hi mx millie your opinions are always objectively correct can we get your thoughts on this *holds out microphone*
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you could say that this is what starfruit thinks about pomegranate before pom’s betrayal, but that’s never been the case for the relationship chart before. the chart has always shown what a cookie thinks about another cookie currently, after the story involving them is said and done. like lobster having tension with mocha, and gingerbrave, bright, and skater having tension with the chess twins. so i don’t think it’d suddenly be any different.
that would mean that starfruit still trusts pomegranate and still considers her to be her very best friend. interesting—why? she certainly has no reason to anymore.
well. starfruit is an oracle, isn’t she? or more like, occasionally the stars choose to show her what they deem important. usually stuff in the future, but... who says they can’t show her the past, too? or even just the present, from a perspective that’s not her own?
starfruit's reaction to pomegranate's betrayal is absolutely heartbroken. and while it's important to note that she displays no anger towards pom for making the choice to betray her trust and instead considers the whole incident her own fault and hates herself for it—she's still in no state of mind to be thinking the way the chart shows us. so i kind of think she had a moment with the stars that we were not privy to. showing her the future in regards to her relationship with pom wouldn't do her any good, but there's a great deal they could have shown her from the past and present that could have helped her sort out her thoughts and feelings...
this fanbase has begun to interpret pom in SUPER bad faith. getting a little sick of you people saying she manipulated starfruit or whatever. pomegranate did betray starfruit, yes, but she liked her. a genuine bond was forming between the two of them. pom's dialogue throughout the story reads to me as reluctant and regretful. she wasn't as eager to fulfill dark enchantress' wishes as she normally is.
i think starfruit is the first person pomegranate has met in a long time that made her loyalty to dark enchantress waver.
(well, second, because i think the first was actually licorice, and meeting him and then starfruit starts a chain of events in which pomegranate begins to realize maybe she wants something out of life that's just for her and maybe she DOESN'T want to do dark enchantress' bidding forever. but that's getting into the shit i literally just made up. anyway)
another thing to consider is how connected to fate and predetermination they both are. starfruit is an oracle, and pomegranate's fate has been laid out for her from day one. the difference between them is starfruit looks at the future as something that can be changed. when she received that horrible vision, her first thought was "how can i make sure this doesn't happen?" whereas pomegranate was told that she would one day betray her homeland and follow the darkness, and she went fuck it, and fulfilled her "destiny" without a second thought.
starfruit is urging pomegranate to join her in breaking away from this tangle of predetermined fates and to join her in making choices that are entirely their own for once. no stars or visions or prophecies making those decisions for them. she understands in a way that no one else can, because the same thing happened to her. a fate foretold, the pressure of a future that doesn't even exist yet put onto your shoulders from a young age.
and pomegranate is...considering it. her perspective has shifted, her steel resolve cracked. maybe there's something else out there for her after all.
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