Asha

## Asha Holly Diserto

Asha is the queen of Diserto and connected to the restored Spirit Ember. She was made by SimplyDiamond--.

## Appearance

Asha is an dark-skinned girl with long, bright orange hair that is constantly tousled and tangled around her tiara, which is a golden circlet with a heart-shaped ruby in the middle of it. In her "princess" design, she wears a baggy red romper, bare feet and no tiara. Around her waist is a thin leather belt with a golden teardrop-shaped ornament, and her hair has bangs/fringe. In her "queen" design, her hair is a little longer, and now she has sandals and a red halter dress. This is also when she started wearing the tiara. In her current design, she no longer has bangs/fringe, and she wears her hair in a very, very long ponytail. She wears cream-colored, floaty pants and a sleeveless cream top with a keyhole. She no longer wears the sandals.

## Personality

Asha is fundamentally sweet but aggressive. She is extremely extroverted, and will be friendly up until someone is unkind to her or a member of her group, at which point she will latch on and refuse to leave them alone until they apologize - or, depending on the severity of the action, she could actually attack them. It takes a lot for her to attack, so you better be ready to defend yourself if she attacks you. However, in peacetime she's bubbly, bouncy, sweet and protective. She partially thinks of herself as everyone's mother, attempting to look after everyone at once and make sure none of them argue or get hurt.

## Powers and Abilities

### Pyrokinesis and Heat Resistance

Asha has fire powers, naturally. She can create fire, she can hold it in her hand, she can manipulate it, and she can even wrangle flames that did not originate from her (to some degree.) She also has a degree of resistance to fire and heat. She burns less easily and gets hot less easily. If she were to be trapped in a fire, there would be a 40% chance of her escaping.

### Hand-to-hand Combat

Asha knows a strange mixture of tricks from various martial arts - throws from jujitsu and aikido, blocks and stances from karate, grip breaks from karate, judo and aikido, and more. She also carries a large knife in her pocket and has a rudimentary knowledge of how to fight with it, although it's a last resort for her rather than a main way of fighting.

## Backstory

Asha was the first child of Queen Aithne and King Xanthus of Diserto. They homeschooled her extremely well - she didn't do a lot of actual schoolwork, but she loved facts. She read constantly, and when her younger sister, Cyra was born, she taught the toddler to love reading too. She gradually developed other interests, such as drawing, comic books and cosplaying, and was very happy. But she still hardly ever did schoolwork and had only one friend (Glimmer), so her parents made her go to school. She made many friends, a lot of whom she kept even when they were adults and it was time for her to be crowned queen and the others to pursue other things.

But throughout her entire life there was a shadow hanging over her: she was the crown princess. She always had to be perfect in public, set a good example for Cyra, and above all keep from losing control of her power. Because her family were the descendants of the Fire Princess of the legend, and it had taken them five hundred years to be trusted fully by the rest of the world after that incident. When Asha was eight years old, her parents allowed her to connect to the Spirit Ember with the understanding that she would learn to use her magic and keep it under control. A few months later, two boys her age decided to tease her and call her names at an event, and given that she had not yet been socialized, she got very angry. Her temperature rose incredibly high for the first time ever. She punched them both, and chased them when they ran away. She lost control of her magic and wound up setting the palace on fire. Her father and some other adults put out the fire (with water) while her mother chased her. Asha ran straight to the pond on the castle grounds and jumped in before Queen Aithne could stop her. That day, her parents told her the legend of the ancient Fire Princess. And after that conversation, Asha wasn't the same. She was still as cheery and sweet, but she started to be afraid that she'd mess up again. To this day, she carries the fear that she'll hurt someone she cares about.

## Trivia

* Asha likes to cosplay in her spare time.
* Asha's backstory took a lot of inspiration from the Legend of the Fire Princess graphic novel - multiple aspects of her backstory were put there simply because they made sense as to what a descendant of the Fire Princess might think if she knew what her ancestor did.
* Asha loves to draw - mostly fanart, but other things too.