✧ Character Profile

Astra Will-o-Wish is a young magic student and aspiring sorcerer from Amaranth, living in a village on the Blue Kingdom along with his parents Stella and Orion as well as his younger sister Cosmo.

Although belonging to a family of sorcerers, rather than practicing magic like expected, Astra cheated his way into power by striking a deal with an evil being named Sclera, who merged her powers with his, taking his right eye as a price.

This made them capable of communicating telepathically, with Sclera's dark influence taking over him at times and Astra looking up to her for guidance. This made Astra become not only way too powerful for someone his age, but also dangerous due to his unpredictable nature, becoming way too powerful for his own good.

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Sclera - Best Friend / Guardian

Sclera was an exiled Angel that Astra read about in an old magic book that used to belong to his grandmother. Disregarding the warnings about the creature, he read of how Sclera had been imprisoned in the depths of the Amaranthian cave systems, which had been sealed away from the public by the Spades Suit, and was said to have powers beyond his imagination.

In his determination to find the creature and borrow its abilities, he pressed on to try and find it.

He eventually found Sclera in the caves, who was hidden in shadows and attempted to speak to it, only to find that it spoke back to him, telepathically. He was terrified, but made his request to the being, who seemed dismissive of him at first, only wanting to be left alone due to thinking he was sent by the Spades Suit.

But Astra was persistent and begged for her help, catching Sclera's attention as she took notice of how easily she could exploit a child's naivety, taking advantage of Astra's powerful magic lineage.

The only way that Sclera could share her powers with him was if he gave her something in return, particularly an eye into the outside world, seeing as Sclera had been blinded when she was imprisoned and had lived in total silence and darkness for millennia. Astra was hesitant at first, but eventually agreed, taking pity in the blind demon.

As such, he gave her his right eye, blinding himself like she had been, resulting in the two becoming connected. While Sclera stayed in the caves, from that moment on, Astra could hear the demon's voice in his mind, guiding him, giving him advice and encouragement. Astra wasn't expecting this at first, but eventually his fear of Sclera subsided as the bond between the two grew stronger.

Sclera kept her side of the deal, enhancing Astra's abilities and helping him learn forbidden magic in secret. And as time went on, Astra took notice of how Sclera went from being dismissive of him to warming up to his progress. Sclera often communicates with him telepathically and Astra has gotten into the habit of chatting with her, often finding himself looking like he's talking to himself. He knows he can just think his conversations with her, but he finds that talking is easier when no one is looking.

They have a very close and amicable friendship, with Astra often seeking Sclera's reassurance and her almost taking a motherly role over him, trying to protect him from danger and trying to keep the truth of her true intentions from him. She expected to discard him as soon as she was done using him, but unfortunately, she got attached.

Maple - Friend

Maple is Astra's classmate who often sits next to him during their classes. This is literally the only reason they talk, else Astra wouldn't even have taken notice of the shy bat girl.

She's not as good with magic so he sometimes to tries to help her out, though it's mostly out of frustration that she doesn't always does things correctly and is very clumsy with her work.

However this backfired, since now Maple is almost constantly asking him for help with her work. She's still nice and polite and is consistently friendly towards him, so he doesn't mind hanging around her and will defend her when she gets bullied.

Abra Kadabra - Friend/Crush

Abra is a Clown girl for an older class, Astra met her through Maple who introduced her to him and they quickly became a small friend group.

Astra has a crush on her and tends to become either very flustered around her or alternatively tries to show off his abilities in over-confident displays of showmanship in hopes that she notices him.

Abra is very spunky and sassy and usually doesn't take his little moody fits. They're still friends and hang out in their circle, but Astra is still really shy about telling her how he feels.

He's completely convinced that she hasn't noticed.

Starlet - Dislike

Starlet is a bully from Abra's class who seemed to have taken an interest in bullying Abra due to being jealous of her popularity. Despite Abra not caring about this nor Starlet's poor attempts at bullying, Astra still saw it as his duty to try and defend Abra, which in turn got Starlet to begin to target him as well.

She keeps calling him a weirdo with tiny horns and Astra fights back by telling her that at least he has two of them.

...Which doesn't work.

Why would a unicorn want two horns?

Cosmo - Little Sister

Cosmo is Astra's little baby sister and she acts just like that.

He only hangs out with her because he has to and they often have a lot of sibling squabble, with Cosmo getting away with just about anything because of being the younger sibling while Astra often gets scolded for not being responsible enough.

They get somewhat along, but Cosmo is very nagging of him and will use whatever excuse she can just to embarrass him in front of his friends, so Astra often avoids having her around whenever he's hanging out with his friends. She can and will spread rumors.

Stella - Mother

Stella is Astra's mother, who often questions where she went wrong in her life to end up having a literally cursed child. They always got somewhat along, but ever since Astra lost his eye and exploded half of their house because of Sclera's powers, Stella has honestly no idea what to do.

She doesn't know that her son is possessed by a demon and knows that implying such a thing is a definitive way to get him taken away from them, so she remains quiet. She is absolutely terrified of his powers so she tries her best to stay on his good side and keep his mood under control.

But he's just a child... Certainly his teen years won't be worse... Right?

Orion - Father

Stern father, but too can't stand up to his terrible kid, him and Astra don't get along too well.

Orion probably wanted to practice more stern parenting habits, but Stella and Nova were always against it. At least until now.

Nova - Grandmother

Nova was Astra's grandmother who he was very close with before she passed away. While his parents were indifferent to whether he'd want to learn magic or not, Nova was always very encouraging of it, and they shared that interest in common, with Nova's past as a witch and fortune teller influencing Astra to wish to learn more,

She saw his great potential for magic and spent a great portion of his early childhood teaching him about magic and sharing her own passion for it. Even before he went to school for it, Astra already had most of the basics of magic down because of her teachings.

Nova passed very suddenly, and Astra never really had a chance to say goodbye, and his refusal to accept her death was what caused him to spiral completely and get himself cursed out of trying to find a way to bring her back.

Now that I think about it, Astra's backstory would be a lot shorter if his parents just put him in therapy when his grandmother died. I think that would certainly fix a lot of problems.

Queen of Spades - Neutral / Fear

Astra never had much to say regarding the Queen of Spades, being too young to ever take an interest in the monarch. But when him and Sclera became connected, he was told of the things the Spades Suit had done, and how much Sclera had been hurt by her.

Despite never having met the queen, Astra can't help but dislike her for the way she has treated Sclera in her past lives.