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Astra, the Princess of Mewni is a Star vs. the Forces of Evil fanfic by RinaEnergy17, meant as a sequel to the series, in which Star and Marco's daughter, Astra the Strong, goes to Earth for training with her younger sister, Plutonia.

Tropes in this fanfic:

  • Abdicate the Throne:
    • Hella the Crownless would abdicate early after realizing her destructive ways nearly destroyed her kingdom.
    • Ok, technically abdicating their claim’ to the throne: Astra’s daughter Nova, upon receiving her wand, declares she’d rather be a space ranger like her aunt Asterida, immediately passes the wand to her sister Terra, and leaves.
  • A Child Shall Lead Them:
    • Saturnia the Active was crowned at 13 after her mother died unexpectedly.
    • Sunny the Morning Sun became regent for her blinded mother at 15.
    • Shine the New Hope became queen at 14.
  • Afraid of Needles: Solaria, of all people.
  • Amnesia Episode: Astra botches a potion she hopes would cure Freddy of his sickness, and it gives him amnesia instead.
  • And the Adventure Continues: How Season 2 of Astra ends: Astra is now queen, her daughter Terra receives her wand after her older daughter Nova rejects it, and Nova is adventuring with her aunt Asterida and a reformed Eris.
  • Annoying Younger Sibling: Plutonia, in Astra’s eyes, which is why she’s unhappy when Plutonia convinces Marco to let her go to Earth too.
  • Beachcombing: The wand of Psyche, the Queen of Ores, unknowingly would fall on top of a source of metal every time she dropped it or it flew out of her hand. The resulting metal and precious ores would push Mewni into using metals in their defense and everyday lives.
  • Bold Explorer: Sedna the Explorer, natch. Glimmeria the Fugitive was also one.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: Throughout Moon's biography, Glossaryck just keeps telling Astra to talk to Moon herself. Which makes the last paragraph, added after the events of Astra, which reveals Moon's sacrifice, that much more painful.
  • Cast from Hit Points: Using such powerful spells to map the galaxy began to give Starla heart problems, which would eventually kill her.
  • Chosen Conception Partner: Like canon, Solaria’s ‘relationship’ with Alphonse seems mostly to be a means to an end (in this case, conceiving Rhina). The only reason she even picked him was because he passed her Secret Test of Character. Notably, their love rating card has one of the lowest scores of the Queens, with only Glimmeria and Bomb (serial cheaters) and Rhina and John (Arranged Marriage between a Jerkass and someone unable to love him) having lower.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: Skywynne toward Gem-Robin. When she overheard the maids gushing over his handsomeness, she underwent Mewberty and began capturing everyone. Robin had to talk her down. Another time, when she heard him propose to Lyric, she blew up a dimension in her rage. (As it turns out, he was rehearsing his proposal to Skywynne, with Lyric as her stand-in. They both had to apologize deeply to her.
  • Code of Honor: Celestina the Warrior would establish one when she decreed all Butterfly princes and princesses would learn how to fight and ride.
  • Death by Childbirth: Universia’s mother died giving birth to her.
  • Death by Despair:
    • Indirectly. It was while mourning at her mother’s grave that Psyche would catch the pneumonia that killed her.
    • Soupina’s love interest, Lupin, would die of a broken heart mere minutes after she died in his arms from an assassination. They were buried together because their bodies couldn’t be pried apart.
  • Double In-Law Marriage: Shimmer would marry Stern Seabird, and her twin sister Sparkly would marry his brother Bow.
  • Driven to Suicide: Nebula was driven to that point after causing an eternal night, unrest and riots in her kingdom, and believing her sister ran away with her husband. Galaxica returned just in time to stop her from jumping and explained they were seeking a way to break the eternal night. She would succeed the second time she tried, after both her husband and sister died.
  • The Empath: Amura.
  • Eye Scream: Waxinne the Liberator would lose her eye after Seth plucked it out during his torture of her.
  • Facial Markings: Unusually, Sigma’s changed after she was kidnapped. Her original ones were unknown (only Glossaryck remembers, it’s an hourglass), but afterward they were teardrops.
  • Fisher King: Unfortunately, Skyla had this effect when she was overcome with grief after her daughter ran away, and lost control of her weather powers, causing rain and snowstorms until Glimmeria returned.
