Aster Ver

Art Done by TheAlmightyTema

### Skills

Weaving Dreams, Mimicking People's Appearances and Voices, Making Tea, Calligraphy, Sewing, Haggling

## Acolyte Info

### Usable Moves

Dream Eater, Hypnosis, Psychic, Calm Mind

### Affiliation

Assisting the Celestial Scouts

Aster Ver is a character in the Pokemon Acolyte Universe, created and played by Tema. He's a Musharna Acolyte that is currently allied with the Celestial Scouts after being freed from his coma by Reve Fachur.

## Profile

### Overview

Long ago, he was a descendant of a member of the Celestica tribe; having lost his home, he made ends meet by working as a trader, a laborer and a merchant. With a Baleful Mask in hand he made his way all over the snow of Mt. Coronet with his Musharna and Hisuian Zorua in tow. However, that was over one thousand years ago…

After being struck down by an unknown sickness, he made a deal with his Musharna, Alik for the power to keep himself alive. With his body put in a deep sleep and sealed in an ice crystal stasis he wandered the realm of dreams, learning how to devour the dreams of other humans to keep himself alive. He was found by Reve, his old Zorua friend, and freed from his icy prison.

Being free from the guilded prison that were his dreams he continues to struggle to adapt to the world as it is now, assisting his friend how he can. After an incident with Team Dream, he and Reve went on the run from Wendel and are currently hidden in a dream attached to the one that Amani hides within. A winter cabin in the woods not far from the Manor.

## Personality

A calm gentleman who hides much behind his smile, Aster is a bit of a strange one. He carried a distinguished and relaxed air around him naturally, and is very approachable. When it comes to people he’s a bit more secluded, but not because he doesn’t like people, in fact he loves to socialize and be at the center of things, simply that he can get easily overwhelmed by sounds. He's rather direct, wanting to be proactive when problems arise and doesn't like to lollygag or beat around the bush. He's a diligent worker and very structured, and he wishes to be taken seriously.

He trusts others to do as expected of them and makes his expectations and feelings clear and frank. Despite this, he's not all rigidity, able to be quite a cunning person and very sarcastic and snarky when he feels so inclined. He can be a bit of an imp, never to the point of causing harm or frightening anyone, but he loves jokes and isn’t beyond giving someone the ring around. But at the end of the day he is someone who deeply, truly cares about others and wishes the best for them.

## Relationships

### People

Reve Fachur: His closest friend, in the past and the present. He formerly knew Reve as Vee, his Zorua whom he bonded to in his youth and took care of until he fell into illness and later into his coma. They were reunited recently as Reve remembered the full story of his past, remeeting Aster in the past as a human and refinding his still comatosed state in the present, freeing him from his prison. Aster feels an incredible amount of care and protection toward Reve, worrying very much about his health and making sure he has cared for. The two have bonded over the fact they are both people somewhat out of time, outliers of the humans and acolytes as two labelled "monsters", they continue to be their own little family, just as they had been in the past.

Amani: An acquaintance, Aster has a deal with Amani to take care and maintain Amani's dreamscape and repair it from the damage it has sustained after Amani had a brush with death. While not deeply close, the two are able to bond over the fact they both have lived for quite a long time within the realm of dreams and have made a habit of weaving dreams for people.

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### Pokemon

**Alik**: Alik is a Musharna who is his Pokemon Acolyte partner. They have been close since they first met many many years ago when Aster was just a child.

**Vee** (Former): Vee was Reve's past life as a Zorua that Aster took care of back in Hisui. They were rather close after they first met, Vee being fascinated by Aster's Baneful Fox Mask. The two began to travel together, though Aster never caught him in a pokeball. He would often stay in Aster's coat when near people or general civilization, afraid of humans after being mistreated as a symbol of ill fortune. When Aster fell ill in the Mountains he tried to get aid from the nearby villages, but failed as they lashed out at him and the Pokemon passed away in the snow, being reborn as Reve in the modern day many years later.

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### Quotes

*"I appreciate the apology, but I will say, perhaps you shouldn't so loudly broadcast your leader's weakness, hm? If I was malicious, you just gave me information I had no right to know, and I could have struck you in a way you couldn't recover from."* {Said to Ivy in #410: Dream Meets Dream}

*"Humans and Pokemon are equally beasts, they to me are no different. They are birthed, have dreams, they wish, they eat, they live, they die and they rot. Everything between that is moral division and semantics."* {Said to Reve in #452: Cabin in the Woods}

