Heaven Butterfly

Her Majesty, Queen Heaven, Head of House Butterfly, Queen of the Mewmans, Sovereign of the Butterfly Queendom and the Groundlands, Lady of the Mewnians and the First Settlers and Monsters, Protector of the Realm

### Location of Death

Butterfly Castle, Butterfly Queendom, New Mewni, Mewni

### Title

- Her Highness, Princess Heaven Selesdria Miracula Edrianne, of House Butterfly (Grovnogk 13th, 560 A.M. - Grovnogk 13th, 574 A.M.)
- Her Royal Highness, Royal Princess Heaven Selesdria Miracula Edrianne, of House Butterfly (Grovnogk 13th, 574 A.M. - 580 A.M.)

- Her Majesty, Queen Heaven, Head of House Butterfly, Queen of the Mewmans, Sovereign of the Butterfly Queendom and the Groundlands, Lady of the Mewnians and the First Settlers and Monsters, Protector of the Realm (580 A.M. - 617 A.M.)

### Occupation

Queen of the Butterfly Queendom
Successor - Vesper Butterfly

Predecessor - Luna Butterfly

### Family

Luna Butterfly (Mother)
Oliver Forest (Father)

Vesper Butterfly (Daughter)

Arthur McKnight (Husband)

House Butterfly

### House

House Butterfly

*"A scared and lost child, found in the forest her jail.*

*Only a flame that does not go out to illuminate her dark trail."*

Heaven Butterfly was the 22nd Queen of the Butterfly Queendom. She is considered the worst queen in the history of the Butterfly Queendom. Heaven also was the last queen of the Dark Ages.

### Early Life

Heaven Selesdria Miracula Edrianne Butterfly was born on the 13th of Grovnogk, 560 A.M. to Queen Luna Butterfly and King Consort Oliver Forest during the night, thus making her a night queen. She was the only living daughter of Luna out of her 8 attempts. Heaven possessed very light green blue hair and eyes, with the same color cheek marks. As for her cheek marks some say they were tears and some say candle flames. The tears belief was that they were tears of her mothers suffering and is popular with smallfolk. The candle flame belief stems from the marks glowing in the dark before bed which started when she was, this name is supported by historians, scholars, and the Royal Family. The princess had a lively and energetic personality. Heaven always wanted to play and spend time with her parents. Heaven also was very intelligent but also had a temperament and was impulsive. Due to her parents behavior, who always gave and did everything she asked, Heaven grew up a spoiled and indulgent child, constantly losing her temper and restored to blaming and pointing fingers when things went wrong. Everything changed however, during the cold season a few weeks before winter 569 A.M. when Heaven was 9, during a visit by the Royal Family to the Watchtower Forest to discuss renovations and reoccupation of the long abandoned Border Garrisons. Bored by her parents' lack of attention and annoyance towards her Forest cousins, Heaven decided to hide in the woods for a game of hide and seek, hoping her parents would come to their senses and come looking for her. What happened shortly after is impossible to say with precision to this day, since there were no witnesses and the princess’s understandable ability to report what happened. What is known is that Sir Uther returned after 5 days of searching with Heaven in her arms. The Princess was almost like a corpse, in an advanced state of malnutrition, with greyish hair, injuries, illness and infections, a broken foot and a dislocated shoulder. She was taken to Cross Clinic, headquarters of House Cross and was discharged 2 weeks later. Her days in the Forest of Certain Death would be the start of the descent from what she would become. Upon waking after being found she didn’t say a word. In order for her to sleep a candle would have to be burning in her room. The famous image of Heaven leaving the Cross Clinics hiding behind her mothers skirt would become a symbol that she would never be the same again. The Princess adopted a strict routine of walking the castle walls but refusing to ever go through the gates. She refused to leave the castle, for Royal Engagements, recreational pursuits or even at her parents' request, preferring to stay in her room drawing or painting. It was during this period she got the nickname the Black Bunny, because of her small size, spooky personality, and preference for dark hued clothing. The only companions beside her parents was Sir Uther, her savior, who was always accompanied by his son Arthur McKnight. She harbored a fear of Arthur though she found him handsome and he always complimented her paintings and drawings and was the same age as her. Her first portrait of a person, which she rarely ever painted was of Arthur who was 13 at the time. 574 A.M. Heaven was presented with possession of the Royal Magic Wand who didn’t even stay for her birthday feast, returning to her room after the possession ceremony was over. A castle maid claims that the princess would have called Arthur for a private celebration in her room however Princess Heaven was not known for asking servants for things so this is probably just gossip. Not surprisingly Heaven was the worst student Glossaryck ever had, being a waste of magical potential. Fear of being hurt or being hurt by magic made Heaven only develop two spells in her life, the lantern spell, which revealed footprints and tracks through a black light, and the Butterfly Pathfinder, which creates a butterfly of light to lead the caster to where they most want to go. Not long after she inherited the wand Heaven’s Mewberty came. During this Heaven made no noise that the symptoms had begun to appear and remained quietly in her room. She was found by Arthur who she didn’t attack as was typical with mewberty but shrunk in the far corner of her room in fear.

