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Castiel/Dean Winchester (Supernatural) vs Suletta Mercury/Mirorine Rembran (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury)

Castiel/Dean

Suletta/Mirione

Voting ended onMay 20, 2024

This poll is a celebration of fandom and fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.

[bassiter]

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okay i tried slowing down the cantina song to make it sad but instead it sounds like something that would be playing in the black lodge

[wolveria]

OP: “okay, let’s make it sad!” *accidentally opens a portal to the universe of Grim Fandango*

[cryptid-prrrince]

This is what you hear when you come into my room and I’m dissociating

[argumate]

you made it sexy

[cargopantsman]

I knew the kid was trouble as soon as he walked in. The old man didn’t give me any warm fuzzies neither. Sure, I needed the job, but I had a bad feeling about it.

[teashoesandhair]

Noir Wars…

[uncrasimaticbore]

Star Noirs?

[pukicho]

God I wish there was a wasteland I could banish people to.

[uncrasimaticbore]

So Australia?

[sj0]

you have been visited by the seven magic dragon balls your biggest wish will be granted but only if you reblog

[hersheyhipster]

Couldn’t risk it.

[justjengie]

didn’t realize they change colors. now I know o gotta wish.

[pinayputa]

THIS SHIT IS REAL I GOT THE JOB I WAS NUTS ABOUT BC I REBLOGGED THIS YESTERDAY maybe it’s a coinkidink but it okay just take the necessary steps to achieve what you’re wishing for and YOU CAN DO IT

[caridwenangetueur]

Total bs but why not I like it when it changes colors

[chxrryaki]

Mmmm

[mcdolans]

ha?

every single person who reblogs this

every

single

person

will get “doot doot” in their ask box

[semememes-blog]

HOW

[lexiwestiiee]

I WANT TO KNOW YOUR SECRET

[takemewherethewildthingsare]

SERIOUSLY THOUGH WHAT ARE YOU

[clariphonete-deactivated2014111]

I GOT THIS AND I WAS LIKE WHAT THE FUCK

[wrappingpaper]

there are over 128,000 notes and i still got one

how

[bbassam-deactivated20151227]

i reblogged this less than 2 minutes ago

how the actual fuck

[iamsensitive]

well

do not question

[too-hilarious]

I want a doot doot

[badlydrawnoldmanspeedy-blog]

I’m gonna doot doot

[thats-spoopy]

I’m skeptical…

[thats-spoopy]

NO FUCKIN WAY!!!

[zeestudies-deactivated20190617]

i want to believe 

[ghiblistudyy]

BELIEVE

[shelovestheshadows]

hm

[wackybutton]

[aconfusedwriter]

I want a doot doot too…

[shankss-magnificent-ass]

Doot doot do it

[quietbugfriend-deactivated20201]

No doot doot:<

[nocturne-reverie]

can i get a doot doot for good luck?

[kermitlemon]

if megatron falls in the forest and no one’s around to hear it, does starscream still declare himself the new leader of the decepticons?

[dyketm]

PLEASE tell me I wasn’t the only one that for the longest time when I was little thought the “D” in Disney was some weird backwards G thing. 

[justacupcakewithablog]

I thought everyone though that!

[batchedarchive-deactivated20150]

#GISNEP

[hoshikira]

yes

[wizardofsnacks-deactivated20240]

THANK YOU

[uncrasimaticbore]

I always thought it was a weird lowercase d.

[moonarchy]

ADS THAT SUDDENLY TAKE UP THE WHOLE PAGE

[moonarchy]

ADS THAT SUDDENLY TAKE UP THE WHOLE PAGE AND PLAY MUSIC

[dip-dop-pines-deactivated201603]

What about ads that play music, but you can’t find them anywhere on the page?

[moonarchy]

[thegamerinallofus]

Still hearing the ads music after you close the page

[elfzelda]

having adblock

[silver-tongues-blog]

Sites that forbid adblock

[running-in-blind]

When ads pop up even when Adblock is enabled

[cosmic-noir]

When porn ads pop up unexpectedly

[vampire-crimson]

this post gets better everytime i see it

[satanicedition-blog]

When you try get rid of the add really fast but accidentally click on the link that sends you to seventy different pages before you can go back.

[cipheral]

THIS POST KEEPS GETTING BETTER

[satanicedition-blog]

When the ad shows something you’re actually interested in.

[randomfanposter]

When you have to wait to skip the ad

[shitadriensays-blog]

When the ad is about abused/animals needing homes

[doublerainbowcosplay-blog]

@extraordinaquari

[nearsightedgirl]

I dub this post “The Legend of Advertisements”! 

[balance-is-here-deactivated2016]

when you get rid of the add but it keeps coming back.

[dsmaster7173]

It got better.

