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"I'll never forget a face. Maybe because I don't have one anymore." - Stefano greeting Dr Reed

Stefano Ashmann is a supporting character in the Remothered series, and a stalker in Remothered: Broken Porcelain

He is the eldest son of Boris and Marta Ashmann, the former key investors of the Phenoxyl project, and the owner of the Ashmann Inn.

He is the older brother of Gloria Ashmann and the biological father of Celeste Felton.

Official description[]

"Ashmann received his parents’ entrepreneurial spirit, yet his professionalism demeanor always served as a façade to cover his vengeful personality. He spent a large portion of his life living in outside of the city, until a tragedy at Criso Morente killed 13 red nuns, including his sister. He turned his family property into an Inn and hired orphans to serve the property. As a “stalker”, Ashmann will hunt down Jen and fight Jen from a distant using a revolver gun. Years later, the now disfigured Ashmann is bed-ridden at the Inn he now runs, and he is visited by Rosemary Reed, with whom he still has a score to settle. What secrets does the owner hold to the events that unfold within Ashmann Inn."

- Broken Porcelain official biography [1]

Biography[]

Early life[]

Stefano is the eldest son and heir of Boris and Marta Ashmann, the heads of the aristocratic Ashmann family. According to Andrea Massino, the family's housekeeper, he was always his parents' favorite. Following his parents' footsteps, he received a degree in Economics and Commerce to become an entrepreneur and inherit the family business. He served at the army at some point of his life.

In his youth he was in a relationship with Arianna Gallo, which she eventually broke it off as "it didn't work out", leaving Stefano heartbroken. Arianna agreed to an arranged marriage with Richard Felton, one of the Ashmanns' business partners. The news greatly upset Stefano, as he still harbored feelings for Arianna harassing her with anonymous phone calls and asking her to leave Felton for him, to which Arianna refused despite her loving Stefano once. Knowing of Richard's true identity, Stefano raped him to "teach him a lesson" for stealing Arianna from him, which resulted into Felton's pregnancy. This shocked Arianna and she broke all the relationships with the Ashmanns, choosing to stay by Richard's side. When Celeste was born, the Feltons lied to Ashmann about the girl being adopted when in reality they kept her to raise them themselves.

At some point Stefano molested his much younger sister Gloria, which traumatized the girl and caused their parents to separate the siblings, sending Stefano away to a relative in the north and locking Gloria in the convent. To protect the family secret and forget his own painful past, he became a major investor in the Phenoxyl project and relied greatly on the results of Wyman's experiments, as he was able to supress Gloria's memories with the drug and hypnotic sessions.

Tragedy at Cristo Morente (1971)[]

It was reported that Stefano, along with Gloria, became sick when Albert Elias Wyman leaked the Phenoxyl 2.0 prototype into the groundwater and contaminated RossoGallo fields in October 1971. As a result, the Ashmanns broke off all the relationships with the Feltons and Wyman and demanded a substantial refund for their children's sickness.[2] The followed-up burning of Cristo Morente convent[3] and Gloria's death, as a result, caused Boris and Marta to die from grief, leaving Stefano the sole heir of the Ashmann's family estate.[4]

In reality, Gloria survived the fire, which was revealed to be caused by Lindsay, who was acting under Wyman's hypnotic influence. Wyman managed to convince Stefano to offer him protection, so he could continue his experiments in safety. With the help of Phenoxyl, Wyman managed to supress Gloria's memories once again, giving her a new identity, which was proven to insufficent as the moths still recognized her as their Mother Acherontia. Stefano agreed to participate in Wyman's hypnotic group session, attempting to put Gloria under his control, however, the experiment failed because Lindsay, who was acting as Wyman's medium, rebelled. As a result Wyman's mind became fractured and the participants of the experiments were left wandering in a hypnotic loop with their bodies infected with the parasite, causing them great pain, and their minds linked together in a collective consciousness.

During the following two years, Stefano repaired the old Ashmann palace, which was used as RossoGallo headquarters and was damaged during the fire, and turned it into a hotel, where Lindsay and Elisa worked as maids under Andrea's supervision. Meanwhile, him and Wyman were searching for Stefano's biological daughter, Celeste, hoping to use her natural abilities as Mother Acherontia to liberate themselves from the loop. Overall fourteen orphaned girls were brought into hotel but were all eventually killed and disposed of as they were mirely "simple mistakes" in Stefano's eyes. Eventually, he found the right girl, who was staying at the Flemmington Girls' Institute calling herself "Jennifer" at the time, and requested the custody over her.

Events at the Ashmann Inn (1973)[]

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Ashmann punishing Jen for her behavior.

In early 1973, he makes a phone call to Arianna Gallo but hangs up after being interrupted by Andrea. He scolds Jennifer for larceny and a failed attempt to steal his gun but shows genuine concern for the girl's well-being. He sends Jen to help Elisa in the kitchen as punishment and informs her of his decision to transfer Lindsay into another facility as she was trying to get Jennifer expelled for an unknown reasons. Andrea later warns Jen of Stefano's dark past, including him molesting his younger sister. When Jennifer wakes up after her first encounter with Porcelain, Ashmann gives the girl a sedative, trying to convince her she simply had a bad dream, when in reality Stefano gave her a drug.

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Ashmann becomes possessed.

