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"Me biased crazy ex. RAR."
—Ashley[4]

Ashley is a student at Moperville North High School who is Elliot's girlfriend.

She is obviously of Asian descent, but she's from California,[5] her family has been in America for generations, she only speaks English[6] and she's not a magical martial artist... in short, she's almost the exact opposite of Nanase. She doesn't like it when people are using Asian stereotypes on her.

She dislikes labels and prefers not to be identified as "a bisexual Asian ballerina soccer player gamer girl", but "a person who is a citizen of the United States with ancestors from Asia who dances ballet, plays soccer and video games, whose sex is female, and can find men and women attractive."[7]

History[]

Identity[]

Ashley first appeared in El Goonish Shive in the Identity storyline, as someone who watched Elliot and Susan's review show. She noted that the breakup of Elliot and Sarah meant that Elliot was available, but tried to downplay this observation.[8]

She next appeared as a student to whom Elliot returned a dropped phone.[9] This would have been unremarkable had he not done a wall run to get around a crowd in order to give it to her.[10]

Ashley appeared as one of the shocked bystanders when Catalina kissed Elliot by surprise on the day after the video was posted (probably a Wednesday),[11] and her comment on it helped steering the rumour mill away from the issue of his sexual orientation.[12]

She next appeared in a classroom where Tom was talking to Susan. She appeared miffed at this occurrence.[13]

On the next day (probably a Thursday) Ashley accidentally witnessed Elliot mid-transformation[14] while following him. She covered for him while he changed back.[15][16] She then explained to him about Tom and how she was afraid he would manipulate Susan.[17][18][19] To be more credible to Susan, Ashley told Elliot that she was attracted to him and thought he and Susan were attracted to each other,[20] which impressed Elliot[21] so that he asked her out, which she accepted.[22]

The two then went to talk to Susan[23], only to find out that Susan had already figured out Tom's manipulative nature.[24] Ashley felt ashamed for having been played with for so long back when she dated Tom, but Susan told her not to be.[25][26] Elliot later explained to Susan, Tedd and Sarah how he met Ashley earlier.[27]

They decided on the time and place for date later.[28][29]

So A Date At The Mall[]

Ashley's first date with Elliot was on the next Saturday. Before the date she asked Liz for advice on what to wear.[30] Liz also warned her to stay away from the book store.[31] When Elliot arrived, Ashley was proud of her cute outfit but had to wear a coat.[32] When they arrived at the mall she left her coat in the car.[33]

When they entered the mall they almost didn't go to the food court first even though they were hungry because they assumed each other not to be hungry.[34] When Elliot suggested a Japanese restaurant and a Chinese restaurant, Ashley was annoyed[5] because it reminded her of people making assumptions about her because she looks Asian.[35] At the restaurant table Ashley told Elliot about herself:[36] She doesn't know where in Asia her ancestors came from. She likes reading books. She dances ballet and plays soccer.[37] She doesn't know what to do for a job. She once had an internet girlfriend[38] with whom she roleplayed about transforming. She can be attracted to both men and women but doesn't like boiling it down to labels like "bisexual".[39] Then she elaborated on her views about labels.[40][41]

After they left the restaurant Elliot suggested going to the book store but Ashley, remembering that she would lose track of time while reading, wanted to go somewhere else.[42] Elliot wondered why she wanted to avoid the book store and asked if she had an inconvenient magic ability involving books.[43] Ashley asked if he knows people with magic. Elliot was conflicted on what to tell her so Ashley suggested going to a cookie place instead.[44]

At the cookie place Elliot said that he wanted to tell her his secrets but was unsure what secrets were his to tell. Ashley said that he shouldn't tell her anything because she didn't want him to break anyone's trust[45] but admitted that she was curious. Elliot said that he could tell her about his own abilities without breaking anyone's trust.[46] He told her that he had to transform to avoid transforming involuntarily and offered to let her see him transform. Ashley suggested doing it in the book store because she knew its security blind spots.[47]

