Princess Callisto Eurydia La Luna (name in past life)
Place of Origin: U.S.A., Earth
Residency: Midlight City, CA
Citizenship: American
Status: Alive
Age: 20
Height: 5’’5”
Species: Astral-Human (Lunar Variant)
Ethnicity: Latina
Gender: Female
Occupation:
Florist
Affiliations:
Gardena Flower Shop
Appearances:
Season 1
Claire Starling is the main character and central protagonist of Planet Kingdoms. She is the reincarnation of Princess Callisto from the Moon Kingdom and the current owner of the Gardena Flower Shop in Midlight City.
Personality:
Claire is very sweet demeanor and happens to have a sort of 'wallflower' perspective of life. She's friendly, personable, and helpful, making her a fairly responsible woman. She's also fairly optimistic and stubborn. Claire deeply values her friendships with her friends and her adoptive grandmother, Hona. She believes them to be selfless people, and would do anything for them. Claire is an over-thinker and a people pleaser, often sacrificing or hiding her desires in favor of others. She can be argumentative and bitter. She is also the most emotionally sensitive of all her friends. Claire had a somewhat sheltered upbringing due to her adoptive grandma’s overly protective nature, and can be naive about strangers and their intentions. Claire was also pushed to be a proper well rounded young lady and despite her inexperience with much of the world, Claire repeatedly demonstrates decent intelligence by showing a great deal of academic dedication and proficiency in different activities, including chess and competitive swimming. Her worst subject is math. She is a romantic and an optimist.
Physical Appearance:
Claire is a young adult woman of unspecified (due to her adoption status) Latina descent with a tan complexion and light pink wavy shoulder length hair (part of which is typically kept in a bun). She has purple eyes, thick dark eyebrows and a beauty mark under her left eye. She is relatively short and petite in stature.
History:
Claire was born July 20th, 1984, to currently unknown parents and was through unknown circumstances separated from them by the time she was at the latest 5 years old. The earliest parts of her childhood, including where Claire was born, are currently unknown due to her adoption status. It is not known who Claire’s parents are, if they are even alive, or why Claire was given up for adoption.
At some point, Claire was adopted by Hona Starling as an incredibly young child and taken to live with her in Midlight City. Hona at the time, owned and operated the Gardena Flower Shop, where Claire would contribute to helping take care of the plants. Claire attended Midlight Elementary School where she met Eric Sekai-Tierra in kindergarten, where they quickly became friends. In first grade, Claire met and befriended Avianna Valentine. In fourth grade, the trio met and befriended Hiram St. Fotia and Karan Indra. In fifth grade, the group befriended Sabine Ho, who was a new student. Hona, at some point, placed Claire into ballet classes.
Claire attended the Ursa Minor Middle School with her 5 friends. In 8th grade, Louis Estrano transferred to the school and Claire ended up befriending him on her own after Louis jumped out of the window of their second story classroom due to anxiety. Miraculously, Louis only injured his ankle, to which Claire was able to convince him to go to the school nurse for. Louis stuck close to her following the incident, and while Avianna, Sabine, and Karan didn’t mind Louis’s presence, Eric and Hiram did not end up befriending him.
The group of 7 all attended and graduated from Ursa Major High School. In Claire’s junior year of high school, Hona was hospitalized for undisclosed health reasons, and Claire was left to live and manage the flower shop by herself. In order to ease the burden, her friends offered to step in and help work at the flower shop. Following graduation, Claire took on operating the flower shop by herself full time, and urged her friends to go and pursue their individual dreams / careers without worrying about her. Reluctantly, they did so, but Eric and Louis decided to keep working part time at the flower shop, even while they worked other jobs. Claire still actively pursues ballet to this day.
Relatives:
Unknown Mother
Unknown Father
Hona Starling (Adoptive Grandmother)
Relationships:
Eric Sekai-Tierra (best friend, crush)
Louis Estrano (best friend)
Avianna Valentine (best friend)
Sabine Xue (best friend)
Hiram St. Fotia (best friend)
Powers/Weapons/Abilities:
- As an Astral Human: Upon The Awakening, Claire undergoes a metamorphic process (dubbed as “Second Magic Puberty” by Karan Indra) that forcefully evolves her human body to take on the features of an Astral, the super powered alien race she was apart of biologically in her past life. This gives her the following traits.
- Enhanced durability
- Enhanced strength
- Enhanced stamina
- Delayed Aging
- As a Lunar Variant: As the princess of the moon kingdom, Claire possesses the lunar astral crystal, a cosmic object embedded into the inside of her sternum, similarly to the other planetary heirs. The crystal endows the host with supernatural abilities unique to each individual crystal. Powers unique to the Lunar Astral Crystal includes:
- Eternal access to their Astral Weapon: The Crescent Bow
- Matter Transmutation
- Spontaneous Creation
- Healing
- An addition ability: Because of Claire’s Astral-Human status, the lunar astral crystal enables her to transform into her Callisto form and enables her to revert to her civilian human form.
Etymology:
Claire’s adoptive last name, Starling, is a last name of British origin, meaning “little star”. A Starling is also a type of bird.
Claire’s biological last name, DeLuna, means “Of Moon” in Spanish, referring Claire’s past life as a princess of the moon kingdom.
*Clair De Lune is “Moonlight” in the French Language. It is also more famously a piano piece composed by Claude Debussy as part of his Suite bergamasque composition.
Trivia/Fun Facts:
- Claire’s birthday is July 20th, 1984. July 20th, also known as national moon day additionally marks the first time humans landed on the moon in 1969.
- Her personality type is INFJ.
- Her star sign is Cancer and her birthstone is a pearl.
