Most of the characters in Like Father, Like Daughter are in many ways similar to the ones from Star vs. the Forces of Evil, but have significant differences from canon, due to this being an Alternate Continuity. so beware of spoilers.
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Original Characters
The new characters appearing in this story but not in canon.
Seraph Celosia Diaz
Seraph Celosia Diaz
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Seraph Diaz is the daughter of Marco and Hekapoo.
Born off screen after Marco and Hekapoo’s relationship during the trial. Due to circumstances, she had an unusual birth she ages much faster in her mother’s dimension. Living for about a month from her perspective she aged roughly fourteen years physically at the start if the story. She moves in with the Diazes and starts going to school with her father.
- Action Girl: Considering her parents, it's not a surprise she can kick butt.
- Cute Little Fangs: Takes after her mother.
- Cute Monster Girl: It has been stated in the story and in the real world.
- Determinator: Does not give up very easily. Just look at her fight with Erebus, for example.
- Dragon Rider: Often rides Nachos.
- Fountain of Youth: Temporarily de-ages into an infant due interaction with a time magic artifact.
- Future Badass: In the Bad Future, she becomes an important fighter in the war against Erebus, and actually learns proper magic in addition to her fire powers, even developing the ability to fly using Hot Wings.
- Generation Xerox: Oddly enough, Marco and Hekapoo’s daughter looks a lot like Angie, her grandmother.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Seraph is half human, half whatever Hekapoo is.
- Heroic Bastard: Seraph was conceived from the sexual relations in Marco and Hekapoo’s unique relationship.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In the Bad Future, Seraph makes one to allow her parents to travel back to Set Right What Once Went Wrong, rendering herself Ret-Gone in the process.
- Hot Wings: Once Star restores magic, she unleashes her true power, growing wings of fire whose feathers can turn into blazing weapons.
- Hybrid Power: In the Bad Future, she's one of the few individuals whose magical abilities have remained stable instead of declining as the Fritz gets worse. The "General" believes that this is because her mother being a Pure Magic Being and her father human, causing her to filter magic differently.
- I Know Karate: Has started to learn it.
- Ironic Name: Averted, Marco talked with Hekapoo about how he wanted a daughter named "Yuki", but since it means "snow", Hekapoo decided against it in case she inherited her fire powers, which she ended up doing.
- Meaningful Name: Seraph means flaming one, fitting for someone who can create flames. Her middle name, Celosia, is the name of the flower that Marco once gave to Hekapoo.
- O.C. Stand-in: Seraph's design is heavily inspired by the unnamed Marcapoo daughter from a non-canon page in MoringMark's ''Ship War AU'’ fan comic.
- Playing with Fire: She inherited fire powers from Hekapoo.
- Rapid Aging: Seraph has physically aged to her teens while living in Hekapoo’s dimension, with only it being a month’s time from her own perspective.
- Scars Are Forever: Seraph was attacked by a magic-eating lizard when she was living in Hekapoo's dimension, and while Hekapoo rescued her and healed her, she still has the scar on her torso from where it tried to eat her.
- Storm of Blades: Once she unlocks her true power, unburdened by the fritz, she grows massive Hot Wings, the feathers of which can detach to form blazing weapons. She then uses these weapons to decimate the Henchmaniacs.
- Super Powerful Genetics: Considering Seraph’s parentage, it's not surprising. What is, however, is that she also inherited the natural understanding of advanced math and physics that Hekapoo uses to craft dimensional scissors. To the point that Ms. Skullnick had to send the girl’s work to actual scientists to get graded.
- Tell Me About My Father: Hekapoo spent a lot of the time she had with Seraph telling her about Marco.
- Uncanny Family Resemblance: Seraph looks a lot like her grandmother Angie.
- Woman Child: Seraph is a unique case, as despite physically being 14 she will sometimes act much younger. This is justified as she 'is' only about a month old, and didn't seem to grow up as fast mentally as she did physically. She is often shown to act like an over-excited child. She still has dolls and responds to moments where she believes she is in trouble like a small child would.
- You Can't Go Home Again: Seraph is forced to leave her mother's dimension for good because of her Rapid Aging issues.
