Diana Butterfly

Her Majesty, Queen Diana, 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

### Occupation

Queen of the Butterfly Queendom
Successor - Sky Butterfly

Predecessor - Celena Butterfly

### Family

Celena Butterfly (Mother)
Elm Forest (Father)

Sky Butterfly (Daughter)

Etheria Butterfly II (Daughter)

Quasar Butterfly (Son)

Comet Butterfly (Daughter)

Tileford Butterfly (Husband/1st Cousin)

House Butterfly

### House

House Butterfly

*"In the hazy depths of the woods, the secrets take shape,*

*guarded by arrows so sudden that no one can escape".*

Diana Butterfly was the 28th Queen of the Butterfly Queendom. Diana is best known for her secretive hunts as well as her Silvan influenced style of dressing and her mysterious death.

### Early Life

Diana Arborina Jericha Butterfly was born on the 7th of Admirestar, 734 A.M. to Queen Celena Butterfly and King Consort Elm Forest. Diana possessed teal-green eyes and teal hair, and possessed green trees on her cheeks. Diana was named after the brightest spring moon on Mewni. At a young age Diana was slim and athletic, but animated and charitable and an intrinsic interest in combat and exploration. She took interest in her knightly aunt, Dame Antumbra Butterfly. Diana visited the headquarters of House Forest, the Forest Watchtower with her father whenever possible. Diana was not considered beautiful, on account of always covered in dirt and constantly mistaken for a boy. This made it difficult for Diana to develop childhood friendships. Thought this changed during the tournament of 742, on her 8th birthday, with the arrival of the young Queen Calliope Silvan and her 8 sisters, who she developed a strong friendship with for the first 2 weeks of the spring, especially with Princesses Aulia, age 10, and Kothorna, age 8, Silvan. This bond made Diana want to leave for the Silvan Kingdom at the end of the Tournament with the princesses. After 3 days of insisting, Celena, most likely under Elm's influence allowed Diana to travel. She traveled to live in the Silvan Kingdom, following her 17th great-grandmother Festivia Butterfly. In her writings to her mother, Diana noted she had no difficulty adapting to the Silvan Kingdom. In less than a year Diana already was fluent in the Silvan Language, she learned basic knowledge of Laurelian, the language of the Laurel Kingdom. She also began to learn some level of artistic instruction, such as the learning of the instruments the kithara and the aulos. She also learned basic theater. Diana's greatest acts in Silvan were her constant charity towards the needy and in archery, which she was a prodigy in and as well as possessing a natural combat streak as a Butterfly Women, made her an esteemed figure in court and later in history in general. Although Silvan was her new home and the Silvan Royal Family treated her like family, Diana noted there were certain times where she was not allowed to go to certain places, including times where she was not allowed to leave her room. The most notable of these events would by the day before her 10th birthday in 744 A.M.. The day after Diana would receive her Lonely Star Ball as a gift from Queen Silvan's sister. Three young servants came to help get the princess ready for the dance. one of the was Prince Laurentius Laurel, who despite being years older, awakened a feeling of romanticism in Diana. Diana never started a relationship with the prince. However, due to Queen Silvan's sisters starting their own romantic relationships, it was not long before Diana started to try for a relationship. Over a year and a half Diana engaged in, in her own words three "short but frustrating but important learning" relationships. The first was Orwyn Elkheart, a young archer from the Maple Kingdom, who Diana met at an archery competition. Diana described this as "I felt like more of a friend than a girlfriend." Though she maintain a friendship with him after the end of their relationship, he even went on to present her with her iconic antlered tiara. The second was Alfei Hydrae, a apprentice sailor, though Diana described this as "I believed I was in love until I understood that our thing was more physical that emotional." She ended that relationship two months later. The third was Syprias Menea, of the Noble Silvan House of House Menea. He was a young lover of poetry and art, who was extremely romantic with his words and gestures but "no more than that, without an creativity for dates or even a simple kiss." This last relationship lasted no more than a week after he saw her bathing and became too uncomfortable. However the course of Diana's life would drastically change 767 A.M., during the Agora of Archons, the great annual assembly of Silvan Nobles bring their wishes to the Silvan Monarch. As in many other situations Diana was instructed to stay in her room after she tried to sneak