#ud ashley

[mountainashes]

Ashley Brown the character ever.

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[issuesabounded]

Favorite Until Dawn wlw ships *•*•*

Emily/Sam

•the power couple. Gets shit done efficiently and effortlessly.

•definitely look at eachother when someone says something stupid

•Emily gets into altercations a lot with her fiery attitude and Sam usually has to calm her down/hold her back.

•Emily supports Sam from the sidelines as she rock climbs and does her other sportly activities. She is not messing up her manicure

•Sam is very careful with how she spends money so Emily always sneakily buys things she saw Sam look at

•Not a very PDA couple. Very subtle with their affections in public

•Sam gets distracted pretty easily and Emily has to rope her back in

Ashley/Jessica

•Sass apocalypse

•holds hands and lean on eachother without a care

•Jessica does Ashley’s makeup when she lets her

•Jessica loves to bring Ashley to parties and stuff and Ashley ends up enjoying it for a little bit before dragging Jess back to a more comfortable hangout spot

•Ashley loves to braid Jessica’s hair for her

•they support eachother always and almost never fight

Jessica/Sam

•blonde bombshell meets blonde bombshell

•Cheerleader/Jock kind of relationship

•loves to hold hands in public and get their nails done matching

•Jessica definitely is the girlfriend to say excuse me she asked for no pickles for Sam since Sam would rather just eat it instead of speaking up

•Sam is an early riser and Jess would rather sleep until noon

Emily/Jessica

•bicker a lot but playfully

•both are competitive and love to show off. Tries to outdo the other on gift giving

•fashionistas. The kind of couple to make jaws drops when they step out together

•neither of them really care for driving and would rather Uber places

•Not very big on PDA but attached at the hip

[ashleyy-brown]

The Four Daughters of Darkness

ASHLEY

The first thing Ashley notices is that she feels nothing. It all feels numb and she can’t think or feel. The helicopter is silent and she can’t help but notice there are only three people in it. All she does is stare at the ground, unable to move, unable to feel. 

She almost had hope that maybe some of the others had somehow made it out, but that fantasy was long gone now.

When they get to the police station, there are a few parents waiting anxiously. Ashley knows that they are waiting for people who are dead and who are never coming back home. Still, she feels nothing. 

She feels nothing when Mike’s dad comes in demanding to see his son, only for him to get taken into a private room.

She feels nothing when Jess is ushered into the station covered in so much blood and for the first time that night, Ashley watches as Emily Davis cries. 

She feels a pang of something when Mrs Hartley runs in and speaks to an officer, begging to see her son. Still, all she can do is stare when she turns to face her, horror written on the mother's face. 

And suddenly, watching Chris’ mum collapse onto the floor, unable to hold herself up as she cries, Ashley feels everything.

It’s all too real and she suddenly can’t stop crying. She barely registers that someone is hugging her tightly because she can’t see anything. Still, Sam’s arms hold her tightly.

On the way home, Ashley feels nothing and everything and it's all so confusing and she still can’t stop crying. Her mum says nothing, unable to look at her broken daughter, knowing that these scars will never fade. 

Sam comes over a lot, although most of the time they don’t talk. They just heal, together, slowly. 

The funerals are horrible - all closed casket of course. Some didn’t even have bodies to bring home. 

Everything that Ashley used to once love is ruined, scarred by the night she just wishes she could forget. 

She tries to read a novel she was halfway through before she left - some period piece. But then one of the characters gets decapitated and she throws up.

She doesn’t read for a long time after that.

Ashley may have survived - but her soul, her heart, was still on that mountain. And she has a horrible feeling it is never coming back. 

SAM 

To put it simply, Sam is angry. So fucking angry.

Angry at Josh, for causing this whole horrible, nightmarish weekend to happen.

Angry at Mike, for sacrificing his life to save hers.

Hell, she’s even pissed off at Ashley and Emily, because how come they are here when Hannah and Beth aren’t? 

