Astar Lucero

“My powers were not gained through inheritance, nor human experiments. It is pure technology and training.”

Astar Lucero is a fighter and scientific researcher affiliated with the Defenders of the Light.

## Astar Lucero

### Aliases

* Smartass (by Rei Matsuoka)
* Sleepy Nerd (by Naree Suwan)
* Star Girl (by Akio Akimitsu)
* Cotton Candy Hair (in gags)
* Ast-Chan (by Aya Aoki)
* Commander Lucero (by her subordinates)

### Relatives

* Unnamed Father
* Unnamed Mother
* Caelus Lucero (brother)

### Affiliation

* Assassin Syndicate (formerly)
* Defenders of the Light
* Navellia Research and Development Institute

### Occupation

* Kosho
* Head Researcher

## Physical description

### Eye color

Dark Purple

She is from the kingdom of Navellia, and is a major supporting character of the Warped Eternity series. She is a major supporting character in the Navellia's Vessel Arc. She is the current Constellation Kosho.

## Appearance

Astar is a Hispanic woman with a mix of purple and lilac hair, caused by her awakening of her numen energy, and possesses an average height for a female. She is covered almost head-to-toe. During her time as a scientific researcher of the Defenders of the Light, She wears a lilac shirt with a lab coat on and wears a pair of gloves. She wears long sleeved beige denim trousers and dark purple boots. She usually wears a pair of goggles while in the research center or in battle to prevent anything from getting into her eyes.

When she got promoted to Kosho, she wears a dark purple accented version of the Kosho uniform, and almost always hangs her lab goggles on her head or her neck. She wears her lab coat right over the uniform whenever she needs to go to her lab. She also carries a custom-made pistol on her waist, tied to her belt.

She usually doesn’t smile a whole lot, and always kept a calm, collected expression, as well as very relaxed eyes. She does not wear any makeup, despite her Hispanic background, since she sees makeup as “time wasting”.

When not in battle, she always has a notebook to carry around with her to jot notes since she is slightly forgetful, because she is always busy with something, and never has a day off.

Though it may not look like it, Astar is always on a burnout due to her hectic lifestyle.

## Personality

Astar is an ambivert with a calm and collected, and stoic nature. She is also very kind and caring by heart, always being concerned about the wellbeing of others. However, due to her nerdy behavior, the only things that seems to set her off are someone preparing any type of food the wrong way, or someone getting any scientific fact wrong. This often sets off Ayumu, and even Muzuri, although Ryuga doesn't seem to care much. She usually has her head in the clouds due to her never-ending burnout if she hasn’t taken a power nap or meditated yet. She is usually considered by many as the most “normal” person in the Kosho, though she claims that this is likely not true. Many people mentions that she is the Kosho with the most likable personality, as well as the most approachable. In certain desperate conditions, she is tends to care for herself first, and calls it “healthy-selfishness” in order to be able to help others to the best of her abilities.

She is also very intellectual, proving her knowledge in chemistry, nuclear physics, and other energy-related sciences, as well as her passion subject, astronomy. In addition to this, Astar is a very wise and self-aware individual, questioning decisions made by others with her own morals when she disagrees with anything. She never breaks her cool and always tries to be understanding when speaking in intense topics, as seen when she tells Aya Aoki her flaws in her enthusiastically following orders and requests from her friends and superiors without any second thoughts, as well as giving advice to Tae Tomodachi on how to get the most out of his role models, Rei Matsuoka and Kaoru Yuragami, despite believing that the Kosho are incapable of being good role models for younger generations.

Despite her calm exterior, Astar suffers from impostor’s syndrome, and considers giving up when in the midst of something and met with the sudden realization of her individual actions that are once subconscious. She is often very scared of letting other people down, and offers help to whoever is in need. She lives and works by one motive “I’m not enough. Not as a daughter, not as a sister, not as a student, and not as a Kosho to protect everyone.” This motive always causes her to always be on the move to helping others and training to improve herself, and not allowing enough time for resting, which causes her to almost always be on a burnout, even if she is good at concealing it.

Later on, after recovering from a months-long coma at a hospital after her fight with Luka Odayaka, her sleep deprivation was completely gone, and she was much more energetic and powerful than she was after recovery training. She also has her hair up, tied in a bun.

## Goals

* Avenge Caelus.
* Undo what the Demigods and the corrupt government has done to the world.
* Travel the world on her jet boat.
* To finally take long holidays and hearty naps without having to worry about something or get disturbed.

## Abilities

### Physical Abilities

**Immense Strength:** Though not as significant as her peers, Astar actually has incredible strength due to harsh years of training under the Assassin Syndicate, allowing her to knock out notably strong opponents with a single punch or kick. Her sleepiness is usually what holds her back on this. She also has great muscle-to-weight ratio, being able to hold her body weight, as well as her weapons and still hang on with a single finger.

