Editing Nastasia

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|tippi = That's Nastasia...She was once Count Bleck's close associate. Count Bleck was her reason for living...But she knew that at some point this day would come. She'll be OK eventually. To see his face...To hear his voice...She knows she can't but yet, she pines.
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{{quote|'I do'. Say it now, K?|Nastasia|Super Paper Mario}}

'''Nastasia''' is a villain in the game, ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', and the main antagonist [[Count Bleck]]'s cohort. She has powerful hypnotic magic, which she uses to brainwash all of her victims into serving Count Bleck. She can also use it to force people into doing certain things, as seen when she made [[Peach]] marry [[Bowser]]. Nonetheless, she acts like a secretary and a very determined one at that. She takes her job very seriously even when it comes to following Bleck's orders or to repeating what Bleck says in first person to have it make sense, and give it emphasis.

She once asked Count Bleck if he wanted to stop before it was too late while he muses over whether [[Tippi]] could possibly be Timpani. He refused and offered to let her leave with his blessings. She, however, decided to stay, as she had sworn her life to him ever since he saved her.

She seems to have feelings for Count Bleck but does not want to attempt at him, because he is already very troubled by his past love experience with Timpani. In the end she cries due to Bleck's dissappearance.

She seems to use her power by lifting her glasses, upon which a white glow flashes and the subject she wishes to hypnotise is instantly under her control. Therefore, it could be argued she has tremendous hypnotic power and wears glasses to control this power. It can be noticed that they are only seen open once. The player gets a glimpse of them when Nastasia is crying over Count Bleck and she rubs her eyes under her glasses. They are seen closed after being knocked out by Dimentio, and she quickly dons her glasses before opening her eyes when she wakes up. Notably, sometimes her power causes changes in a victim, such as hypnotised Koopa Troopas donning dark glasses and spikes around their neck or Luigi changing his clothing after turning into Mr. L, although there are no other examples of this. 
[[Image:Endingflipside.jpg|thumb|145px|Nastasia at the end of the game]]
If one goes to [[Flopside]] and listens to [[Carson]] at [[The Overthere (bar)|the bar]], he will tell a story called "Of Bats and Men" (the title of which is a parody of ''[[Wikipedia:Of Mice and Men|Of Mice and Men]]''). The story talks about a man searching for a girl he loved who is missing. While he is searching, he discovers a bat in a trap and sets it free. Later that night, while the man is sleeping, a woman whom he has never seen appears to him. In the story, it is said that the bat transformed into that woman and pledged, out of love, eternal loyalty to the man. No one knows what happened to them. It is assumed that the man is Count Blumiere, the girl is Timpani, and the bat who transformed into the woman was Nastasia; indeed, Nastasia mentions pledging her life to Count Bleck after he somehow saved her in-game.

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{{quote|I met a girl named Nastasia on the second floor of [[Flopside|town]]...I'd heard she was smoking hot, and man, was she EVER!|Slim (Flopside)|Super Paper Mario}}<br>
After Count Bleck is defeated by the four heroes, Nastasia takes a supposedly fatal blow from [[Dimentio]] that was meant for Bleck.  However, she is later seen alive and well. When she learns of what the Count did to stop [[The Void]], she starts crying uncontrollably. However, everybody still feels that Bleck and Tippi are still alive somewhere. [[Mimi]] and [[O'Chunks]] suggest that they build that perfect world that the Count had told them they'd make after disposing of the previous worlds. Nastasia, regaining her composure, agrees. After that, the player may find her on the third floor of [[Flopside]], where she comments on her feelings for the Count, and decides that if she could not learn to love again, she probably never could have measured up to Timpani anyway.

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== Trivia ==
* Her name is Greek for "She who shall rise up again", possibly a reference to her only falling unconscious from a deadly attack, or the story with the bat and the man. It is also a pun on the word "nasty" (and possibly "Anastasia").
* She has a tendency to end sentences with the phrase "'K?", as in, "OK?". She also says "uh" and "um" a lot, and her speech pattern seems to be based on Bill Lumbergh's of the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Office Space|Office Space]]''.
* Nastasia bears a few slight similarities to [[Jolene]].
* Apparently, Nastasia is very punctual, as she always mentions a schedule.
* She is the game's only major antagonist who is never fought, though the [[player]] does fight [[Luigi|Mr. L]] and [[Count Bleck's Army]], both of which were brainwashed and enlisted by her. So in a way, the player fights her indirectly through her subordinates, but she is never fought in person.
* Nastasia refers to the [[Koopa Troop]] as the "Bowser organization."
* It is unknown how Nastasia found out about Dimentio's plan to betray Count Bleck, but there's a chance that she probably overheard his conversation with Mario, Luigi, Tippi, and the [[Pixls]] when he was trying to convince them to join him, as that is the only time he mentioned anything about his plans aloud.

==Names in Other Languages==
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|Jap=ナスタシア<br>''Nasutashia''
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