There's a popular theory in the Coffin fandom that Ashley Graves has Borderline Personality Disorder. As someone who does not have BPD myself but has known people who do very intimately, I have some mixed feelings on this diagnosis.
Supporting this theory, Ashley is certainly impulsive, fears abandonment, has low self-worth, and an unstable sense of self. Those are all certainly signs of Boderline.
However, my doubts come in with some of the other criteria.
First off, Ashley arguably does not go through idealization/devaluation. Her opinion of anyone who isn't Andrew is permanently one of devaluation, while her opinion of Andrew is pretty consistently idealization - though even there, it's not really the same as common with BPD. Ashley isn't afraid to criticize Andrew. She knows his flaws, she just doesn't seem to care. People with BPD tend to see those in idealization as literally flawless, and they also switch between the two extremes, seeing the same person as flawless one day and worthless the next. Ashley, meanwhile, seems pretty consistent.
Similarly, people with Borderline tend to have trouble maintaining any relationship. They meet someone new, they idealize them, they get very close very fast, then they go into devaluation and push others away. If this alone isn't enough to destroy the relationship, the fear of abandonment means that they very often "preemptively" leave others.
This doesn't seem to apply to Ashley. Again, she has never been shown to latch onto new people. She seems pretty fixated on Andrew and doesn't seem to care about any other appealing opportunities. She also has never tried to "leave" Andrew, nor has she threatened to do so.
Then finally there is suicidal ideation, and maybe I'm forgetting about something, but Ashley has never struck me as particularly suicidal. If anything, Andrew seems the more suicidal of the pair, with how he romanticizes the thought of them committing double suicide.
I'm curious as to what others with know on the subject have to say, but personally I have skepticism on the idea.
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Until Dawn- Characters
One of the neat things about UD,is the stats page. You start with Beth in the tutorial,and get to see different ones as you change characters. You never see Hannah's, and the stats change as you make choices.
For instance, I'd have to replay to be sure, but I'm pretty sure Mikes honesty goes down if he's nice to Jessica should they have a conversation about her insecurities. And Mike has the lowest honesty stat in the game.
I'm going to try to use them to figure out group dynamic. Keep in mind Beths relationship stats were before the incident, and current game peoples stats with eachother seem to have gone down. That or Beth was liked and well liked.
So start with Beth. Her highest non family relationships are with Sam , Chris,and Jessica. She seems to view everyone else on about the same level from what I can tell by the bars.
Her highest stats are honesty and charity, followed by brave and curious. Shes not very funny or romantic.
Lets do Ashley Next. Her highest stat is with Chris, her crush. Followed by Sam, Josh and Matt, all about even. Emily and Jess are not too much lower, and Mike is lowest.
Her highest character trait is curious, followed by honesty, and a bit lower charitable. Funny, brave and romantic are all the same.
Chris starts with high stats in Ashley and Josh. I think his Ashley stat is a little higher. Then its Sam, followed by Emily or Mike. Emily might be a little higher, its hard to tell exact. Low respect for Matt and Jess.
He starts with even amount in charity and funny, and possibly curious. His honesty is notably lower then the first two, and then its a bit of a drop for romantic, and then brave.
Emily likes Matt and Mike the same. Following that Ashley, Chris, Josh, and Sam appear to be the same. Maybe Sam is a little higher? Maybe? Jess is the lowest now, but the previous year it would have been different. That fight must have been really, really bad.
She is equally funny and brave, and possibly curious. Her honesty and romantic appear to be more or less the same. Her lowest noticeable one is charitable. I think its also the lowest starting base stat in the game.
Jessica likes Mike a bit more then Matt. Her next highest seems to be Josh (which is funny), followed by Ashley and then I think Sam. Chris would be her lowest if not for her fight with Emily.
Jess's honest, funny, and romantic seem to be about evenish. Then she goes Brave, curious, and like Emily's low Charity. Though hers is still higher.
Josh's highest relationship stat is with Chris, his bestie. He seems to Like, Ashley,Sam,and Jess more or less the same, and noticeably likes Emily a bit less then Jess. He might like Emily and Mike about the same, and likes Matt the least.
His highest base stat is funny, followed by charitable and curious at about the same. Then honesty, with brave and romantic at the lowest.
Now Matt likes Emily and Jessica the same as a base stat. He then seems to like Ashley and Sam the same, and the three guys about the same, lower then the girls.
This may be in part to his low funny stat.
Matt has even (from what I can tell) stats in Honest, romantic, charitable, and curious. His low stats are brave and funny.
Mike likes Jessica a little more then Emily. Next are Chris, Josh, and Sam, at about Even. He likes Matt and Ashley about the same, which is not much.
His highest base stat is romantic, followed by funny and brave tied. He might be a little more charitable then curious but their about the same, and as noted he has the lowest honesty.
