| NOTE: This is only for the original Alexia Ashford from Resident Evil: Code Veronica and Code Veronica X, not her version in the spin-off named The Darkside Chronicles, who is voted as Pure Evil for lacking the original Alexia's redeeming factor. |
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| “ | You want it? YOU ARE NOT WORTHY OF ITS POWER!!! | „ |
| ~ Alexia to Albert Wesker in Resident Evil: Code Veronica. |
Alexia Ashford is the main antagonist of Resident Evil: Code Veronica and its updated version, Resident Evil: Code Veronica X. She is also the posthumous and de facto unseen overarching antagonist in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, and a posthumous antagonist in Resident Evil 6.
She is a member of the Ashford family who was cloned alongside her brother, Alfred, using the DNA of the family's long dead matriarch, Veronica. After creating the T-Veronica Virus and using it to transform her father/creator into a monster, Alexia went into a fifteen year long cryogenic rest to harness its power.
She was voiced by Leila Johnson in Resident Evil: Code Veronica, and Karen Strassman in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles (both her true self and when she was impersonated by Alfred).
Biography[]
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Her Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Her Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Alexia's high intelligence made her alienated by all others around her except Alfred (as it matched that of an adult Umbrella scientist despite her young age), which developed Alexia into a megalomaniac, whilst still having her soft spot to Alfred as her only redeeming factor. However, her past cannot justify her tormenting actions towards Claire and Steve, as well as her project to enslave the whole humanity of which have nothing to do with her loneliness.
- The birth of Ashford siblings were depicted as a minor sympathetic backstory. It was the result of Alexander Ashford's plan to ensure his place in Umbrella, using his children as tools for him to develop T-Veronica Virus. However, whilst it had influence on Alexia's behaviour, the exposure of Alexander's mechanics was not the only factor that drove Alexia's actions, and it didn't have major effect on Alexia's further actions and her megalomaniacal project.
- Alexia Ashford was born, alongside her brother Alfred, from the DNA from the embalmed body of Veronica Ashford, founder of the Ashford and ancestor of Dr. Alexander Ashford, as part of Project CODE: Veronica, led by Alexander, as a genetically-modified clone for the sake of restoring the Ashford family's reputation and to prevent Dr. Oswell E. Spencer from taking full control over the Umbrella Corporation should Alexander’s father Dr. Edward Ashford, one of the original founders of Umbrella, die. Raised by Alexander on his Antarctic Base, Alexia was cherished for her genius intellect, of whom would graduate at a university at the age of 10, eventually employed by Umbrella Pharmaceuticals as one of its top virologists who would've no doubt participated in Umbrella’s horrific experimentations and research.
- Isolated from other scholars and children by her young age and genius intellect, Alexia's only comfort was her brother, Alfred, having already developed a loathing for her father as another member of humanity who she would regard as "ignorant masses".
- After having learnt the truth of both her and Alfred’s creation in the Antarctic Base, the twins grew immensely hateful of their father. Capturing Alexander, they used him as a test subject for the t-Veronica virus that she created by binding together the Progenitor Virus and the remnants of an ancient virus found within a queen ant, of which she mistook the eusocial nature of an ant colony for one with complete adoration for their "queen", and likened it to her own megalomaniac personality, inspired to become the “Queen” of the world with everyone to serve her.
- Because her father didn't have any preparation beforehand, the experiment turned Alexander into a psychotic and tortured monster. Deeming him a failed experiment, Alfred and Alexia, disgusted that he was a failure even as an experiment, chained him in a secret room in the Antarctic base, where he remained in solitary confinement hidden away from the facility for 15 years, known as "Nosferatu" to the workers, who were terrified and disturbed by his noises and cries of agony. And due to torturing and mutating Alexander into Nosferatu, Alexia is responsible for him nearly killing Claire and Steve.
- Taking notes on her father's progress, Alexia discovered certain flaws in the t-Veronica virus and planned to inject herself with the virus to become a superior being. Using the data she had obtained from her father, Alexia discovered a way to harness the full power of her virus: by having herself put into cryogenic suspension for fifteen years while the virus, slowed by the ultra-low temperatures to a point where it would not destroy her tissues through overly rapid mutation, matured within her unconscious body in order to achieve her mad dream of godhood.
