Character Page - Celeste
Celeste is the queen and guardian of the Kingdom of Positivity. She is usually the antagonist of many storylines within the Astroloverse, but there are some timelines in which she becomes an ally to Crescent, typically always under the good ending of the Astroloverse. She goes through various arcs throughout her story, including pre-Apple Incident, post-Apple Incident, post-corruption and post-Antivoid. The latter two are not achieved in the good ending but are reached in the other three endings. She holds a close romantic relationship with Swap in the good ending, in contrast to her abusive treatment of him under her rule in the other endings.
This post will be about uncorrupted Celeste before and after the Apple Incident and in the good ending. E!Celeste and C!Celeste will have their own page soon.
Celeste, uncorrupted, is a gentle, sweet, and sometimes naïve woman who cares about protecting the multiverse and helping her brother. She has been misguided to believe that Crescent was overtaken by a dark force and yearns to rid him of the evil that she believes he is controlled by. This causes a rift in their relationship when Crescent insists he is the same as he was before, to which Celeste refuses to believe. Notably, Celeste is stubborn, which can sometimes bite back at her.
Early Dreamtale
Celeste takes the role of Crescent’s younger sister in Dreamtale. She had always been rather social, and when the villagers moved in, she was eager to get to know them and help out when she could. At first, she made sure to balance out the time she spent at the tree with her brother and the time she spent in the village. As the years went on, however, Celeste was easily swayed into obeying what the villagers requested of her, even if it meant moving away from her brother until the end of the day.
The village treated her like the royalty she is. She would frequently receive presents and gifts for her contributions to the chores of the townsfolk, of which she sometimes gave to her brother, noting his lack of communication with the villagers and the lack of care the villagers felt towards him. She would always try her best to spend time with him when the villagers weren’t demanding of her because in her eyes, Crescent was her entire world. She cared about nobody more than him, yet the village had threatened her with violence should she not succumb to their wishes. Afraid for her safety, she’d follow the townspeople in the morning after the age of five and return at night, sometimes to Crescent sustaining injuries he refused to fully explain. She was usually the one to help him patch them up due to the fact that she lacked healing magic at her young age.
Celeste felt guilty for leaving her brother behind, and she did invite him into town sometimes. However, Crescent almost always refused. She would frequently bring him food from the village and trinkets she thought he would enjoy. This did help him feel loved in the first five years of their lives, but ultimately didn’t do much for Crescent’s worsening mental health afterwards. It pained Celeste to constantly see her brother in distress so often, yet she felt powerless in being able to stop it mostly because of his refusal to speak about why.
When the Apple Incident occurred, Celeste was with a friend of her’s in the village. Upon feeling a stabbing pain within her chest, she looked up at the darkening skies and the Tree she was supposed to protect, which was wilting before her very eyes. Shocked, stunned, and confused, she quickly ran towards the Tree to find out if her brother was okay. Confusion turned into fear as she heard the townsfolk demand Crescent die for being the ‘Devil’s spawn’. Desperately, she went to plead with the villagers to put down their knives and pitchforks, who either flat out ignored her or reprimanded her for trying to defend her brother.
Celeste was helpless as she saw her entire world crumble before her. Crescent was on the ground, sobbing, with tentacles that spawned from his back that gave the villagers no mercy. The townspeople were dying and violence was mass spread. Amidst the chaos, Celeste felt a remnant of the Tree’s positive magic within its darkened leaves call out to her. No words were exchanged, but the magic certainly was, and it was enough for Celeste to climb the tree and reach for the remaining apple of positivity. Upon grabbing it, Celeste fell down with the Tree’s bark, the tendrils having cut the Tree down and leaving only the stump. Celeste rapidly consumed the apple’s power, feeling a rush of magic through her bones. She subconsciously managed to summon a staff and attacked the tendrils with it. Crescent, however, stood up and stared at her with an eye full of fear. Looking at the mayhem he had just induced, Crescent whispered one final message.