[askchibirainbowgate-deactivated]

Making it my goal to reblog this once every day lol

[midnight-mocha-is-vibin]

When you get so many ads at once that the site you’re on crashes and you have to reload the page.

[vanilliteparfait-deactivated201]

When an ad plays awesome music

[spaceslushie]

reblogging again because its back and better than ever.

[bright-the-wolf]

When the add says you can skip it but it doesn’t let you skip

[boobiemom]

When the ad shows you something you’re interested in, you click it, and it opens two tabs with one being a clear phishing scam and the other for some fuck app

[roberto-small-blog]

When the same ad has played so many times that you can recite it word for word in time

[vapid-but-not-vacant-deactivate]

What about the ad that says you can skip after 5 seconds but that’s the same time the ad ends?

[chinesevase]

^^^^^^

[moonarchy]

ADS THAT SUDDENLY TAKE UP THE WHOLE PAGE

[moonarchy]

ADS THAT SUDDENLY TAKE UP THE WHOLE PAGE AND PLAY MUSIC

[dip-dop-pines-deactivated201603]

What about ads that play music, but you can’t find them anywhere on the page?

[moonarchy]

[thegamerinallofus]

Still hearing the ads music after you close the page

[elfzelda]

having adblock

[silver-tongues-blog]

Sites that forbid adblock

[running-in-blind]

When ads pop up even when Adblock is enabled

[cosmic-noir]

When porn ads pop up unexpectedly

[vampire-crimson]

this post gets better everytime i see it

[satanicedition-blog]

When you try get rid of the add really fast but accidentally click on the link that sends you to seventy different pages before you can go back.

[cipheral]

THIS POST KEEPS GETTING BETTER

[satanicedition-blog]

When the ad shows something you’re actually interested in.

[randomfanposter]

When you have to wait to skip the ad

[shitadriensays-blog]

When the ad is about abused/animals needing homes

[doublerainbowcosplay-blog]

@extraordinaquari

[nearsightedgirl]

I dub this post “The Legend of Advertisements”! 

[balance-is-here-deactivated2016]

when you get rid of the add but it keeps coming back.

[dsmaster7173]

It got better.

[askchibirainbowgate-deactivated]

Making it my goal to reblog this once every day lol

[midnight-mocha-is-vibin]

When you get so many ads at once that the site you’re on crashes and you have to reload the page.

[vanilliteparfait-deactivated201]

When an ad plays awesome music

[spaceslushie]

reblogging again because its back and better than ever.

[bright-the-wolf]

When the add says you can skip it but it doesn’t let you skip

[boobiemom]

When the ad shows you something you’re interested in, you click it, and it opens two tabs with one being a clear phishing scam and the other for some fuck app

[roberto-small-blog]

When the same ad has played so many times that you can recite it word for word in time

[vapid-but-not-vacant-deactivate]

What about the ad that says you can skip after 5 seconds but that’s the same time the ad ends?

[chinesevase]

^^^^^^

[uncrasimaticbore]

Wholesome Week 2 Day 4: (WOT IS) Game Night(?!?!)

Marco grabbed his controller and turned on his Xbox. Star sat down next to him almost at the edge of her seat, gripping her controller with excitement. “So what’re we gonna play tonight, Marco? One of those shooting games? Ooh, or Mortal Kombat?”

Marco shook his head, “Nah, tonight we’re gonna play a little game called Minecraft.”

Star frowned and crossed her arms. “Sounds boring.”

“Quite the contrary. In this game you can basically do whatever you want. You can build cities, explore dungeons, fight monsters, the list goes on.”

“Fight monsters? Sign me up!”

“Well, we’re not doing that tonight. Apparently Janna made some challenge that, according to her, is the ultimate test in human endurance. I’m guessing it’s some kind of parkour course.”

“Sounds fun.” They put on their headsets while they waited for the game.

As soon as the game was loaded, they received a party invite from “BaJanna413″. They checked the party roster and it included “SurferGal95″, “GlowingBark505″, and  Xx_Dark_x_Assass1n_xX, along with their OhaiMarc0 and OG Delirious. While Marco knew that OG stood for Oskar Greeson, he warned Star that other people might think the wrong thing about her gamertag. “So who do we have here.” Marco asked.

GlowingBark505 sighed and spoke sheepishly. “This is Tom.”

Marco laughed a bit, “Then who’s Dark Assassin?”

A very proper voice came on. “That would be me.”

Star was shocked. “MOM?!”

“Hello, Star.”

“What’re you doing here?”

“Well, I have the castle to myself for the evening and this Janna girl invited me to join you in this ‘Game Night.’“

Jackie interrupted, screaming in a fake British accent, “WOT IS GAME NOIGH’?!?!”

“...Well, anyways I thought, ‘What a splendid opportunity to meet my daughter’s friends.’ So here I am.”

Janna chimed in. “I thought I was your dad, but your mom was using profile.”