Sam has about even stats with everyone (which kind of makes sense as the twins were probably high). She likes Jess and Mike the least, and possibly Jess a little more then Mike.
Sams bravery and charity are tied, and she has noticeably the highest brave stat in the game. Following that is honesty, then jump down to curious, with funny and romantic at lowest.
So what can we guess about Hannah?
Well her feelings towards Mike and Sam are obvious, as they are the last people she killed. She probably did like Chris, and possibly Ashley as she did keep her head (like Beth's)
I'm going to assume she had a half decent relationship with Matt, as he seems to get along with the girls well.
She probably liked Emily the least, and maybe Jess a little More (as Beth seems to have liked her)
Chris and Josh don't seem to like Matt that much.
Ashley and Mike don't seem to care for eachother much, which may be Hannah related.
Chris and Jess don't get along too well.
I would probably put Hannahs stats at highest for curious then romantic. Good, honesty and charity but lower than her siblings by a bit. She's a little funnier than Beth, and bravery a little higher than Josh. Which puts her at the most curious and romantic of her siblings.
Hmm, I could probably lean into Hannah having high Honesty and/ or Charity based on one of the Doctor Hill sessions… or thats Josh remembering Beth's Values and trying to apply them in as he carries out the prank. They were her highest after all. Maybe Hannah's hisghest and lowest could be determenied by Josh's answer to the question. Personally, I lean to Hannah having higher honesty over charity, as she certainly didn't make a secret of her intrests in Mike if it got to the point of Jess pulling the prank in the name of "looking out for Em". And it works well with Sam having high Charity. The two girls Beth cares most about have high values in traits she admires. It also tracks with Jessica's honesty trait.
Beth is the bravest and least funny, and Josh is the funniest but least brave of the Washingtons.
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What was your inspiration for Dollhouse and Collateral? How did you come up with those ideas 🤯🤩
Ashley’s Random thoughts…
this is a great question and probably one that i do not have a short answer for, but i will try my best to be concise lol.
i'll start with Collateral! i saw yoongi's outfit in That That and i joked about him being a mafia boss, and then enough people (like 6 bc i cave quickly to peer pressure) on twitter and tumblr were into the idea, so i decided to make a fic. i honestly have never really read mafia fics, so i just kinda started winging it (i've read a few chapters here and there since, but haven't had as much as i would like to dedicate to anything.)
as for Dollhouse! i created Dollhouse and The Hooksborough Demon at the same time, and they were originally just one story, so the inspiration for Dollhouse starts with THD. and since that is way more interesting, i'll explain it even tho you never asked! lmao. this explanation will be kinda lengthy...
back when i was writing boy blue, i was reading a fic (that seems to have disappeared, sadly) called daylight saving (or daylight saving time?) where two people would meet in their dreams and have to fight monsters and if one was injured or died, they were both similarly injured or died in the waking world, and the two of them would have a sort of physical bleeding over experience after a while where they would feel what the other feels, because they were connected in some special way.
and it was tense and sad and incredible and i really liked the idea of characters meeting in their dreams and having certain aspects of the waking and dreaming worlds affect each other. and i actually had pretty intense dreams/nightmares at the time that became most of the plot of The Hooksborough Demon. (there are also some things that i borrowed from a book called house of leaves, where there's a mysterious space that shifts around and grows/shrinks on its own, and if you leave something behind it disappears.)
(HBD side note: i also get night terrors & sleep paralysis, and as a kid i would "wake up" in my room and see an overwhelming black mist hovering over me, and at the time i couldn't differentiate it from reality and genuinely thought my room was super haunted. i'm still not 100% convinced it wasn't lmao. but i couldn't resist including that in the story, too.)
soooooo, at the same time, i also really wanted to do something with the mental bleeding over, specifically with smut, and i felt like i couldn't also fit that into THD (since it's a found footage/"ghost" story, i wanted that one to be more scary than smutty) so then i decided to take a sci-fi approach and create an entire universe solely around the thought of 2 men mentally and physically experiencing the same thing (which i think finally happens in chapter 10 lmao.)
so i had to create dollhouse. there's a film called the possessor by brandon cronenberg where, basically, the lead is a hired assassin who enters bodies the way hoseok does. i did my best to let similarities mostly end after the first chapter, but the basic vibe for the story itself was influenced by that film.
i think it just clicked one night while i was laying in bed fretting over how to make my one grand idea split up into two more manageable stories. i liked the idea of having a cis character body swap with a trans character, and then the cis character has an identity crisis. i was originally going to focus more on jungkook and less on yoongi & namjoon but i let all of that carry me away when i discovered how fun it was to write.
this.....isn't concise at all. i feel like i just babbled a lot about nothing much, but long story short: i have an overactive imagination and i like to pick inspiration from stories that really resonate with me. it is my hope that my work is always way more different than that which inspires me, but i do it to silently pay homage too.
sorry for writing a drabble-length answer to your question lolol.
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