Josie Aster

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"*I will not disappoint him. I can’t. I’ll continue to persist until I succeed. He deserves it, it’s the least I can do for him.*"
―Josie's thoughts following Svjetlo's death

## Josie Aster

* Divine/Current
* WWIV
* WWIV2
* Original

## Information

### Nicknames

* Josie Roka (Birth name)
* Jo (Max)
* Her Reverence Queen Josie, the god of death (title)
* Aithne (alias)

## Characteristics

### Likes

* Ramen
* Snow
* Cold weather
* Singing
* Dancing
* Music
* Hot Chocolate

### Dislikes

* Over enthusiastic people
* Srijan not taking care of himself
* Being underestimated
* Cowards
* Traitors

### Abilities

* Warping
* Umbrakinesis
* Power over limbo
	+ Omnipotence
	+ Omnipresence
* Limited Regeneration

## Professional status

### Occupation

* Queen of Alrasid
* Leader of Semayi
* Head Upper Demon
* Citizen of Gellis (former)

## Relationships

### Friends

Ormr Keres
James Venenum
Tanwen Ala †
Acteus Heolstor

### Romantic interests

Crest Sova (ex-fiance, former)
Maximon Sciuridae (ex-boyfriend, soulmate, former)†
Srijan Aster (husband)

### Enemies

Kamali Kaneko †
Thada †
Evasis Agharna

## Other

### Genshin Counterpart

Arlecchino
Raiden Shogun

**Josie Aster** (formerly Josie Roka) is one of the main antagonists of World World lore. She was born in Gellis and first made an appearance in *World World IV* as one of the primary protagonists. She was previously close friends with Clarkie and is the current leader of *The Delegation*, Queen of *Alrasid*, and leader of *Semayi*. She is currently living in Semayi and is married to Srijan Aster as well as being Alfie's adoptive mother.

## Appearance

Throughout her time in Lore, Josie has gone through several different appearances. She formerly used her abilities to travel incognito between worlds in search of someone able to overthrow the gods with her. Her height and gender are the only two factors that have remained consistent throughout her appearances.

#### Original Appearance:

In her original appearance, Josie commonly wears formal attire with white and blue accents. She has snow white hair and bright orange-gold eyes that were described by Marnina as "fiery." According to Vyn, she had a much more pure and gentle aura around her. She was cheerful and shy, though got enthusiastic around those she knew well and trusted.

#### World World IV:

In her first canonical appearance, she had long, ginger hair, dull blue eyes, and wore a gray and white skirt along with a gray sweatshirt. She carried with her a long silver spear and was much colder than she previously was. She appeared disinterested and bored most of the time, though still remained friendly and outgoing.

#### World World V (I):

Upon arriving in World World V, Josie's appearance had changed drastically. She wore a black plaid skirt, a black sweatshirt, and simple white shoes. Her hair was a dark, abyssal black fading to a blood red. As stated by Marnina, Josie never opened her eyes. This was somewhat disturbing to most, though it never seemed to bother her. Despite this, she was able to see and interact with the world around her perfectly fine.

Eventually, she opened her eyes, revealing the same fiery gold eyes from her original appearance. This appearance shift was due to her ability to cross the interdimensional barrier rather than project an image of herself through it.

#### World World V (II):

After being returned to Gellis, Josie's hair returned to snow white, although that is the only noticeable change.

#### World World V (III):

After being converted to a divine being, Josie's appearance shifted to mimic that of her predecessor, Svjetlo Scuro. The left half of her hair remained snow white while the other half dropped to a dark black. Her color shifted from bright gold to heterochromatic white and black, contrasting the color of her hair. Additionally, while she typically wears formal clothing, she wears a daisy in her hair gifted to her by Srijan. She additionally wears his jacket, also gifted by him.

## Personality

In her early years in Gellis, Josie was shown to be very enthusiastic, excited and determined. She was positive, despite the abuse she received from her father. She was persistent and determined, refusing to give up in everything she set her mind to. She was hopeful for the future and heavily loyal, she unquestioningly followed Queen Thada's instructions to a fault regardless of if they were at her own expense. Josie was extremely caring toward her siblings, both older and younger, and seemed to idolize her elder brother Vyn. She admired everything he did and would often follow him around whenever both of them had free time. She felt inferior to him, and often compared herself to him when they were apart. Following her family's escape from Gellis, she grew more jaded, paranoid, and protective. She was untrusting, though remained cheerful and determined. She had little pride and poured all of her energy into ensuring her younger siblings were safe. Though as her journey throughout the countless worlds progressed, she grew callous and vengeful. She began neglecting her younger siblings, her caring side seemingly having vanished.