In the book store Elliot asked Ashley what she wanted his female form to look like and Ashley said that she likes contrast between before and after and asked for long pink hair and her height or smaller.[48] Elliot mentioned that his thoughts when transforming can affect the transformation and Ashley suggested saying "big boobs" as an example.[49] Then Elliot transformed into a short female form with long pink hair and big boobs.[50] Ashley suggested that Elliot should go to a clothing store to look at the form in a dressing room mirror.[51]

In the clothing store Elliot wanted to go into the dressing room together but Ashley refused because she assumed that Elliot would undress.[52] After an awkward discussion of whether Ashley should follow Elliot into the dressing room and whether Elliot should undress in the dressing room,[53] Ashley pointed out that they hadn't even kissed yet and they kissed.[54] They stopped kissing because they were outside the dressing room and entered the dressing room.[55] When they left the dressing room they were embarrassed.[56]

Then Elliot got a phone call from Mr. Tensaided[57] about a cloaked figure (Dame Tara).[58] Elliot told Ashley to go somewhere safe and call Ellen and transformed into Cheerleadra to talk to the cloaked figure. Ashley called Ellen and told her about the cloaked figure[59] and then reported that the cloaked figure is a griffin who was looking for her wife.[60] Ellen told Ashley that she had an idea of where the griffin's wife was and Ashley tried to tell Elliot but wasn't heard because of the crowd. She tried to get closer.[61] A man in white (Voltaire) blocked her way[62] and said that the griffin is a knight from another world and would kill her.[63] As the griffin and Elliot were fighting, Ashley realized that it could be dangerous to distract Elliot.[64]

She bought a soccer ball and kicked it at the griffin to get her attention and told her that she had friends who had an idea of where the griffin's wife was.[65][66][67] Ashley mentioned that a magic man had told her that the griffin is a knight from another world. The griffin recognized the description as an Ancient and Elliot recognized it as an immortal.[68] The immortal appeared and warned Tara that Ashley was Elliot's girlfriend.[69] Elliot and Helena convinced Tara that Voltaire was lying about Elliot having done something to her wife.[70] and Voltaire left.[71]

When Helena instructed Elliot to fly out, Elliot said that Ashley didn't have to follow him but Ashley said that she wanted to and also pointed out reasons why she had to follow him.[72] Then Elliot flew out while Tara distracted the bystanders.[73]

Then Ashley and Elliot met Tara, Ellen, Charlotte, Nanase and Diane at a parking lot.[74][75] When Tara talked about why her wife hadn't returned to their world, Ashley suggested that she had a bad sense of direction and Tara said that she had, surprising everyone including Ashley.[76] When Elliot offered to show Tara the way to the bell tower he said to Ashley that their date was over but Ashley said that she wanted to stay with them and so did the others.[77] They arranged for Ashley to go with Ellen's car.[78] When Elliot transformed into a variant of Cheerleadra, Ashley found it attractive[79] and wanted to take pictures.[80]

After Diane and Charlotte left, Nanase dragged Ashley and Ellen to their car.[81]In the car Nanase asked Ashley if she had any questions but Ashley said that she wouldn't ask any because they had just met[82] (this made Nanase suspicious of her[83]).

When they met Diane and Charlotte, Diane told them that they had been attacked by a spider vampire that had blown up.[84] Elliot told them to leave because the vampire's explosion would attract attention.[85]

Ashley then called Elliot's phone and the Cheerleadra form's body received the call.[86][87] When Nanase's attempt to sent a fairy doll to Elliot failed, Ashley suggested that this was because Elliot was Cheerleadra.[88] After Nanase's fairy doll arrived, Elliot and Ashley ended the phone call because it was confusing when Elliot talked to both Ashley and people in his end.[89]

Ashley, Elliot and their friends later met at Charlotte's apartment.[83]

Sister 3[]

The day after the encounter with the griffins Ashley and Elliot planned a cover story to keep the fact that Elliot is Cheerleadra secret with no outright lies, as Ashley is a bad liar.[90]

On the day of their next date (Friday after the first date) Elliot was embarrassed when Ashley talked about the date in front of Sarah as Elliot and Sarah had similar dates before. Sarah reassured them that she didn't mind and mentioned her own date. When she backtracked on calling it a date Ashley understood why she didn't want to call it a date.[91]

