Ashe Dreamling
Ashe Dreamling
It began when a vulnerable soul fell asleep, their wishes and desires to be saved from horrible experimentation gradually taking shape. A small fox girl, a creature that could be both a friend, and a protector, stood before them before the evils that were out to get them. While a small fox couldn't combat a great terrible beast, a manifestation of the evils that plagued the soul, the fox changed, transformed, grew, into a mighty dragon to fend it off...
...But now the Dreamlands have connected with the 'real'. The fox has given herself a name, 'Ashe', unaware that it's her first step to becoming something static and tangible. She has fended off countless nightmares, but knows they'll continue to come until she can save the soul who made her. Her goal? To break free into the 'real world' and actually save that person.
Still, the more she's been summoned, the more she's started to wonder, and worry. ...What happens when the nightmares stop, and she's no longer needed?
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Small, sleek, and feminine. Ashe stands roughly 3' tall, somewhere between an actual fox and a short human. Even so, her body is distinctly humanoid in proportion.
She does look like a small young woman in miniature, with trace bits of atheleticism built into her. She certainly doesn't have anything resembling a commanding presence, and both looks and is immensely scoop-able.
Body Features
Her body is adorned with soft, orange fur, that ends in black fluffy around her mid forearms and shins (and also covers her ears), as well as a creamy white fur that reaches from her sternum down to her lower torso. She likewise has a large, fluffy tail that is borderline prehensile.
Her fuzzy hands are humanoid and padded, but are capped with little nail-claws. They look dull and rounded at the ends, but seem to be able to cut whatever they need to.
Many of these features remain even if Ashe has transformed into something else, especially the fur.
Facial Features
Ashe's eyes are big, bright and blue, with an almost dreamy quality about them. If one looks close enough, they can practically see her irises sparkle like starlight.
Her bright red hair is cut into a short bob, and the other notable feature is the slight 'scar' along the bridge of her muzzle. Her fur is a darker orange around that line, but touch will definitely reveal that it is actually a small physical scar.
Identifying Characteristics
The most identifying features of Ashe are her little snout-scar and larger-than-average-for-a-fox tail, that coils around her when she feels vulnerable. Likewise, her bright expressions and sparkling blue eyes are equally identifying.
Physical quirks
Ashe's ears are incredibly expressive. Large and protruding from her head, they fold, twitch, swivel, and splay to match Ashe's mood at the time. Her tail, likewise, serves as a tell.
As a result, it's actually difficult to impossible for Ashe to lie about how she's feeling.
Special abilities
Ashe's superhero ability is 'Shapeshift'. In a matter of seconds, Ashe can change her body from a small fox girl into another creature, albeit still with soft orange fur, the snout marking, clothes, and some semblance of her pendant (in the case of becoming a human, instead of 'fur', she simply has the ears, tail, and fuzzy hands of a fox).
Her forms are currently limited to any creature her ward knew, and she's quickest at transforming into his favorite creatures, real and imaginary. Dragon, wolf, human, shark, and mouse take a second or two to change, while others may require more concentration or a longer change to get right. Ashe's personal increased familiarity with a creature can also reduce this 'load time'.
Ashe's main weakness is sensory overload. Powerful sounds, smells, tastes, sights, and feelings can immediately drain her and prevent her from shifting until she's removed and recovers from them.
Her secondary weakness/limitation is in regards to how much her form has to change. In the Dreamlands, this is reduced, but in the 'real world', creating mass and turning into something bigger burns calories and energy and, while she can maintain the form for up to an hour, she'll likely need a full 24-48 hours of rest after pushing herself. Losing mass and becoming something small, like a mouse, does not affect her.
Apparel & Accessories
Ashe's 'Dream Clothes' consist of a small, blue hoodie that ends roughly at her middriff, though directly beneath it is a tight but adjustable full slip, that dips all the way down to a cozy pair of black shorts. Her vibe is very much 'modern medieval', as though that were a thing.
Around her neck she wears a single pendant ending in a blue jewel, which glows whenever her 'ward' is in danger.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Ashe has only 'existed' for a matter of months. Whenever her ward was imprisoned, she was conjured and created in his dreams to fight away the horrible monsters that plagued his nightmares so he could, at least, get a good rest.
Sensing a break between the boundaries that separated her and her ward, Ashe began seeking out gaps she could escape through to actually properly SAVE her ward...but, has been unsuccessful, as of yet.
She is worried, however; if her ward ever finds another, happier place and recovers from these nightmares, will she still be needed? And venturing through the Dreamlands has also made her wonder whether she could possibly use her powers to protect more than a single person.
Gender Identity
Ashe goes pretty distinctly by she/her pronouns. While her appearance borders on tomboyish, she is comfortably feminine.
Sexuality
Ashe is asexual, but not aromantic, and also does not shy away from comfort and affection from any other gender.
