Alexia Ashford
Alexia Ashford is a female video game villain that features in Resident Evil.
Contents |
Biography
Alexia Ashford (Japanese: アレクシア・アシュフォード, Hepburn: Arekushia Ashufōdo?) was a female human born in the year 1971 where she was the daughter of Alexander Ashford who was the sixth generation headmaster of the Ashford clan. Her conception came as a result of the Code: Veronica project that was an attempt to clone the first matriarch of the Ashford's namely Veronica Ashford who was worshipped by her descendants. Thus, Alexia was born when Veronica's genes were implanted into an artificially inseminated ovum with her being born with a twin brother named Alfred Ashford. Alexia was shown to hold a superb intelligence and was considered a genius at a young age which was a stark contrast to her brother Alfred Ashford who showed only a moderately high intelligence. As a result, she had a dominating relationship over her brother who she treated as a mere servant. Over the years, she matured and had attended a prestigious university from a young age with her already graduating valedictorian at the age of 10 in the year 1981. She was later hired by the Umbrella Corporation and quickly rose to the head researcher of their Antarctic Facility. This earned the jealously of William Birkin who headed the Arklay Research Facility and had previously been the youngest researcher in the company until Alexia Ashford's appointment leading to him considering her his greatest rival. At her facility, she studied the T-Virus and the behaviour of ant queens in relation to the colony which she patterned on her own viral variant known as the T-Veronica Virus. However, Alexia lacked any suitable subjects to test her virus and thus decided to use her own father as a guinea pig with her conducting her experiments on him in 1983. A result of the experimentation led to Alexander Ashford mutating into a mindless creature leading to the project being deemed a failure. To find a solution, Alexia learnt that a symbiosis with the T-Veronica Virus could only occur with the host after it had been kept in a cryogenic state for at least 15 years. Thus, she decided to implant the virus in herself and entered into the cryogenic chambers at the Antarctic Facility. Her brother Alfred Ashford remained at her side where he kept watch over his sister but his growing imbalance during her slumber led to him developing a second personality that was based on his sister after he experienced a withdrawal syndrome following her absence.
She remained in this state for a decade and a half whilst events in the world changed drastically. During Albert Wesker's raid of Rockfort Island, prisoners Claire Redfield and Steve Burnside encountered a disguised Alfred posing as Alexia. However, it was not until their escape plane was taken to the Antarctic Facility following pre-programmed instructions. and they confronted Alfred there, in which the real Alexia would appear. Alexia awoke with the first sight of her new stage being the death of her brother whose body she cradled in her arms who had activated the thawing process mere moments prior to his demise. Now in full control of her virus, Alexia sought to begin her plan of dominion over the world as its queen, and using her newfound powers, she remotely controlled one of the massive tentacles resting below the Antarctic Base to destroy the escape vehicle of Claire Redfield and Steve Burnside. Also, she captured Claire and Steve for the purpose of subjecting them to her experiments and to make them pay for killing her brother. She imprisoned Steve in a Coliseum with suits of armor and repeated the experiment that mutated her father, only with her own derivative of the mutant strain. Later on, she appeared to confront Albert Wesker in the replica of the Spencer Mansion under the Antarctic ice. There, she first evolved with the Veronica strain into the first step of what, she envisioned, was true godhood, shedding her human skin and hair and turning into a powerful mutate, that greatly resembled her human stage with gray skin, darkened vessels and arteries, and chitinous growths covering her body as a form of rudimentary armor. She also controlled her body's blood which by then had acquired flammable properties, usable through bloodshed and her head forms a skin-like hair with a short fringe on the right and long to the left. She and Wesker engaged in a brief fight, Wesker quickly found Alexia impervious to any physical blows he could launch, and thus retreated and left Chris Redfield to fight Alexia, who soundly defeated her.
Weakened by her first defeat, she once again attacked Chris by fusing with one of the Veronica mutant breeder pods, creating countless imperfect larvae to attack him along with her tentacles, fire, and insect-like appendages. Despite this, she was beaten once again. However, Alexia was not finished yet however; as she responded by evolving further by ordering the insects that lay below the platform to cover her, then she shed the carcass of the breeder pod and became a giant dragonfly-like monster using the Ants, capable of spewing great amounts of flame and absorbing all gunfire. Nevertheless, Chris managed to destroy Alexia with an experimental weapon called the Linear Launcher, thus ending the Ashford family line.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Alexia Ashford was a female human with long back-length blonde hair and blue eyes.
She looked to make herself into a superior being using the t-Veronica virus.
Due to her young age, she came to feel isolated from other scholars and also felt distant from other children due to her intellect. As such, the only comfort she could find in her life was in her brother.
Upon learning the complete truth about her creation, she and her brother both grew immensely hateful of their father. This led to her ending up using her father as the subject of her experiments.
Alexia Ashford was the adopted daughter of Dr. Alexander Ashford who was the 6th Earl Ashford. She had a twin brother by the name of Alfred Ashford.
Powers and abilities
Alexia Ashford was a female human born as the result of Project CODE:Veronica that was a human genetic engineering project spearheaded by Dr. Alexander Ashford. The goal of the project was to engineer a 'true' successor to the Ashford dynasty comparable to its founder namely Countess Veronica Ashford. The project involved obtaining DNA from the embalmed body of their ancestor Veronica and creating a genetically-modified clone. It was expected that Alexia would inherit the renowned intelligence of Veronica. Alexia possessed extremely high intelligence, becoming a chief researcher before she was even a teenager.
Alexia's first transformation consists of her body turning grey and a vine-like entity partially covering her body. Since her mutation is a result of her body catching fire,her clothes burn off and Alexia walks around the facility barefoot and naked wearing no traditional underwear. She becomes incredibly powerful in this form, gaining the ability to throw flames at her foes. Alexia's second form, however, displays the signature T-Virus' (and its relatives') characteristic inability to adapt to significant amounts of damage, with Alexia's body undergoing radical physical transformation. Although she retains her impressive intellect, Alexia's body degenerates into the primary components used in the creation of the T-Veronica Virus, thereafter taking on the appearance and characteristics of a sort of twisted ant queen, complete with a giant lower abdomen producing partially-formed larvae.
In her third and final phase, she loses the oviduct, allowing her to fly freely into the air. Like in her first form, she attacks by spitting vomit that turns into flames and is invulnerable to all sorts of firearms, with the exception of a specialized anti-B.O.W. Linear Launcher, making her the second-most powerful B.O.W. created by Umbrella.
Chris fights against her first form within in a hall resembling the one from the Arklay Research Facility. He leaves her for dead, only for her to show up outside the control room of the facility. In this encounter, she transforms into her second and third phases before ultimately being destroyed by Chris.
For a time, she came to serve as a Senior Chief Researcher at the Umbrella Corporation.
Notes
- Alexia Ashford was created by Shinji Mikami where she featured in the setting of the Resident Evil universe.
In other media
Books
- In Resident Evil Code: Veronica, Alexia Ashford appeared in the events of the novelisation of the game written by S.D. Perry and published by Pocket Books. This version of Alexia was depicted as a megalomaniac with delusions of godhood, considering all lifeforms beneath her. Also, she only undergoes the first and second stages of her mutations, perishing after Chris succeeds in blasting off her two lower wings and then directs a blast from the Linear Launcher into her abdomen.
Appearances
- Resident Evil: Code Veronica:
- Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles:
External Links
This article is a stub. You can help Multiversal Omnipedia by expanding it.
