Ash Delgado

**Ash Delgado** (née **Graham de Vanily**) is a female Malvago who appears in the Disney Channel animated series, *Elena of Avalor*. The wife of Victor Delgado and mother of Carla Delgado, she is the main antagonist of the third season, who desires to become the most powerful being in the world and take over Avalor. She also becomes the primary cause of Chancellor Esteban's separation from his family and kingdom. She is one of the several villains brought back to life to be imprisoned in the Isle of the Lost, alongside her confederates Chatana, Pili and Tziloco. She eventually mothered her and Victor's second daughter and first son, twins Ashley and Vittorio Delgado, after her imprisonment. Though originally a sorceress who thought only for herself, now, as a member of the United Villains High Council, Ash's sole mission is to ensure her people’s survival. After the barrier is taken down, Ash reconciles with her husband and eldest child, who she and her younger children are currently living with, making up for lost time.

## History

### Background

When she was a little girl, Ash only had her two pet mice as company as she lived in a village that means she was an orphan. On one fateful day, an evil Malvago named Zopilote invaded her village and stole everything, including her pet mice. As a result, Ash came to believe only the villains get what they want. So, she turned her back on being kind and tracked down Zopilote so he can teach her his dark magic.

Sometime during Shuriki's reign over Avalor Ash married Victor Delgado and had a daughter named Carla. She eventually left them to become a Malvago.

### Elena of Avalor

She is first mentioned in "The Race for the Realm", in which Carla wishes she could see them now after Fiero turned her and Victor into Malvagos.

Ash makes her first appearance in "Snow Place Like Home", where it's revealed that she has been staying in a house for shelter from a blizzard Victor created. When the blizzard is stopped by Mateo, she brings logs at the house, when suddenly Victor and Carla, the owners of the house, point their tamboritas at her. She points her tamborita at them as well, before Carla recognizes her as her mother as she takes off her hood. Overjoyed to see her again, Carla lovingly embraces her and the two reunite with a hug, much to Victor's shock and disbelief.

In "Not Without My Magic", Ash is revealed to be a Malvago. While Carla is overjoyed now that her family is together once more, Victor and Ash argue behind her back, while pretending to be a happily married couple. Victor holds resentment against Ash for not returning to him and Carla for seven years, while Ash is upset Victor raised Carla without her. Eventually, Victor apologizes to Ash for not waiting until her return, and the two make amends after Victor shows Ash the Scepter of Night's orb, which Ash plans to use to become the most powerful Malvago and overthrow Princess Elena alongside Victor and Carla. Victor and Ash embrace, though Carla remarks that her parents' love is starting to get a little gross.

In "Naomi Knows Best", Victor, Ash, and Carla set up a trap for Elena by having a brainwashed King Joaquín write a forged letter to her, lying that Victor and Carla have been captured in his kingdom. Once Elena arrives there with Esteban and Mateo, Ash reveals herself and imprisons Esteban, Mateo, and Joaquín in a cell. She and her family plan to extract the magic inside Elena into the Scepter of Night's jewel, which will kill her, and use a spell on Elena that forces her to go with them. Gabe and Naomi ambush them, but Ash is easily able to defeat them and plans to have Carla perform the magical spell with her, as she is a more powerful Malvago than Victor, much to Victor's frustration, whom Ash entrusts with guarding the cells.

By the evening, Ash and Carla have tied up Elena aboard a ship, and once the full moon arrives, they begin performing the spell. When she hears a noise, Carla goes outside to check, where Mateo, Naomi, and Gabe defeat her and steal her tamborita. Mateo also manages to destroy the Scepter of Night's jewel before Ash can finish performing the spell. A furious Ash fights Elena's friends, but Gabe impales a sword through her tamborita. In spite of her failure and the loss of her and Carla's tamboritas, Ash escapes with Carla by jumping into the water below. Carla is unwilling to leave Victor (who had been imprisoned for his crimes) behind, but Ash assures her that they'll come back for him eventually.

In "Sister of Invention", she and Carla meet up with her mentor Zopilote, who gives them a puzzle map to Takaina, where they will be able to gain powerful magic. Ash's relentless search for Takaina begins in "To Save a Sunbird", and it leads to Carla going to rescue Victor herself because she misses him. That evening, Ash finds out about what Carla did through a message she left behind, and expresses frustration towards her daughter's foolishness as she continues trying to solve the puzzle map to Takaina.

