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Alexia Ashford is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the video game Resident Evil: Code Veronica. Along with her older twin brother Alfred, she is the grandaughter of Edward Ashford, one of the founders of the Umbrella Corporation, and the creator of the T-Veronica virus herself.

Background

Alexia and Alfred were born in 1971 as offspring of Alexander Ashford's (the sixth generation headmaster of the Ashford clan) "Code: Veronica" project, an attempt to clone Veronica Ashford (the first matriarch of Ashfords and worshipped by her descendants) by implanting her genes into an artificially inseminated ovum. Of the two, Alexia possessed superb intelligence and was considered to be a genius at a young age, in constrast to Alfred, who only had moderately high intelligence. As a result, Alexia had a very dominant relationship with her twin brother and treated him as a mere servant. She attended a prestigious university at a young age and by the time she was 10 (in 1981), she had already graduated valedictorian.

Afterwards, she was hired by the Umbrella Corporation and appointed as head researcher of their Antarctic Facility. This earned the jealousy of William Birkin, the head researcher of the Arklay Research Facility, who was the youngest researcher employed by Umbrella until the arrival of Alexia and considered her to be his greatest rival. Within the facility, she developed the T-Veronica after her research on the behavioural pattern of ant queens and their servants, as well as her research on the T-Virus.

She had no suitable test subject to experiment with after completing the virus, so she decided to use her father as guinea pig for the experiment in 1983. However, Alexander was mutated into a mindless creature and the experiment was considered a failure. Alexia learned that in order for a host to form a symbiotic relationship with the T-Veronica, the host must be kept in cryogenic sleep for at least 15 years. And thus, Alexia implanted herself with T-Veronica and decided to remain asleep in a cryogenic chamber in the Antarctic Facility, while her brother Alfred watched out for her. During her sleep, Alfred developed a second personality after suffering a withdrawal syndrome from her absence.

During Albert Wesker's raid of Rockfort Island, prisoners Claire Redfield and Steve Burnside encountered a disguised Alfred posing as Alexia. However, it wasn't until their escape plane was taken to the Antarctic Facility (following preprogrammed instructions) and they confronted Alfred there, in which the real Alexia would appear. After Alfred was seriously injured from his confrontation with the pair, Alexia awoke from her cryogenic sleep in front of a dying Alfred and decided to go after Claire and Steve, who were trying to escape via a forklift, by controlling a tentacle creature. During their captivity, she implanted the T-Veronica virus into Steve himself.

Sometime later, Claire's brother Chris went into the facility in search of her. Alexia fought against the reunited siblings, as well as Wesker himself (who was after Alexia for his employer). At this point, Alexia begins mutation from the T-Veronica strain in her body.

The T-Veronica Transformation

Alexia's mutation with the T-Veronica is comprised of three phases. In her first mutation, Alexia retains her humanoid shape, but her skin turns grey, with tentacles covering her hair and body. It is not known however whether her changes are consciously brought on or simply uncontrolled mutations, in each change she is shown grinning maniacally. She gains the ability to make her blood turn into flames once it makes contact with oxygen allowing to throw walls of fire at her enemies. In addition, she has the ability to make her prey combust into flames with a mere touch of her hand. It was in this form that she bested Albert Wesker in a rather embarrassing "fight" possessing superior strength, agility and endurance as well as a greater ability to regenerate.

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