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fourninefour) wrote2020-12-21 09:06 pm
fourninefour) wrote2020-12-21 09:06 pm
One for the money; two for the show. I never was ready, so I watch you go. (Erku App)
Player Info:
Name: Alex
Over 18?: Yes, very.
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afaeryschild or via DM at Alec’s journal.
Characters Currently In Game: N/A
Character Info
Name: Alec McDowell
Canon: Dark Angel
Canon Point: From the end of the series finale, “Freak Nation.”
Age: 21
Background: Wiki for the series/overview; Wiki for Alec McDowell.
Personality: Alec McDowell, above all else, always has something to say, usually with a quip or some other snarky response. He comes off as cocky and a smartass, someone ‘too cool’ for taking things seriously. Max Guevara chooses the name Alec for him because he’s ‘too smart for his own good.’ When he asks what her other ideas for names are, she tells him that her ‘second choice was Dick,’ which is a pretty decent summary of Alec’s character at first glance. For all that he enjoys being witty and making snarky comments, he definitely speaks before he thinks and ends up hurting other people in the process.
But there are many layers to Alec McDowell. For all of his swagger, Alec struggles with the burdens of being trained as a solider since birth and his intended purpose as a perfect weapon. He’s also undergone significant conditioning in addition to his training, an additional source of pressure. For all that Manticore trained him, Alec is only too human in his vulnerabilities.
Assigned to first observe and then kill a man by the name of Robert Berrisford, someone working for Manticore suddenly asking too many questions, Alec goes undercover as a piano teacher for Robert’s daughter, Rachel, using the alias and credentials of Simon Lehane. Alec is caught completely off guard in the process of his mission; he falls in love with Rachel. As a result of this, Alec is compromised on multiple levels, but especially on an emotional scale; he tries to stop the car bomb he planted going off in the car Rachel gets into, wanting to save her life. Unfortunately for Alec, his observant handlers triggered the bomb despite his efforts otherwise, suspicious of his motivations, causing Rachel to go into a coma for the next two years. For disobeying his orders, Alec is punished fiercely by Manticore. But he does eventually get the chance to say goodbye to Rachel before she ultimately passes away; through this gesture, Alec shows that, despite what Manticore has put him through, he still is capable of love and defiance of what is expected of him as a super solider.
Because of what happened with Rachel, Alec tells Max that pretending to love someone is “a cheap ploy, and I don’t go there.” He sleeps around, and sleeps around with multiple women at the same time, leading to them fighting over one another, but he purposefully closes himself off to feeling anything deeper to avoid repeating his past traumatic experiences. This is also reflective of Alec’s sense of morality; even he has his own boundaries and lines he won’t cross due to his beliefs.
He's clever and innovative, definitely more so than he lets on, at times; he’s able to come up with creative ways to make money, usually through illegal means such as cage fighting/boxing and/or smuggling and selling stolen goods. His sense of morality very much operates in shades of grey but it is worth noting that he does not deal in products that could harm potential customers, again emphasizing the fact that he draws ethical boundaries for himself and possesses principles, even for all his shades of grey.
His wit and sense of humor serve as a defense mechanism, a way of keeping people from getting too close. Alec has endured a lot from his time at Manticore, and everything he’s endured leaves him on the defensive, a means of self-preservation. After a group of X5s escaped the Manticore compound, including Max Guevara, and after his twin, Ben, went on a murder spree, Alec suffered the consequences of both, enduring the harsher restrictions placed on him as a result of the group of X5s escaping and winding up getting reconditioned through PSY-OPS, a brutal method of testing his sanity, with an additional six months earned due to Ben’s actions.
Because of Ben, Alec has a complicated relationship with his status as an X5 transgenic, and transgenics in general, that influences his sense of morality. Ben, suffering from seizures, was constantly threatened with (and eventually, actually taken) getting taken down to the basement with the rest of the “Nomalies,” otherwise known as failed transgenic experiments, or, transgenics that have faults or don’t appear entirely human. Alec, living in Ben’s shadow, originally has trouble accepting transgenics such as Joshua, the first successful transgenic creation whose physical appearance is that of human and dog. When he’s tasked by White with killing three transgenics in order to save his own skin, Alec kills the transgenic who resembles a panther; he saves the transgenic who appears fully human. He’s capable of both ruthlessness and empathy, and he struggles with balancing in between these two extremes throughout the series.
