I burn bright because I defy death

There, the dragon laid itself to rest. At home in the heart of the kingdom, bestowing it’s fire into the new monarchy and the monarchy’s matrifocal magic. Bleeding from Queen to Queen, Princess to Princess and even though the dragon itself had died and passed on, it’s corpse lingering in the bowels of the planet’s dungeon. Many wanted to take on the God and receive the God’s blessing instead of the Monarch's of Domino.

An extract from the ‘Fantastical Composium of Magix’ history’ by Artemesia Athanasiou, published XXXX.

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A Winx Club Rewrite; Season 1.

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Attempts for weekly updates, but will be at least one update a month

Notes:

Translation into Português brasileiro available: Eu Queimo Pois Desafio a Morte by flor_el (minaahye), itsmepans, minaahye

Chapter 1: CONTENTS

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Posted: 25/09/2025
Update 1: 31/10/2025 - added the world building links and the prologues, and link to pinterest board
Update 2: 31/03/2026 - added brandon/stella mini prologue featuring diaspro, and random characters from other franchise list

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

PROLOGUE - 'Fantastical Symposium of Magix’ history’ by Artemisia Athanasius

ACT I - The Ring of Solaria

I. I - "When you know, you know. You won't have to spend time translating your soul to another person, they will understand you." - Jefa Wild

I. II - "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." - Alan Watts

I. III - "My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature." – Claude Monet

I. IV - "Bring the music ringing from your chest and not your nose" - Scales and Arpeggios, Aristocats OST

I. V - "Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings." - Ray Kurzwell.

I. VI - "Walk in the wide skies where your path will unfold." - Rainbow, Twice - Feel Special Album

I. VII - "Winx, you're magical, Winx." - Under the Sign of Winx, Winx Club

I. VIII - Epsiode 3

I. IX - Episode 4

I. X - Episode 5

I. XI - Episode 6

I. XII - Episode 7

I. XIII - Episode 8

I. XIV - Episode 9

ACT II - Daphne, Nymph of Magix

II. I - Episode 10

II. II - Episode 11

II. III - Episode 12

II. IV - Episode 13

II. V - Episode 14

II. VI - Episode 15

II. VII - Episode 16

II. VIII - Episode 17

II. IX - Episode 18

ACT III - PRINCESS [REDACTED] OF DOMINO

III. I - Episode 19

III. II - Episode 20

III. III - Episode 21

III. IV - Episode 22

III. V - Episode 23

III. VI - Episode 24

III. VII - Episode 25

III. VIII - Episode 26

EPILOGUE - A Letter to Avalon

A Winx Club Season 1 Rewrite featuring, attempts at politics and political machinations, a focus on academics, forming friendship with slice of life. Greater political threads that connect to the other seasons, reliigon, Daphne being immeasurably powerful and the Winx and Specialists learning to get along before war and PTSD. The specialists get a slightly bigger role than the original but will never displace the winx unless an important plot line involves them: Read all of Eraklyon's political problems and its ramifications to the larger world.

This rewrite will also follow the idea that Darcy uses mind control on Riven. That they did get close authentically but she still ends up taking over his mind so please be aware of that as you enter in, even though at the time of writing this we are nowhere near this plotline yet, it's a point of contention I can see coming up later on.

The prediction of where each episode will land might be wrong. So episode 4 could actually be I. XI. I haven't plotted each chapter in depth but each episode will appear in that specific act though. This will get updated with each update to give future chapters quotes and the likes.

With a separate document for world building here, and numerous playlists for each of the main winx and the series itself. Alongside a pinterest board, though updates may be slow there is much content to be found.

There are minimal edits done but sometimes I will correct things if I'm bored or if I write something in world building that conflicts in the story or needs to be ironed out again. Please be wary of that though.

Other works in the series:

World Building,

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Love the Sark Side of the Moon As Well

Not all tags have been able to be fitted into the top tags so each chapter comes with its own content warnings, if I have missed something for you personally, please let me know. But all of the tags have been collected here as well, please take care and be wary of what is discussed. When I talk about it being 'dark' it really is mature and focuses on the greater world as well as trauma and the complexities of life.

