Navdeep

**Navdeep** is an asura boy who worked for Meenakshi and was Hira's foster brother for a time. He makes a brief appearance in *Aru Shah and the Song of Death*.

## **History**

### **Fostering Hira**

Navdeep's family began fostering Hira at some point via the Otherworld Foster Care System.

## The Pandava Quintet

### **Aru Shah and the Song of Death**

Navdeep and his friends confront Aru Shah, Brynne Rao, Mini Kapoor-Mercado-Lopez, and Aiden Acharya in the New Jersey Swamp Area. Navdeep tries to keep Aru, Mini, Brynne, and Aiden from reaching the Ocean of Milk, saying he has orders from Lady M. When Mini calls Meenakshi a monster, Navdeep has Hira transform into her to show the group that Meenakshi is not the monster they think she is. Hira transforms back, and Navdeep's friends insult Hira's looks, implying she looks ugly. Brynne blows Navdeep and his friends into the mud, and the Pandavas and Navdeep's group engage in a fight. Navdeep's group is defeated, and they retreat.

## **Appearance**

Navdeep is a teenaged asura boy. He wears a dark hoodie with two holes cut out of the top, where his black horns protrude.

## **Personality**

Navdeep makes fun of other people often in an abrasive tone. He acts unkindly to Hira, his foster sister, in front of his friends, insulting her and the fact that she doesn't have a real family. However, Hira says that Navdeep is actually nicer than he acts.

## **Relationships**

### **HIRA** (former foster sister)

Navdeep treated Hira unkindly when he was with his friends; however, Hira says that Navdeep was nicer to her when his friends weren't aroud and let her have the bigger piece of dessert sometimes. Navdeep and Hira didn't appear to have a particularly close bond.

### **ARU SHAH** (enemy, classmate)

Navdeep mocks Aru and her friends. saying that the Pandavas are "pathetic", and laughs at them. Aru dislikes Navdeep for the way he makes fun of Hira. Later, Aru realizes that Navdeep is in her homeroom class at Augustus Day.

### **BRYNNE RAO** (enemy)

Navdeep mocks the Pandavas, saying that they are "pathetic", and laughs at them. Brynne calls Navdeep and his friends "pigs" for their mistreatment of Hira and blows them into the mud, enjoying their torment, and is eager to engage them in a fight.

### **MINI KAPOOR-MERCADO-LOPEZ** (enemy)

Navdeep mocks the Pandavas, saying that they are "pathetic", and laughs at them. After Navdeep and his friends are defeated in a fight, Mini yells after them, "IT WAS NOT NICE TO MEET YOU!"

### **AIDEN ACHARYA** (enemy, classmate)

Navdeep makes fun of Aiden, calling him the Pandavas' "lackey". After defeating Navdeep and his friends, Aiden realizes that Navdeep was his lab partner in honors biology at Augustus Day.

## **Powers**

### **Asura Magic**

Navdeep and his friends seem to have some kind of magic to a certain extent. For example, when they first run into Aru, Mini, Brynne and Aiden, Aru says that the asura boys magically appeared from the trees, even though the trees were too thin to hide them. Another asura makes a jet of water shoot out from the ground; it is assumed that Navdeep can do this as well.

## **Trivia**

* Navdeep is a unisex name which means "new light" or "new lamp"