Maeve Eldrich, better known by her stage name, Astral, is a magician and debunker of paranormal scams. Intelligent and intolerant of con artists preying on the gullible. She only appeared in the episode That Old Houdini Magic as a foil to Rapture, who was pretending she was the reincarnation of Houdini to bilk a dowager out of her money.
She was voiced by Ellen Gerstell.
History[]
Her parents have some mixed genes, as her ancestors come from all over the world. Her parents are both skilled physicians. Astral has been interested in magic since she was a little girl. Maeve went to high school in Phoenix, Arizona, where her family happened to live next door to an old man named Alfred White, who was a student of Houdini. Maeve learned a lot of her magic tricks from him. She came to Los Angeles, where she became involved with a group of psychic researchers at a university. She is very interested in psychic abilities, like ESP (extrasensory perception), although she keeps a skeptical mind in regard to the supernatural.
Personality[]
She was becoming a friend to Jem and The Holograms, so she was supposed to become a "good" regular character. It's likely she would have had more run-ins with Rapture and the other Stingers, as well as performing with Jem onstage in some capacity.
Doll[]
Despite being one of The Holograms' main friends, Astral was not released as a doll in the 1980s. Integrity Toys released an Astral commemorative doll in 2014; a Caucasian doll with long, straight, aqua and lavender hair with multi-colored stars on her face.
(unreleased)
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Trivia[]
- Astral was originally going to be called "Magic".[1]
- Her surname, Eldrich, sounds similar to eldritch, an English word used to describe something otherworldly, weird, ghostly, or uncanny, which fits her magical-themed persona.
- Her natural hair color is completely blue, as evidenced by images of her during her younger years; and presently she dyes almost half of it in lavender.
- A little homage to her appears in the 2015 live-action film, Jem and the Holograms, in the form of a recording studio called Astral Recordings.
- She, along with Danse, were the only two friends of The Holograms to not make it into the Jem and The Holograms comics by IDW.