Captain Ash

Captain Ash is a recurring character in the TimeSplitters video game series, being one of the very few characters to appear in all three games, and along with Harry Tipper, is the only character in all three games' story modes.
He was voiced by Les Spink, who also voiced Marco the Snitch, Archibald Granville Khallos, Jacque de la Morte (whose voice clips were then used for Crypt Zombie and Dr. Pustule), Overall Mutant (whose voice clips were then used for Sewer Zombie), Hick Hyde (whose voice clips were then used for Freak and Shoal), and Stumpy (whose voice clips were then used for Dozer).
==Appearance==
In each of his appearances, Captain Ash has worn boots with a brown jacket and blue trousers. His hair is blonde and he sports a moustache.
==Biography==
===Background===
Little is truly known about Captain Ash's background, though it is suspected that he served in the infantry during the Boer War towards the end of the 19th Century as a teenager, before becoming an officer of the Royal Flying Corps (judging by his clothes) in World War I.
It is important to dispel the confusion regarding Ash's title as Captain as one being under the Royal Flying Corps, where the title of Captain does not exist.
However, it is very possible that he had become Group Captain. After the war, he retired from the military to set out on adventures of his own, travelling the world. It is then most likely that he assigned himself the title of Captain for simplicity's sake.
===TimeSplitters 2===
Captain Ash appears in the mission "Aztec Ruins", set in 1920. In the intro, he is seen fleeing a Stone Golem, with the sacred Time Crystal in his grasp. However, as Ash jumps off a bridge into water, the Stone Golem grabs the Time Crystal off him and takes it back to the temple, thus starting the mission; to retrieve it once more.
In the co-op timeline, he is assisted by the Jungle Queen, a young, almost-naked, blonde-haired woman who was raised in the surrounding Guatamalan Rainforest by wolves. They fight through the temple, get the Time Crystal, and escape.
===TimeSplitters Future Perfect===
In 1924, during the mission "Scotland the Brave", the Jungle Queen had been kidnapped by a mysterious force of Russian soldiers, and is now being held captive on an island called Urnsey, just off the coast of Scotland.
As he rows his boat towards the island with a couple of pistols and a flare gun, Sergeant Cortez, a time-traveller, appears just beyond the rowboat and falls into the sea.
Ash helps him into the boat and convinces Cortez to help him find the Jungle Queen. After an hour of exploration on the island, they eventually find her; as Cortez goes under the island to proceed his task, she and Ash leave the island together.
===TimeSplitters===
In the 1935 level "Tomb", he and his sidekick Lady Jayne (who may actually be the Jungle Queen) are at the entrance of an Egyptian tomb, ready to storm the place and steal the Ankh in order to halt the cursed rituals taking place within by its residential cultists and priestesses.
In the tomb, they not only find hostiles with similar weaponry, but also zombies and mummies. However, the two heroes perservere and grab the Ankh, taking it outside and lifting the curse.
==Trivia==
* As the games progress, his voice gets higher.
* He is loosely based on Captain Nash from From Russia With Love.
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