Celestia Butterfly

## Queen Celestia Butterfly

*"One wrong spell, brought an endless snow*

*and the queen's merry heart froze with guilt and sorrow"*

Celestia Butterfly was the 17th Queen of the Butterfly Queendom. She is best known for bringing the Celestial Winter that ruined the lives of many and brought great debt to the Butterfly Queendom.

### Early Life

Celestia Iverna Alva Butterfly was born 394 A.M. to Queen Helia Butterfly and King Consort Clovad Butterfly during the night of the winter solstice, thus making her a night queen. She possessed ice-colored hair and blue eyes as well blue snowflakes on her cheeks. During her childhood she had a strong presence from her parents especially from her mother Helia. Celestia spent her days with her mother. Helia laughed at her daughters jokes, something she had a hard time understanding. 402 A.M. during the spring on her afternoon tea with her mother she reports “Mom, Dad, and i were having tea in the garden when the tea was over Mother ordered the servant to get more and she ran away looking frightened. If i didn’t know mom I think she was furious. I said to her that people were afraid of her, but she said it was nonsense.” Later that year she met her best friend Glaica Waterson while they skated on the frozen lake. During this period Mewni was engaged in the Second Mewnian War. There had been an attempt by Helia to keep her daughter separated from the war however the princess inherited her mothers perception of detail. Though being a child and not knowing of war itself, Celestia noticed something was different due to the meetings of the United Kingdoms of Southern Mewni as well as the diminishing guards and servants, and the Butterfly Army marching and the creation of the Mewni Warriors. Celestia would only get confirmation 406 A.M. during her pre-adolescent phase of wanting her moments of privacy. She snuck out of the castle to meet with her friend Crater Firefly when she was attacked by a group of septarians, which prompted her to cry and for her mother to arise as a second sun and turn the attackers to ashes. A week later the Great Council of Mewni took place. This meeting brought several kings, queens, princes, and princesses to the Butterfly Queendom. Celestia spoke to each heir of every kingdom and increased her friendship with Rolph 7 and Greta 5 of the Fahrmann Kingdom as well as Prince Olaf of the Frost Kingdom. She also met Queen Andrea Florent, of the Florent Kingdom who she described as “youth and maturity to take on royal responsibilities.” Celestia’s love life began 407 A.M. with her first two boyfriends, however both of them refused to be presented to Queen Helia as such. The first brave one was Penguin Redbird, whose name was mocked by many but the princess found to be a cute charm. 408 A.M. Celestia turned 14 and inherited the Royal Magic Wand. At the end of the ceremony she retired to go to her room, she hugged her mother and said “I'll study and be as incredible as you.” to which Helia replied “You’ll be better.” Celestia had a great desire and eagerness to learn and create magic, however Celestia had a difficulty in understanding some complex things, which made her spell performance somewhat difficult. She had a very hard time learning High Mewnian which resulted in her not being able to learn it and could only stitch to her native language of Low Mewnian. It was expected as the “daughter of the sun” and her having her birthday on the winter solstice she would take interest in warmth and the sun in her spells. However Celestia always had a love for the cold and the winter, always playing in the snow and building snowmen. Her spells ranged from Glacius, named after her best friend, Winterstorm Hyperblow, and Snowball Blast. Days before her 15th birthday and after her song day performance, Celestia and Penguin broke up. At the end of the night she returned to her room where she found a boy with red hair and green eyes stirring through her things who immediately fell to the floor begging for his life. Although she thought the boys actions were creepy, Celestia didn’t call for the guards or her mother. In fact, when she heard her mother knock, she told the boy, whose name was Jasper Stone, to hide under the bed. When they were finally alone Jasper explained that the older boys said if he got anything from the princess’s room he could walk with them. Celestia allowed him to spend the night in her room due to the blizzard outside, albeit on the floor. Four weeks later Celestia presented Jasper to the queen and king as her new boyfriend. During this period Celestia showed good control in magic, even discovering that the ring noise her wand made acted as a counterspell. She even told her mother her ideas, plans, and government for when she became queen. Celestia was no doubt a promising princess. Helia saw this in her daughter and announced she would give her the crown 410 A.M.. This announcement brought several suitors to Celestia even though she had a boyfriend, she put an end to this by announcing her engagement to Jasper at the age of 16. On the eve of her coronation 411 A.M. Celestia was visited by her mother who hugged her for several long minutes and said “no one is ever ready for the duty of being a queen, for this is a journey of daily learning.” Celestia woke the next morning and discovered that her mother had died. She heard the faint cries of her father. Her father took her to her room where she cried and was in despair. She spent the rest of the day in her room. Two notes that are regarded as legend but are actually true was that the princess’s tears created a thin layer of ice on her fathers clothes and completely froze her pillow. The coronation ceremony was delayed due to her mothers death but it wasn't delayed enough after it.

