I tried to write each character to be unique and appeal to different people, so I'm really glad Ashley has resonated so well with you 😁 she is very much an exploration of "you don't need a label to make a relationship meaningful", or that's the kind of thing I'm aiming for at least!
(Bonus wife lore: she entirely made Violet & Sabrina, who were the most popular side characters on the poll!)
I was very pleased with how the threesome turned out, obviously it was planned but it just flowed very naturally :3
It is significant that Ashley wants to be called that by MC and the others! Back with Beth and her other friends she was the inexperienced one learning from them, but now starting uni she's more confident in herself and what she wants, and she kind of wants a different place in her new friend group. Not all of that would be a conscious decision of course, but that's the jist of what I was going for <3