Last week, the folks at Respawn announced the Titanfall 2 opponent ash will be the next character to join this Apex legends Roster, complete with her very own adorable rat buddy. The name of the rat? Well that’s complicated.
Apex legends Main animator Moy Parra wrote on Twitter yesterday that his department specifically requested that Ash’s rat remain nameless so that they can properly portray their relationship with the furry rodent.
not how Apex legends‘Other pals – Bloodhound’s raven Artur, Lifelines DOC drone, and Rampart’s mobile minigun Sheila, to name a few – the team believed Ash’s cold demeanor meant she didn’t have a particular fondness for the rat and didn’t want to grow too attached to herself .
“When we animated this little creature, we decided not to name it internally so as not to accidentally start taking care of it and bleeding it through our work as we came up with ideas for Ash,” Parra explained. “Yes! Animators think of these things.”
“Ash’s rat serves an important purpose, however,” Parra added in a subsequent tweet. “It allowed us to show a little humanity to the character without affecting the character itself. Ironically, it’s the rat that shows the warm / human side, the side Ash himself will never show! “
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In Titan Fall Lore, Ash was once Dr. Ashleigh Reid, an elite pilot whose brain was implanted in a robotic simulacrum body Apex legends Competitor Come back instead of lovable goofball scout) after she died in an unfortunate accident. Now Ash operates behind a broken psyche, using the cold, calculating aspects of Dr. Reid’s mind take center stage, while the more human aspects of her personality struggle to surface.
Just because Ash doesn’t openly love her rat doesn’t mean that fans aren’t free to come up with their own names for the sweet little cake, a bit of community-based world-building that Parra openly promotes.
“Like his never cruel to her rat, just neutral, and she certainly wouldn’t call it, so neither did we, ”Parra said, ending his Twitter thread. “It was a new challenge for us as we love showing affection to our sidekicks, but it was refreshing to animate them that way and to be loyal to Ash in every way.”
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