In "The Magic Within", Ash continues to try solving the puzzle map to Takaina, unaware of Elena spying on her with her Scepter. Once she is finally able to solve it, an ecstatic Ash goes to Takaina to obtain a magical artifact from the Well of Crystals, only to be stopped by an intervening Elena and Mateo. A battle erupts that results in Ash blasting Elena down the Well of Crystals, which in turn gives Elena new magical powers that allow her to finally defeat Ash.

Ash's tamborita is taken away, and she is imprisoned in the dungeon of Avalor Palace, reuniting with her husband and daughter. When Esteban's betrayal is revealed, he gets imprisoned in a cell near the one containing Ash and her family. Ash and Carla mock Esteban, but he is confident his family will forgive him. When this does not happen and Esteban is sentenced to banishment after the carnival parade, he escapes from the dungeon by tricking Higgins into unknowingly giving him the key before distracting him. Following his escape, Esteban refuses to help the Delgados, but Ash reminds him that he needs them because he won't stand a chance against Elena and Mateo.

Once the Delgados and Esteban are all free from the dungeon, Esteban gives Ash and her family back their tamboritas by sneaking into the treasury room and taking them. The four of them escape the palace, but Elena, who found out about what happened and is now chasing them, panics and her magic unintentionally causes an avalanche that knocks Carla and Esteban off a cliff. Though Carla nearly falls to her death, Ash saves her but shows significantly less concern for her safety than Victor (who was unable to save Carla due to his tamborita being destroyed), while Esteban manages to climb back up. Victor refuses to go with Ash over fear for Carla's safety, resulting in her turning him into stone, which leaves Carla heartbroken. Ash then implores Carla to come with her, but Carla furiously refuses to go with her. Though Ash is momentarily shocked by Carla's decision, she brushes it off and asks Esteban if he's in or out, resulting in Esteban joining Ash over fear of what she will do to him if he doesn't.

As Carla is apprehended, she tells Elena she was wrong to think Ash loved her and Victor which means her mother turned on her and Victor, which allows Elena to relate to her, as Elena was also wrong about Esteban.

Ash and Esteban travel to Takaina, but are confronted by Elena and her friends. Eventually, Esteban ends up falling down the Well of Crystals, which causes him to gain teleportation powers, to Ash's frustration. Afterwards, another magical battle ensues that results in Elena destroying Ash's new tamborita. Once they are safe from Elena, Ash brings the two of them to Zopilote, and she and Zopilote agree to train Esteban in dark magic, which continues onto "Dreamcatcher".

In "Spirit of a Wizard", Ash continues to aid Esteban in mastering his teleportation powers, though she occasionally makes critical remarks. Zopilote returns and informs both Ash and Esteban that Takaina has been sealed with magic crystals. Esteban deduces that Elena did that with her Scepter and sarcastically suggests that Ash get ahold of Elena's Scepter if she's that thirsty for power. Unfortunately, Ash takes Esteban's joking remark seriously and gets an idea to steal the Scepter of Light. Later on, the villainous trio spy on Elena's group, and Esteban explains who Alacazar (whose spirit is with them) is, with Ash also discovering Zopilote had a history with Alacazar.

The three of them attack Elena's group, with Esteban stealing her Scepter. Zopilote attempts to kill Mateo, but Alacazar takes the blast and is sent to the Spirit World. Ash has trouble mastering the Scepter of Light's powers, and Elena explains to her that it only channels good magic, right before getting it back with Mateo's help. Mateo manages to transform Zopilote into a tiny yellow bird, and he is then chased by an eagle. Elena tries to blast Ash and Esteban, but Esteban manages to teleport the two of them to safety before her blast can hit them.

