Asher Richards

"You... love me right... not them? Oh god, please say you love me...!!"

Asher Richards, often referred to as Ash, or Ashy in some cases, is a previous experiment of the SSS, having a deep hatred for them, and thus appears as an antagonist. He's often called Experiment 349: The Grim Reaper Hybrid by the SSS.

Appearance
Asher is a young man with short black hair and narrow, black eyes. His hair is supposed to be not voluminous and short near the back of his neck. In a few of his flashbacks, he wears a red jersey jacket that has white stripes on its sleeves over a black v-neck shirt and light brown pants.

Asher currently wears a black pullover hoodie with black jeans that have rips by the knees, and black and white running shoes. Back in middle school, he normally wore a common black gakuran uniform with a white shirt underneath.

Asher appears to have a knife cut on his left eyebrow, a chemical burn on his right forearm, various stab and bullet wounds on his back, along with a few knife cuts.

Personality
Asher appears to be one of the most violent characters in the series. Similar to Oliver, he's untrusting and sometimes careless - this is often shown when he comes to battles not expecting to have to fight anyone. Despite being rather smart he never uses his intelligence during battles or on rampages, which is often pointed out by one of his former best friends, that are also apart of his gang, referred to as "The BloodBanners." However unlike his older brother, Asher appears to trust people more easily than Oliver, and will either become their friend, gang leader, or comrade without hesitation. That being said due to his advantage in both strength and intelligence, he usually doubts that he'd ever lose a battle. Because of that, Bubbly usually refers to him as "Arrogant." One may think he is, but he truthfully just wants to prove to his older brother that he isn't in need of assistance during battles, rampages, or other things along those lines. Asher has once mentioned that just because he is quick to trust someone, does not mean that he won't give them the same treatment as everyone else. That being his rather cold and distant behavior when first getting to know him. There were only four people who were easily able to break through these walls of his, that being Elizabeth, Nico, Noelle, and Wyyat. Four people he has stated that he'd give his life for if need be. But even then, he can be cold towards them at times, doing things such as insulting them, ignoring them, and countless other things. (However, he has never done this to Elizabeth and does not plan on doing so whatsoever.) Asher understands that his cruel behavior towards his older brother affects him, and he even feels bad for it. But it's something that he personally admits to have to work on. This is also one of his ways of showing he truly cares for Oliver, as well as others.

That being said, Asher has an unusual way of showing his love. Unlike giving compliments, hugs, gifts, or other thing such as that, he insults, ignores, and does countless other things. He's admitted to not knowing how to love, or what it is - despite his parents, best friends, and sibling loving him to death. However, he acts differently towards Elizabeth. Perhaps this is because he is afraid to offend or hurt her. Instead of his usual insults and ignorance he gives her unusual compliments such as "You smell nice.. you always smell the same... I love it.." or "Your skin is so soft.. I never want to stop touching it.." and various other things. Asher also seems to adore and admire Elizabeth. He does strange things like randomly commenting on how much he loves and adores her, thinks she's beautiful, or physical things such at petting her head, rubbing circles on her nose or even "booping" it with his finger. As stated, Asher does not know how to love, nor does he understand how strange his actions may potentially be. He's just afraid of her abandoning or hating him. He admits to being afraid of loving Elizabeth, and losing her, or making her hate him because of his rather vengeful and gruesome ways. Because of this, he may as well have panic attacks about falling in love with her, and perhaps due to the fact that he's clueless about love itself. His first reaction to realizing he loved her, was rather unpleasant for him, to say the least. He freaked out, and even punched the concrete in the alleyway various times until his nearly broke his hand. His gang had been there trying to calm him down until he dropped a smoke bomb, and disappeared without a trace for about a week. Asher wasn't thinking about how worried his gang may be, and when he had he called himself "Selfish" and sobbed on a random rooftop. Depending on his mood, Asher sometimes tries to do things for his friends and older sibling, but it may go wrong, which usually makes him a bit upset that his attempts at showing affection failed. And he truthfully despises failure, and is even afraid of it.

Asher reacts to foes pleading for their life in a rather sadistic and sociopathic manner. His usual reply to their behavior is a simple smirk, before he whips out his signature switchblade and takes another life. However when taking the lives of parents, he usually feels horrible about doing so, because he knows what it's like to live without loving parents. He mostly avoids doing so unless he's on a mission of vengeance or does so on mistake. That being said, Asher is very vengeful. Very. This was proven when his parent's lives were taken in front of his eyes. He spent years training just to go find those whom wronged him and take their lives.

Backstory
Asher tried to ignore Oliver, but always felt horrible for doing so after, and would always apologize in his own way, without actually saying it, but unluckily Oliver did not catch his drift, which would usually make Ash upset. He never spent much time with his parents either, he was either sleeping the day away or staying up all night and playing games. When his parents were murdered by a mafia, he was mortified. Unlike Oliver, he immediately went on a journey to find the mafia, and didn't hesitate, nor care about how bad he'd feel after his first kill. He hunted them down, and took them out, one by one. He refused to stop, until every last one of them were gone, and dead. All of the physical pain he felt may have been overwhelming, but he pushed through. He had traumatized himself when torturing the last person who had killed his parents, and would often draw to try and move his thoughts elsewhere. Asher was even more mortified when the other ravenette was no where to be found. He was slowly giving up, but had decided to try one last thing. And that was to viciously murder someone.