- Before entering cryostasis, she assigned Alfred to protect her and carry out her will while she was inactive, and because of this Alexia is indirectly responsible for Alfred’s eventual nefarious actions and spiral into madness.
- With no family left and forced to continue his family’s legacy as the new Lord Ashford, Alfred would graduate from a respectable university, eventually entering employment with Umbrella Corporation. With his position as Director of the Antarctic Base, he took advantage of his inherited governorship of Rockfort Island. He drove out the Hispanic settler population to give space for the construction of a concentration camp for Umbrella’s enemies, a boot camp for anti-B.O.W. training, and a private residence near the valley, where he hoped to live with Alexia one day. Having full control over the facilities, Alfred ignored the Antarctic Base and built up a dictatorial rule on Rockfort Island. Affected by Alexia's long cryogenic sleep, Alfred’s mental health shattered, creating a dual personality: One that retained his own, and one resembling Alexia’s. He lived alone in his house on Rockford, often allowing the Alexia fragment to take control over him, dressing up like her and speaking in her voice, eventually developing militaristic tendencies and a massive ego in his Alfred fragment as his mind deteriorated. As governor of Rockfort Island, Alfred enforced harsh measures on the prisoners, ordering violent tortures and executions seemingly at random. When a bridge was constructed that would allow him to directly cross over from the governor's residence to his private residence, he ordered the execution of the entire workforce to silence them. As his career continued, his mental state became increasingly erratic. His management of the Antarctic Base was of total neglect, earning the ire of his workers at the transport terminal, who were denied vacation time while behind in deliveries. When the H.C.F., a private special operations unit of Umbrella's rival company, attacked the Island, detonating an explosive in the military training facility’s lab, leading to the t-Virus spreading airborne causing an outbreak on the Island. Alfred escaped the disaster, armed with a sniper rifle. Believing that Claire Redfield, a prisoner newly transferred to the base, to be one of the spiders, he made several attempts to kill her during her time on the Island. Switching between his Alfred and Alexia personas, he led Redfield and fellow survivor Steve Burnside to think they were two people. After a confrontation at the private residence, Alfred went back to the training camp, where he set off the auto-destruct for the island facilities, activated the T-078 Tyrant to kill survivors, and fled in his personal jet to the Antarctic Base. Upon encountering Claire and Steve one last time Alfred attempted to kill them, however he was shot and fell down a pit where he dragged himself to the cryogenics laboratory containing Alexia and freed her, ultimately dying in her arms due to the severity of his injuries.
- After fifteen years of cryostasis, Alexia awoke with the first sight of her new stage being the death of Alfred, cradling in her arms who had activated the thawing process mere moments prior. Now in full control of the virus, Alexia sought to begin her plan of dominion over the world as its Queen, and using her newfound powers, she remotely controlled one of the massive tentacles resting below the Antarctic Base to destroy the escape vehicle of Claire Redfield and Steve Burnside, managing to capture the two for the purpose of subjecting them to her experiments and to make them pay for killing Alfred.
- Upon capturing the two, she imprisoned Steve, who was only 17 years old, in a Coliseum with suits of armour and injected him with the t-Veronica Virus, causing him to mutate in front of Claire and attempt to kill her with a giant axe. However, Steve managed to counter the virus as he was about to kill Claire, not long into his mutations, regaining his sanity and turning back into his human form, where he soon died due to his injuries.
- Because she infected Steve with the t-Veronica Virus, Alexia is indirectly responsible for Albert Wesker obtaining a sample of the virus from Steve’s body, leading to him dealing with South American drug lord Javier Hidalgo and the events of Operation Javier.
- After Claire was saved by Chris, Alexia appeared near them and mocked them before leaving.
- Upon being confronted by Wesker, who demanded the t-Veronica Virus, Alexia would reveal her first evolution into godhood with the Veronica strain, shedding her skin and hair turning into a powerful being resembling her human form, except with gray skin, darkened vessels and arteries, chitinous growths covering her body as a form of armour, her head forming skin-like hair with a short fringe on the right and long to the left, and with the ability to control her body's blood which acquired flammable properties. She and Wesker engaged in a brief fight, with Wesker quickly realising Alexia’s impervious nature to any physical damage and thus retreated leaving Chris Redfield to fight Alexia, who managed to defeat her.