But as soon as she looks at her only two surviving friends, and how broken they are, her anger at them immediately disappears. Because how could she be angry at two girls who look so lost, who have lost just as much as she has?

Because really, she isn’t angry at any of them. She’s only angry at herself. 

Because maybe if she had paid more attention to Josh when he needed it he would have come to her for help instead of inviting everyone here. 

And if she hadn’t moved, then Mike would still be here, in the helicopter with them. 

Sam gets so frustrated during her interview because of course, no one believes her. She is so sick of the pitiful glances and sad smiles they give her as Sam tries to explain what killed all her friends. 

“Poor girl.” she overhears them say. “She’s been through so much, of course she’s making things up. It’s a coping thing.” 

She wants to scream.

Sam’s breath catches in her throat as she watches Jessica enter the room, barely conscious, barely alive, almost not believing what she is seeing.  

And she holds Ashley so tight when she finally breaks down, as if she could protect her from everything that she’s seen

“It’s okay. We’re safe now.” 

The whole night, Sam has felt like the leader. It feels as though she's aged ten years in one night. 

But when Sam’s parents run in, looking for their daughter, Sam feels like a child again. And it’s Sam’s turn to cry because it’s really over and she can go home. 

Home.

And she stays at home for weeks after that, never wanting to leave again. 

But Sam tries to celebrate her small victories. Having a shower. Cooking herself a meal. Walking to the shop on the corner shop by herself. Going to the gym again. 

Little by little, she tries to go back to the closest thing to normal that she can. 

She starts to visit Ashley a lot, because at least she understands. They have both looked death in the eye, both watched the life drain from someone. They’ve both lost their best friend and the one they love now. 

All they have now is each other. 

JESSICA

Jessica is cold, and hurt, and so so confused. 

She has no idea what’s happening when a helicopter comes and picks her up from where she’s barely standing.

But she doesn't want to sit down because it's snowing and she's only in her underwear and she's so cold.

She doesn’t say anything the whole ride back, only one thing keeps repeating in her head.

Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike.

She still remembers his broken screams as he chased after her, how he chased after her without a second thought.

She’s so tired she doesn’t even notice that there are only three people at the police station instead of 8.

They ask her questions at the station, things she can’t understand.

“Where is he? Did he make it?”

The glances the police give each other tell her everything she needs to know.

And suddenly she can't breathe or see anything.

She feels herself getting dragged out of the room before she passes out completely.

When she wakes back up, she’s in a hospital, with drips coming out of her arms. 

And she sees at the end of her bed her dad holding her mom who is silently crying and… Emily?

She tries to speak but the only sound that comes out is a hoarse cough.

And the sudden feeling of Emily Davis actually giving her a hug is the first time that Jess allows herself to feel safe.

The first thing Jess does when she gets home is cry. Just full, guttural sobs that hurt so much because so much of her is broken.

Because she’s only just looked at herself in the mirror and all she can see is scars

And suddenly her future, her dreams are crumbling in front of her.

It takes her almost a year to uncover her mirrors again.

Jess never fully learns to love, or hell, even like her body again, but in the end she feels a sense of pride surrounding it.

It shows her that she survived, and if she can survive that, then she is fairly sure she could survive anything.

EMILY

Emily refuses to believe what she has just witnessed.

She refuses to believe that Ashley really saw Chris die, because how could that stupid, sweet oaf die right in front of her? 

She refuses to believe that Mike, who pointed a gun right at her head only hours before, was left in that pile of ash that was once that haunted lodge.

How dare he die before she got to slap his stupid, perfect little face for trying to kill her? 

She, stupidly, had hope that if anyone would have gotten out, it would be Matt.

Matt, who died somewhere in those horrifying caves, died trying to save her.

Stupid, brave Matt. A debt that she will never be able to repay. 

Jessica being alive, however, was something she had not even let herself consider. 

