Celeste

**Celeste (霜月)** is a playable mouse character that can be selected in a match. She can only be purchased in the Popularity Shop with 3000 Gift Points.

With a delicate appearance and a strong and courageous heart, Celeste is the only mouse tribe who had entered the Jade Lake and participated in the Fairy Test through her own efforts in the past century. In order to improve her self-cultivation, she and her younger brother depended on each other since she was a child. She then left the Fairy Realm and went to the Lower Realm to practice alone for several years. When she came back, she had become a fairy with high magic power. A cute and esurient cosmos sack now accompanies her - Chubby.

***Note: These are information translated to English from the Chinese server, and they are currently unreleased content in other servers. As they are not official, they may be changed in the future.***

## Background Story

### Journey in Pictures

Celeste was on a quest to become a true fairy with Chubby. In this journey, she also searched the Yellow Apricot Banner to help the Mouse King and Erlang Shen return to their dimension.

## Ability Setting

### Skills

#### Active Skill: **Slide Kick (滑步踢)** (Cooldown time: 15/15/15)

 Lv. 2
 Lv. 3

#### Passive Skill: **Practice of Aura (灵气修为)** (Cooldown time: 0/0/0)

 Lv. 2
 Lv. 3

#### Weapon Skill: **Cosmos Sack (乾坤袋)** (Cooldown time: 50/30/30)

* If it swallows a fragile item, it will preferentially spit out to a nearby enemy.
* If it swallows an opened mousetrap, it will spit out a folded mousetrap.
* If it swallows cakes or milk, it will be spit out to a nearby ally, and the ally that comes into contact will get the corresponding buffs immediately.
* If it swallows a wedge of Cheese, the Cheese will become lighter.
* If it swallows a drink, it will spit out another random drink.
* If it swallows the enemy cat, they will be slowed down for a period of time after it spit them out.

 Lv. 2
 Lv. 3

## Character Strategy

### Attribute Analysis

* Celeste's attributes have no outstanding parts, beside her Skill Strength and Team Bonus.

### Skill Analysis

#### **Active Skill: Slide Kick**

* The Gold Talisman deals better damage than a normal Talisman, and the Gold Talisman and can deduct 500 coins from the cat.

* The normal Talisman freezes the cat for 3 seconds, but because it is freezing and not stunning, it doesn't drop a captured mouse. Strike Back can also remove this state.

Here are a few tips to share with players:

* When a high-risk rocket is near you, if possible, you can use Slide Kick and shovel the rocket to a slope (like the Roller Coaster in Playground). If the slope is tilted greatly, the cat cannot tie it anymore (unless you are facing Tara with her lasso, Zuri with her dance, Lightning with his trash can, or Musketeer Tom and Cooper's instant-tie mechanic).

* If there is a high-risk rocket and a normal rocket near together, you can try to see if you can overlap the former with the latter by shoveling it to the same spot, so that the cat is forced to tie to a new rocket instead.

* Beside using Slide Kick to freeze the cat with talismans, you can also use Slide Kick to escape the cat's pursuit. Because of how long she slides and the speed is fast, it will be effective.

#### **Passive Skill: Practice of Aura**

* Lv. 1 passive is similar to that of Nipper's, which grants you Jump Height. However, this can lead to some drawbacks since it is hard to predict the time that the effect triggers (like when jump-rescuing a teammate). Because of this and Practice of Aura's other upgrades, passive should not be prioritized in early game.

* Lv. 3 delays the time the damage you receive by 60%. However, Charged Blow can still one-shot Celeste, and that this effect can only be triggered if Celeste is hurt by a claw attack.

#### **Weapon Skill: Cosmos Sack**

* Cosmos Sack can basically swallow the cat, carry a teammate, swallow items, swallow food to heal teammates, swap drinks, and share Perk Cards.

* The order of swallowing's priority: Cat > Rocket > Mousetrap > Item > Food/Drink.

* Cosmos Sack can carry a teammate and go to a pipe together.

* Cosmos Sack can ignore the damage of Kate's Summon Admirer, Lightning's Lightning Strike and Stinky Fish, and Meathead's Pepper Can.

* Cosmos Sack can also consume a layer of shield after swallowing the cat, even if the cat is in a state of Invincibility or Immunity.

* The Cheese swallowed by Chubby will become lighter, but the POV will still be shortened, so you still have to be cautious while carrying it.

* Instantly heal yourself by controlling Chubby then Swallow a food, then immediately exit.

Here are some advanced tricks that players can learn, but it requires timing (turning on voice chat can perfect this).

* To move a rocket to a location far away from the original place, Celeste needs to choose a place and stand and wait. The teammate needs to be controlling Chubby, go to the rocket and swallow it. While it is still swallowing, Celeste needs to immediately retrieve the Cosmos Sack, so that both the rocket and the teammates will be sent to Celeste's place. This is a very effective way to rescue and escape, but it is hard to master.

* Similar to the previous trick's cooperation, you can let a teammate carry another teammate while within Chubby, and then Celeste can retrieve both mice.

