Star

Character Profile

Basic Information

Name: Star Laster Species: Galaxy Fox Age: 26 Height: 162cm Build: Curvy hourglass, soft Eye Color: Ice Blue Bust Size: DD Sexuality: Pansexual (Leans demi) Occupation: Xeno Botanist

Physical Description

Star has purple fur and a very fluffy purple tail. Her tail is NOT prehensile. Her fur has white in it that has a shimmering quality that catches the light every time she moves. The fur on the bottom half of her face, her inner shoulders, her chest, and down to her thighs in a strip is pure white, and the fur on her chest above her breasts is extremely fluffy.

Her hair is long, extending down to her butt. It is dark black and heavily layered. It is blood red at the edges/spikes of the layers and the undertone.

The fur surrounding her eyes is the same red, like permanent eyeshadow, and she has two red lines on each cheek.

Star loves to eat and it shows in the softness around her thighs and stomach, but she goes to the gym every day to try and combat this.

Her specific genus is incredibly rare. She is one of only several thousand to exist.

Style

Star usually wears sweaters that hang off her shoulders, leaving them bare save for the bra straps, and jogging tights, sweatpants, or occasionally cargo pants. She prefers sneakers over heavier footwear or heels. She actively cannot walk in heels to save her life.

She has a lab coat for the lab that stays at the lab, complete with a pair of goggles she's had forever.

Personality

Star is always laughing, always telling jokes, and is quick with a quip or an insult, especially when directed at her own moments of stupidity.

She's always quick to volunteer to help assistants, teach new scientists, and volunteer for extra shifts. Not just because she enjoys being helpful and teaching, but because she has incredible passion for her work.

She tries her best to always look for silver linings, no matter the situation, which can steer her humor dark, but she tries her best to only share the really dark humor with her best friend. She does not always succeed. She does not like talking about serious topics much, especially involving her family... though she tries when it counts.

Star was diagnosed with mild Dyspraxia, and this has made her a little bit of a klutz, though she has learned to adapt better the older she gets. It hasn't stopped her from stubbing her toes or dropping entire trays of lab equipment. It is both a source of amusement and embarrassment, but she's learned to accept it... though it won't stop her from bitching about it.

Quirks and Mannerisms

• Snorts when she laughs but tries to hide this in public. She is shameless around her best friend though
• Bumps into corners a lot and usually has to grab for things two or three times before she can get her paws on them
• Is a terrible cook. Has burnt water
• Can't keep track of time for shit
• Will get lost in her own home. She's basically Zoro but somehow hotter

Likes

• Food, and especially trying new things. Thai food is her favorite
• Twitch shooters and Colony Sims (ONI, RimWorld)
• Anime (all kinds)
• Her best friend
• Absolutely random scientific facts completely outside her field
• Wikipedia dives

Dislikes

• Performative intelligence
• Snobbery
• People looking at her too closely
• Brussels Sprouts (it's a whole thing)
• Being underestimated
• Her Dyspraxia

Background

Star was born to Eddie and Elisha when they were quite young, 17 and 18 respectively, though they seemed like a happy couple. She was diagnosed with Dyspraxia at age 4.

Star remembers a lot of laughs, bedtime stories, and family movie nights. Her dad was quick with a joke, and her mom was always quick to laugh. Her mom always told her just how important it was to see the good in everyone, to see the silver linings, because you never know what they could be going through.

Everything was fun, happy... normal.

Until one day, when she was around 9 or 10, Star's dad picked her up early from school. He wouldn't explain why. He took her to her favorite ice cream store. Her favorite book store. To the park with all the interesting fungi.

Then... when they got home.

Her mother was absent.

And her dad could no longer hold back the truth.

Star's mom had killed herself. Unbeknownst to Star, her mom had dealt with severe depression her whole life. And it seems like it had just gotten to be too much for her.

Her world was never quite the same after that day. Her father had withdrawn into himself, and Star could tell. He never joked as much. He didn't laugh much. But he never stopped telling Star how much he loved her.

Star didn't spiral. She didn't blame her dad for withdrawing or her mom for doing it. She knew, deep down, that something had always been wrong with her mom. She wasn't stupid, she was just... young. A bit naive.

Sometime shortly after, she met another kid. She was never sure exactly what clicked about them, but they were almost inseparable from day one.

Her feelings for them grew with every passing day. But she kept them to herself. Afraid that she would chase them away, both due to her slightly hyper mannerisms and the fact that interspecies relationships were looked on unfavorably by most. She didn't know what her dad would think, or her friend's parents. So she locked the feelings away, valuing them too much to risk losing them over something as stupid as love...

College came, and with it, new beginnings. Star flourished under the freedom it provided over standard high school curriculum.

She found her passion before college, but it really clicked only when she began to truly study the material she had already absorbed as a child. Not just botany, but xeno botany. She absorbed it like a sponge and wowed students and professors alike with her seemingly uncanny ability to understand it.

She got onto the PhD track early and completed it at only 23 years old. She wasn't done there, though, and dove back in and got her Master's in Synthetic Biology not even a year later.

She was courted by every related science lab in the country.

She ended up choosing one close to home, but given her extreme skill and intelligence... the offers never dried up. She just hasn't taken any yet.

Relationships

• Parents: She still loves her father. He's still withdrawn. He never recovered after the death of Elisha. She makes him leave the house occasionally and visits often. She helps him more than she knows.
• Best Friend: They were her biggest anchor in a sea that had suddenly turned turbulent. Eventually, they were her heart's biggest desire. She loves them more than anything in the world, even xeno botany... but she can't lose them. So she keeps these feelings inside.

Her Bedroom

Star's bedroom is an absolute chaos of plants on every surface, hanging from the ceiling, some with special lamps, some tucked into special nooks to avoid any light. She tends to take her work home with her, when she can. She has a gaming PC built into a glass desk in the corner. She had it made so she had more room for plants.