Will Ashwell

### Work

President of L'Celsburg, Revolution leader, Foreign affairs councillor, Sociology teacher, Columnist and journalist (former)

## Names

### Nick name

"President", "Death boy", "Demigod", "Councilman", "Son of Death", "Blue-tie", "Patriot", "Brother dearest", "Mr. General", "General Ashwell", "Terrorist", "Che Guevara"

## Dates and places

### Death date

2020: October 1st, November 2nd, November 16th; 2021: May 28th, June 6th, June 18th, July 14th, July 27th, October 10th, November 27th

### Death place

L'Celsburg, Button room, Mountain, EveSMP forest, L'Celsburg (crater), Southern Lake, Taiga forest

### Residence

Istria, Astoria (former); Silusia, Astoria (former); L'Celsburg (former); Pogtopia (former); Violet's forest house (former); Inspellus, EveSMP (former); Sapph's taiga mansion (former); EveSMP capital (former); Fortuna, Astoria (current)

## Family

### Family

Solfy Avely (adoptive sister); Ruen Ashwell (adoptive sibling)

### Romances

Daniel Steillson (former); Daze Whitlock (former); Light Kealey (unrequited, former); Leo Ramirez (former), Orin McLachlan (former)

### Other relations

Chloe "Tiptups" (mother figure, complicated); Violet Sokolov (ex-best friend); Harvey Valentine (friend, ex-therapist); Eve Everyrest (ex-friend); Sapphire Faux (friend); Kite Tomms (friend); Lene Endruiden (friend)

## Affiliations

### Religion

Polytheism

**William Ashwell**, more commonly known as **Will**, is the key founder and first president of L’Celsburg and the leader of the EveSMP revolution. He is viewed as a protagonist due to his leadership during the L’Celsburg independence war, the First Resistance against the Crown’s Loyalty act, and Project Rockrose.

His life has always been chaotic, and he frequently changes locations due to unfortunate circumstances. Before moving to Fortuna, he was a radical revolutionary and staged multiple government takeovers, including a terrorist attack on the city of L'Celsburg in a failed attempt to "erase corruption". All throughout these eras, he has dealt with severe emotional instability and attempted suicide multiple times.

Currently, he resides in the outskirts of Fortuna with his sister Solfy Ashwell, and has been on probation since May 14th, 2023, after being arrested in Silverstone County Jail for six weeks and put through a public trial in court. He was charged with terrorism (possession and preparation of explosive devices) and sentenced to two weeks of house arrest and six months of probation.

## Appearance

As a demigod, Will appears human, and shows no godly characteristics on the surface. He is pale and light-skinned, has expressive green eyes, soft facial features, and wavy auburn hair below the shoulders. He is 177 centimeters tall (5’10). His physique is scrawny, thin and fragile, and he bruises easily. He has been described as "light as a feather" when carried. Despite training, his figure never seems to reach a level of being well-built.

He is scarred all over his body from battles, deaths, and self-destructive tendencies, but his most prominent features are a scar across his right cheek, faded burns on the right side of his face, and scars across his arms.

Throughout different periods, he has changed style and appearance due to a visible uncertainty in his own identity. He is most commonly seen in earthy palettes - sweaters, collared shirts - or white button-up shirts and ties, and he often wore trench coats before moving to the desert. The one constant in his attire are his ragged, old, black combat boots which he refuses to get rid of, and patches them up instead.

## Personality

Will is a confident, attention-loving, but introverted person who requires lots of time to introspect. He is a morally focused idealist with a passion for the fight, rebellion and seeking justice. His goals remain the same throughout the story - a sense of personal freedom, being loved, expression and identity, making sure to leave this world better than he found it, and most of all to be a good person.

As a politician and a revolution leader, he can be great with words, although he has a general tendency to impulsively blurt out things that get him in trouble. He has an opinion on everything and is not afraid to speak his mind even at the cost of his life. He is quick to point out the flaws in systems. He is honest, emotionally turbulent, highly reactive, and does not mask his thoughts or personality. On multiple occasions, he has described himself as "wearing his heart on his sleeve", and seems to be proud of that aspect of his identity.

Because his emotions are dysregulated and incredibly intense, he feels the constant need to express them. He is highly artistic and a great motivational speaker. However, his energy can sometimes be “too much” and too passionate, especially when he reacts too quickly without thinking.

His speeches have a tendency to become over-expressive, dramatic, and theatrical. He is often seen talking about his epiphanies, the Universe, seeking out truth, and transcendental experiences. His intuition tends to be correct most of the time, although he rarely listens to the red flags he encounters in people and situations.

