Post by ALEX KING on Oct 19, 2012 4:42:20 GMT -5
ALEXANDRA “ALEX” GRACE KING
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Play by: Grace Phipps
Race/Species: Human
Species Info: N/A
D.O.B.: July 4, 1994
Age they appear: 16
Actual age: 16
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Features: Alex has the brightest blue eyes that sometimes look green or even purple depending on what she’s wearing or her mood. She’s fair skinned and her hair is black as coal. If it wasn’t for her serious stage fright she’d make the perfect Snow White in the school play.
Sexual Preference [Optional]: Straight
Ethnicity: Greek/Irish
Marks/Tattoos/Visible Scars: She has a few scars around her left wrist, but what teenaged girl didn’t have a few troubling scars? She covers it up with bracelets or long sleeved shirts. There are also a few on her thighs but they’re easily covered by pants.
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Flaws/Weaknesses: Alex sometimes says the most awkward things when the room goes quiet. Nothing embarrassing, but she’ll say something random and out of place. She’s also really bad at P.E., hating dodge ball more than any other game since she’s always the first one out and the last one picked for teams.
Skills/Strengths: She may not be the all-star athlete in high school but she does excel in other ways. Like math and art. She’s also a pretty snappy photographer. Get it? Snappy! She’s smart, sweet and is a whiz at keyboarding.
Likes:
- French fries
- Video games
- Computers
- Photography
- Wacky hair dyes (just not on her)
- Playing dress up in her room when she’s alone in front of a mirror
Dislikes:
- Being the center of attention
- P.E.
- The Regina Georges of the world
- Summertime - bikinis and shorts? Blech!
- When people walk slow in front of her
- Bad manners - seriously, these people raised in a barn?!
Other Information: Alex hates when people call her by her full name. She can also be sarcastic at times but not in an overbearing way.
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History: Alexandra didn’t always live in Scriptor Bay. In fact, she just moved there thanks to her father being relocated. They moved around a lot since her father was in the Air Force. She was a military brat, born on a base in Texas and then moved all around the country to different bases. When she was young her father had been sent overseas multiple times. He’d gone to Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan. For the majority of her child years she hardly saw the man who she called father. Her and her mother would stay in housing on the base while he would be away.
But her mother couldn’t handle the pressure of raising a daughter as an only parent while her husband was constantly gone risking his life for his country. Just before signing a fresh set of orders to go on another tour in Afghanistan, Alex’s mother served her father with divorce papers. As much as her father loved her mother and begged her not to go through the mess of a divorce, to think of Alex, her mother stood her ground and Alex’s father signed the papers in the end. There was only one condition to him signing, however. He would grant a divorce if he received full custody of Alex. To Alex’s horror, full custody was granted to her father. Her mother didn’t want to take Alex with her. She was leaving her family behind to start fresh. When her mother pecked her on the cheek Alex didn’t realize that would be the last time she’d ever know her mother’s loving kisses.
Alex watched her mother driver away at the age of thirteen, leaving her with a man she only saw for a few weeks out of the year at a time. Needless to say, Alex had a hard time coping with the sense of abandonment.
It took time and effort to make a father-daughter relationship work between the pair of them. Alex called her father by his first name, Stan, the majority of the time because it was more comfortable than the title ‘dad’. As the days turned to weeks and then months, Stan and Alex found common ground between the two of them. And as the years progressed, Alex found that her father was one of her best friends. They learned and grew together. Stan had to teach Alex all about her ‘friend’ that came once a month, about personal hygiene and boys. It had been humiliating and awkward at first for both of them but then they managed to turn it into a joke. Everything was always easier if you could just laugh a little bit about it.
Three years down the road, at sixteen Alex’s father explains they have to move to Scriptor Bay due to his job. She was so accustomed to moving that it hardly phased her. A new city with a brand new school. It was the same old thing.
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ABOUT YOU:
Name you go by: Whiskey
Other Characters you play: Sebastian, Flynn, Marius, Claire, Cassidy, Calera, Hunter, Gustav, Gertie, the list goes on.
How long have you been RPing: 11+ years
How did you find us? Co-founder