#aster chen

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this popped up on my timeline and I HAD to draw it because that is fr my baby girl, she's somehow burned a hole through a pot while cooking before

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guess who got the idea of aster singing california gurls stuck in her head and had to quickly doodle it otherwise she'd explode?

[jadejasiones]

everyone say hello to my favourite diva ever- Aster! a lot of yapping underneath cos I love talking about her so much

she's my friend Rei's spring MC who is childhood best friend's with my girl Saoirse. they are soulmates!!! DO NOT SEPARATE!!!!

anyway here are some misc titbits about the campus diva

she is the A in ABCD, and also the one who actually realised the fact the group names can be abbreviated to ABCD

transfer student from Malaysia that came during the second year! she came all the way to wryn mayer on the opposite side of the world just to be with her bestie

the 3rd roomie, Sage and Deja moved into a 3 person place with her (Sage vouched for her which is why Deja went along with the move initially)

when we say she's the resident flirt we mean it, she's even worse than Percy because she's more insistent about it and also flirts with everyone with no exception -> she's hot and knows it

got a roster (as she likes to call it) of friends with benefits etc and enjoys sleeping around and partying so she's got quite the reputation on campus

is also generally an utter social butterfly so you can bet she knows basically the entire campus and the tea

a middle child through and through, severe middle child syndrome, often feeling out of place which is why she's excessively social to try and make up for that feeling that she isn't wanted (too bad for her we've woven into the narrative that she's the odd one out 💕)

noticed how her bday is a day after Valentine's day? even her birthday gets compounded with Valentine's day and she is forever overshadowed 💕💕

her and sage have this borderline unhealthy codependent friendship and they complete each other in some ways, they both look up to each other for different reasons and think the absolute world of each other

speaking of which! they're friends cos their moms are old friends, which is how the two know each other despite being continents away -> sage's mom is Chinese Malaysian and will bring the family over for the holidays

will cuss like a sailor and in all the different languages she knows (English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay, tiny bit of Irish), especially if she's actually angry.

horrendous morning bird, will rise with the sun

ship name is moonlight cocktail, both cos of the song and also because their love is something new to the both of them and keeps the morning birds up late at night thinking and yearning (its Jamie, OH MY GOD ILL MAKE ANOTHER POST OF THEIR DYNAMIC BECAUSE ITS SO DAMN INTERESTING!!!)

absolutely loves flowers but cannot keep plants alive for the life of her (Deja had banned her from taking care of the houseplants -> Deja is having a hard time with one roomie who kills all her plants and the other who burns all her food)

sunglasses stays on during sex /j but for realsies she wears it everywhere

contrary to first impressions, she's actually the kinda girl who believes in true love (not that she would know, girly has never loved someone like that before and also believes no one will love her like that)

as you can tell, girly has MAD self esteem issues so our idea for her story is mostly confrontation and accepting that she is worthy and is capable of love 💕 overcoming that self sabotaging habit of hers yknow

[jadejasiones]

ur mcs r so cool,,, what draws aster and jamie to eachother?

sorry if this is weird 🥀

AWW THANK YOU!!! AND NAH NOT WEIRD AT ALL 💕 in fact it is the question that everyone around them asks once these two's shenanigans starts

anyway imma take this opportunity to yap nonstop about their dynamic, essentially they're like this

a more thorough look into their dynamic below

I'm gonna be so fr, especially cos we dk the guys that well and how they're like romantically etc, Jamie is potentially extremely OOC

anyway in the beginning and majority of spring, Jamie actually full on HATES Aster. and imma be so fr it is def her fault, she recognises Jamie and knows how much he hates his reputation and immediately went "time to hit on him".

which is CRAZY considering her best friend is Sage and so she knows how horrendous the constant attention weighs on the campus celebrities, she even fought off some of Sage's fans before. to her credit, she does back off quicker than she normally would when she realises he hate hates it

so they spend the entirety of spring in this weird wacko dynamic where Jamie genuinely lowkey detests Aster. but as the two are forced to spend time tgt over spring and summer, they (mostly him) come to realise that like damn actually like they're mad similar and get along really well eg vv similar humour

good news! eventually the two find their rhythm and are actually friends with one another (Jamie still likes to pretend her can't stand being around her but it's def more playful, she brings out the silly in him)

bad news! they're both LOSERS and don't know how to sort out feelings!!! Jamie has just never ever had a crush or even really been attracted to anymore before apparently so he fr doesn't know how to approach this situation whereas Aster doesn't know how to handle any feelings that isn't on a pure physical aspect. so these two end up having the most charged sexual tension ever and the group is SICK OF IT (this is much later down the line)

I'm not gonna get entirely into it but a brief overview of their relationship dynamic is, they have the most tumultuous pre-relationship dance. it's this weird thing where one side thinks they're actually an item while the other is solely friends with benefits, you can IMAGINE the friend group drama that arises from this, lowkey so crazy it needs its own separate yapping. they're both literally so loser and disaster

anyway realising I didn't actually answer the q, once they actually get to know each other, aside from their similarities it's mostly a comfort thing.

I mean we dk until more seasons comes out what Jamie's fatal flaw and all that is, but assumptions are he has a hard time actually being open and himself even amongst friends. but with Aster who presence encapsulates that feeling of warm soup with a bit of kick to it when you're sick and can't taste anything, he's allowed to be truly himself with her

meanwhile with Aster it's a similar reasoning but the other side of the coin, all her life she's never been the first choice, heck she'd not even been the second or third. but here's this guy who can basically be friends with Beyonce if he wanted but he's here with her, even after knowing how much of a wreck she actually is

anyway dude they're CRAZY cringe once they actually sort out their bloody tension and start dating, I'll doodle or yap bout some of their nonsense when I have the time

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the funniest thing about wanting to do bday art for the entire cast (including my friends and I MCs) is I've already missed Aster's bday, not intentionally cos at the time I hadn't introduced the MCs yet and didn't wanna spoil

but it's like also so fitting??? because yes, middle child syndrome hitting her yet again. always the artist never the muse, always the photographer never the subject. she has all these photos and polaroids of her friends but barely has any of herself

girly being nobody's #1 is so ingrained into her character it is INFECTING IRL UNINTENTIONALLY, my poor sweet baby who did this to you (me)

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