Ash blames Esteban for their failure, and when Esteban argues that Elena is still his cousin, Ash continues to try turning him against her by reminding him that didn't stop Elena from trying to blast him and convinces him that to be truly safe, they must rid themselves of the threat of Esteban's *prima* and that Esteban must get his cousin back for what she's done to Zopilote, Carla, and himself, though there appears to be genuine encouragement in her voice. She tells Esteban they need to join forces with other villains to defeat Elena. Ultimately, Esteban agrees and the Malvago and advisor-turned-fugitive shake hands, sealing their agreement to form a force of dark ones and take Avalor for themselves

In "The Last Laugh", Ash and Esteban venture into the tangle of jungle around the Avalor Capital, intending to release and enlist the partnership of the ancient sorceress Chatana, Ash having apparently successfully pinpointed the Maruvian tomb where the winged evil was held. Striding through the forestation, Ash is asked by her ally why they need Chatana, which the dark sorceress replies by recounting Chatana's history. Unconvinced, Esteban questions why Chatana would assist them, Ash snaps that the reason was that, just as it was with Esteban, they were stronger as allies, yet weaker as enemies, then reveals herself to be in possession of the source of Chatana's power - her golden diadem - which Ash intends to use as a bargaining chip. Arriving at the site, Ash reveals the building, then acknowledges Esteban's pointing out of a mural to be of Chatana. Confident in her success, Ash attempts to open the sealed room via a magic spell, only for the tomb's defense mechanism to kick in and teleport the two criminals a mile from the ruins, sending them tumbling to the ground. Furious that she had not foreseen the Muravians boobytrap, Ash, after pointing out the location, now alit by a floating disk of holographic runes, demands Esteban return them to the vault via his powers, which the Avaloran indignantly denies as an impossible feet in one leap. Angerly pointing out that any number of leaps was between what simply walking, which Esteban relents in truth, the pair disappear.

Appearing suddenly before the winged one after she is unintentionally freed by Elena and Mateo, Ash, at Chatana's demand, introduces herself as the 'greatest Malvago who ever lived', then cuts in with Esteban's introduction, calling him her trainee, denying his reply that she meant her partner. Advancing forwards as she announces her intentions of building a force of dark wizards, Ash convinces Chatana to join her and Esteban's villainous force by promising to only give her diadem if she accepts, which will allow her to conquer Vallestrella for eternity, as well as the promise that upon victory, they would seal the portal between the two worlds, allowing Chatana to take her supposed rightful place as Vallestrella's ruler without interference, an offer that Chatana accepts with an inclination of her head, a gesture Ash returns with a wicked smile. It is also revealed that, while Chatana's pet Pili considers Ash to be "clearly evil and rotten to the core", which the smugly-smiling Malvago accepts without comment, the weasel-monster sees Esteban as possibly being even worse than her.

The next enlistment to the Ash's band is the crystal bat, Tziloco, who's powers Ash requires for her team to cross into Vallestrella and release the greatest of Chatana's monsters, Kizin, the alliance becoming wanted on the shores Tziloco plagued for their crimes, the trio having been seen with the crystal bat. Upon recruiting Tziloco, Esteban transports the group to the gateway to the Jaquin realm, uses his powers to create the illusionary paw of the kingdom's inhabitants that allows them to enter Vallestrella, where they plan on recruiting Kizin into their alliance. However, after Ash frees him, Kizin refuses to join Ash's team due to being angry at Chatana for not freeing him before. Ash, Esteban, and Chatana try to flatter him, but he goes off to free his friends on his own, forcing them to give up on making him join them. Ash considers leaving Tziloco as well, only to realize she needs him to leave Vallestrella. She promises their next allies from the other side of the kingdom will be far more powerful, and they all depart from Vallestrella.

A mini sculpture of Ash made by Elena appears in "Elena's Day Off", along with Esteban and Tziloco.

In "Coronation Day", Ash reveals to her villainous group her intentions of freeing the Shadows of the Night so they can help her destroy Avalor, believing they will obey her out of gratitude. She also tells them about a clue, and Chatana and Tziloco manage to locate them sealed in the gateway to the Spirit World located near Nueva Vista. Once she arrives to the gateway and is about to release the Shadows, however, she is stopped by Elena, who is accompanied by her friends. A battle ensues while Ash is focused on freeing the Shadows, but when she blasts Elena, she is shocked to find herself confronted by Victor and Carla. Though she does not care the least bit about Victor, she is surprised that Carla would do such a thing. Carla retorts to her mother that she turned Victor into stone and that she never loved them, but Ash insists to Carla that she loves her and wanted the both of them to become powerful together. But if this is what Carla wants, Ash dares her to give it her best shot; Carla finds herself unable to blast Ash. Victor attempts to do so, but Ash casts a spell that swirls him away. She transports herself to the top of the gateway, and while Elena lets her anger get the best of her and goes after Esteban, Ash successfully recites the incantation that releases the Shadows. However, just as this happens, she and Elena (and Flo) accidentally wind up getting knocked into the portal to the Spirit World, with Ash pulling Elena in with her, allowing Esteban to lie to the Shadows it was him who freed them.

