Seraphina's Tea Quest is a 2023 Massive Multiplayer Crossover fanfiction penned by NoonboryKedabory. Billed as a sequel to The Season's My Reason, it began publication on July 5th, 2023.
Seraphina, a fairy who can travel between universes, discovers that an insect known as the Purple Spot Parasite has escaped and is spreading its pox around the world. To cure the victims, she must gather special ingredients for a tea, but she'll need a lot of help to do it.
Tropes:
- Adaptation Expansion: In Encanto, Antonio could understand and talk to animals. In Chapter 9, he can talk to and understand the light orb that Seraphina sends to request help with the Purple Spot Pox.
- Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Bear pats Chef Clara's head when he first meets her.
- An Ice Person: Samira uses ice powers to create a barrier to protect the fairies from the Parasite.
- Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption: While Seraphina explains to the fairies that she needs to make her next jump, she's interrupted by Saffron running by telling them to jump over a hedge to hide from the Purple Spot Parasite.
- Babysitting Episode: In Chapter 8, Hikari is put in charge of watching Chiho while Rosemary is out.
- Baby Talk: Like in canon, Midori Sawatari can only say gibberish words.Aba!
- Beary Friendly: Bear and Fozzie who aid Seraphina in the Chain of People to stabilize the portal in Chapter 8.
- Big Sister Instinct: When Sophie is cursed, her older sister Scarlet (normally the most mischievous of the Jewel Fairies) becomes very insistent on getting her help.
- The Cameo:
- Treelo, Tutter, Nanny and Gonzo appear in Chapter 7.
- Willy appears in Chapter 8.
- Keiji, Kitsune, Antonio, Sandmeh, Elder Bloom, Bear and Eddie appear in Chapter 9.
- Canon Foreigner: Chef has a little sister who was not present in the canon series.
- Caring Gardener: One of the ingredients Seraphina needs to find is lemons from a caring gardener's tree. She gets these from Brianna, a Granola Girl living in Adventure Bay.
- Chain of People: In Chapter 6, Bear, Theresa, Chef, Summer, Animal and Fozzie do one of these to help Seraphina stabilize the portal.
- Cliffhanger: Chapter 6 ends with Seraphina receiving a distress call, opening a portal to look and saying she needs to go before going in with Chapter 7 revealing it to be because of unruly portals opening and caused the casts of Muppet Babies (2018) and A Big Blue House in Tall Pine Grove to get lost in each other's realms.
- Dwindling Party: The Purple Spot Parasite's victim count piles up as the story continues, starting with Kazuma, then moving on to Sophie and Sora.
- Excited Title! Two-Part Episode Name!: Chapter 5 is called "Cloudy Skies! Heroes Get Sick Too!"
- Flowers of Femininity: Brianna, a girly Granola Girl, wears flowers in her hair.
- Gondor Calls for Aid: Chapter 8 ends with Seraphina going back into meditation as her next jump will bring in even more doctors to help with all the sick people with Chapter 9 revealing them to be Peso Penguin, Julieta Madrigal and Nurse Tongus.
- Hot Drink Cure: The plot revolves around Seraphina hopping between universes to gather ingredients for a tea to cure the Purple Spot Pox while helping those who are in trouble because of said Pox.
- Like Is, Like, a Comma: Brianna has this as a mild Verbal Tic.
- Massive Multiplayer Crossover: While the protagonist is an Original Character, the story also features characters from The Amazing World of Gumball, Bear in the Big Blue House, Brave, Delicious Party♡Pretty Cure, Encanto, Futari wa Pretty Cure, Gakuen Babysitters, Healin' Good♡Pretty Cure, Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure, HuGtto! Pretty Cure, Junior Officers, Kedabory's Elmore Chronicles, Muppet Babies (2018), The Octonauts, PAW Patrol, Rainbow Magic, Stardew Valley, Steven Universe, Strong and Steady, Yes! Pretty Cure 5, and Yo Kai Watch.
- Megaton Punch: Cure Sky uses her Hirogaru Sky Punch to defeat a Ranborg before it can attack the clinic.
- Mythology Gag:
- Seraphina owns a copy of The Curious Case of Camp Candytuft, a book from a previous Kedabory Verse fic, Junior Officers.
- Merida says her favourite colour is kelly-green. Merida's first voice actress is named Kelly Macdonald.
- Named by the Adaptation: The Swedish Chef is named Tom here.
- One-Steve Limit: The Muppet Babies crew have two Chefs on board, which naturally confuses both Bear and Theresa. Their real names are Tom (Swedish Chef) and Clara (French Chef), but the kids call them both "Chef" because they both like to cook.
- So Proud of You: Captain Shalala comes to the clinic to tell Sora how proud she is for protecting the clinic patients from a Ranborg, even if it resulted in her being bit by the Purple Spot Parasite.