Raymond Ashford

Raymond Ashford, commonly referred to as Ashford or Grim Emperor Ashford is the primary antagonist featured in Heartbreak's Eternal Harmony. 
==Biography==
===Early Life===
====The Fateful Prank====
In school, Raymond Ashford was a regular student. He got average grades and had an average family and average friends. This was until one day in 1732 one of his friends, who was the son of a chemist, decided to pull what he thought was a playful and harmless prank on Ashford. The prank entails him being behind Ashford's back, this will allow him to tap his shoulder and ask him to turn around, ending the prank with a splash of liquid to his face; however, this liquid was not any sort of harmless solution like water, it was sulfuric acid. 
The prank proceeded as planned until the splashing part, what was expected to be annoyed groans followed by laughter ended up being screams of agony. The friend was expelled and he left Ashford's face looking deformed and damaged.
====Scarce Oppurtunities====
People don't know how to respond to things they don't understand, so they resort to hating them. This was the realization that Ashford had as he cruised through life, all he found was hatred, disgust, and condemnation; he could not find a good job after graduating high school and his parents refused to acknowledge him. Despite this, although he was wrathful and envious of others, he still had a positive attitude and never stopped looking for a profession. He tried everything, and it was all a failure, until he enlisted himself in the army, to which they accepted him in 1740. From then on, he realized he couldn't improve how his face looked, but he could certainly improve his mind and body.
===Misplaced Determination===
====Hopeless Romantic====
When he established this realization, he did not take the military training for granted and decided to give it his all. He also started to mingle with his fellow soldiers who were at first very judgemental about his appearance but after a bit of time, they started to warm up to him. The common trend in the conversations Ashford had with each of them that he noticed was stories about their wives and children, their families. Ashford could not relate to such topics, as he was disowned by his parents in addition to no woman, or anyone really, batting an eye at him due to his mug. His feelings of envy resurfaced. Having every single soldier he met talk about their family made him feel inferior and incomplete as if he did not qualify as a soldier, or even a human being.
So, starting from 1745, any spare time he had was used to get close to a woman, not for the sake of loving her, but to quench the void in his heart. Reminiscent of the terrible experience of being denied jobs, his advances were always declined. Surprisingly, it wasn't always because of the way he looked, but it was his blatant inexperience in romance, which made him say strange things that came off as inappropriate and offensive to the recipient party.
====And Through It All====
He kept on treading through the failures of his romantic endeavors until he was forced to hit the brakes in the wake of the Seven Years' War in 1756. Ashford was many things, but a slacker he was not. He tried his damndest to protect his peers and his country and his efforts were not wasted as he was a great contributor to England's victory in the war, so much so that he was recognized by the public as a war hero and someone who would not kneel in the face of great difficulty.
====Drake-mond Ashford====
The year is 1766, Ashford was not finding any success in marrying a woman and did not even gain any experience in love. He wanted to give up but what he learned from his life was that if you do something enough times in hopes to achieve something, that something would be achieved. It took him 3 years of non-stop looking for a job only to be graced with being a military official, it took him and his peers 7 years to win the war, maybe it takes more time to find love? He thought that perchance he was looking in the wrong place, then he had a moment of "genius" while looking at the map of the world in his office: "If English girls can't love me, maybe American girls can.".
And so, he traveled to Colonial America by ship and landed in the New York town of Sharmont, he attempted a couple of times before meeting this 17-year-old girl named Verna Godfrey. She was empathetic towards him, mainly because her mother was bound to a similar curse at birth, that "curse" is known today as Down Syndrome. So through Godfrey's sympathy, they bonded quite a fair bit, but all in all, his lack of experience was still apparent which led to Godfrey being off-put by his comments. Her father, who wasn't standing far from the two, took note and told Ashford to back off.
===The Downfall===
====Consequences of His Actions====
Every month he comes to America, constantly, approaching her. Transgressing her boundaries, for years on end. Their friendship went up and down, with multiple highs and lows and multiple arguments. This reached a climax on February 28th, 1774, he asked her for his hand in marriage, but she denied it as always. Despite it all, he leaned in and forcefully kissed her in the mouth, in other words, he sexually assaulted her. She screamed and yelled and she was terrified, this horror was contagious and he felt afraid not by what he did, as he was too ignorant to understand the severity, he was scared of what would happen to him, and so he ran and ran until he came across a valley. He was looking down on the aforementioned valley, pondering his life and whether violating that woman was worth it... worth filling the void... his train of thought kept soaring... until it was derailed. Derailed by the very woman's father, as he pushed Ashford into the valley, killing him on impact with the ground.
====The Harmony After a Heartbreak====
When he woke up, Ashford was in a bright area. A bright area... above the clouds? He looked in front of him and saw a weirdly dressed man, the man asked him questions such as if he felt that he died unfairly or without expectation and the like. Ashford was confused and did not answer the questions, he scanned his environment and found a beautiful mirror that reflected his outward form. As he gazed at his visage, the train of thought came back on track... he thought that the reason he hadn't found love in his quest in almost 30 years was not because of his actions and behavior... but no... it was because of his face... his ugly fucking face.
This realization manifested itself into a jab at the mirror breaking it into 9 shards that dropped below the clouds, the man behind the desk was freaking out. The mirror he used to admire himself was broken and went everywhere. Ashford found on the desk designs for different creatures and he thought to himself while gazing at the creatures' blueprints: "They think I'm a monster I'll show them monsters...", he grabbed them and sprinkled them all around the world after struggling to pick them up due to the man resisting. 
He then transformed into an... immacro? and when to wreak havoc on earth!
====Harmony's Eternal Heartbreak====
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===The Rebirth of Ashford===
On June 29th 1775, when Verna asked Merahsmor to spare Ashford's broken soul, he was rebirthed into his human form, when he figured out what was going on he was grateful for Verna. Merahsmor decided to take Ashford around the world to redeem him, which he did. On July 1st, 1790, Ashford passed away in a hospital in London surrounded by Merahsmor and the people he saved. He was in peace.
==Description==
===Appearance===
Before the accident, Ashford had an average-looking face, now though, it looked deformed. He always wears his marine uniform. When he was young he had brown hair but now with old age, it became grey. 
===Personality===
Ashford was not one to kneel. He had an obsessive type of determination to achieve what he wanted, even if it was to do the same thing over and over again until he got the results he wanted. He was selfish and only cared for his self-preservation since he had stopped being taught about altruism by his parents owing to the fact they disowned him. He was always envious of others who were in a more fortunate position than him, such as the soldiers who talked about their families. He also had an inferiority complex and always felt that there was a part of him missing so he wanted to fill the void through marriage. 
Despite his selfishness, he was very much a man who wanted to do the right thing for his fellow soldiers, when his determination was well-placed, he could do so much, like win the war for the English. He always remained optimistic and always combatted hardship with humor, this resonated with his peers who ended up liking him. His conversational abilities were also recognized by the people he tried to marry but it always fell flat due to his inexperience in romance.
As an Immacro, his hatred and pity for himself and envy of others blinded him and established his desire to "take revenge" and to create chaos on a world that he believed did him dirty.
===Trivia===
*The portrait of Ashford was painted during the time he was revered as a war hero for England's victory in the Seven Years' War
*He developed a deep friendship with Merahsmor to the point where the latter never forgot about him
*Ashford's parents never cared for anything but status which is why they disowned him
*Ashford had 2 siblings, yet they never came into contact with him after the accident
*The friend of Ashford who pulled the prank ended up being homeless due to poor performance in college