**Immense Speed:** Astar’s speed is the peak of human capabilities, and is even able to move faster through the utility of movement techniques only ever known by the Assassin Syndicate. She can easily catch up to a full throttle jet boat while carrying both of her swords.

**Incredible Flexibility:** As Astar’s fighting style is based on grace and fluidity, flexibility is an important key. She also has incredible core strength to perform bizarre moves not many people can ever expect to do.

**Inhuman Reflexes:** Astar was able to easily dodge projectiles fired from Luka Odayaka, which travelled at the speed of light even when she was disoriented and unprepared.

**Master at Hand-to-Hand combat**: Though not seen used on its own a lot, Astar was incredibly adept in martial arts. Most of her moves represented what was Taido and Jiu-Jitsu in real life.

### Mental Abilities

#### Mastery of tactical resting

Due to her busy lifestyle, Astar has mastered the art of taking power naps when she can or meditating to keep her mind focused to ease her burnout. Despite this, she is a very light sleeper and gets woken incredibly easy.

### Swordsmanship Mastery

Through years of harsh training, Astar became a master swordsman in wielding various weapons. Such as long swords, polearms, etc.

Astar wields two weapons. One is a silver-colored longsword she calls “Starfall”. It was forged from unstable stardust, condensed and solidified into an ionic ingot. This weapon manipulates the elements and properties of stars, where attacks produce electromagnetic waves, flames and gaseous materials, and create nuclear fusions and fissions out of thin air.

Another is a crudely shaped glaive that rather resembles a single scissor blade with a giant blade made from an unknown, otherworldly-looking substance found deep underground combined with chromium alloy. Its handle has seemed to fuse with the blade and is a darker tone and a wood-like texture, despite being harder than steel. This weapon is called “Elemental Infection”. This weapon allows Astar to manipulate the elements and properties of planets. But due to this weapon being handed down to her, Astar does not have a lot of numen synchronization with this weapon, and is still finding the weapon’s capabilities.

Astar can combine the two weapons by aligning them in a “X” shape while channeling numen energy, which turns and morphs both of them into a single weapon that is a combination of a giant scissor and a greatsword. This weapon is called “Ark of the Cosmos”, which it is able to be swung like a greatsword or used as a giant scissor to cut foes down or block attacks. It can do what both the Starfall and the Elemental Infection can do, and better. It amplifies her numen energy to be 10 times more concentrated and powerful, but it also drains her numen energy as much as well. Astar can choose to turn the weapon back into their former state by simply tugging on both the scissor blades while channeling numen energy. However, Astar is still discovering the extent of her abilities using this powerful weapon much like the Elemental Infection, as she has recently discovered it.

#### Starfall

**Resplandor de la Polar:** Astar swings Starfall around her with slowly increasing speed, generating white flame-like particles similar to solar wind produced by a pulsing star. Starfall slowly starts to glow daylight white the longer it is swung in such a manner. Astar finishes by throwing Starfall in a spinning motion towards the target’s position, then generates a “constellation string” to pull the target closer to her or to pull Starfall back.

**Paso de Andrómeda:** Astar slams Starfall into the ground while channeling energy to produce shockwaves and pillars of flaring dark purple flames. Usually used when airborne to increase efficiency.

**Ira de Aries:** Astar controls Starfall through a constellation string to make the sword swing around midair on its own.

**El arco de Sagitario:** Astar throws Starfall forwards like a javelin to stab the target and pulls herself towards the target with constellation strings or leaps at her target incredibly quickly while channeling numen energy to perform a powerful stab attack. Starfall will receive enough energy to cause the unstable nuclei in the sword to create a chain nuclear fission, releasing gamma rays and bursts of energy. This vaporizes and ionizes the target’s flesh. This, of course, decays Starfall, making it weaker. Therefore, Astar has to refine and resharpen her sword after every fight where she uses this technique. This was the strongest move she can use with Starfall.

**Cinturón de Orión:** Astar throws Starfall forwards like a javelin to stab the target. She then uses a constellation string to swing the target around in a lateral circular motion, creating dark purple flames. She then pulls the target above her, and does a final slam to the ground, sending shockwaves and a combination of orange and dark purple flames.

#### Elemental Infection

Astar is still finding the extent of the Infection’s abilities, so there may not be a lot of things she can do with it currently.

**Grandeza de árida:** Astar channels energy through the Infection to make it vibrate incredibly vigorously and quickly and also create orange tinted copies of itself. This attack repels Astar in the opposite direction of where the Infection is pointed at when in contact of a target or solid ground.

**La Voluntad del Cielo:** Astar rushes at her target and disorientates the enemy before kneeing them. Then, she performs an incredibly fast flurry of attacks that sends the target upwards before sending them flying to the ground with a powerful wind-boosted kick.

