Ashton

Character

Ashton A'kara Prium is a GateKeeper dreamer in the City of Underlight. She is a member of the Scholars of Eternity and she is the widow of the famous Sylas Prium. She is a dreamer of few words (for now) and there are few people that she likes or trusts. She holds very close a small handful of dreamers to whom she feels she can confide in. It takes her a good deal of time to warm up to someone. She is quiet, rarely speaking unless she is spoken to. Her fears are speaking out of turn, and being punished for it.

Shard History

Emily Ashton A'kara was born to a modest fisherman's family in a village surrounded by steep, tree-filled mountains and a constant layer of fog. Before she was born, her brother Ashton - who had been the beloved and darling son of the family - perished in a violent storm on the seas that had taken him by surprise. He had taken his beloved out on the seas in the family fishing boat to ask for her hand in marriage, shortly before the storm blew in and capsized the boat. His beloved fiancee had, to everyone's surprise, lived to tell the tale of his final moments before perishing forever in the unforgiving seas.

Ashton's mother had never gotten over her son's death and made the impractical choice of having another child to replace the one that she missed so dearly. To her disgust and dismay, she gave birth to a baby girl, who she named Emily Ashton. She called her Ashton, to remind everyone of the son that she had lost. The birth had been a difficult one, and given her age, was urged to never have children again. Ashton's mother blamed this calamity on her only surviving child and took it out on her daily. At one point, Ashton's mother slashed her throat, in a mentally-unbalanced attempt to kill her, for reasons unknown. Ashton has suffered daily attempts of emotional and physical abuse at the hands of her mother, all the while behind her father's back who spends all of his time buried in his fishing and boats.

Her mother's frequent demands and abuse interrupted Ashton's sleeping schedule, prohibiting her from finding the peaceful, quiet time where she found her City of Dreams. At this time, Ashton's mother is imprisoned in a mental facility undergoing treatment after having attempted to slit her daughter's throat. Ashton now has uninterrupted sleep, although her dreams in the past have been as emotional and turbulent as her waking life.

Relationships

Ashton was married to Sylas Prium until his death attempting to repair Augh Essul's tools in the Pedantical Laboratory in the Lost Caves.

She has no family which to speak of, but considers Anyasha, Ash, and Jaden the closest thing to family she has.