The last tv series we were waiting for in 2014 finally arrived: Constantine, that debuted with the first episode Non Est Asylum. In the pilot, we meet some characters we can track back to the Hellblazer comics, first one being Astra Logue, portrayed by Bailey Tippen. In the show, little Astra is John Constantine‘s greatest sin and regret, a girl he unwillingly damned to Hell in a clumsy attempt of saving her from a demon. Following Astra’s death, Constantine retired in an asylum, only to be called back to action by a dead friend. Apparently, now demons enjoy to torture poor Constantine using Astra’s memory, making her appear in hallucinations and illusions to manipulate the exorcist. In the comics, her role is more or less the same. She’s just a little bit more sinister. Let’s see together.
Astra was born in the first 1970s in Newcastle, daughter of a local club owner named Alex Logue. Life wasn’t easy for her from the very beginning, since Alex wasn’t exactly the cheerful and funny man he showed publicly: a cruel and despicable drug-addict, alcoholic and pervert, Alex started abusing his daughter since her first childhood, both physically and verbally, bringing her to a 
continuous state of fear and hatred towards her parent. Growing up, Astra’s feelings towards her father grew with her, as Alex brought her to his Casanova Club and made her the main attraction in the “traditional” orgies. From that moment, she desperately tried to find a way to get her revenge over him. Still a kid, she unwillingly started practicing occultism: knowing that her strength wasn’t enough to oppose her father, she relied on other beings’ power, hoping to find a way to conjure a protector. Unfortunately, Astra’s inexperience proved to be an element of devastating consequences, as she managed, without even realizing it, to summon a fear elemental, a lesser demon called in by her desperation and hatred. Following the direction Astra was unconsciously pointing him to, the demon attacked and killed everyone in the club, mauling every single person except the girl: the vision of the massacre was more than enough to drive Astra mad, but if that wasn’t enough, the elemental had no intention of going away after accomplishing his “mission”, and decided to stay with the one who had conjured him. Insane and alone, Astra started spending her time in a state of confusion, dancing and singing in the deserted Casanova Club. Things would have stayed like that probably forever, if it wasn’t for an unexpected help.
Some time before his daughter killed him with all his guests, Alex Logue had called in a band to liven up the evening: luckily enough, the band was composed by friends who shared also an interest in occultism. The band had been there, and the leader, John Constantine, had decided never to return because of how Alex used Astra in the shows. A friend of his, Ray Monde, however, told him that something weird was happening in Newcastle, so Constantine and the crew came back, finding Astra alone and delirious, dancing on the recording 
of the screams of horror of the victims of the slaughter. Seeing that the girl was impervious to outside stimuli, Constantine had her hypnotized, and forced her to reveal to him and the others what had happened. Astra told the members of what would have been known as Newcastle Crew everything about the abuses she had to suffer and her unwilling summoning, revealing she had been possessed by the demon immediately after the massacre. To free her, Constantine decided to use the collective power of his group to conjure a more powerful demon who, bent to his will, would have forced to flee the one possessing the girl. When all the preparations were finished Constantine started the exorcism, but the demon he summoned didn’t obey to him at all. Instead of presenting himself in human form, the creature possessed Astra as well, fighting off the lesser demon, but demanded the girl’s soul as a payment for his “job”. Constantine cast him out of the girl’s body and tried to flee with her, but the creature, whose name he revealed to be Nergal, was far too strong, and claimed what was now his: the only thing Constantine could save was the disembodied arm of Astra, the only thing he was able to hold. For Astra, an entire new meaning of suffering was about to be disclosed to her, as she was damned to spend eternity in Hell, the torture puppet of Nergal and of every other demon who wanted to taste an innocent soul, just for a change…
Astra Logue is a simple creature tainted by evil at a young age, a girl who has been forced to suffer sexual abuse from her father and from whoever else he thought fit. As a result, Astra is able to feel only fear and hatred, a combination that attracted the attention of a far greater evil than her father. Despite everything, Astra is never just a victim, and even in Hell she shows to be quite resourceful, managing to climb the “social ladder” and freeing herself from the role of simple toy of Nergal (she’s been seen advising Lucifer Morningstar during his battle with the other lords of Hell, Azazel and Beelzebub). Astra is the embodiment of corrupted innocence, quite a rare asset in Hell, that makes her all the more interesting for any kind of demons…
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