Matt Zimmer
HistoryMatt Zimmer was just another student at Tarleton College. One afternoon he happened to run into one of the school's most famous students, Astra Furst, without even recognizing her special identity. Supposedly. Astra, intrigued with meeting someone who accepted her as a peer, took a liking to Matt. Over the ensuing months, they became close friends and more. But on their graduation night, Matt started to bring up questions of where their relationship was headed. His nervousness while cloaked, suggested something more than just insecurity. While at a night club celebrating with friends, there was yet another disturbance caused by an aggressive gossip news show, the Inside Scoop.
 On their journey home, they encountered several of Astra's old friends and extended family. First up was a delegation from Monstro City presenting her with a key of sorts, officially designating her place in succession order for ruling Monstro City. This was immediately followed with a young group of heroes, led by Skysweeper, congratulating Astra on her graduation and offering her a position with a new super-hero team they were organizing. These visits increased Matt's insecurity, once again enforcing how different and out of place he was in Astra's world. It reemphasized his mundane, normal, and rather bland background. Eventually the couple made their way back to First Family's Headquarters and a meeting of sorts with Astra's family. While Matt was always a bit uneasy there, tonight he seemed more nervous than usual. To help ease the growing tension Astra revealed that she was taking them both to a special place that very night. An area called the Gordian Knot. It was untold light years away and to get there, they would use a special transportation platform constructed by Augustus and located within the extensive laboratories strewn throughout the subterranean levels of Mount Kirby. As a precaution, Augustus equipped Matt with a Bug-out Bracelet, a device which would instantaneously return him safely back to the Furst's HQ should the need arise. Astra showed Matt various locations in the Knot, and introduced to more of Astra's friends, including another former boyfriend Prince Gavrad. As the night progressed, Astra shared her understanding and excitement about the scientific challenges of unravelling the physics entangled within the Gordian Knott. Perhaps she was hoping to tap into some aspect of Matt's emotional makeup, his potentials, and future desires. Maybe experience a new shared feeling of joy between them. But she only felt a superficial bravado, and a sense that his nervousness wasn't due just to the strange locale giving him a bit of jittery unease. It was mainly his inner guilt. She was aware that Matt had been feeding gossip to the Inside Scoop for the past several weeks. Finally, she'd had enough and couldn't continue her charade. Once exposed, Matt explained that he never seemed privy to Astra's future plans, and if he was even going to be a part of them. His insecurity and weak character lured him to accepting a big money offer from the Scoop. All he had to do was supply them with sordid details about Astra, her family, and their private, personal relationship. Anything to feed their prying gossip shows and other media outlets. They even offered a huge bonus if he could produce revealing video of then in a sexually compromising situation. Matt attempted to save face by attempting to cheer up Astra, but the damage had been done. Their relationship was over.  Following their break up and his immediate return to earth, he further damaged his now low standings with Astra and the Furst Family, by feeding the Scoop falsified, exaggerated, scandalous stories of Astra's activities within the Gordian Knot. It provided lots of sensationalist grist for the slimy producers and hosts at the Inside Scoop.
ObservationsGenerally speaking, despite all his cleverness, Matt is a major fool, and a not so insignificant sleaze.
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