Cosmic

Important Story Notes

Hello Wattpaddians (Wattpadders? What's the offical name for Wattpad users?) and welcome to Cosmic. This story is inspired by and based on the Star Darlings franchise and crossposted from my account on Ao3. I loved the webseries and I ordered the books and read all twelve of them in just three days. While watching the webseries, reading the wiki and the TvTropes page (I may be a little obsessed), I thought why not make a story about it but add princesses? Which is how this story was conceptualized.

Cosmic uses the terminology from the books, follows the plot very loosely and the characters are inspired by (even have the same color scheme as) the Star Darlings. It'll be obvious which princess is supposed to be who based on their appearance, personality and special power.

In Cosmic, Starland is a planet called Vis (Wish in Latin or at least Google translate says it is). It still can be mistaken for a star. Earth and Vis also still have their symbiotic relationship as well as Vis still running on wish energy as well as wish energy still existing. Visians also have the same physiology and powers and tech as Starlings as well.

Vis has several kingdoms with active monarchies (kinda like the UK and other modern day monarchies in the real world) in addition to regular cities and countries (again, like modern day countries with monarchies). Which means that, yes, Starland City and the other cities still exist. Starling Academy and Star Preparatory are still schools in this setting as well. The fauna and flora from the series also exist as well.

Lady Cordial/Rancora is still the bad guy (she of course goes by a different name in this story).

And yes, the band still exists. Love the songs.

Now to get to the differences. Unlike in the books, Vis has already been taken over. The girls were sent to Earth (against their will, I might add) to protect them and were taken in by a host family. By the start of this story, it's been a year since then and the Rancora character has sent monsters made of negative wish energy to find the princesses and bring them in. The girls find out that the Rancora character will just continue to attack Earth with negative wish energy monsters until she's captured them and realise that they need to collect positive wish energy to defeat her and maybe take back their home as well. I also wanted to give Vis its own mythology and religions as well (I am a sucker for mythology). The princesses in addition to the special powers they develop on Earth, also have powers connected to space (such as blackholes, cosmic rays, supernovas). That will be explained later on in the story as well as Vis's lore in general.

Cosmic is also split into two parts. Part one takes place on Earth and loosely adapts the first eleven books (discarding some elements of course because of the change of setting) and part of the twelfth book. Part two will take place on Vis and deal with the girls trying figure out how to dethrone Lady Adira and take back their home as well as loosely adapting Good Wish Gone Bad, Stealing Starlight and the last part of the twelfth book.

Also, HUGE credit to my friend, violxtfaerie for helping me out with this story and develop ideas for it. Check out her stories, they're awesome!

I hope you all enjoy!!!