First appeared in Blade Runner 2019 #1 and was created by Michael Green and Mike Johnson. Aahna Ashina, nicknamed "Ash," was a Los Angeles Police Department Blade Runner initially active from April 2013 to November 2019. After escaping to the Off-world colonies, she went by the alias Darja Kady. After her return to Earth nearly a decade later, she became a replicant activist and resumed her Blade Runner career, secretly assisting her replicant targets. According to the comic's co-writer Mike Johnson, Ash is of half-Japanese and half-Indian descent.