Ash Crimson

Ash Crimson is a video game character in the King of Fighters series. His first appearance was in The King of Fighters 2003. Ash was the leader of the New Hero Team (composed also by Duo Lon and Shen Woo). Together, they made their first appearance in The King of Fighters 2003. His motives for entering are to take the powers of the descendants of the clans who sealed Orochi away, 1,800 years ago (Kyo Kusanagi, Iori Yagami and Chizuru Kagura). At this time, he succeeds in stealing Chizuru's power.

Ash is very cunning as well as sarcastic. He is an anti-villain as well as an anti-hero. Other than his well-planned tactics in stealing the powers of The Three Sacred Treasures, he has also given rise to some other trickery, such as 'accidentally' causing his team mates, Oswald and Shen (who don't know if Ash had planned something on them), to fight each other because Oswald wants to find drug dealers while Shen Woo wanted a good fight with a strong opponent. He then tells Oswald that Shen knows the whereabouts of the drug dealers and withthis, givesShen a worthy opponent, killingtwo birds with one shot. The outcome of this fight is unknown, but it is likely Oswald will remain in Ash's service. His talking style easily upsets many people, including Elisabeth, his former companion.

Ash may seem like a frail individual, but he is extremely powerful. He was able to defeat Iori easily even in his Blood Riot form. Although it seems he could have defeated Kyo at any time, his goal is not to kill Kyo but to absorb his powers. In addition, defeating Chizuru and then Iori was a plan as he needed the Yata mirror to suppress the Orochi blood in Iori and then plans to use the Yagami flames to defeat Kyo.

In The King of Fighters XI, he teams up with Oswald and again Shen Woo. After defeating Magaki, Ash leaves Shen Woo and Oswald to fight each other at the end of the tournament after by revealing or simply making up the history of the pharmacist that manufactures Dragon Pills to his teammates. The true purpose was to steal Iori's powers, and succeeded when Iori was going under the Riot of the Blood. As the Rival team (Elisabeth, Duo Lon and Benimaru) reached the scene, they approach Ash after stealing Iori's powers and Elisabeth asks Ash to repeat the mission Ash and Elisabeth were given. Ash repeats he forgot, but is now a different person. Elisabeth tells him he is now obsessed with power and leaves in disgust. While disapearing by using the powers from Chizuru's Yata Mirror, Ash vows that Kyo Kusanagi will be the next target.

His moves are almost all named after months of the French Republican Calendar, except for his LDM Sans-culottes — it should be noted however that Sans-culottes may be referring to the Sansculottides, which were the last days of the year in that particular calendar. All of the moves, including Sans-culottes, refer to the French Revolution.