Princess Astral

Princess Astral of Athenia often referred to as Princess Astral or just simply Astral is the main protagonist of the short-lived Nickelodeon fantasy sitcom, The Other Kingdom. She's the princess of Athenia who gets curious about the human life in the "other" world (and falls in love with a teenage "other" named Tristan) and decides to travel to the human world for the full experience. While having to choose between whether to stay in the human world forever, or return home and become Athenia's newest queen, after 90 days.
She was portrayed by Esther Zynn.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Astral grew up in the nature-themed kingdom of Athenia. She was raised by her parents King Oberon and Queen Titania, and with her parents being the rulers of the Athenia, this made her a princess by default. As a child, she was extremely excited about being a princess, and initally thought it would be "gowns, and fancy balls, and handsome princes", but as she grow older, she was taught about the importance of protecting the inhabitants of her homeland, and she would grow up to be more knowledgable and respectful towards the land her fellow citizens, and grew an affection for nature and animals. 
Her parents were distrustful of humanity or "others" as they call them, due to how insensitive they used to be to fairies in the past, as well as their constant disrespect of nature. Astral was an only child, though she had a close relationship with her cousin Brendoni who was half-fairy, half-troll and would constantly embarrass or humililate her with his varied pranks, though he still deeply cared about and loved Astral.
She and Brendoni would ocassionally sneak off to the "other" world, and fly over Thesus High as fairy spites undetected. Brendoni would often cause mischief towards the students, while Astral was interested and affection for a student named Tristan.
===Curiousity with the "Other" World===
One day, Astral and Brendoni would sneak off to the "other" world as spites once again. This time, Astral would save Tristan from falling from some high rings during gymnastics. Astral and Brendoni return to Athenia, only to get caught by Oberon and Titania and forced to explain where they've been. After Brendoni reveals that Astral has a crush on a high school gymnast, Oberon bans Astral from ever returning to the others' realm, as a way to ensure she's prepared to become princess of Athenia, and forces Brendoni to stay in Athenia until he learned to properly watch out for her. 
Astral confronts her mother, the queen about about how unfair the ban was to her, and the latter explains that the "others" can't remember they were once their guides and shows Astral a cave filled with crystaled memories of other fairies who left their kingdom -- including herself -- claiming the crystals contained all the knowledge she needed about humans, but Astral insists on personal experience in the human world to meet up with her crush, and flies away to the other world in anger after getting into an argument with her mother. She cools down, returns to homeland in Athenia, confronts her father again, and requests to have her "other walk", which would grant her 90 days within the human world to learn about the others' ways.
Although Oberon was willing to compromise, Titania said it was too dangerous and risky but reluctantly agrees. Oberon made Astral promise to keep her fairy identity and powers a secret, as they'd lead to great danger if she got discovered. At the end of the 90 day walk, she'd have to make a choice over whether she'd stay in the human world forever, or return home to be Athenia's new queen. Astral's accompanied by Oswald who would look out for Astral and keep her safe while staying hidden, and provided a crystal to record her journey and lessons she learned into. Astral's parents and Edgar the Giant wish her the best of luck, while Versitude, who was present during Astral's departure, just glares at her in silence in the background.
Astral arrives at the Quince house in normal human clothing instead of her fairy princess outfit, supposedly as Devon's British exchange student. Devon would initially get confused, and his father would supposedly call the Student Exchange Program lady -- which was actually Versitude disguising her voice-- to clear up the mix-up, and Versitude claimed Astral was indeed the right student. Oswald's secretly accompaning Astral, but he was shrunken down to miniature size to avoid being detected by the others.
===Experineces in the "Other" World===
Throughout the next few days, Astral would try to adjust to being in the "other" world and attending high school, wondering how people would react to finding out her secret and just wanting to fit in. While at the same time, she slowly discovered her own identity and who she was.
At school, Devon would complain about being invisible and not having any girls notice him, to which Astral would charm some girls into loving him as an attempt to help. Another student named Hailey Grimm would offer to be Astral's unofficial mentor and help her fit in as long as her followed her lead. She'd give Astral a makeover and teach her about the teen groups, but she'd prevent Astral from hanging out with Tristan, and try to separate her from Morgan and Devon. Astral would soon realize she was happier with her true friends and decide she wanted to be with them, and ditched a party she was invited to.
