To Asto

Introduction
To Asto is a character most prevelent in IFS but has appeared in PS as an antagonist to Silver

There are two notable versions of Asto within the CU. To Asto Alpha α, The To Asto who originated from the current worldline known, and To Asto Beta β The older, unhinged version of Asto who is responsible for the destruction of Silver's World/Beta World.

Appearance
To Asto has pale skin, red eyes, silver/gray hair, and almost always has a red "paper chicken bucket" on her head. She commonly wears a blue uniform [Karukozaka] or a black suit with cyan highlights.

Pre-model overhaul Asto looked a lot like a particular swordswoman with a kfc bucket on her head.

Personality
Asto is a rather chaotic individual who managed to use Betal's Bucket and not get taken over as a host, because of this nature, people she meets tend to not really like her, resulting in her having next to no friends to rely on and fall back to. She will frequently pick on and shit on people just for the sake of it, and can be seen talking to herself at times.

β
To Asto β's mind became merged with Betal's after a failed indoctorination attempt by the agency. resulting in an unhinged chaotic mess which is unable to be reasoned with, allied to, or even spoken to normally. She uses her powers for the sake of using them, and will frequently fuck with people with said powers.

Backstory
To Asto Is/Was a student at Karukozaka [depending on PS or IFS and α/β versions] who learned about a legend of an artifact which could be worn to grant the wearer their own desire. This artifact was known as Betal's Bucket. which was used to seal the rogue guardian deity, Betala ge thon ga tus (Shortened Betal). Asto dug around, and eventually found the location of Betal's Bucket, inside of an unspecified ancient sealing ground. Betal's Bucket was a sinister looking pale designed to ward off any looters. Asto however, took the bucket and wore it anyway. In this moment, the true nature of Betal's Bucket was exposed to Asto, as it tried to impose it's chaos upon her to take over her as a host. However Asto's chaotic nature was enough to resist Betal, and the two fought in her head. The climax of this fight resulted in the both of them losing, Asto wasn't taken over, Betal was still sealed, and Asto died. However, one of the 13 took notice of this internal battle, and revived Asto turning her into a godslayer. who was now living with Betal residing inside of her head.

Being able to see the full image of Betal, annoyed that he practically killed her to take over her body. Transformed the bucket into a chicken bucket based on his strange bird like appearance to effectively call him takeaway chicken as an insult. however despite that, they grew to get along as time would progress. becoming Asto's only real friend.

β
During the Beta Worldline, Asto was hunted down by The Agency in order for them to control her. She managed to evade them for a while, and crossed paths with Silver one time. However she was eventually lured into the agency.

The Agency would try to indoctorinate Asto so that they could control her and her anomalic power, but the indoctorination process backfired and resulted in Betal and Asto merging within her mind. This process wiped portions of Asto's memory, namely of the indoctorination process. Not being able to hear Betal in her head anymore, drove her mad, and the discrepancy in her memory lead her to believe that Silver was responsible for this and grew to hate him. In an attempt to locate and destroy silver, she started to go beserk, causing large amounts of anomalies to start forming. The Agency, unable to control her, sealed her in one of their facilities, which would be renamed to the Barren Seal. While Asto could not break out of the seal on her own, she could still control people and create anomalies through it. Since The Agency was focusing on making Asto stay contained, they weren't able to capture the anomalies resulting in the world being destroyed.

Later, she would supposedly disappear through unknown means, and appear within the Alpha World.

Gun and The Grimleal Arc
Asto β revealed herself to silver, and stated that once The Grimleal fails in this world, she'll bring anomalies to the world, each stronger than the next, and eventually will come herself to a "certain place" to destroy this world as well. Before disappearing.

After this she would fuck with Silver and The Persona Users from time to time, to taunt them.

α
Asto α would be found by Gun 1's daughter in Ikebukuro, and would be told to head to Iwatodai, She would later arrive in the location, and quickly meet with Gun 1 and Silver.

Asto α would treat the two like she would any other, but Silver seemed to have other plans. Because of the existence of Asto β being nearby, Asto α began to experience strange dreams of events which happened in the beta worldline. Silver told her to ignore the dreams, and so she did so for the time being.

Silver would eventually try to test Asto α's negotiation skills by having her go through tartarus without fighting anything, she accomplished this with ease. by just avoiding everything and coming up with excuses.

