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One of the reasons I love Astra so much is her development. When she was 12 years old, her mother, who owed a lot of money to a drug trafficker of Lyon’s Hive, left her in a brothel and dissappeared for days. When she came back, she told Astra she’d have to stay
there for a while until they had enough money to rent a decent property. She promised her they’d leave the suburbs as soon as she found a good job. Of course, it was a lie. When Astra asked to the madame where her mother was, the woman told her she would never come back.
”You’ll live with us from now on”, she said. “You’re pretty. That red hair of yours will give us a lot of money”. And that was her life until the Dufours revealed against the Empire after 50 years of peace and the Emperor marched to Franc.
Taking in account all of this, everyone would imagine this terrible past would’ve shaped Astra’s character in a positive light, turning her into a selfless woman able to empathise with human issues. The perfect candidate to be a Mother of Legion.
But once Malcador adopter her, he became selfish, individualistic, paranoid and a bit hedonistic. Obsessed with leaving that horrible past away, Astra worked hard to prove that she was no longer that ignorant and stupid whore.
Considering what she had lived through, some of you may think this reaction would be normal, the expected one, but... Astra always struggled to find the difference between being the best version of herself and the most perfect human being on Earth.
So... Part of her development during the Heresy and in the 42 milennium consist on fighting for the Humanity she once abandoned thanks to her arrogance and limitless ego.
That’s why I like her: she has many parallels and similarities with Fulgrim, but at the end of the day, they’re very different.