Just after the date had begun Ellen, who was possessed by Sirleck, zapped Elliot, allowing Magus to possess him.[92] Magus cast a sleep spell on Ashley[93] and took her with him to PTTAOLUTASF to explain what he did and why. Ashley woke up in Elliot's car and Magus cast a calm spell on her before telling his story.[94]

When they arrived at the warehouse Magus dispelled the calm spell.[95] Ashley noticed that the parking lot was empty and the lights were on (because Arthur ordered the warehouse to evacuate[96]) even though the warehouse is supposed to be a trap for thieves.[97] After Magus used the dewitchery diamond to get a body of his own[98] Ellen threw out Sirleck,[99] whose appearance scared Ashley before Magus killed him.[100]

After Elliot took away Magus to stop him from transforming Ellen,[101] the urteronc stepped out of its crate and a talking wand appeared in front of Ashley saying that she is a wizard but weak for a wizard.[102] The wand introduced himself as Kevin. Ashley threw Kevin at the urteronc to stop it from attacking Ellen, who was unconscious.[103] When the urteronc was about to attack Ellen,[104] Ashley screamed, which woke Ellen, who sent the urteronc flying out of the building with a new beam spell.[105] After Magus defeated the urteronc, Arthur went to the warehouse using a magic doorway and made Ashley, Ellen and Elliot sleep.[106]

Arthur woke them in an interrogation room.[107] After talking about the events of the warehouse, Arthur told them that the shards of the dewitchery diamond had probably given Ellen her new spell and made Asley a wizard.[108] Arthur said that she would train her wizard ability with Kevin, who was made by Arthur, and Tedd.[109][110][111] Arthur also told them that the core of the dewitchery diamond appeared to be a scale of a large animal.[112] Ellen and Ashley were happy that they have "dragon powers".[113] When they were about to go home Ashley broke down crying from the stressful experience.[114] On the way home Ashley told Elliot that he had to tell her his secrets.[115]

Reflections[]

On the next Thursday, when Elliot suggested going on a new date the next day, Ashley insisted on going to a movie theater, possibly because she was still traumatized by her last visit to Elliot's house.[116] The day after the date (a Saturday) Elliot realized that Ashley needed someone to talk to about magic and the events thus far. He decided to throw a party to introduce her to his friends.[117] When he invited her on the next Monday[118] she happily accepted the invitation.[119]

At this time Liz was worried for Ashley and Ashley couldn't tell her what was bothering her.[120] Later Ashley confessed to Liz concerns that her transformation fantasies and stories were evil. Liz reassured her that they were not.[121] This did not put Ashley at peace as she couldn't tell Liz about her recent experiences without breaking her friends' trust.[122] Ashley later told Liz about the party and Liz then started questioning Elliot's friends[123] before confronting him herself.[124]

On the day of the party (Saturday after the invitation), Ashley was picked up by Elliot and Ellen. Ellen greeted her with "Dragon sisters!", to which she responded awkwardly.[125] Ashley asked about having alcohol at the party, revealing that she had been the "designated coffee maker" at several parties before. The Dunkels assured her that the party would be booze-free.[126] They then discussed Tedd's genderfluid-ness, as well as their previous transgender-themed party, which impressed her.[127]

After arriving at Tedd's house, Ashley was introduced to the participants (including Grace and Justin, whom she had never met before) in the basement.[128] She had trouble recognizing Nanase, whose hair had changed since they last met.[129] Ashley became highly inquisitive about the hair transformation; when Nanase pointed this out to her, she became unnerved.[130] This, however, allowed Nanase, Justin, and Tedd to provide exposition on the "mysterious hair and eye colors" frequently seen in the comic's universe.[131]

The friends began discussing part-time jobs and extracurricular activities.[132] When the topic changed to Justin's battle with a fire monster, then to anime martial arts, Ashley revealed that she had watched Ranma 1/2.[133][134] While talking with Grace, Ashley discovered that they shared a love of the movie Sword In The Stone.[135] The two girls quickly struck up a friendship and Grace told Ashley that she is part-squirrel and part-alien and offered to show Ashley (who immediately agreed) her ability to transform into a squirrel.[136]

