Eclipses consisted of a boring meeting, where Love and the Universe and our two main protagonists and a bunch of other folks would show up to discuss how Creation was doing. (Most of the time these meetings would be Sea complaining about her rising levels while Sun and Moon took turns accidentally making eye contact and blushing.)
Once the business was out of the way, the party would
Eventually, the Sea decided it was sick of scondhand embarassment, and asked the Universe to make a couple assistants for the Sun and Moon. Maybe they could help, in ways that the rest of them couldn't. And the Universe, who found the entire arrangement hilarious a few eons ago, but was now getting tired of this shit, agreed.
And that's where you come in. And now we are here.