We're A Miracle is a Star vs. the Forces of Evil fanfic written by Cure Orchid taking place after the Grand Finale (so expect spoilers for that).
Tales following the true love between Star and Marco as they go through life in a cleaved world.
It can be found on fanfiction.net here
and Archive of Our Own here.
It began on May 28, 2019 and ended exactly two years later in 2021. Art for the fanfic can be found on the author's Deviantart here.
Tropes:
- Abdicate the Throne:
- Eclipsa abdicates the throne of Earthni to Star after the latter turns 22.
- Eventually, Star and Marco give the throne to Soluna.
- Tom and Janna gave the Underworld throne to Mandy at some point, and they now run an Underworld bar where souls can have tangible bodies again.
- Act of True Love: Once Star and Marco fully settle into their role as spiritual beings, they make it so that performing one of these grants a person Butterfly-level magic.
- Their great-great-great-granddaughter Nebby gets Butterfly-level magic when she offers herself to be tortured in exchange for her friend Kai’s safety.
- And Then What?: How Dr. Amalgam is ultimately defeated (see Armor-Piercing Question).
- Animalistic Abomination: Dr. Amalgam’s chimeras are monstrous beings created using the DNA of multiple animals. He uses them to find the pieces of the Royal Magic Wand.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Spiritual beings are sentient constructs that represent universal concepts. Father Time represents time, the Blood Moon represents souls, etc. Star and Marco become the spiritual beings of magic after defeating Ragnarok.
- Arc Villain: Ragnarok for Chapters 18 to 29 and Dr. Amalgam for Chapters 45 to 48.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Soluna asks one of these toward Amalgam, making the mad scientist realize he had no end goal after his plan is complete, and that he’d be ruining millions of lives all for something that might not even ease his own pain.Soluna: Then what? What happens after you succeed and cleave the dimensions apart again?
- Awesome Moment of Crowning: Star and Marco are crowned Queen and King of Earthni in Chapter 40.
- Book Ends: The first chapter ends with Star and Marco watching a sunset while sitting under a tree overlooking Earthni. The final chapter ends with Star and Marco watching a sunset under the same tree 300 years later, which had become crystalized in the intervening time.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Ragnarok manages to brainwash Marco into aiding him in his quest for freedom.
- Cerebus Syndrome: Once the Ragnarok plotline begins, the story gets significantly darker.
- Complete Immortality: Spiritual beings are eternal. When Ragnarok is defeated, because he can’t be killed, he is transformed into millions of still-living particles that are scattered across the dimensions.
- Deity of Human Origin: Some spiritual beings, like Alphonse, were once mortals who were chosen by the universe to represent a concept. After Star and Marco defeat Ragnarok, they are chosen to be the spirits of magic, though they are allowed to live out their mortal lives before taking up spirit duties.
- Distant Finale: The final chapter skips ahead decades at a time, ultimately ending 300 years after the main story.
- Drives Like Crazy: Both played straight and subverted. When they’re taking their driving tests, Marco fully expects Star to be this, but she actually drives competently. Marco, on the other hand, is so nervous that he somehow winds up getting his car dangling off a cliff upside-down.
- Eternal Love: Star and Marco’s love will never end since they were chosen to become the eternal spirits of magic.
- Everyone Can See It: There was a betting pool for when Star and Marco would get together that just about every character contributed to.
- Exact Words: In the Christmas chapter, Moon tells River not to eat a “single whole cookie”. River then proceeds to eat just the heads of several gingerbread men, never eating a whole cookie.
- Fan-Created Offspring: Soluna (Starco) and Mandy (Jantom).
- Fantastic Racism: Mina hates all monsters and Seth hates all Mewmans, something Ragnarok is all too happy to exploit for his own purposes. Dr. Amalgam hates everyone and everything in Earthni after magic ruined his life.
- Fighting from the Inside: Heinous tried to kill Mariposa, who she mistook for “Princess Turdina”, but Meteora managed to fight back and save her best friend at the cost of her own life.
