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 ==== Relationships ==== ==== Relationships ====
 +===Familial===
 +==Mother==
 +Like most Viera children born in their home forests, Aster was raised primarily by his mother with the support of the rest of the village. She was named //Venase//, and whilst they loved one another, they sometimes had a tense relationship due to his adventurousness and rule-breaking. She remained warm yet stoic on the day he was taken away by his mentor, although in private afterwards she could be overheard crying.
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 +<WRAP left 300px centeralign> <box round=.5em>{{ :character:aster_aethersong:ffxiv_dx11_t9grakld1m.png?300 |}}</box> </WRAP> Some years later, whilst defending their village from a rampaging beast, she suffered a head injury whilst separated from the other Viera. When she came to, she had lost her memory. Not remembering who she was, nor where she was, she wandered for days, eventually by chance leaving the forest and finding her way ultimately to Doma. From there, she boarded a ship to Limsa Lominsa, and offered her services as a retainer.
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 +Not recognising his mother from the passing of the years, and she with no memory of her son, Aster was unknowingly reunited with her when he took her into his employ. Giving her the retainer nickname of Pipski, she took up fishing on his behalf, and - in admiration of his ever-increasingly heroic deeds as the Warrior of Light, adopted a new name, Astrid Aethersong, in admiration.
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 +In Aster's primary canon, neither still to this day know the truth of who the other is.
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 +==Father==
 +<WRAP right 200px centeralign> <box round=.5em>{{ :character:aster_aethersong:ffxiv_dx11_usb3wyxjwc.png?200 |}}</box> </WRAP> Aster has not seen his father since he was a toddler, during the man's final visit to his village. He does not even recall his father's name //(Arjm Foixewesfv)// nor what he looks like. When Aster was around four summers of age, his father stopped returning to their village, instead opting to choose a new one with which to raise another family. As such, Aster has no idea what became of him, if he has any half-siblings from the man, nor if he is even still alive.
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 ===Platonic=== ===Platonic===
 ==Thancred== ==Thancred==
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 ===Co-WoL Verse With Phoenyx=== ===Co-WoL Verse With Phoenyx===
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 ===Co-WoL Verse With Phoenyx & Tyr=== ===Co-WoL Verse With Phoenyx & Tyr===
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 ===Co-WoL Verse With Y'dehlya=== ===Co-WoL Verse With Y'dehlya===
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 ===Co-WoL Verse With Tyr=== ===Co-WoL Verse With Tyr===
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 ===Band AU=== ===Band AU===
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 The various underworlds are all connected by rivers, and it is theoretically possible - if one had the vessel and knowledge - to sail between them, though it is a perilous journey. The only death god who can resurrect a killed god is the one from their pantheon, whom for Aster is Hades, and they must be in their own underworld, which motivates Aster to want to attempt the journey eventually. The various underworlds are all connected by rivers, and it is theoretically possible - if one had the vessel and knowledge - to sail between them, though it is a perilous journey. The only death god who can resurrect a killed god is the one from their pantheon, whom for Aster is Hades, and they must be in their own underworld, which motivates Aster to want to attempt the journey eventually.
  
-The time comes when Phoenyx is kidnapped and imprisoned by Hades. Aster seeks the aid of Y'dehlya (...) and the ferryman of the underworlds, Monroe (who has many names, but to Aster's pantheon she is Charon). Monroe demands a toll be paid, and Aster offers the last of the flowers that bloomed where he was sleeping down there - a perfect balance of light/life and dark/death, and containing a tiny fragment of his divine power.+The time comes when Phoenyx is kidnapped and imprisoned by Hades. Aster seeks the aid of Y'dehlya (Maguayan) and the ferryman of the underworlds, Monroe (who has many names, but to Aster's pantheon she is Charon). Monroe demands a toll be paid, and Aster offers the last of the flowers that bloomed where he was sleeping down there - a perfect balance of light/life and dark/death, and containing a tiny fragment of his divine power.
  
 One day, far in the future, a hero on a quest needs to unpetrify the unpetrifiable, and completes a task for Monroe to earn the flower Aster paid that day. For the hero was told: "Nothing can turn this maiden back from stone, for Hegemone is the most ancient of basilisks, except mayhap for the singular flower said to have been given by Baldr to Charon in return for passage back to his underworld." One day, far in the future, a hero on a quest needs to unpetrify the unpetrifiable, and completes a task for Monroe to earn the flower Aster paid that day. For the hero was told: "Nothing can turn this maiden back from stone, for Hegemone is the most ancient of basilisks, except mayhap for the singular flower said to have been given by Baldr to Charon in return for passage back to his underworld."
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 ===Cowboy AU=== ===Cowboy AU===
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 +Aster is the deputy to the town Sheriff (Byron). He's young and hotheaded, and when he's not working he spends a lot of time in the local saloon, The Crimson Chocobo, run by Dehlya (which he has been kicked out of for a day or two before, for bad behaviour). The town was cursed by a young woman (Monroe) hanged there long ago for suspected witchcraft, and she summoned a devil (Silas) as she died. In the present, Nigen - a bounty hunter of the supernatural - has arrived in town and made a deal with this same devil. 