out. However due to her teenage fire and adventurous spirit led her to sneak out to get a glimpse of the event for herself. Among the plethora of Nobles, Priests, Masters, Sages, and Knights, Diana's attention was focused on two girls with cheekmarks and a boy, whom she recognized as one of the servants who came to attender her on her 10th birthday. The biggest surprise however was they girls and the boys mother, a near perfect copy of her Aunt Dame Antumbra, the sister of Queen Celena. However this woman had slightly different cheekmarks. Details of Tileford, who was the boy with the two girls, and Diana's first meeting aren't properly documented, the best known details coming from oral tradition. Queen Silvan's sister tell that Diana would sneak behind the tables where they sat and would pull Tileford in the bushes. Helena would state that she brokered a secret meeting between Diana and Tileford. The castle maids would report that Diana dressed up as a maid and served them. The artists sang about how they both fled into the forest for a night of adventure and passion. Whatever is the actual version, what is known is that after calling her mother on the Mirror-Phone, something she rarely did, and questioning her, Queen Butterfly would revel that the woman who looked like Antumbra was her sister, or Diana's aunt. She told Diana that they were her siblings, and that the woman was one of three triplets, the three being her Aunt Antumbra, Penumbra, and the woman was Umbra. Her mother told her that after Antumbra, Umbra, and Penumbra as well as the twins, brothers Alfelio and Perilio attempted to prevent her from taking the throne, her mother, or Diana's grandmother Sideria Butterfly, would punish them. Antumbra was made a knight which caused her to forfeit her hereditary rights, Penumbra was offered marriage agreements but refused, which caused Sideria to strip her of her titles and rights of royalty, Alfelio was was betrothed to a House Stone girl, Alfelio was sent to study to become a future celestrean, Crepuscula, just 6, was betrothed to some House Fields boy, and as for Umbra her mother told her "Umbra was the brain of the plot, and as that my mother determined that the harshest punishment was in store. She couldn't publicly banish a senior royal so she made her the Butterfly Ambassador to the Silvan Kingdom, but would not allow her to return home, and by marrying a Loveberry she would have very little reason to ever try, as for the 3 children, the two sisters Helena and Estele and the boy was Tileford, all being your cousins. I told Queen Silvan to not allow you to have contact with any of them as they hate both me and my mother, but I see how that went." The next day the truth became public and Diana was no long kept in her room, even meeting Umbra at dinner. Diana described her as "proud, stubborn, and judgmental." However her uncle Luke Loveberry, the husband of Umbra, and her cousins Helena, Estele, and Tileford she described as very kind and nice. Diana did not record her early relationship with Tileford. Historians agree that the lack of record was an attempt to keep their relationship a secret. What is known comes from close and trusted people, such as Aulia and Kothorna and her cousins Helena and Estele. Estele even drew a picture with Tileford and Diana together. The two most important entries come from the diary of Helena. The first, which was on Diana's 12th birthday "They spent an hour or more dancing on the floor until they learned. Later, I overheard them talking about what they should do to take over the world. Then some play on words that made them laugh, Something like verb followed by noun. And when they were silent, they seemed comfortable with each other with no obligation to speak." In the seconds, dated months later in autumn of the same year. "I went to my cousins chamber to call my brother so we could come back home. As soon as I approached the door, I heard noises of talking and giggling and snickering. I decided to move on and come back later to my mother with the excuse of having forgot. It didn't take long for Diana's and Tileford's relationship to become public, with them kissing and flirting shamelessly, unfazed by prying eyes during the early half of 747. During the latter half of the year Diana was notifyed she would return to the Butterfly Queendom for her next birthday. This made Diana uneasy of her relationship with Tileford. Though Tileford was able to convince his mother to allow him to travel with her a week before his birthday. Diana returned to the Queendom in 748 having spent 6 years in the Silvan Kingdom. After 25 days of travel Diana finally returned home. She was greeted by a great public celebration in addition to the welcome of her parents, siblings, and grandparents. Despite the anxiety that plauged Diana, Tileford was welcomed by the royal family.

