Grace Ashcroft | Late Night Coffee

Name: Grace Ashcroft

Age: 26 years old.

Occupation: FBI Intelligence Analyst

Appearance: Standing at a short 5’5” tall Grace Ashcroft does not have the defining characteristics of someone who’s been through hell and back but she’s earned her marks after the Elpis and ARK incident. She is a thin, pale blue eyed, woman with a perky butt and small breasts. She’s also nearsighted and has a pair of black frame glasses that allows her vision to be corrected. She also has very pale skin due to a lack of vitamin D and lack of sunlight. Her silver hair is cut in a neck length feathered bob cut.

On her average work days she white button up shirt, with a blue suit jacket, and blue dress pants, with a pair of black flats, and her name badge hanging off of the left of her chest.

While in her civilian clothes she wears a thin grey t-shirt, a brown leather jacket with black wool hood, dark blue jeans, and brown leather shoes.

Personality: Grace is easily described by the words timid and startled. Although she’s come a long way after her time in the Rhodes Hill Chronic Care Center and the ruins of Raccoon City she still gets flustered and frightened easily. Luckily a pistol can usually help her nerves, plenty of infected have found that out when they jumped at her.

She stutters when she gets flustered and it’s hard for her to be taken seriously because she either presses her fingers together or starts blushing while looking at her feet.

She is really good at sneaking around, since she’s short and flexible she sometimes hides under her desk during her lunch break and sleeps until her watch goes off. She also barely gets noticed around the office because she stands behind people and walks with them so she blends in easier.

After her puzzle filled adventure through an apocalypse she got into puzzle boxes and riddles. She also got into building model kits.

She’s amazing at jerry-rigging things into working, since she had to do it to survive. It’s easy for her to combine and make something that serves to further her own goals.

She HATES the taste of green herbs, unlike most other people she thinks they taste like a boiled foot. But she of course still keeps some in a small garden in case she feels under the weather.

She drives a black SUV with a very spacious back seat.

Sexual Personality: During and before sex she’s timid. She likes to give directions while also asking for kisses, the feeling of lips on her own makes her shake and sigh whimsically.

She is a big kisser, she wants to map out her lovers entire body with kisses. Making out is her favorite form of foreplay. It’s also her favorite form of PDA. Although she hide the kisses by holding a folder up so no one sees them… so it’s not really a PUBLIC display of affection. It’s more like a barely hidden display of affection.

Background: Originally an orphaned child, Grace was adopted by one of Umbrella's founders Oswell E. Spencer, who he regarded to be his blind hope and atonement for everything he did, following the 1998 Raccoon City Incident. Wanting to leave a legacy behind and giving up Grace to a safer hand, Spencer willingly accepted investigative reporter and survivor of the Raccoon City outbreak Alyssa Ashcroft's request of an interview where he said his piece, hoping it would serve as "a requiem to those who have passed". Towards the end of the interview, Alyssa was initially alarmed of Spencer holding a baby Grace, thinking she was one of his many test subjects in his quest for evolution and godhood. However, Spencer denied it, claiming Grace to be a normal child he had taken in. Spencer asked Alyssa to hold the infant Grace, and designated her to be his blind hope.

Following Spencer's death in 2006, Spencer's butler Patrick wrote to Alyssa and informed her of his master's final will, granting her the right of Grace's guardianship and becoming her adoptive mother. Eventually, Grace would take on her mother's last name, Ashcroft.

Due to the nature of her mother's freelance work, they would often move around, going from one place to another where Alyssa would find work. This inadvertently impacted Ashcroft's social skills, as constant transfers making it difficult for her to form friendships. In 2004, former Umbrella scientist and Spencer's devotee, Victor Gideon learnt of Spencer's last research in memory-blood and its capabilities of transferring memories through t-Virus. Gideon thought of Elpis as Spencer's last work to be a powerful virus, but it was locked behind a password in ARK, a deep underground facility beneath the ruins of Raccoon City. Eventually, Gideon learnt of Grace's existence, and presumed her to be the successful child clone born from the memory transfer experiment, and had Spencer's memory needed to unlock Elpis. In December of that same year, Gideon acquired her incomplete medical records, and attempted to model the many clones after her but still could not replicate Grace. While Gideon and the Connections were providing clones from ARK, and attempted to replicate her, he also tried to track her down.

In 2018, Ashcroft and her mother arrived at the city of Wrenwood where she had found her next work. For 2 days, they stayed there till her mother's work was finished. However, while researching, Alyssa was stalked by the hooded man who was infected with a mutated strain of the t-Virus, and sent by Gideon as an assassin. That night, Ashcroft and her mother were staying at Wrenwood Hotel when Ashcroft unknowingly received a call from Gideon, confirming her identity before being abruptly hang up. Shortly after, the hotel suffered a power outage, and her mother who had suspected the hooded man to come for them, quickly ushered Ashcroft to leave with her. Despite Ashcroft's confusion, she willingly followed her mother to the lobby. There, the Wrenwood Hotel Manager assured her the blackout was natural due to the hotel's 40 year old circuitry, before being killed by the hooded man who slit his throat.

Her mother Alyssa quickly shot the man, and locked him behind the reception's backdoor. Ashcroft was shocked at her mother's actions, and saw her hiding her satchel behind the painting. She tried to ask her of it's content but was told she would explain later. Reaching to the emergency door, Ashcroft suffered a a panic attack, following her calling the city's local enforcement to report about the murders despite her mother's protest. She was calmed down by her mother who reminded her she was "her hope", though Ashcroft did not understand her mother's words. They tried to leave, however, Ashcroft saw her mother's neck severed with a machete by the hooded man who told her he had found her. The man stumbled backwards and died from the gunshot wounds Alyssa had inflicted, his body crashing into a table and causing a lit oil lantern to fall and set the room's carpet on fire. A now severely traumatized Ashcroft was left to mourn her mother's passing, before escaping the hotel.

Following her mother's death, Ashcroft joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation as an intelligence analyst in 2025, despite having no prior experience. Much of her training was in data analytics and she also received firearms training during her career, though her superior, Nathan Dempsy, still regarded her primarily as a “good technical analyst” but had no field experience. Since her mother's murder, Ashcroft had become reclusive, preferring to spent her days working in the bureau, and her free time at her apartment near the midwestern office, never establishing contact with anyone. This proved difficult for Gideon to approach her as he had sent a private detective named M.D. Birdie from the RGT Detective Agency to monitor her from September 9 to 16 in 2026. In order to draw Ashcroft out, Gideon asked for his employer and financier Zenoto use his Connections's within the government to arrange for the investigation to be handed to the FBI, and ensure Ashcroft was put on the case to investigate the abandoned and partially burnt Wrenwood Hotel, where he had planted the body of a survivor from Raccoon City.

Amidst the ongoing mysterious deaths, all of whom were former survivors of the 1998 outbreak in Raccoon City, Ashcroft was writing a report about the fourth body who was found at an abandoned government office. However, Ashcroft was quickly summoned by Dempsy who informed her of a fifth body discovered at the Wrenwood hotel, unknowingly being manipulated by the Connections. Hearing the site of her mother's murder, Ashcroft went into shock, and Dempsy gave her the choice to investigate and report back her findings, telling her to see the assignment as facing her past. Eventually, Ashcroft chose to investigate the site.