**Tormenta de Nieve:** Astar jumps in the air and twirls around and slashes the air with the Infection to create a giant ice tornado that draws in, freezes, and slashes the target. This was the strongest technique Astar can currently do with the Infection. However, it is proven less effective with fire-based attacks.

#### Ark of the Cosmos

As mentioned before, Ark of the Cosmos can do what both weapons used to create it can do, and better. However, some techniques are changed partially or completely, which will be stated below.

**Tormenta Galáctica:** It is almost identical to Tormenta de Nieve, but infused with astral energy from Starfall, making it shine even more brightly, and the weakness to fire-based attacks is nullified.

**Pinza del Cáncer:** It is almost identical to “Sagittarius’ Bow”, but Astar is now able to immobilize the target between the scissor blades, holder with a firmer grip. Nuclear fission happens more vigorously, and beta decay will happen as well, which will allow for another technique to be used.

**Desear del Capricornio:** Used when “Cancer’s Pincer” was used before. Through the power of Elemental Infection, Astar can negatively charge nearby air particles to be attracted to Ark of the Cosmos due to beta decay. Astar then channels numen energy, and slashes the target. This creates nuclear fusion, turning it into a powerful slash which burns through the target. If she is quick enough, Astar can consecutively use this technique twice.

**Lanza del Estrellas:** The peak of Astar’s raw power. After attaining full numen synchronization with the Elemental Infection, Astar is able to channel all of her energy into Ark of the Cosmos, temporarily turning into a javelin which she can stab or throw. While it can only be used to attack once, it has the heat and destructive power of a star. After the attack, Astar will be completely exhausted and will likely fall unconscious after using all of her energy into this powerful attack.

* **Numen Sealing Technique (unnamed):** The under looked ultimate technique. With Ark of the Cosmos, Astar releases some form of powder from her sword that can easily seal the power releases of her opponents by blocking the release of numen from its usual places by blocking numen vents around the body with the deposition of the strange material that makes up Elemental Infection. This causes the energy to destroy the opponent inside out, as it tries to escape. However, this move must not be recklessly used, and must be carefully planned.

### Extreme Intellect

Through years of hard work and studying, Astar is very intelligent when it comes science. Especially in nuclear physics. She was able to prove that numen energy indeed acted similarly like electromagnetic waves when released, and uses that to her advantage to tamper with the nuclear compositions within her sword.

Tactical Intellect: Astar is a tactical mastermind, being able to manage whole armies at once, and even able to come up with contingency plans for her opponents given enough preparation. She was praised my many of her colleagues that even upon her absence of recovery, the men she was responsible for was still able to train, carry out missions, and mobilize their armies normally even without her supervision all thanks to her backup plans she has prepared should she ever be absent from her position.

* Code: Centauri - A file containing all backup plans she has for her men, and only unlocked when she is absent from her duty due to an untimely death or other incidents. This file of backup plans and procedures was initially designed to allow only Astar’s division to continue mobilize their armies even without her supervision.

## Weaknesses

* **Stamina:** Astar has the least stamina in the Koshos, due to them being deities, and she is only a superhuman. She also does not have reduced need for sleep like them, forcing her to nap tactically, though others do not understand her exhaustion, and assumes it is out of laziness.
* **Human Limits:** Despite being known as one of the strongest humans to have ever lived in the thirteenth period, Astar was still human, making her overall drastically weaker than all of the other Koshos.

### Starfall

* El arco de Sagitario decays Starfall, making it weaker and more brittle the more she uses it.
* The electromagnetic waves generated can cause skin cancer if Astar does not absorb it and disperse its energy harmlessly using her numen. However, this will add extra work for her.

### Elemental Infection

* The Infection is rather unstable and unpredicatable, in which some attacks may not work as planned.
* Due to her lack of numen affinity with the weapon, she cannot wield it to its full extent.

### Ark of the Cosmos

* Even though The Ark amplifies her numen to deal ten times more damage, it also drains as much energy.
* Lanza Del Estrellas pushes Astar’s body to its very limit to unleash one powerful attack, therefore, she will be unable to fight after using it.
* Her ‘Sealing Technique’ permanently weakens Elemental Infection every time she uses it.

## Trivia

* Elemental Infection was actually created and initially wielded by her twin brother, Caelus. He gave it to Astar along with his numen energy before he died.
* Nobody knows Astar’s age for sure, as she has never mentioned it, but it is likely she is somewhere in her late twenties to early thirties. Aya Aoki’s guess on Astar’s age was 25, while many others say 27.
* She is the weakest Kosho, but was not bothered by such a title, as her scientific knowledge was often depended on by many.
* Her lack of stamina resulted in Naree belittling her often and mocks her for this, which was something Akio had to stop due to Naree getting too rough.