Jackie coughed. “Guys, I think I lost my voice,” she said faintly.

“At least you can’t imitate me anymore,” Moon said.

“I wasn’t...”

“Who cares,” Star said. “Let’s just get this challenge started!”

Star and Marco joined the game and found Janna and the others as soon as they were in and examined their skins. Janna looked like the Master Chief from Halo. Tom was a Creeper. Fitting. Marco thought. Moon was Scottish Steve, which was obviously her husband’s choice. Jackie was some kind of biker no one recognized. “It’s from this game called Trials.” Star was Banjo Kazooie, which she’d never played before, but thought the bear looked cute, and Marco was Tuxedo Steve. “I like to think I’m actually Tuxedo Mask like from Sailor Moon.”

“Alright. Gather ‘round everyone Tom and I made a challenge for all of you, but first we need to get there by walking. We’ll lead the way so try not to get lost.”

They walked for a several minutes. Marco picked up roses at every opportunity and everyone starting to place bets as to how much longer Jackie had left to live.

“Guys, I feel fine,” Jackie said.

Tom laughed. “Y’know that’s gonna be on your tombstone now.”

“Jackie Lynn Thomas: She felt fine.” Janna added.

Around that time, they reached a small plateau and Janna started making stairs up it. “Follow me up here, and we’re there.”

On top there was large flat area with a large black square all the way around, along with several small rectangles along the outside that were 3x4 blocks all bordered around by black wool. Most had a colored row, depending on where on the square it was. As soon as everyone was up, Janna and Tom headed for one of the corners and called everyone over. Star and Marco wandered around, confused. Marco looked at one of the rectangles and it immediately hit him.

"You got to be kidding me.”

“What’s wrong Marco?” Star asked.

“Oh my goodness.”

“What is this, Marco?”

Marco let out a defeated sigh. “This is Monopoly.”

“Aw no!” Jackie tried to yell as Janna and Tom burst out laughing.

“Well, I’m just gonna leave the game now,” Marco said.

“Don’t you dare Diaz! We’re in this together,” Jackie said menacingly.

Star was so confused. “Is this that game that you were telling me about that never ends.”

“Yep.”

As soon as he collected himself Tom spoke, “Honestly, we probably spent hours on this just for that reaction.”

“Get comfortable guys and gals,” Janna said. “ ‘Cause it’s gonna be a long night.”

[gotinstarblog-deactivated201512]

[half-black-phillip]

I’m so mad because this worked

[britney2007spears]

help me roger

[telanu]

Reblogging myself because

Originally posted by gifs-for-the-masses

[luthienebonyx]

Reblogging myself because… what was that? Five minutes?

O_O

[riskpig]

………my friend has made me curious

[maryburgers]

help me roger

[maryburgers]

Update: after I reblogged this someone messaged me offering me tickets to the sold out Hausu screening with a Q&A and autograph session with the director

[hermes-whore-deactivated2019021]

let’s do it, roger

[spitefulreality-deactivated2015]

Roger helppppp

[curvycorinneranga]

I need you Roger!

[thaebae]

ROGER PLEASE

[admin-chan]

Let’s go roger

[themadvigilantist]

[hotvampireadjacent]

this guys name is snart???

[henstomper]

[munchroome]

Oh my god. We’ve found him. We’ve finally found Snart.

[uncrasimaticbore]

I though he was the kid in the mailroom. The one with the B.O.

[inritum]

reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

[ghostdog07]

OH MY FUCKING GOD, IT’S BACK ON MY DASH.

THIS SHIT WORKS OKAY, I AM DEAD SERIOUS.

The last time I saw this on my dash, I didn’t think it would happen, so jokingly I wished I could go to a fun. concert.

AND GUESS WHAT, I WENT TO A FUCKING FUN. CONCERT.

THIS SHIT WORKS, TRY IT.

[deathklaue]

YOOOOOOO

I SAW THIS ON MY DASH THE OTHER DAY AND THOUGHT “ITS WORTH A TRY” SO I WISHED I COULD GET A 3DS

LITERALLY LIKE 4 DAYS LATER MY DAD SENT ME A PICTURE OF THE 3DS XL HE BOUGHT FOR ME WHILE I WAS AT SCHOOL

IM STILL FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS

[doryishness]

holy fuck, I didn’t expect this to work, I was like psh, whatever it’s just a quick reblog, but I wished my Dad would actually respond back to me AND HE FUCKING DID A FEW DAYS LATER, I GOT A FUCKING TEXT FROM MY DAD TODAY WHO HASN’T SPOKEN OR RESPONDED TO ME IN MONTHS HOLY FUCK WHAT IS THIS MAGIC IT WORKS. 

