Being smashed at parties is different from the shovel.
It's shown in the TV show that smashed piñatas can be repaired, and they're usually only broken in half or missing limbs or so. It's possible that
Pulling Themselves Together is in play here; They can survive any injury as long as there's enough of them left. They
don't, however, have the benefits of
From a Single Cell. Being smashed with a shovel leaves them in pieces too small to repair, effectively killing them.
- Despite they are shown putting themselves together outside of the garden.
- Though when that happens they no longer are under your control. Meaning either they fled your garden not wanting anymore harm, or they were literally reborn/reincarnated. (They do fly up towards the heavens before they reassemble)
- The shovel, both that used by the player or especially the ones used by enemy characters in the game, may be some kind of Cold Iron that has special effects on piñatas.
Piñatas have their own language.
The presence of Langston in the games proper indicates that piñatas
can talk in the game continuity, which leaves the question of why your own residents don't talk to you. Simple: because you don't know their language. Langston apparently learned English somewhere which is why he serves as the front for Piñata Central. The only time you
do see another piñata talk in the games is in the romance mazes... where you're directly controlling another piñata, and thus someone who does understand them.
This can also be applied to the cartoon as well, if you assume Translation Convention is in play and that Pester and the Ruffians know the piñata language. It would definitely explain why the few times we go off the island to an actual party, the kids don't react to the piñata talking.
- Actually, if you look very closely at the drawing of Langston when he announces something, he has odd round grey spots. Which this troper swore they were bolts, meaning "The Game's Langston" could actually be a robot. Which justifies that rather easily.
The bowl of fruit boss, is the
Player Character (Assuming the canon one is male)
After he successfully restored Pinata Island, Jardiniero gave him the deed to the entire island. Which he has absolute control over all island functions. The reason we aren't allowed to see his face, is because he's a
Featureless Protagonist (aside from his voice, and brash personality) There are both sapient and feral piñatas
Somewhat of a contradiction to the above WMG of piñatas having they’re own language. It’s shown in the TV series that there are piñatas that, while still retaining they’re species
nature and traits, behave as a sapient race would by growing and caring for they’re own gardens, having occupations, using currency and largely traversing bipedally. But where are also piñatas that as completely feral and animalistic as they are in-game. The examples of the latter variety being herds of Moozipans being herded by the protaganists, a wildcard doenut supposedly dwelling in the wilderness despite not having a greyscale color palette like the wild horstachios (whom, despite living away from civilization are actually also higher in sapience), certain prey species like cluckles, squazzils and mothdrops being cooked into cuisine and even somewhat acting as pets or beasts of burden for the sapient piñatas, like the smaller-than-average Kittyfloss that Hudson Horstachio was seen petting atop his lap and the massive herd of horstachios pulling King Roario’s carriage.
- The latter two might be consensual though, similar to how Marvin Mallowolf’s horstachio friend offers him a ride to his destination and then running off to the bookstore afterwards to purchase romance novels for himself as well as Marvin.
Fergy's father was briefly mentioned in "My Little Fergy"; all we know from Fergy's mother is that he died and is resting "in pieces."
So what if Fergy used to not be scared of going to parties when he was younger and had a close relationship with his father? Then one day, when his father got sent to a party, he somehow never came back alive and was eventually pronounced dead by Pinata Central. The pain of losing his father left Fergy very heartbroken and caused him to grow up fearful of being sent to parties. And sometimes, whenever it seems like Fergy will finally get sent to a party and/or get bashed to pieces, he often overreacts like he's going to die by saying his final goodbyes to his friends.
Although, he doesn't seem to mind if his friends got sent to a party without him. He even tried to send Paulie to a party as the pinata wrangler in one episode. He doesn't even mind if his own mother got sent to a party instead of him. Though, he does say that he doesn't understand why any Pinata would enjoy being smashed to pieces. So maybe, Fergy's fear of being sent to parties is very irrational and a lot more selfish, but you'd be surprised about how PTSD can slowly corrupt you if left untreated.
Beverly survived the Meteor
Well, it wasn’t said that Piñatas can be killed from Meteors, and she did survive the Meteor when she was a little girl, so it is heavily implied that she did survive the Meteor for a second time.
- It can be widely accepted that no matter what happens to the characters, the show will just reset to the status quo like it normally does.
Piñata Island is a micronation.
This would explain the tiny population and lack of any law enforcement (aside from Langston) or public services. This would also explain why the ending theme states that you can't find Piñata Island in a book of countries.
Leafos isn't a liar, she's just a little naive.
It's no secret that the advice she'd give the player is sometimes completely false. It's popular to call her a liar for this, but with how helpful she is otherwise, it'd be very out of character for her to
deliberately give the player false information. It seems more likely that she just heard them as rumors somewhere, not yet knowing if they're true or not. This is why
every bit of false advice is exclusive to the optional dialogue when you speak to her just to kill time. She's just making conversation. When she speaks up to the player on her own, the information she gives is never wrong.
I KNOW this sounds horrible, but stick with me. Throughout the franchise, there are many cases of characters exhibiting at least
gay and
bi behavior, but
they never explicitly say that they have such feelings or are in such relationships, meaning they might all be in the closet. In the games, Leafos wrote that she wanted to kiss another girl/woman, but "...she ran away!", which Leafos attributes to bad breath, but perhaps she was either homophobic, or
in the closet and didn't want to be found out. Fergy and Paulie are undeniably the most famous example of gay VP representation,
at least within the fandom, but anyone who's seen the series will know that they are only explicitly stated to be "friends". Obviously, we could have a queerplatonic relationship going on here, but the idea that they truly romantically love each other and simply aren't legally allowed to express they're gay is also possible. It might also be worth discussing how Fergy was once going to make out with Hudson, but the latter didn't give in; of course, he didn't know that was Fergy yet, so maybe he was like "I wouldn't mind getting kissed by a stranger, but I won't go out of my way to comply", or again, he was either homophobic (which seems kind of unlikely, and would sadly lead to him disowning or doing even worse things to Fergy and Paulie) or didn't want to get caught doing something gay. It's worth noting that he didn't seem to have any problems with gayness when saying "Yes, I've always been popular with the ladies. Well... with everyone for that matter."
However, it's worth noting that Mable Moozipan didn't mind publicly shouting "Ella's with me!" at the Dance of Romance, which would have... interesting implications if this theory was correct. But even then, it's worth noting that the episodes aren't entirely consistent with each other- for example, Hudson is an AMAZING singer, but for one episode (Arctic Invasion), he became HORRIBLE at it. If such an inconsistency like THAT can exist in this series, perhaps Mable publicly coming out as having lesbian desires and/or not facing discrimination from the huge crowd she was surrounded by also flew under the writers' consistency radars.