“…No more… I-I’m sorry, I… don’t know what I’m… doing… and she cannot…”
It was then where Crescent extended a hand out, and Celeste drops her staff in desperation. She calls out to her brother once more, crying, before feeling her bones freeze. Stone covered her legs, then her arms, and soon coated her entire body, leaving her indefinitely immobile and unresponsive.
Crescent fled the universe, and Celeste, silenced, unmoving, and alone, was left in the shambles of the world she once called home.
Post-Apple Incident / Wartime
Celeste was broken out of stone by an artist named Ink, who had discovered the universe by chance while exploring the Multiverse. She woke up to find her entire world shattered, left only as a husk of its former self. She recalled what had occurred and begged Ink to help her find her brother, of which she is informed that her brother had turned into an individual known for harming universes and their inhabitants. Astounded, Celeste requests proof. Ink takes her to a neutral surface world to talk to some of its inhabitants about Crescent. The majority of them think negatively of him, and tell her stories of the people he had harmed there just days prior. Celeste believed it, feeling as if she had failed her brother for allowing him to be overcome by such evil magic.
That same day, Crescent visits Celeste. He tells her that he was deeply sorry for everything that had occurred at home. Celeste, convinced that whoever was speaking to her wasn’t her brother, argues with him, stating that her brother would not have harmed innocent people and killed the villagers. It is then when Celeste tells Crescent that he was not her brother, because her brother was innocent, and what Crescent had become was not. Celeste initiates a fight, of which Crescent refuses to partake in and flees. Celeste returns to Ink, telling him that she will do whatever it takes to help the multiverse return to emotional stability. The two then form an alliance and agree to help each other as needed.
Ink became the individual that taught Celeste how to use her powers. The two discovered her magical abilities as time went on, and also uncovered her ability to use spell magic. Celeste practiced and learned rather quickly how to use her bow and arrows, dual blades and staff, some of her rapid learning skills inherited by the apple of positivity she had consumed before turning into stone. Ink had also introduced Celeste to CORE!Frisk, who offered Celeste a place to stay in the Omega Timeline should she ever need it. Celeste and Frisk wound up becoming good friends and remained as such for however long Celeste lives or until she corrupted.
From there, the duo met Swap, who they had found when walking through a neutral route Underswap variant. Upon learning about the Multiverse, Swap wanted to come with them to explore and share his experiences with the outside world. Celeste promises Swap he could return to Underswap when he wished to, and it was then when Swap decided to join their group. The three fought together against Crescent, of whom had formed his own group in retaliation to their own. When Cross joined Crescent’s gang, Celeste began to feel guilty under the belief that he was recruiting more individuals to use them for their negativity.
As Ink told her what had happened between he and Cross, this guilt deepened. She felt that Crescent had been taking advantage of those that were against her friends, and that she wasn’t doing enough to help stop him from continuing to spread hatred and negativity. She was quick to become desperate in trying to find ways to ‘cure’ Crescent of his corruption, but all of the methods she came up with ended in failure and defeat nearly every time. She grew to loathe herself for not being able to save her brother, and while she received support from her two good friends, she couldn’t seem to love herself the way she had before.
One fateful night, Celeste left the two in the universe they resided in, fleeing to Dreamtale. She went to plead to her Mother for assistance in killing the beast that overcame her brother, and when seemingly nothing happened, she cried. Hopelessness wracked her SOUL, and it was then when she saw a gathering of the abandoned apples that Crescent had left behind during the Apple Incident. Drawn in by their magic which took advantage of her despair, she stared at one, and it spoke to her;
“Feast, for you have nothing left to lose. Feast, for the time to relieve the burdens from your SOUL have come. Feast, for your brother awaits for your salvation. To win the war, you must understand the power your enemy holds, and to understand it is to wield it and use it as if it is your own.”
Willing to do whatever it took to see her brother again, Celeste grabbed the apple. She was barely phased that it hadn’t changed with her touch, more focused on the task at hand. She took a bite of the apple, immediately feeling its effects.