### Reign as Queen

580 A.M. Queen Luna and King Oliver had died and later Heaven inherited the throne at the age of 20. She left the Castle once in years for the coronation ceremony, something influenced by Sir Uther and Arthur. The kingdom's expectations weren’t high for their new queen, but it would be far worse than they imagined. Not long after the surprise and unexpected announcement of engagement between Queen Heaven and Arthur came. The actual circumstances of this union remain unclear to this day. Some believe the two found themselves in love in

   the heat of the moment. Some believe their parents signed a secret marriage agreement. And some believe Arthur used the Queen's psychological frailty and seduced her. Whatever the answer may be, we may never know. During her early years as Queen she was greatly advised by the only Mewnister she ever trusted, Lord Uther McKnight. However the old night came to fall and die during the spring fever, leaving Arthur’s sister Lady McKnight to take McKnight seat in the Royal Council. It was from there everything began to unravel. Without the presence of Heaven’s parents and the protective figure of Sir Uther, the unknown feature of broken Heaven began to appear: madness and insanity. The first symptom of the reign of madness was the ban on knights walking with apparent blades in the castle, especially in the presence of The Queen. This first act was not seen as a major issue at the time, but the signs became clear as the months went on. However Heavens early years as queen were prosperous and led to the belief that the kingdom would return to its golden years. However such a result came from the tireless effort of her Mewnisters, who Heaven became jealous of when she heard a castle staff make a comment on how the Mewnisters were really in charge of the kingdom and that The Queen was a hollow figure. Gradually The Queen sabotaged and defied the

    Council's actions, which she as Queen was able to do, for the sole purpose of proving that none of them were better than she was. 584 A.M. was a turning point for Heaven's reign and the kingdom itself and would begin the general idea of her reign that would stay in history. The only person she listened to was her husband King Arthur, but from the moment he suggested to her that she should listen more to the Royal Council and challenge them less, her confidence in him began to fade. The path of no return had been reached when Heaven found Arthur talking, just talking to Lady Redbird, the Mewnister who most went against her. Taken with unhealthy paranoia, Heaven not only dismissed Lady Redbird from her council seat but accused, and later pardoned Arthur of having an affair with Lady Redbird.  The lack of evidence and proof of this affair leads to the belief that it was merely a figment of Heaven’s imagination, who's jealous and suspicious nature led her to delve deeper into the belief that she saw evidence of betrayal. Another aggravation arose among the gossip of the court not long after Heaven dismissed Lady Redbird, the gossip was that King Aruthur had grown tired of The Queen, who beside being paranoid was considered dull and had not yet produced an heir. However Heaven blamed her husband for his lack of effort to produce an heir. Whatever the truth may be Heaven’s and Arthur’s relationship had never been the same with the two not sleeping in the same room for years and years. As the years passed the kingdom plunged deeper and deeper into crisis as The Queen fell further and further into ruin. 587 A.M. came a diplomatic dinner at the Butterfly Castle for the United Kingdoms of Southern Mewni At the dinner Heaven offended, or denied the existence of other queens. The quarrel eventually rocked the relationships between the Butterfly Kingdom and its neighbors. Lady Firefly always referred to that as  “centuries of effort ruined in one night.” The following year, Heaven nearly died after choking on a piece of corn pie during lunch. Overwhelmed by the paranoia that this was a planned assassination attempt, Heaven ordered the Royal Chef to be brought to the throne room. Heaven had the chef suspended by her neck by ropes, choking her until she confessed to who had tried to kill her. The outcome of this wasn't death due to the intervention of King Arthur and his sword and cut the rope. Still Heaven fired the chef and expelled her from the kingdom. Heaven added the chef to the king's moth list. Heaven suspended the Royal Council meetings as well as restricting access to Butterfly Castle to only the Royal Family and staff chosen by Heaven herself, not even the Royal Council was allowed in. She closed the castle gates, which no one could enter without The Queen's consent. Inside the castle gates wasn’t just the castle, in the outer castle cates was the Royal mile, a forum of vendor stands and small stores and is considered the backbone of the capitals economy and with the closing of the gates stopped this mainstream economy which increased the prices of food. Also with the closing of the castle stopped many government functions such as food price

