Is there a way to start the game with ashley?

[z3rox12]

Just got the forlon skin set for willow and i believe it to be such a let down taht i have to wait until  mid/late game to get my giant kitty

[Harrowick]

Well, if you get lucky with chopping Totally Normal Trees, you could get the Clean Sweeper item as a drop. Using the Clean Sweeper on Bernie will swap his skin to Ashley. 

[ShadowDuelist]

No, you can't. 

But there's a RNG chance that you don't have to wait much, as chopping totally normal trees have a chance to spawn a sweeper.

Edit: I was Ninja'd by Lumberlocke 

[Mike23Ua]

It’s not as hard to get a new Bernie as people make it out.. in fact you can even have one shortly after you spawn! I will put everything into a nice little spoiler just so as to not spoil something people haven’t figured out for themselves yet.

Spoiler

Getting Beefalo wool is super super easy, you will need to craft a razor, wait till they’re sleeping then shave them.

Getting Beard Hair is Equally Easy, craft rabbit traps, place them near their holes and then “Scare” the rabbits into running into the traps (if you have food you can bait the traps too) Eat some uncooked Green Mushrooms to drop your sanity so they turn into beardlings, go on a murdering spree obtain beard hairs.

Fast cook your green shrooms with your lighter to regain sanity

The only thing I struggle with as Willow  is obtaining the Hounds Teeth in creating Sewing Kits to repair Bernie with.

My luck with getting those from hound wave attacks has just been terrible Bleh..

Hopefully this informations helps!