As time progressed, the date set by Asto β was drawing closer, Asto α met up with Shi who told her about a free coupon app. This meeting also made Silver's bribary on Asto α non-effective, and Silver began to experience stress due to the other events.

Eventually, Asto β would appear before Silver and some of the guns before her alloted timeframe in order to taunt them, Gun 15 ended up being controlled, and silver was almost killed. At the last second Asto α controlled Asto β and made her leave the area for some time. This event would leave Asto α rather confused as to what she could and should do, plus the dreams she was experiencing were not stopping.

Asto α had a slight fight with gun 18 in the arcade, because he would not drink cola or capri sun. She proceeded to defeat 18 with only cola by making the battle completely unfavourable as she had managed to make 18 teleport a mass of cola into the mansion, flooding it. The battle ended with 18 being trapped in Betal's world.

Around this time, Asto α, Asto β and betal began to experience merges in their thought patterns, and they seemed to speak all at the same time. It was these occurences that made Asto α realise what she needed to do and eventually came to the conclusion that she could eliminate Asto β's ability to control people in the area of Iwatodai, and then leave to stop the scenario from getting worse due to her presence.

β
a good while after making her presence known, Asto β stated that she would destroy the alpha world in a month's time. She would spend the months going upto The Grimleal's defeat doing her own things, and living her life, but the moment Lord Loptr fell, she began creating anomalies around the world.

The anomalies she would end up creating would send the world into chaos, wars erupted, and cities fell into anarchy. She had already controlled a large amount of important figures within the world, and was instigating conflicts just for the sake of instigating conflicts. The only place which did not seem to get effected by The Anomalies, was Iwatodai and Port Island. This was due to Asto α preventing her powers from effecting that area.

Eventually one anomaly would get created by Asto β in Iwatodai, and shortly after, Asto β would end up being sealed by Sammy in order to buy a little extra preperation time.

The anomaly Asto created was a hivemind of rats which could accumulate into a bigger giant rat. When the rat was not observed, the rats replicated on mass. So the rat was difficult to destroy. Eventually the rat was put in a container where the replicating rats were equalised and the rats were no longer a problem.

After some time had passed, Asto would break out of the seal Sammy had put on her, and would return to finish what she had started.

In the short period after breaking out of the seal, Asto β encountered Bun, who had previously gone to the beta world along with Silver and Kowerrik in order to see what had happened there.

Bun who had started to dislike Silver due to his presence in Beta messing up its future, spoke with Asto β and Bun seemed to understand exactly why Asto β was so annoyed by Silver, and why she wanted to destroy all possible silvers to prevent his existence from ruining the beta world.

This was the first time anyone had actually formed an understanding with Asto β and the two became friends and went to eat ramen.

Two days later, Asto would finally descend upon tartarus to finish what she had started. To oppose her, Sammy, Nero, Silver and Gun 1 appeared.

Asto β that the only one worth fighting was Sammy, leaving Nero, Silver, and Gun on the sidelines as she would only attack him.

Nero tried to make Asto β shift her focus onto him but it didn't work. and after a long battle, after Asto β had dealt considerable damage to Sammy, she eventually fell using her strongest attack, Asterisk of The New Age which did not go off at its full potential due to her being exhausted.

In any other circumstance, Asto β would have been completely hopeless in this defeat, and would have fought until she died. But because of Bun choosing to take her side. She was able to listen to reason. Sammy was able to talk to the weakened Asto β and managed to de-escalate the scenario, as they came to an agreement. Asto β Would join and assist him when needed, and Sammy would help protect Asto α as Asto β had realised that the alpha world was probably the result she was aiming for to begin with, she just hadn't realised it because she was too angry to notice. Betal [Best Friends] Alpha and Beta both view Betal as their best friend, though Beta is unable to speak with Betal as he had become fused with Beta.

Dr Silver [Hates with all her heart] β Sees Silver as responsible to what happened in Beta, though due to Bun and Sammy, she no longer feels the need to destroy the multiverse.

[Friend] α Asto α formed a friendship with Silver while she was in Iwatodai, and eventually felt in nescessary to prevent Beta from controlling people in the city.

The Agency [Broken]β now knowing that they caused Betal to fuse with her, is glad that they were eliminated in beta, and that she controlled them in alpha.

[The Big Bad] α Asto α doesn't know much about The Agency, she doesn't care either, she knows they're after her and that they're bad.

Bun [Good Friends] β Since Bun took Asto β's side in the events, she formed a friendship with her which helped in de-escalating the scenario.

