
Username:
dovestar12
Name:
Stella
Gender:
female
Age:
10
Nicknames:
She likes to call herself Raven in her play and her grandmother calls her Luna sometimes.
STELLA
Gender:
Feminine
Usage:
English
Pronounced:
STEL-ə
Meaning & History:
Means "star" in Latin. This name was created by the 16th-century poet Sir Philip Sidney for the subject of his collection of sonnets 'Astrophel and Stella'. It was not commonly used as a given name until the 19th century. It appears in Tennessee Williams' play 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (1947), belonging to the sister of Blanche DuBois and the wife of Stanley Kowalski.
How I was Raised:
Back story:
Stella was just a child when her Grandmother took her away to live with her and learn how to become a proper young lady. But they spent most of their time inside and her Grandmother's house was dark because she had delicate, old eyes that couldn't handle the light to well. Therefore the only time she was aloud to go outside was when it was dark.
Stella sat beside her Grandmother on the top of the hill they were on. That night her Grandmother was teaching her a lesson on the constellations, day and night time, and Stella's favorite, the moon. "And that one there" Her Grandmother said pointing to a series of stars. "Is Ursa Minor." Stella stared at the stars in aw. How she longed to be a star. To be able to look down upon the earth and have those tiny little people stare up at her in aw as she was now. But then she noticed the moon right in the middle of the sky. So big and round like it was pushing the tiny little specks of light out of the way to get full attention from everything below. "Grandmother." She said looking at her grandmother. "Hmm? What is it Stella?" Stella looked back at the moon. "How does the moon travel across the sky like that?" "Well the Moon has a nearly circular orbit (e=0.05) which is tilted about 5° to the plane of the Earth's orbit. Its average distance from the Earth is 384,400 km. The combination of the Moon's size and its distance from the Earth causes the Moon to appear the same size in the sky as the Sun, which is one reason we can have total solar eclipses...." She stopped when she saw the blank expression on Stella's face. She chuckled then said, "Well there once was a Goddess named Selene who would fly across the night sky in her chariot pulled by big strong horses. Well one day Selene made the king of all the gods and goddess mad. So for her punishment she was locked forever in the moon." Stella gasped. Her Grandmother smiled, then putting her paw on Stella's shoulder she pointed at the moon. "Do you see her smiling at you from within the moon Stella?" Stella turned her attention at the moon and saw that there was what appeared to be a face smiling at her from the moon. "Yes Grandmother I see her! I see her! She's right there smiling at me from the moon!.... But if she's in the moon then how is she able to pull it across the sky?" Stella asked looking back at her Grandmother with a questioning look. "Well it says that when Selene was banished, before she was locked in the moon she passed on her powers to someone she thought would be worthy enough to love the night sky that she had loved so much herself. She sees someone down here that she likes and gives it to them. And maybe.." Her Grandmother said getting up. "That someone is you." She lightly touched Stella's nose with her finger tip. Stella giggled then yawned. "Come on bedtime little one." She said picking the already half asleep Stella up and carrying her inside. Her Grandmother took her to her room and tucked her into her bed. "Good night my little Luna." She whispered plucking a kiss on her cheek. "Good night Granny." Stella replied as her Grandmother left the room closing the door behind her. Stella turned her head and looked out her bedroom window to see the moon looking down on her. "Granny says that you will give your powers to *yawn* anyone who will love the moon as much as you." Stella whispered to the moon. "Well I love the moon. Could I?" The moon shone down on her throw her window and Stella smiled. "I'll take that as a yes." Stella said before drifting off to sleep.
The next evening Stella and her grandmother were outside. Her grandmother was working in the garden while Stella played with her doll, Lucy, on the lawn. "I am Raven the goddess of the moon. And you are my royal subjects." Stella announced to her doll and grandmother. "Oh but your majesty." Stella said in Lucy's voice. "Why aren't you up there with the moon instead of being down here?" "Because" Stella said walking over to where she had sat her doll down in the grass. "Even goddesses need to see their royal subjects every once in a while." She said pickup her doll. "Well your majesty since your here could you help an old woman tend to her garden?" Stella's grandmother asked from where she was. "Well goddesses don't normally help with stuff like that." Stella said. "Well if you help this old lady she might just give you some of her fresh strawberries before she makes them into her special strawberry cream pie." Stella's grandmother said with a smile. "Yay! Strawberry pie! Oh let me help." Stella said forgetting about her play. She ran over and helped her grandmother pick strawberries. They had fill the basket full of strawberries and were about to go in when Stella saw something glimmering in one of the bushes. Stella bent over and pushed some of the leaves out of the way to find a small bracelet at the base of the bush. The bracelet was a pretty gold and blue color, it was a half band that had a chain and clasp in the back. On the front of the bracelet it had the 8 phases of the moon. "Look grandmother I found a bracelet." Stella said holding of the bracelet for her grandmother to see. "Well I'll be where did that come from?" Her grandmother said scratching her head. "No one has been up here for years and it definitely isn't mine." "Oh can I keep it grandmother can I can I?" "Well.. I guess there's no harm in it since there isn't really anyone that could have left it here." "Yay!!" Stella said jumping around her grandmother. "Well this is a good time to learn a lesson here let me see that bracelet Stella." Stella handed the bracelet to her grandmother. "See these different pictures of the moon?" Stella nodded. "Well they each have a name this one is called the New Moon, this one is called the Waxing Crescent, this one is the First Quarter, then this one is the Waxing Gibbous, the Full Moon, the Waning Gibbous, the Last Quarter, and the Waning Crescent." Her grandmother said pointing to each picture while saying it's name. "Here let me see your wrist." Stella held out her wrist for her grandmother to help put on the bracelet. "Now let's go make some pie!" Her grandmother said getting up and walking into the house. Stella followed then stopped looking back at the moon. She looked at the bracelet then back at the moon. "Thank you." She whispered. At that moment it looked like the moon shown just a little bit brighter. Stella smiled then ran into the house to help her grandmother make pie.
Favorite Object:
Her moon bracelet
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