Hesperia Butterfly

## Queen Hesperia Butterfly

Her Majesty, Queen Hesperia, 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

### Title

- Her Highness, Princess Hesperia Lyra Arborea, of House Butterfly (

*"The firstborn of the greatest warrior*

*great things were expected from her.*

*Until she took a peaceful route instead.*

*From her songs many a tear were shed."*

Hesperia Butterfly was the 25th Queen of the Butterfly Queendom. She is best known for writing many plays and composing many songs. She also started the artistic renaissance.

### Early Life

Hesperia Melodine Lyra Arborea Butterfly was born on Corn 36th, 660 years after Mewnipendence according her mother to her mother, under an Arborea tree during dusk, somewhere in the extinct Spitfire Kingdom. She was the first queen of dusk. She was born to Queen Solaria Butterfly and King Consort Dorian Fields. She was the first heir to be born outside the Butterfly Queendom. She possessed orange-blond hair and lavender eyes as well as possessing orange lyres on her cheeks. She was the first queen of dusk She was a daughter of two renowned knights, her mother being Solaria the Monster Carver, Hesperia always showed herself to be a contrast to her parents from a young age, being a cheerful and smiling child, with a calm and delicate personality. She was a lover of the arts and good manners. Hesperia always said “listen to natures song and hear its colors.” On her 5th birthday, Hesperia was presented a wooden sword by her parents, just as they were given when they were the same age, hoping to install a desire for fencing and combat in their daughter. However the princess was interested in other types of gifts, such as a lyre, ballet shoes, and a book of stories and songs. However Hesperia’s artistic streak became more evident in the butterfly tournament when she was 8 when she chose not to attend any of the traditional sports competitions, instead choosing to bring either her mother, father, or guards to watch the prestigious tournament artists from bards, minstrels, to dance groups and theater companies. In her oldest surviving personal record, Hesperia recounts that she asked her mother if she could go to Elfendor Interdimensional University as her aunt Melody had done, however Solaria refused downright looking a bit shocked. Solaria instead brought the instructors to the castle, from ballerinas to mimes and jesters. One of these instructors was one her parents oldest friends, the bard Harriet, who brought with him not only teachings but apprentices, he called squires, Two cousins Nixie and Cephus Firefly, Roman Fields, Adama Stanforge, Bromelia Flowers, and Robin Redbird. When Bromelia Flowers became Hesperia’s best friend, Robin fell into a role of rivalry with the Princess, Hesperia described him as the only thing bad about her lesions. Robin had been jealous of the princess, and alleged she was Harriet's favorite, after a game where Harriet played random notes and Hesperia called them out without any effort with her back turned and eyes shut. Hesperia quickly became a talented dancer and poet but she really excelled at singing, moving singing, and music. On Solaria’s 41st birthday, Hesperia performed her first song called “My Mothers Lap” which made the monster carver burst into tears. 671 years after Mewnipendence when Hesperia was 11, a misunderstanding almost exploded into civil war. Hesperia began to feel ill and claimed she was pregnant with Robin Redbird. This remark made Solaria storm out of the castle and invade the Redbird Nest to bring the young boy to justice with her fiery sword, but everything was cleared up when Robin said it was just a gamble and that he told Hesperia to eat a pumpkin seed and to say she was pregnant. This confusion led the parents to discover that the little princess and the young lord engaged in many fights and arguments. The Butterfly Royal Family and the House Redbird agreed to keep the two separate, and to make sure of this Solaria, or mainly Dorian agreed to let Hesperia go to Elfendor. In Elfendor, Hesperia joined the fine-arts program, choosing music and poetry and dance and theater to study. The Princess reached graduation age just a year later when she was 12 largely due to her previous knowledge she brought from home. However instead of choosing to graduate she stayed and continued her studies in search of a degree of specialization. Some of her famous compositions came from this period such as “A crown of roses.” In the midst of this academic period Hesperia returned home to receive the Royal Magic Wand, which transformed from a sword hilt to a delicate yellow-winged lavender lyre with crystal strings. According to Glossaryck she experienced some difficulty with learning and controlling spells in her first week. However when she started to use her gift to “hear nature's song and see her colors” her magic became more intense, in addition to improving its execution and creativity using magic for stage effects. From the next year onward, Hesperia started traveling with her theater class in shows across dimensions as part of the specification program. Altogether Hesperia starred in five plays: “The Love Crafter” and “Dame and her three” the dramas “in the river of time” and “divine tragedy” and a musical “The Moonlights Lady.” composed by herself and gave her the lead role. When Hesperia was 17, her group traveled to the Clifford Kingdom, where Hesperia caught the special attention of Prince Lance Clifford. In her diary she stated she was afraid when lance asked her on a date, as the history between the Clifford Kingdom and Butterfly Queendom was not all good. However she was surprised when Lance showed himself to be a dreamy romantic who believed in the concept of love at first sight. This evolved into a relationship with Lance even accompanying the group on their trips. Hesperia achieved her specialization degree in fine arts when she turned 18, and returned home for good after 8 years of study. Hesperia was surprised by the presence of Robin Redbird in the castle who had become a knights page in the years since. Robin had matured since her departure but Hesperia still resented the boy, and decided to avoid him. The same year still held surprise for Hesperia, in addition to her magical studies as well as her duties as princess. She took up artistic hobbies such as organizing many plays in the Theater of Festivia, to musical performances in taverns,

