#bbtbc

I know this blood moon hallucination was REALLY TIMELY and a lot of people are suspecting it’s because it “disapproves” of Marco and Jackie kissing -- but I’d prefer to imagine it’s trying to let Marco know that Star is in a bad place emotionally and needs his support. or even that she will soon be in danger.

bc the blood moon bond is all about Destiny and Preordained Paths. up until that point, Star had only just begun to dabble in harmful magic with the All-Seeing Eye spell -- but could the blood moon have known that Star’s life would have been in danger, and that she might not have survived that encounter without Marco?

(or that she might have made a choice she regretted, like sucking Ludo into that vortex bc of the troubled place her mind was at?)

like, this is the last thing we see before it cuts away to Marco and Jackie

she’s in danger, and she needs Marco’s help to face the threat Ludo presents. (while Janna holds her own for a while, it seems like she is not as accustomed to facing these sorts of threats as Marco is and ultimately bails -- she’ll need to get stronger or start carrying a stronger weapon if she wants to hang)

in conclusion Star and Marco are soul-bonded, but while I think this can be represented by a romantic relationship, I don’t think it necessarily has to be.

I don’t have a preference wrt Jarco or Starco (and tbh I prefer the polys, but i’m not sure how likely that is to happen in the show), so this post isn’t trying to push one or the other.

what I do think is interesting is that Marco couldn’t save Star on his own.

he needed Jackie and Janna, too.

so I’m hoping the show is moving toward a message of the importance of platonic bonds, and how they’re not less important or meaningful than romantic ones.

(and i do think the vortex, which is literally a product of star’s negative emotions, could REPRESENT her negative feelings of jealousy, and how she’ll need not only marco but jackie and janna to help her overcome them)

(and ofc in my heart of hearts I’m hoping for polys)