THINGS WE HAVE LEARNED FROM THE NEW EPISODE BECAUSE HOLY SHIT
ECLIPSA'S MONSTER LOVE'S NAME. No, seriously, look.
We can clearly see the part of the archive that's been altered, and the only thing there is a name: Festivia where it should say Meteora. THAT MEANS THAT THE TWO NAMES ABOVE IT ARE THE ACTUAL NAMES OF METEORA'S PARENTS. Eclipsa and SHASTACAN. Eclipsa's monster love has a canonical name. THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE.
Meteora CLEARLY comes by her taste in music honestly. She gets her tail from her father and her love for metal from her mother. I'm. <3<3<3<3<3
Eclipsa's poetic/creative writing side is in FULL swing she wrote a song to remember her way through the royal archive that's??? Talented and really cute??? Also she acts so young and full of life and I love her.
Eclipsa is also a goddamn nerd did you SEE that secret passage opening scene???
Speaking of that scene Eclipsa is ALSO very open to somewhat morally-grey solutions and probably favors direct, magic-based solutions to problems much like Star does. (And no, being willing to erase ten minutes of someone's memory to get herself out of a pickle doesn't make her double satan, people. Eclipsa didn't have to do ANYTHING to get called evil before I REALLY don't want to know what people are saying about her now that she's shown some moral complexity.)
And there's a pretty big gap of unaccounted-for time while Moon was sleeping that is DEFINITELY going to come back.
MOON DIDN'T KNOW THAT RHOMBULUS BROKE UP STAR'S PARTY. Not only was she not the one who sent him she didn't even have a clue he went at all. Someone capable of going OVER THE QUEEN'S HEAD either didn't want Star near Meteora's nursery, or didn't want monsters and mewmans to start getting along. More on that in a minute.
She also had no idea about anything that happened to Meteora thank GOD she keeps her "Lawful Neutral well-meaning asshole" title.
Eclipsa never had a child with her mewman husband (which also means she never abandoned that child better luck next time Eclipsa demonizers).
Which also ALSO means all the Festivia-as-Eclipsa's-daughter theories have been smashed into bits; I semi-supported those theories but seeing them debunked so flatly like "Is this your daughter?" "Festivia?" No." THAT WAS THE FUNNIEST MOMENT OF THIS ENTIRE SHOW.
The same logic that gives us Shastacan's name also tells us that Meteora was actually crowned queen of Mewni when Eclipsa was crystallized, even if as we all know she didn't STAY queen. If that isn't true, then although Festivia's name SEEMED to be the only altered part of the official record in the archive, there were actually significantly more changes even in the part of the record that we saw.
Or the writers just made a relatively minor mistake. One of the three.
The current royal family is probably not descended from the original royal family, and there is a HUGE CONSPIRACY to cover that fact up. Some people have argued that Festivia could be a cousin/niece/etc. of Eclipsa but I'm unconvinced; if that was the case, her rule would've been seen as more-or-less legitimate regardless and there wouldn't be any reason for such a huge conspiracy. Festivia was probably not related to Eclipsa at all, and either she was passed off as her daughter in the moment, or someone rewrote the archives and revised or destroyed god knows how much history after the fact to cover up the truth.
This is an action show, not just a political intrigue show, so whoever's behind this whole conspiracy is probably still alive and dangerous, manipulating things behind the scenes to keep the royal family's secrets. They're enormously influential -- like I mentioned above they could order Rhombulus around and keep it a secret from Moon’s -- and they have their fingers in Mewni's entire history; they're probably our big bad; and if they aren't someone new, my money's on them being either Mina or one of the MHC playing dumb.
Mina is probably involved in all this SOMEHOW; if she's not the Big Bad, she's working with them. Not only did she show up when Star and Meteora found the latter's nursery, she described Meteora as "the most dangerous monster alive," and for NO ONE would that be more true than someone trying to keep the secret conspiracy about Eclipsa's daughter that Meteora could upend just by EXISTING.
Moon thinks she knows who the cover-upper is. Whether she's right or wrong things are going to get BIG. FAST.
