Toffebruary Day 26: Human!version
This is from an AU I had back in the olden days of the fandom from before even Monster Bash aired, when we were still theorizing that Festivia was Eclipsa's daughter. Since this AU is scrapped mostly, I'm not in the mood to make a comic out of this scene. So I'll just explain the scene instead.
Yes. I've had the "Toffee was some sort of father figure to Festivia" theory in mind for a LONG time! Like, pre-Savior of Lovers, that's how old this is. Here in this AU, Eclipsa is Festivia's daughter, and due to a rise in Mewman/Monster aggressions Festivia was sent away to another kingdom for a few years to train in safety (much like Jgss0109's Mewni Archives). Eclipsa requested her best friend Toffee accompany her as a guard, and cast a spell that shape-shifted him into a Mewman to fit in with the other guards.
Toffee and Festivia grew very close in these years. One day at a festival, a fireworks display went haywire and started shooting sparks at Festivia, but Toffee managed to shield her and took the fire and sparks to his back. Before she could ask if he was ok, he ran off to a nearby bathroom to wait out the pain on his own. In this form he can still regenerate his wounds, and was in the middle of doing so when Festivia brought him a clean shirt to replace his now burnt and tattered one.
She was shocked, to say the least. But Toffee managed to explain everything, and thankfully Festivia was very accepting of him and kept his secret.
(Fun fact: early versions of this still featured Toffee as Eclipsa's husband. Late versions featured Juno as another one of Tivi's guards and Toffee's love interest, and this is what slowly built up to her appearance in One Pace From Disgrace. I'm thinking of bringing this AU back for a spin to fit an alternate timeline of Disgrace.)
