#ash/herbert | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

my-little-wraithlings · 11 months

Text

Dashbert Scenario: hardwork and affection

How Dan discovered Ash had a chainsaw hand was not how any of them expected.

It all happened one night when Dan was working late at the hospital. He and Herbert were living at a new mortuary house at a new cemetery. This cemetery had legends of having a catacombs below and Herbert needed to find out. So, Dan had caved and they had gotten the new house after the disaster at the last one.

Tonight, Herbert had the night off from work. He had a new formula he had yet to tell Dan about. It was supposed to, in theory, work on the long dead. So, Herbert calls up Ash and invites him over for a bit of fun (work).

Ash is disturbingly good at gravedigging so he's able to unearth some test subjects for Herbert. With a bit of time and work, the formula works. The dead come back and are not happy. A shovel and chainsaw take care of the issue.

The battle leaves them both exhausted. Bloody as well. They had tried the new reagent on bodies that had only been in the ground a few days to a week. The reagent got their congealed blood pumping. Herbert had some choice words about the lack of post mortem care that had been done for the bodies (basically none).

Happy the battle was over, Ash laid back on the filthy grass of the cemetery. He laughs softly and closes his eyes. He's startled alert by a weight on his stomach. Ash opens his eyes to see Herbert straddling his waist. The man's not doing anything, just taking a rest there.

Ash laughs again. He uses his left hand to grab Herbert's tie and pull him down into a kiss. Herbert chuckles and happily returns the kiss. Herbert's hands, filthy with gunky blood and gore, slide into Ash's hair. Giving a tug as they kiss.

A startled voice calling Herbert's name rouses them both from the kiss. They look over to see a startled and vaguely disappointed Dan. The look pulls a smirk from Ash.

For Dan, he is trying to understand what he is seeing.

Yes, it's still weird and slightly upsetting to see his partner with another partner. But, ignoring Ash's annoying ass for a moment, Dan takes in the gore. He's used to the situations Herbert gets into but there's something about seeing the bodies chopped up so aggressively that is setting him a bit on edge. He looks down at the bloody chainsaw on the ground. It's attached to Ash's arm.

Dan shocked. But the surprise drains to annoyance. It suddenly makes so much sense what Herbert sees in that fucking idiot...

#ash williams #herbert west #ashley joanna williams #dan cain #ashbert #danbert #dashbert #evil dead #reanimator #ash/herbert #dan x herbert #dan x herbert x ash #dashbert scenarios

30 notes · View notes

zairas-realm-gateway · 2 years

Text

Shipping Analysis: Ashbert

I’m an avid shipper. I love to ship. I especially love to make crossover ships. But, most importantly, I love ships that make sense. Especially if its a crossover ship. It doesn’t have to be a canon crossover, I just need the two characters to make sense. I then like to explore the possible connection between the two (or more) characters.

One of my favorite crossover ships (and current obsession) is Ashbert. The ship consisting of Ash Williams (Evil Dead series) and Herbert West (Reanimator series).

They’re a bit of a rarer horror ship. Not as much content for them as they deserve.

Now, I want to take a bit of a look into why I believe they have the qualities of a good ship. There are a few key pieces that I feel guides them together into an understandable, oddly loving ship (despite Herbert’s low empathy).

1. Resiliency

The first thing that really brought the two together for me was just how resilient the both of them are, in both body and spirit. To understand why this is important, one needs to know a little more about bout of them. So, we’re going to start with Ash.

Ash has suffered many horrors at the hands of the deadites (demons from his series). Counting both the TV show and the original trilogy of movies, Ash has lost several lovers, his sister, his father, several friends, his job, and his home. The deadites have tortured and tormented him ceaselessly. Violated his sense of self multiple times. Pushed him past the edge of mental break several times. They have forced him to kill his possessed loved-ones countless times. Everyone he gets close to or cares about dies.

This is where Herbert comes in as the perfect ship partner.

Over the course of the first 2 Reanimator movies, Herbert has “died” twice already. The movies set up very definitively at the end that Herbert is in a situation where the audience believes Herbert has died. Only to have him come back grumpy as ever in the next movie. Herbert is the very definition of cheating death. He can and will weasel his way out of just about any dire situation. He openly mocks death every day and gets away with it. It is his inability to stay dead that makes him perfect for Ash.

Also, there’s the fact that honestly not much phases Herbert. No matter how creepy, fucked up, or weird a situation is, Herbert just isn’t shocked. Even when attacked by Dr. Hill’s flying head, he was mostly just annoyed. So seeing people randomly be possessed and mutilated by demons is not going to disrupt or hinder Herbert’s life in any way.

Moving to Herbert’s side of things, Ash’s resiliency brings the same benefits to Herbert. The scientist is eccentric and a loner. He doesn’t get along well with most people and his work is highly dangerous. He also has attachment and abandonment issues. He has all of one friend, Dan, who constantly threatens to leave him and is unhappy with the conflicts that come with Herbert’s work. Dan constantly worries that the work will get them in trouble and they’ll lose their medical licenses. Plus, working with extremely powerful reanimated corpses is dangerous.

