exactly what to answer.