Astra Kosmetika
George Bradley
Hailing from Accra, Ghana, Efia Danso is a Radiant with powers relating to cosmic energies, contained by a golden Guardian gauntlet. She uses these in her role as an astral guardian, ensuring that any universe-altering events do not have major consequences.
Recruited by the VALORANT Protocol as its sixteenth agent, "Astra", she continues to serve as an astral guardian in between her missions for the VP, though at times her two roles have come together. When the Protocol was keeping track of the fugitive Varun Batra whilst he was on the run from his former employer in Southern Asia, Astra discovered Batra was also in possession of a Guardian artifact, a set of five rings and a bracelet. Further compelled to bring him in, the VP was able to rescue and subsequently recruit Batra as agent "Harbor". With access to the bracelet, Astra was able to deduce from engravings left on it that it could function as a key to a lost Guardian city that she had never been able to find in her time as a Guardian. To her surprise however, Harbor revealed he had found it before; the "City of Flowers" was located in the Western Ghats of India, but Harbor had arrived there only to find it decimated and sabotaged.
Still hoping to salvage something from this situation, Astra's attention turned to Omega and the possibility for a counterpart of the city to also exist there. Further research revealed that it did indeed exist, but the Protocol wasn't the only group interested in it - so were their Omega counterparts, the VALORANT Legion, and with their motives unknown and Alpha's city in ruins, the possibility of Legion powering up their own city posed a catastrophic threat to millions of α-Indians. Together with Harbor and Skye, Astra crossed over to Omega to make the long journey from Lisbon to Southern India, all the while being pursued by Omega security forces. When they eventually arrived, the found Legion had gotten there first and was preparing to power up the city. Astra could only get a brief look around before the team needed to disable the city's ability to be powered up and then retreat from the site.
Astra is an energetic and joyful agent who doesn't hold back what she wants to say. She is fairly straightforward when it comes to expressing herself and friendly banter is definitely her go-to style. She seems to have an affinity for liveliness, and doesn't like it when people and places have no 'color' or 'personality' to them.
Astra is of Ghanaian descent and has a dark skin tone. Her hair, which sports a braided mohawk style, is adorned with multiple gold beads that match with more golden jewelry as a nose ring, multiple earrings on her left ear, and a pair of big hoops. Astra's outfit comprises of bright blues, purples, and gold incorporating native designs from her culture. She wears a small, purple hooded shawl, and she pulls up the hood when she is in her Astral Form. She wears a blue shirt alongside a brown sleeveless vest, donning a mechanical golden arm on the left side of her person, while her right arm is exposed with a gold bracelet on her wrist and her hand is covered by a fingerless purple glove. She wears a pair of purple jeans with metallic kneecaps, with shoes of the same color.
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