- While she unobjectionably was right for taking on the evil and nefarious Wesker, it isn’t due to altruism as she had no specific moral objections to Wesker’s actions and only fought him due to believing he wasn’t worthy of the t-Veronica Virus, and wouldn't want to give up her life’s work so easily.
- When Nosferatu's body ended up in the ocean, Alexia grappled a crane onto his corpse, and when Chris Redfield activated the crane, Nosferatu's corpse was pulled out of the water. When the crane pulled his body to the left, Chris came across Alexia, who commented that Nosferatu's mutation was how she dealt with insignificant bugs.
- Weakened by her first defeat, she once again attacked Chris and Claire by fusing with one of the Veronica mutant breeder pods, creating countless imperfect larvae to attack them along with her tentacles, flammable blood, and insect-like appendages, whilst declaring her plans to unleash t-Veronica across the world and rule it as a goddess.
- Despite this, she was once again defeated. However, Alexia was not beaten yet; she responded by evolving further using the insects beneath the platform covering her, shedding the carcass of the breeder pod and became a giant dragonfly-like monster, capable of spewing great amounts of flame and absorbing all gunfire. However the Redfield's managed to destroy Alexia with an experimental weapon called the Linear Launcher, which Alexander Ashford had designed to stop Alexia in the event she would follow through her goals of world domination, killing Alexia instantly, avenging Alexander, and ending the Ashford family line.
- Even after her death, Alexia’s presence and evil would still linger as her creation of the t-Veronica Virus would be obtained by Albert Wesker and using it for his own nefarious purposes, and the creation of the C-Virus, where Dr. Carla Radames would acquire a sample of the virus in order to create the “Perfect Virus” in order to please her boss Derek C. Simmons, removing the genetic code of the virus and combining it with the Progenitor Virus creating the T-02 Variant, of which when combined with the G-Virus would create the extremely dangerous virus known as the C-Virus. This makes Alexia indirectly responsible for all of the events of Resident Evil 6 and uses of the C-Virus in bioterrorism.
- Maniacal and psychopathic, Alexia has one of the highest Heinous Standards in the Resident Evil franchise because of her ultimate goal of ruling the world as its queen by using the t-Veronica Virus to turn the global population into B.O.W.S. under her command and enslave all of humanity, viewing everyone except Alfred as inferior insects and objects to use in her experiments, fully capable of expressing sadism by mutating a seventeen year old right in front of his partner, and torturing and mutating her own father into a hideous monster who would spend years crying in agony whilst imprisoned in a cell. Not to mention, her creation of the t-Veronica Virus would eventually lead to several instances of bioterroism across the world, including Operation Javier and the development and use of the C-Virus.
What Prevents Her from Being Pure Evil?[]
- In spite of everything atrocious she did, Alexia's protectiveness to Alfred is Alexia's only redeeming factor. Alexia and Alfred were very close since they were children, and Alfred was the only one to accept Alexia for who she was. Although, such feeling towards them may led to some interpretations that they were having incestuous relationship. Also, after seeing Alfred dead in front of her, Alexia silently cradled his dead body and comforted him, while sending tentacles to attack Claire and Steve. It was apparent that she wanted to avenge Alfred's death by attacking the duo that was responsible for it, meaning she truly love him, at least as a family.
- This also means that she never directly intended for Alfred to spiral him into madness, as Alexia only wanted him to protect her while still in her cryogenic sleep.
Trivia[]
- Notably, the role of Alexia are heavily-edited in the "Game of Oblivion" scenario in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, with the said scenario served as a deviated and non-canonical retelling of Code Veronica in the form of flashbacks. The result was another non-canoncial version, with a different depiction and role in the story, that served as the scenario's main antagonist.
- The said Darkside Chronicles version, unlike the original Alexia, behaved even more cruel, sadistic and childish. Above all, the DC version of Alexia kill Alfred simply because he didn't wake her up in time, which completely defied the original Alexia's only redeeming factor that could have been adapted into The Darkside Chronicles, making the DC version of Alexia approved as a Pure Evil villain with this pivotal change.
- Ironically, on the terms of mannerism and personality, the fake Alexia from The Darkside Chronicles (whom Alfred unwittingly pretended) has much more resemblance to the original Alexia in Code: Veronica.
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