[victoriaringsinyourears]

I WANTED TO SEE MY BOYFRIEND AND I DIDN’T THINK I’D GET DAYS OFF BUT THIS WEEKEND I’M HEADING UP THERE??? THIS IS CRAZY SHIT 

[lenshade]

SO LIKE I JOKINGLY WISHED FOR MY OWN LEN KAGAMINE AND THEN LIKE A WEEK LATER I GOT A LEN NENDOROID??? H ELP

[themixedbagofwhat]

WTF OKAY SO THIS SHOT ACTUALLY WORKS BECAUSE WHEN I WISHED, I HAD WISHED MY CRUSH WOULD LIKE ME BACK AND GUESS WHAT? I HAVE A BOYFRIEND NOW. WHAT THE HELLLLL?????

[wodkat]

ok I’ve said this before but IM DOING IT AGAIN THE FIRST TIME I SAW THIS, MY WISH DID COME TRUE SO I REBLOGED AGAIN AND SAID IT IN THE TAGS BUT THEN I WISHED FOR SMTH ELSE AND IT LITERALLY LITERALLY HAPPENED LIKE A COUPLE DAYS LATER WHAT THE HELL SO NOW IM WRITING THIS HERE FOR YOU BC I DONT BELIEVE IN THIS CRAP BUT STILL IT’S AN AWFULLY BIG COINCIDENCE

[acstiel]

THE BOY I FELL I LOVE WITH LEFT TO TRAVEL THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD AND HAS BEEN GONE NOW FOR 3 MONTHS. WE HAVENT SPOKEN SINCE BECAUSE I DIDNT WANT TO MAKE HIM FEEL TRAPPED TO ME AND NOT ENJOY HIS TIME SO I WAITED FOR HIM TO CONTACT ME FIRST. I SAW THIS ON A PARTICULARLY LOW DAY WHEN I WAS MISSING HIM SO MUCH I CRIED FROM THE PAIN, GUYS I REALLY LOVE HIM, SO I THOUGHT MEH WHAT THE FUCK, AND WISHED HE WOULD JUST LET ME KNOW HE WAS OKAY.

GUYS.

HE FUCKING CALLED ME 20 MINUTES LATER

20 FUCKNG. MINUTES. LATER.

GOOD THINGS DO HAPPEN. AND ITS IN THIS POST.

[juststrokemyglabella]

I wish for someone to leave something in my ask.

[adweeb-deactivated20160228]

OKAY SO I ASKED FOR A HEDGEHOG AND NOW GUESS WHO HAS A PET HEDGEHOG

[vermillionkill-deactivated20230]

worth a shot huh

[goldimagines]

Might not work for me but, worth a shot

[uncrasimaticbore]

This is why I shouldn't be allowed to have free time

[uncrasimaticbore]

StarStuck (Starco Week 3, Day 7: AU of choice: Homestuck)

(A/N: Sorry this is late, I’ve been busy so I really haven’t had lot of time to work on this, but I do have some of the characters’ details figured out)

Marco Diaz,

chumHandle: simpleRedbelt

Strife Specibus: Fistkind, Scissorkind (from Hekapoo) Daggerkind, (From Hekapoo)

Planet: Land of Plains and Fighters

God tier: Knight of Void

Sprite: Jackiepoosprite (Jackie Lynn Thomas and Hekapoo)

Prospit Dreamer

Star ButterflychumHandle: riledShenanigansSS: WandkindPlanet: Land of Stars and FrogsGod Tier: Sylph of SpaceSprite Bonarycksprite (Bon Bon and Glossaryck)Prospit dreamerTom Lucitor chumHandle: arcaneTricksterSS: JokerkindPlanet: Land of Heat and MountainsGod Tier: Mage of RageSprite: Briannysprite (Brian and a stress bunny)Derse dreamerJanna OrdoniachumHandle: testedArsonistSS:Bookkind, KnifekindPlanet: Land of Tombs and DarknessGod Tier: Witch of TimeSprite: Markeatsprite (Marco voodoo doll and John Keats)Derse dreamer

[uncrasimaticbore]

Mewberty Part 2

“You mean to tell me that ‘slurch’ is not an actual word.” Star said.

    “Nope. At least not on Earth.” Marco replied as he read through More Singlets.

    “LIES!”

    “Well, ain’t isn’t a word either.

    “It ain’t?”

They laughed for a bit, but then Marco looked up and saw a little purple heart on Star’s forehead and his eyes went wide.

    “Uhh… Star, you might want to look in a mirror.”

    She pulled quickly pulled out her phone and looked at her reflection. “Oh no no no no no no no no no no.” She said quickly as more hearts covered her face. “Not again. Not again. Not again. What do we do?”

    “Relax, Star, we’ve been through this before. We just need to wait it out. We’re lucky there’s no school today.”

    Suddenly, there was a loud thud downstairs and Star squeaked jumped onto Marco. Almost instantly, a purple web substance sprayed out of Star’s fingers and stuck to the wall behind Marco. the next thing they knew, Star had Marco pinned against the wall, both of them unable to move.

