It's all quite simple really, if she doesn't want this, she should just say no, right? Unfortunately, this is Starlight we are talking about, and things are rarely simple with her.
Honestly, I've always thought that when Starlight brings that up... she isn't going to like qhat she finds out. I have a few different thoughts, but the most likely thing to me is that I can absolutely see Firelight meddling to try and "protect" Starlight from more pain as she loses a friend, the fact that he's causing most of it completely going over his head. But that's my take on things.
Yeah, that's going to be something that hangs over their relationship like the sword of Damocles - Starlight always wondering if she's just going to be abandoned again.
10986001 That fear of abandonment, I can see Starlight having that issue with anyone she has a relationship with, but it would probably jump out more with Sunburst. He left her once, she thinks in her head, what's stopping him from leaving again? I like to think they talked about it somewhere off-screen in the show, maybe sometime after the Uncommon Bond episode, considering she's noticeably calmer around him after that.
Everyone has their theories, I'm just throwing mine into the ring based on my own experiences of losing touch with friends.
I know Starlight said she never saw him again, but I like to think they did, from afar at least. Sunburst coming over during the holidays and being too scared to approach her, and eventually stopped seeing her altogether once he was old enough to live on his own, and Starlight being too bitter to extend the olive branch and rebuild that bridge, moving on to do her own thing, and the rest is history.
10986040 Certainly would make sense. :) But yeah, there was definitely a convo or two we don't see that helped out there after Flurry was behind her lead shielding. Though she did have her clear insecurities all through, which was good writing on that front.
Honestly, I've always thought that when Starlight brings that up... she isn't going to like qhat she finds out. I have a few different thoughts, but the most likely thing to me is that I can absolutely see Firelight meddling to try and "protect" Starlight from more pain as she loses a friend, the fact that he's causing most of it completely going over his head. But that's my take on things.
Yeah, that's going to be something that hangs over their relationship like the sword of Damocles - Starlight always wondering if she's just going to be abandoned again.
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That fear of abandonment, I can see Starlight having that issue with anyone she has a relationship with, but it would probably jump out more with Sunburst. He left her once, she thinks in her head, what's stopping him from leaving again? I like to think they talked about it somewhere off-screen in the show, maybe sometime after the Uncommon Bond episode, considering she's noticeably calmer around him after that.
Everyone has their theories, I'm just throwing mine into the ring based on my own experiences of losing touch with friends.
I know Starlight said she never saw him again, but I like to think they did, from afar at least. Sunburst coming over during the holidays and being too scared to approach her, and eventually stopped seeing her altogether once he was old enough to live on his own, and Starlight being too bitter to extend the olive branch and rebuild that bridge, moving on to do her own thing, and the rest is history.
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Certainly would make sense. :) But yeah, there was definitely a convo or two we don't see that helped out there after Flurry was behind her lead shielding. Though she did have her clear insecurities all through, which was good writing on that front.