An appended look at Moon and Toffee’s relationship. 

I stand by what I said earlier, guys, this is not a nice dynamic they have. Moon is terrified of him, and Toffee for his part seems all too ready to kill her. Something bad happened between them, and I don’t think it was one sided. Neither party was totally innocent, and it wasn’t a case of one-sided violence either. 

First I think it’s important to note that Toffee is not typical of monsters. Lord and Lady Avarius seem to be on tolerable terms with Moon, despite the huge power imbalance inherent in Mewnian culture. The monster temple is old, and Star’s storybook has the cadence of a legend rather than history this is a state of affairs that has been going on for some time. It makes sense that both parties would have settled into a sort of mutual “well, maybe the past wasn’t all great, but this is just The Way Things Are, no use fighting it”. Moon is a traditionalist, she could easily hold up a bad social system without holding any real malice for the people affected by it. (Which I think is arguably worse than flat out prejudice, because it’s easy to show people the horrible outcomes of their actions, it’s harder to get them to break habits)

Toffee is “immortal”. He knew about the monster temple, knew about the Whispering Spell. He has power and knowledge and experience most monster don’t, and he has a very personal grudge most monsters don’t at this point in time. He acts like someone who has been manipulating things and people for a long time, he’s very quick to resort to threats of violence with Star. He probably didn’t approach Moon with an innocent plea for help. He’s been around for a long time, and he’s not naive. If he went to Moon (which I think he did) he went with a plan. It probably wasn’t a nice one. 

And Moon, for her part, was clearly a perfect little princess, desperate to do her job as well as possible. Her princess song screams, “love me and validate me and let my reign be peaceful and quiet”. Toffee can manipulate her even now, I have no doubt he could manipulate her when she was young and vulnerable and just trying to be a good future Queen. 

Of course, Moon’s idea of a good Queen was a very traditional one, and definitely didn’t involve major societal shakeups. Toffee, frustrated and angry, probably didn’t see much of a chance of winning her over, or didn’t bother to try, and did something terrible instead, assuming that prim, quiet Moon wouldn’t put up a fight, Instead, in the face of such a betrayal she lashed right back out without even considering his reasons for what he did. One jaded cynic with a manipulation complex, plus one dutiful, very scared, hurt young woman equals a disaster. They were never the right people to fix Mewni;  personality wise they didn’t have a chance. 

The people who do have a chance are the young ones. Star, who wants to change things and be honest and always fights the power. Buff Frog, who doesn’t have Toffee’s ulterior motives and clearly wants the best future for his children and is willing to face Mewman prejudice headon. Dennis, who is kind and honest and approachable. Ruberiot, who always seeks to tell the truth even when it’s a terrible idea. 

Toffee probably doesn’t have the best interest of the monsters at heart, and Moon is too scared of change to do what need to be done. They’re a tragedy, and a fascinating one, but I don’t know if their relationship was ever a good one.