The next day at school, Astral would think about joining and soon take part in planning the Fall Dance committee as a way to be more social with people, and when Oswald (hidden in Astral's locker) gets hungry after Astral gave away his oatmeal, he'd secretly escape her locker, trying to hunt some food, only a get sidetracked in trying to rescue some frogs from disscetion and stuck in the glass crate. When Astral returns to her locker later to realize Oswald was missing, she'd create a magic founder orb to track him down, but Morgan would catch Astral doing so, making her realize Astral was hiding something. Upon seeing Astral talking with Oswald, she'd piece together that Astral was fairy much to her delight and Astral would explain a part of her heritage to her and make Morgan promise to keep her identity a secret for her protection, which she agrees to.
Upon noticing Hailey hanging out with Tristan, she states she didn't want to picture them together. The next day, Astral would try to go a café known as "Snugs" with Morgan but Mr. Quince would make her stay home to brush up on her geography with Devon tutoring her, since her grades in geography were slipping and she was at risk of failing the class. But Astral would secretly charm Devon into thinking Oswald was Astral, while she snuck out to the café with Morgan. But things quickly went wrong when Oswald proves to be uncooperative and his charm eventually wears off and Astral and Morgan get in trouble with Hailey accidently starting a food fight. Devon would try to bail Astral out, only for him to end up in trouble as well, having to wait for his father to pick him up. When Mr. Quince picked Devon and Astral up, he was rightfully upset with both of them and made them keep studying for the rest of the day as a punishment. Hailey would get curious about Astral's abnormal manner and gain a determination to figure out her secret.
Her feelings of envy towards would strengthen when she Gigi, and Astral and Morgan each demonstrated their ideas for the Fall Dance to Principal Maddie Williams -- Hailey's aunt, and Hailey notices Astral floating and tries to tell Mrs. Williams about Astral's floathinf and overall strangenss to no avail. Astral would try to clear up a confusion with Tristan in the gym, and impress him with her gymnastic skills, only to accidently make him feel bad, and get him upset with her. After letting out her frustration over her confusion of humanity and stress of being a future queen, and accidently causing an incident at school resulting in the students being let out early, Hailey would go to Devon's house to try getting some information on Astral. The next day at school, Astral would apologize to Tristan and manage to makes amends with him and nearly show affection for each other, only for her cousin Brendoni (sent to the "other world" after failing to learn his lesson about respecting "others") to turn up at school and ruin the moment. Astral would flip out again and lose control of her powers, allowing Hailey to capture Astral using her powers on her phone.
Astral and Devon would try to bring Brendoni in and settle him down before he caused too much trouble, while Hailey tries and fails to reveal Astral's powers to Principal Williams and the school with the video she captured. Although Hailey's video captured the attention of a television crew for a conspiracy show that offers Astral a chance to show off her powers on live TV and get famous, although during shooting, Astral would a pose and ask if they'd add special effect for the "magic", as a quick and clever way to hide her powers from the school and city. Brendoni and Devon would soon come to terms with each other as Brendoni settles down and is offered a stay in the Quince residence. While alone in her room late that night, Versitude confronts Astral and chewed her out for nearly endangering Athenia. She threatened to end her time in the other world early, and harm Astral's friends if she ever had a similar incident. 
When Astral gets a cold one day and loses control over her fairy powers while at school -- despite Morgan's pleas to stay home until she got better -- it causes a lot of crazy sitations such as her hidden companion Oswald returning to normal size and getting hired to be a substitute history teacher, but it also caused some chaos, which includes Tristan turning into mouse and nearly getting killed. Versitude turns up and freezes time and everyone around her but Astral, and once again scolds Astral for nearly exposing herself and placing Athenia at risk, and for not staying home as recommended to prevent the chaos from get out of hand in the first place. She stated that one day her feelings would cause her great pain, but still reverses Astral's magic and semi-restores order. She also fires Oswald from being Astral's protector and assigns him a new task of "aligning the kingdoms" back in Athenia, stating that she'd be watching her Astral herself as her new guardian.
As she begins to form a geneiue relationship with Tristan she watches a bunch of rom-coms trying to learn some tips for a nice date. But when she tries to follow various rom-com tropes it just causes all kinds of trouble and mishaps towards her and Tristan, including the two of them getting kicked out of a movie and Tristan slipping and hurting his ankle. Although they still managed to end the night on a good note, thanks to Astral's love and knowledge of nature, her good heart and friendliness and Tristan helping her to replant a flower. Versitude was secretly spying over Astral and her actions the entire day.