### Reign as Queen

She was crowned queen at the age of 17 and her mother was buried in the crypts right after Celestia's ceremony. She was able to find comfort in Jasper, Glacia, and her Father Clovad. Clovad had a conversation with Jasper asking him to speed up his marriage with Celestia in an attempt to improve her mood, which worked. They also

   relaxed for three weeks in Paradisa. Upon returning home Celestia found a crisis. Letters from kingdoms all across the continent began to reach the Butterfly Queendom. These letters contained all the same problems. The golden and silver fruits that were created by Helia to give to all the monarchs of the Great Council of Mewni had faded into ash. Most kingdoms were using the fruits as a means to re-stabilize their post-war economies, and there were those who felt cheated. In a hurried, naive, and understandably innocent attempt, Celestia agreed to compensate for the monetary losses that the kingdoms had, which resulted in Celestia paid 5 million gold suns, to each kingdom. Celestia had faith her plan would work, she would use the Queendom's crops to pay this debt. However upon inspection it was revealed that the crown could only pay 2% of its debts. Realizing that crops are produced in the summer months three times faster, and seeing how it was only the early months of spring. Celestia had an idea, mess with

    the weather. In her eagerness to solve the financial problems of the Queendom, and thus make her a great and forever remembered queen, she questioned Glossaryck on how to make her spells have their most powerful effect. Glossaryck knew she would listen to any of his warnings, he only pointed out the spells are more powerful in High Mewnian. Although she knew High Mewnian was one of her greatest difficulties, Celestia insisted on her plan. After a few nights of a little more than basic study of the High Mewnian language, Celestia performed the spell before going to sleep. The problem however went unnoticed by the queen. She pronounced a High Mewnian word wrong, instead of saying veron for summer she said verno for winter. The next morning the Queen woke

     up expecting to find the hot, bright summer sun as she described, but all she found was an icy and pale winter blizzard. Frightened by what she had done she remained silent and waited for the snow to go away by itself. However days became weeks and weeks to months and the snow remained. This was the start of the Celestial Winter. The rivers and lakes froze and the plants died. It was during this period she began to ring her wand every night as a counterspell. Celestia found her limit when she got news peasants were dying from the blizzard. She confessed in tears to Jasper in the privacy of her room. She also confessed to her father, Clovad and her best friend Glacia. However the news of the winter only worsened. Reports of snow in other kingdoms of the continent and even a cooling of the underworlds temperatures. The worst though was when peasants began to report attacks by creatures of “sender, pale figures like ice that brought the blizzard.” Celestia ordered House Forest and House Redbird to investigate. Weeks later, the sole survivor of the group reported so called snow women marching towards the Butterfly Queendom. Celestia ordered all the resources of the villages of the Queendom and people of those villages to be brought to the capitol. All food was stocked and wooden fences were put up around the capitol. A week later the snow women and their army of ice creatures approached the Butterfly Queendom in a huge blizzard. The initial plan of the Butterfly Army was to lock themselves inside the walls but as the barricades were gradually crossed by the ice creatures, Celestia ordered that a door in the wall be open and that the snow army be attacked. During the battle, Celestia saw several snow women observing the battle from the horizon. With the help of Jasper, Glacia and other knights, The Queen moved to attack the queen of the snow women. As they got deeper into the blizzard the group was attacked by a giant ice spider, which killed Glacia by piercing heart. This caused Celestia to go into her butterfly form, which caused the ice fog to dissipate around her and the snow women queen, leading to a private confrontation. Celestia was