After meeting Srijan, she was forced to put aside the pride and arrogance that she had built up to follow him, and as the two grew closer, the warm and caring side of her resurfaced. Currently, Josie is kind, strict, rigid, distant, caring, intimidating, and somewhat contradictory. Though loving and thoughtful toward Srijan and Alfie, she avoids and speaks harshly to Vyn. She treats her friends with respect and loyalty, doing whatever she can to assist them.

Josie also shows a tremendous amount of respect for the dead. As she works with souls daily, she offers them companionship during their time in limbo. With Clarkie, she shows that she is able to put aside things that matter to her in order to accommodate Clarkie's comfort.

## Biography

Josie was born in Gellis to Kebero and Riya Roka. She lived a happy life, and aspired to be a performer. She studied various art forms and eventually joined a band called Noir Tokala where she played guitar, bass and sang. She formed a deep bond with the other members of the group and would often spend most of her free time practicing or spending time with them. She followed Vyn around the rest of the time and hung on every word her older brother said. She was often left in charge of supervising her younger siblings whenever her parents and elder siblings were busy with work or other official matters. When she turned one hundred her father took her out on a walk and gifted her a pair of headphones he said her grandfather wished for her to have. Josie graciously accepted the gift, unaware of the identity of her grandfather.

Later, toward the beginning of Lore, Josie was home alone looking after her younger siblings when an officer appeared at the door and claimed that they were under arrest for suspected treason. Confused and afraid, Josie asked for more clarification, although before she was able to receive a proper answer Vyn appeared and attacked the guard before telling Josie to take Tonia, Teucer, and Anthon and run. She listened, and ran as Vyn held off the officer and accompanying direwolves. Josie assumed Vyn had been killed as she never heard from him after, and she fled to the neighboring nation Alrasid, where Svjetlo welcomed her and allowed her to stay there for a few centuries. News finally reached her of what had happened, Thada had wrongfully accused her family of an assassination attempt and was looking to punish them accordingly. Josie grew bitter at the thought of unjustly being punished and began thinking of ways to overthrow Thada.

Despite her insistent asking, Svjetlo refused to help. Instead, he suggested that she get some fresh air and think about it with a clear mind. He then gave her the ability to spiritually project herself so that she and her siblings could travel to other worlds. he intended for this to be a way for her to sightsee and relax whilst he talked with Thada and figured out the situation at hand. However, Josie used his ability to travel between worlds in search of someone who could help her overthrow Thada. She traveled through hundreds of worlds and nations before finally finding Earth. During her time on Earth she made countless friends who she was unable to save from their impending deaths. She was forced to watch each and every one of them fall to their own demise while she stood helplessly to the side. She directed this rage toward Thada and grew even more bitter.

She continued her search and ended up settling down in a small town the locals called "The Hub." There, she met Sarah, Kira, and Clarkie and became swift friends with each of them. She lived happily there for a while, although it wasn't long before strange tentacles and moss began spreading around the world. Clarkie seemed tied to one of them while Kira to the other. The corruption continued to spread until eventually, Clarkie moved away from the rest of the town, fearing that the corruption she carried would spread to the others and endanger her friends. Josie and Sarah sought her out, although were unable to. Worried about her friend, Josie began searching for ways to counter the source of the corruption: a sort of hybrid created by someone Clarkie called "the Professor." She had voiced her hatred toward the professor to Josie multiple times, saying that she wished she could strangle him and that he was the entire reason she, Kira, and the hybrid who corrupted her even existed.