Astral decides to throw a girls' night, for a casual hangout with Brendoni, but after deciding to invite a few more people over, the gathering gets out of hand and becomes a house party. Morgan feels left out after their plans were interfered and temporarily ends her friendship with Astral, although she's able to patch things with her by having the mini-gathering she wanted. She then gets envious upon seeing Tristan with Hailey again. 
Mr. Quince catches everyone in the house, and kicks everyone out while grounding Astral, Devon and Brendoni. While cleaning up, Astral would ask Brendoni to help her out and create a potion to make Tristan fall in love with her, with he agrees to at school. The love spell quickly gets out of hand making Tristan lose himself, forcing Astral and Brendoni to reverse the spell's effects. Back at the Quince residance, Astral would come across the plans for Mr. Quince's construction center in Evermoor Woods, which would potentially destroy the forest and her home: Athenia.
===Fighting for Athenia===
Astral tries to talk Mr. Quince out of building the center in those woods, but he justifies his actions by saying it would help nature, and the Woods were a reasonable spot. Astral warns her parents about the impending doom, and insists on staying in the human world to try and protect the kingdom, despite her parents initially wanting her to return to Athenia. Back in Athenia, Oberon and Titania wanted to plan for the worst. Titania wanted to evacuate everyone to another realm, but Versitude objected claiming most of the other realms were too far away and Spartania, the closest realm, had a frosty relationship with the Athenians. She wanted to start a war against humanity, which naturally Oberon and Titania refuse to let happen. They place their faith in Astral to save the kingdom, which Versitude states is crazy since as she was a child. Astral and her teammates are able to sneak into Mr. Quince work place, and crawling through an airvent over Mr. Quince's office and crashing through the ceiling into his room, Astral's would glimpse Quince and business workers to wipe the last 30 seconds from their memories, but they didn't stop the planning. So when Mr. Quince uses the restroom, only to Brendoni to lock him in, Astral, Morgan and Brendoni would go into Mr. Quince's office and briefly take off to explain how generations grew up with those trees, and more would continue to do so if they made the right choice. At the end of the day, Astral's parents noticed how she had proven herself to be a leader with her bravery and courage, though Versitude claims their affection of their daughter was blinding her and she was still too young to fight the grave threat, Titania initially dismisses her, though she claims she just wanted what was best for Athenia, Oberon kept fate in her as she was rarely wrong.
The construction for the research center is later was announced to be turned down, saving Athenia. But when Devon overhears the gang cheering over his father's project being down, and finds out they were the cause of the project being turned down, he gets mad and Astral and Morgan and gives them the silent treatment. They try to explain they had no other choice, but once again he doesn't want to hear it. This forces Astral's to reveal her fairy identity to him (and Brendoni being part-fairy-part-troll), which still leaves him upset, especially since he felt like she was keeping secrets from her. It takes a personal encounter with Astral queen's mother to sort things out, as she makes Devon promise not to tell anyone about what he saw, or about Astral's true fairy identity -- including his father.
The next few days were pretty smooth with Astral having to apply for a job to earn some money to buy a dress for her fairy costume ball, and although she ended up getting fired from several jobs due to her lack of experince, she manage to score a job as a botanist due to love and knowledge of nature and plants, and became a "plant whisperer". Another day would involve Astral getting hooked into a playing dodgeball in gym class due to lack of exposure to competitive sports back in Athania. She'd end up taking the game too seriously, too the point where it would nearly unleash her inner darkness and corrupt her into being harmful and lethal to her opponents. While her parents were worried about her being exposed to her dark side too soon, Versitude had a pleased look. Thankfully, Morgan's able to talk Astral down and bring her back to her senses. Although Versitude knew Astral had a dark side, and planned to unleash it upon her permanently.
The next day at school, Astral was surprised/dismayed at how Tristan didn't believe in love and tried using her fairy powers to make various students feel affection for each other as an attempt to make Tristan see romance in action and feel the magic of the school dance, but once again see ends up going too far with the amount of people she makes fall in love and she ends up getting the school dance cancelled. At Mr. Quince's business place, Devon figured out that Evermore Woods was still the building site for the center, and that Mr. Quince left Astral in the dark about it so she wouldn't get upset. Devon was conflicted over whether to continue his father's building site or to warn Astral about the impending doom. After reluctantly finishing the designs, he run off to school to warn to Astral that the forest was once again in danger. That night, Astral would confront Mr. Quince about the danger he'd bring to forest, and after a brief argument with her, Morgan and Devon, he grows furious and reveals that King Oberon was his younger brother and he knows perfectly well about all the lives of Athenia he'd be endangering bulldozing the tree down.