In the Spirit World, Ash taunts Elena over her kingdom being doomed, only for the both of them to get tangled up in spirit vines. They are freed by Bobo, who reveals that only the Grand Macaw, ruler of the dark side of the Spirit World, can bring someone back to the living world. Elena, Ash, Bobo, and Flo go to the Grand Macaw, with the former two requesting to be brought back, but the Grand Macaw instead opts to put them in a match of ultimate olaball. Despite their initial protests, Elena picks her parents and Bobo to be on her team, whereas Ash picks Troyo, Orizaba, and Zopilote. Ultimately, Ash does wind up winning against Elena's team, much to her delight. Now that the olaball match is over, Ash expects to return to the living world--only to find out the hard way that when the Grand Macaw said the winner will reach the highest of heights, he meant partying with him in the Spirit World forever, to her horror instead. As Troyo escorts the sobbing Ash, she begs Zopilote and Orizaba for help, but they just let her get dragged away, with the former stating that she is his "greatest disappointment".

### *Descendants*

Ash Delgado was revealed to be one of the many resurrected villains trapped on the Isle of the Lost. However, she was one of the more recent villains, having been imprisoned 4 years after the imprisonment of Maleficent, Jafar, the Evil Queen, Cruella De Vil, Ursula, etc. It was revealed that she remained silent during her, Chatana, Pili and Tziloco's trial, but afterwards, when the villains were allowed to talk to their loved ones for a few minutes before their banishment, where she reveals to her husband that she was in fact pregnant with her a Victor's second child and told his that he was not only dooming her, but also his own child to a "life of misery and abandonment" before sweeping away. Ash was allowed to keep her Tamborita, which was powerless on the isle. The Malvago eventually mothered twins, a girl who she named Ashley (after herself) and a boy she named Vittorio (after her husband) and gradually settled into a more or less normal life with her son and daughter, inhabiting a well-built lighthouse which she had several goblins reinnervate into a Keep-like Manor she named the Keep of the Dark Sorceress, employing several goblins as servants in order to ensure her children had a more-or-less comfortable childhood.

As she raised her children, Ash discovered something she had lost when she left her family to become a Malvago: Love for her children and had a close relationship with her son and daughter. She eventually became a professor at Dragon Hall, teaching *Dark Arts* *and* *Defense Against The Light Arts* and was one of the teachers of *Home Evilnomics*. She remained in close contact with her old allies, and encouraged Ashley and Vittorio to befriend Chetana and Murciélago, the daughter and son of Chatana and Tziloco respectively as well as to make friends only of "the right sort" due to her beginning to believe in Villain-born supremacy due to her husband and daughter's betrayal. It was also revealed that while she remained friends with Orizaba and Troyo, she completely rejected her former mentor, Zopilote, and kept her children far away from him and the Witch School where he worked. Because she had eventually found herself orphaned and homeless when she was young, Ash began adopting several youngster VKs (normally the children of minor villains who had been abandoned on the streets but who displayed prodigious skill) into her family, which included an eight-year-old girl named Kuvira, whose talents she nurtured and Huan. She came to view these foster children as her family and allowed them to pursue their own interests as well as her teachings. Taking up many hobbies, Ash also created a successful school dance group. Ash would eventually rise to become a member of the Villains High Council and helped the Isle move forwards with her ideas while retaining their traditional evil nature, and, with the help of her foster son and daughter, Baatar and Kuvira, allowing the Isle to grow more modern.

She is a deeply feared member of the criminal underworld and has allied herself with other thieves to carry out her bidding throughout regions of the Isle itself. Ash, however, does not appear to partake in actual operations on the field. She instead spends the majority of her time at his castle, allowing her henchpeople to do the dirty work for her. Almost no one ever sees her. By the time Ashley and Vittorio were born, Ash had become one of the most wealthiest Isle citizens.