### Royal Princess

Two days later Diana would inherit the Royal Magic Wand and become the Royal Princess. The wand changed from the fan to a bow hilt. This change would lead to misunderstanding how Diana's spells worked. Many say Diana's spells could only be archery related. However this was untrue. She was able to cast any spell she wanted. Some of Diana's most important spells were The Ethereal Bridge of the Fairies, The Thundering Spectrum, and the Mistletoe Breaker's Arrow, some even claim this could render a immortal Septarians Mortal, some even labeling this as Dark Magic. Returning to her homeland brought dramatic change to the princess's routine. She spent years seeing herself as an outsider and now she was an insider filling the role of Royal Princess and future queen. However after the death of her grandfather Patric Flowers and a week later her aunt Antumbra during a monster ambush, Diana concluded that she would "never put off for tomorrow what I could do today. She would resume archery and hunting as her recreational activities. It was during her first hunt Diana would establish her legacy. While following the tracks of a wild boar in the Forest of Certain Death, in the company of Tileford. Diana crossed path with a group of frightened Frog-men, a type of monster, tadpoles. The tadpoles were grouped around the body of their mother with a broken fangs in her chest. Though she new they were the Queendom's historic enemy her compassion and charity took over and she gave what little food and water she had. Diana knew it was not much so she promised to return to help them as soon as possible. However Diana's good intentions were filled with insecurity and doubt. She asked her mother, citing information about Soupina Butterfly if they could help the needy monsters. However Diana received a cold and harsh response from her mother "Those monsters killed your aunt, they killed our ancestors, Queen Meteora Butterfly, Vesper Butterfly. Right now, some monster is planning our kidnapping and murder too. I am not able to have compassion for those who wouldn't have any for me." Diana never expected such words from her mother but believed it was still due to the recent deaths of Patric and Antumbra. But in the end Diana's compassion spoke louder when she came across the same group of monsters she had previously while on a hunt with her father Elm. Days later, she stole three sacks of of corn for the frog-children while the Queendom was distracted by the Harvest Moon Festival, from then Diana embarked on a path she would never leave. At least once or twice a month, Diana would reserve one of her hunting days to help the frog-children, which multiplied over the years to other monsters such as Dogbulls, Bearicorns, and Kappas among others. Tileford naturally acted as her accomplice, staying at the castle while she was out to ensure no one found out. In addition Diana also learned how to preform Eclipsa Butterfly's dark spell, the all seeing eye as another precautionary measure. Rumors began to appear over the years, though none of them were close to the truth. To ensure the secrecy of her actions Diana would now leave only at night and began placing supplies in strategic points in the forest. In 753 A.M. Diana and Tileford went through a turbulent time in their relationship. Natural troubles began as they lived together for 5 years. However at the Ball of the Silver Bell, rumors began to start about the relationship between the princess and Prince Bulford Mukwald of the Mukwald Kingdom. Bulford would even give the princess the Queen of Beauty's Wreath at the Tournament of 753 A.M. after winning jousting competitions. Tileford went to question Diana about this to end his anxiety but her temper made him mad and feel dishonest, even though she insisted nothing mad happened. Through that years winter the relationship between the two was not good. However, in the spring of 754, Helena made an unexpected visit. Helena is the reason that the couple would ultimately reconcile. Helena would discover and tell Diana that the rumors about her and Bulford were in fact started by Bulford. It is unknown whether the revenge on