Ash Ketchup/Relationships

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==Hydra Gang==
Hydra Gang  
Ash only knew a couple of the Hydra members and was mostly on okay terms with them for a while. The only one she would really speak to on occasion was the leader, Juan Carlos "Flippy" Hernandez. She began to get to know more Hydra members when Miguel Almerion decided to stir the pot with Ash and Benji Ramos' relationship by making jokes and jabs toward their relationship, but instead turned into a genuine friendship between Ash and Miguel, despite the hatred between Benji and Miguel. With her new friendship, she would spend time with other Hydra members, who she instantly clicked with as well. After while, she started spending lots of time with Hydra during the EU hours when Seaside was either doing jobs, that she wasn't interested in doing, or weren't around. Slowly, she gained Hydra's trust, and they started telling her "Hydra secrets". Hydra told Ash about their meth labs, knowing one of Ash's main goals in the city was to cook in a lab. They even gave her keys to The Pit, so she could come and go as she pleases.
On 3rd October 2022, Flippy invited Ash to come along and cook in their lab. At the time, Ash was still second-in-command in Seaside, so even though she wanted to cook in the lab, she didn't think it was appropriate and more than likely didn't want to be put in the middle of having to hold onto a secret. Flippy eventually handcuffed her and brought her to the first lab at the oil fiends, where the cook failed. She went along to the second lab in Harmony and she finally cooked her own strain in a lab, called "Dogfish". After leaving the lab, Ash and Hydra immediately found themselves in a traffic stop with a K9 unit. After a short chase, and a longer shootout, the full crew were arrested. While Ash was in prison, she realized that Seaside wasn't treating her like how they should treat a family member, especially a second-in-command. After leaving prison, Ash decided to leave Seaside and began to spend more time with Hydra.
Eventually on 19th October 2022, Flippy put Ash on the spot during a Hydra meeting, where he included her close friends Sherry Paie and Rexarius Bracchimus in the meeting, and said she needed to say "yes" or "no" to Hydra and she finally accepted saying yes to becoming a Hangaround in Hydra.
After being apart of the Hydra family, she realized how rough things really were in Seaside and says she is happy things happened they way they did and that she hasn't been this happy in a really long time. She was officially promoted to a full member on 4th January 2023 after Flippy reorganized the gang's ranking system.
==Friendships==
===Close Friendships===
Close Friendships  	
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" width="100%"	Sherry Paie  
“Hello chat... I mean Ash!”
Sherry was Ash's superior at Burger Shot who Ash found a bit weird at first, but grew keen on the longer she worked there. An individual who thrives on chaos, Sherry loves to play pranks on her employees like Ash, such as pretending to fire her (twice) or staging fake kidnappings. Despite this, both of them learned to place great trust in each other. Ash greatly enjoys spending her time with Sherry, whether it be chilling on benches, conducting Burger Shot job quests, infiltrating cults, and just general shitlording together.
Ash confides a lot of her worries to Sherry and considers Sherry her very best friend (outside of Benji Ramos) in the whole city. After giving Ash a lot of advice and help in setting up her own business, Ash gave Sherry a senior managerial position at Ash's UwU Café. Ash also supported Sherry when she was fired from Burger Shot and offers a sounding board to her in her role as "Derputy" Mayor of Los Santos. Sherry in turn lent her advice when it was Ash's turn to be Deputy Mayor. 
Sherry participated in extreme trauma therapy to break Ash out of the Lost MC's brainwashing during the War in Sandy Shores in 2022. In its aftermath, Ash's mind was left shattered with a jumble of confusing signals and Sherry was appalled at what she had done. For a while things were awkward between the two, with both of them actively avoiding each other. Bit by bit, the space they gave each other allowed wounds to heal and they started to open up to each other once more.
Sherry is a trusted friend to the Seaside family. Even after Ash leaving Seaside and joining Hydra, Sherry is always there for her every step of the way even getting to know Ash's new family, Hydra and hanging out in the Snake Pit.
“Yeah, you'll never get rid of me, Ash!”	
===Other Friendships===
Other Friendships  	
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" width="100%"	Dawn Hearte  
Dawn grew close to Ash through their mutual friendship with Sherry Paie. The three of them often engage in chill hangout sessions or shitlording antics such as performing extended dance routines outside of banks and MRPD. Having been an "Old Lady" of the Lost MC, Dawn also bonded with Ash over their experiences being significant others to major gang members, with Dawn seeking out Ash's counsel when the Chang Gang street team were attacking the Lost and her personally. Dawn was upset at her fellow Lost members when they brainwashed Ash and made every effort to make sure they did not try to take advantage of her compromised state.	
