NarcissisticPotato — Roleplayer Guild

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

– WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Alex is your typical heart on the sleeve type. He seems dreadfully hopeful and you'd be hard pressed to find him without a smile on his face. His background can bother him sometimes and when it does, it's obvious but for the most part, he's a hard-working individual who prides himself on his ability to bring a smile to someone's face.

Basic Information

> Name:
Alexander Armstrong

> Nickname:
Lex, Xan (his mother's petname for him) and Digger

> Age:
17

> Gender:
Male

> Ethnicity:
Canadian, Russian

> Sexuality:
Heterosexual

Imprisonment

> Crime:
Sexual assault, grevious bodily harm, assault & treason

> Years Spent
5 Months

> Prison Elective
Mostly random jobs - he's strong so the guards typically had him lug things around

> Cell-Mate
N/A

Education & Skills

> Occupation:
Farming

> Classes:
English
Construction & Technology
Agriculture
Biology

> Skills:
Surprisingly good listener
Farming
Basic grasp of herbology
Construction - understands how to put buildings together

The Little Things

> Likes
Family
Books
Patience
Hardwork & toil
The dawn - even if it is artificial
Cold showers
Smart girls

> Dislikes
Douchebags
Advanced technology and robotics
Loudmouths
Having to stay still
Criminals
Laziness
The artificial nature of everything around him

> Habits:
Scratching the back of his head
Stretching his back and shoulder
Clenches his fists to vent anger

> Hobbies:
Reading
Botany
Brewing (*cough* legal *cough*) alcohol

> Fears:
Being stuck in space
Death
Love

The Very Big Things

> Personality:
Alex isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the toolbox but for what he lacks in intelligence and knowledge, he easily makes up for in sheer willpower and hardworking determination. He's no stranger to a hard day's work and savours the strange appreciation of working. In a sentence, he's a farmer through and through. He's a lot more than that, however. He's one of the most honest individuals you'll ever meet and delights in helping others, even if it's at his own detriment. He rarely thinks of his own situation and needs, putting others above himself. He was raised in the thinking that community and family are everything and someone who can't provide for both are a shame. A weakness to this is that he is easy to manipulate and play with. He's strong and willing to fight for a cause which means that someone smart enough could bend him to their own self-interests. Strangely, however, he seems more cautious of people who act kindly in return to him.

Love has hurt him a lot in the past and he approaches it with a great hesitation. He used to be a very hopeful individual and in a sense, he still is, but he still remains wary around others, even if he helps them as much as he can. For that reason, if you hurt him and break his heart, he'll go to a great length to hurt you just as much. Kind he may be, but forgive and forget isn't included in his mantra.

Keep him placated though, and you'll find someone who's stubborn enough to go to any length for you and dumb enough to throw all of his emotional investment in as well.

> Backstory:
Alex was born a middle child in one of those awkward situations where your older siblings are too old to interact with and your younger siblings are too young to interact with either. So, he became quite used to the power of imagination and finding fun in some of the most mundane things imaginable. When he grew out of the playing phase, he spent the majority of his time with his parents. His family were poor; not at the bottom but not too far off it. They were farmers and although it was one of the most important jobs on Port Hope, payment was meagre. Their money situation never really bothered them, however, and they refused to give up their lives in farming. Alex found that admirable and after spending long years working the artificial land, he became quite attuned to the lifestyle of a farmer as well. As his siblings filtered off into different careers and professions, he remained steadfast. He dreamed of going to the Core Worlds and becoming a farmer but things never materialised to allow him to do such a thing. His life was simple but it was a good one. He became involved in the community, matured, became way too strong for his own good and finally began to settle into the idea that he would maybe marry, have a few children and spend his days working the land. It wasn't a bad life and it was a plan he was willing to follow to a T.

And then, she came. She was simultaneously beautiful and intelligent, with a sharp wit and a smirk that would leave him dizzy for days. He should have stopped there but love does horrible things to silly people. You see, she wasn't a farmer, or from a factory family. She was the daughter of an Inquisitor and not just a normal one at that - he was a justicar that manned the criminal justice system. Alex, of course, was stupid enough to fall for her, and he assumed that she loved him too. He really should have stopped when she refused to ever let her parents meet him but he was already in way too deep and not caring enough to think of the consequences.

For a while, she did care about him and their relationship evolved from occasional hook-ups to something serious. Young and stupid, he believed that they could somehow overcome the differences in their positions. They had it all planned - they would escape to one of the core worlds and become settlers for new worlds on the edge of Human Space. Their plans didn't come to fruition.

Her father caught them about a year after their relationship started and things quickly spiralled downwards from there. Her father couldn't possibly risk news escaping that his daughter was willingly with a simple farmer so he had Alex jailed under sexual assault charges. That didn't hurt him, however. It was how she remained silent when he was charged and sent to Juvie to live out the remainder of his life inside a cell. Or so he thought.

> Theme Song:
Snake Eyes – Mumford & Sons
It's in the eyes
I can tell, you will always be danger
We had it tonight, why do we always seek absolution?
It's in the eyes

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