Erebus
Erebus
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The Lord of Darkness
A centuries-old entity which whose enough a threat that Hekapoo is terrified upon hearing he’s discovered the existence of her daughter.
- Affably Evil: While not a good guy he is more than willing to give Seraph a shot to stop him if just to amuse him. He keeps his word too.
- Always a Bigger Fish: Glossaryk is the only being that he shows any kind of fear towards. Despite being able to fight the Magic High Commission, and apparently win on multiple occasions, being able to escape Rhombulus's crystals, Glossaryk can go toe-to-toe with him. Once Ruberiot clues him in to Glossaryk being missing, he goes on a rampage on Mewni, and by the end of the chapter everyone is either dead or has fled to another dimension.
- Casting a Shadow: Erebus can merge with his own shadow and move around along with being able to cast his own shadow as a weapon or shield.
- The Chess Master: He’s caused a few of the disasters in the story without being there. He even sent infected Hydra’s towards Hekapoo and nearly got her and Marco killed just to see what would happen. If he never said anything no one would know. Later, he lets the Dream Eater escape and directs it to Earth.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Seems off, he’s even aware that something is wrong with magic but doesn’t seem to care enough to even be all that annoyed.
- Complete Immortality: The reason no one's ever killed him for good is because they can't. Not even Moon's Darkest Spell does more than temporarily injure him, with the world seeming to shatter itself and rebuild itself around him as he heals. Erebus himself claims that he's a hole in the universe that cannot be filled, and he'll continue to exist even after the universe dies and the next one begins. Even the Lich can't do more than inconvenience him temporarily. Hekapoo's plan to stop him has her cause a X4 Class Apocalypse How in her dimension, destroying even space, so reality can't repair him.
- Cool Mask: Wears a mask with a simple smile on it.
- Drama-Preserving Handicap: He limits himself just to fight Seraph cause he bored. The way Hekapoo reacts he could have killed her easily and his broken spell was more than enough to control Hekapoo and Star.
- The Dreaded: Hekapoo is horrified when she learns that Seraph fought him, implying that he could have easily killed her.
- Half the Man He Used to Be
- Hero Killer: Has apparently killed the Magic High Commission multiple times, and once he learns that Glossaryk, the one being he came close to fearing, or at least what Glossaryk was capable of doing to him, he goes on a rampage in Mewni, with the end result being all the defenders allied against him dead, including Star, with the chapter ending as he kills Moon with Neck Snap.
- In the following chapter, his actions killed Grob Gob Glob Grod, Time Baby and Axolotl, and many more.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: His Bad Future self leaves a Time Tape in usable condition because he's finding that Victory Is Boring, allowing Marco and Hekapoo to return and stop him. He also boasts that it takes a hit to his vitals to even slow him down, allowing Hekapoo to hit him with the horn he had broken off of her head, immobilizing him long enough for her dimension to collapse.
- Humanoid Abomination: Even for other magical creatures he seems off. Seraph describing him as feeling familiar and very strange at the same time. He later describes himself as a literal hole in the universe, and even Moon's Darkest Spell doesn't do more than temporarily injure him, and as he heals the world seems to literally shatter and rebuild itself around him as he claims that he has Complete Immortality. Not even the Lich can kill him.
- Just Toying with Them: His entire fight with Seraph seems like this. He constantly taunts her, gives her advice to make her more of a challenge, and seems perfectly content to lose just because it was fun. It's even suggested that he only bothers with the heroes because he was bored.
- He lets Moon hit him with the Darkest Spell because he knows that it won't do more than temporarily injure him at best.
- Knight of Cerebus: Once he learns that Glossark is gone, he quickly goes on a rampage in Mewni, with everyone who doesn't flee the dimension being killed, including Star and Moon.
- Living Shadow: There are a few hints that he might be this.
- Lotus-Eater Machine: Looking at his unmasked face has mind-bending effects.
- The Darkness Gazes Back: He gives off that feel, his eyes even glow while merged in his own shadow.
- The Dreaded: Hekapoo is terrified when he hears he was returned, begging Seraph to run if she ever sees him again. Star even comments that he’s the story they tell little kids about to scare them.