At first glance, Alec is only out for himself; he is willing to do what he has to in order to survive. When he meets Max, he appears to be the poster boy for everything Manticore and their experiments represent: the good little soldier and breeding partner. And while he seems to work with Max by tattling on her escape attempts, he still betrays Max by following her to ensure that she infects Eyes Only/Logan Cale with a disease designed to kill him. At the same time, though, Alec still displays some rebellious tendencies counterproductive towards his standing with Manticore: he doesn’t force Max to breed with him, and when Renfro, their superior/drill sergeant asks about their coupling the following day, Alec lies for Max. In the wake of Manticore’s destruction, Alec also helps Max assist other transgenics on the run, helping them escape. And while he contemplates killing her in order to save his own life after Agent White plants a bomb in him, Alec ultimately cannot go through with killing her; he stops himself from killing her and instead asks for her help.
By his canon exit point Alec has grown through his own struggles and prejudices; he inherently distrusts authority and law enforcement, and he works directly with Max, Logan, Joshua, and their allies to help defend transgenics from Agent White’s attempts at exterminating them. When a group of transgenics trying to escape the police and mob hunting them turn to Alec for help, he immediately joins them and helps them into the Jam Pony offices, pulling a gun on his own boss and revealing himself to be a transgenic. When Max asks for the transgenics to make a peaceful stand with her against the various forms of law enforcement (police, national guard, FBI, etc.) closing in on them, Alec joins her.
Making a stand with Max and the transgenics of Seattle at the end of the series in Terminal City showcases how much Alec has grown as a person, a direct contrast to who he is in the beginning while stationed at Manticore. He cares, and he believes in standing up not only for himself but for others who are being hunted, scrutinized, and oppressed.
Powers: As an X5, Alec notably has a barcode on the back of his neck with his assigned number sequence (X5-494), a mark that is a part of his DNA, and he has similar abilities to what you might find in a superhero such as Steve Rogers. He possesses enhanced strength, agility, reflexes, and coordination, all of which grant him an advantage over ordinary people, which Alec has taken advantage of in the past in order to win fighting/wrestling competitions and to generate himself a quick buck or two. His speed, reflexes, and strength are such that he can leap great distances vertically (such as jumping over a barbed/electric fence), and he’s capable of running fast enough to blur, though he cannot reach/generate speeds that a speedster character such as the Flash can. He’s not necessarily guaranteed to win a fight, however, especially if he comes up against someone with abilities/powers similar to his own; Max Guevara has kicked his ass multiple times when they’ve fought.
He also possesses enhanced senses, hearing and sight, specifically, which allow him to overhear conversations from greater distances than the average human is capable of if he focuses in on those conversations, and allows him to clearly observe things from the same great distance if he chooses to zoom in. Alec possesses heightened night vision, which means he can see clearly in the dark/with limited light sources. Combined with his other enhanced abilities and his rigorous training at Manticore, this makes it difficult to catch Alec by surprise. (But not impossible: Agent White and his cronies got the drop on Alec when he was distracted counting money, once. For all his superhuman abilities, Alec’s own carelessness often trips him up.) With regards to using these hearing/sight abilities, I will never have Alec do so to other characters without OOC communication and permission beforehand.
Alec’s genetics also render him immune to common bio-warfare agents, grants him an eidetic memory, and he has a significant amount of stem cells in his system, which allows him to heal more quickly than an average human. However, any significant injuries, such as extreme organ damage, that would require surgery, such as any kind of transplant, requires either a donation from another X5 or some kind of artificial substitute.
Inventory:
One outfit consisting of:
One denim jacket, blue
One black t-shirt, plain
One pair of jeans, plain
One pair of combat boots, plain and black
One pair of socks, plain and white
One pair of underwear, plain black boxer briefs
One wallet, consisting of:
ID
Sector Pass
About $50 in cash
Samples: The Village TDM w/Neal Caffrey & TDM w/Max Guevara.
Augury
Opt-In Kinks: Oral fixation/oral sex, competition, dirty talk, fighting/wrestling, flexibility/contortionism, hair pulling, handcuffs, kissing, rough sex, sex toys, teasing, messy.