But the thing is, none of these things are a concern when it comes to Ash. Life for Ash will never be “normal” again. So, the threat of something as easy to kill as reanimated corpses isn’t going to be a problem for Ash since he’s used to killing demons. While seeing the dead being brought back to life is creepy, it’s not going to be enough to chase Ash away. He isn’t going to get scared and want to abandon ship. He’ll just deal with the problem (probably zombies) and go on with his life. This would keep Herbert from getting anxious that Ash would walk away like Dan always wanted to do.

Both men would bring various forms of comfort to the other in the way of being unbothered by the other’s reality.

2. Domesticity

Now, I feel for a lot of people, the word “domestic” is not what they think of when they think of Ash or Herbert. And they’d be right. and that right there is the problem.

Both Ash and Herbert want quiet lives. They don’t want to be bothered. For different reasons but those reasons complement each other.

Ash wants a quiet, stable life because his was stolen from him by the deadites. He wants to just be able to go to work at S-Mart/Value Stop and then just come home to relax. No deadites, no nonsense.

Herbert wants to be able to do his shift at the hospital and then come home to his nice quiet lab to work. He doesn’t want to be bothered by unnecessary interactions with people he doesn’t care about.

Herbert makes the kind of money to have a nice (if creepy) house to live in. This stationary life style is something that Ash’s mental health would benefit greatly from. Ash works short shifts and is oddly organized in his own chaotic way. He’s also fairly good at entertaining himself. This would allow him to keep up their home in a way that allows for Herbert to work without interruptions.

Also, Herbert doesn’t mind people he likes in his lab so long as they are quiet or curious about his experimentations. Ash is an extremely curious person with a fair understanding of chemistry. If Ash wants attention, he can freely get it from Herbert while also allowing the scientist to gush about whatever he’s working on.

3. Freedom

Ash and Herbert are both free spirits in their own, slightly fucked up ways. This means that they aren’t going to get in the way of the other.

Ash is a charismatic person who loves parties and people. He needs the freedom to go out drinking when he gets the urge or when he needs to cope (unhealthily) with his severe trauma. Herbert is not a partier or a people person. But that does not mean that he would try to stop Ash from going to parties and talking to people. Herbert will happily stay at home and let Ash do as he wishes. In turn, Ash would never urge Herbert into doing something he’s not comfortable with. If Herbert wants to spend his nights in the lab and experiment, Ash is going to respect that and give him space.

When both have had their fill of their individual versions of fun, the two will come together again in their home and be together. They will tell the other what events were missed but not condemn the other for not being present.

4. Support

Both men have gone through a lot. They can spot trauma when they see it. And while neither one of them could truly understand the details of what the other has gone through, does not mean that they would dismiss the trauma.

While perhaps the happenings of either other would be considered odd or ridiculous, they would still be respected. Herbert has suffered loss of those he holds dear (rare as those people are) and could see how their loss has injured Ash. While the concept of magic seems ridiculous to him, he does believe that Ash has suffered greatly and respects that. Ash would never be able to understand why Herbert keeps making fucked up zombies but respects the desire to reverse death.

The two would do their best to support the other in their endeavors even if they did not truly understand them.

5. Protection and care

Both men need protection. That protection takes place in different forms.

Though Herbert is crafty and has a fair amount of strength, he’s still much smaller than most of the people in his life. This includes his many test subjects. While Herbert has good strength from lugging body parts and digging graves, he’s not very skilled in getting out of physically dangerous situations. He’s often hit, pushed around, or just straight up attacked.

Having someone who is larger, stronger, and trained in combat would be greatly beneficial to his wellbeing.

Ash needs a more mental and medical type of protection. He’s strong physically and even mentally, but he suffers a lot. In combat he takes a lot of damage from being stabbed, beaten, or literally tossed around. Herbert grants medical help. Also since Herbert is a registered doctor, he can get Ash into the hospital without too many questions being asked about Ash’s physical condition.

Also, the stability of having a home and a sturdy partner would keep Ash’s mental health from tanking into depression. A sense of relative normalcy, comfort, and companionship provides mental care to Ash. Which he needs dearly.

---

While I feel that far more could be explored and expressed about these two, I feel these are the baselines for why Ashbert is a good ship. If you didn’t ship it before, I hope this post has at least opened you up to the idea of the ship.

You can honestly go even further with this as well. The conversation can evolve into how both characters are heavily trans-coded and how that would effect their relationship. The fact that they have different shades of gray in their morality can also be explored because they both have very different views on what constitutes right and wrong. Their mutual dislike of cops can also be discussed. There’s a lot of aspects to Ashbert and they deserve to be explored.

I hope you all enjoyed this analysis.

#Ash Williams #ashley j williams #ashbert #herbert west #ash williams x herbert west #The Evil Dead #Evil Dead #Reanimator #re-animator #ash vs evil dead #my art #[I really really love this ship so come talk to me about them]#[also i do have to note that yes I do love Danbert. just not as much as ashbert]#long post #ship analysis #ash/herbert

43 notes · View notes