Astrostrudels/SMP

''This page refers to the character from the Pizza Baby SMP. For the player who potrays this character, see astrostrudels.''

"The only reason I re-entered the race is because you were begging on your knees for me. 'I need you in power, Astrostrudels.' God, you're such a little bitch."

Astrostrudels, also known as Astro, is one of the main characters in the Pizza Baby SMP storyline. They were formerly the Vice President of No Astro City (now a spawn area) and was exiled from the town following breadboie's presidential election and the banning of their and 69nath's business, Pissbaby Kingdom Incorporated. They have since become a successful businessperson, and plan to expand the growth of Strudel Co.

They were one of the first members on the SMP, along with breadboie and itsconkcrete (also known as Conk). As time went on and new alliances were formed, Astro and Bread's friendship became gradually more rocky, eventually leading to their exile. For an ongoing period of time, they continuously attempted to create an alliance with Bread to get Honse back from FallenClown (also known as Dan). Currently, they live in a mansion in a tundra biome.

Appearance
Astrostrudels's skin no longer has a space suit. They have pink skin, dark purple horns, four yellow eyes, and pink hair. Their outfits change from time to time. Prior to this, they wore a pink astronaut suit (their first was red). Their Piss Baby Kingdom Inc. uniform consists of a white dress shirt, red suspenders with yellow details, red gloves, and black pants, as well as their helmet. After dying, the colors of their skin went into grayscale and their eyes became all white. Occasionally, Astro changes their skin to impersonate members of the Dream SMP.

Main Personality
Astrostrudels is sarcastic, stubborn, motivated, and prideful. They always know what they want and go great lengths to achieve their desires, such as pursuing a career in business, beating the Ender Dragon, and obtaining an Elytra. When they initially ran for President, they were very ambitious towards gaining a threshold of power; however, they gave that up when they dropped out of the presidential race. They have an "all for one" mentality and is incredibly driven by their own goals. Astro is also shown to want to do things for the sake of their own entertainment, sometimes not even in association to gaining power.

Astrostrudels does not respect authority, this being evident when she visited No Astro City multiple times following their exile despite being banned. They consistently make it clear that they don’t respect Bread's position of power, and points out his seemingly constant paranoia. When they stole Bread's horse, Honse, they felt little to no remorse and only returned him when they grew bored of "the bit".

Post Bread's Coup
Following Bread's coup and flee from No Astro City, Astrostrudels had become increasingly more easygoing, their motives having shifted almost completely to seeking entertainment rather than power. They resided in a base in an undisclosed location, similar to Bread. It was in a spruce forest biome, and had only given coordinates to a select few other players. They had also taken it upon themselves to fix up No Astro City, turning it into a spawn area. There, they opened a disc shop and removed Bread's old house. They spoke of plans to build a castle where Bread's house once was, however they never got to this. After obtaining the elytra, they seemingly had no other goals besides finding the coordinates to Bread's secret base. Astro has been more involved in business, taking it upon themselves to create their own and carry out many personal business ventures.

Gamers Don't Die and Pizza Baby v.1
Before it was hosted on an Apex Server, Astrostrudels hosted an SMP on a realm, calling it Gamers Don't Die They Respawn. The realm had a few members, including Chunky_Tree, FallenClown, Breadboie, and Astrostrudels. The realm eventually went inactive, so Astro started fresh with a new world-- this time on a server-- allowing more members to join.

The first Pizza Baby SMP was opened in mid 2020, now open to the public. It was named after a drawing Bread had made when he was nine years old. It was a presumably unfinished drawing, consisting of a circle with the words "Pizza Baby" written under it in pencil. All members of the original realm, excluding Bread, had joined the SMP along with new people such as gamerloaf, tccasanova, and TheFlyingPig101 (Jack). The first incarnation of the server was very easygoing, though it slowly died out as the school year began. Eventually the discord server was nuked and the server was shut down for good.

On November 7, 2020 the current iteration of the Pizza Baby SMP was opened and is still ongoing.

