#but pls dont call celes taeko on this post!!!!

[windose20s]

HEY hi hello hey!!! here is a swap!celeste 4 u today!!!

pop sensation!celestia, 1/2 main best friends to my beloved detective!chihiro !! (her image is also updated because i forgot some formatting stuff on theirs)

backstory + misc design blurbs utc!

she paints chi’s nails sometimes :)

ok i’d like to preface this with the fact that i..didnt even skim her wiki page for this. to be fair why would i theres like! barely anything on there thats true anyways

so if i mischaracterize her sorry!!!! its probably a combo of me trying to make her a bit less like how she is in Canon (a little bit more likable on the surface. think how kyoko is generally reserved but isnt directly mean/rude! kinda like that) and how i understand her character solely through fanfic lol

anyways here it is ,, :

celestia has always owned a natural talent towards singing. she’d put on concerts in the living room during her younger years and even being placed in choir in the later years of elementary.

celestia grows to not quite like her parents, however, they were loud and rude to her about her (admittedly, outlandish) dreams of living comfortably as a rich woman with her cat.

they accepted her eccentricities when she was young, but as she grew older, they pressured her more and more to conform to what’s normal.

however, 15yo celeste, ripe in her gender transition and subsequent rebellion from what’s expected of her, does NOT care! she’s gonna do whatever the hell she wants, thanks!

she’s been saving her allowance to eventually get herself something big, something other than random junk she gets bored with in a week. she spends it all on cosmetics - she buys a long black wig with clip-on pigtails (certainly not to the size of her canon ones, more like cosplay wigs) and bleaches and dyes red streaks into it herself.

she buys a shitload of make-up with what’s left of the remaining money, following every tutorial she thinks she may needs in order to successfully give off the aura she desires. it’s good enough.

she’s never had a problem stealing her mom’s clothes - even if it means slaughtering and reincarnating them into a fashionable outfit with her average sewing skills.

she begins sneaking out at night - as much as she’d love to wave her rebellion in her parents’ faces, the last thing she needs is her belongings burned in an incinerator in an effort to make her stop.

she sings for crowds, whatever trashy pop song that’s latest hit the charts that they request she sing along to a youtube karaoke of. of course, she’s made a decent enough effort to keep up with what’s popular so she knows the tune of the songs she sings and how to sing them correctly.

eventually her talent is spotted and she’s scooped up by an agency, who agrees that her group should retain her aesthetics - she performs her best when she’s looking her best.

when chosing a stage name, she recalls the european royalty she shares her dreams of living in castles with, and how their lavish and respected lifestyle represents what she wishes she could have.

for some solace, she chooses the first distinctly european name that comes to mind (as she’s scrolled through wikipedia and behindthename in fits of boredom during school many a time) - celestia ludenberg. a fittingly extravagant name for someone like her, she thinks. she likes it.

over time she grows far too attached to it and it’s no longer just a stage name, it’s her name. at first she was fine with settling for the feminine version of her original name but it’s not quite for her. she makes a conscious effort to pressure any needed documentation on her to be changed respectfully.

the rest is old news, she blows up and gets famous, gets scouted (as she’s the group leader) yada yada

#also i dont find it common enough to put in main post #but pls dont call celes taeko on this post!!!! #or any other variation of her “real name” #since in this au shes trans and her deadname is like. whatever the masc equivalent is of taeko #theres my ramble over. time for the actual tags #celeste #celeste ludenberg #celes ludenberg #celestia ludenberg #ludenberg celestia #thh #danganronpa thh #danganronpa talentswap #talent swap #ultimate pop sensation #ultimate pop idol #chihiro fujisaki #<- for the bonus doodle