Opt-Out Kinks: Coercion/blackmail, age difference/age play, bodily secretions, cages/confinement, consent play, electricity, flogging/whipping/caning, gore/vore/guro, humiliation/degradation, medical play, snuff/necrophilia, immobilization.
Name: Alex
Over 18?: Yes, very.
Contact:
Characters Currently In Game: N/A
Character Info
Name: Alec McDowell
Canon: Dark Angel
Canon Point: From the end of the series finale, “Freak Nation.”
Age: 21
Background: Wiki for the series/overview; Wiki for Alec McDowell.
Personality: Alec McDowell, above all else, always has something to say, usually with a quip or some other snarky response. He comes off as cocky and a smartass, someone ‘too cool’ for taking things seriously. Max Guevara chooses the name Alec for him because he’s ‘too smart for his own good.’ When he asks what her other ideas for names are, she tells him that her ‘second choice was Dick,’ which is a pretty decent summary of Alec’s character at first glance. For all that he enjoys being witty and making snarky comments, he definitely speaks before he thinks and ends up hurting other people in the process.
But there are many layers to Alec McDowell. For all of his swagger, Alec struggles with the burdens of being trained as a solider since birth and his intended purpose as a perfect weapon. He’s also undergone significant conditioning in addition to his training, an additional source of pressure. For all that Manticore trained him, Alec is only too human in his vulnerabilities.
Assigned to first observe and then kill a man by the name of Robert Berrisford, someone working for Manticore suddenly asking too many questions, Alec goes undercover as a piano teacher for Robert’s daughter, Rachel, using the alias and credentials of Simon Lehane. Alec is caught completely off guard in the process of his mission; he falls in love with Rachel. As a result of this, Alec is compromised on multiple levels, but especially on an emotional scale; he tries to stop the car bomb he planted going off in the car Rachel gets into, wanting to save her life. Unfortunately for Alec, his observant handlers triggered the bomb despite his efforts otherwise, suspicious of his motivations, causing Rachel to go into a coma for the next two years. For disobeying his orders, Alec is punished fiercely by Manticore. But he does eventually get the chance to say goodbye to Rachel before she ultimately passes away; through this gesture, Alec shows that, despite what Manticore has put him through, he still is capable of love and defiance of what is expected of him as a super solider.
Because of what happened with Rachel, Alec tells Max that pretending to love someone is “a cheap ploy, and I don’t go there.” He sleeps around, and sleeps around with multiple women at the same time, leading to them fighting over one another, but he purposefully closes himself off to feeling anything deeper to avoid repeating his past traumatic experiences. This is also reflective of Alec’s sense of morality; even he has his own boundaries and lines he won’t cross due to his beliefs.
He's clever and innovative, definitely more so than he lets on, at times; he’s able to come up with creative ways to make money, usually through illegal means such as cage fighting/boxing and/or smuggling and selling stolen goods. His sense of morality very much operates in shades of grey but it is worth noting that he does not deal in products that could harm potential customers, again emphasizing the fact that he draws ethical boundaries for himself and possesses principles, even for all his shades of grey.
His wit and sense of humor serve as a defense mechanism, a way of keeping people from getting too close. Alec has endured a lot from his time at Manticore, and everything he’s endured leaves him on the defensive, a means of self-preservation. After a group of X5s escaped the Manticore compound, including Max Guevara, and after his twin, Ben, went on a murder spree, Alec suffered the consequences of both, enduring the harsher restrictions placed on him as a result of the group of X5s escaping and winding up getting reconditioned through PSY-OPS, a brutal method of testing his sanity, with an additional six months earned due to Ben’s actions.
Because of Ben, Alec has a complicated relationship with his status as an X5 transgenic, and transgenics in general, that influences his sense of morality. Ben, suffering from seizures, was constantly threatened with (and eventually, actually taken) getting taken down to the basement with the rest of the “Nomalies,” otherwise known as failed transgenic experiments, or, transgenics that have faults or don’t appear entirely human. Alec, living in Ben’s shadow, originally has trouble accepting transgenics such as Joshua, the first successful transgenic creation whose physical appearance is that of human and dog. When he’s tasked by White with killing three transgenics in order to save his own skin, Alec kills the transgenic who resembles a panther; he saves the transgenic who appears fully human. He’s capable of both ruthlessness and empathy, and he struggles with balancing in between these two extremes throughout the series.