  • Foreign Culture Fetish: Festivia the Fun was heavily influenced by the customs and clothing of the Olive Empire, which put her at loggerheads with Leonora, who cried cultural appropriation.
  • Founder of the Kingdom: Technically, multiple women could make a claim for this title:
    • Universia the Mother of Queens was the first ruler of what would eventually become Mewni
    • Her daugther Galaxy the First Butterfly is the first one acclaimed as Queen of Mewni, and the first one to have magic.
    • Her descendant Celestina the Warrior would establish Mewni’s independence once and for all.
  • God Save Us from the Queen!: Hella the Crownless was a warmonger whose spells nearly destroyed her own kingdom. Couple this with her horrible temper, and Hekapoo took the dimensional scissors from the Butterfly royal family.
  • Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: Glimmeria finds out Bomb cheats on her with noble ladies and resents ever being appointed her squire, and only saved her to not bring shame on his family. This drives her into the arms of her First Love Clifford, and they would have a bastard child together.
  • Green Thumb: Treesa the Mother Nature was able to talk to plants, and this helped her be forewarned of monster attacks. She also could produce plants to attack and defend, and would create the corn that became a staple of Mewnian diets.
  • Heroic Sacrifice:
    • Eclipsa’s first monster friend, Ash, volunteers to let Eclipsa test her Darkest Spell on him and is turned into dust.
    • Moon gives up her own life to bring back Astra’s friend Freddy, saying it’s her way of atoning for her own evil actions.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Luminessca going full Butterfly form was her downfall, as when she tried to use her solar magic to defeat the monsters, they simply raised their shields and reflected it back on her, blinding her.
  • Inadequate Inheritor:
    • Starla the Stargazer regarded herself as such, believing if she couldn’t even save her brother, she couldn’t rule a kingdom. She even tried to relinquish her claim, but Celestina wouldn’t let her since she had no other candidates. She eventually changed her mind when she met her future husband Emerald, who helped her learn how to carry on.
    • Many considered Saturnia the Active one due to her lack of magic prowess, lack of training in both diplomacy and war, and her marriage to a commoner. (That she used a loophole to marry him didn’t help.) A few even plotted to replace her with her younger sister Muse. Even Saturnia was miserable as queen and considered abdication but Muse talked her out of it.
    • To a lesser extent they considered Saturnia’s daughter, Nightlynn the Whisper in the Dark unsuitable due to her youth, being of commoner blood, and lack of military prowess. Muse made it quite clear she was a regent only.
    • The council was not interested in losing their power or letting a bastard like Shine be queen. Hella swiftly reminded them why she was once the most feared queen and they relented.
  • Insane Troll Logic: Mina once threw potatoes into the sea on the grounds that they were spies because they have eyes.
  • Irony: For someone known as the Queen of Love, Amura would have her heart broken three times before she meets her husband.
  • I See Dead People: Ceres the Exorcist
  • It's All My Fault: Astra has a bad habit of blaming herself when things go wrong.
  • Magical Barefooter: Amura, the Queen of Love, who would only concede to wearing boots in winter, otherwise going barefoot. She even went barefoot at her coronation. This would end up killing her, as she was poisoned when she stepped on a poisonous plant.
  • Never My Fault: No matter how much Glossaryck told Hella she had to learn the basics before learning tougher spells, she kept trying only to fail and blamed him for not wanting to teach her.
  • Nice to the Waiter: One of Sunny’s best attributes.
  • The Night That Never Ends: Nebula the Sad tried to turn back time so she could wish for prosperity on a comet believed to have magical properties, but so badly botched the spell she caused eternal night instead.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: When Serena the Historian found out the truth about Eclipsa, she tried to free her, but Rhombulus refroze her before Serena could stop him, her research into monster culture was destroyed, and her memory was tampered with, an affliction that left her with memory lapses the rest of her life.
  • Older Than They Look: Because of all her time in the time loop, despite being in her thirties, Sedna didn’t look a day past 20.
  • Only Friend: During her imprisonment, Sigma’s only friend was the son of her jailer, Buddy. He would eventually help her escape at (likely) the cost of his own life.
  • Perky Goth: Ceres, who was a very cheerful and determined queen despite her side job of communing with ghosts.
  • Rags to Royalty:
    • The Butterfly line would start with the daughter of a sea captain and a seamstress who rose to village leader, and her daughter would be acclaimed as the first queen.
    • Treesa would marry the commoner Fir Roseheart.