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### Headcanons

1. Aster's current voice claim is Vox Akuma from Nijisanji.
2. A strong character song for Aster is "The Dream Granter" by Vane, specifically the cover done by the musical artist UmbraticForest
3. Aster is originally from the Bavarian Region (A Made up Region based on the concept of a Germanic Region), which is where he met Alik. This explains why Aster had a Munna/Musharna while existing in the Hisui region, when that pokemon was not native to the region at all. He had brought Alik with him when he moved to the region at a very young age.
4. Aster had a tendency to stumble into shiny pokemon in his life in Hisui, however he never was able to tell the difference between them and the normal versions of pokemon due to his monochromacy.
5. Reve gifted him glasses that allow him to see color, which was the first time he had ever seen color in his life. He's having to relearn and understand all of his colors, and he couldn't be more happy about it. The world was so much more than he thought it was. Though it can sometimes get overwhelming to all look at, so he will take them off when he needs a break. {As of #452: Cabin in the Woods}
6. If asked, Aster would say that everyone's dreams have a different flavor profile to them, but usually tend to be in the vector of nightmares being "more sweet than a mouthful of powdered sugar" and dreams beings "like biting into something rich and savory". He also has admitted after the many years of being in stasis, he's much more acclimated and adapted to the taste of dreams to real food.
7. He loves classical and jazz music, and has hopes of learning to play the piano if he ever gets a moment to spare.
8. He doesn't know how to dance, though he does try his best and is still rather graceful, despite not knowing what he's doing.
9. He's not the biggest fan of being cold or hungry because of linked trauma in relation to his being stranded in a snowstorm atop mount Coronet, and having to struggle for food within the realm of dreams to keep himself alive. Because of this he still tends to wear multiple layers and keeps extra stores of real food and dream energy in case he ever were in a situation in which he would be stuck once again.
10. He is legally considered dead, and has no modern or many historical records, since most of what he did and had was lost to time with the the rest of Hisui. Aster has yet to redo any of his paperwork to get himself re-situated as he has no idea how any of that works and doesn't even know what he would need things like an "ID" for. He was able to get out of signing a contract with Team Dream for this exact reason as his signature would have no legal binding as you cannot hold someone to a contract if they are legally dead.
11. His favorite drink is tea, mostly herbal and floral ones. In the modern day they taste a lot different and is starting to warm up to coffee and other warm beverages.
12. He has a scar on his back and a slight limp from an Alpha pokemon he got when he was much younger. The scar is still there though he tends to still need a cane every now and again and supports himself on his staff.
13. He never caught any pokemon for himself, preferring to befriend them instead. The few he did catch in pokeballs were usually at the request of someone else which he gave to them in exchange for items or money.
14. Alik and Aster are psychically and mentally linked, allowing them to hear one another's thoughts and speak to one another through their minds. they have been linked so long that sometimes the overlap within them is indistinguishable. Aster's feelings and thoughts can effect Alik, and vice versa.

### Trivia

* Aster is an original character of Tema's that comes from their own original game development sphere, a nightmare creature that's inspired by Kyokoon's Reve from Dreamtalia. His original appearance outside of the Pokemon Acolyte Universe was based on the phenomena of forgetting dreams as one first wakes up from them, and this continues over into the Acolyte-verse of him being a dream weaver who devours dreams, much like he does in his source material.
* The four pointed star necklace is a nod to his outside acolyte design as well, in his original form and source material that star is essentially his heart that is often visible on any form he takes and is a way to pick him out in a crowd. It was added to his design because he didn't feel like Aster without it.
* His pokemon Alik is canonically his blood brother in his original source, which is why Alik considers Aster a brother in the Pokemon Acolyte world as well, despite the two being not even close to related.
* His listed birthday (November 19th) corresponds to the first date he was created by Tema in his original source material. They decided to carry it over as his birthday within the Acolyte world as it would be the easiest date to call his birth or creation, since in his original source he doesn't have one.
* Aster's creation and adding to the Pokemon Acolyte world was spurred on by the concern that many including many of the Celestial Scout admins and Reve himself desperately needing a therapist or someone to talk to them comfortably and without alignment to any particular way of thinking.
* Aster's original concept was he was going to be a Musharna who ran a dream themed cafe would would eat the dreams and wishes of those in exchange for something of equal value offered to him by his customers. He was going to appear upon the opening of the Celestial Scout Cafe and act as a sort of rival to the group, however this idea was scrapped.

## Gallery

Aster Ver Reference Outfits, Drawn by TemaReve finding Aster's preserved body where they had been seperated on the Mountain in the Hisuian past. Drawn by TemaAster in Hisuian Times, with his partner pokemon, Alik. Drawn by TemaAster's First Appearance in the Manor, Repairing the dream at Amani's request, but also robbing it of its color without knowing. Drawn by TemaAlik and his Musharna Alik (In human form), during the Alice in Wonderland Event, Appearing as the King and Queen of White. Drawn by TemaAster's Dreamself warping after being in the dreamscape for years, feeding off of others. Drawn by TemaDrawn by Gayson, Aster and Alik with malicious intent.