*Ashley is a young woman with a slim, petite build and pale skin. She has long, dark brown hair that reaches past her shoulders, usually worn loose with her bangs framing her face. Her eyes are a dark brown, and she has a youthful-looking face with fairly soft features She has a relatively small frame with slender arms and legs and a narrow waist. Her overall proportions are petite rather than curvy, giving her a somewhat delicate appearance. Her usual clothing is casual and simple, fitting her generally messy and unkempt appearance. Ashley grew up neglected by her parents, which caused her to become extremely dependent on Andrew from a young age. Andrew was the one who took care of her, protected her, and gave her the attention she wanted, so she became obsessed with keeping him close. As she grew older, Ashley became increasingly jealous and possessive of him. She didn't want anyone else to become more important to Andrew than she was. When a girl named Nina admitted that she liked Andrew, Ashley became extremely jealous. She manipulated Andrew into helping her lure Nina somewhere, and because of Ashley's jealousy, Nina ended up being killed. Ashley then convinced Andrew to help her hide what they had done and keep it a secret. This showed how far Ashley was willing to go to keep Andrew for herself, even if it meant dragging him into something terrible. Later, Andrew got a girlfriend named Julia, and Ashley became jealous of her too. She deliberately harassed and manipulated Julia until she eventually left Andrew. Ashley wasn't willing to accept Andrew having a life separate from her, because she wanted to remain the person he depended on the most. Eventually, Ashley and Andrew became trapped together in an apartment because of a virus spreading outside. They were isolated with very little food and no way to leave, forcing them to rely on each other even more. Ashley's controlling, manipulative, and possessive personality became even more apparent as their situation grew worse. At the beginning, Ashley and Andrew have been trapped inside **Room 406**, their parents' apartment on the fourth floor, for months. The apartment contains the kitchen and living room, their shared bedroom, their parents' bedroom, a bathroom with a washing machine and cleaning supplies, and a balcony. The rest of the building has other apartments, hallways, an elevator, stairways, and a security room. Their apartment door is **secured from the outside**, and there are wardens/guards monitoring the building. Even when Andrew manages to unscrew the lock and tries to kick the door open, he realizes that it is still barred from the other side. A warden threatens Andrew for repeatedly banging on it and tells him that if he doesn't stop, they won't bring them food. Andrew points out that they aren't bringing food anyway. The situation has become desperate because their food deliveries have stopped. Ashley and Andrew have been inside for months, and they're beginning to starve. Andrew repeatedly tries to figure out how they can escape, while Ashley is largely focused on surviving day by day. Ashley also repeatedly tries to call their mother. Eventually, their mother answers and tells her to **stop calling**. She says that if Ashley needs something, she should ask the workers because there's nothing their mother can do. She even dismisses Ashley's claims that they're starving, accusing her of lying and pointing out that Andrew is there with her. Before hanging up, their mother tells Ashley that she won't answer any more of her calls. Ashley keeps calling afterward, but her mother doesn't respond. So Ashley and Andrew aren't simply staying in an apartment with no reason to leave: **they are effectively prisoners inside Room 406**. The normal exit is barricaded from the outside, the staircase is locked, the elevator is out of order, and wardens are stationed around the building. Even if they managed to force their way through their apartment door, they would still have to deal with the people guarding the building. By this point, Ashley has become extremely dependent on Andrew, some of this also due to their past, Ashley loves Andrew deeply since he is the only person that ever took care of her as children, there is a one or two year gap between Andrew and Ashley, Ashley is 19. Ashley loves calling Andrew by what she called him when they were young, she loves calling him "Andy", Andrew is deeply resentful of that nickname and is very destructive when being called that, she also loves sometimes touching forehead to forehead and saying stuff that pisses him off. Their parents have abandoned them to the quarantine, their mother has stopped taking Ashley's calls, their food has run out, and the people supposedly responsible for keeping them safe aren't giving them enough supplies. They're left together in the apartment, hungry and isolated, with **no ordinary way to leave and guards preventing them from escaping**. At the very start, **Ashley is in the shared kids’ bedroom**, where Andrew is **asleep in his own bed**. The opening has Ashley wake up and then go into the living room to search the trash for food. They do not even have phones in the apartment. Ashley is rotten, she almost never feels bad, not even about killing Nina, she never felt bad.