He is fatally loyal to people, communities and causes, and rarely deterred from the fight. Driven by anger and the search for justice, he is unlikely to give up even when burnt out. His naturally enhanced empathy and savior complex tend to override his own self-care, which makes him more prone to illnesses and injuries.

Will is quick-witted, adventurous, laughs a lot, hates boredom, and always keeps himself busy - if he is not working on a new project, he does not see a purpose, so he often overworks himself to the point of passing out from stress, and rarely keeps a project unfinished. Some describe him as a “workaholic.”

He spirals easily, most often feeling as though everything is his fault, or somehow connected to his failures. He carries a great responsibility on his own shoulders and feels the need to hold everything together, which has led to multiple breakdowns. He sets very high standards for himself, always does what he believes is right, and adheres to lots of personal rules. He is extremely strict with himself, nitpicking every action and motivation, and falls into destructive cycles of overthinking. On top of his fear of mistakes, he often lashes out in fits of rage, intensifying his own guilt.

Although he does not place much value on the past, Will is good at remembering negative words said by people whose opinions he cares about, and those he looks up to. Due to his inability to treat himself equal to others, he forgives everyone too easily, believing that he is selfish if he doesn't offer forgiveness.

He reacts horribly to abandonment and constantly fears it, either trying to prevent it or isolating himself from people to avoid being left behind. ("They can't leave you if you leave first.") Sometimes, he can push people away and begin devaluing them as a self-defense mechanism.

When he is at his unhealthiest levels, he is self-destructive, self-loathing, blames himself for the smallest things, feels trapped and hurt, and expects a threat wherever he turns. This, mixed with his impulsive emotional outbursts, has lead to a complete state of self-neglect as well as around twenty suicide attempts. During his episodes, he feels hopeless, becomes more temperamental, hysterical, and trapped in a loop of guilt.

He has struggled with substance abuse and self-injury addiction since he was fifteen, and has had numerous relapses due to romantic break-ups and fear of failure. His healthy coping mechanisms consist of music and writing.

## Ideology

Will had dedicated a lot of his life to believing in an inexplicable force of "the Universe". He felt a spiritual connection with the Universe and often let it dictate his mind and actions, even having spoken about how it "told him things", which may or may not have been a result of mania and psychosis. After spending time in jail, he lost his faith in the Universe and now solely believes in the existence of the Unovian Pantheon, although does not worship the gods in the slightest.

He is radical and revolutionary, although not an anarchist. Getting rid of corruption and achieving ultimate justice has always been a large part of his goals and motivations, and he is ready to go far - even destructive - for what he believes is right. His beliefs are the only consistent part of his identity that does not often shift, as he is firm in his values and becomes fiercely passionate and argumentative in the face of opposition. He cares most about liberty, freedom of self-expression, total equality, breaking down all societal norms, a fair government in favor of the people, and establishing true democracy. His anti-monarchist values were the cause of his second exile.

## Early Life History

Will Ashwell was born on October 16th, 1999 in Istria to a human woman named Elise Ashwell who died at childbirth. Elise's husband Phil Talbot was the one who had custody of Will after her death. Phil is the reason Will had faced years of mistreatment and blatant abuse, ages five to thirteen. He would often hit him, lock him in the basement, neglect his health, and shout at him for the smallest things, which led to Will developing a self-injury addiction at an early age, as well as a skewed perception of himself. Will was conditioned to believe that everything was his fault, that he “killed” his mother, and that he doesn’t deserve anything good. He first attempted suicide at the age of twelve.

When he could no longer suffer the abuse, at thirteen he ran away from home with his best friend Violet to a town called Silusia, finding an abandoned shack to live in. As a teenager, he resorted to theft in order to survive and avoid malnourishment, as he wasn’t able to hold onto a stable job for a longer period of time.

He had always been good friends with Violet, until Solfy came into the picture when Will was fifteen. Violet's addictions and emotional impulsivity were a bad influence on the child, which led to a huge fallout between the two. Will decided to cut Violet out of his life unless she were to change her habits to accommodate the child. She wasn’t willing to do it, so he chose Solfy over her. Will, on the other hand, tried his best to give up drugs for Solfy, but failed to stick to a consistent sober streak.

Once Violet was out of his life, Will put his heart and soul into caring for Solfy. They moved into a house “rented” out to them by an older couple, but weren't able to pay rent due to financial struggle - luckily, the couple was charitable enough to let them stay there for free until they got back on their feet. Will dropped out of high school at sixteen, but stayed in contact with some of his friends from class - including a guy named Daniel, who he dated for a couple of months. The relationship was toxic from the beginning, so Will broke it off as soon as he realized how much it was impacting him. When it was over between them, he was forced to cut off the entire friend group to protect himself from Daniel, which resulted in him becoming a complete social recluse. He became more reckless and promiscuous, and Solfy was his only reason to stay alive.

