Ashley Baker

**Ashley Baker** is a main character in Roleplay 2.0.

## Description

Ashley Baker was introduced into the roleplay as a kill character. However, Zara started to like her and pleaded to keep her.

Ashley has short brown hair which she dyes black, however, she dyed it purple on December 1st 2021. She has heterochromia (blue and brown), but she wears coloured dark brown contacts. She has been known to smoke tobacco and marijuana, and drink a lot of alcohol.

## Roleplay Past (Background)

Judy and Rick (her mother and father) met in high school, and got together a year after meeting. They were known as the unbearably cute couple, but this wasn’t destined to last. They began drifting apart when they went to college. Judy got involved in a different group of people, who liked drugs and alcohol and were kind of shifty, and all of this made her very paranoid and anxious about Rick leaving her. She noticed that Rick often talked about a girl in his class, and became convinced that he was cheating on her. She decided to stop taking her birth control, so that she could baby trap him to force him to stay with her. When she got pregnant, Rick was delighted to be a father. He had always wanted to have children, and wasn’t particularly interested in having a massive career and experiencing the world - he was more the family type and wanted to settle down early. All of his talk about settling down scared Judy: she realised that she didn’t want a baby, she only wanted him. She realised that she might not ever like a child. She got an abortion without telling him. Eventually she told him everything, and he was horrified and incredibly angry with her for stopping the contraception and baby-trapping him, only to get rid of the baby. She told him that it was her body, and that she could do what she pleased with it. He ended up breaking up with her, because he couldn’t deal with her having turned ‘insane’ anymore. Judy got very depressed and ended up getting even deeper with the alcohol and drugs and everything. She was probably already addicted, but if she wasn’t, she definitely was now. Though they had broken up, one night, Judy called Rick, deeply depressed and suicidal. He ended up coming over because she was saying that she was going to kill herself, and he ended up comforting her, and then sleeping with her. They began dating again, but it didn’t work out, because Judy cheated on him. Multiple times after that, they had a one-night-stand together, often when they were depressed in their relationships, or very drunk. They both definitely still held a flame for each other, but their relationship was always going to be very toxic. Judy ‘bumped into’ a friend from college, someone in the same ‘gang’ that she had been in, and they started dating. Eventually, he asked her to marry him, and she said yes, but realised that she was still in love with Rick and that she always would be. She went over to his house, and they ended up having sex. This time, she got pregnant by accident. She ended up keeping it, however, she drank during her pregnancy. Rick ‘put her’ into a detox centre that helped her, but afterwards, she broke up with him and screamed and shouted at him for putting her in such a prison. For the first few years of her life, Ashley lived with her mother, and having a child actually made her mother get better. However, eventually she ended up getting depressed once again when Ashley went off to school. Social services intervened and she was sent to live with her dad when she was roughly 7. Her dad was the one who pointed social services in the right direction where she was living, and Judy’s parental responsibility was taken away. Slowly, they were able to build up a relationship again. They started by going to contact centres, then to supervised contact, and eventually unsupervised. Her mum would often take her to liqueur stores as part of their fortnightly contact, so she learned all of the terms and everything. Then one day, Judy forgot that she was supposed to drop Ashley home, and ended up taking her to the pub. She ended up having a mental breakdown whilst talking about her problems with the bartender, and how much she was in love with Rick. The man ended up taking her to the police station to get help because she was getting hysterical. Ashley’s dad also called the police because she was five hours late getting home. Her mum ended up being pretty much forced to go to rehab. She got sober whilst she was in there obviously, because you have to, and she started being really nice to Ashley and she started being a really good mum. Then she revealed that she was getting engaged to this guy, whom she met in rehab. He sounded really nice, and was a guy that Ashley actually liked the sound of unlike the rest of her mum’s boyfriends. He also had a daughter that was roughly her age, and she was excited to have a sister! However, at the wedding, her mum came up to Ashley, and told her that last night, her and Rick had hooked up, and that they were getting back together. Ashley was not happy to hear this. Her parents had gotten back together several times, but it was always really horrible. Not because they argued necessarily, but just because in general, it was obvious they wouldn’t work out. Ashley also at this point just didn’t want her parents to end up together. She liked having a bit of a different family dynamic, and likes having two different houses and spending time with her parents separately. Anyway, Judy left her fiancé at the alter, and started dating Rick again. For about half a year, maybe a bit longer, everyone lived together and it was alright, however, eventually, like all things, it ended. Ashley had gotten really into psychology (she was like 14) and chose it for GCSE. She was really good at it, and her teacher, Gladys Winkle, gave her extra-credit homework and things like that because she enjoyed it. There was a scholarship for a specialist science school nearby where you could learn different types of science, including psychology. It normally only accepted 15/16+ students, but Ms Winkle said that Ashley was that gifted, that she would probably be an exception. Rick invited Gladys to dinner with the family to thank her, where a physical chemistry bloomed between them. They started having conversations about the school and what things Ashley would need to do to get in etc by email, and gradually the professional relationship became more friendly. Rick found out that Gladys was having problems with her long-term boyfriend, and one night, she ended up coming to him, in tears, telling him her boyfriend had broken up with her. They ended up having sex, and started dating. Eventually, Judy found out, and they broke up. Ashley became quite clingy towards her mum, because she knew what had happened in the past when they had broken up. Ashley came home early once from a sleepover and walked in on Ms Winkle naked in the shower. Her dad explained to her that they were dating, and Ashley realised what had happened - his dad had cheated. She became very distant from her father and her teacher, and took back the application for the school, and changed GCSEs. She didn’t want to have anything to do with any of them, and moved in with her mum. She lived in a one bedroom hostel flat and wasn’t allowed to have people over, but made an exception for Ashley. Though it was her decision to move classes, Ashley missed her teacher and the subject a lot. It had been her favourite subject and being in that class was the only time she had ever really felt happy when her parents had been together. She had such mixed feelings about her parents having broken up again. In a way she was happy, but she also knew that her mum