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sea-owl · 2 years

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It's 2022 and I'm still salty at how Festivia was used for plot convince, and force sympathy on a unsympathetic character. Then the writers throw her away with no resolution to her story or her character. Like what? No finish that arch, especially after you all revealed the queens' ghosts.

Like it almost feels like they fridged Festivia.

Hey you know instead of making Mina the final bad guy you know what y'all could've done? We could have gotten a pissed off Festivia haunting Mewni. No magic affects her because she has no body, she's a magical, pissed off spirit. Plus she was a queen of Mewni, she knows how the magic works.

Festivia hides in the magical realm between her hauntings so it makes it almost impossible to take the fight to her.

When asked for advice Glossaryk just floats like the lazy bum he is. "Hm, but you already know how to destroy magic."

Marco tried to talk to Star. "Is destroying her ghost really the only way to stop her? If Eclipsa and Meteora get a second chance why can't we give one to Festivia?"

Justhin stops them before they can attempt the whispering spell for the first time. Festivia escapes back to the realm of magic. "You mean to tell me you weren't hurt when you found out everything you believed your whole life was a lie? You weren't hurt when you found out you could have had a different life than the one forced upon you? You expect Festivia to be ok learning everything she lived for, all those feelings she had, everything that made her who she was was just politics trying to morph her into their puppet?"

Like the queen she is Star steps back, and she observes Festivia. Star sees the tears that Festivia won't let fall. She sees that while the Magic High Commission and both sets of Butterfly families are bombarded by attacks, everyone else mewman and monster was left alone. She listens to Festivia's wordless screams.

Festivia is angry, but she's also in pain. It's almost fair to say she's devastated.

At midseason Star tracks where Festivia would attack next. With her is Marco and Meteora. Festivia appears, but she only watches the trio in front of her.

"Queen Festivia the Fun, we wish to parley!"

Festivia floats down, table, chairs and a high chair appearing.

For the first time Festivia speaks. "Very well, I was always better at negotiating anyway."

Star, Marco, and Meteora hear the story once more, but this time from a side that has been tricked into silence for too long, Festivia's. At some point Meteora crawled over to Festivia who plopped her into her ghostly lap.

"To start, I never knew about the switch until now. I was sold to the Commission to replace Meteora. They raised me while I believed my parents were eaten by a monster. Grunkle Justhin raised me for a time too, he even taught me the whispering spell." Festivia pauses to take a breath. "We were at war with monsters my whole life, and there was a threat of a coup for all of my childhood. I had surrvied a few assassination attempts. Hekappo took me to travel for my saftey after an assassin got too close when I was twelve. We traveled for two years. Then when I was fourteen they officially crowned me queen, despite the title and wand being in my posession longer than I could remember. The war got worse, I sheltered every citizen. Distracted them with parties so they would be happy. I reestablished trust in the Butterfly family."

Festivia stops herself again. "I wasn't perfect, no queen was, but I didn't ask to be thrown into this life. I never asked for magic or crowns. I just wanted my family and to be happy, but I guess I never got those either."

Moon and Eclipsa interrupt with accusations and an attempted whispering spell. It sends Festivia back into attack mode.

The rest of the season shows various episodes of Star and Meteora helping Festivia heal and in turn she helps heal a part of themselves that this switch affected. Meanwhile Festivia, Moon, and Eclipsa are still at conflict. Star tries to get the two women into talking with Festivia.

Several other of the ghosts show up to talk too. Moon and Eclipsa have heart to hearts with their mothers. Star and Marco have a big discussion with Dirhhennia and Crescenta, who have already sorted out their issues with their mother in the ghostly plane.

We see Moon and Eclipsa slowly get conflicting thoughts. They get worse every time Festivia is with their daughters and doesn't attack tthem. They're still set on stopping Festivia via whispering spell.

It all comes to head in the season/show finale in the realm of magic. Mothers vs daughters in the battle over Festivia's fate.

It's here where Festivia speaks to Eclipsa for the first time.

"You know the worst part about this is that I still love you, a complete stranger who wouldn't hesitate to use the whispering spell on me. I still love a lie."

Eclipsa stops, Moon stops. They stop using their magic to hurt, and they start using it to heal.

They talk, they scream, they heal.

"I'm sorry you never got the parents or the childhood you wished for." Eclipsa tries to embrace Festivia, she's surprised when Festivia let's her.

Festivia cries, she cries for that little girl who was given a crown but only wanted a family. She cries for the girl who was only ever told lies. Festivia gets the resolution and closure the writers cheated her out of before. Moon, Eclipsa, Star, and Meteora all are in a better place for it too.

It ends with Festivia reuniting with her own daughters.

(And if we have to destroy the magic then that can be done too with Festivia showing the living Butterflys where the core of the magic is, and then joining the spell.)

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sea-owl · 2 years

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I'm just gonna say it. If you have to throw a character (A) under the bus, doesn't matter how big their role is, to get your audience to sympathize for another character (B) who has activley made horrible decisions to the point where your audience does not like them but YOU favor them then that's bad writing.

To me this is a subcategory of fridging. You find it easier to demonize character A instead of fixing and developing character B. You add a sad backstory for B that includes A being the persecutor. This turns the audience against A and all of a sudden all the bad shit B has done and actively still does with no indication of changing is thrown under the rug. A is now the villain and B is going to get an unearned/unwanted/undeserved HEA. But before A was a generally a good person and these new pieces are not fitting to what we already know about them.

That is bad writing. You added nothing to A's story, just demonized them, even if they didn't actaully do it, to uplift B's story. A deserves better and B deserves to actually go through a redemption, messy parts included.

Quit with the lazy writing your characters deserve more from you.

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