 + 
 +Phoenyx, new in town, quickly falls for a local cowboy, Tyr. Aster, Dehlya, and Byron were placing bets on how long until they got together - Byron won. Shortly after, however, Tyr is afflicted by the curse, raising intense suspicion on Phoenyx. Aster confronts him in the saloon one day: 
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 +<WRAP center centeralign><blockquote footer="Cowboy AU scene">//Tipping his hat down, Aster says, "Well, now. It sure was mighty suspicious of you to waltz right into town and capture that there man's heart riiiiight before he gets cursed..." 
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 +"I don't know what in the hells is happening in this town, but it is not my fault. I won't apologize for loving him. And I'm gonna do my damn best to save him, especially since all your sorry ass seems interested in is pointing fingers instead of actually helping." 
 + 
 +"Settle down, settle down. Could just be mere coincidence that he got cursed right after you showed up." Y'dehlya tries to calm the arguments. She flicks Aster's hat off his head. "And //you// should know better than to accuse right off the bat, Mr. //Deputy Sheriff//." 
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 +Aster picks up his hat, replacing it on his head. He crosses his legs atop the table and cocks his revolver at Phoenyx. "You wanna say that again? Way I see it, shootin' you's a win-win. So I suggest you say you're sorry, and mosey on outta this here saloon 'fore my trigger finger gets twitchy." 
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 +Byron grabs Aster, looking him dangerously in the eye. //"Stand. Down."// 
 + 
 +"What the fuck is your problem?" Phoenyx responds, raising his arms. "It's really comforting to know the law enforcement here's so happy to shoot someone for calling them out on their own bullshit. Be sure to write in your report that you shot an innocent man because you had a bit too much to drink and got a little pissy." 
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 +Aster holsters his gun and looks between Byron and Phoenyx, frowning. He stands up, and strolls out, shoulder checking Phoenyx as he goes 
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 +Byron sighs and looks between Y'dehlya and Phoenyx. "I apologize for my hotheaded partner, I really do. I try my best to set him straight." He grimaces, shaking his head. "And I'm going to have to //again// now..." 
 +//</blockquote> </WRAP> 
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 +Part of the motivation for Aster's behaviour is jealousy; he's liked Tyr for a while, and is envious that a stranger has swooped into town and stolen him before he has a chance to get anywhere: 
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 +<WRAP center centeralign><blockquote footer="Cowboy AU scene">//Aster gets all up in Phoenyx's face in the street. "It's not right, dammit! I don't fucking get it! You waltz in here, up to him, and do in //days// what I couldn't-" 
 + 
 +Phoenyx backs up and says, "Look, man. I'm sorry. I don't know what your deal is or history or whatever. I just know I care about him. And whatever the hells is going on here, I ain't got nothing to do with it. We just...clicked. And I'm sorry if that hurts you, but it doesn't mean I hurt him just because it feels like the easiest solution for you." 
 + 
 +Aster grabs Phoenyx by his shirt and pulls him back closer. He looks up into his eyes, searching for //something...// "What is it about you?" he whispers to himself. 
 + 
 +Phoenyx yanks him off and pushes him away. "Get your hands off me." He growls, trying to walk away. 
 + 
 +"W-wait! Please!" Aster calls out, placing a hand on his shoulder. "I... I'm sorry... I've wronged you. I... I shouldn'ta taken my frustrations out on you... That ain't how I was raised..." 
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 +Phoenyx stops and looks at him. His expression is still dark and guarded but he softens slightly. "I..." He both wants to tell him to fuck off and to forgive him, but he can't commit to one or the other. "Yeah. Threatening to shoot me with no evidence was not cool." He settles on. 
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 +Aster looks away at the ground. "Yeah... The Sheriff's told me before about doing that... Last time he had me mucking out the stables for a week... I don't doubt it'll be twice as long this time." He kicks at the dirt. "Tell you what. Lemme make it up to you. You said you were going to find out what happened right? I may not know much about curses an' the like, but I do know this area an' all the folks in it like the back of my hand. Maybe we could work together?" 
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 ===Supernatural AU=== ===Supernatural AU===
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 +<WRAP right 200px centeralign> <box round=.5em>{{ :character:aster_aethersong:ffxiv_dx11_u9abrrevfq_edit.png?400 |}}</box> </WRAP> Aster, a vampire, is one of many students attending a college for supernatural beings. 
 + 
 +Born as a regular mortal, he had not long moved out to go to university when he found himself the subject of a certain miqo'te's attention. Unbeknownt to Aster, G'raha Tia - the man flirting with him - was part of a long line of vampires, and was out 'hunting' alone for the first time in his life. Having successfully seduced the viera back to Aster's own bedroom, G'raha proceeded to bite him. However, as the man struggled and cried out in pain, the vampire found himself faltering. Unable to see it through and drain him completely of blood, G'raha fled, leaving Aster to pass out and undergo a transformation into a vampire himself. 