===Departed Friends †===
Departed Friends †  	
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" width="100%"	Hunter "Wingman" Skye  
“She's like a sister to me... she saw the good in me, even when I was a Block.”
Despite his association to Block Gang, Ash warmed up to Hunter "Wingman" Skye due to his generally affable though quirky and somewhat unpredictable nature. Even after he was kidnapped and burnt alive under her watch, Hunter entrusted to Ash the care of one of his pet rocks named "Charlie", and considered her to be its godmother. Over time, their association grew from "Not-Not Friends", to Ash being like a sister to him. Ash also helped plan and sponsor Hunter's engagement proposal to Jupiter Adams. Ash warned Hunter about Mike Block's plan to get him fired from Burger Shot, motivating his departure from the Block Gang. However, his busy life since afforded little chance for them to hangout, and their relationship became a little estranged. Hunter got in trouble as a Hangaround for the Bondi Boys MC and was due to be executed by Irwin Dundee.
In the moments before his death, Hunter gave his final call to Ash saying his good byes, thanking her for her help along the way and asking her to take care of Charlie one last time. Panicked and distraught, Ash tried to get back in contact with him all the way past his final breath until his death was confirmed by the morgue. There, his last will and testament was given to his close friends and family, Ash included, and Dundee passed along Hunter's prized car to her possession. 
“You know when I first met you I didn't like you at all, not one little bit. And you still turned out to be one of my most favourite people in the whole city... It's not fair, you were just fighting your fate... I'm sorry I didn't protect you... I'm gonna miss you Hunter. Thank you for being my brother. I promise never to forget you. I love you, Hunter...”	
==Other Relationships==
===with Businesses===
Relationships with Businesses  	
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" width="100%"	UwU Café  
Starting up her own restaurant, Ash had her first taste of being an employer instead of an employee. Through the growing pains of starting up a new business, Ash got to know some of the new people she hired on, relying on their help to build up the café while they placed their faith in her as their boss. Soon, she formed a core crew with some of her most trusted employees who she brings along on adventures outside of work.
UwU Cruwu
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"	Rexarius Bracchimus  
Rex first met Ash as a booth worker for the Anime Club and being scammed by her for overpriced sledgehammers. When he saw the UwU Café open on the pier, he immediately bought into the idea and concept of the café and signed up for employment, becoming one of the first workers hired on. Rex fully embraced the ideology of UwU, becoming one of its most dedicated workers and fervent evangelizers, to the point where he was willing to remain downbad for the sake of the restaurant's success. Ash recognized his dedication, often consulting with him directly on business matters, sending bonuses his way and giving him more responsibilities such as fulfilling the daily Hayes Auto Body Repairs order.
Eventually he was rewarded with a General Manager position when the café properly opened. Since he started tagging along with Ash on petty crime adventures, he gained an admiration for Benji Ramos and aspired to be as good as a getaway driver as him. After Ash pushed Rex to grow as a person, he eventually got invited into Seaside, where he grew even more as person, until he left a couple days after Ash left seeing how Seaside was no longer the family he thought it was. Rex and Ash are super close with him especially coming around and hanging out with Hydra Gang a bunch. He calls her his "OG" and would be considered very close friends with each other.	
===with Police Officers===
Relationships with Police Officers  	
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"	Ziggy Buggs  
Ziggy is a Game Warden for the SASPR that Ash met after getting arrested for the first time. Greatly flustered by her mental gymnastics in that initial encounter, he let her go without any charges. Since then, he helped her after she got into an accident and couldn't crawl out of the crashed car.
Ziggy seems very troubled by Ash and her escapades. Some say he has gone mad from interacting with her, having once attacked her and her friends on a quad bike. Ash is still very fond of him, all things considered, looking forward to future encounters with him and never failing to call him her "favourite Green Power Ranger" or "Step-Ranger" at every available turn, causing him great embarrassment.	
==Complicated Relationships==
===with Individuals===
Complicated Relationships with Individuals  	
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" width="100%"	Four Tee (4T)  
“The day I stop worrying for you is the day you should start worrying, Four Tee...”
