For copyright reasons this will NOT be a watching and reacting fanfic. Atleast not the kind where you read the episode transcript. The characters WILL be watching the episodes but these chapters will take place after each episode or two where the characters discuss them. So just imagine that everyone stayed quiet until the end of the episode.
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Tears
A portal opened up in the Diaz household. Hekapoo sticks her head through.
"Is it safe now?"
She finds everyone glaring at her. Well, everyone minus Star and Marco who appear to be missing. And Rhombulus and Omnitraxus who are groaning from pain and dizziness inside the bottle in Janna's hands.
"We know what you did to Meteora." Raphael says sternly.
"And Festivia." Moon adds.
"Oh." Slumps Hekapoo. "Where's Star?"
"She's in the bathroom." Jackie says. "Marco's trying to talk to her."
/ Ten Minutes Ago /
"Ok, ok. We'll explain….." Says Omnitraxus.
"Well, go on, because things don't make sense." Janna says.
"Yes, Eclipsa couldn't have been pregnant with both Festivia and Meteora at the same time." Moon says. "And if so, why wasn't she depicted along with Meteora in the temple?"
"Uh…. abandonment?" Rhombulus says and Janna shakes the bottle again. "Ok, ok, we got rid of Meteora, sorry."
Janna stops.
Rhombulus sighs.
"I'm tired of keeping this secret. Let's come clean Omni."
"Ugh, fine…"
Omnitraxus finally explains the truth.
"…..After we imprisoned Eclipsa, her ex-husband King Shastacan didn't want anything to do with Eclipsa's half-monster daughter." He says the half-monster part like it's a disease. "And we certainly couldn't let a monster inherit the kingdom of Mewni. Can you blame us? You saw what Ludo did and he was one of the rich ones."
"What did you do?" Star asks sternly.
"Well, first Shastacan sent Meteora to Saint Olga's. We figured that it was the perfect place for her to learn to suppress both her monster heritage and magical abilities. As for Festivia, well…..Shastacan found her on the streets after a Pie Festival…"
Stars and Moons eyes shrink. Shock overcomes them.
Everyone else was in a state of shock or surprise. Some could almost hear faint screams coming out of the wand.
"I'm sorry, what?" Star asks. (as does Festivia)
Omnitraxus continues.
"We let her suck on the magic wand until she developed cheek marks, named her Festivia Butterfly, told everyone she was Eclipsa's daughter with Shastacan and she became the next queen of Mewni."
"You….." Moon was speechless.
"Are jerks." Janna says for the queen.
"You've lied to our family for generations!" Star shouts.
"And you sent her to that awful place where she became Miss Heinous!" Angie adds.
"We had too." Omnitraxus defends. "Can you imagine if the power of magic fell into the hands of a monster?"
"She was half mewman." Angie says, not that she agreed with the racism at all, but she figured it would grab their attention. "She was the rightful heir, and she was an innocent child."
"A monster is a monster!" Rhombulus objects. "Plus look at her now. Evil!"
"She's probably evil because you sent her to Saint Olga's and told the dean to make her suppress herself. That cannot be good for a person's development." Raphael says.
"Well….maybe she wouldn't have come out so bad if she wasn't HALF MONSTER!" Rhombulus shouts arrogantly defending his ideals.
"That's bull and you know it!" Janna shouts.
"You let us live a lie." Star says. "We shouldn't even have the throne. Wait…that means…."
Now Star looks sad and dejected.
"It means Star Butterface isn't a real princess." Brittany says teasing. Jackie responds by splashing her soda in the cheer leaders face.
"No, she's right. I'm no more of a princess than anyone else here." Star says looking at her wand.
"You're still a princess Star." River says comforting his daughter. "in my kingdom atleast."
"No dad. I'm no one."
Star drops the wand and runs up the stairs.
"Star, wait!" Marco calls but the blonde has already locked herself in the bathroom
/End Flashback/
"Wow." Hekapoo says. "Yeah, so where are the two idiots?" Hekapoo asks.
"Janna has them." Moon says.
He points over to Janna shaking the bottle even harder. Then she hands it to Jackie who takes her turn with the bottle.
"Well glad I'm not them." Hekapoo says.
"You should be." Jackie says.
"Hey, atleast we didn't kill her like Mina suggested." Hekapoo says.
