Aster Tourmaline

## Aster Tormaline

> Huh, I should of known you were stuck up.
>
> Episode 6: Crushing Obstacles

**Aster** is a one-off character in *High Guardian Spice*.

## Physical Appearance

Aster is a fair skinned human that has neck-length blonde hair and blue eyes. His hair is wavy and fans out under his head and part of his hair is tied into a small ponytail.

## Personality

He appears to be charming and empathetic, and often uses complements to get his way, but in reality is very self absorbed, chauvinistic and views women as beneath him. When he is bested by Rosemary, he calls her a "stuck-up" under his breath. He is also not particularly intelligent, constantly falling into traps and forgetting Rosemary's name.

## History

He makes his first appearance in Episode 6, when he enters Professor Caraway's Rune Class. Rosemary instantly becomes smitten with him due to his good looks, prompting Sage to kick her and tell her to stop staring. Later Aster asks Caraway what a rune is, causing him to laugh, but when he realizes that Aster is being serious he stops laughing and starts looking concerned.

Later students such as Snapdragon and Aster notice Rose's sword and make the connection that she is Lavender's daughter. Rosemary falls even more head over heels with the latter due to his good looks, fighting skills, and accomplishments. Throughout Professor Hakone's obstacle course, the two are on the same team, and she acts extremely love struck over him, not even correcting him when he accidentally calls her Rhubarb instead of her name. But she eventually realizes that Aster in actuality, is quite weak and shallow, and becomes tired of his constant bragging of his achievements and narcissism. After he ends up misleading them both across the maze Rosemary finally criticizes him and corrects him about her name.

She breaks off her friendship with him near the episode's end, and tells him that she dislikes him and their relationship is over. When Aster gets frustrated with her and starts to insult her, Parsley breaks his foot with her hammer, with the approval of Professor Hakone.

## Traits and Abilities

He has a minimal grasp on basic martial arts skills.

## Relationships

### Rosemary

He initially was the target of her affections, but let his airheadedness and self-centered attitude slip to her, which caused her to despise him.

## Quotes

* *"Ask any girl in Lyngarth, I know where the heart is"*
* *"Rosebarb’s strength today showed me that I have a lot to learn, about myself and how girls look cute when they climb walls and stuff."*

## Trivia

* Despite being intentionally written to be hated, Aster has a lot of fans and a lot of fanfiction portray him as better, the biggest example being this video.
* He is one of few characters who have last names.
* Aster may have possibly been inspired by Gaston from Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991), who is also characterized by a comically exaggerated sense of chauvinism and narcissism.

## Gallery

Rosemary charmed by AsterRosemary irritated at Aster
## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/dinoraye/status/1462896530998784000
2. ↑ https://youtu.be/ZRJvbMR84Ik
3. ↑ https://youtu.be/7i7uJuWrVQc
4. ↑ https://youtu.be/fKbEM1HQkds
5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i7uJuWrVQc
6. ↑ https://www.crunchyroll.com/high-guardian-spice/episode-6-crushing-obstacles-820476
7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo9KcGpF2tU