Unsurprisingly, she cannot be trusted and has betrayed her accomplices before. She, however, is not immune to being betrayed, himself—Jay, Carlos, Evie, and Mal are all known to have crossed Ash at least once. She holds special loathing for Jay, who, at one-point, broke Ashley's heart by refusing to marry her, causing Ash to despise him. Those who cross the Baroness of the Northern Fields are subjected to a slow and painful death at the bite of a venomous Kai spider she keeps in her ring.

### Descendants: Rotten to the Core

As his first seen in "Class Confusion". As the beginning of the year begins at Dragon Hall, Ash helps students sign up for extra classes, comparing their records to assign them to classes. She is first seen talking to the Evil Queen as she assigns her daughter Raven to the classes of Raven's first year. Later on, she greets the year 6 Home Evilnomics class and introduces herself as their teacher and assigns them their first class; finding an animal and using a Rageberry to turn them evil. Though she is duly impressed by Mal's wolf, Evie's fox, Jay's wild boar, Carlos's fruit bat, Freddie's weasel and most of the class's works, she is unimpressed by Honoria King's beige rabbit, which Honoria claims in eating a carrot so fast it will get a really *evil* tummy ache. Not considering in evil enough, she insists Honoria tries again. For her second attempt, Honoria creates a mask of Ash's face and makes the rabbit wear it, but the sorceress doesn't buy it. She tells the princess that she gets one more chance to turn the rabbit evil or she will fail the assignment before backing away laughing. Finally, Honoria presents the class with her rabbit before pulling a curtain in front of herself. From behind it, she claims to be casting her spell, while in reality she is attaching bunny ears to the billygoat she secretly brought along. Lifting the curtain, Honoria reveals her creation. Though still not impressed, Ash lets Honoria pass with a (Annoying) minus minus. Just then, she realizes the billygoat is trying to eat her cloak, which she rips from its mouth.

Ash and her children later attend the Clapper claw Showing in "Games of Flame", traveling to the Dragon Rider Stud via Gwythaint Flown Carriage and sits in the luxury box of the Dragons Games World Cup Stadium to watch the games with Maleficent, Evil Queen, Jafar and Cruella De Vil and their children alongside Chatana, Tziloco and their son and daughter, where she watches the teams, including her own private team complete and is one of the judges of the games. After the games end, Ashley and Vittorio express their desire to learn how to ride and ask their mother to by one. Though Ash agrees, she tells the them that she will only buy them a dragon if they display skill and signs them into Dragon Hall's Riding Stud, Clapperclaw itself.

Ash is later seen attending the weekly Dragon Hall staff meeting (which is held every three years), where she is seen throwing her wooden bagel iced with super glue inside the gas fire place. When Principle Facilier attempts to humiliate Yen Sid, blaming his for his face growing burnt, Ash and the rest of the staff are less displeased that is face is burnt and more disgusted, Ash asking the Weird Science teacher why he would do something like that, commenting that Dr. Familiar's face was "disgusting even without magnification".

### Season 3

In "Beyond the Safety's Walls", Jay and his friends are lured to the Isle by a unanimous message sent by Ash to lure her daughter's former fiancé. Word of Jay's arrival quickly reaches the Baroness of the Northern Fields, who orders her henchmen and women to capture Jay so to settle their feud. Jay, Carlos, and Stumpy are taken to Ash's castle, where the former is interrogated by Ash, who tells Jay it was time to make amends for what he had did to her daughter. Jay attempts to bluff his way out, but it stopped by a bitter Ashley after she and Vittorio arrive from a daily theft. Ashley reveals to still have feelings for Jay, however, prompting Ash to make a proposition—Jay must keep to his original promise and marry Ashley, or he, Carlos and Stumpy will perish. To get his point across, Ash unleashes her Kai spider upon Carlos and bites him under his clothes. When Carlos falls to the ground, Jay asks frantically if he was dead, which Ash replies with an eye role as she assured him that "the half-wit" just passed out with fear, prompting Carlos to claim he was right, only to faint for real after Ash tells them he would be dead unless given to anti-venom by the end of 24 hours. With no other choice, Jay agrees to marry Ashley in exchange for the antidote from the Baroness as a wedding present.

During the ceremony, the wedding is crashed by Jays girlfriend, Lonnie, and her friends—one of whom manages to free Jay. Furious, Ash engages in battle with Eugene and successfully pins the latter down. As the Baron prepares to unleash her Kai spider, but is knocked out by Poppy O'Hair's frying pan. An explosion caused by the VKs to mask their get-away, destroying part of Ash's castle's battlements.