Bulford was the work of Helena or Diana but what is known is that it was both traumatic for Bulford and for the Mukwald House itself, which would never again attend a tournament. Diana would tell Bulford that if he truly wanted her he would have to create a love poem about his love for her. She led him into a dark hidden closet where he could not see. While he started reciting his poem Diana slipped away through a secret compartment. Then Helena would led nobles, knights, and servants into the room where they saw Bulford reciting his poem. Celena would question Diana and ask her if she had anything to do with this and she replied no, which made Sideria laugh. The relationship between the cousins was now reconciled and was stronger. During the tournament of 755 the engagement of the two was announced. It was expected that with this announcement Diana would soon ascend to the throne, however Celena decided to keep it for a few more years, claiming Diana deserved a few more years free of the burden of Queenship. In 756 A.M. Tileford and Diana married at the ages of 22. Between 759 and 761 A.M. Diana and Tileford would travel around Mewni. These trips would be accounted for in the book "Routes of Wonder." In the Butterfly Queendom they would visit the Headquarters of House Firefly, the Firefly Library and the Hanging Gardens of the Flowers Capitol, the headquarters of House Flowers. On the New Mewni Continent they would visit the Great Salt Desert of the Camillidae Kingdom, the Ruins of Gravnogk, the Cronnog City in the Riverlands Kingdom, the oily black ancient stone fortress that is beneath the current castle in the Leechstone Kingdom, the chalk cliffs in the Clifford Kingdom, the Spitfire Volcano and its kingdoms ruins, the Unclaimed Lands, and the Frozen Sea. To the south they visited the ruins of Maze Island, and met the Tribe of Blue Men which Diana wrote "the finest bows ever made, made from the bones of an colossal lizard species that inhabit forests of the continent to the south, and whos reach could even protect a small merchant ship from privateers at sea." In addition to acquiring one of these bows, Diana would report that she acquired a supposed map of the continent to the south, which the natives call Great Ooag. However, she lost it when it fell into the sea during a storm. To the east they visited the Wyvern Kingdom. They rode on the back of a dragonette towards the northeast, where they saw the infamous Black Wall. Diana writes "The legends due it justice to its colossal size and the eerie vibrations it gives off." Tileford wrote "its so dark its as if it drank all the light." Diana also commented on how the dragonette refused to cross or even go near the wall. The other side of the wall had a dense foggy forest that stretched out to the horizon. In the west Diana and Tileford would travel to the Silkworm Kingdom, where they visited the the Holy Starry Lake and the Great Citadel of the Dragon Emperors. Diana writes "which waters were sprinkled with true stars" and Tileford wrote "the Great Citadel of the Dragon Emperors surrounded by a perfectly circular lake." In the Jade Kingdom Diana was gifted a ancient stele carved from a meteorite that tells the story of the Divine Celestial Empire. In the Hundred Kingdoms of the Rainbow Isles, Diana describes it as "a wonder created by the goddess, a place of plural and innovative beauty and culture." While there Diana and Tileford also learned the "Seven Shades of Love." In the Mushroom Kingdom Diana noted the Giant Mushroom Forests and exotic mushrooms. In 763 A.M. Diana founded the first archery order in the Butterfly Queendom, the Most Excellent Order of Moon Archers, which became popularly known as the "Falling Stars" to this day. This act allowed talented archers to reach a rank of low nobility just like knights. Some say Diana founded the order after her mother refused to equate the prizes of archery in tournaments with the values won by knights. Her mother said "Knights are noble to some degree but archers aren't noble to any degree." Despite feeling personally offended Diana and Celena soon made up with Celena signing the authorization for the order.