Rating: Mature

Archive Warning: No archive warnings apply, but minor character death expected as well as mentions of genocide and violence.

Categories: Gen, F/M, F/F

Platonic Relationships: Bloom & Stella, Brandon & Sky & Stella, Bloom & Flora & Musa & Stella & Tecna, Bloom & Daphne, Bloom & Mike & Vanessa, Brandon & Riven & Sky & Timmy, Bloom & original character(s), Darcy & Icy & Stormy, Brandon & Riven & Sky & Stella & Timmy, Flora & Miele, Stella & Mike & Vanessa, Bloom & Brandon, Roxy & Bloom, Bloom & Rio, Sky & Bloom, Specialists and Winx Club, Lady the Dog & Sky, Faragonda & Marion & Oritel & Griffin & Saladin, Original Character(s) & Original Character(s), Musa & Ho Boe & Matlin, Tecna & Electronico & Magnethia, Flora & Azucena | Alyssa & Raul | Rhodos, Stella & Original Chracter(s), Sky & Diaspro, Sky & Diaspro & Brandon & Thoren & Stella

Romantic Relationships: Lucy/Mirta (Winx Club), Bloom/Sky (Winx Club), Darcy/Riven (Winx Club), Established Brandon/Stella (Winx Club), Minor Flora/Mirta, past/referenced Diaspro/Sky, Timmy/Tecna, One-sided Musa/Riven, Past/Referenced Bloom/Andy, Minor Stella/Bloom

Main Characters: Bloom Peters, Stella Herrera, Flora Ortega, Ho Musa, Tecna Johansson, Sky Cetin, Brandon Şimşek, Riven Jones, Timmy Navarro, Icy, Darcy, Stormy, Faragonda

Side Characters: Griffin, Saladin, Mike, Vanessa, Daphne, Original Character(s), Kiko, Stephanie Brown, Griselda, Palladium, Wizgiz,

Minor Characters: Diaspro, Mirta, Lucy, Students of Cloud Tower, Students of Alfea, Specialists, Ho Boe, Ho Matlin, Miele Ortega, Roxy Becker, Lady the Dog, Electronico Johansson, Magnethia Johansson, Belladonna, Lillis, Tharma, Erhan Şimşek, Ceren Şimşek, Yasemin Şimşek, Zehra Şimşek, Deniz Şimşek, Ziya Şimşek, Altan Şimşek, Luna Flores, Radius Herrera, Samara Cetin, Erendor Cetin, Azucena | Alyssa Ortega, Raul | Rhodos Ortega, Klaus Becker, Lilith Gallego, Chloé Kontára, Mitzi, Amaryl, Captain Isabella Novisteros

Additional Tags: Season/Series 01, Alternate Season/Series 01, Winx Club Season/Series 01, Winx Club Rewrite, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Rewrite

Relationships: Female Friendship, Found Family, Friendship, Male-Female Friendship, Platonic Female/Male Relationships, Platonic Soulmates, Male Friendship, Romance (seconday to Friendship)

Settings: Realm of Magix, Cloud Tower, Alfea, Gardenia, Eraklyon, Linphea, Melody, Zenith, Solaria,

Content Warning: Mild Angst, Mind Control Aftermath & Recovery, Implied/Referenced Mind Control, Swearing, Underage Drinking, Depression, Implied/Referenced Underage Sex, Class Differences, Fantasy and Fictional Setting Racism, Misogyny, Minor Violence, Blood, Murder of Creature, Vomiting, Panic Attacks, Suicide Ideation, Neglect and Neglectful Parenting, Divorce, Minor Character Death, Near-Deah Experiences, Allusions to Death and Injury, Genocide, Past Genocide, Allusions to Suicide, Mentions of Bullying, Arson, Dire, Burning, Slightly Graphic Depictions of Being Involved in a Fire and Being Burnt, implied/referenced underage sex (consenting, off screen), implied/referenced underage mutual masturbation/phone sex (offscreen/cut to black), Colonisation, Politics, Religion, Fighting, Poverty, Death and Grief, Mentions of Child Rape (offscreen, offhanded, very minimal), Drug Abuse Mentions, Trauma