One day, a voice appeared in Josie's head, Jessie introduced herself and the two formed an alliance over wishing for the hybrid and the professor to be defeated. Together, they made a potion and compass which would lead them to Clarkie's destination. Sarah and Josie took the potion and compass and followed the needle to what seemed to be a small section of wasteland. Clarkie had corrupted nearly four chunks of the world, and actively avoided Sarah and Josie as they attempted to coax her into drinking the potion. Finally, Josie convinced her and the hybrid let out a blood curdling shriek before she vanished with the promise of returning. Relieved, Sarah and Josie rushed toward Clarkie, although Clarkie immediately backed away from them, confused and frightened by her surroundings. She claimed to have no knowledge of who either were, and seemed to have lost all memory of herself.

The two brought Clarkie back to her home and Josie began visiting her daily in hopes of rekindling some of her memories. Eventually she discovered that certain environments recovered certain memories. Clarkie described the memories as being locked behind a door and whenever she came upon a scene that she recognized, a lock would fall from the door. Eventually, her memories were unlocked, but she grew fearful of her effect on her friends and the surrounding town. She locked herself in her home and refused any visitors. But despite this, Josie still visited daily and sat down on her porch until Clarkie opened the door to allow her entry. She stayed beside Clarkie and helped her work through every odd side effect that had begun manifesting. They parted ways when Josie decided to move on in search of someone who could help her overthrow Thada.

After moving out and settling down in a small home in the snowy mountains, Josie began wandering and ended up on one fateful day in a village called Taraxacum. There she met Sunny, Quinn, and Sadie. The next time she visited Taraxacum, there were whispers about Quinn's older brother visiting. And from what Josie could tell, he didn't seem like good news. He seemed to be after a small stone called The Soul Stone. Sadie and Sunny both agreed that Josie was likely the last person he would suspect to have it, so they gave it to her to safeguard. When Srijan appeared, he asked about the stone and began blowing up the village when no one would give them an answer. Josie became somewhat infatuated with Srijan and believed that he could help her in her long term goal. She then betrayed Sunny and Sadie and gave the stone over. The two were furious and captured her as Srijan vanished. They tortured her until Marnina appeared to rescue her. Josie was eventually freed and she fled to her home where she then penned a message to Srijan asking him to speak. They exchanged words, and although they didn't get along and seemed to be at odds with each other, they settled on a tentative alliance.

During one of her journeys away from home, she one day returned to find a stranger in her house. The stranger morphed into the appearance of Srijan, who she then tentatively talked to before threatening. The person then revealed their identity to be Alfie as a fae, he had seen that she was someone who cared for nature as Josie had been feeding, helping and taking care of the local fox population. The two formed a friendship and business deal: in exchange for small trinkets and money, Alfie would do housework around her small mountain abode while she was away. The two went ice skating multiple times together as well before Vyn summoned Alfie for reasons Josie did not know.

Following their alliance, Srijan mostly ignored Josie as he seemed to believe that she would be of no use, he additionally believed that he had all the help he needed with the hybrid and Clarkie. Josie and Clarkie reunited, although Clarkie seemed more cheerful and skittish than Josie remembered. It was revealed that Srijan was the professor, and Clarkie believed that he was her dear friend. Josie was confused and concerned at this development and made her more determined to grow closer to Srijan. After her pestering, Srijan finally assigned her a single mission: to keep Clarkie alive. However she failed this when Svjetlo arrived in Taraxacum and killed her. Furious, Srijan yelled at her and refused to give her any further tasks, after a little more pestering, he told Josie to assemble his sisters for Quinn's funeral. She did as he asked and even organized and hosted the event. She would continue assisting him until one day he began flirting with her. Surprised and confused she allowed her admiration for him to grow into something more.

The feelings became genuine on both parts despite Srijan originally only doing this to manipulate her. They then began dating. Following this, Vyn appeared and began causing trouble for the two. He seemed intent on stopping their plan and bringing Josie back to Gellis. Srijan constantly attempted to stop him while Jessie worked to restore Clarkie to her previous self. Eventually, Clarkie gained her clarity of mind back, and Josie was tasked with returning her to Srijan. Their friendship officially ended when Josie chose Srijan over Clarkie and betrayed her in favor of the other god. Srijan still heavily relied on Anynx, although following her death, he then began to rely on Josie.

