#musings. astra

[rviner]

@manybcdthings

[fheythfully]

2.2.2025 Febhyuary Day 3: Reborn [prompt list]

[mossymandibles]

I know most people are going to be like “huh what” since I don’t post enough worldbuidling stuff on here but I’m changing the alleged bottom/body of Hellmouth to “Abaton” rather than Tartarus. I like how that sounds better.

(Hellmouth is a common name for the massive split/leveled abyss/mother of trenches in the middle of Mors Astra’s ocean where all the leviathans/saints live and supposedly guard Abaton. These levels are what I often mention as ‘Depth Charges’ in some creatures descriptions I write)

[wishmaker-astra]

You know, kinda a pain in the ass to figure out my own identity and how to express what I am sometimes. Like, I'm not human, duh... except when I am, which like, usually isn't the case. Same deal with pokemon. I'm usually JUST a jirachi without being without those.

Then there's gender shit. I'm a girl, except, like... when I'm not. I COULD be a dude, but generally not. I guess jirachi also works as my gender sometimes? Like, in a way that isn't guy or gal. Even if I'd say it's feminine-ish or... something but that's wrong if adjacent. I would say girl-ish, but it's not girl, while also girl? Man, shit is annoying to express.

Assume girl though I guess. I'm always going to love being a girl and am always gonna be girl compatible.

It's past 9PM and I'm an Astra. Shit's annoyingly difficult to lock down sometimes. You know how it is. Unless you don't.

[monstrousmuse]

Sing to me of the Six-Fiingered man, Muse. The man who wondered between worlds…Sing of his glory and his grief, his burden and his brilliance. He, who worshipped the Sun, and promised gold, but succumbed to the Stars, and drowned in pools of wing-wax. He, who vowed to endure the trails of All-Wise Axolotl. He, who refused to rest until he himself brought about the end of his once fickle friend, the Eye of False Providence.

[otherwomvn]

Não é nenhuma surpresa ver ASTRA LA CROIX (NOME REAL ANISE LA CROIX) andando pelas ruas de Arcanum, afinal, uma BRUXA LIDER DO COVEN LUNAR VEIL precisa ganhar dinheiro como JUIZA. Mesmo não tendo me convidado para sua festa de IDADE DESCONHECIDA, ainda lhe acho INTELIGENTE e DESTEMIDA, mas entendo quem lhe vê apenas como CRUEL e MANIPULADORA. Vivendo na cidade DESDE SEMPRE (1 ANO), AS cansa de ouvir que se parece com RACHEL WEISZ.

Headcannons:

Anise é gêmea de Astra La Croix, a verdadeira líder do Coven. Eram inseparáveis quando crianças, mas a rivalidade começou com as comparações entre as duas por meio da avó, antiga líder do Lunar Veil. "Olhe como Astra é mais gentil e tem espírito de liderança, Anise" ou "Você deveria ser mais como a Astra", eram os comentários que escutava com maior frequência e que com o tempo alimentaram a raiva e inveja dentro de Anise.

Quando ficou mais velha, entrou em uma briga com a irmã que assumira o lugar da avó morta por caçadores... o motivo? Anise não queria "servir de capacho" para as vontades de Astra - a irmã apenas havia pedido que ela fosse seu braço direito. Revoltada, a mulher sumiu da cidade por décadas usando de magia e dos poderes de cura para se dar bem na vida.

Retornou a um ano e durante uma nova discussão com Astra acabou matando a gêmea - algo que não pretendia fazer nem em seus maiores desejos de vingança. Desesperada - e com medo - tomou o lugar da irmã como líder do coven, fingindo ser ela, mesmo que suas personalidades não fossem iguais.

Astra era gentil, justa, caridosa... Anise é fria, manipuladora e levemente cruel. Com distinções quase gritantes em seus jeitos, foi preciso que a gêmea restante se adaptasse a nova identidade, mas não tinha certeza de por quanto tempo conseguiria carregar a culpa de ter assassinado a irmã em um briga fútil.

Curiosidades:

Não é uma pessoa ruim, mas considera sempre o que é melhor para si em primeiro lugar;

Sente muito remorso pelo que fez, mas finge que está tudo bem.

Trabalha como juíza para poder ganhar dinheiro para o Coven, algo que Astra também fazia.

**todas as informações estão sujeitas a mudanças e atualizações eventualmente**

[manganyeh]

starter for @intergalactic-singer (with astra yao)

Astra was finishing her shopping before noticing a familiar face and her eyes immediately light up

“ROBIN!” Astra waves to the star with excitement before running up to her

She immediately hugs the other and Robin hugs her back

“Oh my god it’s been so long since I last saw you!” Astra said with glee

“How have you been and oh my god is that engagement ring! When did this happened!”

((they are besties since childhood in my hc so yeah :3))

[sixersigned]

So I started cooking.

[kiwibirdlafayette]

if theres the mianite variant.. the VH variant.. sun guardian.. origins.. what if jordan god variant. The doors im thinking about that one MCSM post and the doors..

​i have so much lore with multiverse already from Caron to the NoWhere i could. I could do something with this 👀

[fheythfully]

12.27.23 sometimes the fire you founded don't burn the way you'd expect

[elakha-house-cube]

Astra, Leaf, do you ever exchange adventuring tips when you hang out in the cube?

Astra's not here right now on account of... I kinda fell out of Terraria a bit. But the mind virus will inevitably come back, and when it does so will she.

And I'm sure she'll like Leaf. =)

... honestly, looking at my notes I can feel the mind virus already wanting to take hold. Astra might be back sooner than expected.

[wishmaker-astra]

You know, some stuff saw yesterday did make me think about how some people probably are surprised and confused by my rejection of "my humanity" and my identification of it. Especially since my species was altered involuntarily, without warning, and this change has had massive impacts on various aspects of my life.

First off I just want to clarify that in no way is humanity and personhood connected. These are two utterly separate and independent concepts. The same goes for pokemonhood and personhood. And, given my nature and status... pokemonhood and humanity are ALSO disconnected independent concepts as well in terms of if you can be one or the other or both, even if there is a social construct relationship aspect between them. Also, humanity or lack thereof has nothing to do with morality.

That out of the way: you might know I was bullied pretty bad as a kid. Everything from active mocking to full ostracization. It basically continued up until the start of my undergrad. I have never had a community that I've truly been a part of. I'm in society, and part of it, but I'm like a first generation immigrant who turned up by themselves that only barely speaks parts of the language. It was alien to me in a way hard to convey.

Given this it might be a little bit easier to understand why I might reject the label of humanity and "my own" humanity. You didn't make me welcome. Why should I join your club? You have some absolutely lovely individuals in it, don't get me wrong, but I don't need to be part of the clique to have a relationship with them.

That isn't to say it's the whole thing of course. My rejection is me controlling aspects of myself; I might not have had a say in me ending up a jirachi, but I certainly can choose what it means. I'm not clinging to an out of date label that doesn't reflect what I feel. I am stepping out of the cradle of humanity and into jirachidom. I like it here. It's nice and cozy. Humanity dilutes that without upsides I deem worth the cost.

I am not human. I do not feel a desire to be human. I feel happy actively rejecting it. There's comfort and joy in leaving a place that doesn't fit you. I may revisit the place from time to time for my own reasons, but it isn't native soil anymore. I weep not for the loss, for I know it is like a star igniting from the raw cloud of gas.