#but w/o henrys involvement or knowledge? I’m not so sure..

[historyartthings]

Has this been done as a poll yet?? Apologies if it has! It’s a very morbid one but it’s always been an incredibly divisive question and I’m curious.

Admittedly these are very simplistic answers. The reason being, whilst I acknowledge there’s more room for dimension of feeling there, I wanted to get to the basics of it if you like? Boiled down, when those charges against Anne were drawn up, did Henry honestly think they were true?

[ravenedroyalty]

anyway i’m still developing ashley but here are some ✨Vibes✨

okay first of all there was only one ashley, not three. we already know ronan’s pov is unreliable when it comes to declan and i’m gonna tag this as one of those instances. i’m totally on board w/ declan being a manwhore, and w/ the idea that he dated ashley bc she seemed Normal and Typical and What Was Expected of him so he could blend in, but there’s only ONE ASH IN THIS HOUSE BABY !!!!

spoilers if you haven’t read cdth but it’s been like 2 years so i’m not gonna feel bad if u get spoiled -- ashley’s family is associated with boudicca !! specifically both of her moms work with / under boudicca’s care. one of her moms is a businesswoman with ties to lots of political leaders in DC, her other mom is a high profile real estate agent for like mega mansions and places only absurdly rich people would want to buy

the whole reason ashley is in henrietta is because of boudicca. very much how like henry is a plant for his mother to come and do supernatural business, ashley is in henrietta to keep tabs on the line and the people on the line ( namely the lynchs but also gansey and co )

ashley’s basically been raised as a boudicca “spy” -- i use this term loosely but basically i mean that she’s used as an anchor for her moms to come in an do recon or business for boudica ( i’m going to say boudicca like 80 times in this post sorry ). because of this ashley was taught how to blend in or stand out or play whatever part necessary for the place she’s staying. generally this means changing hair/makeup/clothes but her moms have also procured different identities or IDs that would be appropriate for the setting ( generally the first name is always ashley since she isn’t a target herself ). give her 10 minutes, a full closet, and a makuep palette and ashley can turn herself into someone completely different. she’s a chameleon!

what this means for the main series is that ashley really WAS keeping tabs on the glendower situation since it involved people messing with the ley line, as well as the shit that surrounds niall lynch. she’s 1000% knew about dreamers before coming to henrietta, has definitely investigated the barns and documented some of the dreams ( niall’s and ronan’s ), as well as disguising herself to fit in at some of kavinksy’s substances parties to get a closer look at his dreamed cars and pills and posse. she passes along all of her information to her moms, who in turn pass it along to boudicca, and from there it gets up to mór o córra

in terms of dreamer trilogy, obviously ashley’s gonna be linked to anything w/ boudicca, which includes hanging out at fairy markets, trying to help w/ recruiting/keeping tabs on jordan and hennessy, as well as having some knowledge about sweetmetals ( however the fuck those are spelled <3 i listened to the audiobook i don’t know shit <3 )

in terms of what she Wants... .idk ashley feels very much like someone who’s been used for other people’s ambitions for so long that she doesn’t have any concrete ones of her own? i think she’d be interested in going to college, but she’s not even sure what she’d want to study, or where she’d want to go, though i’m sure bc of boudicca she’d be able to go wherever she wants

idk i just think she’s neat <3 i want to tie her in w/ some supernatural plotline, maybe tying into some ancient legends since she knew about welsh kings which insinuates she’s done some research but we’ll see....