#ashtoria

Well I guess this would make it triple down and I'm only just getting started.

“Give me your body.” Yeah.

I grabbed this because she calls White Ashley three different things in four paragraphs. I’m not sure what this means.

Nice mindreading Swan. Vic does not telegraph this.

I’m really not sure about this one. Ash screams for Vic’s help. Vic runs over and protects her from.... rain? I mean it’s a lot of rain but... huh?

Off topic but I actually said “no” when I read this. I was hoping Velvet made it. I guess not.

Yes Ash, you are indeed a super hyper badass who never listens to anyone.

I cheered quietly at this. I’m all here for villain redemptions and callbacks to “This is the way things are now”/”Fuck that”.

oh my god can you imagine?!! (of course you can you’re the one who sent me this ask)

Maybe after they enter shard hell Breakthrough gets separated, Victoria’s thoughts start spiraling and she starts transforming back into the wretch, until she’s just trapped in this writhing pile of flesh in a form she despises. No one answers her when she calls out.

THEN!! Someone appears in the darkness, shoulders set in an achingly familiar way and short white hair framed around her face like a halo. It’s Ashley.

She sits down beside Victoria, and they talk. Ashley doesn’t point out the strange form, let alone make any pointed jabs about it, and Victoria feels herself relaxing, focusing in on Ashley’s background chatter. Slowly, her body becomes her again, six heads becoming one, arms and legs growing steady, until it’s just Vicky sitting there.

Ashley smiles and apologizes for not being able to stay longer, while Victoria looks back speechlessly. Ashley assures her it was all worth it and cups Victoria’s face with her normal, unaltered hands. They move closer and closer together until their lips are barely touching, and Ashley says goodbye.

Kenzie bursts through the fog, calling out for Victoria and Victoria frantically turns around. She can see Kenzie now, and the relief in the little girl’s posture as she lays her eyes (human and camera alike) on Victoria.

But when Victoria looks back at Ashley, she finds nothing there, almost like Ashley was never there to begin with.

Matchcut - Ward comic written by @nonplatonicsubtext and illustrated by me

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