Ash met 4T on a fishing trip with Olivia Harvey and Maxwell Devitt . Ash felt nervous around her, but couldn't shake off the instinct to "mother" 4T and to be friendly and protective of her, understanding that her warped worldview was a product of an underdeveloped upbringing. As those initial weeks went on, Ash's repeated acts of kindness to 4T allowed a degree of trust to be established between the two and they grew close. Ash considered her a friend even if she did not want to be part of 4T's number system. 4T also started calling Ash "Ketchup Lady".
Their "friendship" dramatically changed during several fateful encounters with Mike Block, who 4T sided with as her number #1 friend, against Ash and her respective friends including Benji Ramos. The kidnappings, shootings and betrayals that followed shattered their belief in each other, and their relationship divebombed to the point where Ash declared that she has stopped caring about 4T and wants nothing to do with her.
After several weeks of frosty, standoffish encounters, the ice between the two thawed off a bit but still vacillated between cordial and confrontational. Their relationship took another hit during the search for Irwin Dundee when 4T felt like Ash was using her for information on her involvement in the incident. She tore apart a Teddy Bear that Ash just gifted her and left her mulling on a beach. Once again they were afraid of confronting one another for a while. Slowly, 4T forgave Ash and accepted back the mended Teddy Bear when Ash tried to gift it back to her in secret.
Ash and 4T still appear to care for each other, but as long as their respective circles of friends have conflict with one another, an air of distrust will underscore their feelings and any goodwill earned can evaporate in an instant. Time will tell where their relationship will go in the future.
“... but I don't think I'm ever going to stop!” — Ash	
===with Groups===
Aftermath of the Vagos-Chang Gang War  	
Ash forged close friendships with several members and affiliates of Chang Gang during her journey in the city, but she learned a valuable lesson during the Vagos-Chang Gang War. Friendships in Los Santos, no matter how closely knit originally, can quickly wilt away when "family" priorities shift. In a small city like Los Santos, encounters with them are unavoidable and Ash had to overcome her fears and learn to keep things civil with her former friends, while not affording them to same degree of trust as before.
Relationships Affected
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"	Curtis Swoleroid  
“I usually don’t like Demons...”
Early in Ash's time in the city, Ash and Curtis were set up on a date by their mutual friend Cheddar. The two became best friends spending time together via racing, learning how to drive, and carefree adventures. Trusting and having each other’s backs even when it came to things like Curtis’s alter ego, the "Demon of Los Santos". Curtis even hired Ash early on into his weapon smithing business before it started running.
Believing in the strength of their friendship, Ash naively thought that she would be safe even if their respective families, the Vagos and CG, went to war. That all changed after a misunderstanding between Ash and CG members Randy Bullet and Curtis at Burger Shot. Ash carried Randy after playfully “banning” them from the restaurant, not realizing that Vagos members were rolling up to attack outside, resulting in both CG members getting shot up.
What was supposed to be a funny joke ended up breaking the friendship with Curtis turning a blind eye as CG hunted down Ash again and again after this incident. After the war, Curtis changed Ash's position in his company to "dead to me" and later fired her. Ash felt conflicted knowing that she made the right choice cutting him out of her life but hated that circumstances had to bring them to this state.
Months went past as they both refused to reach out to each other. Curtis finally broke the silence after one chance encounter on the street with Ash, asking if she could find it in her heart to forgive him so they could go on adventures again. Small interactions began popping up as Ash told him about buying her first car and how far she's come with her driving. One day Curtis called her up out of boredom, and Ash finally got the chance to show him the building for the café. 
Ash and Curtis' friendship isn't the same as it once was, with Ash now knowing that family came before friendship for Curtis. With a better understanding of how families worked in Los Santos, Ash couldn't stay mad at him since it was just his nature, just as it was with Ash and her family. In their time apart, Ash admitted that she missed her friendship with Curtis but was scared to give him that level of trust again. Now that they were on the mend again, she decided that she wouldn't let such trust be a cause for getting herself hurt again.
For a while, Curtis's new side project was to make Ash and Randy become best of friends.
“But I guess you are alright...”	
Separation from Burger Shot  	
Once Burger Shot was a tightly knit family that Ash considered her home. Inevitably under the march of time, fractures (dissatisfaction with management decisions, outright violence with gangs) began to appear and the once united restaurant split along factional lines. This motivated Ash to start up UwU Café and eventually leave Burger Shot, but not before a rivalry was starting to brew between the two establishments, bringing her into potential conflict with some she once considered her friends.