 + 
 +Waking up the next morning, Aster attempted to open his curtains, only to find the light caused searing pain. Quickly shutting them again, he tried to check the mirror, only to find himself reflectionless. Upon pressing his fingers to his neck, he found the twin puncture marks left there. Despite struggling to come to terms with what seemed to have happened - given vampires were supposed to be just myths and fantasy - Aster is forced to accept it as he grows weaker by the day. Regular food is now unpalatable to him, and his body instinctively rejects it. Unable to continue his studies or engage with the world due to the confines of nighttime, he finds himself homeless and starving, seeking shelter on the streets all alone in a wet cardboard box. 
 + 
 +That was when a representative from the school found him, and offered him a place and a home there. 
 + 
 +What Aster was not expecting, however, was to be placed as dormmates with the very man who had turned him to begin with. The viera refuses to speak to G'raha at first, things tense, but as the days and weeks go by, he eventually relents and softens, learning more about the miqo'te's background and culture, and eventually developing feelings for him. At last he plucked up the courage to ask G'raha out, and the pair began dating. 
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 +Their other roommate is Byron, a werewolf, placed with the two vampires due to the races' historical animosities, as part of a 'Fostering Interspecies Relations' programme. The two vampires have bedrooms with coffins, rather than traditional beds, and their shared living area contains a small fridge with blood pouches for the pair. 
 + 
 +In his life at the college, Aster makes several friends: Y'dehlya, an elemental; Monroe, a shapeshifter; Phoenyx, a 'mortal' with telekinesis and other powers; Nigen, a demon (though their friendship is tenuous at best); Silas, a half-vampire, half-weredragon; Tyr, a weredragon; and August, another weredragon. 
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 +As a vampire who was turned, rather than someone who was born one, Aster's eyes typically remain their normal blue, and his teeth their normal length, until he either feeds or his vampiric instincts are triggered. Then, his eyes shift to crimson, and his teeth lengthen into the typical vampires fangs. 
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 +In addition, given his mortal upbringing, Aster is often one of the few members of his friend group (along with Phoenyx) who ends up teaching the others about life, customs, and activities in the mortal world. Whilst he is usually bubbly and overjoyed to teach them how to celebrate the various holidays, due to his family believing him to be dead, he can be found curled up with a photo of them and crying at certain times of the year, such as Starlight. 
  
 ===Alien AU=== ===Alien AU===
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 ===Cyberpunk AU=== ===Cyberpunk AU===
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 ===Final Fantasy XVI AU=== ===Final Fantasy XVI AU===
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 ===Alternate Shadbowbringers - Bite AU=== ===Alternate Shadbowbringers - Bite AU===
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 ===Blood Lily AU=== ===Blood Lily AU===
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 ===Silasverse=== ===Silasverse===
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 ===BNUUYVERSE=== ===BNUUYVERSE===
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 +===Vampires and Werewolves and Elementals, Oh My! - Medieval Supernatural AU===
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 +===Mirrorverse===
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 +===Space Pirates AU===
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 +===Jurassic Park AU===
 +<WRAP right 200px centeralign> <box round=.5em>{{ :character:aster_aethersong:ffxiv_dx11_bjch9uqnat.png?400 |}}</box> </WRAP> Dr. Aster Aethersong, a specialist in gene therapy and gene-based medicine is flying back from a conference, where he had met one Dr. Byron Attikos (who had coincidentally ended up in the hotel room next to his, and whom he had tentatively spent a few evenings with during the event). The pair end up sitting next to one another on the flight, by complete happenstance.  Unfortunately, their flight crashes onto Isla Nublar, an island which had once been the site of a planned park full of genetically-recreated dinosaurs. The park lies abandoned and the dinosaurs loose.
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 +The plane splits upon crashing, with the section containing a party of teenagers (returning from a school trip) becoming separated from most of the rest of the passengers.
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 +Aster and Byron learn the hard way the dangers of their new surroundings, when an attack early on injures the latter's arm, and Dr. Aethersong puts his medical knowledge to use patching the man up.
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 +Having found the schoolchildren attempting to hole themselves up in the park's main building, the pair make their way towards the breaker room to attempt to restore power to the security systems to protect them. As they make their way through the kitchen en route, they are set upon by raptors. As one lunges for Byron, Aster desperately shoves the man out of the way, taking a fatal claw to his stomach. Knowing that his disembowling will be fatal, as he collapses to the floor he gives Byron an apologetic look and whispers, //"Please, go."//
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 +Byron nods, still in shock but with tears already streaming down his cheeks, and manages to say - before taking off and not looking back - is a strained, //"I love you..."// Byron does his best to cover his ears as he flees, so the last thing he hears from Aster isn't the cacophony of agonised screams the man lets out as he's torn apart alive. 
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