Celeste felt another soul enter the universe. She was quick to recognize it, but even with Crescent’s entrance, she continued to consume the apple, crying in agony as the negativity broke her bones. Crescent hugged her, and while Celeste tried to ask him what he was doing, Crescent simply told her to save her breath and fight the corruption. Celeste looked at Crescent, where she noticed his desperation and violet eye. Remembering her brother’s original purple eyelights, she realized that this had been her brother all along, radiating a new sense of guilt inside of her.
This is the point where the timelines shift. Given this post is about uncorrupted Celeste, this will discuss the events of the good ending.
Crescent had managed to absorb the negativity his sister had consumed, allocating another apple’s power to his SOUL. He felt weakened as he usually had when he consumed apples, however was far more concerned about his sister, who had fainted and sustained serious injuries in response to the negativity that was in the process of shattering her bones. He took her to his castle and demanded his subordinates assist her while he regained strength from the negative magic he had absorbed.
When Celeste awoke, she was weakened and bandaged, but more so confused on why she was sitting in her brother’s castle. Crescent explained what happened, given Celeste recalled very little of it, and she thanked Crescent for saving her life. Crescent then took their meeting as an opportunity to explain his actions for the past few centuries. He told her of the reasons why he harmed countless individuals and of the abuse he sustained in the village and of the Apple Incident’s causes. It took Celeste a few minutes to take it all in, but eventually she told him of her motives to consume the apple of negativity. Crescent hugs her, telling her that all he wanted was to be accepted by her once again, and Celeste returned the embrace, feeling intensely guilty for all of the pain she must have inflicted on her brother. The two forgive each other and call a truce, promising one another to never fight again.
This leads to Celeste recovering with notable scarring, but ultimately winding up well. She leaves her brother’s universe to her own, telling a very worried Ink and Swap that they had to fight no longer.
Celeste and Crescent then decide to live their lives peacefully, each taking a more domestic approach to life. Celeste continued with her guardian duties, leaving home to help universes overcome by negativity. Swap eventually told Celeste some three months after the corruption incident that he held feelings for her, and the two fell in love. The couple became inseparable, following each other wherever the other went.
Once again, this is a result of the good ending. Uncorrupt!Celeste’s story stops in other endings at her corruption event when Crescent fails to save her.
Additional Info / Trivia
Celeste is 4’8”.
Celeste primarily uses she/her pronouns, but is relatively indifferent to being referred to with other pronouns.
Celeste is extremely outgoing and social, although this is a trauma response from being forced to socialize so frequently in her youth.
Celeste is also exceedingly self-conscious about how other people think of her.
Celeste’s biggest fear is of rejection and losing those closest to her.
Celeste only wears dresses and skirts, feeling pants don’t suit her well. She is very comfortable in her femininity.
While having the ability to cast spells, she doesn’t frequently use this skill and is actually rather inexperienced with it.
Celeste is illiterate due to the villagers not believing in women requiring the ability to read and write. Swap and Crescent both teach her what she wants to learn.
Like Crescent, she is Spanish and speaks Spanish as her primary language. Her accent is thicker than Crescent’s is.
Celeste has AuDHD.
Celeste wears a golden necklace with a sun pendant that she never takes off. It is a part of a set of two she shared with Crescent [who had a silver necklace with a moon pendant] in their childhood. [Crescent no longer has his necklace because he had used it to tie a flower bouquet he left at Asher’s gravestone when he passed.]
Celeste typically doesn’t heavily layer her clothing due to her positive magic producing warmth that can cause her to overheat.
Celeste is pansexual and demisexual.
Celeste, like Dream, is incapable of feeling hatred.
Celeste’s body is far more fragile after the corruption incident. She cannot withstand strong fights due to her bones being easily broken.
In a non-canon timeline, Celeste bears twins with Swap, called Sirius and Stella. These two are essentially demigods.
Celeste is not fond of large birds like eagles, falcons, and owls. She finds them scary.
Reference Sheet
Note that Celeste in the good ending often changes her clothing and dresses casually.