Ashley McEwan

"Stagnant water." - Ashley's catchphrase

* Season 57
* Season 59
* Season 60

### Left the Doctor because

Terrible things happened during adventures, wanted to go off into space with Adric.

## Behind the Scenes

### Primary Actor/Actress

Ruby Rose Turner

Ashley McEwan is a young bisexual girl and companion of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Doctors.

In 'The Timeless Children', along with her girlfriend Danica Sullivan and met The Doctor there. She was bitten on the leg by a zombie but had the bite removed with the Sonic Screwdriver. Later, she would fight in the Battle of Ranskoor av Kolos, and watched the Fifteenth Doctor regenerate (TV: *Trust Me On This!*). Later, her girlfriend would abandon her and remain in victorian Germany (TV: *The Mountains of Frankfurt*). She also watched the Sixteenth Doctor's regeneration (TV: *Once, Upon Time*). She also set foot on Mondas (TV: *The Mondas Mission*). Eventually, in the 1800s, after one of Napoleon's generals mistakenly rapes her (TV: *Napoleon*), she has second thoughts about travelling with the Doctor and runs off with Adric after rescuing the Doctors.. (TV: The Seventeen Doctors). Shortly after, Cornelius Duncan was looking at the Doctor's companions listed on the TARDIS, he found Barbara, Dodo, Polly, Zoe, Liz, Romana II, Nyssa, Izzy Sinclair, **Ashley** and Destrii to be relatively beautiful, later being scolded by Jericho for his remarks. (TV: *Searching for the Crystal Cave*)

She was played by Ruby Rose Turner.

## Biography

### Childhood

Ashley McEwan was born on December 29th of 2004 in the Willows Memorial Hospital in Wisconsin, USA, Earth.

She was born exactly three minutes before her twin brother Baxter, to parents Gregor and Helen McEwan. Apparently, she and her friend Steven were bullied at school.

### Teenage Years

In 2018, she started thinking about her feelings towards Danica Sullivan, one of her classmates. Around 2019, they began dating and Ashley was working as a Barista in a local coffee pub.

When she was sixteen years old, her friends were out on a school trip in Wisconsin, a news outlet reported that several hundred children were acting strangely cannibalistic and unresponsive. It was at this moment that three of Ashley's friends were attacked by these infected, giving Ashley, Danica and three others, McKenna Nichols, Emily Matthews and Sally Poster, time to escape. They split up after a while, with Ashley and Danica being trapped in Madison.

### Regeneration

After the regeneration, a shocked and afraid Ashley is convinced that the Sixteenth Doctor is a skin-stealing alien. He allays her doubts by telling them the adventures they've been through. Ashley, along with Laurie and Danica, decide to stay with the new doctor. (SHORT: *Reborn Again*)

### Rape attempt

After being raped by one of Napoleon's generals, Ashley runs out of the tent to the Doctor and tells him to bring her back to earth this instant as she refuses to do this anymore.

### Kidnapped by the Rani and meeting Adric

After being rescued by Adric, Ashley finds herself in love with him, and they kidnap the Rani, and then steal her TARDIS, running off into space together.

## Trivia

* Ashley is one of many of Thomas Brock's childhood creations. He would sketch characters and label them when he was bored, and made Ashley one of those times.
* Ashley is bisexual

## Age

In "The Timeless Children", which was set in 2020, Ashley is a few weeks away from her sixteenth birthday, as explained by Danica. By the next story, she had already turned sixteen. By the time of "We're in the Nether Realm", Ashley celebrated her seventeenth birthday in Part 3. By "The Tomb of Ybwen", Ashley was a few days from her eighteenth birthday. By "Love, the Doctor" it is revealed that Ashley had turned eighteen. Her TARDIS profile listed her as eighteen years and eight months of age when Cornelius viewed her.

## Appearances

### Season 57

* The Timeless Children
* *Trust Me On This!*

### Season 58

* Tying the Knot
* The Mountains of Frankfurt
* The Nether Realm
* Out of Many, One
* Broomstick Bay
* The Angels Take Manhattan
* Clear Skies
* Welcome To Narnia
* The Masters of Luxor
* The Beasts of Manzic
* Once, Upon Time

### Season 59

* The Christmas Invasion
* The Mondas Mission
* Giants
* The Route of the Daleks
* Mesaba
* The Vision
* The Catacombs of Dak
* The Tomb of Ybwen
* Survivors of the Flux

### Season 60

* Daleks in Italy
* Love, the Doctor
* The Sontaran Invasion
* Backwards Thinking
* Village of the Angels
* Hibernation of the Cybermen
* Attack of the Sea Devils
* Napoleon
* The Seventeen Doctors

### Season 61

* Crisis on the Ranch of the Angels (cameo)
* Searching for the Crystal Cave (archive footage)