"Uh, where's Lekmet." Moon asks.
"Oh, I dropped Lekmet off at home, I think he's had enough excitement for one day. Hey, don't be mad at him alight. He was against all of our ideas he thought we should give Meteora a chance." Hekapoo says.
"I don't think that information is going to get Star out of the bathroom." Marco calls from up the stairs still by the door alongside River.
"Pumpkin, please come out. I know this must be a difficult situation for you, but look on the bright side." River pleads.
"What bright side?" Star calls inside the bathroom.
"Welll….um…..your still a princess of the Johansen kingdom."
"Please leave."
"Star please, you cant stay locked up in the bathroom forever." Marco pleads.
"I just need some alone time. Ok?"
"Ok, well." Marco just slumps by the door. "I wont say anything then. I'll just stay quiet out here. When you want to talk."
Inside the bathroom Star is sitting on the sink with her knees up. She smiles at the human boy's kindness and turns to her reflection in the mirror.
"I wonder how Festivia would have handled this?"
-Elsewhere-
"How is Mom doing?" Dirhennia asks Jushtin as he peeks through the door leading to the realm of magic.
"Uh, not much change." Jushtin opens the door more and looks sympathetingly at the woman he though was his niece for centuries face down and crying in a pool of magic.
"Poor Tivi." Jushtin says.
"You know I'm actually not that surprised." Dirhennia says. "I always wondered by moms and Crescenta's butterfly forms didn't have antennas."
"DON'T SAY THAT!"
They turn around and see Crescenta leaning against her tapestry, tears and smudged mascara staining her eyelids as her shaking hands pour another glass of corn wine into a goblet.
"Were still butterflies….im still a princess….im still something…." She's been repeating that ever since the commission revealed that her mother wasn't an actual Butterfly. Which means she wasn't an actual butterfly!
Meanwhile the rest of the queens were in disarray. The newer generations were mostly pacing muttering incoherently to themselves while trying to make sense of what they had learned.
Skywyyne and Comet were trying to calm everyone down. Solaria was trashing nearby objects imagining they were the commissions faces and Celena was hiding in a corner to avoid all the commotion.
"Will everyone please remain calm?" Skywyyne called out.
"Please everyone, no good is coming from this." Says Comet.
"I disagree. This is how I deal with my feelings." Solaria says before she pulls out a sword and slices a column in half. Imagining that it is Rhombulus' head.
"How could they do this to me!?" Crescenta shouts taking another gulp of corn.
"Can….everyone….please calm down?" Celena says closing her eyes.
"Everyone stop your making Celena upset!" Rhina says hugging her daughter. Celena's own daughter Estrella is hugging her on the other side.
"Everyone please, I know this is a lot to deal with but-" Jushtin was cut off by Crescenta.
"Excuse you. Were you lied too about your lineage your entire life!?"
"YES, I WAS!"
Everyone stops and looks at the male Butterfly.
"The commission told me that my niece was eaten by a monster. And while I was helping raise Festivia, Meteora was growing up without me. Now I don't know about anyone else here, but I still consider Festivia my family and right now she's face down in tears and magic. So, can we please all just stop and help her?"
"Jushtin's right, she's the victim here." Says Skywyyne. "Jushtin, go talk to her."
"I tried she just said, 'Go away Jushtin'." He tenses. "She didn't even call me uncle."
"I would go, but I'm not good with people." Says Dirhennia.
"I'll do it." Solaria says making her way to the door. Jushtin stops her.
"Be gentle."
"Don't tell me what to do brother."
Solaria shoves him aside and steps into the realm of magic.
—
Festivia was cradled, sitting upright now in the magic looking at her reflection. She rubs her cheek marks as if she's trying to remove them. Then she see's a familiar face looking down at her.
"Hey, mind if I sit here?" Solaria asks.
Festivia doesn't say anything, she just grunts, and Solaria sits by her.
"So, I just took out most of my frustrations at the commission and Mina out on the tapestry room, so now I would like to ask if you're alright?"
"Oh, why wouldn't I be alright?" Festivia asks. "Aside from the fact that basically my entire life was a lie. I didn't deserve the throne. I didn't deserve magic. Jushtin should have been there for Meteora, not me."
"Hey, that's Uncle Jushtin to you. He's quite hurt that you aren't calling him that anymore." Says Solaria.
