Night Star S1

S1 E1: Morning with a Cup of Death

Night Star S1 Ep 1: Morning with a Cup of Death

A school's professor is standing in front of a microphone, addressing a large audience. The entire audience is silent as the school principal, dressed in a formal suit, reads the final name from a list of papers.

Principal: We're finally nearing the end, folks. And as this is our best student this year, graduating as a hero from the Dark Sector, please give a round of applause for Astria Chavez-Khan!

The audience remains silent. Not a single applaud is heard. The professor frowns, and steps to the side as a nervous girl with medium cropped brown hair pulled in a ponytail walks up onto the stage. Astria taps the microphone, and feedback whines. Everyone, including Astria, winces.

Astria opens her mouth to speak, and the screen quickly freezes, turning with a monotone grayscale that is frizzled like an interfered signal, and the sound of a record scratching can be heard.

Astria (questioning, off-screen): Hold up, you're starting there? Graduation, of all places? Why not start at the beginning? You know, waaaaay back before it all started? Let's go with... when I was born.

The screen unfreezes with a rewind sound to reveal a medium sized house painted a light blue, with unrealistically green grass and a redwood tree out front that is accompanied by a tire swing.

Astria (off-screen): I was born in a completely different universe than this one. In one of those stereotypical movie houses, you know? You're probably asking from wherever you are in your miserable life: But Astria! Kamala and America aren't a canon relationship to the MCU. And there's only one America in the multiverse! How do you exist?

As she is saying this, the screen pauses again. Then, as she begins to speak again, the screen slowly fades to a blue web-like nexus with white stars gleaming brightly.

Astria (off-screen): Well, my friends, I suppose I must explain the multiversal theory. America Chavez of the MCU is not my mom. Kamala Khan of the MCU, or any universes close to it, is not my mother. There's more than one multiverse, too. The connective nexus of expanding multiverses is called the Multivi, with a capital 'm'. My mom is the America Chavez of a different Multivi than the MCU.

Two more stars light up with the location symbol, a yellow line snaking between them to show the similarities.

Astria (off-screen): I know this is a lot to take in, but here we go; in your universe, there are an infinite number of America Chavez's that do not exist in real life. They are all fiction. So in effect, your universe, and in turn your multiverse, has no America Chavez. However, a multiverse similar to yours might have one.

More location symbols light up, giving you small views of Astria's house in other universes in multiple aspects of the Multivi.

Astria (off-screen): Also, the plural for multiverse is Multivi, not multiverses. That's a WB game, and we don't live in the DCU.

The screen pauses again.

Univa (off-screen): Astria, what the heck are you doing? You've gotta start at the beginning, but not your beginning. Start at the beginning of your greatest rival!

The screen resumes, and a character with a faint outline stands on the horizon, overlooking the sunset and two gravestones. The outline leans over, and the camera cuts to the view of the words Kate Bishop and America Chavez. Then the screen pauses again.

Astria (annoyed, off-screen): By the gods Univa, nobody cares about Anastasia! This is my story. Plus, who even ships AmeriKate? They're, like, eight years apart age wise!