- The Faceless: His mask may be his face. It's later confirmed that he does indeed have a face, but it has mind-bending properties.
- Malevolent Masked Men: Wears a mask and is a clear threat.
- Mind Manipulation: Shows up and manipulates everyone at a school dance, getting them all to attack each other.
- Ominous Opera Cape: He wears a cape, which Seraph manages to yank on during their fight.
- Omnicidal Maniac: He is perfectly willing to let the Lich run free and destroy anything that he wants, since the Lich can't kill him.
- Victory Is Boring: After his rampage on Mewni, he expresses regret at how Hekapoo's disappearance changed things, feeling that it was too easy since no one could hold his attention for more than a few seconds.
- In a recording, he expresses more of this sentiment, and while he makes it hard for them, he WANTS Marco and Hekapoo to go back and Set Right What Once Awent Wrong from him sending them through time so he can try something else, saying that things got out of hand.
- His real face under his mask has mind-bending properties. He keeps it hidden most of the time to keep things interesting.
- Villain Takes an Interest: Seraph's birth intrigues him, and he even mock-fights against her. He also messes with her parents as well.
Lord Wukong
Lord Wukong
The Young Lord of another dimension. He has just been put in charge after the sudden death o his father. He is clearly having a hard time dealing with all the new responsibilities but he’s doing his best.
- Expy: Of the Monkey King.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In the Bad Future, he sacrificed himself to evacuate all the others in his dimension when Erebus attacked.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Doesn’t realize that his advisor and the nuns he invited are working to overthrow him.
- Space Master: With his family’s staff he is able to twist and fold space.
- Modest Royalty
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: He keeps up a tournament that fosters friendship and camaraderie for multiple dimensions, makes sure his dimension’s barrier holds strong with Hekapoo’s help and even nearly sacrifices himself to stop a black hole from ripping his dimension apart.
- What's Up, King Dude?: Hasn’t been in charge for very long and hasn’t got the talk down but is trying.
Returning Characters
Marco Ubaldo Diaz
Marco Ubaldo Diaz
"I’m Seraph’s father, I’m Hekapoo’s champion, and I’m Star Butterfly’s best friend, I’m Marco Diaz and I’m the guy whose going to beat you up."
Marco went on a 16 year-long journey to get a pair of scissors and upon returning home he finds it hard to adjust. Then to find out he has a daughter.
- Action Dad: Seraph's loving father who can kick serious butt.
- Action Survivor: After going on a trial for 16 years and surviving.
- Amicable Exes: This is the feel his and Hekapoo’s relationship gives off.
- Awesome by Analysis: With 16 years of experience and his own intelligence he was able to dissect attacks and moves in the middle of fights during the Tournament arc.
- Badass Biker: When riding Nachos.
- Badass Bookworm: Fairly intelligent and a skilled fighter.
- Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: When a guy asks Seraph to dance, Marco has already pulled out his sword and didn’t realize he had. When Star feels like being Seraph's godmother will mean that she'll just screw the girl up, Janna and Jackie's You Are Better Then You Think You Are speech uses this to counter her, pointing out that someone as safety-conscious as Marco would have never named her Seraph's godmother if he had thought that that was even remotely possible.
- Children Raise You: Marco has certainly matured after finding out he was a father.
- Chick Magnet: He's actually been able to attract a few girls as he is despite being a safety boy. When he's aged up to his adult self by time magic, the group of girls that see him all react like he's the most handsome man they've ever seen.
- He Is All Grown Up: Judging by his aged up future self. Marco will have no trouble with the ladies.
- I Know Karate: And is teaching Seraph.
- In Touch with His Feminine Side: Princess Turdiana is a role model and his daughter’s favorite doll.
- Papa Wolf: Hurt his daughter and you WILL regret it.
- Sink or Swim Fatherhood: For Marco.
- Ship Tease: Hekapoo and Marco seem rather close despite not having any formal relationship. Flashbacks show that, much to Angie's relief, her granddaughter was not born out of base lust but moments made by explicitly romantic feelings.
- Supernaturally Young Parent: Marco in a very odd case.
- There Are No Therapists: Averted. Marco ends up talking to Mr. Candle on his parent’s insistence after 16 years of adventures and suddenly becoming a father.
