Ashton Doovis

**TF2Tags**
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## Austin

> *"He said something? I wasn't aware."*
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> *~ Austin, spawning a new meme*
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**Ashton\_Doovis** (who now simply goes by **Austin** but was known as the former for the majority of his time on the site) is a Generation 2 tagger. He is the creator of Taggers in the Wild and is known for being one of the overall kinder taggers in the community.

## History

Ashton first came upon the site back in 2013, while he was trying to find a name for his Phlogistinator. TF2Tags was his first option, but as he tried looking for others he realized that it was the only website where people shared their TF2 name ideas. After settling on "The Poltergust 3000" from a tagger named Zadrave, he decided to look at some of the most recent entries, and liked the creativity of the users. He was most interested in the highly respected Generation 1 taggers (the only generation present at the time), specifically Relk\_Cehi, Ulysses, and Legownz. After making a list of potential tags, he decided he too wanted to build a reputation on the site. At the time, he was young and unoriginal, all of his 3 first tags were missed to hell, which made him stop tagging. He did still check the site from time-to-time, because of its unique community.

He would make two mediocrely-received tags in 2015, but would finally start to get more involved in the community in late January of 2016, when he came across sets called "How to make good tags" made by a variety of users he had never heard of before. After taking five minutes out of his day to read them all, he created a tag referencing the HAL 9000 from the *2001: A Space Odyssey,* which was his first successful submission with 15 crits. He would spend his next week and a half making tags that received consistently higher amounts of crits than what he had previously done in prior years, reporting to have garnered 138 crits during the first three days of February. During this time he would also begin to immerse himself in the community aspect of TF2Tags, learning the various terms and declaring his first representative item (which he would soon change to his current when he found that an unusual Steel Shako with Vivid Plasma didn't exist). On February 5th, 2016, just over a week after he officially began tagging regularly, Ashton would create Taggers in the Wild, a series that would become his most well-known creation.

Ashton would continue tagging throughout the month of February, and by February 21st he would attain 500 total crits, along with a golden reputation among his peers for being extremely grateful to everyone showing him success and in general being an all-around good dude. Though he was perhaps getting a bit too ambitious with himself, he would soon make a set trying to give the spotlight to new up and coming taggers, including Reboot and the last airblaster, who both appreciated the recognition.

Ashton would continue tagging well into March. He would celebrate with the rest of the site at the end of the second wave of the Colorless Times, when the unusuals would return to the site once more, allowing him to use his proper rep item for the first time since just after he started tagging regularly in January. A week later, he would reach 1000 total crits, officially making him a major tagger in the eyes of the community. He would experience the glory of April Fools' Week at the beginning of the following month. On April 7th he would go on a bit of a tagging spree with emoji nametags, which he would dub the "Lennypocalypse". A week later, following the Endiome incident, he mourned the corruption and loss of TGRobert, one of his closer friends in the community.

Ashton's tagging would begin to slow following the first week of May 2016, and throughout May and June would only make a few tags every few days. After making a tag giving some advice to DannyFantom on June 21st, Ashton would not be seen again until August 7th. He would make three tags that month before disappearing once again, returning the site on June 21st, 2017, ten months later. After making two tags in three days, Ashton would disappear *again* until October 16th, where he would start to tag regularly again. However, on November 8th he would leave once again, and though he would return briefly after Dr. Dos announced the Tagpocalypse in January of 2018, he would pretty much leave for good this time. When questioned, Ashton largely attributes his many hiatuses and eventual departure from TF2Tags to school giving him a lot of work. He would rejoin the community in January of 2019, just after the Tagpocalypse, by joining TGRobert's public Tags.tf Discord server.

## Style

Ashton didn't have much of a distinct Tagging style unlike some other Taggers, but he did have Taggers in the Wild and his Lennypocalypse to help him stand out easier among the crowd. However, Ashton *did* have his own style in other aspects of the site, mainly in his username and his comments. Ashton would often change his username to have either a different lenny face following the "Ashton\_Doovis" or would simply make the "Ashton\_Doovis" part more fancy by using different types of text. In his comments, he would often use unicode emoticons, especially :) and B). Though Austin has since abandoned the former due to cringe, he still uses emoticons in chats to this day.

He also had a bit of a running joke with him regarding a comment he had made on one of Bonkspenser's posts when he got into a bit of drama with Ulysses. When Bonk corrected him on something Ulysses had said, he replied "He said something? I wasn't aware." This became a running joke that he would have some fun with in his comments on others' posts.

## Relationships

> "Everyone is cool :)"
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Ashton is renowned for being very kind and courteous with everyone in the community, to the point where he didn't swear often. Player 1 + Player 2 even went as far as saying that Ashton was "too innocent" to be involved with this community. As such he has friends in several places.

### TGRobert

He considers TGRobert to be his "top bestie", a relationship which started when Ashton commented on his Steam profile talking about how he had started watching One Piece and he responded with "MY ANIME BESTIE". Ashton remained a loyal friend of Robert's ever since, even after his many controversies such as Endiome and his temporary excommunication from the community for (falsely) accused bigotry (a particularly loyal thing to do as Ashton himself is homosexual) and general dickishness. He didn't really understand the general dislike for Robert before his re-acceptance into the community, but now that everyone is more or less on good terms with him everything is all good.

### Marmot

Ashton was on very good terms with Marmot, especially at the start of his tagging career. He even made Marmot his co-host in Taggers in the Wild starting with the fifth episode. Sadly, due to Marmot's leaving of the community, they have not been in much contact.

### Others

Ashton plays Super Smash Brothers Ultimate on a semi-regular basis with Blast, and used to play lots of Mann vs. Machine with Biolizard. He is part of the Wahfia and over time has become good friends with Walumancer, even reading and reviewing his novel series RagTag (though Walu has to remind him to do this often). Bonkspenser helped encourage Ashton early on in his career and they remained on good terms ever since. He is also friends with Cammie, Moura, L'Étranger, The Lazygineer, TheOnlyGuyEver, Toastclaimer, Expand, Banannixx, Crimson Blitz, Propizio, Egg-Z, Makin' Bacon, A Fucking Idiot, DannyFantom, Le Tryhard Hunter, Legownz, Acquiesce, Fancytag, SaturnCaine, Relk\_Cehi, and AncientShed on Steam. Boy, is he popular!

## Gallery

Ashton's earliest surviving tag.Ashton's first truly successful tag.Ashton pointing out the problem with making comments count towards one's daily Submission Limits.Ashton indulging in his own meme.Ashton's best tag, with 31 crits.Ashton\_Doovis's Lennypocalypse.Ashton swears. The people are shocked and apalled.
## **Trivia**

* Ashton's original rep item was the Steel Shako, and planned on saving money to get a Vivid Plasma one ingame. When he realised there were none, he shifted to the Stout Shako instead.
* Ashton's rep item has the unique attribute of being like a mood ring, in that its color and unusual effect changes depending on Ashton's mood, with the Yellow and Vivid Plasma being the default.
* One of Austin's comments was turned into a meme, when he was referring to the latest shitstorm on Bonkspenser's now deleted post, saying he wasn't aware of whatever Ulysses had said.
* Ashton originally wanted to compete in TF2Tags Survivor, but had missed the deadline to apply and was quite upset about it. Walumancer then decided to make him AFI's co-host in the series.
* When Austin joined the site for the first time, he used the name ∆sht■∏\_D■■▼is, along with a *Minecraft* profile picture. He changed it immediately after Ulysses called it cancer. A very wise move.
* Ashton has ADD.
* Ashton has recently come up with a comedic post-apocalyptic idea for a comic which he may pursue in the future titled "Strange".