Festivia Butterfly

Her Majesty, Queen Festivia Rowanna, Head of House Butterfly, Queen of the Mewmans, Lady Sovereign of the Butterfly Queendom and the Groundlands, and Guardian of the Realm

### Family

Febe Butterfly (Mother)
Rowan Forest (Father)

Quartz Stone (Husband)

### Loyalty

Butterfly Queendom

*"With the threat of rebellion at the gate*

*has darkened out the sun,*

*let the Queendom find some peace and joy*

*in Festivia the Fun."*

Festivia Butterfly was the 9th Queen of the Butterfly Queendom. She is best known for providing the Butterfly Queendom with fun during a time of war. She also is known for establishing a network of roads between the kingdoms which diversified agriculture.

### Early Life

Festivia Rowanna Butterfly was born 176 years after Mewnipendence to the Queen Febe Butterfly and King Consort Rowan Forest, on a clear night, thus making her a night queen. She possessed purple hair inherited from her paternal grandfather, a member of house firefly and green eyes from her father. She also had purple curved diamonds on her cheeks. The early childhood of Festivia was difficult due to the Butterfly Queendom being engaged in its first war since Mewnipendence. She also had to grow up without the presence of her father, Rowan, who was killed months earlier. Due to her mother refusing to join the battlefield and focusing on Festivia’s upbringing, she lived a worry free childhood being unaware of what was happening outside the castle walls. Festivia’s most striking feature was her jovial personality, entertaining her mother with jokes, songs, imitation, making her laugh in her times of difficulty and sadness, which the queen had a lot. 182 years after Mewnipendence, Festivia’s life underwent a drastic change. With the takeover of the Watchtower Forest by the Mud Dwellers which led to the escalation of the war. Fearing for daughters safety Queen Febe sent her to the Silvan Kingdom along with Lord Stone's son Quartz, a boy with ginger hair and pink eyes. The carriage left Butterfly Queendom when Festivia was 6 and after 22 days of travel where Quartz and Festivia spoke nothing to each other,

   they arrived at the Silvan Castle, where they were greeted by King Silvan. The cultural shock to Festivia was great. The architecture, the clothing, the food, everything was different, and instead of corn they had many varieties of grapes. The early days of her being there were hard. In addition to the cultural difference, she also had no friends other than the heir to the Silvan throne, princess Silena. Not even Quartz Stone, who had a strange revulsion to her. But none of that took away the princess’s cheerful and jovial personality. Her ease in making others laugh and smile made King Silvan decide to put her to learn with the great masters of the performing arts of the kingdom. At the age of 8, Festivia already excelled in the arts of music, poetry, singing and theater. Another trait that started to develop during this time was her height which was far greater than any other girl her age. Quartz reached only to her chin. She also started to adopt the Silvan way of dressing. It was from this change that another occurred, Quartz said the first word of “hello” to her, being the first thing he had ever said to her. Festivia’s and Quartz’s relationship was curious. In her diary the princess says “a boy apparently very shy and of few words.” When they were 9 Festivia noted that he even started saying good morning, good afternoon, good night and even sometimes, thank you and you’re welcome. When they were ten Festivia’s friend, Princess Silena told her that Quartz confessed to a cousin of hers that he thought Festivia was “very attractive but he's too afraid to talk to her and she found him to be an idiot.”knowing this Festivia decided to approach Quartz. She had no intentions but to create a friendship and help him overcome his shyness. 187 years after Mewnipendence, Festivia was helping harvest Grapepepper, a grape typical in the Silvan Kingdom which was known for being extremely spicy. It's reported that the juice accidentally stuck Festivia’s eyes. She cried for hours and fainted twice due to the pain. She woke up the next day with bandaged eyes. Thankfully her vision was not compromised. Although her eyes turned from green to a dark purple. The Silvan family didn’t inform the Butterfly family of what happened. 188 years after Mewnipendence Febe informed her daughter of the end of the First Mud Dweller Rebellion, and thus her right to return home. Festivia and Quartz left the kingdom the same night, taking much of the kingdom's culture with them. The arrival of the princess was discreet, arriving in the middle of the night, Febe left bed to greet her daughter's emotional arrival, who she had not seen for six years.

    The princess had changed much in those years. Her hair had grown, her clothes were very different and not conventional for the Butterfly Queendom, and at 12 she was almost as tall as her mother. No detail went unnoticed by the queen including her now purple eyes. The princess told her about the accident but her mother assured her she was as beautiful as ever. However it was possible to see a hint of disappointment in Febe’s eyes, Festivia’s eyes were her father, Rowans, and now they were gone. Since her return Festivia accompanied her mother to all the Mewnistry meetings where her relaxing presence was very welcomed. 190 years after Mewnipendence Festivia inherited the Royal Magic Wand. The wand passing ceremony was not at all modest. Regarding her magic abilities she was very creative with her magic and had great potential. She created such spells as “rubber sparkle bounce house” and “ foaming twinkle bubble ripple.” 191 years after Mewnipendence was a very eventful year of Festivia’s life. Early in the year she started a relationship with Trojan Fields, a member of house fields. With that being public knowledge Quartz moved away from her. Festivia noticed and understood this as being confirmation he still had a crush on her. In the same week she overheard a conversation between Quartz’s father, Lord Stone and his brothers and her mother the queen. All she heard was “i can’t make choices for her.'' After three months she decided to re-approach Quartz but she discovered he was in a relationship with Petunia Flowers. She responded in an odd way, she just turned around and smiled but then fled to her room in tears. After that day she came to believe she saw him as more than just a friend. She tried to engage more seriously with her relationship with Trojan Fields, however it didn’t last long and ended later that year. A year later she was able to regain her friendship with Quartz but respected his relationship with Petunia. Festivia decided to wait, her wait however was two years long. 194 years after Mewnipendence Quartz and Petunia ended amicably. A year later Quartz and Festivia would finally enter a relationship and a year after that they were engaged. They were married 197 years after Mewnipendence, in typical Silvan fashion it was one of the largest weddings in the history of the Queendom.