In the spring of 2020, Solfy and Will’s house was destroyed in a storm, and that’s when they sought out shelter on EveSMP territory.

## Death and Afterlife

Will has been clinically dead ten times, eight of those being perma-deaths. However, he was resurrected each time. He was trapped in the Afterlife seven times, and altogether, he has spent approximately six years there. The passage of time is different in Death, which makes his six-year stay around six and a half months in real-time.

### Deaths

1. October 1st, 2020 - Violet hired an assassin to shoot him in the head after exiling him from L’Celsburg. He ran from the city with Solfy, but was stopped in the forest by a man pointing an arrow straight at him, saying "The President sends her regards."

2. November 2nd, 2020 - he was publicly executed by Sapphire at Violet's orders during the Democracy Festival, using a firework-loaded crossbow. This was a sacrifice on Will's part, as Chloe "Tiptups" was the one sentenced to execution before he stepped in to offer himself as the victim instead.

3. November 16th, 2020 - Violet stabbed him through the chest after Will detonated L'Celsburg, while Eve forced Solfy to watch him die.

4. May 28th, 2021 - Violet suffocated him to death on the mountain while they were having an argument. She was the one to resurrect him after his third death, but when he expressed a wish to go back to L'Celsburg, she killed him to "keep him", and Chloe talked Violet into reviving him again.

5. June 6th, 2021 - Eve stabbed him through the chest after he initiated a reckless duel. Will begged her to bring Violet back to life after Violet killed herself in front of him, and lost his own life in the process due to a fit of anger and emotional impulsivity.

6. June 18h, 2021 - he slit his own throat in the forest in front of Harvey and Violet. During this period, he was under a curse which bound him to Eve's orders, and he was forced to rig explosions under L'Celsburg. He felt hopeless, committing suicide on pure impulse in a moment of despair.

7. July 14th, 2021 - he stabbed himself after getting into an argument with Kite, which amplified his raging suicidal tendencies and self-loathing due to the hurt he felt for being abandoned by her back in L'Celsburg.

8. July 27th, 2021 - Light threw him off a crater cliff in the aftermath of Doomsday when he was trying to run away with Ruen. He was forced to plead for his life, but it got him killed nevertheless. That was when he discovered his deathly heritage.

9. October 10th, 2021 - Light threw a trident at his chest and struck him with lightning when they ran into each other in Southern Lake. Will was on a search for Solfy after her disappearance, and "Fate" got in his way of finding her, telling him that he is at fault for everything that went wrong in Light's life.

10. November 27th, 2021 - Luxon, the previous God of Fire, killed him with an axe through the chest after hunting him down in the taiga. The God was out for revenge because his husband cheated on him with an alternate version of Will. After this death, Morgana herself resurrected him - "Death restored life."

### Afterlife

First: a grey, dim-lit train station which pulled him in, then he was trapped on the train. On occasion, he was visited by guilt-inducing hallucinations/flashbacks of his loved ones, although it was mostly loneliness and complete isolation. With each flashback, the train got darker, and the water level rose until he could no longer breathe. He attempted “suicide” in this Afterlife, which led to a respawn in a slightly worse version of the original Afterlife.

Second: an aquarium-like build in a white room with very little space to move, and cold water slowly rising according to a red timer on the wall.

Third: a grey room/prison-like build with metal walls and one metal door with a lock, approximately 5x5 meters. The lights were dim, and he was completely alone, accompanied by a constant sound of electronic buzzing.

Fourth: small room, 3x3 meters at best, built of blackstone and obsidian, with only one lit candle in the left corner. He was shown projections of memorable past events (mostly negative, occasionally a positive one to throw him off).

Fifth: walking through dark hallways of a mansion while inhibited by slowness, blindness and fatigue. There were excruciatingly loud sounds of bells, shrieking/screaming, a moving train in the distant background, and one negative disembodied voice.

Sixth: instead of spawning directly in the Afterlife, he was taken to the Death void, where Morgana offered him a series of five challenges spread across five days in order to get his life back. The challenges consisted of surviving his fears - a dark forest filled with spiders, his father and being trapped in the basement, being guilted by all of his loved ones and reliving the ways he had wronged them, walking through fire and a simulation of drowning, and escaping a dark abyss by climbing an impossibly steep slope.