    “Sorry.” Star apologized as more hearts started covering her body.

    “It’s fine, I just gotta… hold on.” Marco struggled to break free and looked up at Star, “Just, don’t get any ideas.”

    Star chuckled. “I’ll try my best.”

    “This feels like a bad fanfiction.”

    “I really hope StarFan13 isn’t watching.”

    “She probably is, you know.”

    They laughed, but quickly stopped, looked around suspiciously, and started laughing again.

    “Well, she’d be happy to see us stuck together like glue.” Star said.

    “Actually, you’re just stuck to the wall by weird web things and you accidentally have me sandwiched between you and said wall, not that she wouldn’t want to see that.”

    “She’d probably pass out in excitement.”

    “Like when you-” Marco stopped short, not wanting to bring up that night, when Star went back to Mewni and she said... But Star knew what he was talking about and her face went red then purple as more hearts covered it and fell off, making a pile that was almost up to Star’s hips and rising. Star saw what was happening and started panicking. And struggling to break free from her own web, only for more hearts to appear faster.

    “Star look at me.” Star looked up at Marco, and he could see that her normally blue pupils had become completely black and into hearts. “It’s going to be ok. Just focus on me and the sound of my voice. I’m going to try to grab the joke book and tell you some to get your mind off of this. Just trust me on this. Ok?”  The hearts pile started to grow more slowly.

    “Ok.”    Marco got his foot on the book and brought it closer and up to his hand. “Ok, ooh, how about ‘Neutron Peas: The peas that, no matter how many times they’re microwaved, they’re always cold.”

    Star laughed. And some of the hearts fell of of her, but didn’t come back.

    “It’s working. Keep going.” Star said. Marco read the book for a few more hours. After he finished, he looked at Star’s hands and saw that they were back to normal.

    “Star, it worked. You’re back to normal!” Marco said as he hugged Star.

     Star hugged him back “Oh, yeah, they changed back like an hour ago.”

    “WHAT?! Why didn’t you tell me?”

    “Because we were having an adorable moment. That, I kinda just wanted to see how long it would take you to figure it out.”

“Fair enough. So, what now?”

“Wanna go to Amethyst Arcade?”

“Sounds great.” Marco grabbed his dimensional scissors, cut open a portal, took Star’s hand, and walked through.

[uncrasimaticbore]

The Princess Comes to Earth

The Princess Comes to Earth

This is it! Star thought as she walked towards the throne room, flanked on either side by guards. It was her 14th birthday, and as per tradition, today was the day she would receive the family’s wand, a very powerful artifact. As she entered the room, the guards on either side of the aisle stood to attention her guards followed her, stopping at the bottom of the steps before the thrones of the king and queen. Star slowly walked up the steps toward her parents who were both standing in front of their thrones and smiling reassuringly toward her. Once she reached the top, her mother spoke. “Star Butterfly, do you promise to keep the wand safe from those who would use it for personal gain, as well as yourself.”

“I do,” Star replied.

“Then I, Moon Butterfly, Queen of Mewni, relinquish the wand into your care.” The queen handed her the wand and a bright light enveloped it as it changed, which didn’t phase Star at all, as she knew this would happen. After the light faded, her mother’s wand was gone, and in its place was Star’s. It was a light purple rod, topped with a sphere of the same color, though blue in the middle with wings on either side, and in the very center was a star shaped crystal. Fitting. Star thought. She turned around and held the wand high above her head and the guards all knelt before her. Her parents stood beside her and her mother spoke. “All hail, Star Butterfly. Future Queen of-”

Suddenly the doors burst opened, and a group of monsters entered the room.“Not so fast, Princess!” a voice said as a small bird-like creature emerged from the crowd, wearing a green cloak and a skull on his head almost like a crown.

    “Ludo! How did you get in here?” Queen Butterfly asked.

    “I have my ways,” Ludo smirked and turned to his forces. “NOW BRING ME THAT WAND!”

    Queen Butterfly jumped in front of her family and dropped into a fighting stance, almost reflexively reaching to grab her wand from her belt, only to find it wasn’t there. She was almost trampled until she gave a hard uppercut to the first monster, causing the others to fall down like dominoes. She turned to her husband and daughter, “Go, I’ll hold them off.”

    “Mom?”

    The king grabbed his daughter’s arm. “We need to leave.”     “But-”

    “There’s no time.” The king pulled his daughter’s arm as they fled. Star, still looking back, saw her mother flash a reassuring smile before she was dog piled by monsters.

    They kept running until they reached the king’s study and barricaded the door.

    “You’re mother should be back in about five minutes, but just in case, we need to get you out of here, at least temporarily,” the king said. He started grabbing things from his desk and threw them into a bag handed it to Star.

