ghostgetters:

yeah look, so…Star and Marco approach their feelings for each other very differently ar this point in time and it’s another addition to why they’ll butt heads at the end of the season (they have been already but I mean in a sorta catalyst way). Star, since BBTBC has pretty much…run away from her feelings for Marco. There’s a point in the show (Just Friends) in which she can’t ignore them/lie to herself about them anymore, but she still proceeds to run away from them, until she’s forced to confront them and tell him (Starcrushed). Flashforward to SOAH, Star is pretty much overwhelmed with them at this point? She’s “messed up” about Marco, which is sorta true!! Like, not only have they not talked about the confession, he’s still in a relationship with someone else. She’s a princess, she has all these responsibilities, and she spends all day chasing a soiled hoodie of his because she wants to hold onto him. So she forces herself to let him go. And Tom comes in. Star at first, IMMEDIATELY, declares she needs a friend, but almost immediately following, she starts liking him. Begins a romantic relationship with him. These feelings aren’t false, but they’re sorta…conveniant? And a lot of why she’s doing this is because she’s - oh look - running away from the “messed up” feelings she had for Marco. Being with Tom pushes them away. She’s scared to fall into that habit of unreciprocated feelings, of emotional distress and turmoil, of sadness and losing. Liking Marco is overwhelming - liking Tom is comfortable. This isn’t me trying to make Starco dramatic, it just has that unfortanate aspect because of how deep those feelings reside. Marco’s different. He’s not…ignoring his feelings for Star. He unconsciously masks them with a desire to be validated and endure adventure, while eventually recognizing he missed his best friend. He was scared to like her at first - because you have the timing problem, you have the fact she’s with someone else, and you have the fact that she’s his best friend. It’s scary. Feelings are scary - that’s how it is. Once he gets past running from the truth, he accepts it. He doesn’t reject his feelings, he doesn’t run from them. They’re there - they aren’t going anywhere (and I think with Kelly being brought in to all of this and developing a crush on him will reinforce that because I HIGHLY believe that if this is the case, he will reject her knowing full well where his heart lies). He blushes in her presence, he wants to keep her safe, he’s her lifeline…he’s jealous in a petty way and it’s hard to kinda deny that at that point. But he won’t admit his feelings to Star because, thanks to Lava Lake Beach, he sees that she wants to “move on” and her being happy is the first and foremost thought in his mind. It’s also important to note that he’s pretty much…tried running away already. Lava Lake Beach? Didn’t work. Night Life? Having adventures and doing fun stuff instead of deal with his feelings?? Didn’t work. He’s already like reached that “my feelings aren’t going anywhere” point - Star’s a priority and he likes her and he knows it. Star’s scared of her feelings for Marco, Marco isn’t. She’s running from them, and Marco is dealing with them. So 🤷‍♀️

Not much I can really add to this, you summed it up well Maggie. The whole concept of being “messed up on someone” is introduced early on for a reason, because we’re witnessing how our two leads deal with that individually. Star sees it as a purely negative thing and runs from it to the nearest convenience, while Marco has found a way to embrace and put a positive spin on it.

I’ve seen people argue that Starco is too co-dependent, which I don’t agree with because, to put it simply, the show doesn’t portray it that way. In the ways in which each compliments and balances out the other, Star and Marco are naturally drawn to each other (and not by the Blood Moon).

Star shares literally everything with Marco, she trusts him more than anyone else, she encourages him to be involved in every aspect of her life – even after he showed up out of the blue and she got angry at him about it. This is all due to the fact that she knows Marco is good for her, and him being a part of her life is more than invaluable, it is essential. She hasn’t figured it out yet, but in doing so, she’s still “messed up on him”.

But is that a bad thing? Not in the way this story goes. Their relationship is not based on infatuation because we’ve watched it grow from the beginning. It’s built on mutual friendship, trust, loyalty and love, and we cannot forget that.

Marco, similarly, knows Star is probably the best thing that’s ever happened to him, which is why he wanted to go back to her. She yanked him out of his comfort zone, she showed him how he could be the person she sees every time she looks at him, and he wants to strive to be that person. In vowing to protect her, devoting himself to being her lifeline, he is also “messed up on her”.

Bottom line, neither Star nor Marco are wrong in their differing approaches. Because deep feelings like these are scary, especially to fifteen-year-olds. Once fully understood, they can lead to the most beautiful partnership that most people only dream of finding. Until then, you can bet it’s going to lead to some very difficult times ahead for their relationship.