Relationships Affected
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"	Shelly Smith  
Shelly is the one who hired Ash for the Burger Shot. Despite Ash being anxious and nervous during the interview, she saw Ash's potential from her answers and decided to hire her. Shelly placed a great deal of trust in Ash, over her work ethic and especially after an incident where they were both kidnapped by Mike Block and Four Tee where Ash refused to betray Shelly over Benji Ramos. While Shelly had great respect for Ash's abilities as a worker, her continued rivalry with Lang Buddha and the Rooster's Rest, where Ash was employed, by extension has hindered Ash's prospects for promotion. This has led to Ash being demotivated about her job at Burger Shot and she started to lose faith in Shelly's leadership. Violent incidents with the Vagos at Burger Shot, the firing of Sherry Paie, and the activities of the International Burger Society have also further strained their relationship.	
===Seaside===
Seaside  	
Since making her relationship with Benji Ramos official while he was still Vice El-Jefe of the Vagos, Ash formed individual friendships with many of the members of the Vagos. Although Ash was not a Vago herself, several of the Vagos considered Ash to be familia. Ash cared for many of the Vagos, often providing them with food, gifts, a listening ear, and even offering suggestions/advice when requested. Because of her innate desire to take care of the people she loves, many of the Vagos considered Ash to be the "Mother of the Vagos", and often joked that she is the "shadow leader" of the Vagos. When Benji left the Vagos and Ash was excommunicated, some followed them in exile exiting the gang under a hail of violence. Reuniting in the outside world no longer under the yellow bandana, they chose to band together and became closer than ever, working together as a family unit named Seaside.
After a bunch of growing pains between Ash and Seaside, Ash finally really saw how badly she was being treated after getting Drug Trafficking with Hydra Gang on 3rd October 2022. She realized that Benji really didn't have her back even though she had his fully and no longer could accept not being backed by him. Ash called a meeting, but it ended up getting canceled, so she called a second meeting where many things were discussed. Ash wanting to hear the people who had a problem with her to finally speak up only for those people to continue staying quiet and not admitting to it. She decided to leave Seaside, dropping her flag and chain to KJ and leaving Playa Vista. 
With Ash leaving, Seaside started to assume she left them in order to join Hydra, which wasn't true. This started bringing a divide between Ash and the rest of Seaside putting them on not so good terms anymore. A group she once called "family", not a family anymore.
Relationships Affected
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"	Benji Ramos  
After an incident in prison, Ash overheard Nicholas Simone and Benji talking and in the talk she heard Nick tell Benji that Ash was "dead" to him. Upon not hearing Benji instantly defend her like she would expect a leader to do for his second-in-command, became angry and upset at the fact that in reality Benji really never had her back like she had his.
With this became the crumbling reality that their friendship wasn't real and the fact that Benji no longer supported her as his second-in-command any longer. She decided to eventually leave Seaside and since then Benji and Ash haven't spoken.
For Bash Relationship details, see: Relationship with Benji Ramos.	
===Vagos===
Vagos  	
Since making her relationship with Benji Ramos official while he was still Vice El-Jefe, Ash formed individual friendships with many of the members of the Vagos. Although Ash was not a Vago herself, several of the Vagos considered Ash to be familia. Ash cared for many of the Vagos, often providing them with food, gifts, a listening ear, and even offering suggestions/advice when requested. Because of her innate desire to take care of the people she loves, many of the Vagos considered Ash to be the "Mother of the Vagos", and often joked that she is the "shadow leader" of the Vagos. When Benji left the Vagos and Ash was excommunicated, many of those that remained behind still cherished the relationship they had with Ash and were sad they could not talk to her in the open anymore. However, when in a gang a leader's order remain absolute, and if ordered to by El Jefe they would not hesitate to take up arms against Ash and her business, UwU Café, putting their former relationship with Ash in a bind.
Relationships Affected
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"	Carlos "Carlitos" Loco  
As the adopted son of Benji Ramos, Carlitos considered Ash as his mother even before Ash and Benji made their relationship official, picking Ash over his previous mother Molly Minaj. Ash gave him a weekly allowance which has been between $500-$2000. Carlos is extremely protective of Ash, he often talks about how much he hated not being able to avenge Ash to his standards. He is often very childish and begs for his allowance early each week before it's due. His brash impulsive actions which land him in numerous quarrels with his fellow Vagos or others are a continued source of headaches for Ash. Nevertheless, mother and son were very supportive of each other's endeavours. With the Vagos exodus and the wall of silence between those who left and those who stayed behind, Ash has not been able to talk it through with her son, but still sent him an allowance regardless. After Carlitos created a spiteful diss track targeting those who left, Ash was disappointed in her son's behaviour and disowned him.	