"But it's true." Festivia turns to the queen crying. "He isn't my great-uncle, you aren't my grandmother and Eclipsa wasn't my mother. Her real daughter was denied her birthright by the commission and picked me off the street to replace her." She looks at her reflection again. "You know it wasn't easy growing up the daughter of the queen of darkness, but I tried to be happy and make myself love her. Wine bottle after wine bottle. When Omnitraxus suggested trying to make peace with monsters I denied and kept them in the forest because I thought they made me an orphan. Maybe Star was right…." She turns to Solaria. "I am so sorry Solaria. I took your real family away from you."
"If there is anyone to blame for my grand-daughters fate. It is me." Solaria admits. She sighs. "My mother wanted my brother to be queen you now. But he was a guy, no one accepted that. It should have been him though, he was so much better with people, if it wasn't for him, I probably would have ended up fighting the ponyheads and Lucitors none the different from monsters. I cannot say that I regret all my choices because everything I did, I did because I believed it was best for my people. But perhaps if I had done something….different, my daughter wouldn't have been imprisoned and my grand-daughter could have had a different life. Come out less…"
"Unfun? Crazy? Bonkers?"
"I was going to say unstable, but yes. And as for you Festivia, my brother has no regrets about raising you other than wishing Meteora could have been there as well. And I feel the same way."
Festivia smiles at the monster carver.
"Now. Having said all this." Solaria says standing up. "I'm going to find a way to see the commission again. And when I do, I'm going to break Reynaldo's neck! Crush Rhombulus' stupid crystal head! Rip Omnitraxus' jaw off! And Stab Hekapoo in the eyes with her own scissors. And if Mina tries to attack my family again, I'm going to shove her off a cliff!"
"Well save some for me." Festivia says standing up.
"Ah-ha." Solaria says taking her hand. "Now come on, our families a mess."
"I can only imagine how Star is feeling right now." Festivia says in concern for her latest descendant.
-Diaz Household-
It has been a few hours now. Star is sitting in the bathtub now. She's still feeling confused and saddened.
"Star…."
She hears Marco's voice coming from the door. He grunts and his finger slides under the crack of the bathroom door and faces Star with a crudlh drawn sad face like he saw Star do for him in the "Naysaya" episode.
"Ow. Ugh, this really hurts." Marco then speaks through his finger. "Listen Star, you have every right to be upset about what the commission did. Believe me, if I was in your position, I know I would be sad and confused. But things are what they are, you cant stay in the bathroom sad forever. Please come back out. We'll finish watching the show and when this is all over we can figure out a way to fix everything. Gah, ok. My fingers hurting now."
Marco tries pulling his finger out. He is grunting and whining as he is stuck. Star see's this and chuckles.
Outside Marco has both his feet on the door trying to free himself. "Come on, come on." Star opens the door and Marco flies and hits the stairs.
"Ow."
Star helps him back up.
"Thank you, Marco. I needed that."
Star pecks him on the cheek and Marco blushes.
Star instantly realizes what she did and covers her mouth looking embarrassed.
"Uh, forget I did that. Never happened. Erase. Bee-boop! Bee-boop!" Star says as she walks down the stairs. Marco follows still smiling and touching his cheek.
Star comes downstairs and see's Hekapoo on the couch holding the still dizzy Rhombulus and Omnitraxus in a bottle.
"Hey, your back. Good." Hekapoo says.
"What? What are you doing back here?" Star asks.
"Well I figured that since you all already took out your anger on these idiots here-"
"Hey!"
"-That I can come back and watch the show. BTW I figured this was too much for Lekmet so he will be watching from the crystal dimension."
Hekapoo says as she holds up a mirror phone with Lekmet's face on it. "Baaahhhh!"
"No. No no no no no. No liars allowed in this house." Star says. "Right?" Star asks the Diaz's.
"Definitely." Raphael says sternly looking at the commission.
"Right!"
"Now Star." Moon says. "Believe me im as mad as you are, but they need to see what their actions will bring about. Let's just watch the rest of this disk and make our final decisions after that."
"Fine." Star says grabbing Marco (still smiling like an idiot) and sitting down on the floor next to Janna and Jackie.
"Get a kiss?" Jackie asks.
"Yep."
"Nice."