    “Take these.”

    “What are they?” She reached into the bag, pulled one of the objects out and examined it. It was a  small card with a picture of her on it and said in a strange language, Echo Creek Academy.

    “You’re mother and I were going to send you to a safer dimension so you could practice your magic in peace. We’ve already made all the proper arrangements and were going to send you tomorrow, but the attack expedited matters. You should have a map of the town, your school ID, and the address of where you’ll be staying. I’ve already met the family, the Diaz's  and they’re quite nice.” He grabbed his dimensional scissors cut open a portal that was a bright blue.

    “Now hurry!”

Star was about to step into the portal and looked back at her father for what could possibly be the last time. “Goodbye, dad.”

“Goodbye, Star.”

“Goodbye, Mewni.” Star sighed as she stepped through the portal.

When she was through she was outside of a large building. There was a sign in front that read, in the same language as the card, “Echo Creek Academy: Home of the Awesome Opossums” with a statue of a strange creature next to it.

“This appears to be the right place.” Star sighed and walked in.

She started wandering aimlessly around the hallways until she came across a short balding man with glasses and went up to him. “Pardon me sir, but I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of the headmaster’s office?”

The man laughed. “ That would be me, and it’s actually principal. Principal Skeeves. You must be our new exchange student. Comet, was it?”

“Star, actually.”

“Oh, sorry, I get names confused sometimes. We weren’t expecting you until tomorrow, but it’s fine. Are your parents with you, by any chance?”

“No, something came up. That’s why I came early like I did.”

“It’s okay, things happen when you're royalty. Well, Star, follow me to my office and I’ll help you get situated.”

As they walked towards the office, the bell rang and students started filling the halls. One, in a red hoodie, started spray painting something on the side of a wall.

“Marco Diaz! Come with me to my office immediately!”

Diaz?!  That meant… Star thought.

The boy let out a moan in protest. “Ffffffffffine.” He turns around and Star can see his face. He clearly hadn't shaven in a while, and had a bandage on the right side of his face. His hair was all sticking up in the front. Then Star sees his eyes. They were like pools of dark chocolate, and just as bitter, with eyeliner around them. Star didn't particularly like chocolate, especially dark, but there was something odd about this boy.

Marco turned around, caught in the act, yet again, and saw what looked like an angel. She had long soft looking blonde hair that went down to her knees, and a dress like one princesses wore. She had hearts on her cheeks for some reason, and a headband with bows in it. Then Marco saw her eyes. Bright baby blue, and just as innocent. Marco hated innocence, and princesses, and angels, and blue, for that matter, he was more into red, but there was something off about this girl.

    As they walked the all too familiar route, the girl turned to him and held out her hand.

    “I’m Star Butterfly. I’m the new exchange student.”

    Exchange student?! That meant....

    Marco scoffed. “What kind of name is that?”

    “A royal one. What kind of name is Diaz?”

    “A common one.” So she is a princess. Marco thought.

    Oh thank goodness. Star thought.

They reached the principal’s office and went inside.

“Well,” Skeeves began, “This is actually pretty convenient, I was going to have our best student show you around but, unfortunately, Mr. Greeson is home sick with food poisoning.” He glared at Marco. “So it looks like Mr. Diaz here is going to have to show you around instead.”

“What?! I did not agree to this!” Marco retorted.

“Well, once you're done you can go home, seeing as how you're now suspended for vandalism.”

“Ugh! Fine! Let's go, Your Worshipfulness.”

“It’s ’Your Highness’, thank you very much.” the princess replied as they walked out.

“And right there's the gym, where my favorite class is.” Marco said as the tour went on.

“You have a whole class period dedicated to physical activity? That's… interesting.”

“What? Are you afraid you’ll break a nail?”

“Quite the contrary, I just thought that it would make more sense for people to do so on there own time.”

    “Well, some do, some don't. I always try to get plenty of exercise, myself.” Marco said as he flexed and Star rolled her eyes and smirked.

“Is that so?”

Suddenly there was a flash of light and a strange giant moth creature appeared and let out a deafening shriek.

“Stand back, princess.” Marco said, dropping into a fighting stance ready to whoop some rear, but the creature simply flew away.

“What was that?”

“What? Are you telling me that your daily workout regiment doesn’t involve fighting monsters?” Star asked.

“But how did you…?”

“I don’t think you would understand.”

“Tell me.”

“Well, you see, I’m a magical princess from another dimension.”

“Right… And that brings us to the end of our tour. I’m going to go home now and take a nice long cold shower.” Marco turned around and took off running

Star yelled. “Pleasure to make your acquaintance, Mr. Diaz!” Some people are just so rude. She opened the bag and dug through to find the map of the town with the school and the Diaz residence circled on it. “I suppose it’s time to start walking.” And so, Star Butterfly began her journey to her new home.