- Foreshadowing: Janna’s refusal to go ice skating over a frozen lake in Chapter 11 foreshadows her fear of swimming established 21 chapters later.
- Forgot About His Powers:
- Tom gets his tongue stuck on a pole when it snows and forgets that he has fire powers in his panic until Janna reminds him. Afterward, he refuses to tell the rest of the group just how long he'd been stuck.
- When Star and co. decided to take a vacation to a beach dimension, Marco struggles to carry everyone's bags until Star points out he can just use magic to move them without holding them.
- Fun with Acronyms: Dr. Nolan Amalgam
- Good Parents: Star & Marco, Tom & Janna, and eventually Soluna & Dev.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Technically averted with Soluna since the distinction between humans and Mewmans was done away with before she was born. Played straight with Mandy, Tom and Janna’s daughter.
- Happily Married: Every married couple in the story with the exception of Dr. Amalgam and his wife.
- Heel–Face Turn: Dev turns against Dr. Amalgam once he realizes his father’s beliefs about Earthni were wrong.
- Heroic Suicide: Meteora uses an instant-kill spell on herself to prevent her Miss Heinous personality from killing Mariposa.
- Hidden Depths: Ponyhead, of all characters, is shown to know Morse code.
- His Story Repeats Itself: Star and Marco’s great-great-great-granddaughter Nebby and her friend Kai are becoming the Star and Marco of a new generation.
- Insistent Terminology: The traditionalists living in Moon’s old village stubbornly keep using the terms “Mewman” and “monster” long after both terms had been officially phased out.
- Ironic Hell: After Ragnarok kills them, Mina and Seth spend their afterlife torturing each other.
- Kid from the Future: Soluna accidentally travels to the past when escaping from Hunter and meets her parents during season 2 of the main show.
- Knight of Cerebus: Ragnarok, being an Omnicidal Maniac spirit.
- Literal-Minded: River, after hearing a famous song about chestnuts roasting on an open fire, decides to eat some flaming chestnuts.Moon: River! Get that out of your mouth, it’s on fire for goodness sake!
- Losing Your Head: Marco gets his head lopped off in Chapter 50 but it doesn’t harm him since he’s an already-dead immortal spirit.
- The Magic Comes Back: In two ways. First, a star shower reactivates the dormant magic within Star & Marco. Later, in the process of defeating Ragnarok, they create a brand new form of magic.
- Mayfly–December Romance: Averted with Tom and Janna. Tom estimates he’d live for 1500 years whereas Janna will live a normal human lifespan. Janna, a talented necromancer, simply turns herself into a zombie to remain with her husband for the rest of his life.
- Misplaced Retribution: Despite the fact that Tom broke up with Star, Tom's mother got ahead of herself planning their relationship, and blames Star for the breakup, so she's currently Persona Non Grata in the Underworld.
- Mister Seahorse: Seahorse is the one who gives birth to his and Ponyhead’s baby. Obviously justified, since he’s a seahorse.
- Musical Theme Naming: Most of the chapter titles come from songs.
- New Transfer Student: Dev is introduced this way, as a new student transferring into Soluna’s class.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Marco and Star destroying magic weakened the magical seal on Ragnarok, allowing him to contact Mina and Seth so they can find the seals imprisoning him.
- No Body Left Behind: Dr. Amalgam’s chimeras explode after they die, with the remains dissolving into nothing. However, anything ripped from a chimera’s body before it dies doesn’t dissolve, allowing Star and co. to learn more about them from some fur she ripped off of one.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Ragnarok, the spirit of Destruction.
- Only the Chosen May Wield: Everyone has the potential to use the new form of magic but those who attempt to use it with malicious intent have it taken away permanently by a dragon/unicorn hybrid named Hank.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Being the daughter of the two people who saved the universe from being destroyed by Ragnarok makes Soluna feel inadequate by comparison. She wishes on a shooting star that she can do something special of her own accord, which she finally does when she prevents Earthni from being cleaved apart by Dr. Amalgam.
- Parents Know Their Children: Subverted. While Star does figure out “Sally” was a Butterfly from the future, she didn’t realize she was her daughter until years later when Marco suggested the name Soluna, since that’s what Hunter called “Sally”.
