Star Vs The Forces of Evil AMA
A list of the most important or interesting things from the AMA on Reddit from yesterday. The questions were answered by Daron Nefcy (show’s creator), Dominic Bisignano and Aaron Hammersley (writers, supervising producers), and Adam McArthur (Marco’s voice actor).
“I’m not sure what Star and Marco’s future looks like but I know they are very much in love now.” the most important of quotes.
When asked if Starco was planned from the beginning Daron simply said “It was planned. We never did anything just because we got pressure from fans” in one answer, and “I did have it planned for some time“ in another one.
Daron wanted for Star and Marco to make mistake and date other people before finally finding each other to grow from those experiences, the “messy” nature of relationships in the show having been on purpose to treat them as real teenagers.
The Severing Stone did break a curse, but the curse was never the reason behind Star and Marco’s feelings. Breaking it simply allowed them to start realizing that their feelings had nothing to do with it (which implies placebo effect as the only actual impact of it in that regard).
Aaron Hammersley thinks that Star liked Marco since the beginning, but feelings started growing after the Blood Moon ball.
Right now there are no plans for more books, comics, or DVD sets, but Daron would like to work again with Star if Disney ever wanted more.
Ever since they got renewed for a 4th season they knew it would have been the last one, and set out to write an ending for it. Daron is very satisfied by the ending they wrote and said this about its open nature:
My goal was to create a satisfying ending that still left room for more. I feel like it’s in the DNA of the universe to solve one problem but create another. That’s Star Butterfly! I know it may not have been satisfying for everyone, but I hope it inspires a lot of fan fiction and drawings. I didn’t want to solve everything and leave the fans nothing to play with! Plus, if I ever got to do more with Star I want something to play with.
Toffee was a historian and researched the Butterfly family and their magic like no one before. The skull pauldrons in Moon the Undaunted were from family members of the royal court he killed (so the cheekmarks were just intimidation / “rule of cool”).
Meteora’s rebirth was all Eclipsa’s doing, but she didn’t know if the spell would have worked or not, that’s why she was initially in tears.
Seth has been dead for a long time, and he was put in the book just to have some supplemental elements for the show’s world, without ever having intentions to use him in the series.
Tom still has his fire-travelling powers, since they’re inherent to being a demon.
Ponyheads evolved out of their bodies thousands of years ago. Princess Pony Head’s mother is dead (not as a result of magic being gone, she was already dead).
Ludo stole the tadpoles from an orphanage.
Omnitraxius was just a “middleman to accessing the Multiverse”, so his death doesn’t affect the structure of alternate realities.
According to Daron Starfan13′s real name is Amanda Jacobs, according to Adam it’s Deborah Perla.
The hardest episodes to write are those where they need to get to a specific plot point, and they need a story to introduce it in a natural feeling way.
Earth and Mewni are the only dimensions that got cleaved together.
Doop-Doop is gone, but the laser puppies are regular puppies now.
Daron sees the Blood Moon magic as both a curse and a blessing, but didn’t provide any further explanation for Eclipsa’s father’s portrait talking to Marco beyond “magic”.
Warnicorns are unicorns who feed on the blood of their enemies.
Among the episodes that didn’t end up becoming a thing Daron mentioned one about Skullnick dating a monster, and one about Rafael’s job (he’s an artist).
Daron confirmed that the first Mewman settlers were indeed humans who fell through the Magic Well in Echo Creek.
They tried writing an episode about Monster Arm’s return several times, but they could never make it work. Daron believes that it might still be inside Marco, and might come back one day (doesn’t really make any sense given magic’s destruction but hey who am I to question The Daron). According to Adam it makes his immune system stronger.
Daron wouldn’t want to do a crossover episode.
Toffee genuinely believed he had won until, and I quote, “he got his face blasted”. So he didn’t really know how all turns out. But they still wanted to end the show with magic’s destruction as a way to pay him homage. So he wasn’t right all along, but he also was.
Star and Ludo are totally going to play basketball together, eventually.
Between The Cure and The Smiths Marco would absolutely like the latter more, according to Daron; according to Bisignano he’d like the Bauhaus.
Dominic Bisignano (writer, supervising producer, storyboarder, director) would have liked for the show to have more slow paced episodes, with less jokes and less self contained story lines, to better explore the characters.
Erik did turn back to normal with magic’s destruction, but he has “the painful memory of having been a squirreltoad”.
The Realm of Magic is very sensitive and people aren’t supposed to be there, that’s why Moon washing her “wounds” in it was enough to throw everything off balance.
Star on Wheels was inspired by Daron falling in a lake as a kid as a result of not being able to brake on her bike; Lake House Fever by Hammersley’s experience of being snowed in a cabin with his wife (then girlfriend) and her parents.
Marco’s cheekmarks were just due to his exposure to magic, and weren’t connected to the Blood Moon.
Star would love Pringles, but they do upset her stomach.
Easter egg in Cheer Up Star: in Rafael’s shack a painting by Van Gogh that has been stolen and never found again can be seen on a shelf. So he either drew a replica, or he’s the one who stole it.
(I’m making a separate section for these because it’s harder to tell whether what he says is canon or not, since Adam wasn’t involved with the show’s writing)
Nachos is still with Marco.
Marco still has his Princess Turdina outfit.
Father Time is still fine, since he wasn’t a magical creature (obviously, or the Universe would be kinda done…).
When asked about what he imagines Marco doing after the finale, he answered “hopefully supporting Star in whatever she’s doing, as well as still using those butt-kicking skills he developed in the Neverzone!”.
Ludo got his goons by bullying them into submission.
Just gonna post a screen for this answer about Brunzetta because it seems a bit “wishy washy” and phrasing is important to convey that.
Adam thinks that Marco might have worked with Janna, if he hadn’t gotten together with Star.
Gustav was measuring the Diazes in their sleep (in The Other Exchange Student) to make them custom alpaca wool sweaters.
According to Adam Dave (Tom’s father) was just a regular Mewman who worked as a barista at the coffee shop Lady Lucitor frequented. She tipped well and he fell in love.
Toffee called Marco a disappointment in Storm the Castle because he thought he’d have been more of an adversary.
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