would go back again to her old self. Gladys Winkle had the idea to set up a new counselling program at the school, and Ashley decided to go to it. She signed up before she knew who was running it. She really missed Ms Winkle, and the therapy was useful, and so even though it was awkward, she kept at it. They ended up bonding, and forming a friendship. Gladys patched things up between the two of them, persuading her boyfriend to apologise to his daughter, and persuading Ashley to accept it. She ended up moving back in with her dad on school days, because it was closer to her school, and because he had more money and everything. She stayed with her mum on weekends. One week, Rick had a business trip, and Gladys offered to ‘babysit’ Ashley. This was when Ashley was like 15/16. They ended up watching a film, and then Gladys told Ashley that Rick had asked her to marry him, and that she had realised that Rick wasn’t the one for her - it was Ashley she wanted to be with. Ashley was obviously incredibly confused. Gladys explained that it had taken her everything not to tell her, but now that her father was trying to marry her, she had to confess. She told her that she had never really loved her father - well, she thought she had, but the love that she had for Ashley was different. She realised that she would never be in love with her father,  in the same way that she felt about Ashley. She showed her a sketchbook that she had, filled with drawings of Ashley and her, kissing and everything. Ashley wasn’t sure how to feel. Obviously we can see how creepy this is, but Ashley didn’t really. She was depressed, and vulnerable, and she fell under the spell of Gladys. They ended up forming a secret relationship, and Gladys ended up accepting Rick’s proposal, so that Ashley and her could stay together. Then, when Ashley was 18 (so she had left school and didn’t have to have permission to marry), they would run away together, with Rick’s money, and be happy. Ashley accepted this plan, but when the wedding was near, she realised that she couldn’t do it. She told Ashley that she didn’t want to lie to her father, and that either she broke up with her, or her father. Gladys told her that she would break up with her father, because she loved her too much to let her go.  However, she actually told Rick that Ashley was in love with her, and that she was scared to be near her. She showed her the drawings and told him that Ashley had done it. The idea of this was to make Ashley and her father fight, so that Ashley wouldn’t care about hurting him. Around the same time, someone found out about them at school, and told a teacher. Gladys realised that she didn’t love Ashley enough to uproot her whole life, so she told everybody the same thing she had told Rick - that Ashley was obsessed with her, not the other way around. The school board ended up telling them that as long as both Ashley and Gladys moved to different schools, they wouldn’t file a report against either of them. Rick could hardly even look Ashley in the eye anymore. He had even told Judy about what was going on, and Judy was disgusted too. She still loved her daughter, and saw her, but their relationship was never the same. She went to Gladys to ask what had happened. Gladys told her that she didn’t love her enough to lose everything for her. This probably wasn’t true, Gladys had to tell herself that she was breaking up with Ashley because she wasn’t good enough. Gladys told Ashley lots of things in order to give a reason as to why they weren’t together anymore. Gladys said that Ashley was just a kid, and that she didn’t want to be with such an impressionable person - she was worried that Ashley would end up an alcoholic like her mum. She also said that she didn’t understand how someone with such a crazy parentage could be so boring. Ashley was at the lowest time of her life, and at times like this, she often turned to food. During her whole childhood, Ashley had had a complex relationship with food. She often comfort ate when her parents were fighting, or when her mum was drunk, and everything, but as a teenager, people often called her ‘ugly’ and ‘fat’, and she compared herself to people on the internet. Her parents didn’t help either - one of their favourite things to argue about was whose fault it was that Ashley was overweight. Ashley went from eating too much (to temporarily forget about everything), to starving herself (punishing herself for eating too much food etc). Everything had gotten ‘better’ though, when she was with Gladys, as she had someone telling her that she was beautiful. However, Gladys leaving made her go back to her old ‘habits’. She started to count the calories, telling herself that she was just going on a normal diet. She found a pro-ana website and joined a group chat of people who gave her ‘encouragement’. She knew that what she was doing was unhealthy, but she hated herself so much that she enjoyed putting herself through that pain. Nobody realised what she was doing: her dad was always working to give himself something to do because he was distraught that his family had fallen apart; her mum was focusing on herself, and trying to stay sober; and she wasn’t even going to school anymore since she had been told to enroll in a new one. A lot of rumours were going around at her secondary. One of the older boys said that she begged him to sleep with her and then left because he was too much for her. Someone else said that she had been crazy and suicidal and that they made up the fact that she left - she actually killed herself. Some people even guessed the truth. The general consensus was that she was some kind of crazy slut, and so some of the boys from her secondary made a bet with themselves to find out what had happened to her. They also made a bet as to who she would sleep with first, and how long it would take for her to give in to their attempts to sleep with her. Being lonely and broken, she ignored her instincts and started hanging out with them. They all took different approaches to see what worked with her: one acted really caring towards her; one dressed and acted really hot and distant; etc etc. They had the idea to take her to a club and get her drunk, and then spike her drink, take her to one of their bedrooms and each have ‘their turn with her’. This took place but she still doesn’t know what happened and that there were actually several people that night. When she woke up she was in someone else’s bed and found a condom but it was ripped. She basically thought she was pregnant and took the morning after pill but a few days later she thought she was pregnant. The anxiety created pregnancy symptoms and she was really worried and stuff. During her getting to know the boys, her dad lost his job because of something he had said when he was exhausted after working so hard, and so they couldn’t afford the mortgage on the house anymore. They moved to a little flat next to the Salvation Army, which didn’t really accept two humans, but her dad lied on the paperwork to get it for free. Her dad became depressed again and stopped doing any of the housework. Ashley ended up having to do it all. One day she ended up telling her dad that she thought she was pregnant, and it ended up in this massive row, where Rick lost his temper and kicked her out, saying that she was a slut and that she was almost a man with how much she ‘couldn’t keep it in her pants’. She left and found a flat that was selling for really cheap because it was really messy and cluttered. She tidied the whole flat in a few days because she was angry. Her dad has sent her a lot of messages and letters and stuff and tried to get in contact but she hasn't seen him or her mum for ages.

