Arg, real sorry for disappearing folks, but between finals and moving back home, it's been near impossible to try and get online. I'm really sad to see this RP go, but I totally understand. It's been great working with you beautiful bastards and I hope we see each other again somewhere else in the Guild.

Anyway, for Asher I was actually trying really, really hard to avoid the jerk with a heart of gold trope, as would have become painfully apparent in any romance he would have had. That's not to say that he's cruel or heartless, but more so like he doesn't understand how to truly be kind to others. It would have shown itself in the form of his inability to keep his sharp tongue at bay and just in general not knowing how to empathize or even sympathize with others.