## Recommended Upgrade Order

#### **Active** + **Weapon** + **Active** + **Weapon** + **Active** + **Weapon**

* Because the lack of effectiveness in Practice of Aura, Celeste should prioritize her other skills instead.

## Recommended Perks

Celeste can be regarded as a Distract and Assist character, so she can equip some perk cards to strengthen her assist and distracting capabilities.

### Recommended Deck

S Class **Fearless** + S Class **Blood of Iron** + S Class **Disarm** / **Fairy's Touch** + C Class **Help Me**

**Fearless** + **Blood of Iron** + **Help Me**, can create a safe rescuing environment for Celeste, and **Disarm** / **Fairy's Touch** can guarantee her early game survivability and kiting capability.

## In-game Strategy

### Scouting Phase

* In the case of ensuring your own safety, cooperate with your teammates to explore every room on the map as much as possible, to collect information about room items + drinks + cat's location and cheese refresh positions.

### Cheese Phase

* You can use Slide Kick to carry cheese faster in the x-axis, so that it can advance the game faster.

* If you have brought Fast Pusher, use Cosmos Sack and Incite the teammates nearby when pushing Cheese to give them the buff bonus as well.

* Stand on a place near a Cheese hole as Celeste, have a teammate to control Chubby and swallow the Cheese. While it is still swallowing, retrieve the Cosmos Sack (Requires timing and cooperation).

### Rescuing Teammates

* Use Slide Kick to distinguish the rocket if the cat is far away, so to allow the teammate to struggle to add more seconds to the countdown.

* Use Slide Kick just when the cat is almost about to finish tying the rocket, just to buy an extra time for the teammate to struggle free (Only do this if you are sure that the teammate's struggle process is about to be completed).

* Use Cosmos Sack to intercept the cat through swallowing.

* Use Cosmos Sack to swallow a food to give it to teammates so that they can heal during the Fearless state.

### Wall Crack Phase

* Control Chubby and swap drinks to see if you can get a Transform drink, so that you can use it during the Wall Crack Phase.

* If you have brought Wall Crusher, use Cosmos Sack and Incite the teammates nearby to give them the buff bonus as well.

## Character Evaluation

Celeste may be positioned as a Rescue and Assist, but her role is more of a Distract and Assist, due to the usage of her skills. For her active skill, she can kick away rockets to buy time, to escape from the cat, or to throw a Talisman which can freeze the cat frequently (if the aiming is mastered); For her weapon skill, she can use Chubby to swallow items to heal teammates, swap drinks, and even use it to swallow the cat to intercept their actions further. However, the player needs to grasp the usage of her skills to be useful in the game.

## Skins

Beside equipping skins, she can also equip a robot mouse skin to gain more Fashion Points, same with Footprints.

***Note: As the skin obtaining methods vary between servers, they will not be listed below. Players can check in the game to see their current obtaining methods.***

### A Class

 **Wilder Goddess*** Skin Series: **Distant Desert**
 **Frost Fairy**
* It's as if she's a fairy who brings warmth to the passers-by in a snowy night.

## Extra

### Quotes from **Journey in Pictures**

(For more quotes, click the link.)

* Celeste's acknowledgement of karma towards cultivation:
	+ *"The most important thing in cultivation is karma. I owe the Mouse King a life-saving grace, and the things that happened in Peach Mountain with Erlang Shen. If I don't acknowledge this karma before the fairy test; even if I pass the fairy test, it will be difficult to become a true fairy."*

### Quotes from **Firework Show**

* *Say, would Chubby enjoy these fireworks?*

## Trivia

* Celeste is the first character to not originate from any Tom and Jerry cartoons and films (Miko is the first character to be inspired by another person).

* As of now, according to the unreleased "Fat and stupid call" popularity gift translation, her name is referred as "Celeste".

* The Talismans Celeste gains from Slide Kick when spinning can be dropped down and exist permanently, but you cannot pick them up. However, Devil Tuffy with his Telekinesis can actually pick them up and use it against the cat.

* According to her character introduction and the Journey in Pictures event, she has an unnamed younger brother.

* Sky Palace is one of the locations Celeste and her friends travelled in their journey in Journey in Pictures.

* Celeste and Chubby's fates are unknown in Journey in Pictures. Following Tom and Jerry's adventure in the sequel, it's assumed that they're also in that same dimension.

* Celeste and Devil Tom are the most fleshed out characters in this game, with them having their own story events that explored around their personalities.

* Although Pecos seems like the oldest character in the game (at least in terms of aging), Celeste could also be older than him if she's still alive from the past century until now.
	+ Moreover, Celeste had eaten a ginseng fruit that added thousand more years to her lifespan as shown in Journey in Pictures.

### Etymology

* "霜月" means "frost moon" literally, and a blue moon effect can be seen if Chubby casts Incite near an ally.

* "Celeste" is a name of Latin origin, meaning "heavenly".

* "Cosmos Sack" (乾坤袋) originates from one of the most famous ancient artifacts with the same name. It is a sack that seemingly has infinite storage space like the cosmos.

## Gallery

Cosmos Sack (Swallow)Cosmos Sack (Incite)