Other Tags: Bloom Needs a Hug, Slice of Life, Modern-ish, Dark, Not Beta Read, Slow To Update, POV Multiple, Other Tags to be Added, Stella Needs a Hug, Flora Needs a Hug, Tecna Needs a Hug, Musa Needs a Hug, Sky Needs a Hug, Brandon Needs a Hug, Timmy doesn't need a hug as much as the others, Riven Needs a Hug, Stella Has Something Similar to ADHD, Religion and Original Mythology, Explorations of Identity, Turkish!Sky & Brandon, Hispanic!Flora & Stella & Timmy, Chinese!Musa, Swedish!Tecna, French-Russian!Bloom, American!Riven

Note: Characters from other fandoms will appear as a basis for side characters, but not many of them will be made important outside of Stephanie Brown. Other's may appear and my own OCs too. List of characters from other fandons thus far, in planning or mentioned are:

Batman: Stephanie Brown, Timothy Drake

Bratz: Sasha (inspiration, not herself one to one)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Cordelia Chase, Dawn Summers, Buffy Summers, Druscilla

Dreamland Billionaires: Callahan Kane

Ever After High: Darling Charming, Briar Beauty, Lizzie Hearts, Kitty Cheshire, Ashlynn Ella

Friendly Rivalry: Joo Yeri, Yoo Je-I, Woo Seulgi

Genshin Impact: Hu Tao,

Hollow Boys: Briar Lowell, Coraline Whittaker, Thatcher Pierson, Alistair Caldwell, Silas Hawthorne, Rook Van Doren

HSR: Firefly, Cyrene, Sparxie, Ruan Mei, Herta, Stephen Lloyd, Silver Wolf

My Babysitter's a Vampire: Ethan Morgan, Benny Weir, Sarah Fox, Erica Jones, Rory Keaner

Resident Evil: Leon Kennedy, Ada Wong, Rebecca Chambers

Rinaverse: SIlver Queens, Reina Ellis, Hitori Naomi, Sebastian Weaver, Landon King, Mia Sokolov, Gareth Carson, Aleksandra "Sasha" Ivanova, Kirill Morozov

Six of Crows: Inej Ghafa, Kaz Brekker, Wylan van Eck, Jesper Fahey, Mattias Helvar, Nina Zenik,

Vanderpump Rules: Stassi Schroeder (but as inspiration, not exactly as herself)

Notes:

isa is sick rn. and needs to read books for her creative writing course but this book im reading is such a SLOG i got bored and decided to fiddle about with a contents page because erm. this book doesnt have one and i would like it very much to. so here i am. making this clear because of that.

i will try to write a chapter as best as i can but because of an assignment in which i have to create a portfolio, the next chapter may be delayed til january incase any snippets from epsiode 2 (which is split into two lol) make it in there. if they don't, then whenever its doen itll be out but if they do i need to wait for that to be submitted so i don't get done for plagarism because i use a pseudonym here and yeah. too much stuff for academic like validity and isa is a lazy bugger.

i also have a job so updates will be infrequent, part of me wonders if i should upload them as the minature scenes of each chapter? hmm let me know what you think of that because that may make it more chapters more often but a lot shorter. so we can consider that and to accomodate i will Reorganise the fic Again. which is why I haven't done it yet but if its an overwhelming support I will. I write for myself, yes, but also so people enjoy it and read it. when this fic doesn't do well i get dispassionate, i will not lie, but i know i have dedicated readers and i want to make sure you are all happy with it.

and whilst i haven't put pen to paper to write, i have drawn scenes adn ideas for future things for the fic. as well as worked on my excel documents to organise characters nad plots and books. as well as an important document which cannot be seen until s3 tragically so. but its given me a clearer frame of work for a specific teacher and a specific lesson as well as future politics across the series. so yeah.

roxys age might also be changed based on my plans for dates and events. so she might be deaged a year or two, same for miele, but thats the only major caveates.

i am working on this fic a lot and i know many of you may not care for this but i do, so im doing it.

please take care of yourself, rest up, dont get sick like me. have a good morning, day, afternoon, evening or night wherever you are

xoxo

isabel <33

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