protective!ashton would be kind of adorable because he wouldn’t be the angry kind of protective. instead, you would be out with a group of your friends and ash one night and all your girl friends would be calling you “slut” as a nickname and all your guy friends would be making subtle sexual comments just because that’s what they’ve always done and none of them have seemed to grow up at all since high school and out of no where ashton would just pull you aside and beg to go home and when you would ask why he’d just start venting like, “i don’t like it when they call you that or talk about you like that and i can see it in your eyes that you don’t like it either but i know you won’t say anything so can’t we just go and have our own fun? we can just sit at home and watch marvel movies while they go be assholes by themselves.” and just looking in his eyes you’d be able to tell how much he was really getting angry at your “friends” and all you’d be able to do is nod and just hug the shit out of him because god damn that boy cared about you