Early Development
Upon the new server's creation, the players consisted only of Astrostrudels, Breadboie, and Frogkink. They built houses for themselves, only one of which still stands today; it has since been turned into the Pissbaby Records. About a week into playing, Bread suggested an election for the town as to assure growth and development. Astro initially objected, arguing that the server would contain too many similarities to the Dream SMP, but eventually ran in the race so they could secure power. More members were added, and FallenClown, also known as Dan, entered the presidential race as well. Conk became somewhat inactive on the server after this point.

Presidential Race/Campaign Period
At the first debate, Astrostrudels promised freedom for the people, claiming that their first decree of Presidential power would be to make a "combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell", a reference to a song that Chunky Tree and Gee would not stop singing. Dan also ran in the presidential race, but Astro and Bread didn't see him as a threat due to his constant tomfoolery during the debate. This being said, neither of them took him seriously.

Throughout the campaign period, Astro and Bread's friendship began to become increasingly more tense, seeing each other as opposing threats rather than friendly rivals-- something they had previously been. When 69nath, Astro's personal friend from their school's marching band joined the server, the two created a strong friendship and regularly confided in each other. Nath regularly stole from and engaged in PvP with other players, presumably taking advantage of the rule that presidential candidates were not permitted to kill anyone whilst campaigning. Astro consistently stuck up for them, however they did not publicly condone their actions as it would harm their standing as a candidate.

Tensions arose when Nath broke Dan's Ender Chest and did not initially take responsibility. After it was revealed to have been Nath who destroyed it, Astro and Nath then had a private discussion about the future of the town, Nath expressing that they wanted to turn their life around and start a business. Astro came to the conclusion that they did not want to run as President any longer and dropped out of the race, much to Bread's dismay. Bread strongly protested Astro's withdrawal from the race, as he didn't want to go against a seemingly harmless Dan as a final opponent. Reluctantly, Bread suggested they run as his VP, expressing that they needed to be in some sort of power to ensure the server wouldn't fall apart. Astro said they’d think about it, and left Bread to continue his campaign against Dan.

Pissbaby Kingdom Inc.
Nath went on to become the founder of Pissbaby Kingdom Inc. (Pissbaby Inc. for short), a business that specialized in "life insurance", but was actually a cover for them to thieve and kill. Despite its shady start, Pissbaby Kingdom Inc. became a fairly legitimate business. They set up a vacation home in the town, which caught Astro's attention. Now able to pursue business without worrying about campaigning, Astro joined Piss Baby Inc. in hopes to become a successful businessperson like Nath.

Pissbaby Kingdom Inc.'s first business venture was originally supposed to be a "drug" (potion) ring, spearheaded by both Nath and Astro. It was around this time they partnered first with tccasanova, who was set to be a drug runner before he became inactive in the sever as he "hates Minecraft". They also partnered with Gee around this time, who remains partnered with the compony to this day. The pair intended to use her café, The Gee Spot, as another front for their potential drug ring. This eventually fell through, though, when Astro caught word that Dan was creating his own potion thing after believing they had claimed a monopoly on netherwart.

Their second business venture was a record shop spearheaded by Astro. After learning how to easily obtain discs upon first meeting Fib, they set out to make a shop outside of the town as their business had been banned from No Astro City. After they cleaned up the mess left behind from the coup, they opened up Pissbaby Records, located in itsconkcrete’s old house where they sell every disc (excluding Pigstep).

After Dan revealed himself to have more power than everyone initially thought, Bread felt threatened and turned to Astro as a last resort, once again pleading for them to re-enter the race. He begged them to run as his vice president, telling them that he needed them in power. Humored by his pitiful plea, they agreed, but kept their main priority as the business.

Astro and Nath grew closer, achieving many great things as business partners and "best friends". Together, they singlehandedly beat the Ender Dragon without telling anyone. Bread became jealous of their business and friendship, accusing Astro of spending more time with business than politics. It was soon revealed that Nath and Astro even had their own base away from the town, much to Bread's disapproval. Tensions continued to grow between Astro and Bread, despite their partnered running in the presidential race. Astro then made it clear that the only reason they partnered with Bread was because they pitied him, and was indeed prioritizing business over the campaign.