    • Saturnia would marry a wandering poet named Horace.
    • Lunalia would marry Tourmaline, not only a commoner, but a bastard.
    • Skywynne’s husband, Gem-Robin, was also a bastard.
  • Raise Him Right This Time: How Astra defeats Eris: she uses one of Skywynne’s spells to turn Eris back into a baby and vowed to give her a second chance (not unlike what happened to Meteora). By the time Astra is queen and her daughter is about to receive her wand, Eris is happily living as an adventurer with Astra’s daughter and sister.
  • Related Differently in the Adaptation: Festivia is a more distant ancestress to Dirhennia and Crescenta, rather than their mother.
  • Related in the Adaptation: Because Skywynne, Soupina and Solaria are now part of the impostor line of queens, they’re now related to Festivia, Crescenta, Rhina, Celena, Estrella, Comet, Moon and Star. For some more specifics:
    • Crescenta would be the mother of Skywynne.
    • Solaria would be the mother of Rhina.
    • Soupina would be Rhina’s older daughter and Celena’s sister.
  • Reluctant Ruler: Celena never wanted to be queen, but when her older sister Soupina died childless, she had no choice.
  • Renaissance Man: Aureola the Peaceful was very intelligent, learned multiple languages, established diplomatic relations with both the Cloud and Lucitor Kingdoms, created the first ambassadorships, and brought peace to the Elves.
  • Riddle Me This: The king of Pie Island promised to restore the borders to what they were if Rhina could beat him in a riddle contest. When it looked like she would win, he cheated and had her imprisoned, giving her one day to solve the last riddle-what his name is. She just tricked a guard into telling her. He bawled like a baby when he realized he lost.
  • The Rival: Comet and Lazlo. This eventually became a romance when they were in the Neverzone, only to fall apart once they returned to Mewni.
  • Siblings Share the Throne: While officially Shimmer and Sparkly didn’t share the throne, as very close twins and with Sparkly being the unofficial heir (since Shimmer refused to remarry after her husband died), in effect they did this, with even their portrait being a joint one and the pair carrying the sobriquet “The Twin Stars”.
  • Supernaturally Young Parent: Comet and Lazlo aged in the Neverzone and produced Moon. They’re horrified when they return to Mewni and revert back to the ages they were when they entered the Neverzone. In Comet’s case she was somewhere between 12 and 14, as she hadn’t received her wand yet.
  • Teen Pregnancy:
    • Nebula would give birth to Mercury at sixteen.
    • Played With: Comet was technically somewhere between 12 and 14 when she gave birth to Moon, but she was in another dimension at the time and had been there long enough to age to adulthood.
  • Un-person:
    • Muse the Regent would ask for this to be done to herself as she was ‘only’ a regent and never queen. For years Glossaryck complied, but by the time Astra came to be she was recognized as a queen.
    • The Magic High Commission would erase any records of Eclipsa’s reign, and claim Festivia’s mother was Andromeda the Queen of Secrets.
  • Unrelated in the Adaptation:
    • Eclipsa would be the only canon queen to still be part of the true line of Butterflys, meaning Soupina, Solaria, and Skywynne are unrelated to her.
    • Lyric, rather than being part of the Butterfly line like in canon, is now just Skywynne’s companion.
  • Unrequited Love: It’s implied that Corina was in love with Estrella, but Incompatible Orientation got in the way.
  • Vampires Hate Garlic: Astra uses a blast of garlic to drive away vampires so Aida can get some bloody berries.
  • Weather Manipulation: Skyla the Queen of Weather’s specialty
  • Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: John named Soupina as yet another taunt at Rhina, since she lost consciousness during childbirth and couldn’t stop him from doing so.
  • Woman Scorned: Gender flipped. When Bomb finds out about Glimmeria’s infidelity, he has her lover and then brother killed, then rapes her sister and frames Nimba as a whore and a traitor. He also preys on Hella’s insecurities and feelings of Parental Abandonment to drive her against her mother.
  • Younger Than They Look: Comet and Lazlo were subjected to this twice: first when filming Mad Kitchen they were force fed aging candies from the Neverzone by the producers so they didn’t get in trouble for violating child labor laws, then again when they stayed in the Neverzone themselves during the filming of Wild Kitchen they aged to adulthood and had Moon, only to revert back to their teens upon leaving the Neverzone.

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