Ashley "AJ" Jeremiah

The Phantom Shaver

AJ is an extrmely pale, 12-year-old goth girl with shiny dark blue hair, and hazel eyes. She wears a black skull-print T-shirt, a purple skirt, purple pants, and black boots. She also wears dark makeup around her eyes, a necklace with a gold charm with the Japanese character "四" carved into it, and a black spiked wristband on her right arm.

Though it's never seen in the comic, her hair is naturally blonde, and her skin is not supposed to be so pale, only appearing so as a result of staying inside so often.

AJ is a sociopathic child with an uncontrollable urge to torture people, sometimes doing so purely out of malice.

Despite this, she is actually terrified of authority figures and tries to avoid hurting them.

AJ becomes traumatized when addressed as "Ashley" and will proceed to viciously attack anyone who does so, unless that person is an authority figure, in which case she will twitch her eye and stammer.

• Because AJ rarely brushes, her teeth are noticeably more yellow than most other characters.

• AJ has learned very basic Japanese.

• AJ’s name and design was inspired by one of Brandon Luke's classmates.

  • The name “Ashley” is derived from a character from the WarioWare series.

• AJ was intentionally given an atypical goth design, as all black was deemed to be too boring.

  • One aspect of this was her charm, which was originally a skull, but changed to the Japanese character for "four", because "four" and "death" in Japanese have the same pronunciation.

  • In addition, her hair was made to be a dark blue rather than black.

• AJ’s ears were designed to look like a devil’s.

• AJ is intentionally the second skinniest main character next to Bobby.

  • This is because Bobby's design was based off of Brandon Luke always being rail thin, and he wanted to showcase this by keeping Bobby as the skinniest of the main characters. However, he also wanted AJ to be considerably skinny herself to show how little food she eats.

• There we're numerous plans throughout development to have a scene where AJ's natural hair color would be shown, either through flashbacks or her hair dye running, but they all ended up being cut.