Together in a separate room, Ashley gleefully watched Grace transform into her squirrel form.[137] She uttered her admiration of Grace's confidence over the possibility of becoming naked in front of someone else.[138] When Ashley confessed that she did fantasize about herself being in such embarrassing situations, Grace assured her that having such fantasies made sense and was normal. Ashley thanked her for this insight.[139][140]

When Ashley returned to the basement, Nanase showed off her fairy doll spell. Ashley shyly complimented her, which disappointed Nanase, as she had wanted to greatly impress Ashley.[141] When Susan offered to bring Diane to the party, Ashley (along with everyone else present) agreed.[142] Ashley then accidentally revealed that she likes men turning into women; when the others expressed their approval of gender-changing transformations, Ashley was exhilarated.[143]

While waiting for Susan and Diane, Ashley and Elliot privately discussed her newfound friendship with Grace, as well as Nanase's attempts to impress her. Ashley sympathized with "awkwardness from trying too hard." [144][145] When Susan and Diane arrived, Ashley (along with others) agreed not to discuss their shared ancestry until both felt they were ready.[146]

When Tedd showed everyone a drumstick wand, Ashley asked if accidental, embarrassing transformations were unlikely, to which Tedd replied yes.[147] When Diane decided to try the wand on another person, Ashley immediately volunteered as the subject.[148] Using the wand, Diane successfully transformed Ashley's hair color,[149] which made Ashley eager for more. When the wand was passed to Sarah,[150] Ashley briefly fantasized about being involuntarily shrunk to doll size by "evil" Sarah,[151] and then saved by a fairy-sized Cheerleadra taking the wand and shrinking "evil" Sarah to an even smaller size.[152]

Upon learning that the wand did contain a shrinking spell, Ashley became greatly excited, and urged Sarah to cast the spell.[153] When Sarah cast the spell, however, Ashley was shrunk to a 1/2-scale, which actually made her 1/8-size in volume.[154] Ashley panicked because she had not anticipated what becoming so small would feel like. Grace came to her rescue, shrinking to match Ashley's size and putting herself between the terrified girl and the others.[155] She led Ashley to the sofa, away from the others, so that she could relax. There, Grace made a show of transforming to an even smaller size,[156] as well as growing a tail, to make Ashley feel better. Ashley was awed by this.[157]

Ashley and Grace watched from the sofa as their friends took turns with the wand: Sarah doubled her own size,[158] then Elliot transformed into a girl before shrinking so that he could comfort Ashley.[159][160] When Tedd said he intentionally avoided putting "sexy" transformation spells in the wand, Ashley voiced her interest in such spells.[161] She was joined on the sofa by the now-shrunk Elliot and Sarah.[162]

When Grace discovered her newfound ability to use wands, she underwent several transformations while naked; this embarrassed Ashley,[163][164] who decided that she had had enough of shrinking.[165]

Later, when Diane argued with Justin over the usage of the term "nerd", Elliot casually mentioned Ashley's dislike of labels. Ashley was initially caught off guard;[166] then she cautiously told Diane that Justin and others identified with the term "nerd", and that using it in a derogatory way was "not okay."[167] When Diane curtly complimented her for "speaking up",[168] Ashley fantasized about making a snappy comeback and turning Diane into a mouse-girl, although in reality she replied meekly.[169]

Eventually, the friends watched The Sword In The Stone while they ate pizza; Ashley sat together with Grace throughout the movie.[170]

After dinner, the friends discussed topics including Ashley's upcoming wizard training,[170] and the change in magic. When Nanase brought up the subject of her angel form as an example of a "divine" spell, Ashley showed interest in seeing it, and was disappointed that it was reserved only for emergencies.[171] Then Ashley noticed how protective Elliot was toward Tedd when Diane began arguing with Tedd about the magic change.[172]