    regulation service, trade regulation services, and many of the financial aid programs. Although Arthur would sneak out from time to time. Although rumors of the time suggested that the castle was the den of The Queen's sadism, with constant mistreatment of those who worked there, the reality is less obscure. The curtains were said to be closed daily, depriving the castle and its occupants of sunlight, with dark and empty corridors and rooms except for the pale figure of Heaven who wandered around like a ghost. Arthur and Heavens seemed to be reborn 596 A.M. after the death of Arthur’s sister, Lady Mcknight during childbirth. The loss shook Arthur so much Heaven set aside her paranoia to comfort him. Coincidentally or not, news came that no one would expect would, Heaven was expecting a child. Good relations between the King and Queen wouldn’t last long and the fights soon returned. However Arthur refused to leave The Queen’s side during her pregnancy,

     fearing any act could cause Heaven to lose the child. That didn’t happen and 597 A.M. Heaven gave birth to her only child and heir, Vesper Butterfly. It was a very hard birth that nearly cost her her life. Most of the nobles believed that motherhood would soften The Queen's madness as well as the possible repairing of her marriage. However the birth of the princess brought more fear and concern. Two days after the princess’s birth a maid found a knife in the ashes of the fireplace beside the cradle. This suggests that Heaven planned to kill her newborn daughter. It was possible that since Princess Vesper was born right before dawn making her a star queen, Heaven thought Vesper wouldn’t just bring an end to the era but to the Butterfly Family. Heaven possibly didn’t kill her due to a small amount of maternal love. As a mother Heaven was strict, rigid, and cold, always putting herself in a place of superiority over Vesper, shirking and restraining her, not letting her leave the castle unless permitted. Heaven believed that at any moment that Arthur and the Royal Council would plan to kill her and thus Vesper would ascend the throne. This though haunted Heaven until the end of her days, being the main cause why she refused to pass the Royal Magic Wand to her daughter and was forced to do so at the end of the day. Heaven’s mistrust and paranoia about her daughter grew as Vesper also grew and showed the perfect contrast of what her mother was, taller, more beautiful, kinder, smiling, more loved by the knights and servants, and especially by The King. At the same time Vesper no longer allowed herself to be diminished by her mother and challenged her more and more. One such challenge towards her daughter, that in Vespers would “cross the line of forgiveness” 616 yers after Mewnipendence when Vesper was 19. When Vesper informed Heaven that she would travel to the United Kingdoms to “correct the problems you caused.” Heaven ordered to have her daughter’s carriage to break in the Forest of Certain Death, so she would learn a lesson she had in the past. However Heavens plan unleashed yet another wave of chaos and trouble that would pave the slope for the decline and end of her reign. While trying to return to the kingdom after her carriage crashed, Vesper and her knights were attacked by a horde of monsters. Although Vesper and two knights survived, the problem was with the death of one of the monsters, the second prince of the Dogbulls. This resulted in the end of the peace between the Monster Nations and the Butterfly Kingdom that had existed for nearly a century. The news that the monster army was marching towards the Butterfly Castle, burning and looting villages along their way, the strained relationship between the United Kingdoms, and the disunity of The Queen and her nobles led to the omen that the Butterfly Dynasty after 600 hundred years. During the misty afternoon before the arrival of the monster army, Vesper and Arthur told Heaven to hide in her tower while Vesper led the army on the walls. In an attempt to apologize to her family and to convince them to hide with her, Heaven confessed to the “accident” of the carriage, leading to another argument that only ended after Vesper slapped her mother leaving a mark. Without an apology and tears in her eyes The Princess left without saying anything. Arthur said that Heaven did not judge her daughter, only accepting the slap as “a scourge deserved for everything she put her through.” The battle of the Third Spell, as it became known, had begun when the monster army forces reached the capital late in the afternoon and marched directly to the walls of the castle, where Princess Vesper had gathered the entire force of the Butterfly Army. The battle broke out in a bloodshed when the main gate was torn down and the monster forces invaded. The moment the terrible image of the invasion hit Heavens eye she realized she couldn’t leave her daughter downstairs, disobeyed Vesper's instruction and came down to bring her daughter to safety. Such an understanding proved to be decisive and correct, a hit

