In the Reddit Site, there have been people who, even though Eclipsa was not a dark and evil Queen, she still remains a selfish queen who abandoned her husband and kingdom o be with a monster. Is that true, or is it more of the Mewmans and High Commission's rush to judgement?
I am making this blog to get my point across. All of you (or at least half) may see Eclipsa as that, but I see her as a girl who wanted to be herself and make her own decisions instead of letting others decide for her.
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Based on what I read in the Magic Book of Spells, her mother Solaria, always made choices for everyone that she thought was best. She thought the best way to rule was to eliminate the enemy and make sure the kingdom and its allies had absolute rule over the land. The monsters turned down her demands for a reason, and we don't know what those demands were. She may seem like a great queen to the Mewmans, but to me, she was more of a warlord who let her position in power corrupt her. She was also a hypocrite. Solaria expected Eclipsa to marry Shastacan for the sake of the kingdom, and yet, she had Eclipsa out of wedlock and never made Alphonse her king. All Eclipsa was to her was someone to carry out the legacy. She was also reckless. She turned Mina into a soldier without a conscience.She also made a spell that would commit genocide on the monster. I considered that spell a bad idea. If she commanded that spell to kill all monster, it would have also killed anyone who acted like a monster, namely her own kingdom. I'm glad she never got around to it.
Eclipsa spent her life following her mother's ways until she met Globgor. She is forced to see him in secret for fear of what her mother would think. For good reason. When Solaria saw the two together, she tried to hurt Globgor, assuming he was trying to kidnap her. Solaria let her prejudice rush to conclusion. Eclipsa was also forced to dance with Shastacan at the Silver Bell Ball and he turned out to be a spoiled moron. When Solaria died, Eclipsa was forced to marry him out of respect for her late mom's wishes. She never had a choice, but their marriage turned out to be loveless.
Speaking of Shastacan, Eclipsa wrote down some interesting stuff about him. Here's what I found that tells the kind of royal he is:
1. He was second born of the Spiderbite Kingdom, so he could not inherit the kingdom.
2. When Shastacan married Eclipsa, he became king of the most powerful kingdom in all of the dimensions. He didn't even care how much grieving time Eclipsa needed before that happened.
3. He told Eclipsa he was falling for her when it looked like the marriage was disintegrating.
4. He was demanding they have children.
What do those things tell you? To me, they say that Shastacan only married Eclipsa because he wanted to be king to a magic kingdom and will stoop to anything to keep it that way. Besides, if he was falling for her, why didn't he say it some time before they got married? From my point of view, Shastacan was more of Disney's take on the "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" trope like they did with Franz from Frozen. Plus, he looked like What Gideon will be when he's an adult. He only knew Eclipsa as the Princess of Mewni. Would you marry someone like that, even for the sake of others at the cost of your happiness? How would we even know that once they have an heir, Shastacan wouldn't kill Eclipsa to make his rule absolute?
Globgor, on the other hand, became Eclipsa's friend and let the relationship progress from there. He did not even sound jealous when he Eclipsa dated a few monsters. He knew Eclipsa as more than the Princess. That is why he loved her and vice Versa.
From what I saw at Song Day, the people of Mewni want a "perfect Queen" rather than a queen with thoughts and feelings of her own. Moon said that they never want to see the Queen as her true self. This was like the people decide for the Queen rather than let them make the decisions themselves. They also hate change in the kingdom, according to Estrella's chapter.
A Queen is no different from a mother raising her children and making even the toughest decisions. The Queen's job is to make important decisions for the sake of herself and her people whether they like it or not. When the people see how it benefits them, however, they see the Queen in a new light. In Eclipsa's case, she was no different than a divorced mom escaping a marriage that was not working. If she had continued the marriage with Shastacan, she would have her people live under a lie they shouldn't be lying under. Not to mention how hostile things would have gotten between her and Shastacan. The same goes for divorced parents who don't want their child living under a loveless marriage and see it as normal way of life. From what I read, she stayed with Globgor to see if Mewnmans and monsters can get along.
I truly believed she was going to go back to Mewni when the time was right, but the High Commission rushed in there without letting her explain and crystallized her. That is no different when they rushed in in Starcrushed without realizing that Glossaryck can take care of himself, or how they rushed in thinking Star was in danger when she met Eclipsa.
Her daughter Metoera would have ended the fighting, but Mewni and High Commission saw her as an abomination due to her monster features, which they considered "heinous".
From everything I saw since season 1, Mewni is known for telling stuff without getting the facts straight. They see Eclipsa as the Queen who abandoned them, but I saw a girl who can't live a lie and change the way she feels to suite everyone else. Queens may have an obligation to the people, but they also must have an obligation to themselves and bring change to make their kingdom better. Eclipsa was that queen. All she wanted was a family that loved her for her and to teach tolerance and looking beneath the surface to find beauty and truth. That is what I see in Eclipsa, and I saw that by getting to know her in both the show and the Book of Spells.