- Poor Communication Kills: In Chapter 32, Tom attempts to confess his love to Janna by the ocean but she runs away. Tom assumes she was rejecting him but she wasn’t paying attention to his confession at all— she ran away because she’s afraid of the ocean after she almost drowned when she was in kindergarten.
- Power Incontinence: At first, Marco is unable to properly control his magic. Moon explains that Marco’s body needs time to adjust from being completely unmagical to being one of the most powerful magic users in existence.
- The Power of Love: Star and Marco’s love is the strongest love in the universe, and they use it to defeat Ragnarok. It’s pointed out that their love is so strong that the Severing Stone actually did nothing— their souls chose to stay bonded to each other.
- Practically Different Generations: Discussed. Mariposa notes how weird it is to be an aunt at age 11. Meteora tells her to blame the huge age gap between her and Marco.
- Properly Paranoid: When sealing Ragnarok away, Queen Galaxina had failsafe non-magical seals created to go alongside the magical one just in case magic were to somehow go away.
- Rags to Royalty: Marco, Janna, and Dev all marry into royalty.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Ponyhead gives one to a “Mewman” woman who angrily complains to Star about losing her magic after she tried to set her neighbor’s crops on fire. The woman is unable to come up with a retort.Ponyhead: Can you shut your trap for like a minute... or forever? No one wants to hear you complain about your dumb life! You lost your magic and it ain't ever coming back! You lost it 'cause you are stupid and now you go insulting my bestie for something she wasn't even involved in?! Get a life lady and don’t come back even if you get one!
- Rule of Three: Star and Marco watch the sunset underneath a particular tree 3 times in the story: at the end of Chapter 1, when Marco proposes in Chapter 36, and at the very end of the fic.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Ragnarok was defeated in the past by Galaxina, an early Butterfly queen, who imprisoned him in an empty dimension blocked by magical and non-magical seals. The destruction of magic breaks the magical seal, letting Ragnarok communicate with the outside world, but he’s unable to physically leave his prison until his minions remove the non-magical seals.
- Ship Tease: Tom develops a crush on Janna.
- Slice of Life: Many chapters, especially earlier ones.
- Split Personality: Later in life, Meteora suffers a head injury which causes her old Miss Heinous identity to reemerge.
- Still Fighting the Civil War: While most Mewmans gave up their Fantastic Racism toward non-Mewmans, there are some former Solarians living in Moon’s old village who refuse to give up their way of life.
- Sweet Tooth: Eclipsa, of course. In the Christmas chapter Moon finds Eclipsa hiding behind a pillar, eating from a box of candy canes.Moon: How many have you eaten?
Eclipsa: How much would you believe without it sounding bad? - Together in Death:
- Eclipsa dies a few months after Globgor, from a heart attack likely caused by her grief.
- Star & Marco die in their sleep together in their late seventies.
- Too Dumb to Live: River ultimately dies after he pranks a bear he thought was a guy in a bear suit.
- Touch of Death: Anyone touched by Ragnarok will instantly disintegrate. This is how Mina and Seth die after they help free him.
- Tragic Villain: Dr. Amalgam. First, he spent two rigorous years putting together a college research paper which would prove the existence of alternate dimensions. The cleave happened a week before he was going to submit it, which proved his theories correct, but ultimately made the paper useless. He failed the course because he had no time to choose another topic to research. Eventually he moved on, marrying a woman named Clara and having a son with her. Then Clara earns magic, realizes she doesn’t care about Amalgam's science since magic is more useful, decided she was better than him, and left him for another magic user. This led him to want to ruin Earthni, as the cleaved world has ruined his life twice. It’s really hard not to feel bad for the guy.
- Unwitting Pawn: Ragnarok is using Mina and Seth to free himself, telling each one of them that he hates the other's species and will wipe them out when freed when he really plans on wiping both of them out... along with everything else.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: When she encounters Star in the past, Soluna helps her mother realize she’s more powerful than she thinks she is.