Following this, Josie met Max. Max was a simple human who didn't hold any special traits and who only wanted to live life to its fullest. Josie disliked him at first, and thought that his insistant admiration for Srijan was irritating. However eventually she began to view him as somewhat of a friend, and advised that he steer clear of Srijan for his own safety. When Max refused, she sparred him. This unintentionally caused him to begin viewing her as his new idol. Josie would continue being there for Max when Marnina and Caligo began acting hostile toward him due to his decreasing sanity. Somewhere along the line she eventually developed feelings for him. She felt torn between him and Srijan but felt that the love between her and Max was more genuine. She took a break with Srijan and dated Max for a while until his death. Struck with grief she returned to Srijan and cleared her mind of Max, insisting that whatever they had was a mere pipe dream.

During her transformation into a divine, Srijan looked after her after she had fled Semayi. During her coronation as queen of Alrsaid, he and Marnina rushed to assist her when the poison began killing her. Srijan became co leader of Semayi before the two married and he became king of Alrasid.

## Abilities

* **Warping** - Josie is able to warp between dimensions using limbo, this skill is more spiritual than it is physical, like teleportation.
* **Umbrakinesis** - Using this, Josie is able to manipulate the shadows around her and create solid extensions of herself from them. She most commonly uses this ability to shut doors or do other trivial, every day tasks.
* **Power Over Limbo** - Josie is both omnipotent and omnipresent in limbo, she greets each soul as they enter as well as providing them with their own limbo where they are able to rest.
* **Regeneration** - When injured anywhere but her head, Josie is able to regenerate whatever injuries she has sustained, this includes severed limbs. Her regeneration is somewhat slow and takes energy, unlike Ormr.
* **Battle Prowess** - Josie is extremely skilled with a spear and is an incredibly good fighter.
* **Life Force Manipulation** - Using the magic she inherited from Svjetlo, Josie is able to manipulate the life force of others. She uses this to keep others alive by transferring her own life force to them, or killing by taking other's.

## Quotes

*"Hey! [...] I’ll have you know my siblings, especially Vyn, are extremely trustworthy. If you tell him to keep something a secret, he won’t breathe a peep about it."*
― Sarcasm To Clarkie (*Quality Time*)

*"We’re friends, are we not? Friends don’t hurt each other."*
― Manipulating Clarkie (*21*)

*" Ormr I really can’t, there’s so much to do and there's only five of you, and so many tasks. Five demons can’t possibly cover my workload, I doubt the delegation could take a third of it, much alone enough to ease my workload."*
― To Ormr (*Ten*)

*"But it wasn’t enough, it’s never enough.  Max- I’m never enough. Why do I always lose everyone I love?"*
― To Max Before His Death (*I Got You*)

*"You are mortal, I am not. You can barely control the aspects of your own life while I can manipulate every being’s at will. Mortals are but puppets to be used and commanded by the gods, understood? That is all. We are nothing alike, mortals and gods should not, and do not, mix. Am I clear?"*
― To Lia to prevent a friendship from forming (*☰ 12. Weakness*)

*"Everything is temporary, that’s what my older brother has always told me. If you feel like you’re dying, you merely need to push through the feeling and eventually, it will pass. Although I suppose that doesn’t matter seeing as one way, you survive, and the other, you die."*
― To Lia during their walk (*☰ 12. Weakness*)

*"I have tried to send myself to limbo several times, and he has been the first one to come to me. Not you, not Vyn, not Max, Srijan. I am not going to lose him."*
― To Marnina, explaining how important Srijan is (*I'm Sorry, Can We Be Friends?*)

*"Well, luckily I get to be the bearer of good news. [...] You now have one less friend to worry about."*
― Severing her friendship with Marnina (*I'm Sorry, Can We Be Friends?*)

*"Love? What good is love when the concept of it differs between people? Love can’t save someone, if there’s anything I’ve learned from life, it’s that."*
― Severing her friendship with Marnina (*I'm Sorry, Can We Be Friends?*)

*"He cannot speak, although I can feel his emotions. He likes you."*
― Introducing Max to Kuro (*DND*)

*"Watching someone you've poured your energy and care into wilt and die before your eyes is..... a pain no one deserves."*
― To Tanwen about Flint, Alfie and her siblings (*12/4/2024 — Life After Death*)
## Trivia

* Josie's original appearance was a gender-bent version of Tartaglia
* Her eyes were closed in her earlier appearances because of the fact that her body wasn't physically present
* She wears a daisy in her hair to remind her of her devotion to Srijan.