Mike was so certain that she was dead and Emily hadn’t even given herself a chance to mourn her best friend before she saw being dragged into the station, barely moving. 

Watching her in the hospital, with so many tubes coming out of her body, Emily isn’t even sure why she was so mad at Jess to begin with.

How could she have let something as stupid as boys get in between their friendship?

Emily knew more than ever before that life was too short and cruel to hold a grudge. Not with Jess. 

The first thing Emily does when she gets home is burn her suitcase. She wants no reminders of the hell she went through. 

The clothes she was once so proud to own and flaunt are a pile of ash in her backyard. She can’t bring herself to give a single fuck. 

She kicks some dirt in the disintegrated pile before she thinks of Mike, who faced a similar fate. 

She’s not sure if she wants to kick it even more or somehow put it all back together. 

She blocks Ashley on almost everything she can think of. She is quite happy if she never has to see her face ever again.

It takes Sam gently explaining how Ashley is healing before Emily lets herself forgive her. She was just a girl as well, after all.

No time for grudges. Not with the ones who suddenly understand her more than anyone. 

No one expects Emily to be the one to reach out to all of them at the same time, least of all her. 

They were in this together, whether they liked it or not. The four daughters of darkness. 

[ollierachnid]

UNTIL DAWN characters but as posts I have saved

[lionheart-giddings]

continuing to push my muscular sam agenda

[samgiddings]

ashley snaps ✂️

[until-dong]

Didn’t have the chance to get through much more of the game, but I have been thinking about character relations/dynamics and how the group is all connected to each other.

I think previously I just assumed they were all kids of wealthy families, and I’m sure that’s a completely fair assumption to make, but on this playthrough I’ve been considering the likelihood that Sam and Chris (and possibly Ashley?) are not in the same social class as the rest of the group. All I have is anecdotal evidence, since the game doesn’t give anything concrete, but it’s been fun to think about regardless.

We do know Jess, Matt, Josh, and Emily are well off for sure, due to various dialogues (Emily and Matt shop on rodeo drive, Matt has a designer letterman jacket, Jess has broken several phones in the last year that her family replaces, and Josh’s family owns a fucking mountain lol). Icr any specific dialogue for Mike that indicates one way or another, but considering the relationships he has with the rest of the group, I’d put him firmly in the upper class (though I’d be happy to hear any arguments otherwise).

Sam’s lowest relationships at the beginning of the game are with Jess and Mike, who are the main perpetrators behind the prank on Hannah, her best friend. But her relationship with everyone else is on the same level, and it’s not super high. So it feels safe to say Sam’s relationship to the group was mainly through Hannah, and without Hannah, it’s possible or probable that Sam didn’t keep in close touch with any of them. She does say in the credits that she thought her and Josh were close, after the twins died, but this isn’t reflected in the relationship meter, which could mean that they mainly talked about the twins when they did talk, and didn’t really connect beyond their relationship with Hannah.

She also arrives at the mountain by bus, which may not be indicative of anything—I certainly wouldn’t want to try driving up a mountain—but can be read as Sam requiring cheaper means to get to Blackwood than the others.

So, considering Sam’s in with the group is through Hannah, and she doesn’t buddy up with anyone once they’re all together, choosing to spend time by herself, it could indicate that she feels like an outsider to the group. If her use of public transport is read as being in a lower social class, that could certainly make the divide she feels between herself and the rest of the group stronger. That could account for the reason she’s not pushier about the prank in the prologue, too (which is something I’ve always wondered about). Maybe she doesn’t feel it’s her place, since she’s not really “one of them,” and it could be why she decides to try and find Hannah rather than stop them directly.

In the remake, it seems like Chris arrives at Blackwood in a junky truck (though the truck could very well belong to someone else in the group, my immediate assumption was Chris, since the other car is Emily’s, and it seems that Matt and Emily may have arrived together, but we have no indication on how Jess, Mike, Ashley, or even Josh arrived—we do know Chris did drive though, since he has printed out directions from Josh on how to reach Blackwood, and if he drove, the car has to be somewhere, unless he got a lift from a family member). The state of the truck says a lot on its own, but I also want to consider the conversation Chris has with Sam on the lift (the infamous butterfly effect conversation).

