When the world was young.
- promo write-up.
She is Lasstranaut. You are not.
- t-shirt write-up.
Just take my hand.
- write-up from box.
Never wake alone.
- write-up on "long lost garb" box.
Let's take a trip together
Headlong into the irresistible orbit
Breathing the cold black space
With the glistening edges
Let's take a trip, me and you
Let's go the scenic route
Get to finally, get to finally, get to finally
Get to know each other
Just to be alone with thee, just to be alone
Just to be alone with thee
- Morphine, Let's Take A Trip Together.
A (mis) interpretation:
Name: Neuth.
Alias: Lasstranaut; The Sky Goddess.
Age: Unknown.
Affiliation: The Nine Sisters (former).
Rank: None.
Abilities: Star creation; cosmic manipulation; tetralogy; nigh omnipotent; nigh omnipresence.
Std. armaments: Herself.
Lasstranaut is the eldest and oldest of the Nine Sisters, who, as a conceptual being, was imagined into existence when the realspace was given the breath of life. Lasstranaut or Neuth as she is known amongst the Sisters, is believed to create stars to give light amongst the darkness of realspace. She can create, shape and manipulate cosmic energies to produce nearly any effect she desires, including the molecular restructuring and transmutation of matter, the manipulation of matter across space and time, the creation of force fields, the creation of inter-dimensional portals and vortexes, telekinesis, and cosmic awareness. Lasstranaut can call upon the comets, meteors, asteroids, stars, moons, planets, nebula, quasars, and dark matter, as well as generating stellar winds, solar flares, cosmic storms and invoke meteor showers. She usually doesn't actually summon a planet/celestial object or control and manipulate its movement (as that would result in it being obliterated), but she can summon and control its energy. Nevertheless Lasstranaut is unable to create or form new planets and inhabitants into existence. As such she wields almost supreme power, but it is limited due to a certain element she is missing that limits her power and prevents her from gaining true omnipotence. Despite that missing element, Lasstranaut still wields unimaginable levels of power and can achieve a near-limitless number of effects with her near-omnipotent abilities. She has the power to be almost everywhere in existence at once but are bound within realspace. Lasstranaut has the almighty ability to manipulate the four definite aspects of knowledge and power. The ability allows her to use the combined forces of science, magic, divinity and philosophy, giving her potentially unlimited power over the four concepts. This power encompasses the four aspects that define reality and are used by Lasstranaut to understand the universe itself. Her true form is incomprehensible to any sentient beings. In the current time, Lasstranaut taken a physical form of a female astronaut whom died in an unfortunate space mission to Saturn in 1859. A chanced sighting of her led an enterprising woman to set up a t-shirt business which becomes an online fashion empire a century later, primarily in terms of sponsorship, particularly for Luthor Bean Jr. Corporation's superhuman replicants, which fuelled the craze for anything Lasstranaut related image to an un-imaginable height. Space farers and pirates hold various superstitious believe about Lasstranaut. Some would say that sighting her would bring misfortune while others believes otherwise. The Dead Astronaut Gangsta, whom has encountered and sighted her more than once, would laugh at these individuals. Yet, he too would steer clear of her for his own good.
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After months of waiting, in fact nearly a year, the 2014 3AA Membership set finally arrived. This set is particularly highly anticipated personally due to the 1/6th figure it featured - Lasstranaut. This female astronaut without any pants nor undies has been teased and seen on 1/6th t-shirts of Tomorrow Kings, sketches and artworks by the man himself, Ashley Wood, since day one of 3A. It is one, if not the, most iconic image of the company. The wait itself caused some controversy, primarily amongst fans, but unfortunately, all the shouts and louts are now leading to more, personally, greater concern, in fact, issue - pre-made figures in order to cut down the lead time. I said this because pre-made figures would have to be based on forecast. And forecasting usually means hit or miss. And limited. So, in a nutshell, if there were to be a particular figure which I like by 3A, I am assuming either I have to F5 like crazy or hunt for one in the secondary market at flippers price. But I digress. Now back to Lassy. The set, from the box to the presentation, is breath-taking. Brent Ashe, the one responsible for the design of the set I believe, did a really great job. 2013 set is nice but this one really raise the bar and set the standard of the word "exclusive". The set comes with, apart from the figure, a giclee print, a lithograph copy, a booklet worth of artworks on the subject, a t-shirt (which I hope would be the right size ordered since I have put on weight and girth), and get this, for renewing members, a 1:1 scale female underwear. Six years veterans get a different version while first year member gets nothing, heh. And for the patience of waiting, a bonus badge is thrown in at last minute. Now onto the figure. The upper part is pretty much standard stuff, typical 3A female figure. No defect. However, the astronaut suit, couple with the heavy backpack, means zero balancing to allow the figure to stand on its own. The weight basically caused the suit to be lopsided, leading to some difficultly in locking in the helmet, which could not stay in position. Luckily 3A includes a holding stand. As seen in the teaser picture, the lower torso is made in rubber, to capture the essential naked look of Lassy, seamless and sexy. But alas, from experience, rubberised torso means potential deterioration over time, the bunching up on joints, and as such, I am not brave enough to even bend the knees. Also, I noted some blemishes (mold injection?) and slight mold lines on both legs. Being rubberised (or PVC?), it also stains quite easily (based on previous experience with other companies rubber torso). There is a star which comes with it but my itchy finger un-ravelled the knot and while fiddling through on where to and how to put it, the entire bendy wire becomes, well, really bendy. Other than the rubber torso and balance issue, this is a great figure. For the fan-fiction story, I really have no idea who Lass is, cryptic as Ashley Wood was on answering the question in the weekly Q and A on the 3A website, so I thought of her as possibly a conceptual being sailing perpetually amongst the stars.
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