Ash Malhotra

Ash Malhotra is one of the crew members in The Long Journey Home. He is an adept botanist and able to extract healing items, drugs, acids, or poisons out of plants found on extraterrestrial planets.

Description
Dr. Ashwin 'Ash' Malhotra claims to have been nominated by our botanical team through the strategic use of... direct quote... 'my guitar, and a particularly annoying tune I kept singing at them until they surrended'[sic]. We have not dared investigate. In any event, Malhotra's skill with terrestrial and exo-plantlife from Mars and Europa makes him an ideal handler of any botanical discoveries we may find on Alpha Centauri or beyond.

Background
Ashwin is amicable and optimistic, enjoying songs, pranks and (allegedly terrible) puns with crew members, even if the situation is grim or he himself is injured. He is married to a man.

Ash proposes stress relief while traveling within a Star System. He mentions smoking something medicinal, punching a pillow, and spending some alone time in a storage closet. Then asks if anything from the supply closet. He spreads his joints, board games, champagne, guitar, and flower lamp throughout the ship.

If Zoe is another crew member, they two may engage in a prank war along the journey.

Ash is an athletic cynic person, who has no advantages during lander missions.

"I told my husband that IASA was thinking of shooting me into space. Never seen him so happy."

Abilities

 * Gate Circuit: He destroys the last gate
 * Prunus Scintillans: Distill Meorcl Wine
 * Targetes Latifolius: Transform into Corrosive Acid
 * Xaquindi Fangs: Extract Xaquindi Poison

Item

 * Gwendoline: His plant has no known purpose and grows throughout the journey.