- Unwilling Roboticisation: The Collective manages to get their hooks into him in Chapter 41.
Hekapoo
Hekapoo
Hekapoo is a member of the Magical High Commission and the forger of the dimensional scissors. She also the mother of Seraph with Marco. Due to the nature of her dimension, she can't raise her daughter in their home dimension.
- Action Mom: One of the Magic High Commission.
- Affectionate Nickname: H-Poo calls Marco Muscles.
- Almighty Mom: She's a member of the Magic High Commission, ruler of her own dimension, and forger of all dimensional scissors.
- But I Can't Be Pregnant!: Hekapoo honestly didn't think that she could get pregnant. She only found out when she went to the hospital and went into labor right there.
- Children Raise You: Raising Seraph has caused her to start moving past her Immortal Immaturity.
- Cute Little Fangs: Passed them on to Seraph.
- Cute Monster Girl: Her inhuman features don't make her unattractive.
- Dimension Lord: Is the ruler of her own dimension, technically making Seraph a princess. She later forces it to collapse to destroy Erebus, betting that his trick of reality rejecting his injuries won't work if even space has been destroyed.
- Eating Optional: Only really eats for kicks and when she finds something tasty.
- Formulaic Magic: Hekapoo's ability to craft the dimensional scissors requires her to have an understanding of the math and physics is would take to open up portals to anywhere in all space and dimensions.
- Empty Nest: Hekapoo is devastated when Seraph has to leave their home.
- Genius Loci: Her true species, which was kept a secret to protect her. After she destroys it to take out Erebus for good, she barely survives, and Marco has to jump through a few hoops to do so.
- Happily Adopted: Unlike her brothers she wasn't created by Glosseryck as much as she was found by him after a cosmic accident had created her as the only fully sentient Genius Loci.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Devises a plan to take out Erebus with a X4 Class Apocalypse How, destroying her dimension to get around his immortality. Marco narrowly manages to rescue her.
- Immortal Immaturity: She has gotten a bit more mature with having a daughter.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: While she does have feelings for Marco, she knows that the fact that she's immortal and he isn't means that if she got into a relationship with him, she'd remain the same while he would age and die. Believing that Marco deserves someone who can grow old with him, she encourages Star to act on her feelings for him, even though Star can tell it would hurt her if it actually happened.
- Outside-Context Problem: Genius Loci aren't supposed to be sentient, never mind able to exist without massive sacrifices by the being creating them. However, since it was a cosmic accident that created her instead of a powerful individual Hekapoo was not bound by the ordinary rules of her kind.
- Parents as People: She tries to be there for her daughter whenever possible, but her job is far too important to spend much time with her.
- Perverted Drooling: When she thinks back about her time with Marco.
- Playing with Fire: Has fire powers.
- Mama Bear: Hurt her daughter and she will make you regret it.
- Missing Mom: Due to circumstances, mainly her duties to the Magic High Commission and her realm's effect on Seraph, she can’t always be there for her daughter, though she does her best.
- Mortality Ensues: Her attempt to destroy Erebus by destroying her dimension also causes her to lose her immortality. Even mentioning the sensation of feeling as effected by time as her daughter.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Gives the Pines a week to convince her to not arrest Ford for his crimes across the multiverse.
- Ship Tease: Hekapoo and Marco seem rather close despite not having any formal relationship. Flashbacks show that, much to Angie's relief, her granddaughter was not born out of base lust but moments made by explicitly romantic feelings.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: Hekapoo has started to see the downsides to immortality with her daughter being mortal. She later admits to Star that she 'does' have feelings for Marco, but she can never truly be with him since just like with Seraph she'd be forced to watch him grow old and die while she stays the same.
Star Butterfly
Star Butterfly
Star is the Princess of the dimension of Mewni, who was sent to stay with Marco and his family on Earth after her attempts to learn how to use her powerful ancestral Magic Wand ended up setting the kingdom on fire. Her relationship with Seraph is complicated; on the one hand, she's definitely fond of the girl, even before Marco names her Seraph's godmother, but she's also developing feelings towards Marco and is jealous of his closeness with Seraph's mother Hekapoo.