     streets, and squares with Bromelia, Adama, and Nixie, and later Roman, Cephus, and Sir Glossaryck. At the end of that year Hesperia fulfilled her princess dream and on her 19th birthday held a masquerade ball, which would unfortunately end in confusion. During one of the many partner switching dances Hesperia ended up dancing with Lance. At the end of the dance she led Lance back to her room so they could talk in peace, they started talking and the fireplace was lit. Due to the fireplace and Hesperia wearing a ball gown she started to overheat, she asked Lance to untie her corset so she could remove her overcoat, just then her mother walked in, she tried to explain but it was no use. Due to the tense relationship between the Clifford and Butterfly Realms Solaria wisely did no harm to Prince Lance, all she did was send him home in a blizzard with an escort and scolded Hesperia and prevented her from leaving the place. This event has been interpreted very artistically throughout the years, some forms have it completely wrong and outlandish and some closer to accurate. Although in her grounding punishment Hesperia composed ”the doll o’ the princess” and even harbored hope that her and Lance could be happy and together again despite Queen Solaria’s forbidding. However the Kingdoms of Clifford and Oyster were engaged in a war and she worried about his safety. However this hope turned to melancholy when Lance wrote her a letter himself stating that the conflict had ended but his hand was given up to a princess of Oyster in the name of peace. Although she was saddened and disappointed she stayed mature and responded by understanding and wishing him happiness and expressed her true feelings. However even with her understanding she still went into a period of melancholy for a few weeks. When attempts to lift her spirits had no effect, Bromelia tried one last effort to improve her mood, she sent young bards and minstrels, however her period of sadness came to end by the most unlikely of ways, Robin Redbird. Although rumors and songs tell us that Robin and Hesperia fell in love and head over heels while singing the song “Two hearts that beat as one.” reality however is far less fanciful. Hesperia reports “ He just came to me, looked me in the eyes and started singing. At first sight, I was without reaction, without blinking and without voice. I interrupted him saying the song is for two singers, but with the real intentions to question him. Robin was sincere with me, he wanted to make me happy so his mother would be less frowning and that it was the only lighter and happier song he knew. I admit I laughed with his sincerity. I suggested a few different chords to give the song more life, which he seemed to like, and we sang together, I felt good after a long time.” Whatever may be real or fiction it's consented that she recovered into her good mood, and Hesperia began to see Robin as a potential friendship after. Though both parents' desire was to keep them apart. The two began to share more time together, with Robin watching her performances and advising her to perform her own princess song for her song day, which had never been done before. That performance achieved a legendary status not only for the vocal and artistic talents of the princess but for the fact she played both her fortepiano and lute at the same time. No one knows for sure the relationship between Robin and Hesperia started because not even the two knew exactly when. Some suspected they kissed first during the Harvest Moon festival, however some believe this happened months later at the Stump Day feast. Hesperia confessed that she didn’t want that kiss to mean something more because she was not ready. However the universe had other plans for Hesperia when her mother went on one of her sporadic hunts, Hesperia was left to fill the role of queen for the time being. Hesperia made Robin her advisor. This daily contact combined with her mothers absence and the various moments of privacy the two now had, led her to rethink not being ready.

