Ashley Merricroft.

Endure.

[Ashley Merricroft. @Geneatium]

‘There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,
can circumvent or hinder or control
the firm resolve of a determined soul.’

[A. @justbored142]

who the fuck doubled it and gave it to me

[Ashley Merricroft. @Geneatium]

Look — I get you and I'm sorry. It's been a rough couple of days and I really need to get my fix of bullying Donnie Heston.

[Ashley Merricroft. @Geneatium]

...That sounded better in my head, but I knew from one of my girlfriends that I set up with him years ago.

I'm gonna physically shudder and retch in a corner now.

[Ashley Merricroft. @Geneatium]

Dinah, I hate to tell you that you could be sitting on his literal face and he'd still be making football references. That man is diseased.

[Ashley Merricroft. @Geneatium]

Choices have consequences, as much as that word is pretty much alien for anyone with money as much as theirs.

But, if she stepped down, Merricroft falls to the hands of people who would use Genetium for far more nefarious things than self-repairing luxury timepieces.

[Oliver Queen @JadedArchery]

That's more than enough information for him. You know, if she really wants to step away she can. It's just a choice at the end of the day.

[Ashley Merricroft. @Geneatium]

That is, unfortunately, yet another information Oliver isn't privy to. Genetium is a registered trademark, so unless he's one of the Merricroft scientists working on it, he'll get the same information the general public gets on the Merricroft website.

[Oliver Queen @JadedArchery]

Oliver's lately been dealing with his own issues regarding large bankrupt companies. Hasn't kept an eye on Genetium, what does she happen to know?

Or is that information he's not privy too?

[Ashley Merricroft. @Geneatium]

Trust her — in Ashley Primrose Merricroft's ideal world, Genetium becomes open source and humanity uses it to uplift the poor and heal the sick.

She not only knows that she could stand to get away from it all, she's actively wishing for the day that it happens.

[Oliver Queen @JadedArchery]

Anyone could walk away, not everyone just turn and fix it. Guess that's what he's conflicted about.

The way she talks though, sounds like she could stand to get away from it all.

[Ashley Merricroft. @Geneatium]

Her advice? Do not attempt to take the company back or repair its reputation. It's now the time to live and let die.

Not everyone has the opportunity to walk away from this world — be grateful for his.

[Oliver Queen @JadedArchery]

Bigger the company, steeper the fall. From one socialite to another, perhaps she could weigh in on what he should do?

[Ashley Merricroft. @Geneatium]

Ah. The classic trappings of going public. Thankfully, that hadn't been the case for Merricroft.

[Oliver Queen @JadedArchery]

Well initially people turned against him, the board wanted him gone. Guess making new neighborhoods and starting institutions that help impoverished areas doesn't sit well with the committee.

Thing is, now /they're/ broke and they think a rebrand with his face might save them.

[Ashley Merricroft. @Geneatium]

She reads news about things that concerned her and the Merricroft Corporation. Oliver Queen going broke, to put it plainly, produced nary a bleep in her radar.

Regardless, humor her. What happened? Asset mismanagement? Sudden growth of conscience?

[Oliver Queen @JadedArchery]

Clearly she doesn't read the news. Oliver Queen: former billionaire... well technically that's not true. It's a tricky situation.

[Ashley Merricroft. @Geneatium]

Hm. Why not start a new one? All that money, all those investors in his contacts.

[Oliver Queen @JadedArchery]

Only good one. So there might as well only be one.

[Ashley Merricroft. @Geneatium]

Can't imagine there's only one archery center ‘down south’ — if by that he means the Southern United States.

[Oliver Queen @JadedArchery]

Then they have that in common. He's more into arrows, but they shut down the archery center down south so this would do.

[Ashley Merricroft. @Geneatium]

And also where she practices, yes.

[Oliver Queen @JadedArchery]

He takes it the range is where she goes to let off some steam?

[Ashley Merricroft. @Geneatium]

Well, until she gets back, somebody has to.

[Ashley Merricroft. @Geneatium]

What was it Jesus said about reading the sign of the times, Donnie?

[Ashley Merricroft. @Geneatium]

| "which characters did you rip-off this time to make ashley?"

well...

[𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐀𝐃𝐀𝐌 @LordOfKahndaq]

“You ask me of mercy? When the lion kills the gazelle, does it feel remorse? No. It simply feeds.”

[Ashley Merricroft. @Geneatium]

Out there — we endure.