Education
Ashe, by default, seems to have a rudimentary understanding of whatever her ward knew, plus their assumptions of whatever a hero might know. This makes her confident in her abilities, while actually knowing relatively little about the outside world and anything beyond the Dreamlands.
That said, she is intensely curious and invested in learning.
Employment
Ashe is as of yet nothing but a singular protector in the dreams of one person from the real world.
Accomplishments & Achievements
N/A
Failures & Embarrassments
N/A
Mental Trauma
Small existential questions have begun to slip into Ashe's mind about the true nature of herself, and whether she simply exists beyond dreams themselves.
In addition, the realer she gets, the more she begins to worry about failing to save or protect someone. Her nose-scar appears to be from Ashe pushing herself past her limitations to slay a particularly foul dream beast; the idea that her ward would be injured by it even in their imagination is devistating.
Intellectual Characteristics
Ashe's understanding of reality is incredibly surreal. While she lacks the static knowledge of life skills, survival and physics, she is incredibly keen on bringing up out-of-the-box solutions to things. Things that SHOULD make sense with dream logic.
Morality & Philosophy
Ashe's morality, at this point, is entirely tied around protecting the weak, downtrodden and helpless at any personal cost. She has yet to analyze these aspects of morality; thus is a creature born from a singular desire to be protected.
Taboos
N/A
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Ashe's primary motivation is to protect her ward at any personal cost to herself, no matter what, and it is non-negotiable!
Her secondary motivation is to find a niche in this new life for herself. She likes existing, and experiencing things for herself, and if given the opportunity to make a new life outside of Dreamlands, she would happily take it.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
Ashe is incredibly good at navigating the Dreamlands, and considering things via dream logic. Her cunning and combat prowess are especially top notch, able to both slip through small defenses and versatilly tackle complex problems with her shapeshifting.
However, she's very bad at understanding the real world. Machines, especially, confuse her; rule and physics-based contraptions that follow a very specific logic are antithetical to how her brain works.
Likes & Dislikes
Ashe has a fondness for the colorful and fantastic, very much enjoying bright colors and packaging and media. She likewise adores changing herself, both to find comfort and simply to play around with others. Her unending curiosity towards new experiences is immense. Also, she adores sweet foods.
Her dislikes are also pretty clear. Loud noises or anything to trigger her sensory overload is painful; sometimes an abundance of bright colors can do this, to her annoyance. When losing doesn't matter, she takes it in stride, but 'losing' in an effort that matters to her seems to dig into her very soul. She very much hates bitter flavors, and being restrained or enclosed for too long can make Ashe panic.
Virtues & Personality perks
(To be considered)
Vices & Personality flaws
(To be considered)
Personality Quirks
Despite being humanoid, Ashe does have a tendancy to act very much like an actual fox. She sticks her nose close to things she's experiencing. She has a tendancy to chew. If restrained and enclosed for long enough, she'll get 'the zoomies'.
Likewise, physical pets and affection are a good way to calm her. Being hefted up by the scruff will make her entire body go numb. She has a tendancy to curl up in a ball, and burrow when she needs to rest.
Hygiene
At the moment, dirt just doesn't seem to stick to Ashe, except in battle. For some reason, 'battle damage' will show up on her body, including dust, scrapes, and other environmental bits, but outside of battle, she seems to abandon all of those.
Her level of 'dirtiness' really does tend to be another tell of how injured/unwell she is.
Social
Contacts & Relations
Family Ties
None.
Religious Views
Ashe believes heavily in the surreal nature and power of Dreams as being fundimentally important to the universe. Beyond that, she is unreligious.
Social Aptitude
Ashe treats anyone she deems 'nice-looking' as an immediate friend, anyone 'evil-looking' as an enemy, and anyone neutral as someone to just curiously watch from a distance until she can designate them one way or the other.
Friends get hugs, gifts, free affection and attention, often uncomfortably so.
Enemies get fangs and bites and called attacks.
Mannerisms
Curious, bubbly, aloof around those she doesn't yet fully understand!
Hobbies & Pets
N/A
Speech
Ashe is fluent in English, as well as what she calls 'Foxspeak', which is really just a sequence of yips and whines.
Wealth & Financial state
Ashe barely understands money.
A small, unassuming, and intensely curious fox-girl who was created and conjured in the dreams of a civilian in trouble. Her slight frame and fragile shape stands in contrast to her powers and cunning, using the amorphous powers of dreams to shapeshift.
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Alignment
Protective Good
Honorary & Occupational Titles
N/A
Age
???
Birthplace
The Dreamlands
Children
Current Residence
The Dreamlands
Gender
She/Her
Eyes
Blue
Hair
Bright red
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Soft, orange, white and black fox fur covers her. This seems to hold no matter what she is.
Height
3'0"
Weight
Lighter than she should be.
Quotes & Catchphrases
"[some unknown topic]? Wazzat?"
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