upon meeting ashton, people usually have one of two responses. 1: "what a pompous jackass!", or 2: "... he's kinda fruity, isn't he." the answer to both is Yes. he's super confident, definitely smarter than you, and... inexplicably gay-villain-coded. the kind of guy you Really want to punch.

ashton had a pretty normal life on an average upper-middle class planet. nice parents, good schooling, made it into a nice college, blah blah blah. he's always been really interested in computers and programming, so naturally that's the career path he planned on going down. and he did for quite a while. just your average programmer in a big (probably evil) company. but all that changed when...... he happened upon the chance of a lifetime.......

ashton had really looked up to (read: was kind of obsessed with) this guy he met at a programming convention (read: saw the guy heckling a guest speaker and being sooooo smart and cool before being escorted out by security). the guy is kind of a programming master, and ashton Really thinks so. it just so happened that the guy was a bounty hunter and was in town... nevermind that the role of Backup Programmer was already taken... nevermind that ashton really had no idea what being a bounty hunter really entailed... ashton decided to really girlboss it up and find a way to get hired anyway! so he sabotaged the old computers guy and got him badly injured! and then immediately showed up w his resume in hand to apply for the now-vacant position, dragging his best friend and roommate steph along to join him on the team.

now he's living his best life with the man of his dreams... even if they're Totally Both Straight.

he has a tendency to purr sometimes when he's happy, much to his own dismay

he's pretty useless and can't fight at all

he seems like he'd be kind of a killjoy, but he's down to party