==Romantic Relationships==
===Previous Partners===
Relationship with Benji Ramos  	
Benji Ramos was a famous Vagos member Ash met after he picked her up from a break-in she committed with Irwin Dundee her first day in the city. Ever since their first meeting and conversation, he continuously flirted with her and even called her his "future ex-wife" which transitioned to "future wife" as Ash noted that they do not need to get divorced. They robbed a bank and went to jail together after failing to escape.
Ash agreed to be his CEO as the legally "clean front" of the business and he named the talent agency Bash Talent Agency, a mix of his and Ash's names. While trapped in Dundee's Relationship Therapy, they finally admitted to each other they had feelings and began officially dating on 18th April 2021. The Vagos members have made remarks on how differently Benji acts and treats Ash from his usual cat-calling ways. He worries over Ash's good nature since she too nice at times and tries to find ways to solve issues without violence. Ash has bought a house along the beach where they lived together.
The two once shared a ride or die connection which changed over time. They broke up on 7th September 2022, which ended very mutually and wanted to make sure to stay best friends after the fact, but after Ash was arrested for drug trafficking with several members of Hydra Gang, her eyes were opened to the fact that her unconditional support was not reciprocated, and they haven’t spoken since her departure from Seaside.
Notable Events
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"	First Meeting and the Casino  
After their first meeting with Dundee and Ash being caught afterwards, there was really no conversation between the two of them. After a few days, while Ash was spinning the wheel in the Casino and won 50,000 dollars. After witnessing the 50,000 win, Benji decided to approach Ash and asked for her luck. To pass the luck, Ash decided to hug him and Benji asked if she was single and liked Filipino guys. Dying to win some money from the wheel, Benji carried Ash while he spun the wheel but sadly won nothing. Then, he asked for her number and introduced himself. Ash recognized the name as being Dundee's friend and they talked about what happened that day. Before leaving the scene, Benji told Ash to stay single so that he can hit on her.	
===Admirers===
Even during her previous relationship, people took a notice to Ash. Working at numerous jobs also exposed her to a lot of new people who often mistake her kindness and cute voice as flirting. Although, Ash thinks that these people are either trying to get to her previous partner or are trolling her.
Admirers  	
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" width="100%"	Outto-Tune Tyrone  
See: Don't Tell Benji	
==Foes==
Despite attempting to befriend everyone she meets, Ash has slowly learnt that in the city of Los Santos, not everyone has her continued wellbeing in mind.
===Individuals===
Individuals  	
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" width="100%"	Raymond Romanov  
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For a long time since meeting each other during an encounter at the criminal fence when they were both new in the city, Raymond was a loyal friend to Ash, trusted neighbours, and even robbed a bank together once. Ray was very protective of Ash having saved her from being killed and robbed on several ocassions, even more so because of her friendship with his then girlfriend Kitty Dream and shared stewardship over James "Bucky" Barnes.
Ray would take any opportunity to "kidnap" Ash for a chance to hangout and chitchat, and getting advice on his dealings with women as one of his closest platonic female friends. Ash however recognized his sociopathic and self-serving tendencies through his treatment of Kitty and women, prioritization of criminal jobs, and handling of gang matters. 
Whatever relationship Ash had with Ray before, everything would come to a devastating head when Ray and his gang, R.U.S.T, decided to take a hit on one of the Seaside boys (Joaquin "JJ" Jimenes).	
===Groups===
Groups  	
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" width="100%"	Mike Block and the Block Gang  
Mike Block antagonized Ash for weeks as he and his crew deemed her a snitch because she was supposed to testify against Mike Block when he robbed Burger Shot one time. He video taped and forced Ash to drive a car with an innocent bystander into a gas station. She would go on to tell Benji Ramos about the traumatic experience and also deemed that as snitching again. This resulted in Ash getting kidnapped and blown up again.
The vicious cycle repeated itself until the Vagos involved themselves and downed Mike a couple times. The experiences have left Ash hating being called a snitch because by definition Ash is just a civilian and is allowed to tell the cops if something bad happened to her. This isn't the last time that Ash would be treated partly as a gangster even though she isn't a a part of an actual gang.
Over time, Ash grew to understand how to handle Mike's warped morality and learnt how to defuse future situations with him and the Blocks.	
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