Marco, instead of going home, knowing he still had a few hours until he had to, decided to hit the mall for a bit to meet up with some friends in the food court. All he had to do to find them was follow the trail of dropped french fries and disgusted girls. When he reached the end, he saw them and walked over to them. “Alfonzo! Ferguson! What’s up?”

One of them, a slightly overweight ginger looked up and smirked. “What took you so long?”

“Sorry, Ferg, I had to play tour guide due to poor old Oskar getting sick.”

“Don’t worry about it. So, you’re suspended tomorrow just like we planned, right?”

“Yeah, but I don’t think my parents will let me leave the house. Remember when we tried this last time?”

“Fair enough, I can always get someone else to do it if you’re too chicken.”

“It’s not just that, Ferg, the person I had to tour around was the new exchange student.”

“So?”

“You know my parents, they always take these kids in, so that means she’ll be settling in tomorrow. And, you’re probably going to think I’m crazy, but, she’s apparently some magic alien princess or something who fights monsters daily.”

“Y’know, you could just say you didn’t want to do it.”

“You know what, we came this far. Let’s do it tonight.” Marco looked at his watch. “Ah shoot, I gotta go. If I’m late again my parents will literally kill me.”

Ferguson handed him a small device. “This should have all you need, let’s plan for around nine?”

“Godspeed, Marco.” the other boy at the table said.

“Thanks Alfonzo.” Marco said as he ran off.

It was almost sunset when Star reached the house that matched the address on her map. It was two stories, but seemed a little small to Star. She got a feeling that she was being watched and looked around. Seeing nothing, she double checked the address, not wanting an awkward encounter, and knocked on the door. It opened with a tall burly man on the other side who looked skeptically at Star. “You know, Halloween isn’t for another couple months.”

“I’m Star Butterfly, the exchange student. Is this the Diaz residence, by any chance?”

The man smiled brightly. “Why, yes it is. Come in, come in. Make yourself at home.”

He ran over to the stairs. “Angie!” Mr. Diaz yelled. “The princess is here!”

“Already? I’ll prepare her room while you stall.” a voice yelled back.

Star made her way over to the living room and sat down on a green couch as Mr. Diaz entered and held out his hand. “Pleasure to finally meet you, Star. We weren’t planning on you arriving so soon. How are you parents?”

“They’re fine. Something came up so they couldn’t be here.”

“That’s a shame, they’re very nice people. So, you’re in our son’s class, right? He’s a little rough around the edges, but he’s a good kid. You’d be a good influence on him.”

“I don’t believe I’ve met him yet.” That doesn’t sound like the Diaz I met.

“Really? Well, he should be home soon. I hope you two become great friends.” Nevermind.

A woman came down the stairs and smiled at Star. “Hi Star. I’m Mrs. Diaz, your room’s already been prepared, but if you’d like, you can wait until Marco gets home and we can get you introduced.”

“That would be lovely, Mrs. Diaz.”

“Great!” Mrs. Diaz said as the door opened. “I think that’s him right now.” The Diaz’s went to the door to greet their son.

“Hey, mom and dad.”

“We have a little surprise for you.” Mr Diaz said.

    Marco smirked. “Really? Whatever could it be?”

    Mrs. Diaz beamed. “Well, you know how we always take in foreign exchange students.”

    Marco frowned. “You didn’t.”

    “We sure did! Come here Star.” Star got up and walked towards them. “Star, this is our son Marco. Marco, this is Star Butterfly. She’s a-

“Magical princess from another dimension,” Marco interrupted.  “Yeah, I know. I had to show her around school today.”

“Well, I’m glad you two have already met, then you can show her her room.”

Marco started up the stairs. “Let’s go, your highness.”

“Aw, you remembered. How sweet.” Star smirked as she followed Marco up the stairs.

Outside, hiding in a tree, a humanoid frog creature watched what had transpired. He chuckled to himself and pulled out a pair of dimensional scissors. He cut open a portal and stepped through to enter his master’s throne room, his throne facing away from him. He saluted his master and croaked before giving his report. “Ludo, master, I've tracked down Star Butterfly. They've hidden her in the Earth dimension. Unguarded.”

“Excellent. I knew they couldn’t hide that brat from me forever.” Ludo turned around, sitting on top of several pillows, due to not being big enough to sit in his father’s old throne. “Soon the wand shall be mine. And then, the universe. And then… Actually, I think the universe will be plenty.” He then began laughing maniacally.

“And here’s your room.” Marco said as he opened the door to the Star’s room. It was very small and had several large pieces of luggage inside and a bed.

“I think I can work with this.” Star said. She began looking through one of the suitcases and dug out a giant book and flipped through it and stopped on a page. “Here we are. SPARKLE GLITTER BOMB EXPAND!” Suddenly, the wood on the walls turned to stone and what looked like a castle tower grew out of the side of the house.