Somewhat later, while the friends were discussing whether it was right to give people magic (with Diane as the contrarian), Nanase mentioned that new magic users have to keep secrets from their friends and family, which would isolate them. This unintentionally struck home with Ashley, who began to cry[173] and revealed her personal dilemma over keeping secrets from her best friend Liz, which had kept her worried that she and Liz were drifting apart. Then Elliot told her that Liz had interrogated him before the party, and had figured out that he was Cheerleadra. He encouraged her her to tell Liz some of her secrets.[174] This led the others to discuss what secrets they could share with other potential magic users, and to whom:[175] Grace, who had been personally struggling with whether her friends Rhoda and Catalina should be let in on magic's secrets,[176][177] was particularly supportive of Ashley.[178]

When the mirror door suddenly transformed everyone (except Diane and Tedd), Ashley was transformed into a female Elliot-like form, and Elliot into a blond Ashley-like form.[179][180] While Tedd was trying to figure out how the mirror door worked (so that he could reverse it), Ashley and Elliot went to the upstairs bathroom to check out their transformed selves in the mirror.[181]

Once in the bathroom, Ashley (in femme-Elliot form) began making weird faces and gestures[182] to distract herself from freaking out. She mentioned that she wanted to treat the situation as her transformation stories and encouraged Elliot to join her in making poses.[183] Then Elliot apologized to Ashley for getting her into another weird (and possibly dangerous) situation, revealing that he felt guilty for their predicament and previous dangerous incidents, and claiming that he would understand her if she no longer wished to date him.[184] This encouraged Ashley to set aside her anxiety and comfort Elliot, telling him that he shouldn't blame himself, and that she still wanted him to be with her.[185] She also realized that the party did help make her feel better, as she finally came to accept the recent string of events. The sudden rush of feelings prompted the two to kiss.[186]

They stopped kissing before they went too far. During an awkward discussion about that Elliot changed the subject to Ashley's stories, which made Ashley even more embarrassed.[187] When Ashley told Elliot about her stories she was ashamed since they involve ironic transformation as punishment. Elliot said that such stories are a good way of dealing with anger and that Elliot themself wants to punch people when they are angry.[188] Ashley said that wanting to hit people is understandable.[189] They argued whose way of dealing with anger is morally questionable[190] and then apologized. They agreed that they were too hard on themselves because they don't really want to hurt people that make them angry.[191]

After everyone had transformed back to normal, when Diane said that Raven is her father[192] and Susan said that she is a distant descendant of him, Ashley was confused since she hadn't heard about him but didn't interrupt them at first.[193][194] When Susan and Tedd mentioned that Raven's mother, Pandora, is an immortal, Ashley asked them to confirm that Diane's father is the son of an immortal[195] and Elliot told her that Raven is a history teacher.[196] When Nanase cried because she felt guilty about failing to kill a vampire so that Susan had to kill it earlier and Susan comforted her,[197] Ashley was impressed by both of them.[198]

When Grace suggested that the group shrink to eat cake,[199] Ashley shrunk the others.[200] When it was Ashley's turn to shrink she hesitated as she would also like to experience being larger than the others. Elliot suggested that she first shrink to eat the cake and then grow herself larger than normal while the others were still shrunk.[201] Thus when they decided to eat the cake normal-sized after all, Ashley grew herself large and held a still-shrunk Elliot. After eating the cake the friends played with magic.[202]

Balance[]

On the Saturday a week after the party, Ashley had her first training session with Kevin.[203] The point of the training was to increase her magic strength by casting spells with her own power.[204] Since Ashley started out weak, she could only cast boring spells at first.[205] The training made Ashley somewhat tired. Kevin then instructed her to train on her own but warned her about training too much.[206]

Original[]

Later, while visiting Tedd, Ashley fantasized about Tedd's magic experiments with Sarah. She decided to come up with original characters instead of thinking of her friends that way.[207] Thus she came up with a scientist resembling Elliot, the scientist's assistant resembling Susan, and a test subject resembling herself,[208] and started writing a story about them where the test subject's enthusiasm causes awkward sexual tension.[209][210][211]