Ash was later seen in her manor's private swan garden feeding several black swans during "When Bad Stars Cross ..." when she farewells Ashley and Vittorio after they tell her of Uma's plan to help her crew escape the isle, after which she gives them her blessings and gifts them with her two Tamboritas before they leave. She also gives Vittorio her scrying ball and Ash's her spell book.

She is later interviewed in her manor after Vittorio and Ashley, alongside the rest of Uma's pirates, are declared Public Enemy Number 1, where she displayed a great pride in her son and daughter's evilness

Later on, when Ashley is captured and interrogated, it was revealed that Ash was part of the United Villains High Council who successfully tempted King Ben to issue the law that allowed people to only ask a villain 20 questions, which also counted for mothers and uncles. Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos travel to the isle after Evie successfully guessed that the antidote to the Backwards Bubble Ashley had set of in Auradon Prep was with Ashley's mom, and, after using logic and several more questions, successfully find Ash's Manor. Ash greats them and brings them into her living room, where Carlos tells her that they believed she had the antidote to the curse her daughter had placed in Auradon Prep, which Ash acknowledges and, though admitting it was a strange hobby, claims that, along with grandchildren, her daughter doing what she loves was all a mother could ask for before bringing out a speaker and telling Ashley to hit the number counter. As a shocked Jay asked that her answers counted to, she replies with a yes and once again tells Ashley to "hit it again". As a gloating Ash tells the four that they only had five questions left and displays skepticism of the VKs finding it before she is interrupted by Evie who asks if it is behind her back, which Ash tells her is correct before reluctantly handing the safe suitcase containing the cure over and gloomily telling her daughter to hit the counter. However, she returns to gloating after the VKs realize the suitcase has a coded lock, telling them that only Vittorio and Ashley have the code.

Later on, Ash is seen alongside Ursula, Chatana, Tziloco and the other parents of the now-outlaw pirates watching a report of the escape of Jackie Frost, who had been caused by Uma's crew. As Chatana displays a pride of the chaos the Flameicewind Golem Chetana had created had wrought of the Snow King, Ash snidely comments that she just cast a creature-creation spell while her own daughter had set of a wave of chaos across the land with her ghost fire spell, causing Chatana to call her bitter.

In "A New Perspective", after the disguised VKs and AKs are caught and brought into Dragon Hall, Jane and Evie are marched to a History of Evil taught by Ash, who pauses midsentence as to Isle soldiers enter with Jane and Evie. Not recognizing her former student, let alone the Fairy Godmother's daughter, Ash asks if the two are a pair of new minds ready for molding. Though Evie quickly assumes a deadpan expression, Jane fumbles and acts cheerfully. Narrowing her eyes, Ash walks forwards as she states that Jane is clearly not a VK, instead assuming that Jane is the daughter of one of the common villain sidekicks, which Jane instantly pretends to confirm. Snapping to the disguised young fairy that her etiquette is terrible, informing her that Islanders bow to their elders, which, with the secret help of Yzla, Jane performs correctly. Ash also informs Jane about the rules against headwear, but she claims that it is to hide an embarrassing scar, which Ash accepts. The former Malvago then asks for Jane's name, questioning whether they should just call the girl "Mannerless Colony Slob". Though Jane cheerfully accepts the nickname, she quickly calls introduces herself as Elmara and takes a seat.

The next day, after greeting her class, Ash orders the youngsters to recite the Dark Isle oath before sitting down at her desk. However, she quickly notices Jane's failure to correctly pronounce the oath and, with a stern expression, believes it to be mockery of their national oath. Sarcastically voicing how hilarious it must be to make fun of their nation's solemn oath, Ash announces that they will begin the lesson with a pop quiz on their great March of Civilization, staring by questioning what year the Lord of Shadows battle the Sky Sages army. Confused, Jane pointed out to the stunned class that the Sky Sages had no formal military and were defeated by ambush tactics – a fact apparently erased from Midnight Empire history books, but was studied at Auradon Prep. Ash responded by saying that she could not possibly know that for a fact unless she had been there a hundred years prior (Jane had in fact learnt the truth of the attack at Auradon Prep), to which Jane quickly replied that she would just write down her best guess.