I’m not an expert on wealthy people by any means, I’m not even middle class lol, but I do know wealthy people tend to stick together. So the fact that Chris points out that if not for a seat swap, him and Josh would probably not be friends, despite being in the same class when so young, I think it’s possible to read this as Chris being in a different social class than Josh where they otherwise would not run together or be encouraged to be friendly with each other.

Ashley I have even less evidence for to be honest, but it’s fun to speculate. Her strongest relationships are with Chris and, surprisingly, Matt. In the same way that Sam was probably brought into the group via Hannah, I can see Ashley being brought into the group either through Chris’ crush on her as a fellow classmate, and Josh trying to encourage that—or through Matt. Matt and Ashley are both kind of pushovers, so I can see why they’re friends. And her being brought in by Matt has a higher likelihood in my eyes, considering how into the prank she is. It also may be in-part why Chris is so hesitant to make a move with her. It could also be why Josh chooses to set the traps up the way he does, where she has no agency or choice whatsoever, and hands it all over to Chris.

I have no idea what the fandom consensus or headcanons are on these characters anymore, but I’ve been thinking about these three a lot, and I like imagining how this would make the dynamic of their group, and also their individual characters, more complex.

I’d love to hear anyone else’s thoughts on this! :)

[chgeeto]

“she wants to stay by his side, and he needs her by his side.”

- Pulling the Trigger

this piece is inspired by my friends fic in which chris is the one bitten and ash points a gun at him …. SO INSANE OVER THIS CONCEPT!!!!!!! and sam comforting chris ??? Ohhh be still my sharp shooter heart. also i need more fucked ashley!!! but not villainised ashley just . ash whos horrified and makes bad decisions THATS MY WIFE

[jackienautism]

hashtag theres a freaking ghost after us

[blacknwhitebutterfly]

“chris and ashley were the most innocent but they got targeted by most of josh’s revenge!” hey so no! the whole point of chris and ashley’s part of the “prank/revenge” was to get them together, josh mentions (twice i think) that ash and chris just need a little push to spark their relationship. he obviously does it to them because they played a small role in the prank and josh obviously blames the group as a collective for his sisters deaths, but the point of josh’s antics on them could’ve also been for the plot of his recording, to have the sparked romance in the height of an attack.

[midnightdemonhunter]

don't lose ur head!

[mountainashes]

Gaming

[untildawntrashcan]

Do you think Josh was ever worried that Ashley or Chris was gonna accidentally set fire to the cabin by how wildly that candle gets swung around as they are walking through the house after the séance? I walked into I don't know how many bookshelves and couches trying to steer Chris and Ashley and look for things. I mean you can see the dust hanging in the air.

Actually, it brings the question. The Washingtons are rich. They could afford to hire staff to set the place up for them. Even if Josh was like "nah, I got it", you would think they would at least send someone out to make sure that it was at least stay ready.

[ashleyy-brown]

What if Until Dawn was adapted into a tv show instead of a movie?

(for better quality on mobile, turn phone sideways)

(cast below)

Lizze Broadway as Sam Giddings

Anthony Keyvan as Josh Washington

Violet Brinson as Ashley Brown

Fred Hechinger as Chris Hartley

Gavin Leatherwood as Mike Munroe

Madison Iseman as Jessica Riley

Devyn Nekoda as Emily Davis

Mason Gooding as Matt Taylor

Courtney Eaton as Hannah and Beth Washington

[ollierachnid]

[covered in blood] dont worry sam is in her 4 hour bath

[fudgeroach]

redraw of a dumb sketch i found while lookin thru some old art fghjk in honour of @jamietiergan playing thru danganronpa for the first time o7