## Quotes

“Peace… was something I only have ever dreamed of!”

“I know that there is a life outside of work, but until I am sure nobody has to die, or has to suffer from the pain of losing a loved one because of the demigods ever again, I will never rest.”

”All kinds of subjects are an impure form of magic? Such a foolish statement! In fact, magic is actually just science we do not understand yet!”

”The Kosho is often looked up as the backbones of the Defenders of the Light. In reality, we are just a bunch of mentally troubled people who happen to be stronger than others. You could say I am the only ‘normal’ person out of our dozen. But trust me, if it’s role models in getting your life sorted you’re looking for, this isn’t the right place for you, unfortunately.” - to Ryuga Chisaka about the members in the Kosho.

”Huh? Love? Nah, I don’t have time for that kind of stuff.” - to Tae Tomodachi about how she is still single

”I’m not doing what I do simply because ‘it’s the right thing’. I have my own ethics and viewpoints. People tend to fall into the trap of seeing what is ‘the right thing’ when in reality, there is no laid-out path or a clear line that divides what is right or wrong, which is what makes their resolve easy to shatter when met with clearer ethics. We create our own morals and use critical thinking to see how the world is, and how you think it should be. But most of all, have a very strong ‘why’. Why you think the world should be the way you think it should be? This is why governments are made of multiple people who make decisions. Not just one. And that is the reason why legal decisions are so hard to make. So, what is your ‘why’, Chisaka?” - To Ryuga Chisaka in “The Precipice of Morals”

”To have role models is good, but that does not mean you have to follow the flaws in their character. Role models are for us to help us discover who we are, not to simply become a knock-off of that person. Learn from the mistakes they made, not repeat them.” - to Tae Tomodachi regarding his idolization of Kaoru Yuragami and Rei Matsuoka

”With all due respect, Suwan, I assure you I have everything laid out. Please do also acknowledge my success in work despite my naps.”

”…of that, I am completely aware.” -Astar when her subordinates tell her she is reaching 80 hours without proper sleep

## Opinions and Relationships

“My dear brother. If he was here right now, he would be the wind kosho, and probably one of the strongest in a while as well. Haha.” - regarding Caelus Lucero

“It’s annoying when they gaslight other people about the scientifically incorrect facts. If it’s one thing I hate, it’s that!”

”His resolve is very admirable. I like him. However, he tends to be very gullible, and his morals live off the usual ‘because it’s the right thing’. He still has much to learn.” - regarding Ryuga Chisaka

### Opinions on other Koshos

**“I don’t hate anyone here, but there is no denying we’re a pretty messed up bunch.”**

“Anchali is very responsible and smart, but arrogant. I tried to tell him he’s not as bad as he thinks, but he keeps beating himself up for it. Does he not know I’ve been studying the stuff I do for at least 10 years already? Oh yeah, his strong point is his speed.” - Regarding Natsu Anchali

“Akimitsu is the strongest out of all of us. But not too mature. Can’t be helped, though. Who am I to blame him for his ADHD?” - regarding Akio Akimitsu

“Matsuoka is very competitive, and combative. Before he picked up that Tomodachi boy as his student, all he cared about was fighting. He likes calling me ‘smartass’.” - regarding Rei Matsuoka

“Yuragami hates me, and I don’t know why. Almost everybody here dislikes me anyways, so I don’t really mind.” - regarding Kaoru Yuragami (she doesn’t know that he hates Astar because she doesn’t fall for “Fish Shield”)

”Probably the only person I get along the most within the Kosho. Her constant smiling creeps me out, but I got used to it. You wouldn’t expect an artist to be good friends with a scientist, and yet, here we are.” - regarding Aya Aoki

“She called me ‘sleepy nerd’ once. Does she not know I work almost every single hour of day? All that work and this is what I get in return? Sure she’s wants The Light to succeed, but she’s too obsessive.” - regarding Naree Suwan

“He just LOVES to wake me up during my naps, and say that I’m sleeping on the job, that I nearly slapped him out of spite once. My naps are carefully timed, but he doesn’t care. Easy to say when he doesn’t have the added responsibility of also being a scientific researcher. I also rather dislike how he has five wives. Now, I respect the customs of others, but love is not a game, it’s a commitment, and let's see how he commits himself to FIVE different women…”- Regarding Rokihiko Aoki

“She is a very nice person to be around, but I rather dislike how she shares a husband with 4 other women and is fine with it. Oh, and keep your snacks away from her. - Regarding Shiraishi Ume

“Strict and not understanding, but he’s very firm in beliefs, so much so that the only person they even listen to is Aki.”- About Minjun Hua

“Perez and I get along quite well. Love that we agree on many things.” - About Amihan Perez

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