### Queenhood

In 765 A.M., after nearly a decade of marriage, Diana expressed her desire to become queen. She managed to convince her mother that she was ready for the responsibility. Celena signed a royal decree making her abdication and Diana's coronation official within a year. However weeks later on her 31st birthday Diana announced she was pregnant. Despite her joy, her mother reprimanded her because she would give birth within weeks of her coronation, which would compromise her early reign. However, on New Years Eve, Diana would give birth to Sky Butterfly, a girl with teal hair and eyes and purple spindles on her cheeks, in 766 A.M. Diana was made queen less than a month later, and as her mother warned compromising her early reign. Diana was forced to turn to her mother during Mewnistry meetings and events and leaving Tileford to parent whenever she could. Rumors also began to spread about the queen and her delay on becoming pregnant and her daughters short statue, who many suspected was due to her marriage with her cousin. The rumors did not last long, as a few weeks later Queen Diana passed out after being greeted by King Laurentius Laurel as he welcomed her and her family to that years tournament. Hours later, Lady Selise Cross reported that the queen was pregnant again, to the happiness of the king-consort and partially happiness of her mother. The jokes however the Diana "passed out with passion" for King Laurentius remain, being perpetuated in stories and songs and plays. Diana gave birth to another daughter who she named Etheria Butterfly ll, a girl with green teal hair and eyes and pink five pointed stars on her cheeks. She was born as big as her already one month old sister. This caused Diana to focus on her eldest, which would cause future disagreements between the sisters. Motherhood increased Diana's charitable spirit, who returned to hunting in the midsummer of 767 A.M. However as the current Queen, Diana now had constant escorts, which made it impossible for her visits to the needy monsters to be as frequent as she would like. Nevertheless sometimes Diana was able to escape to the forest at night. This allowed her to keep a strong bond with the "good monsters" as she called them. And the frog-children she initially helped became her "eyes and ears" in the Monster Domains. In 768 A.M., Diana gave birth to her only son, Quasar Butterfly. In 770 A.M., Diana gave birth to her last child Comet Butterfly. In 771 A.M., Diana posed for the famous "Leaves of a Clover Painting" with her mother, grandmother, and first born. However not much later Celena would die from bronchitis. Diana tried to get on with life however with her grandmothers worsening health and subsequent death in 776 A.M. left scars on her, making her a much more surly and disinterested person. When new of a Septarian Coalition led by the Monsters Seth and Toffee began to arrive in 777 A.M., Diana gripped by insecurity would revise her morals, forging a marriage agreement to Sky two years later, after the Battle of the Bleeding Stars, which cost her brothers Astro and Blackhole their lives. Other actions included sending Comet to the Elfendor Interdimensional University, and attempting to arrange a marriage for Etheria to some prince or king to strengthen the Queendom's military forces with some alliance, with Diana even wondering about an alliance with the Mukwald Kingdom, however non seemed interested in Etheria. By the middle of 783, the attacks soon became more dispersed and the wary atmosphere soon was gone. Though not completely with the fear of another attack being a constant concern of the people. The exceptions were the spring tournament, which brought together a wide range of kings and queens, and the autumn and winter months which its lack of resources meant the downfall of any army. Against Tileford's wishes Diana continued her donations to the "Good Monsters" which since her mother and grandmothers deaths became only a means of getting information on the Crowns enemies. This led to Hostage taking of monsters, destruction of monster camps, and the ending of battles before they could start. This also led to the capture of any criminal who took refuge in the forest. This helped the crown reduce the security problem in the Queendom. Despite the Mewnistry concern about the way Diana was retrieving this information, no questions were asked. Rumors began to surface, the most famous one being that the queen was betraying the Queendom and the King by having an affair with monsters, in other versions beasts or demons. However, Diana was not irritated by these stories, even writing in her diary "the absurdity and creativity of people amuse me in these times of conflict." She also heard a servant correctly guess that she stole food to give to the monsters, but all the other servants laughed and bullied her for the suggestion. Diana's plans would proceed without any issue until the autumn of 787 where the queen heard a supposedly important rumor. The queen never expressed what the rumor was, not even to Tileford and decided to "hunt" alone in the Forest of Probable Itchiness. However, 3 days later Diana returned, but not as expected. According to the knights that stood guard at the guardhouse of the Butterfly Castle, the queens unicorn came riding on the seemingly empty horizon, but as soon as it stopped at the gates, Queen Diana's body collapsed from atop the unicorn half 6 arrows stuck into her back. Despite the help provided, within minutes the Queen was dead. Diana was 53 years old and reigned for 21 years as queen. The circumstances of her death would go unsolved, at least for the time being.

### Titles

* Admirestar 7th, 734 A.M. - Admirestar 7th, 748 A.M. - Her Highness, Princess Diana Arborina Jericha, of House Butterfly

* Admirestar 7th, 748 A.M. - Corn 766 A.M. - Her Royal Highness, Royal Princess Diana Arborina Jericha, of House Butterfly

* Corn 766 A.M. - 787 A.M. - Her Majesty, Queen Diana, Head of House Butterfly, Queen of the Mewmans, Lady Sovereign of the Butterfly Queendom and the Groundlands, Guardian of the Realm

### Trivia

* Upon first receiving the wand Diana's words were ""Oooohhh..."
* Diana liked her meat cooked in wine broth, a Silvan tradition.
* She used to walk barefeet through the castle, a custom she brought from Silvan
* Diana had lots of Mintalyptus tea during her pregnancies
* She chose the name "Sky" for her firstborn even before her trip with Tileford, while flipping through the Queen Cosmica's chapter
* Diana secretly loved long dresses, but she always said she didn't because of Kothorna and Aulia's influence during her childhood
* Orwyn Elkhart and Diana used to elkback ride together when they were still dating, and years later, he presented her at her coronation ceremony feast with a Mapleish Elk, which Diana would name Sinerea
* Her and Tileford Ratings were
	+ Romanticism- 5/5
	+ Compassion- 5/5
	+ Sensuality- 5/5