## Roleplay Present (What Has Happened)

Ashley met Chloe at a nightclub and they dared each other to get a date with a person they each picked out. Chloe chose Briar Hallett and Ashley chose Liam. Ashley went on a few dates with Briar. On their last date, Ashley got herself incredibly drunk, and so Briar walked her home. However, on the way, they bumped into Ashley's mum, and Ashley shouted at her, having not seen her for years. Ashley passed out on the streets and woke up in hospital.

Ashley and Chloe were enemies for a while, but soon became friends. Ashley supported Chloe throughout her pregnancy with Liam's baby, and in the aftermath of her abortion. Chloe once went missing and she went to Liam and asked where she was. She didn't like Liam because he hadn't dealt with the pregnancy in the best way, having responded badly to the news in a Physics class (I think). At Ivy's leaving party, Ashley and Chloe found out that Liam and Astrid had "hooked up". Ashley presumed that Chloe had run away because of this. Liam and Ashley went to Chloe's house and Ashley broke in. She found a box full of pictures, thanks to the house telling her where it was, and they ended up finding Chloe and Lottie in a criminal pub, that isn't on any maps, in St Budeaux.

Now Ashley, Chloe, Liam and Connor are in The Gang.

## Roleplay Stories Yet To Come

Ashley's lovely ex-boyfriend, Ed Effernetti, is going to turn up at some point.