When Grace asked Ashley what she was writing, Ashley told her about the story even though she was embarrassed and would like to keep it to herself.[212] As Grace talked about embarrassing mishaps during magic research without being embarrassed,[213] Ashley decided to include a second test subject inspired by Grace in her story.[214] When she tried to design her new character, she kept picturing her as Grace.[215] When she told Grace that she was picturing her new character as Grace,[216] Grace didn't mind Ashley basing the character on her but suggested that she could let the character grow different during the writing.[217] Grace reassured Ashley that her writing wasn't shameful.[218] Ashley was overcome with attraction and kissed Elliot, who had just arrived.[219]

While lying in bed at night, Ashley decided that her character based on Grace would be oblivious to the embarrassment of others, as the character would come off as mean if she were as smart as Ashley considered the real Grace to be,[220] and that the character wouldn't find embarrassing situations sexy but would only be attracted to people based on close emotional bonds; she didn't realize that this is true of the real Grace.[221] Then she redesigned the looks of her character based on Grace[222] and the looks and personalities of her other characters.[223][224][225] Then she realized that she should sleep instead of writing her story.[226]

Nanase and Her Fox[]

One Saturday when Ashley was at Tedd's house for a magic lesson with Kevin, Nanase visited Tedd[227] to figure out how to make her spell to summon her duplicate "Fox" work.[228] When Ashley heard that Nanase can summon a duplicate of herself, she was amazed and flustered[229] as she fantasized about summoning a duplicate to flirt with Elliot.[230] When Nanase mentioned that she could summon her duplicate without clothes,[231] Ashley fantasized about summoning a nude duplicate.[232]

Then Nanase summoned Fox and Ashley was impressed.[233] When Kevin mentioned that magical artificial intelligence often acts like animals,[234] Ashley fantasized about a supervillain having a duplicate that clucked like a chicken.[235] After Kevin suggested that Nanase should focus on what she wanted Fox to do while summoning her, Ashley wanted to warn her (based on her experience with Elliot) that focusing on the right thing is hard, but realized that warning her could distract Nanase instead of doing anything good.[236] When Fox tried to undress Nanase to fold her clothes,[237] Ashley was tempted to make Fox undress her instead.[238] Then she daydreamed about giving Fox headpats and bellyrubs and Fox enjoying it; the daydream was so vivid that she talked about it aloud.[239]

Before Nanase experimented with shrinking while summoning Fox to decrease the casting cost, Ashley suggested that she should put on more clothes to avoid shrinking out of her clothes.[240] When Nanase controlled Fox directly, Ashley was impressed.[241] When Nanase mentioned that she could trade her strength to cast Fox and mentioned that she has muscles to spare, Ashley was surprised since Nanase doesn't look very muscular.[242] Nanase lifted Ashley above herself to show how strong she is.[243] When Nanase became shorter while summoning a muscular Fox, Ashley found her cute; she isn't generally interested in seeing muscular feminine forms.[244] However, she realized that she would like to see Elliot extra muscular.[245] Then Ashley played with a spell that made her taller.[246] Then she asked if it's possible for a magic user to trade their age.[247] While the others were talking, Ashley played with magic more by giving herself cat ears and a tail.[248]

Ashley worried that she would get selfish, indulgent transformation spells instead of the altruistic spells she thought she should get since she's more excited about indulgent spells.[249][250] Nanase reassured her that it's understandable for her to be enthusiastic about indulgent spells[251] and told her that she should play in order to stay motivated to learn magic,[252] which made Ashley excited.[253]

Relationships[]

Liz[]

Ashley met Liz when she was trying to quit smoking and was angry from withdrawal. Ashley offered to help her and since then they are close friends. Ashley talks with her about everything except magic and Liz actually cares about her, even when she's not showing it.

Susan[]

Ashley finds Susan "So cool" after Susan stood up for her.[254]

Tom[]

She spent two months dating Tom before she realized he's a deceptive jerk.[255] After she realized how manipulative he was, she got as far away from him as possible. She still harbors ill feelings toward him.

