Alexia Ashford

First appearance: Resident Evil CODE Veronica

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Genius, artificially created by Alexander Ashford, 6th-generation head of the noble Ashford family. She graduated as valedictorian of her university at the age of 10, and her beauty and intelligence was said to remind people of Veronica, the first great matriarch of the Ashford family. Although Alfred and she were twin brother and sister, their relationship was quite unequal. He treated her with the utmost love, while she lorded over him as a master might lord over a slave.

When Alexia was 10, she was hired as a research scientist at the Antarctic laboratory. She surprised the other scientists by conducting research on the T-Virus and simultaneously working on T-Veronica. But when the research reached a crucial point, this girl, who was born with a heart of pure evil, forcibly used Alexander in an experiment and injected him with the virus. But he couldn't live symbiotically with T-Veronica, so he transformed into a hideous monster. This experiment was a failure, but for Alexia, it was an important stage and opened new avenues of research for her.

When her research approached the final stage, Alexia decided to use herself as a test subject. This time she was going to inject herself with T-Veronica. After doing so, however, she fell into a cryogenic sleep. The outside world was told that she had died, but in actuality, the plan was going along exactly as anticipated.

Fifteen years later, T Veronica finally began to live symbiotically within her body, and she reawakened with startling new powers. Her research was finally complete. After awakening, Alexia injected Steve Burnside, another resident of the Antarctic Lab, with T-Veronica. She wanted to see what the virus would do if it couldn't form a symbiotic relationship.

Alexia thought only about her own fame, and her ambition grew greater and greater. But at the same time, her own destruction came ever closer in the form of Claire Redfield, eager to take revenge for Steve and her older brother, Chris. She was unable to defeat them together, and when she tried to use the power contained within the T-Veronica virus, her failure ended in her death. In this way, the curtain closed on a fierce and brilliant scientific mind, who died with her ambitions unfulfilled.