𓆩♡𓆪Doing my best and my best is getting better☾♱

“so maybe we’ve gotta create some sort of dangerous situation.”

“well,”

“what do we have thats deadly and dangerous laying around?” [looks to peridot for immediate reference]

I noticed a very curious detail in Chase's outfit when the first Stardust episode was released.

Chase's neck accessory was giving Dreams by Night and I couldn't figure out why. I'm anti Chase key theory so the possible foreshadowing was ruining my life. And come on, it's Punko we're talking about, she's dead serious with her outfit details, it had to mean something.

It was not until today's episode that I was struck by the lightning of realization. The outfit detail IS a call back to Dreams by Night, as a narrative circle.

Dreams by Night is Chase and Buddy dreaming of each other, how they saw the other subconsciously as part of their wishes.

It starts with Chase dreaming of stardom, also the same way he starts his song to Buddy.

"My place in the sun, for the whole world to see I used to reach out for everything that gleamed A spotlight on stage, the next distant dream"

His bright dream is abruptly replaced by empty halls, jolting him as reality often tends to do. He walks out into a field wearing a magical outfit to find the boy he met in storybooks in a glass coffin, a direct contrast to how Buddy later sees Chase through a glass too, but in Buddy's case it is a mirror. Chase's glass lets them both coexist in the same world, while Buddy's mirror says only one of them can be free.

"And now at last, I know where I belong The night was made for the moon and the star You glow like the heavens, so close yet so far"

Chase apologizes for not seeing Buddy's side and promises him a place in his narrative.

"So come closer my moon, I will wait for our time Full of hope for a future, for yours and for mine"

And in Stardust, he dons Buddy's neck accessory and wears Buddy's (Synthia's) outfit (which I can now interpret as symbolically seeing Buddy's side) and verbally sings of a future for both of them. Effectively tying together his dream sequence with reality. Dreams by night of the moon and the star.

In this scene we see Chase sitting on a giant star and being lowered to the ground, where Buddy is waiting for him. And honestly, that's so beautiful, because it indicates the whole shift in stargoth's relationship and how Buddy is finally ready to accept Chase's love in its entirety.

In previous arcs, we've seen scenes where Chase is standing and Buddy is looking UP at him in adoration. He doesn't simply admire him, he's literally looking up at him, while he himself is sitting down, kneeling or existing at a space lower than him.

That's because, to him, Chase is something sacred and devine. Like literally, he has seen him as an angel and his image is always framed by golden light in Buddy's point of view. A perfect halo, if you will (eheh). He looks at him as something to adore from a distance, something warm that he's too afraid to reach for, because he doesn't think he's fully deserving of it. It's just like Chase said in his song, he looks at him like he's fire and gold and Buddy walks like a shadow that has only known cold. Of course he's drawn to Chase. And he's afraid that by being near him, he's gonna stain his very being.

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