### Reign as Queen

However her intentions were thwarted in two weeks after Queen Solaria’s death, making Hesperia queen at the age of 21. The lack of personal records during this period gives a sense of her suffering. Along with her writing the song “the princess of the hall.” Composed during this period and is said to be a manifest to the princesses that become queen with their mothers death. Her intentions to start a relationship with Robin also were swallowed up. Hesperia didn’t reign for about two months, leaving her father Dorian to take her place in the council meetings. Her first royal activity was her coronation where a guest described the queen “a smile that intends happiness but eyes that shine with anguish.” She didn’t lead the Queendomfor the first two months due to lack of courage and ideas. However she resumed joy in her life when she found her door wrapped in leaves, with notes, tableatures, figures and scores of compositions and ideas of her late aunt Melody.  She never knew who placed that box full of things and didn’t go into detail on what they were. She gradually resumed her typical joy.  She started to be queen as well as devoting time to magic and started also to write more songs. Some being about former queens Glossaryck told her about her ancestors such as “The day I faced the black bunny” which is about her grandmother Vesper facing her mother Heaven and “the queens of the dark ages.” The tournament in the following year was very important. It was the first time her and Robin spent time on a daily level in a while, which rekindled their romance and led them to officially become a couple, in addition to convincing him to join her band. She also realized the unfairness between the performing arts and sports as well as realizing the hardships artists faced. At the end of the tournament she created a plan to incentivise arts and culture. As well as reducing taxes on instrument makers to almost zero. Which reduced the price for musical instruments and encouraged new bards that attracted many foreigners. Taxes were also reduced on art studios and theaters as well as on professionals and their tools. She also participated in many plays, something her father still went to even in his last years. She also created the Butterfly Royal Orchestra. This period became known as the artist renaissance. It is known this way due to the similarities of devotions to the arts that the Anicent Mewnian Empire had. Hesperia created the illsoirum which creates magical effects on stage based off a script. The first play that used this spell was “hundred worlds in hundred days.” She also authorized the expansion of the Butterfly Royal Museum which took four years to complete. Finally after the dance of worlds at the harvest moon festival, Robin proposed to her. Months later they married in a pompous ceremony and a feast showered with artist performances of all types. Two weeks later the queen announced she was pregnant. The following year she gave birth to her heiress Sideria Butterfly. There's a rumor that Hesperia sang the night before her labor causing four leaf clovers to grow in the castle gardens. Motherhood finally restored her joviality completely since

     the death of her mother. It also revealed an extremely protective side and demanding side. Hesperia, less than a year later announced she was pregnant. The queen gave birth to Prince Ace Butterfly 688 years after Mewnipendence. Hesperia gave birth to four more children after that. Prince Valet 690 years after Mewnipendence, Prince Space four years later, and Princess Fortuna a year after that and Princess Diruna 2 years later. During the middle of this her father King-father Dorian died of the flu. Hesperia also composed “The fair and the wild” based on a fight between her children. 700 years after Mewnipendence Hesperia handed her wand over to her heir Princess Sideria. Her relationship with her first born would suffer with some tremors with conflicting views regarding “pleasure and intimacy.” However nothing extreme would lead to long lasting hatred or enmity. However, on the request of Princess Sideria she wrote “The Land of Corn and Glory.” based on notes form her aunt Melody as the Queendom's national anthem. Hesperia abdicated the crown to her daughter 704 years after Mewnipendence at the age of 43 after 23 years as queen.

### Post Queenhood

Hesperia decided to live out the rest of her days doing what she loved most singing in taverns, performing in plays, dancing in events, and mastering in orchestras. She lived to see the birth of her first born granddaughter Princess Celena Butterfly , who would later become queen, as well as her granddaughter triplets Umbra, Antumbra, and Penumbra, as well as the grandson twins Alfeio and Perielo. Hesperia hoped she could see the birth of her 7th granddaughter however tragedy had other plans for the Royal Family. It’s unknown to this day what the conflict would have been and what unfolded inside the royal palace until the outcome. What is known is that it started with something said by Princess Celena, and that the whole conflict would have led Hesperia to a rage attack and consequently passing out. Hesperia died a few hours later, victim of a stroke, at the same time that Queen Sideria gave birth to her 7th and last child, Princess Crepulscula. The first queen of dusk was dead at 60. Hesperia was buried in the crypts of the castle. She contributed more to the arts since Queen Solena Butterfly the second queen. The kingdom mourned for two weeks but would forever immortalize her in the culture of the kingdom.

Hesperia's tapestryHesperia in "Dame and Her Three"Hesperia in "Fairy and The Man"Hesperia in "Divine Tragedy"Hesperia during her coronationTwo pages of Hesperia's chapterHesperia in the morningHesperia in "The Love Crafter"Hesperia in "Fairy and the Man"Hesperia in "The Sun Lass and The Moon Lad"

### Trivia

* Her and Robin's ratings were
	+ Romanticism- 4/5
	+ Companionship- 4/5
	+ Sensuality- 5/5

* Hesperia's first relationship was a short romance with Filmond Cross during her winter break between 672 and 673
* She got the main role in *"Fairy and the Man"* after she caused a trouble in class due to her mewberty
* When they went to perform a play in Butterfly, Hesperia asked to her kissing scenes being replaced by hugs and some other affection displays because she thought her mother wouldn't like to watch it
* she kept the costumes of all the theater plays she was the protagonist
* Hesperia used to entertain her children with puppet theater, using a lot of it end fights and appease moods between them