Seventh: he was gifted a “good” Afterlife by Morgana which was a vast autumn forest, but it slowly transformed into a burnt forest and a dark sky, and concrete walls caving in from all four sides, coming closer each day. Occasionally, there were hallucinations, but he was mostly alone.

"Eighth": he was transported directly into Morgana’s office, and she resurrected him herself. There was no real Afterlife, only a visit to Death.

## Talents

Will is incredibly skilled in music, having taught himself music theory at an early age. He has perfect pitch, is a self-taught pianist and guitarist, and has a vast knowledge of classical music history - with an accent on Renaissance polyphony. One of his unfulfilled life dreams is conducting an orchestra.

He is a talented writer, and has written a book, journals, and columns for the newspaper "The Daily Jewel". His other skills include trivia (general knowledge, especially geography and history), psychology and understanding/psychoanalyzing people, philosophy, politics, and language.

He speaks English, Norwegian, and Latin fluently, has moderate knowledge in Italian, and somewhat understands Greek as well.

Although Will prides himself on his eclecticism and has a wide range of skill and talent in art and humanities, he severely lacks science capabilities and is bad at hands-on craftwork. He is absolutely awful at math, and chemistry is his "biggest enemy."

He is a good fighter when he trains, but his war skills are primarily found in leadership, organization and strategy rather than battle itself.

## Abilities

* **Evocation**: can conjure a spirit in different forms
* **Animakinesis**: can change the shape and size of non-conscious spirits
* **Energy transferral**: can summon spirit energy and transfer it onto himself
* **Energy blast**: can summon large amounts (up to a 5m radius) of explosive death energy if emotionally overstimulated
* **Afterlife communing**: can open a portal to the Afterlife, be in contact with the goddess of Death, step into Limbo, observe others’ Limbos
* **Blight**: can destroy plants and other organic-derived things such as wooden tools
* **Decomposition**: can decompose dead creatures in 5 - 10 minutes and fertilize the earth, speeding up the natural process
* **Afterlife simulation**: can trap a person inside a bubble of dark energy, while their mind is transported into a simulation of their death
* **Anticipation**: can sense when his opponent is about to deal a fatal blow
* **Synaesthetic empathy**: can read a person’s emotional aura in his mind

## Trivia

* Will always knocks on doors four times in the same rhythm, and breaking that ritual is impossible for him.
* He has forty-two perfectly organized Spotify playlists.
* He is transgender, but has not medically transitioned.
* His all-time favourite song is Masterpiece Theatre I by Marianas Trench.
* His favourite animals are cats, while dogs frighten him slightly.
* Will’s birth surname is Talbot, but he took the surname Ashwell after running away and emancipating himself.
* He can identify every single flag in the world and point to every country on the map.
* Will is the first character to be revived.
* He often talks in his sleep and experiences strange fever dreams which haven't yet had an explanation.
* Will was unofficially diagnosed with borderline personality disorder by Harvey Valentine, and the diagnosis was confirmed by a psychiatrist in April 2022.
* He has been hard of hearing since the first L'Celsburg explosion, and wears hearing aids.
* His favourite colours are earthy green and copper red.
* He has never worn matching socks in his entire life.
* Will hates rich, ‘pretentious’ black-tie events more than most things. If he sees a rich person, he has the urge to punch them in the face.
* He has committed various crimes, such as: burglary, mass destruction and terrorism, public intoxication, treason, trespassing, vandalism, destruction of private property, and involuntary manslaughter.
* He enjoys a wide range of music genres, from classical to modern and everything in-between, but his favourites are symphonic rock and jazz.
* Will doesn’t put a lot of value in old picture books and photos, since he’s not a particularly nostalgic person. If anything, the pictures make him feel guilty.
* He always salutes when he greets a person or leaves - sometimes it’s a simple two-finger salute, and other times a proper one. If he doesn’t like the person, he will give them an awkward, small wave instead.

## Quotes

“I just hope you keep this mercy. I hope it feels good not to kill for once.”

“There is going to be a revolution, with or without me.”

“I am not just some dumb whore… I organized your damn government!”

“My father was always saying my life’s a mistake, and he was fucking right.”

“I'm good at drawing a crowd. Blessing and curse of a histrionic personality.”

“I’ve decided I’m no longer mentally ill.”

“I don't think I have an immune system. The only thing I'm immune to is Loyalist propaganda.”

“This whole system needs one big reform. Glad we get to be the reformers.”

“It’s not masochism, it’s curiosity. Although, I guess those two usually exist comorbidly.”

“If anyone knows how to complain, it’s me! That’s all I do! Revolution is based on complaining.”

“I’m not cut out for being loved. I’ve got the Midas touch, but instead of gold it turns my world to ash and dust.”