Elliot[]

Soon after first contact with him, Ashley managed to arrange date with Elliot, which surprised everyone (including Ashley and Elliot). The rest of the main cast considers her to be a nice person and, having no reason to be otherwise, are all on friendly terms with her.

Even before the date, she found that Elliot can transform. On date itself, Elliot not only shown her more transformation, but blurt few more secrets and then shown her he's Cheerleadra.[256] All in all, she is accidentally getting into more and more of main cast secrets.

Ashley's first date with Elliot is her second first date "that wasn't over the Internet" (her first such date probably being with Tom). She also had one first date with an unknown girl OVER the Internet.[30]


Character Traits[]

Ashley seem to have two main traits.

Goodness[]

Ashley has goodness central to her character.[257] She pays empty cash register[258] and doesn't want to ask about anything which might be secret,[82] which might actually have reverse psychology effect.[45] She is so good it makes Nanase suspicious[259] ... which actually goes along nicely with Elliot the boy scout.[260]

Note: After all which happened in Sister 3 - Catspaws, Elliot decided he need to tell her "everything".[115]

Love for transformation[]

Ashley also really likes transformations. While likely started by her being influenced by Ranma in young age,[261] it turned into fantasies to transform other people with reckless abandon[257] and fantasies about using transformations which includes mind-warping to fight against other opinions.[262][263] While those opinions are not nice, Ashley more than anyone else realises that transforming people is NOT correct way to fight their opinions[263] ... which makes her goodness block the otherwise-markable yearning for transformations she has. While they are other, less evil way to transform, she just doesn't trust herself with such powers.

(Note: The specific examples of her stories comes from non-canon NP story, but canon NP-story and it's commentary confirms the general idea.)

Abilities[]

Ashley narrowly avoided being marked by Pandora due to her goodness blocking her yearning for transformation spells.[257]

Later, however, she was infused by power[264] from what was postulated a dragon scale[112] and became a wizard, albeit a weak one.[102][108] She will be trained by Kevin the sentient magic wand[109] because Arthur feels responsibility for Kevin and wishes to support his desire to train Ashley.[110]

Quotes[]

"Me biased crazy ex. RAR."
EGS Main Story Comic for 2014-01-08
"I'm from California!"
EGS Main Story Comic for 2015-04-06

Trivia[]

Bisexuality[]

Before the question of Ashley's sexuality was answered in canon,[7] both Tedd[265] and readers speculated about it, especially after the internet date with a girl.[30] Dan sort-of confirmed it. Ashley can feel attraction towards both men and women,[266] although she doesn't like the "bisexual" label.[7]

(She, however, understands that some people are happy with such labels.[267])

Hair color[]

Ashley's hair color is less established than other supporting characters. She first appeared when the comic was in grayscale, and was in color in several sketchbooks, the first being EGS Sketchbook Comic for 2013-11-10, but her only canon color appearance is in a "flashback panel" in Squirrel Prophet[1] so it's easy to miss. However, the flashback panel is from the perspective of a character (Ellen) who wasn't there for the original event (she heard it from Elliot) and the dress Ashley wears is a different color (green at the top instead of purple) than in the original colorized version.[268] Therefore, there are several possible interpretations of the canon color panel Ashley appears in that would leave it open to being retconned: Elliot may have described Ashley's appearance wrongly, Elliot may have not mentioned the color of Ashley's hair or dress, or maybe Ellen could have misremembered Elliot's description. On the other hand, given how many strips she's had green hair (over a dozen) and how prominent it is (she's on the Patreon banner in color), a retcon, beyond something like her having dyed her hair all this time like Susan, is unlikely at this point.

Dan not being sure about her hair color[269] and later using different highlights[270] may also be an indication her hair color is not entirely canon.

If the main story comics have another stint in color and Ashley is in those strips, and Ashley's hair color is not dark green in those strips, Dan may make it dark brown since he has drawn 3 comics featuring Ashley at least starting off with dark brown hair: a single image strip[271], a milestone comic[272], and a pinup sequence.[273]

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  55. EGS Main Story Comic for 2015-07-13
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