“Okay, I’m going to let you get situated. I’ll be in my room for the next couple hours. Please, if you value your life, knock.”

When Marco got to his room, he closed the door tightly, turned on his laptop, and plugged in the device Ferguson gave him. It was just about nine. Alright. Let’s do this.

After unpacking all of her things and organizing them, Star looked at the time. It was almost one in the morning. Thank goodness I don’t need to go in. She realized she was hungry and decided to go get a snack, thinking the Diaz’s wouldn’t mind. As she walked past Marco’s room, she noticed a faint glow coming from inside and heard strange noises she believed to be Marco. She knocked on the door and waited for a few seconds. She slowly opened the door and crept in. She could here him muttering while he was almost hunched over a computer, wearing headphones, and she could barely see what was on it, but as she got closer until she was right behind him, she realized what it was and quietly gasped. On the bottom of the screen, in the middle was what looked like some kind of wizard in some weird dungeon. Away from the wizard were two elves and a dwarf all swarming around a giant monster. The characters had names above the, the elves being named Lbow-Greese and Jayco, and the dwarf was Ferg-the-win. As soon as the monster died, she could hear three voices come from the headphones as Marco leaned back and accidentally elbowed her.

“YAH- Wait a minute guys.” Marco said as he took of his headphones and turned around. When he saw Star, his eyes went wide with fear, then he gave her a death glare. “Don’t tell anyone. Got it?”     Star simply laughed. “What, that the school’s biggest bad boy is actually a nerd?”

Marco’s face went red and he ran out of the room.

Star grabbed his headset and put it on. “Hello, this is Star, Marco’s new roommate. He just left. I’m going to collect his loot for him and I will be out of here shortly.”

“He’ll probably be at the convenience store down the street, north. You should go talk to him.” a girl said over the headset.

“Thank you. How do you know this?”

“Oh, I know a lot of things about Marco. The name’s Jackie, by the way.”

“Well, thank you, Jackie.” Star got the loot, logged Marco out, turned off his computer, and headed north.

Star reached a small building and, seeing Marco standing out front, approached him. Marco sighed. “Here to make fun of me?”

“Quite the contrary, actually, I’m just worried about you and so is your girlfriend.”

“Who?”

“Jackie, I thought you two were.”

“Naw, she’s just obsessed with me, and though I’m flattered, I don’t really feel the same way. She knows, and is a vital member of my guild, so I keep her around.” Star found that a relief... for some reason. Why?

“Look, I’m sorry about spying on you. I won’t tell anyone about your little secret. Promise. I just can’t leave you like this.”

“Ok, I was actually going to come back in a few minutes anyways. Thanks for… coming.” Marco stopped as he saw something behind Star. It looked like some sort of dark portal from which several monsters emerged, led by a small bird like creature with some weird skull crown.

“Ludo! How did you find me?” Star asked the creature.

“Oh, come on, Princess, we’ve already been through this. I have my ways.” Ludo turned to his henchmen. “You know the drill, boys, get me that wand.

Marco instinctively pushed Star behind him and dropped into a fighting stance. “Stand back, princess.”

“Thank you, but I can take care of myself.” Star said, standing beside Marco, getting into a fighting stance herself. This is not the same girl I met this morning. Marco thought

“I thought you said she was unguarded!” Ludo asked what looked like a giant frog.

“I did not know he was protection.” the frog replied.

The monsters all charged. Marco and Star looked at each other and Star could have sworn she saw Marco give her an actual smile, not a smirk. They looked at the oncoming monsters and took them on.

    After an intense battle, thanks to Marco’s boxing skills and Star’s magic, the monsters and narwhals were strewn about the parking lot. Star walked up to Ludo, who was somehow unscathed by the fight and smirked at him, tossing her wand in her hands. “Did you really think that would work?”

Ludo sighed, “It almost did.” He pulled out a pair of dimensional scissors to open a portal and called out to his cronies, “Come on boys, let’s go home.” All of the monsters got up and started walking towards the portal. “This is what happens when you don’t work out!” Ludo complained. “You’re muscles turn to jelly!” The last to enter before Ludo was the giant frog who was still hallucinating, thanks to one of Star’s spells. Ludo then entered the portal, poking his head out. “I’ll get you next time Star Butterfly! Mark my words, I will have my reven-” Ludo was cut off due to the portal closing around his throat, but he eventually squeezed his head through to the other side.

“That was awesome!” Marco shouted and went up and hugged Star. “I was awesome! You were...” Marco stopped himself and backed away, blushing. “You were okay, I guess.”

Star smiled at him. “We do make a fairly formidable team. I suppose I wouldn’t mind having you around.”

Marco smiled back. “Let’s go home then. I make some mean nachos.”

“I’ve never had those before. I suppose it’s time to try some earth cuisine.”

The two laughed and headed home.