#sigrey

lmao no, it’s definitely the latter. Pearl has no interest in humans - she just saw that Rose was over there being all “OH YAY LOVE WITH HUMANS, NICE” and came over to give her passive-aggressive advice. That’s why Rose is making this face

game's systems. As for why I bring this up, it's because Kris, Susie, Lancer, and Ralsei seem to fit rather well into these types of players, especially when you look at the specific bake sale foods that heal the former two the most AND at a standard four color card deck. Kris matches with blue diamonds from the Choco Diamonds and their blue Dark World appearance, Susie with red hearts from the Hearts Donut and her purplish pink Dark World appearance and relationship with Lancer, Ralsei with 2/5

green clubs from their clothes and how they try to impress upon the team how the Dark World works, and Lancer with black spades from his face and how he tries to learn how to be a bad guy from Susie. They also somewhat fit the model in how, as Bartle puts it, diamonds are interested in acting on the world, hearts in interacting with other players, spades in interacting with the world, and clubs in acting on other players. Now, the interesting thing is that Bartle also uses another set of 3/5

titles for his four groups of players than card suits; Diamonds are Achievers, Hearts are Socializers, Spades are Explorers, and Clubs are KILLERS. Yeah, that last group seems to be the one Ralsei fits into the most, as while many "Killer" players tend to be as their name suggests, Bartle briefly mentions how some "Killers" (though typically rare) are about being chronic busybody do-gooders, a form of 'imposing themselves on others.' Though this may all just be a coincidence in the actual 4/5

game and may not really have any bearing on the rest of the plot, I just thought that you may find this observation interesting at the very least. 5/5

I have heard of the Taxonomy of Players, yes. I’ve done a little reading before on economic systems in games, and I believe that was brought up. I haven’t really heard of it being applied to card suits, though: just that the types were socializers, achievers, explorers and killers. 

Even with the matching healing items/colors, though, I feel like those roles would be switched around more? Susie seems more goal oriented, Ralsei more focused on the interactions between people, and Kris on imposing their will on those around them, at least if you factor in the player’s involvement. 

Marco would probably faint at Pony’s original design.

first place. I mean, Toffee managed to corrupt the whole place all on his own AND the only other method we know that could transport one there is the Whispering Spell (which still raises a LOT of questions that likely won't be answered anytime soon), which, considering that the Unicorn's cry was AUDIBLE through Star's video feed plus the amount of time it took for Star to finally actually get to the portal, could possibly mean that an unknown amount of people could have heard the same cry (2/3)and followed it to Star's portal to the Realm of Magic, and it's not guaranteed that all of them would have had the best of intentions. And since we have no confirmation on whether or not her portal even closed, that just seems like a MAJOR security risk waiting to happen. Or simply put, there's something odd about how Star found her portal and something potentially concerning about the chance of others having/finding it in her wake, if you get what I mean. What are your thoughts? (3/3)

If the right to rule falls to Moon, then (amongst other possible factors like the rule about not becoming queen if one cuts off a mermaid’s tail also applying to breaking off a Pony Head’s horn), understandably, the two of them would fight, with a chance of Eclipsa either turning out to be evil and betraying Moon OR Eclipsa trying to stop the two of them from fighting/at least prevent Moon from hurting her daughter, which could cause Moon to get distracted and let Meteora sneak in a hit. (2/8)On the other hand, and this is the outcome I kind of see having a greater chance of happening, it could be possible that the right to rule falls (back) to Eclipsa and thus Meteora by extension, being what allows the former and Moon to bring the latter back to Mewni “peacefully.” However, with that said, the person that I think might set Meteora herself isn’t Moon, but rather Eclipsa herself. I say this because the last time Eclipsa ever saw her daughter was as an innocent babe over (3/8)300 years ago, and over that time, Meteora had grown and become someone Eclipsa would basically have little to no knowledge on who she is and what she’s like now like she would with a stranger. She wouldn’t know her personality, likes and dislikes, and what could accidentally set Meteora off. And with how Eclipsa abandoned her post as queen of Mewni for love in the past already, she could very well decline the throne so that she and her daughter could be able to get to know each other. (4/8)OR, barring that, there’s an even more likely (to me at the very least) scenario that could happen, and that is that Eclipsa, not knowing who Meteora is anymore but eventually seeing what she’s become (especially the “massive destruction” from the sypnosis), might decide to tell Meteora that she doesn’t exactly think that Meteora would or should have the right to rule Mewni, if at least not for the current and foreseeable future that is, because of what she’s done. After all, one of the (5/8)most common interpretations of the phrase “tough love” is that it refers to a parent disciplining their child for their own good. And I think we all have a pretty good idea of what Meteora’s response to hearing Eclipsa say would be like that given how easily she turned on even her closest ally (poor Gemini. Maybe someone could get him a spare heart from that deactivated drone in that room St Olga was in). After this, for Moon to be put out of commission as implied by the finale sypnosi(s?) (6/8)either Meteora transfers her anger to Moon after Moon tries to protect Eclipsa and Eclipsa takes a hit for Moon in the fight, which could cause Meteora to go off the deep end and ‘blame’ Moon for what happened while wanting to make her suffer, OR it could be the other way around and Moon takes the brunt of a hit meant for Eclipsa which incapacitates her, but Meteora overlooks finishing off Moon to focus on her mother. I mean, Eclipsa isn’t mentioned in either Divide or Conquer’s sypnosis, (7/8)so either she’s on Meteora’s side and Daron didn’t want to spoil it, or SOMETHING happened for Eclipsa to have been taken out of the picture when you’d expect her to be a rather prominent character in everything regarding how Star is going out to fight her daughter. Of course, it’s all entirely possible that none of this will happen and that Daron has something else in mind, but I still want to know what you think of both this and what might happen this weekend. And sorry about the length. (8/8)