Later on, in "When Extremes Meet", the Auradon council imposes a curfew of the Isle of the Lost forbidding anyone on the Isle from being out after night due to Uma, her pirates and the Red Fox Clan's actions and all the power is taken out. In response, Ash and hundreds of other islanders took to the streets in protest, demanding that their current few rights be given back, only to be confronted by the Auradon Police. When the Head of the Police, Saikhan shouts that the Islanders return to their homes, Captain Hook shouts that they will as soon as their power was restored, prompting many of his neighbors, Ash among them, to cry out in agreement, Ash cupping her hands too boo the police as she shouts that the police couldn't do this. As Saikhan continues to demand the islanders return to their homes or be arrested, Ash shouts that the Auradonians couldn't treat them this way, prompting a chorus of agreement from the crowd. Just then, Mal and her Team arrive, and, when a child points out her presence, Ash and many others rush to the edge of the blockade set up by the police, with Ash imploring the young girl for help, telling her she was their princess too. After Mal fails to convince Tarrlok to return the citizens' rights, the councilman orders the police to arrest the people present, claiming they were Red Fox Clan members. The police proceed to have the blockades encircle dozens of people and rise mounds of earth. Horrified and fearful, Ash, who had not been caught, and many other begin to run, attempting both to free her captured neighbors and friends and escape the police trying to round up the fleeing islanders. Mal, however, uses her own magic to lower the mounds and Ash, after shouting a gasping thank you to Mal, proceed to escape alongside floods of others, running from the street.

### Season 4

Ash, dressed in a dark-brown trench coat and a red scarf and with her hair bundled under a flapper hat, holding hands with Ashley and Vittorio, one on each side, attend Princess Darkness's rally, the 'Revelation' and are seen gaining access to the vast warehouse where the rally is taking place, handing a flyer that serves as an invitation to the doorman as she is welcomed. Joining the millions of crowds of people attending the rally, Ash and her children make their way to a private balcony to watch as Darkness makes her speech.

### *Descendants 3*

Ash is seen during the song, Break This Down, where Ashley and Vittorio lead her across the bridge into Auradon. She has an awkward reunion with her husband and eldest daughter, averting her gaze until Carla run to embrace her mother in a hug. She later dances with her husband as the Auradonians and Islanders mingle.

### *Descendants: A New Reign*

After learning that her daughter, Ashley, was a skybender, Ash, hearing that other airbenders were emerging, sent a request to Ben for help train her daughter. Upon their arrival in the city, the Gang found Ash rehearsing with her dance troupe for a performance to be held the following month, although the latter quickly ended practice when she noticed the team's presence. Aiwei quickly informed her that the future king had lied about how many people were in his group. To Ash's surprise and delight, Ben confessed that Sebastián had also come to Isle. When asked by the prince of Auradon how she knew Sebastián, Ash revealed that she was Sebastián's sister, which Sebastián later clarified as siblings-by-now-estranged-marriage.

## Personality

Just like her husband and daughter, Ash was a ruthless and power-hungry Malvago who does anything to accomplish her goals. Indeed, she was the most ruthless, cruel, and greedy of the Delgados as shown when she told Elena she knew she would die from having her magic extracted but was going to do it anyway so she can become the most powerful Malvago in the world. Because she gained her Malvago abilities by actually learning Dark Magic from years of training to become a Malvago, Ash is also the most competent of the Delgados. Her one soft spot is her daughter Carla as she wants her daughter to realize her full potential, stating Carla has true potential to be a great Malvago, though her crave for power matters more to her than her daughter.

On the other hand, Ash holds her husband in contempt for raising their daughter without her, and didn't even care that she broke her promise to return to them after a year and was instead gone for seven years, justifying herself that her training took longer than expected nor did she even apologize for not contacting her husband, which left him and Carla to think Ash was dead after not hearing from her for so long as well as openly voicing how she thinks little of Victor's capabilities.

Ash's wickedness stems from Zopilote stealing her two pet mice (who were her only company) when she was just a lonely young girl, which led her to believe only the evillest of beings get what they want. She appears to have an immense amount of respect for Zopilote, even going as far as to beg him to forgive her for stealing his tamburitza and being upset when he is turned into a tiny yellow bird by Mateo, though she quickly gets over it.