He ended up being in even more emotional pain after, and would NEVER forget the pain he'd felt when he couldn't find Oliver. Sadly, the SSS was not dumb. They'd known that Oliver had a sibling, so they went and captured Ash. Unlike Oliver, Asher managed to escape. He had no idea that Oliver was there, nor Elizabeth. He'd met her when she was doing a mission. Moreover, saw her. He'd never actually approached her, because he had no idea what was going on, but was pissed to soon find out that she was taking down the guys that he had been there to take down himself. Of course, he quickly shook off the anger. After all, it wasn't her fault. And besides that, Liz looked kind of scary. He's currently on a mission somewhere around the SSS base, taking down a large group of people, almost big enough to have an organization of terrorists. That's another reason why his theme song Is "Paint It Black," Because he's a pretty negative person most of the time, and is very vengeful. A few months ago, he had also poured chemicals on his wrist, and lit it on fire. It doesn't look as bad as he had expected, it didn't turn brown or anything. He only did it due to stress.

Vampire Abilities
Super Strength: Vampires possess strength that is greater than humans. Young vampires experience a formidable increase in physical strength; able to lift heavy objects and overpower grown humans. Older vampires, however, can overpower their own makers and other creatures.

Fangs: Vampires possess a set of retractable fangs. Their teeth are superhumanly strong and can rip open a human's neck and leave huge bite marks on the corpse of the victim it has fed on.

Super Speed: Vampires can move at greater speeds than humans. It is possible that a vampire's speed, like their strength, increase with age.

Super Agility: Vampires possess amazing agility. They can climb up walls and jump off buildings without hurting themselves. Vampires also have greater reflexes than humans.

Super Senses: Vampires have extremely keen senses that are superior to those of humans. They can see in the dark, hear a human's heart beat, and possess enhanced sense of smell. A vampire can track a human's blood over long distances.

Immortality: Vampires can potentially live forever. They can't grow old and don't acquire conventional diseases that affect humans.

Invulnerability: Vampires can not be killed by conventional methods, such as stab wounds or gunshots. Vampires have an extreme resilience to pain.

Regeneration: As long as they have enough human blood, vampires can quickly heal any wound that does not include amputation.

Super Stamina: Despite their hunger, vampires don't tire easily.

Stealth: Vampires are often shown sneaking up on their victims- even experienced vampire hunters- without making a sound.

Oliver Richards
Asher knows Oliver is alive, but he needs to get to the SSS first to get his brother back; meaning, he'd either have to take everyone down who gets in his way, or just sneak in and grab him. But he'd prefer more bloodshed.

Elizabeth (Currently)
They don't know one another very well, but Asher has seen Elizabeth around a few times. He plans on confronting her the next time that he sees her though.

Suzui Kiyomi Sora
Since Asher left them at the SSS, and honestly forgot where the SSS was, they were pretty pissed at him. But Suzui managed to forgive him after meeting Oliver.

Gregory Mikenzo
Greg only wants to get him and Suzui out of the SSS to fight Asher, though it wouldn't turn out so well for him, since he's nowhere near Asher's level of strength.

Trivia

 * He secretly feels bad if he kills someone's family.
 * He hates having to torture people; physically, mentally, or emotionally.
 * He will literally begin to stitch through his skin if stressed out.
 * He's in a secret alliance.
 * Similar to Oliver, Asher dislikes himself. But shows it in a different way.
 * He's admitted to rarely looking in the mirror, and just barely knowing what he looks like.
 * Asher, for some unknown reason, hates grandparents.
 * It's later revealed that it's because he believes grandparents think that they know everything and anything because they're older.
 * His eye color is naturally black, for some reason he was bullied in grammar school because of it.
 * Asher was taken to the SSS months after Oliver, but unlike him he'd made a successful escape.
 * Suzui and Asher met during his mission of vengeance for his deceased parents.
 * The first person he talks about his past to is surprisingly Bubbly.
 * Asher doesn't really like octopuses, but Bubbly is an exception.
 * His gang isn't exactly a bad one, moreover a group of vigilantes who sometimes do bad things
 * Asher later admits that he, Elizabeth, and Oliver would make a great trio.
 * Unlike Oliver, Asher can't slow dance.
 * But, if you give him a set of drums he can play the hell out of it.
 * He can also play guitar, and sometime later, sings the song "Paint It Black" the cover by Hidden Citizens.
 * Paint it black is also one of his theme songs.

Quotes

 * "You're giving me a headache."
 * "Will you go away?!"
 * "Oh look, it's little miss brat."
 * "I'm so tired... [...] Why are you so loud? [...] I'm gonna sew your mouth closed if you don't be quiet!"
 * "Blah, blah, blah."
 * "Get out of my face."
 * (To Elizabeth) "I need you."
 * "You think you've beat me, huh? You think you've won this little game right?! You're wrong. This game has only just begun. [...] Because first I'm going to kill you, and then I'm going to find them and kill them too!"
 * "Everything has an end. Everyone sees something before they end. I'll be the last thing you see."
 * (To Elizabeth) "I love you, I love you, I love you so much. I'm going crazy..."
 * (To Elizabeth) "I can't think of anything but you. My head is full of you. My heart is full of you."