Astra

> Strong, weak, sounds like a pyramid scheme to me, look you're breaking the law by being an asshole, couldn't be me.
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**Astra** (Choi Hayoung) is a Roman demigod and the daughter of an unknown god, later revealed to be Hercules. She is a disability activist in camp Jupiter who's been trying to put in laws protecting disabled demigods who search for safety at camp. She does not serve in the Roman legion, but works as a cleaning lady often doing the work no one else wants to, as such she is allowed to stay around the legion quarters. She is also a self-declared Groundskeeper of the Field of Mars and the self-declared handyman of cohorts often fixing appliances, furniture, and other such things. She used to work as a cook before quitting in retaliation to the Senate refusing to pass one of her suggestions to create personal trajectory of service for disabled demigods. Because she has been in camp since she was seven after running away from the Wolf House and finding camp Jupiter thanks to the guidance of her father most people let her be agreeing she has been serving the camp in her own way for years, although there are people who believe she isn't a true member of the legion nor a true Roman.

## History

### Early Life

Astra was born to an unnamed woman, a marine technician, who died in childbirth, and Hercules, god of bravery, on the magic island near the Pillar of Hercules. She would live on the island for five years raised by her father until one day she would have an accident with a monster that had breached trough the magical barrier, Hercules would ask Apollo to heal his daughter, who would tell him about a prophecy concerning his daughter, and in exchange was forced to leave her at the Wolf House. He wiped her memories of the past six years as to not hold her back.

### Wolf House and getting to Camp Jupiter

Astra would meet Jason Grace at the Wolf House who reportedly kept her safe and stood up for her when she couldn't do something, Astra started suffering from several mental health issues and physical health issues often getting rundown from simple tasks. Astra remembers Jason sharing his food with her, and fighting of the wolf cups when they tried to bother her. One day she found one of the wolf cups hurt and struggling to get out of a ditch, Astra tried helping the pup before Lupa came to her telling her to leave the pup to its own faith saying if he were strong he'd survive. Astra would not listen and dive down to help the pup telling Lupa she'd take responsibility for it until it could defend for itself again, when Lupa asked her what she would do if that day never came Astra answered with 'If that happened she'd figure that out too all the same.'

Ever since that Astra held a great distaste towards Lupa who refused to acknowledge her and threatened to kill her if she didn't learn to fend for herself like a Roman should. Astra would later come to learn Lupa had been testing her throughout her stay at the Wolf House, and had grown bitter when Astra proved herself to stand up for others time and time again even if she struggled to take care of herself growing a weird concern for the girl that one day she'd cave beneath her own bravery, stating 'You were brave child, and you were strong, but it was never the type of strength I cultivated it was one purely your own, it left me bitter and jealous wondering if I'd been failing demigods for all those years.'

Not long after the incident however Astra would flee the Wolf House and wander San Fransisco looking for camp Jupiter, she ended up finding the camp with both help from her father and Lupa, she ended up at camp when she was around seven.

### Years at Camp Jupiter

Astra served in the legion for a week before struggling to keep up because of her chronic fatigue, developing anxiety symptoms after being forced to keep going despite her tiredness, she would start refusing to do drills or any fighting and instead started cleaning around camp, doing the work no one else wanted to do, she would dig ditches for camp games, clean the toilets, dispose of any trash, when she was forced to work for the legion again she refused. Unable to do anything about her they would let the young girl be, Astra continued to do her own thing and started to grow more and more annoyed and the attitude of the Romans and other campers about her inability to do things like everyone else slowly starting to advocate for more rights and accommodations as she grew older.

When she was eight she would meet Amos Hart, an old veteran who had served in the Roman army for over fifty years, he would take responsibility for the young girl shortly afterwards and used his status so the girl could keep her work-load lowered. As she grew older Astra would continue to refuse serving the legion until they placed the necessary accommodations, instead she would do other hands-on jobs no one else wanted to do, these jobs would vary enough throughout the week so she wouldn't feel overworked while also stopping most people from complaining about her. Throughout her stay at camp many would talk about how she wasn't a real Roman and didn't deserve to stay at camp Jupiter Astra stated that while the comments hurts she 'Felt bad for [them], I can't imagine believing I have to deserve being happy.'

Jason notes that when he joined camp Jupiter he'd been happy to see Astra again who as he stated 'Treated him more like an equal than anyone had.' Although being friends with Astra would make his life more difficult with the scrutiny Jason continued their friendship standing up for Astra when needed, and helping her draft her first proposal for paid service under the legion. Jason would also work with her to pass her official proposal to chose whether one wanted to serve in the legion or not, but would disappear not shortly afterwards.

When she was thirteen Astra would find a hurt rat and nurse it back to health, the rat would turn out to be an old roman citizens cursed by Ceres after he stole some of her crops. He claimed to be have been a powerful warrior who'd defeated thousands upon men on his own. Astra asked if he wanted to move in with her to which he agreed.

Astra would move into a van at the edge of the Field of Mars declaring herself the groundskeeper and keeping the field clean and orderly in between battle games although not an official position both Reyna and Jason had been working on making it an official title since her work had been greatly appreciated by most campers. She would also work as a handyman around the cohorts, fixing doors, furniture, and electrical wiring on her free days. For her fifteenth birthday her and Jason would paint the van, Reyna states that Astra did most of the painting referring to the starry skies and constellation, and then saying Jason painted the crooked star by the left door. Later Frank would paint a little flower near the hood of the car after Astra declared them friends, and Reyna would write her initials near the windshield after losing a bet. After being asked Hazel would later paint a red panda (Astra's second favorite animal) on the back of the van.

#### Befriending Nico Di Angelo

Astra met Nico Di Angelo when he brought his sister Hazel to Camp Jupiter, after Jason had showed them where Astra lived during a tour of the camp grounds. The two would run into each other after Astra got into a fight with a senator over a comment he made about Amos. Since he was a senator Astra asked him if he wanted to help defend her proposal for disability accommodations in the legion to which he agreed, the two ended up talking a lot about their own disabilities and Astra suggested Nico may struggle with the same Chronic fatigue/pain she did. The two ended becoming official friends after Astra told him to draw something on her van to which Nico drew a small skill near the tire. Nico would help put forth Astra's proposals in the senate, he would also be grateful for Astra's friendship stating she was one of the few people to be friends of him not regardless of his flaws, but largely because of it. Astra declares them to be best friends a few weeks before Percy Jackson appears at Camp Jupiter.

## Personality

> You have a strength to you, not one cultivated by me, a strength wholly your own, one only you could manage.
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> Lupa to Astra

## Trivia

* When getting her memories wiped Astra also forgot her real name, she picked the name Astra for her love of stars
* Astra used constellations and stars to find her way to Camp Jupiter her father states that although he kept her safe from monsters during her journey, Astra in essence found Camp Jupiter on her own.
* Astra has stated her favorite constellation is Pegasus
* Astra's real birthday is February 23th
* Wanting a birthday Astra had asked Reyna for a random date one day, when Reyna said November 2nd Astra declared it to be her birthday, Reyna along with Jason were the only two people to know it wasn't her real birthday.