     almost defeated when her wings froze and shattered but was saved by the long forgotten nearly 200 year old dragonettes, which were acquired by her great-great-great-great-great grandmother Queen Asteria Butterfly, who with their flames melted everything that was made of ice. As the battle went on the Snow Women Queen realized she had lost and retreaded with her survivors. Before leaving Mewni the Snow Women Queen announced that Celestia was responsible for the attacks and the snow. The Snow Women left, however without taking the snow with them. Though the victory was not celebrated. There were great losses, half the Butterfly Army. 3 of the 8 dragonettes, and countless peasants. This would become known as the Battle of the Snow Women. The Queen reported in her journal “from the servants to the knights, from the peasants to the Mewnisters, all maintain an angry silence and a judgmental gaze upon me.” The only voices she heard were of her father, husband, and Glossaryck. In an attempt to reduce the deaths of the peasants, Celestia redirected the waters of a nearby hot spring to flow under the soil of the Queendom. This resulted in a slight decrease of cold deaths and a slight increase of agricultural production during 416 and 419 A.M.. Also 419 A.M. Celestia discovered she was pregnant, and for the first time in a long time The Queen believed things were finally working on her side. However the water she redirected had been heating the castle prior and since now there was no heat in the castle the dragonettes died, along with her great aunt Minguanta Butterfly and her father Clovad. Celestia had been hit by such a strong depression Jasper feared for her life. Thanks to his efforts to make the queen smile, nothing happened. 420 A.M. Celestia gave birth to her daughter Meteora Butterfly, curiously on the day that was supposed to be the spring equinox. Motherhood wasn’t even enough to make The Queen happy or smile. King Jasper named a court jester, or a

     foolduke, something that had disappeared long ago with the death of princess Jokinna Butterfly. Later a mime and songwriter and singer would join the jester but nothing would work. 423 A.M. Celesita got an unpleasant visit from Lady Price, Lady Fox and Lady Bell, the leaders of the three houses, House Bell, House Fox, and House Price, Helia assigned to take care of the rebuilding of the Queendom. They came to claim the financial aid from the crown to help maintain the villages they were responsible for. It was at this moment that Celesita showed to be weak and indecisive in any type conflict problem. To give an idea, she would have laughed at a clear insult to her. The three houses, took advantage of Celesita’s state, asking for loans from the crown and not repaying them. When the information that Celestia caused the winter and that the Queen didn’t enforce debts spread across the continent, many kings and queens came requesting loans, which were declined when Jasper found out a year later. However such bad habits returned a year later when The Queen heard rumors about Jasper having extramarital affairs. She sank into an emotional well whose walls were made of slick bricks, crying whenever she was alone and starting arguments Jasper never knew the reasons for. 429 A.M. Queen Celestia was visited by her old friend Olaf who was now King of the Frost Kingdom. Such a visit wasn’t particularly welcome, especially when the visit occurred when Jasper was off on a hunt, which fueled rumors of an affair between the King Frost and the Queen Butterfly. Jasper didn’t know about the visit and he returned on the last day Olaf was there. It was then their marriage became an ice pact. However that didn’t stop Celestia’s suffering 430 A.M. when Jasper went missing. He had gone out to retrieve a doll Meteora had left while ice skating. After a day with no news Celesita sent a search party. The news had come at dusk. Jasper had been found dead near the lake near the bodies of three monsters called bearicorns with injuries to their claws. This loss struck Celestia extremely hard, icicles formed at the top of her room which she reported she wished would fall and pierce her heart. The only reason The Queen didn’t end it all was Meteora’s cry and the need to be there for her daughter. Finally 434 A.M. Celestia passed down the wand to her daughter. Celestia wanted to pass down the wand to her daughter extremely badly since she had rarely used magic since her winter spell all those years ago. When her daughter grabbed the wand, it gave off a loud ring. The sound caused a silence and a strangeness at the moment. Then came something that hadn't been seen in many years, a ray of sunshine came through a window of the throne room, leaving a gasp from the crowd and The Queen fell to her knees and wept., this time in joy and relief. The Long Winter

     was finally over. Despite this the scar left on Celestia proved to be eternal. Everyday upon waking she would check from her window to see if the world was covered with snow. Every night she would go to sleep in fear of what she would find when she woke up, and had a lot of sleepless nights. Whenever the weather began to cool, Celestia started to plan, claiming the winter would be returned. It was thus during all the days, for the remainder of her life. 441 A.M. Celestia died while holding her daughter's hand as a result of tuberculosis, thus ending her reign at the age of 47 and after 30 years as queen, making her the longest reigning queen thus far. The Queen of Winter was buried in the crypts of the castle next to her mother Helia.

### Trivia

* Her and Jasper's ratings were
	+ Romantisitcm- 2/5
	+ Companionship- 2/5
	+ Sensualtiy- 2/5

* Celestia developed a hate for Ida Horsewood, who mistreated her due to the jealousy to see her betrothed, Olaf, getting along with her.
* She had her first kiss with Olaf, after losing a bet in a Tourney in 407. According to her, he tasted like carrot.
* Celestia could write and speak Frostish, Fahrmish, and Florentine.
* Celestia sometimes believe that the Long Winter was a punishment from Goddess for being named after Her.
* St. Celestia's Day is celebrated as the start of winter or the winter solstace