Moondragon x Phyla-Vell

Moondragon x Phyla-Vell is the femslash ship between Moondragon and Phyla-Vell from the Marvel fandom.

Canon
Phyla-Vell meets Moondragon along the way, and they share a love that can withstand anything. From death to Moondragon’s inability to return to human form. Whether fighting for each other or back-to-back against their enemies, nothing stops them from being together. When an alternate future (Reality-98120)’s super-powered version of Marlo Jones attacked, Phyla counterattacked but was quickly knocked into orbit and only managed to return as her opponent vanished. Genis investigated the timeline that had resulted in the attack, trusting Phyla-Vell to protect the contemporary Marlo and her then-lover Moondragon. Per expectations, Marlo was targeted for abduction by another resident of that future, the Magus, ally to the alternate Marlo and Genis’ future son Ely-Vell, but Phyla-Vell rescued her. Phyla brought Marlo to Titan to better protect her, leaving Moondragon on Earth. There, she was attacked by the Magus and dealt a humiliating defeat.

When Genis returned from the future, having apparently resolved the crisis, Phyla-Vell was concerned by his obvious distress, unaware he had resolved to one day kill his own son to prevent the catastrophes Ely would cause later in life. Soon afterward, Moondragon lied to Marlo about the feelings between them and ended their relationship, believing Marlo would be happier with Rick. Phyla-Vell was drawn to Moondragon by her selflessness, and a romance began between the two. They departed together to investigate a portal created by Entropy and Epiphany’s sibling, Eulogy. And they possibly proceeded afterward to view a spiral nebula near Renault VII.

Phyla-Vell and Moondragon resided on Titan, where they assisted Titan’s ruler, Alars, during his son Starfox’s trial for supposedly breaking Earth law, encountering She-Hulk, and a clone of Mentor’s mad son, Thanos, in the process. Still convinced of her worthiness to bear the Captain Marvel title, Phyla-Vell was shaken when Genis, who had joined the Thunderbolts as Photon, was apparently slain by Baron Zemo. When Phyla-Vell and Moondragon visited Genis’ grave, Thanos and his aide Skreet abducted Moondragon. Phyla-Vell pursued them into the intergalactic crisis dubbed the Annihilation Wave, where she joined Nova, Star-Lord, the Galadorian Spaceknights and others in battling the Wave’s master Annihilus, who had stolen Quasar’s Quantum Bands after seemingly slaying him. While the planet-eater Galactus attacked the Wave’s fleet and Nova fought Annihilus himself, Phyla-Vell somehow bonded with the Bands’ power and claimed them as her own. Following Annihilus’ defeat, Phyla-Vell reunited with Moondragon, who had been rescued by her father. Phyla-Vell declared herself Vaughn’s successor as Quasar, Protector of the Universe, despite Moondragon’s dubiousness toward the notion.

For a time, Phyla-Vell and Moondragon lived on Lamentis Outworld, at the edge of Kree space, where they protected a Priests of Pama temple. Phyla-Vell, now doubting her worthiness of Quasar’s role, was periodically contacted by a voice from within the Quantum Bands whose power fluctuated due to Annihilus’ lingering influence. Phyla-Vell and Moondragon were attacked by techno-organic Phalanx warriors, who had conquered much of the Kree Empire. The couple were telepathically guided by the voice, Kree ex-leader Supreme Intelligence, at that time in a quasi-dead state, who instructed them to locate the Kree’s supposed savior. After battling the Super-Adaptoid and other Phalanx warriors, Moondragon, having tapped into power linking her to the malevolent Dragon of the Moon, was transformed into a dragon-like form. Although, neither she nor Phyla-Vell realized the Dragon was planning to fully manifest within her. Eventually, Phyla-Vell and Moondragon recruited the alleged savior, Adam Warlock, to help against the Phalanx. While visiting High Evolutionary, who was allied with the Supreme Intelligence, the group were attacked by Phalanx leader Ultron, who killed Moondragon, casting both her soul and the Dragon into the cosmic entity Oblivion’s realm.

While visiting a “planet of soothsayers,” however, they learned from one sage that the seemingly dead Moondragon still existed on an accessible plane and could be restored, unaware the information had been telepathically implanted in their informant’s mind by the insane Maelstrom, longtime enemy of Wendell Vaughn. When they sought more information on Titan, Mentor slew Phyla-Vell and Drax’s physical bodies, enabling their own souls to enter Oblivion’s realm, where the Quantum Bands withdrew from Phyla-Vell. Maelstrom, also trapped there, usurped the Quantum Bands and defeated Phyla-Vell and Drax, whose souls he offered to the Dragon of the Moon in hope of receiving enough power to escape. After the Dragon, which had literally consumed Moondragon’s soul, swallowed Phyla-Vell, Vaughn, having survived in a quantum light form, entered the fray; while he fought Maelstrom, Phyla-Vell retrieved Moondragon’s soul from within the Dragon and forcibly exited its body, which collapsed into billions of bat-like creatures. Following Maelstrom’s defeat, Phyla-Vell insisted that Vaughn reclaim the Quantum Bands and his Quasar title. Phyla-Vell and Drax returned to life, and Moondragon’s soul entered a human body cloned from her DNA. Now calling herself Martyr, Phyla-Vell resumed her adventurous life alongside her beloved Moondragon.

Fanon
is a rare pair within the Marvel fandom. So much so that there are currently less than 20 works for the ship on AO3. While there are little to no fan art for the ship on platforms like Tumblr or Deviantart. Despite this, the ship is considered to be one of Marvel's power couples by the general public.

Fandom
FAN FICTION