Bread's Election/Pissbaby Inc. Ban
On November 27th 2020, Bread was elected as President, receiving 80% of the popular vote. Despite having previously stated that he needed Astro in power, Bread's grudge towards Pissbaby Inc. lead him to ban all practice of Pissbaby Inc.-related business in town, as well as banning Astro from entering the town and removing their title of Vice President. The town was then named No Astro City after said ban. Nath and Astro retreated back to their HQ, and continued to bigger their business together.

Bread, angry that Astro and Nath were able to so easily adapt to life outside of the town, hired Dan as a double agent to gather intel on anything the two were planning. Dan revealed to Bread that they had plans to blow up No Astro City, causing Bread to spiral into paranoia. After working together for some time, Bread and Dan stormed Piss Baby Inc's new base and burned down the HQ. After this, Astro took it upon themself to move into a new base away from everyone else. On their own, Astro had settled down quite nicely into their private base. They frequently visited No Astro City, despite being banned. During this time, they secretly planted some TNT under the town, waiting for the right moment to use it to threaten Bread with.

The Honse Conflict
One day, when travelling to her base from No Astro City, Astro took Bread's horse, Honse without permission. They used him to quickly travel between the town and their base, and replaced him with another horse with significantly lower speed and health. Bread was unaware Astro took Honse, and demanded that whoever stole him return him back immediately for a reward. Finding it humorous, Astro didn't tell Bread they stole Honse, leading him to find out only by watching their stream at the time. Astro bargained that they’d return Honse for the reward Bread had previously mentioned, but Bread claimed the offer to have "expired". Taunting him, Astro rode Honse in circles around town as Bread tried to catch them. After a frustrated Bread left the game for the night, Astro returned Honse as they claimed "the bit" to be dead.

Soon after, Honse disappeared once again. This time, Dan had stolen him and convinced Bread that he had died. Heartbroken, Bread held a funeral for Honse, unknowing that he was actually still alive. Astro attempted to let Bread know that Dan was tricking him, Bread angry that they would say that while he was mourning. Eventually, they found out that Dan had plans to coup Bread from presidency. They continuously tried and failed to tell Bread that Dan was going to betray him, but Bread wouldn't listen. As he descended further down into madness, Bread was only able to confide in Dan. Despite Astro having clear judgement, Bread's grudge towards them was stronger than any red flag from Dan.

Bread's Coup
Having spiraled into extreme paranoia, Bread had become unable to perform any presidential duties towards the better of the town and spent most of his time on the server working on the sewer systems, claiming that despite his lack of improvement in the town he was a great president. No longer attempting to warn Bread about the coup, Astro stood by and watched as Dan readied his allies to double-cross the president.

Astro first agreed to help Dan plant TNT under the town in preparation for the coup, but quit when they grew bored of "the bit". They wound up placing a few pieces under the podium to be detonated via button on the back of the stage. During Honse's memorial, Astro tried to secretly show gamerloaf the button, but due to miscommunication he prematurely detonated the TNT, which they used to play even more into the "inside men" bit.

Bread fled from the town, taking refuge in a base "thousands and thousands of blocks away" from everyone. As Bread left, Dan detonated the TNT he had placed unbeknownst to even Astro, destroying No Astro City.

Post Bread's Coup
With Bread gone, Astro was free to travel to No Astro City whenever she wanted. They took it upon themself to repair the town, turning it into a spawn area. They also were able to obtain an Elytra in their free time. Besides pursuing business, Astro had seemingly settled down from any conflict. However, upon hearing that Bread had made a base far away, they became very driven to find where his base was located.

When Bread had teamed with Dan to ensure his safety (and therefore the title of President) in exchange for finding Dan a trident, Astro quickly protested and attempted to get Bread to team with them instead to take back Honse.