~Asta Lillian Dégaré~
blessed by apate

||Name||
Asta Lillian Dégaré

||Age||
22

||Sexuality||
Bisexual

||Appearance||
Aiyana Lewis

||Personality||
Where to start with Asta Dégaré? Perhaps the only place to begin with a character like Asta is what other people see of her. When you meet her, she can often be described as arrogant, believing herself to be the most important thing in the room. It seems that over the years, she has developed quite a sense of self importance, which often is vastly misplaced. Sure, she has made quite a name for herself, but not enough of one to be quite as self-confident as she likes to be. She is, however, reasonably witty, and enjoys exchanging verbal banter at any opportunity, even if it's only to show off that she has a quick mind and quicker comebacks. Though, if you catch her on a softer moment, she can be almost friendly. Still teasing and to some degree rude, but slightly more open to genuine human interaction.

Another important thing about Asta is her intelligence. She has a mind for strategy and planning, which is always useful in her line of work, but it also comes into play with people. She is careful of what she says, always, and likes to try and figure out other people's motives. Trust is not exactly her strong point, to say the least. Though being knowledgable is right up her street. She loves knowing things. She'll pour over books for hours, study topics day after day, make sure she is as up to date on any important subjects she should be aware of. Her mind is just as big an asset to her as her powers or physical capabilities, and she has no intention of letting it slip into disuse. This inevitably ties into her unrelenting curiosity. She craves understanding, as if that will make the world make sense, and is almost obsessive in following her desires.

Asta can also be kind of materialistic. She loves to have things, physical that she can touch and show off, as a personal measure of wealth or worth. Like a magpie, she collects trinkets and toys, anything that catches her fancy. She has remarkably little self restraint in that capacity. Selfishness is also a slight problem. Sharing is most definitely not caring in her opinion, and giving away things she likes is not something that's going to happen unless she has decided you're worth more than her magpie desires. Which is rare, if we're being honest.

Above all, Asta is restless. Nothing is ever enough for her, not the rules she breaks nor the art she steals. It's like there's always a part of her telling her to keep moving, to find new things to keep her interested. She is a firm believer of the saying 'you slow down you die'. Though, she does get tired sometimes. Perhaps a brief break is exactly what she needs.

||Backstory||
The story of Asta Liliana Dégaré doesn't start the way as most stories do, and that is because in this case, no one is quite sure how it begins. Asta doesn't know where she was born, or when, or to whom. She doesn't know how she ended up in the group of street kids who became her first family, or even where she got her first name, which the other kids called her: Lil (she often pondered this name. Was it short for Lily, or Liliana? Or perhaps it was a reference to her slight body and short stature? She never did figure it out). You see, Asta grew up on the streets of Pais, a presumably orphaned child who found herself adopted into a group of similarly discarded misfits who spent their days wandering through the city and stealing what they needed to survive. As mentioned before, Asta didn't know exactly when or how she ended up there- she was far too young to remember, and with kids always coming and going, no one else did either- but it was a life that suited her well. Sure, it had its hardships and dangers, but with nothing else to compare it to, Asta was rather content with the nomadic and aimless lifestyle. She was small and quick, which made her a great petty thief, but as the years went by, she found herself growing... restless. Ambitious. The street life wasn't working for her anymore, and she was ready to set her sights a little higher. She saw the rich people walk pass her every day, with their fashionable clothes and trivial worries, and she wanted that too. She wanted an apartment on the top floor of a building, with huge windows and fine art hanging on the walls, and she wanted it soon. So, 12 year old Asta started planning bigger. Bigger thefts, bigger payoffs. It went from food from the market to wallets to money from cash registers. Until one day, she was almost caught. Hiding but cornered, Asta knew her luck had finally run out. She was going to be hauled off and thrown into a cell, but suddenly, she felt her throat change. Shifting, transforming, and when she opened her mouth to speak, out came a voice that wasn't her own. It was instinctual, somehow, and she threw it in the opposite direction, distracting her pursuers and allowing her escape. Apate, for some reason, had decided that she was worthy of a blessing. This made her life a lot easier, since her thefts were a lot simpler with her power on hand, and soon she began working her way up in the world. Stealing more to buy more, until by 18, she had her own apartment on the top floor of a big building, with windows that looked over the whole city. By this point, she'd remade herself (thanks to a lot of forged documents). She was no longer Lil the street kid, but Asta Lillian Dégaré, socially known a a high-profile art dealer, but that's just a front for her true business: stealing art and selling it on the black market. What can she say? It pays better.

||Flaws||
~Arrogant
~Selfish
~Likes to have the last word
~Materialistic
~Distrustful
~Bit bitchy if we're being honest

||Kingdom||
Pais

||Thoughts on the Royals||
The royals do a very good job of being out of the public eye, and for that Asta can admire them. There is an art to being discreet, and the royals have certainly mastered it. The only things she's heard about them have been whispers on the street, about how they could be cursed or thriving with magic, and Asta is hardly inclined to believe that. Sure, all rumours have whispers of truth in them, but she's a 'see it to believe it' kind of girl, so whatever these royals are, she's going to have to see for herself.

||Why Did You Choose to be Here||
Why did Asta choose to join the selection? Well it definitely isn't at all to do with seeing if there is anything worth stealing from Troi (wink wink) because that would just be scandalous. But let's be honest, trinkets from a forgotten palace crawling with history? They're going to sell well, and Asta is certainly not going to let the opportunity pass by her. Well, that and she's curious. The royals are so elusive, and Asta is going to make the most of the chance to meet them. The only concern she has is extra eyes watching her. She thrives off the secrecy that allows her business to operate behind the scenes, and if people start looking too closely? Well, she's not sure how she's going to handle that.

||Why Were You Blessed||
The minds of gods are unknowable, so the poets say, and Asta is inclined to agree. What Apate was thinking when she bestowed a gift upon a scrappy 12 year old without a single credit to her name, she'll never know. But, sometimes, when she finds herself pondering the subject in the darkness of the night, she likes to imagine that when Apate decided to give her a gift, she didn't see a scared and lonely girl who needed saving, but the potential she had inside of her to achieve greatness. Apate is the goddess of deceit, after all, and what is Asta better at than that? She's taken the scrap of magic given to her and turned it into a life she always dreamed of having. Everything she has, she has lied and deceived for. What more could Apate possibly ask her for?

||Abilities||
~Vocal Mimicry~
Yes, gifted by the goddess Apate herself, Asta has the ability to mimic voices. Any voice she's ever heard she is able to copy, and equally she can throw them so they appear to be in different places. The catches? She can only do this for up to half an hour at a time, and then needs a few days to recharge if she's used it for that long all at once. And she has to have heard a voice before to be able to mimic it.

||Other||
~Has quite an art collection of her own, that she is very proud of. How much is stolen she is not going to admit.
~Is a light sleeper, but can sleep pretty much anywhere. She tends to forgo the whole night sleep thing for naps throughout the day, since that better accommodates her schedule. Stealing things is always easier under the cover of night.
~Not a heavy drinker, and tends to avoid alcohol where she can, but does smoke a little. It's a habit she's trying to break.
~Dabbles in painting, inspired by the things she steals, bit doesn't consider herself to be particularly good. She can paint landscapes, and that's about it.
~Wants to visit the other kingdoms, but has yet to have the opportunity

||Password||
The patience one cuz people tagging me all the time is one of my pet peeves 💀