Week 67! (Patreon)

And now in our series on the couples of Furthia High, we've come to Ashley's parents, Stacy and James. Stacy and James have appeared more than some of the parents in the comics, but they haven't appeared as often as the other three main cast's parents like Cyrus, Max, and even Campy's parents, mostly being seen during the Autumn Ball arc and once during Ashley and Eve's sleepover. 

Now, unlike the other sets of parents, Stacy and James are not actually meant to be an exploration of any specific different archetype of families, since they're just another traditional husband-and-wife-with-one-child sort of family. I suppose you could get away with saying that it's unique in that Stacy is the more dominant person in the relationship, but it wasn't a deliberate choice to do that just for the sake of having a family with the mother "in charge".

Ashley's parents are actually more supposed to be a reflection of Ashley herself, to demonstrate the slight dichotomy in her personality, behavior, hobbies, and so forth. Ashley on the surface is quite bossy and domineering and stubborn and so forth. These are qualities acquired from her mother, who is a somewhat serious and no-nonsense sort of woman that takes charge and makes decisions. However, beneath the surface, Ashley has a softer side that enjoys seeing and making cute things. This is a quality inherited from her father, who has been shown to be much sillier, easy-going, and more 'cat-like' in behavior and personality. Basically, Ashley takes after her mother on the surface in terms of being a strong, leadership-focused woman with interest in discipline and strength through martial arts, but beneath the surface she takes after her father in terms of being a softer, more sensitive, and less serious person that engages in cute and silly things when no one's looking.

Trivia: Stacy's markings I'm fairly sure were originally based on a cat I had owned since I was 3 (obviously since deceased since I'm 27 right now). 

Also there sure are a lot of cats in this comic, huh?