Ashes to Ashes - Episode 7

**Ashes to Ashes - Episode 7** is the seventh episode of the Ashes to Ashes animation series in Sapphire Foxx. It was released on October 17, 2018.

## Synopsis

*“Ash really enjoyed his time with Harvey and decides to push things further as Ashley. Soon, this ‘experiment’ grows into a bigger part of his life as he starts spending more time as a woman and dating a man.”*

## Production

* **Director, Producer, Writer**: Sam Mokler
* **Animators**: Hector Amavizca, Mimi Alves
* **Artists**: Jeremy Pursell, Gabriel Dolci, Fil Romero
* **Lead Animator**: Mimi Alves

### Cast

* Ashley – Ashley Sahler
* Ash – Aaron Dismuke
* Harvey – Griffin Puatu
* Holly – Krystal LaPorte
* Xavier – Ricco Fajardo

## Plot

Two Months after Ash first began to turn into Ashely, she is in the library talking to Harvey on the phone. Harvey and Ashely have been dating for the full two months now but he's been constantly making excuses about Ashely not seeing his apartment. Fed up with lame excuses Ashley insists he invite her over to which he agrees but says there is something important she needs to know about him but needs to explain it in person. She agrees and Gwen walks in soon after. Gwen is still the only friend Ashley trusts to know her secret about gender swapping. Gwen points out that over the past two months Ash has spent more and more time as Ashley hardly ever turning back into a man except for classes and work. Ashley is still too embarrassed to tell her other friends and family and while she can use Mass Memory Alter to adjust her identity to non-bloods the spell doesn't affect sorcerer kind. Gwen encourages her to at least think about it because if she honestly identifies as a woman, she needs to be open to the idea of becoming one permanently.

A bit later Ashley meets Harvey outside his apartment and while the to hug Ashley is excited to see his place, but Harvey is still hesitant to show her. Finally, Harvey brings her inside and it's revealed his apartment is filled with girl stuff like frilly bedding and furniture as well as a closet full of girl cloths. Ashley is upset and assumes that Harvey has been dating some other girl this whole time, but Harvey begins to undress and say she wrong and there's something else going on. After he undresses down to his underwear Ashley is angry thinking there's no other explanation for his place being filled with girl stuff but then Harvey puts on a pair of glasses which causes his head to quickly transform into a woman revealing Harvey is actually the male form of Holly Allen, Chris Young's ex-girlfriend from Different Perspectives and Matchmaker who has retained the curse Chris passed onto her that lets her transform into men by wearing their clothing. Ashley is shocked not because of the transformation but because Holly is a non-blood who can use magic and she failed to sense it all this time. Ashley questions why Holly posed as Harvey all this time. Holly explains since moving out of her conservative parents' home she's come to identify as a lesbian instead of bisexual and since they live in a small town, she's either dated or has no chemistry with most other lesbians around so she decided to use her male form to meet and sleep with woman instead. She hated being so deceptive to Ashley, but she's really gotten to like her and wanted to tell her the truth even if it meant she'd break up with her as she thinks Ashley is only into men. Still shocked about the revelation that not only can her non-blood boyfriend turned girlfriend transform and knows about magic but also by the fact her significant other is also gender swapped; Ashley is unsure of how to proceed but after a minor talk tells Holly she has something to tell her too.

## Trivia

* The Song that plays in the background as Holly transforms herself and then during the ending credits for the next few episodes is "Cover Girl" by Casely and the Jank.