As she grew increasingly power-hungry and malevolent, Ash's love for her husband and daughter slowly fades away. When Victor refuses to have him and Carla continue with their dark pursuits over fear for Carla's safety, Ash has no qualms about turning him into stone. She also does not sympathize with her daughter when she cries over a petrified Victor's body, and almost immediately leaves her behind when she refuses to go with her.

After being trapped on the Isle and producing her second daughter and first son, Ash, though she remained evil, began to discovered love, becoming a loving, slightly overprotective, mother. Due to her husband and first daughter's betrayal, Ash developed an intense loathing of Auradonians and Hero-borns (children of heroes) in general, adopting the belief of villainous-supremacy, which, combined with being an embodiment of wealth and influence on the Isle of the Lost and being of high-rank in the Isle social rank, caused as and her son and second daughter to take great pride in their aristocratic stature by viewing themselves as being biologically superior to Auradonians and non-Islanders. Despite her still evil side, she displayed a more caring side, adopting several VK orphans of great potential into her family, remembering her own early life on the streets. She enjoys many hobbies as a means to express herself and is also very open with some of her opinion, showing personal distaste for political control being centered around royalty, which often relates to her dislike of Auradonians, as, not only do they often simply hand down riches to their own "spoiled brats" than to the people who need them, like the Islanders and their children, allowing some children to be abandoned on the isle streets, but also risk their kingdoms falling into the lap of a tyrant.

Though she acts positive and optimistic during Dragon Hall teachers' meeting with the teachers of Auradon Prep, this attitude is later revealed to be a facade, as when Ashley and Vittorio reveal to her that they had stolen her and Vittorio's wedding rings from the Auradon museum during the students of Dragon Hall's stay at Auradon for the Unity Games. Rather than being disappointed at her children's thievery, she is in fact delighted. This delight stems from her anger at Victor and the Auradonians for not returning her wedding rings after Victor and her divorce, as the rings, and more importantly the jewels adorning them, had always belonged to Graham de Vanily family (Ash's birth family), not the Delgados, as well as a desire to give the rings to Ashley and Vittorio, who had always been fascinated by the tales of the clan of Graham de Vanily rings. She happily gives the ring to the pair, revealing that she had only wanted it to give to them instead of keeping it herself, showing her affection for her children. She is a haughty but hard-working teacher who takes pride in her students and school's reputation. She is strict with her students, accepting nothing less than perfection from the villain kids under her tutelage, though, when they achieve what she expects of them, when displays her pride.

## Appearance

Ash has white hair, blue eyes, and tan skin. She wears makeup on face consisting of black eyeshadow, blush, and red lipstick. She also typically wears a pale blue-white Malvago dress with a black feathered bird-like design on the front and black-and-pale-blue earrings.

After her imprisonment, she kept her attire, but let part of her hair fall down it two thin bangs, and adopted black into her white clothing, wearing silver-grey upper dress above a black corset and, although her lower dress retains its original design, it is now in a shape of a Renaissance Dress, complete with black figureless gloves and black leather high-heeled boots. She also wears a silver necklace complete with a small, dragon-shaped adornment and several silver rings shaped like coiled snakes with small emeralds for eyes and dark-green stereotypical-looking witch hat. She occasionally wears a hooded cloaks inner stitched with strange runes and is rarely seen without her polished blackthorn walking stick with a ruby-eyed silver snake head that contained her wand.

When attending formal events, Ash wears a gray blouse with a black stripe on both the edges underneath a dark gray long-sleeved jacket with a pearl-amberish white stripe on the edges of the jacket. She also wears dark gray business pants and black ankle-strap heels. She allows her hair to fall down in a side ponytail.

## Trivia

* She‘s the second most powerful female sorceress to appear, after Shuriki in the *Elena of Avalor* series.
* Her relationship with her estranged husband was originally quite strained but tries to conceal this from her daughter.
* Mateo fears her and the extent of her dark magic.
* She’s able to counter the Scepter of Light's *Far Sight* spell with a blocking spell.
* Ironically, despite the fact that she is a dark sorceress, she wears mainly white, the traditional colour of good witches, in appose to Ash's husband and daughter, who's Malvago attire was mainly black.
* She is one of the few villains who were married to have isle of the lost children with the same man/women, despite the fact that her husband resides in Auradon.
* The fact that she is one of the most wealthy inhabitants of the isle is rather ironic, considering the fact that she appeared to have had a poor childhood.