At first glance, Alec is only out for himself; he is willing to do what he has to in order to survive. When he meets Max, he appears to be the poster boy for everything Manticore and their experiments represent: the good little soldier and breeding partner. And while he seems to work with Max by tattling on her escape attempts, he still betrays Max by following her to ensure that she infects Eyes Only/Logan Cale with a disease designed to kill him. At the same time, though, Alec still displays some rebellious tendencies counterproductive towards his standing with Manticore: he doesn’t force Max to breed with him, and when Renfro, their superior/drill sergeant asks about their coupling the following day, Alec lies for Max. In the wake of Manticore’s destruction, Alec also helps Max assist other transgenics on the run, helping them escape. And while he contemplates killing her in order to save his own life after Agent White plants a bomb in him, Alec ultimately cannot go through with killing her; he stops himself from killing her and instead asks for her help.
By his canon exit point Alec has grown through his own struggles and prejudices; he inherently distrusts authority and law enforcement, and he works directly with Max, Logan, Joshua, and their allies to help defend transgenics from Agent White’s attempts at exterminating them. When a group of transgenics trying to escape the police and mob hunting them turn to Alec for help, he immediately joins them and helps them into the Jam Pony offices, pulling a gun on his own boss and revealing himself to be a transgenic. When Max asks for the transgenics to make a peaceful stand with her against the various forms of law enforcement (police, national guard, FBI, etc.) closing in on them, Alec joins her.
Making a stand with Max and the transgenics of Seattle at the end of the series in Terminal City showcases how much Alec has grown as a person, a direct contrast to who he is in the beginning while stationed at Manticore. He cares, and he believes in standing up not only for himself but for others who are being hunted, scrutinized, and oppressed.
Powers: As an X5, Alec notably has a barcode on the back of his neck with his assigned number sequence (X5-494), a mark that is a part of his DNA, and he has similar abilities to what you might find in a superhero such as Steve Rogers. He possesses enhanced strength, agility, reflexes, and coordination, all of which grant him an advantage over ordinary people, which Alec has taken advantage of in the past in order to win fighting/wrestling competitions and to generate himself a quick buck or two. His speed, reflexes, and strength are such that he can leap great distances vertically (such as jumping over a barbed/electric fence), and he’s capable of running fast enough to blur, though he cannot reach/generate speeds that a speedster character such as the Flash can. He’s not necessarily guaranteed to win a fight, however, especially if he comes up against someone with abilities/powers similar to his own; Max Guevara has kicked his ass multiple times when they’ve fought.
He also possesses enhanced senses, hearing and sight, specifically, which allow him to overhear conversations from greater distances than the average human is capable of if he focuses in on those conversations, and allows him to clearly observe things from the same great distance if he chooses to zoom in. Alec possesses heightened night vision, which means he can see clearly in the dark/with limited light sources. Combined with his other enhanced abilities and his rigorous training at Manticore, this makes it difficult to catch Alec by surprise. (But not impossible: Agent White and his cronies got the drop on Alec when he was distracted counting money, once. For all his superhuman abilities, Alec’s own carelessness often trips him up.) With regards to using these hearing/sight abilities, I will never have Alec do so to other characters without OOC communication and permission beforehand.
Alec’s genetics also render him immune to common bio-warfare agents, grants him an eidetic memory, and he has a significant amount of stem cells in his system, which allows him to heal more quickly than an average human. However, any significant injuries, such as extreme organ damage, that would require surgery, such as any kind of transplant, requires either a donation from another X5 or some kind of artificial substitute.
Inventory:
One outfit consisting of:
One wallet, consisting of:
Samples: The Village TDM w/Neal Caffrey & TDM w/Max Guevara.
Augury
Opt-In Kinks: Oral fixation/oral sex, competition, dirty talk, fighting/wrestling, flexibility/contortionism, hair pulling, handcuffs, kissing, rough sex, sex toys, teasing, messy.
Opt-Out Kinks: Coercion/blackmail, age difference/age play, bodily secretions, cages/confinement, consent play, electricity, flogging/whipping/caning, gore/vore/guro, humiliation/degradation, medical play, snuff/necrophilia, immobilization.