That night, a loud rumbling would wake Astral, Brendoni. Devon and Peter, and King Oberon would turn up at the Quince residence personally, to confront Mr. Quince. Devon was completely shocked to find out his father's fairy indentity (along with him being Oberon's brother and his real name being Petrithon). Devon would insist to Oberon that he wasn't "one of them", although nobody knew for sure yet. Oberon assumed Devon would try to follow his father footsteps in his plan, to which Astral would defend Devon saying it was unfair to judge him based on his father. King Oberon orders to pack their belongs and return to Athenia, to which Astral would object. Peter would claim Astral's safer in the other world due to his plans for destruction and that science and technology were the future, and the way forward. He purposely decided to do his construction during the dimming/moon eclipse where the fairies would lose their powers and be unable to defend themselves.
As an alternative, Astral realized how Mr. Quince was an "other" so long, he'd forgotten about life in Athenia and decided to bring back some pleasant thoughts of nature to him hoping it would change his mind. This included giving him native food from the land, and decorating the house with plants and the spirit hoping to spark some fond memories, but it still wasn't enough to convince him to back out of the project. So then, Astral took note of how Peter Quince had to give up his crown of Athenia to be with his love in the human world, only for her to passes away shortly afterwards anyway. Astral took a different approach and decided to set Peter up with Mrs. Williams with a love spell, even though Mr. Quince was against this. She suggests that the two of them go outdoors, since it was nice day and takes them to the forest where the center was planned to be built, letting them get in some beautiful scenery as a couple, but even that didn't stop the planning for the construction. At this point, Astral was starting to lose hope she'd ever make a difference. 
As another attempt to protect their inhabitants, King Oberon and Queen Titania would resort to trying to strike a deal with Spartania during a meeting hoping they would let the Athenians evacuate there during the destruction, on the sole condition that Astral hangs out with his son Prince Cliff and made a good impression on him. Despite Astral not wanting to go along with this, she does it anyway in order to potentially help Athenia. Back in Atheina, Oberon and Titania officially settle him into Athenia and show him their closest business companions. But when King Reed of Spartania forced Princess Astral to marry his son Cliff for the deal to be official, that's where Oberon and Titania drew the line and call the deal off.
So Astral tried to convince the people around her to join her in defend Evermore Woods, although she couldn't get any supporters despite various attempts. She and her teammates get an idea to upload a video online about Evermore Woods which was a hassle, but it was worth it as it quickly gains a lot of fans due to its cats and they even support how essential the woods were to them. They're hired to do an interview with the news, which quickly becomes well-known among the town. 
Unfortunately, Astral and her teammates get locked inside the gym thanks to Versitude, as she knew Astral would be powerless and not be able to use her powers in time. Despite her and Tristan (and the rest of her teammates) trying to find a way to escape in time through a window, it didn't quite work out. There were several different attempts from the classmates to escape and join the townsfolk and fighting for Evermoor Woods, none of which were successful. They barely make it out of the gym thanks to someone opening the door from the outside, and Astral got the protestors to form a chain blocking the tree. When Devon was in front of the bulldozer and Astral pushed him out of the way, only to get her foot stuck, that grabbed the workers' attention --including Mr. Quince-- as the stopped the machine and helped Astral out. The eclipse ends, and Peter regrets his actions and calls off the building plans. 
At the fairy-themed high school costume ball, Brendoni and Astral are voted the King and Queen of the fall dance, although Brendoni didn't really care about being king of the dance, so Astral just decided to look for Tristan and dance with him. When she finds Tristan he expresses how much he admires how optimistic and selfless Astral is, and feels like she hasn't met the real her. So then Astral reveals her fairy princess identity to her, and he reveals he's actually a fairy as well, and they fall deeply in love and kiss each other. Just then, King Reed, Versitude and Astral's parents show up and a spell's cast so they, Astral and Tristan are the only ones in the room. Versitude's chastised by Oberon and Titania for not informing them Tristan was a Spartanian. Astral's parents inform her that Tristan's the long-lost Prince of Spartania and son of King Reed. He was destined to bring doom to Athenia, although he didn't want to, and is forcefully taken away by Reed back to Spartania, leaving Astral all alone.
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