Character from Sally Face by Steve Gabry (Portable Moose)
An artist and fierce protector who joined the friend group and never looked back — the one who stands up to bullies, falls down trash chutes into cult temples, and races to stop an execution with a ghost photograph as evidence.
Ash is the moral compass of the group — not because she's gentle, but because she's furious. She has zero tolerance for cruelty, steps between bullies and their targets without calculating the cost, and will physically fight someone twice her size if they deserve it. She stood up to Travis for harassing Sal in the hallway before she even knew Sal well. She processes the world through art, sketching constantly, and her work tends toward the dark and intense. She asks hard questions and won't accept deflection. When the group discovers the cult temple beneath the apartments, she's terrified — she fell down a trash chute into it — but she doesn't quit. She keeps going because the alternative is letting the horror win. After Larry's death, Ash is the one who refuses to accept that the story is over. She visits Larry's treehouse, photographs his ghost with her camera, and runs to the prison to try to save Sal from execution. She is the survivor, the witness, the one left holding the story after everyone else is gone.
Brown hair so long it reaches past her waist, bright green eyes, and an expressive face that broadcasts every emotion before she can stop it. Wears a purple sweater dress over dark grey leggings, a black choker, and light grey-green shoes. As an adult, her hair is shorter and her expression carries weight it didn't used to.
Also known as: Ash, Ashley