- Green-Eyed Monster: She has feelings for Marco, and is thus jealous of Hekapoo.
- Ship Tease: When she sees the aged up Marco with the aged down Seraph and Hekapoo, she can't help but picture that it's her sitting on the couch with Marco and 'her' baby with him.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: After Janna gets her to try and summon a ghost, which ends up animating a spectral mammoth, Star has a minor breakdown over her latest screwup, thinking that all her mistakes will mean that she'll be a terrible godmother for Seraph and that it's only a matter of time before she screws up the girl as well. Jackie and Janna reassure her, pointing out that someone as safety-conscious as Marco wouldn't have made Star Seraph's godmother if he even thought that such a thing was possible.
Jackie Lynn Thomas
Jackie Lynn Thomas
Jackie was Marco's childhood crush, and, at the time he went through the portal into Hekapoo's realm, his girlfriend. Understandably, thy broke up after the revelation of his relationship with Hekapoo during the relative 16 years he spent in that dimension.
- Not So Above It All: When she sees Marco in his aged up adult form, she's as attracted to him as any of the other girls as she bites into her fist.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Along with Janna, she reassures Star when she feels like she's a screw-up who'll just make Seraph one too, pointing out that some as concerned with safety as Marco wouldn't have made Star Seraph's godmother if he thought that it was even a possibility.
Janna Ordonia
Janna Ordonia
A classmate of Marco and Star with a fascination with the creepy.
- Cuteness Proximity: When Seraph is temporarily de-aged into an infant, Janna goes gaga over how cute she is.
- Nightmare Fetishist: As ever. At one point she tries to get Star to summon a ghost.
- Not So Above It All: When she sees Marco in his aged up adult form, she's as attracted to him as any of the other girls as she bites into her fist. She also finds baby Seraph adorable, and doesn't hesitate to show it.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Along with Jackie, she reassures Star when she feels like she's a screw-up who'll just make Seraph one too, pointing out that some as concerned with safety as Marco wouldn't have made Star Seraph's godmother if he thought that it was even a possibility.
Brittney Wong
Brittney Wong
The head cheerleader for Echo Creek Academy, and an Alpha Bitch outside her genre.
- Alpha Bitch: The rich head cheerleader who acts like everybody else is beneath her. What's more to say?
- Even Evil Has Standards: Brittney had been planning on having Seraph fight the magic eating lizard attacking them so she could get away, but upon realizing that Marco's daughter, due to her unusual circumstances might physically be a teenager but is still mentally a little girl she abandons that plan entirely. She admits to being a lot of things, but she won't force a kid to fight a monster for her.
- Freudian Excuse: Her parents are almost never around and her butler, the closest thing she has to a parental figure in lieu of her parents won't discipline her even when she deserves it.
- Hidden Depths: Has some knowledge of French.
- Lonely Rich Kid: Her family is fabulously wealthy, but her parents are almost never around even for her birthday. She doesn't even have any real friends either, just those who used to be afraid of her or enjoy the perks of having a rich 'friend'.
- Not So Above It All: When she sees Marco in his aged up adult form, she's as attracted to him as any of the other girls as she bites into her fist.
- Parental Neglect: When she gets in trouble at school her Butler comes to pick her up. Her parents have been in Milan for an undisclosed amount of time.
- Queen Bee: Deconstructed. Brittney thinks she is the queen bee of the school, and she probably would be if the series was a mundane high school setting. However, Seraph is quick to point out that's not true. Nobody fears or respects her. She might be rich but there are other kids in the school with even greater wealth and status than her note , and unlike Brittney, they actually have real friends thanks to being more likable. Meanwhile, Brittney doesn't have anyone who actually likes her. Just people who enjoy the perks of her wealth such as her parties.
Mister Candle
Mister Candle
The Guidance Counselor at Echo Creek Academy. Originally a plant for Tom in order to spy on and/or sabotage Star and Marco's relationship, he stayed on even after this came to light, and has genuinely come to care for the students, and tries to help them.
- Becoming the Mask: Originally just a plant for Tom, he's grown into his position.
- The Shrink: It's his job to act like this to the students.