Jen later breaks into Stefano's office and listens to the recorded message left by Arianna Gallo, Celeste’s mother, who is still grieving her missing daughter and begs Ashmann to stop tormenting her and Richard. After Jen picks up a framed photograph of the RossoGallo farm partners, where she recognizes her parents, she is startled by Ashmann who threatens her with a gun. Despite claiming he doesn’t want to hurt the girl, Stefano insults Jen, calling the girl a “slut like her mother.” Hearing the hypnotic voice on the radio, Ashmann becomes possessed by the parasite like Andrea before and attacks Jennifer. The girl tries to fight him off using the fire extinguisher but eventually he knocks her out.

She is then dragged by Andrea into the cold room, where Ashmann reveals that not only he is Celeste’s biological father, but her birth mother was in fact Richard Felton, and the girl was born as a result of a rape as Ashmann felt insulted that Felton stole Arianna from him. Disgusted by this story, Jen reminds Ashmann of how he molested his own sister but Stefano angrily brushes her off calling the story ridiculous. Later, still under the influence of the parasite, he stalks Jennifer throughout the hotel's premises alongside Andrea and Elisa. He can be heared pleading how sorry he is for what he did to Gloria but also saying she had to die because she "became like the others".

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Gloria taking revenge on her older brother.

After Gloria overtakes as Mother Acherontia, Stefano can be seen at the hotel's restaurant seemingly having forgotten about Lindsay's existence. When Jen manages to sneak into Ashmann's room and steal the keys to the film room, Stefano tries to stop her, hoping that Gloria would spare him from her revenge. Jennifer manages to distract Ashmann by revealing that Arianna never loved him and Richard Felton, who was the only person her mother ever loved, will always be the real father to her, and escapes his pursuit. When Andrea attempts to stab Gloria in anger, Stefano re-appears and shoots the woman, saving his sister. He then tries to reason with Gloria, putting the blame on the Feltons and Linn, but Jen reveals to her that Stefano was responsible for burning the convent in an attempt to silence Gloria and Linn was only a tool in his and Wyman’s hands. In pain from the memories of her brother harassing her, Gloria sends a swarm of moths to eat off his face, and his left hand is then chopped off by Porcelain.

Later life[]

Stefano survived the accident but was left disfigured and bed-ridden, so he hired an assistant to help him manage the estate. He became aware of the events happened at the Felton Villa with Gloria's arrival, including Arianna's death and Celeste's escaping. For the following years he was keeping his family's secret and the truth behind the Phenoxyl experiments hidden away from the public.

Meeting Dr. Reed (1992)[]

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Ashmann disfigured

Years later, he agrees to meet Rosemary Reed, whom he recognizes and comments on her past crimes, including larceny and battery. He seems to have become aware of Felton's and sister's death from Reed's hand and wonders if she came to finish the job.

They have a conversation about the Acherontia moths and their unique abilities, including telepathy. He explains that the moths and those infected by them operate as a hivemind and every hive needs a queen, who was meant to be Celeste, as she was born with the natural ability to control the moths without any harmful side effects to her. He eventually confirms that Jennifer and Celeste were the same person and the girl's birth mother was in fact Felton, whom Ashmann raped out of jealousy for "stealing" Arianna from him. Disgusted by this revelation, Reed calls Ashmann a "rapist" but Stefano shows no sign of remorse. He then reminds Rosemary that she lied to Jennifer too. Reed gets overwhelmed by her old memories and she starts stuttering, revealing that her true identity is Lindsay and the story takes place in 1992, 19 years after the tragedy at the Ashmann Inn. Stefano laughs, reminding her that she was the one who wanted her painful memories back, and points his gun at her. Reed tricks him and takes the gun away from him but is then cornered by Porcelain.

After passing out, Reed wakes up tied to a wheelchair with Stefano tormenting her over the loudspeaker, telling her she deserves to keep living in agony for rebelling during the last hypnosis years ago, which was the reason they all had become trapped in a loop. He also reveals that Wyman had been suffering from Alzheimer and his experiments on the Acherontia moths and collective consciousness were to keep his mind whole by inserting his memories into the participants of the hypnotic sessions. Reed was Wyman’s "greatest inheritance", which he called “Porcelain”, and part of him still exists within Reed. By reuniting with Ashmann, she made Wyman’s consciousness whole again and regained her lost memories, but if she leaves she will forget everything again. Reed manages to open Ashmann’s safe to find the secret documents on the phenoxyl experiments, including the names of every person involved, as well as his gun and a metronome. She confronts Ashmann and injects him with Phenoxyl, putting him into a hypnotic state where he sees a younger version of himself in the mirror before his image turns into Porcelain who drags him into the mirror with him. When Ashmann wakes up, he finds himself in Rosemary’s van surrounded by mirrors in the middle of nowhere. Holding him at a gunpoint, Reed demands that answers to her questions.

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Reed contemplating shooting Ashmann

Ashmann confesses that he never lost track of Celeste, revealing that after the girl had escaped from the Feltons she settled down in Sweden, where she became a successful novelist and she writes under a pen name “Madame Svenska”. When asked how many girls him and Wyman had kidnapped before they found the “right” Jennifer, Ashmann reveals that there were 14. After his confession, he begs Reed to shoot him to end his misery. Reed can either kill him or leave him to suffer his remaining years in agony.

Legacy[]

Despite refusing to accept Ashmann as her father, Celeste Felton still chose to save the memories of him and the rest of her family from being forgotten.

References[]

  1. Remothered Broken Porcelain - Additional Characters remothered.com
  2. Article - Contaminated Fields
  3. Article - Wyman's Suicide
  4. Article - The tragedy of the RossoGallo farm continues
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