>>113202584I think it also had the unintended negative effect, within the racism metaphor, of only making viewers (and especially children, I'd guess) focus even MORE on bloodlines and racial purity and shit than they were doing before. Feels shitty and poorly thought through when you're talking about race and being able to live a life not defined by how much you have of what.
I realize what they were probably actually going for was that it's all arbitrary, as shown by the first queen being selected as randomly as Festivia, and that bloodline shouldn't matter, as shown by the monarchy being dissolved by the end. But like look how the fandom was, maybe still is, flooded with "so who's a REAL Butterfly," "Marco should be a REAL Butterfly so Star can marry him and be a REAL Butterfly too," etc. It feels like everybody took the entire wrong message from it, and I'd say that's because the show itself made way too much of it too. Just focusing on the racism issue still could've allowed for the monarchy ending by the time of the finale.
>>113202955That part actually makes sense because according to THE LORE Butterfly mode is just a natural effect of hanging around and using magic for long enough. Think how Festivia had no marks when she received the wand as a baby, but did by the time she was an adult.