    of her intelligence that still remained.  As Heaven descended she saw her daughter in a corridor leading to the courtyard wounded and defenseless, with a bearicorn raising a warhammer over her head. Without thinking twice Heaven grabbed a spear and slammed it into the monster’s chest killing him and saving her daughter from a horrible death. With her unconscious daughter at her feet and the Mewman army being obliterated before her eyes, The Queen took Vesper's wand and it transformed back into her wand and performed the thing that named the battle. Known only as the third spell, which was never recorded in the book of spells and is lost to history. Such a spell put an end to the invasion of monsters by causing wild vines and roots to emerge from the ground and swallow each enemy soldier alive. With the end of the battle all attention turned to the wounded princess. The fear of Vesper’s death was so great that the citizens lit candles in the kingdom's central square calling on Celestia to save her life. Seeing this light from the top of her tower made Heaven realize how wrong she was about Vesper: The people loved her and she was an obstacle in the way of her daughters greatness. When the word that Vesper would survive reached Heaven, she went to pay her daughter one last visit. Heaven just sat beside her daughter's bed and stood there for a few minutes holding her hand and caressing her cheek before placing a kiss on her forehead, and one on Arthur’s who was asleep and then left. Later that night a servant was sent to the Royal Bedchamber by King Arthur to inform her

     that Vesper had woken up. What was supposed to be a reassuring message delivery however came back as terrible news. The servant found the room instantly empty until he noticed a rope tied to the bed that extended to the window balcony. Looking down from the balcony he found the dead body of Queen Heaven at the other end slightly swaying in the wind. The news spread through the night and the bell announced her departure at dawn. Heaven was 57 and ended her 37 year reign. She was buried in the crypts of the castle where she could finally have her peaceful rest with her mother Luna. During her reign it was said she had up to 100 servants hung for charges of high treason, brought the kingdom to debt, ruining relations with the kingdom's allies, and restarting the Great Monster War, as well as almost ending the Butterfly Dynasty with her almost killing her daughter. To this day she is the only queen to have committed suicide as well as being considered the worst queen of the Butterfly Kingdom as well as being the weakest magic wielder, never using wandless magic, or achieving her butterfly from, and being the only queen to not being invited to join the Magical High Commission since third queen Queen Estelaria the First star. With her death the dark ages ended after 262 years. She was known as “the broken queen who broke yet another broken kingdom.”

### Trivia

* Heaven liked to play hangman with her dolls
* She was ambidextrous
* She hated high heels, Heaven preferred to be barefooted or in socks
* She dipped her cookies in coffee
* Due to her days in the Forest of Certain Death, Heaven developed some degree of photophobia
* Heaven also developed arachnophobia, besides a paranoia to think they were around spying her
* On Vesper's 10th birthday, Heaven gifted her with a portrait