Sammy[Neutral] β Asto β is thankful to Sammy for reasoning with her at the end of their battle. but other than that, she remains Neutral about him.

Betal's Bucket
-Powers granted to asto via Betal's Bucket

Total Control
- Because of Betal's bucket, Asto β has the ability to control anyone except for Silver at will, this control is perfect, and any attempts to block her in world β were unsuccessful. Asto α also has the ability to use this, however it is difficult for her to do and she doesn't really like it for some reason.

α's range for this ability is short, with the limits for it being at the same city she is in, though if she is dedicated she can control an opponent far stronger than she is.

β has had a lot more time to perfect this ability, and has a range which coverers the whole planet at the very least making it difficult to escape if she really wanted to control you.

Betal's Scythe
- Betal's Bucket allows Asto to pull off a portion of Betal's energy in the form of a scythe which she uses for most of her attacks.

Betal's Aura
- Betal's Bucket grants Asto a significant power boost on top of the power she has outside of the bucket, when using magic-based attacks such as elementals or her uniques she can seemingly hit a target/s with the same spell 3 times.

Scyral Barrage
- Asto pulls a large number of scythes out of the bucket and launches them all at the possible targets after a period of time.

Poultry Cannon α
- Alpha has the ability of seemingly infinitely replicating anything that enters the bucket, so long as she has energy. Using this she is able to fire duplicates of David out of the bucket at intense speeds.

Poultry Cannon β
- Beta does not have the ability to infinitely replicate stuff from the bucket, so what goes in, goes out. While she can't use David like a machine gun like Alpha can, Beta can put a lot more force behind the one shot she gets before returning David to the bucket.

Anomaly Magnet - when Asto β goes beserk she can release a ton of energy which attracts anomalies, during her time trapped in the Barren Seal, she learnt to control this energy to bring different anomalies at will.

Total Mind Block α
- Alpha has found the ability within Betal's bucket to prevent Beta from performing Total Control over the people she performs this on. Her limit to performing this ability is on a city wide basis.

Betal's World α
- Betal's world is a realm inside of the bucket which Betal and his seal resides. space in this world is not normal, and moving towards a location could move you further from it. Alpha uses it as a bed and to store stuff.

Betal's World β
- A void of where Betal once resided, since Betal became fused with Asto β, the world ceased to exist and became a void which goes somewhere, but doesn't go anywhere fast.

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Asto β
- Powers which Asto β has obtained through her time battling and as a godslayer. Some powers may have surfaced due to the Asto Family

Raptor's Claws
- an attack which utilises the movement of The Asto Family's secret martial art, utilising the hands and feet to cut an opponent like a raptor-style bird.

Asterisk of The New Age
- Asto's strongest attack which is produced from her own power regardless of the activity of Betal's Bucket. Remaining scriptures from the Asto Family say that this move would be passed down but none could ever use it due to how much power it requires. Though it is said that the move brings about a new age, likely due to its sheer destructive capabilities.

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Asto α
- Powers which Asto α has obtained. She hasn't had much time but she has them.

Dimentional Location & Portal Opening
-Asto α has the ability to locate desired dimentions and open portals to them, she used this power against gun 18 where she summoned tons of Cola

Cola Brain Regeneration
-Asto α has the ability to re-gain lost braincells by consuming cola, however she doesn't like this and will immedietly try to remove them again.

Brain Cell Removal
-Asto α dislikes being in a normal state of mind for some reason, and after restoring her brain cells with cola, she will bash her head against a wall in order to remove them, strangely this causes α no damage.

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Asto αβ
- Powers which Both Asto's have

Perfect Scythe Movement
- Asto's scythe skills are incredible, being able to deal a huge amount of damage with even her basic scythe. With her skills she has cut down a few deities and could possibly cut down a god with them.

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Infernal Cockatrice
- A form where Asto β takes advantage of the fact that she has become fused with Betal to boost her power, her appearance merges with that of Betal.

Infernal Evasion
-Asto becomes much faster when in Infernal Cockatrice form. She also seems to notice attacks coming her allowing her to move out of the way, almost instinctually.

Feather Lasceration
- In Infernal Cockatrice form, Asto's hair becomes sharp feathers, and she can transform parts of it into one or more Betal's tails which she can use to perform barrage attacks on opponents.

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Trivia
To Asto is based off of a long running gag spanning multiple years where I put a KFC Bucket on Peko Pekoyama and proceed to call her "GOD"