Astrid Pertridge
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Astrid Pertridge is a Sim who lives in Hidden Springs. She is the oldest daughter of Lonnie Pertridge, sister of Eunice Pertridge and step-sister of Ella Carlisle. She is the only one among her mother and sister to be friends with Ella. She works at level 1 in the Musical career track as a Fan. She has always dreamed of becoming a princess. It is also mentioned in Hector Mendoza's bio, who also works in the Music career track, that he might have come to Hidden Springs in order to encounter a young and mostly wealthy debutant, who is highly likely to be Astrid.
Astrid and her sister Eunice are an obvious parody of the cruel step-sisters in the tale Cinderella. He mother's (and her own) fondest wish is to see her marry the "prince" at the expense of the good-hearted step-sister, who is treated as less than a domestic, with a poor room. However,it's worth noting that Astrid, unlike her mother and sister, is friends with Ella. This might be a reference to the Disney adaptations of Cinderella: in the sequels of the original movie, one of the sisters, Anastasia, slowly becomes friends with Cinderella, and slighly turns against her mother (Astrid is distant friends with Lonnie).