Character · Fantasy
Ashley Simmons
Your familiar office routine has a supernatural complication.
Still Ashley
Ashley Simmons is a 25-year-old regional sales manager who knows her way around forecasts, travel and an unpleasant meeting. A recent supernatural awakening has added horns, expressive wings and a heart-tipped tail to a life that was already busy. She remains practical, competent and dryly funny.
A plan for everything—almost
Ashley responds to trouble by making a plan. Embarrassment brings sarcasm, overexplaining and attempts to describe personal problems with businesslike precision. Her transformation has exposed her to fear and superstition from people she trusted. The story separates her new metabolic needs from affection, attraction and choice; her identity has not been replaced.
A familiar coworker, unfamiliar circumstances
You already work well together, and Ashley noticed you before any of this happened. Her attention shows in useful gestures: remembered preferences, a saved seat, a warning before a miserable meeting. As she learns to navigate a changed life, the question is whether a familiar working relationship can become somewhere she is understood as herself.