Cider Thug Ash

“I've been tired lately ever since my bullying at school and my father's death, but now, it's about time to show them who's different.”

## General Information

### Friends

Mother Widow, Father Widow, Genocide Frisk, Darcy, Moon Prince Kubo, Tainted Mirabel, Rocket Red

### Roles[1]

* Heterodyne[2]
* Independent[3]

## Physical Appearance

### Additional Info

Red and white striped shirt, black jeans, his father’s coat, a black bandit hat, and a Whack-a-Bat

## Cider Thug Ash

Cider Thug Ash is an AU version of Mr. And Mrs. Fox’s cub, Ash from the 2009 stop motion animated film, Fantastic Mr. Fox.

In this AU, Ash joins forces with the farmers and Rat while taking his father’s place as the thief and partner in crime after an alternate version of events occurred in the film, especially when he tricks and manipulate Kristofferson into getting captured by the farmers while trying to get Mr. Fox’s tail and causing his father attempting to take his own life to spare the others from getting killed.

## Backstory

After losing Kristofferson during their failed mission to get Mr. Fox's tail, Ash noticed his cousin's shoe as he escape from the kitchen and decided to go back to the dinner party to tell his parents what happen, but the party was now demolished and cover in apple cider from the flood, Ash noticed that everyone was completely gone while searching through an darken and abandoned mine until he heard somebody calling his name somewhere in the sewers, he followed their voices to get to the sewers to find out that nearly everyone (including both of his parents) actually survive the flood by taking them to a hole that lead to the sewers safely, Mr. Fox run towards him as he arrived to tell him what happen back at the kitchen (including Kristofferson), with nowhere else to go, Ash's father decided to take his own life by the farmers to spare Kristofferson and everybody else from getting killed, as soon as Mr. Fox left, while everyone was looking for Kristofferson, Rat arrived in the sewers with a random note with cut out magazines, incorrectly identifying Kristofferson as Mr. Fox's son, to which Ash says that the farmers took the wrong fox. Rat easily recognizes the error and is about to capture Ash until Mrs. Fox steps in from the other group with a chain to defend her son. Rat then flirts and attacks her and Weasel, stuffing Ash into a sack and holds his mother hostage until his father arrives to defeat Rat.

But the only difference in the alternate version is where Rat defeated Mr. Fox in a fight, resulting in him dying from his injuries (notably from getting electrocuted near an electric generator), Mrs. Fox, heartbroken and angry, tried to attack him in the wake of her husband’s death and getting her son back, but Rat wounded and pushed her into the flowing sewer water where she was thankfully rescued by the other animals who helped her confront over the loss of everything she loved, and Rat runs away and gets out of the sewers with the sack which had Ash inside and carrying Mr. Fox’s corpse with his other hand, this saddened Ash, thinking that his father succeeded his mission to take his own life to save Kristofferson and spare the others from getting killed by getting killed by his former Partner in Crime, back at Bean’s farm, while the farmers had Mr. Fox’s corpse mounted on a wall, meaning that Rat finally found the Fox they’re looking and killing for. Rat notices Ash still in the sack covered in his father’s blood from changing to his clothes (including the jacket that was made into a cape) and manipulated him to join him as his partner in crime assistant to defend cider from anyone instead of being in a cellar cage with Kristofferson, Ash was confused at first, but since he wanted to keep up his father’s legacy and neither of his parents showed up to help him since they’re both dead (when Mrs. Fox was actually alive wounded), he had no other choice but to accept his offer, when he goes to Kristofferson who was in a cellar cage, Ash explained on how he betrayed him even more after everything he had put through (including both of his parents praising him over Ash, causing them to not care about their own son, especially when he’s bullied at his school) by leaving him to get captured by the farmers while getting his father’s tail, which made Kristofferson feel betrayed and calling him a “total villain and traitor whose manipulative nature being the reason why his father took his own life”, before demanding Rat to take Kristofferson to the sewers where the other animals (including Mrs. Fox) are to exchange him for Ash and his father while enjoying his life while he can in the process. One month later, during his job as a thug to save cider from being stolen with Rat one night and fully trained, Cider Thug Ash is eventually found by Mother Widow and Father Widow to accept him as an orphaned child of their own after his father’s death and being separated from his mother who was still in the sewers along with the other animals while ignoring what happened to his cousin after betraying him.

## Profile

### Appearance

Ash is a male red fox child. He has his mother's light fur color and his father's hazel eyes, although none of his parents have his distinctive black markings around his eyes. Ash is short for his age (which also is a trait that neither of his parents share) and is mocked for this by bullies at his school calling him a girl, which contributes to his cynical disposition. He dresses in a combination of a supervillain and thug manner (based on "White Cape", a comic book character whom Ash idolizes) with some of his father's clothing, wearing a red-and-white striped Waldo shirt which had a “Bean Security” tag on it underneath a yellow shirt, a white jacket he regularly wore with his normal outfit, black jeans that are similar to Rat’s, and Mr. Fox’s jacket, torn down and covered in blood, appears to be made into a cape. He sometimes wears his father’s bandit hat, which was founded in one of its pockets among his other clothes.

### Personality

Cider Thug Ash is more grumpy, cynical and ill-tempered than usual, being more aggressive, manipulative, and cold blooded towards his enemies after his school years of getting bullied for being different by Beaver’s son, and shows hatred towards Kristofferson for being more talented than him, despite this, he does have a soft side towards some other BEFs and showed grief for his deceased father, to the point where he wanted to be a thief like him to continue his legacy, and managed to care about his mother, Mrs. Fox after he was kidnapped by Rat, even though he sometimes shows bitter towards her for not helping him dealing with getting bullied at school and how believe she screwed him over, despite being manipulated by Rat to make him not care for the other animals while working as a thug.

### Abilities

Since his father’s death, he taught himself and used his manipulation skills and knowledge from Rat to stop other animals from stealing cider from the cellar, he also uses a bat with spikes he made by himself, calling it a Whack-a-Bat as a weapon, he also taught manual arts that were taken from Kristofferson when he saves him from the Beaver’s son, as from his parents side, he uses his own Fox antics such as his claws and teeth to defend himself against enemies including certain BEFs who bullied him for his appearance such as Zach Watterson and Fancy Queen Reggie.

## Behind the Scenes

Fantastic Mr. Fox is a 2009 American stop motion animated film directed by Wes Anderson based on the 1970 book of the same name by British author Roald Dahl.

To watch Fantastic Mr. Fox, or support its creators, then there are a few options (Disclaimer, some of these options may be region locked depending on where you live):

* Disney+
* Hulu
* iTunes
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* Google Play

## Trivia

* Cider Thug Ash is the first BEF from a stop motion animated film and the second BEF from a stop motion animated in general (the first is Anti-Molly) that wasn’t made by Laika Studios.