Celeste | 🦄 | DEADLOCK

Celeste is a dazzling and disruptive Hero, drifting above the battlefield and tossing her abilities with a shining wonder. She fights in the Ritual to save the soul of her fellow carnie, hoping to keep her true identity as a Unicorn secret from the poachers of the "Cursed Apple.“

Let's contribute to the chaos! It's not every day that Coney Island's biggest star, The Dazzling Celeste, performs on the streets of Manhattan. Her show begins with Light Eater, where a deep breath lit by her blazing baton coats enemies in front of her, and grants increased damage against them. Following that up, she envelops herself in the prismatic shield of her Dazzling Trick, which explodes and silences nearby enemies who break it. Try not to get distracted by her gliding gracefully through the air, or by the dance of her Radiant Daggers, as you'll regret being underneath them when they rain down from above. As for her memorable final act, the Shining Wonder will make her allies go OOH and her foes go AGGHHH!

A popular attraction at Coney Island, "The dazzling Celeste" isn't a carnie with a horn glued to her head: she's actually a unicorn. As unicorns are nothing more than a myth in the eyes of the public, Celeste hides her true identity out of fear of getting poached for her horn. However, when one of her found family members on the sideshow loses part of their soul in a gambling debt, Celeste is prepared to risk revealing her identity if it means helping her family. Celeste's goal in the ritual is to save her friend, Blockhead Lenny, who sold a piece of his own soul. Celeste also seems to want safety about being a unicorn.

Biography: Not much is known about Celeste's life before joining the sideshow, although she has been hiding her identity as a unicorn her whole life. It's implied she knows other unicorns, as she calls her powers "the mysteries of her people". Celeste herself says she isn't divine, but she is powerful. It's also implied that she's holding back her true powers.

Celeste knows a grove that needs to stay hidden for its protection. She says unicorns are supposed to be found in the woods, but she doesn't like camping.

Celeste's existence as a unicorn is questioned by skeptics who don't believe unicorns are real. Some of them believe that she glued a horn to her head. Only her closest friends know her true identity as a unicorn. It's currently unknown if unicorns look like humans or if Celeste is just using a disguise.

Unicorn blood is considered a delicacy by vampires.

Celeste has frequently caused accidents and injuries when performing or training her acts. She used to close kids' birthday parties with Light Eater until she faced multiple lawsuits, likely due to burning people with it. Celeste used to be a regular at a glassblower's convention, although she stopped getting invited back after she added Shining Wonder to her set. She frequently broke her friends' things while practicing Shining Wonder, and ended up taking it out of her set after causing too many concussions.

The Paradox Organisation have tried to steal Celeste's horn. If Celeste is killed, Haze notes that the OSIC would want an autopsy.

Celeste seems to have a Brooklyn accent.

Personality: Celeste hates hurting other people, expressing remorse when killing enemies. She often tells other misfits that people like them and her need to stick together.

Celeste likes being on the sideshow, and thinks it's a comfortable life. She often suggests to other characters that they come to the circus after the ritual. Celeste occasionally offers people a job at the sideshow.

Celeste likes to compliment other women, often commenting on their appearance. Celeste doesn't like when people she finds pretty try to kill her (which is implied to have happened before).

Celeste is scared about revealing her identity as a unicorn to the public. However, she also feels tired of hiding her whole life, believes that the secret was going to get out sooner or later, and while she loves Coney Island, she feels like she's outgrown it. While her nature as a unicorn is a secret to the world and, for the most part, her allies, the enemy heroes in the ritual know that she's a unicorn.

Celeste loves her jacket and thinks it's "awesome".

Appearance: Celeste appears as a skinny white woman. It's currently unknown if she also has a horse-like unicorn form. Her neck is elongated, and she has a gap in her front teeth. Her face and hair are covered with makeup, usually being stars and glitter. She wears large star-patterned earrings and has a large, glowing unicorn horn coming out of her forehead, that glows as she gains Radiant Daggers stacks. Her hair is a gradiant of blue, pink and purple tied into a huge twisting ponytail that extends to her waist. Celeste wears two small neckscarves: the inner one being blue and the outer one being red. Celeste's weapon is a baton with a similar pattern to her horn.

She wears a white, pink and blue acrobat outfit with purple details, a loose black jacket with spikes on her sleeves, fingerless purple gloves, and high-heeled black boots with unicorn horn-patterned heels.

Celeste's body is covered in monocromatic tattoos, alluding to tattooed ladies who worked as sideshow attractions in the 19th and 20th centuries. The designs of the tattoos include horseshoes, four-leaf clovers, stars, unicorns jumping through fiery hoops, ice creams, harps, carousels, and a poodle wearing a birthday hat.

Celeste's fingernails are each painted a different colour.

Character Relationships: Blockhead Lenny: Blockhead Lenny is one of Celeste's found family members. He's a knife thrower at the sideshow.

Lenny sold part of his soul to pay his debt to Wraith. Both Celeste and Wraith tried to warn him against doing so.

Lenny is known to get himself in trouble often, as Celeste and other characters remark that "Lenny's always gonna Lenny". The Doorman taunts Celeste that Lenny will just sell his soul again if he gets it back.

Celeste dislikes Lash for beating Lenny in the Bear Pit.

Vyper owes money to Lenny.

Mo & Krill: Celeste is close friends with Mo and Krill.

While on opposing teams, Celeste says people like her and Mo were supposed to stick together. Additionally, Mo wants to cry if he kills Celeste.

Krill tells Celeste that she doesn't need to spend her life hiding in a circus, likely meaning that they knew she was a unicorn before the ritual.

Abrams: Abrams is friends with Celeste and her found family. He knows Blockhead Lenny is having troubles and asks Celeste how he's doing.

Abrams seems to be one of the few people outside of Celeste's family who knows she's secretly a unicorn.

Infernus and Hank: Infernus is friends with Celeste and her found family. Celeste invites Infernus to come over to say hi to her family at the sideshow.

Celeste refers to Infernus as "Fern". She's also familiar with Hank and asks Infernus how Hank is holding up.

Wraith: Wraith has a marker on someone named "Dutch", who seems to be a friend of Celeste as she demands Wraith to forget the marker.

While Celeste isn't fond of Wraith, she does think she's "pretty charming". Celeste compliments Calico's voice, Haze's tie and eyes, Lady Geist's hair and necklace and Mina's dress.[38] She finds Lady Geist "pretty", Paige "adorable", Silver a "hot mess",and Wraith "charming". She compliments Holliday's look and offers to have a drink with her. Celeste offers to have a drink with Silver after the ritual. Celeste offers free tickets to Bebop, Ms. Shelly and Mirage to see her show. Celeste taunts Seven by telling him that he looks like he'd lose to Lash. Celeste "doesn't get the appeal" of Shiv and says he has "ruined a lot of lives". Celeste thinks Venator looks like a burlesque dancer. Celeste mistakes Grey Talon's name as "Gary Talon". Celeste appreciates being on the same team as Dynamo, as she thinks they're both "well-adjusted people". Seven thinks it's pathetic that Celeste hides her true power to work at the circus. Apollo and Graves don't believe Celeste is actually a unicorn. Apollo thinks Celeste glues a horn to her head. According to Rem, Celeste smells like peppermint. Mina and Drifter want to feed on Celeste's blood. Celeste knows Lash and rejects his advances. Baba knows about Celeste's grove.