### Reign as Queen

The wedding was followed by the coronation, Festivia was crowned at the age of 16 making her the youngest queen so far and she was the ninth Queen of the Butterfly Queendom. Later at the party Febe confessed that Lord Stone asked for Festivia’s hand in marriage to Quartz. Believing she could not force her, Febe at least allowed Quartz to accompany her on her trip to the Silvan kingdom hoping a relationship would naturally occur. They both laughed at this, saying it took long enough. The early years of Festivia’s reign were turbulent. 6 years into her reign, 198 years after Mewnipendence, the Second Mud Dweller Rebellion broke out. Like her mother Festivia did not lead the war and left it in charge to her King Quartz and the noble lords due to her unpreparedness to lead an

    army. This left her uneasy as she felt useless, especially when she looked out of the castle and saw the people apprehensive as the war raged on. The situation became worse a year later when Quartz was wounded in battle. Feeling extremely guilty for not being there to protect him, Festivia took care of him personally. She used her jokes to cheer him up. “You make me laugh even when I almost die.” With Quartz’s words an idea went into the queens head. From that day on she would go out of the castle every morning to go to every house on every street of the Queendom to put a pause to the citizens misfortune. Seeing the effect this had finally made her feel useful. She

    also invested in bards, artists, puppeteers, mimes and all other sources of entertainment to go around the streets of the Queendom. This gave her the name Festivia the fun. Not even the fire of the Firefly Library and the destruction of over 20,000 books and historical records 200 years after Mewnipendence shot down her spirit. As the citizens mourned the loss of their cultural and educational center, Festivia engaged more in her duty. The end of the Second Mud Dweller Rebellion came 203 years after Mewnipendence after 5 years of conflict when Sir Godric Flowers killed King Filth of the Mud Dwellers in combat. The people of the Queendom celebrated long into the night, but Festivia celebrated most was the news she was pregnant. With the end of the war Festivia could focus heavily on her follow up government. She invested in the reconstruction of the Firefly Library. The agriculture of the Queendom had greatly been impacted by the war leading to Festivia to make a deal with other kingdoms to bring crops to her Queendom. From the Clifford Kingdom was seafood, the Coconut Kingdom was coconuts, from the Fahrmann Kingdom was fruits and grains, and from her beloved Silvan Kingdom came grapes and drinks. To facilitate the transport of these goods, she had the Queensroad constructed, a network of paths that connected the neighboring kingdoms to the Butterfly Queendom. All of this was done in a 6-month time span due to Festivia’s childbirth which would leave her temporarily unavailable. 208 years after Mewnipendence she gave birth to her heir, when she looked outside the window Festivia saw that it was almost dawn but not quite. This would make her daughter a star queen, an occurrence that had not happened for more than 150 years with the birth of Estelaria Butterfly, She named her daughter Asteria Butterfly or daughter of stars in Low Mewnian. 207 years after Mewnipendence she lost her mother Febe, a death that impacted her greatly. She now started to drink Silvan wine, known for not being the weakest. On Festivia’s 34 birthday she gave birth to her son Harvest, named after the festival that was happening that night. He was a boy of purple hair and green eyes like his mother. Two years later she gave birth to her second daughter Hope, a girl with purple hair and pink eyes who had pink jars on her cheeks. Festivia would pass the crown to her daughter due to Asteria’s unexpected pregnancy, Festiva was 44 and after 23 years as queen.

### Post Queenhood

Festivia would live to see her granddaughter Etheria Butterfly born seven months later. However, due to an unknown illness, Festiva was no longer able to have children. This news changed Festivia drastically, who now took a greater interest in Silvan wine. Festiva would live to see her granddaughter inherit the wand. 235 years after Mewnipendence, on the eve before Etheria’s song day, Festiva passed away from a heart attack caused by years of alcoholism, she was 59 and was buried in the crypts of the castle.

Festivia in the Silvan KingdomFestivia during her coronation

### Trivia

* Her and Quartz's ratings were
	+ Romanticism- 3/5
	+ Companionship- 4/5
	+ Sensuality 3/5

* Festivia's Silvan influenced the accent of the Mewnian spoken in the Butterfly Queendom, especially through her songs and plays (even though her accent was the subject of jokes and mockery at the beginning)
* She was graceful while singing and dancing, but clumsy in her day-to-day life
* She stepped on grapes to relax whenever she was annoyed
* Festivia had sweat issues
* Grappeppers and all their derivatives were banned during her reign
* St. Festivia's Day is celebrated as the start of fall or the fall equinox