Image description: Screen shot from this reddit Q&A
The question is:
Why does Starfish love Charlie?
The answer is:
This doesn't really come up at all in the video, but in my head the backstory is this:
Startaur was in love with CEO Charlie. When CEO Charlie began the cube project, Startaur attempted to stop him, knowing the project was foolish and dangerous. CEO Charlie turned Startaur into a wheel to get him out of the way, intending to turn him back when the project was launched.
When Nyx, tens of thousands of years later, enchanted the wheel and turned it into a Starfish, some of Startaur's memories poked through. Meeting a unicorn named Charlie again, he felt a rush of his past love for CEO Charlie.
When Startaur finally returned to his real form and regained his full personality and memories, he discovered that he was indeed falling in love with this new Charlie. I think Startaur is a romantic, and has a thing for unicorns.
Jason... Jason, you can't just say stuff like that and not expect us to go insane over this revelation. Why have I never seen anyone talk about this?
I need a book about Starfish’s/ Startaur’s life asap!
Image description: Charlie the Unicorn and Startaur talking. Charlie is a grey unicorn. Startaur is red, and has the body of a horse and the head of a starfish
I imagine Charlie has a lot of mixed feelings about Startaur.
Charlie was so incredibly lonely that he really wanted to believe Pink and Blue did see him as a friend, even as they abused and tormented him. He first met Starfish during a song and he came on REALLY strong. However, it was a song so Charlie knew Starfish was going to explode anyway so what did it matter?
Starfish didn’t explode. He came back. Charlie actually got to have a short conversation with him, when he was expecting to die. Starfish begged Charlie to wish on him so that he could escape.
Charlie wanted to know what would happen to Starfish if he did wish but there wasn’t time to explain. Charlie made his wish and it badly hurt Starfish but Starfish didn’t care because it meant that Charlie was safe for a little longer.
Then Starfish started stopping time and merging magical things with Charlie. Charlie didn’t get a say in this. In fact, Charlie specifically told Starfish that he didn’t want to fuse with the magical mollusca. Starfish did it anyway.
Yes, he did it because Nyx thought that whoever went through the portal had to be very magical to survive. Yes, if Charlie hadn’t absorbed the magical items, he wouldn’t have been able to use the Mindscape Realiser. However, did it matter to Charlie that Starfish was doing it for his own good or did it just hurt that another person was denying him any form of agency and choice?
Then Charlie managed retrap the chaos demons and save what was left of the world. Starfish took on his true form, he regained his memories and immediately went to Charlie.
Starfish – now Startaur again – started telling Charlie about the life they’d lead together. Again, he just told Charlie how things would be, rather than asking. However, before he could say very much, he died.
Charlie is sad that Startaur died. He’s always sad about all the horrible things that have happened. He probably did see Startaur as a friend. After all, he wanted to see Pink and Blue as friends even through they kept hurting him, whereas Startaur would willing hurt himself to keep Charlie safe.
How does he feel about Startaur’s ghost hovering above him and constantly watching? He’ll never be alone again but currently his only company is a ghost who’s madly in love with him.
Nobody has ever asked Charlie how he feels towards Startaur.