Ashleigh

Ashleigh (アシュリー) is the owner of goods trader Neinvalli in Crossbell City.

Appearance
Ashleigh is a woman with green eyes and violet hair, which is tied back into a bun. She wears green overalls with a yellow hem over a red and black shirt, with brown boots and gloves and gold hoop earrings. A dog tag can be seen around her neck and she often carries a cigarette.

Personality
Ashleigh is very nonchalant about the kind of business she conducts, and has very little concern for the morality or legality of her trade. However, she refers to herself as a 'respectable broker' and that she trades with ten-odd countries, including their militaries and the jaeger corps. One of her creeds is to never sell weapons to people she doesn't trust- one such group are criminals who fire their weapons at the drop of a hat.

As a mother, Ashleigh prefers to take a step back, allowing her daughter Jingo to become independent. She educates her daughter by using the store's operations as a context; for example; using stock of machine-guns sold as the basis for a multiplication question.

She can be quite absent-minded when it comes to drink, losing herself and track of time before realizing morning has come and she has drank the night away. Ashleigh is not afraid to mince words or throw out profane language, casually mentioning threats to those who annoy her. Ashleigh has low blood pressure, and hates being called early in the morning.

Ashleigh runs the goods store, Neinvalli in Crossbell's Downtown District, "dabbling only in goods that sell." It is very clear that she deals in all sorts of illegal, stolen, and black market goods and regularly sells goods to groups such as Jaegers. Ashleigh is a good source of information to the Special Support Section about goings-on in the criminal underworld and they ask her about several topics include the drug trade in the city concerning Gnosis.

After the Gnosis incident, Ashleigh has already dealt with the goods she used to sell to Revache, having found new customers. Lloyd and the re-assembled SSS come to Ashleigh seeking information about the Red Constellation who have been sighted around the state. Asheligh is surprised to see Wazy Hemisphere join the police but is not very forthcoming with information, suggesting Lloyd find the truth of the matter for himself. Due to having worked with Guy Bannings before however, she does give a few titbits of information about the kind of guy it could be and his threat level. After they leave, Ashleigh wonders to herself if she's overthinking things about the man. Ashleigh gives Lloyd information about Randy, asking Lloyd to bring him back before he gets himself killed.

After Crossbell's declaration of independence, business is booming for Neinvalli. She provides assistance to Alex Dudley and the resistance. In her own words, 'she has no complaints as long as she turns a profit.' In case of things taking a turn for the worse, Jingo and Ashleigh conduct emergency preparations for the worst case scenario and although she considered catching the last train out of Crossbell, she stuck around for entertainment.

After the Downtwon district is refurbished, the 'undesirables' are chased out of the area, Neinvalli included. Ashleigh has now set up shop in the East Street. She has sent Jingo out to open new branches of Neinvalli, starting with Leeves.

She immediately recognises the Ashen Chevalier, Rean Schwarzer, having heard about them from Jingo who says they are good customers- on par with jaegers in terms of praise. When asked how Ashleigh can still be trading in Eastern goods, she comments that her name is known across the business and while trade is blocked on paper, she can move goods through a third country. She offers the group a fair deal as they are good customers.

Ashleigh is present in Heimdallr for the Summer festival. When Ashleigh reunites with Jingo, she sees the potential in Cerberus and is happy with Jingo's progress in Erebonia. When Magic Knights and Cryptids attack, Ashleigh provides covering fire for Class VII from a nearby rooftop, using her rocket launcher.

Ashleigh manages to return to Crossbell after the incident in Heimdallr. She greets the party when they are investigating the area around Crossbell for the singularity. Musse Egret is revealed to be one of her clients.

She also visits Raquel on business to obtain big contracts, and conducts negotiations in the casino. She has to temporarily shut the Crossbell branch due to jingo's absence though and wonders if taking on more hands is worthwhile. She recognises Rean, albeit barely due to her changed appearance, and although she doesn't know exactly where Jingo is, she trusts that she is doing well.

Ashleigh is invited to Mishelam Wonderland on the evening before the war as she is offering her services for Operation: Shining Steel. Ashleigh was also responsible for renting out all of Mishelam instead of the usual payment. She almost regrets the lack of Mira, but thinks it isn't so bad to put duty ahead of Mira for once. On the day of the war, she is seen in the Neinvalli Crossbell branch selling gear to Leonidas and Xeno.

Ashleigh is one of the contacts Alex Dudley and Machias Regnitz use in their investigation of the coffee supply chain disruption in Crossbell. She also is surprised to hear how Jingo obtained an airship, and helps to sell the Retro Mishy Statue by spreading information seeds around town.

Ashleigh greets the SSS when they visit her store after the independence. She muses that that has seen so many countries rise and fall, that to see a small country gain its independence is rare. She also says she is more emotional now that Jingo is living away. When C's party is in Crossbell, Ashleigh is able to detect all four of them even through the cloaking, and criticises their stealth skills, but isn't really bothered about their business.

Ashleigh helps the efforts to retake Crossbell by providing ammunition, urging the others not to care about conserving shots. In the battle of Reverse Babel, Ashleigh and Jingo provide air support from their airship.