Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Feb 21, 2011 21:39:36 GMT -5
Name: Dr. Alexander Hanson Shepherd (AKA Alex)
Height: 5'5"
Mass: 127 lb
Age: Late 20's
Description: Alex is a short, lanky man with a messy bundle of curly chestnut hair and an olive complexion lightened from the sunbaked hue of his Iranian ancestors. He has bright ringed eyes of a bluish green tone under thick eyebrows and a pooched, simian mouth that gives him the appearance of a perpetual pout. Quite thin and gangly, with numerous small cuts and nicks "around the edges" from trekking through the Central American jungles for eleven months. Two long, thin cuts in particular run high across his left cheekbone, received from a trapped feral cat.
Personality: Alex was, until the rise of giant creatures and the formation of the GAAF, someone with big ideas, but no means of achieving them. Now that he is actually in a position of power though, he is not quite sure what to do with it. He is the "world's most important loser." Although brilliant in his element of monsters, quick thinking, and crazy ideas, he is a very particular person. He needs complete control of a situation or working area to get anything done, so he refuses to work with others, despite the fact that he literally has thousands of good minds and hands at his disposal. It's not that he dislikes other people, it's just that he's always been so busy with his own ideas that he never learned to deal with them. He doesn't try to fit in or stand out, he simply takes his own path.
Even if he doesn't quite understand other people, Alex is very tolerant of them, unwilling to judge anyone until they prove that they deserve a bad name. He would like to assume the best of people. He is not a friend of man- because that would require him to know his fellow man as well as a friend does- but is certainly a good Samaritan. He developed the science of titanoology and helped begin the GAAF to help people, as well as the giant creatures that threaten them. Alex is just as sympathetic to monsters as he is to people. Alex is where he is today because he understand monsters more than he does people. He is the entire reason that the GAAF has recruited several monster to their cause instead of killing them where they stood and losing a potential ally. Just as much as he works to protect people, Alex works to better understand and coexist with monsters. That is what he believes is the eventual goal of the GAAF- not the destruction of the threat, but coexistence.
Despite his lack of social grace, Alex displays a sharp sense pf humor and does not stop himself from shooting off his mouth, even when he isn't particularly amused or happy. He'll smile even if he wants to cry, because smiling is easier, for him and those around him too.
History: Alex has always chased monsters, even if they were much smaller in the beginning. He discovered a slumbering Quetzar while studying the effect of feral cat populations on local lizards and awaken the sleeping serpent with a touch. After the alarmed deity took to the air over the nearest large city and came under military fire, Alex was the one that convinced both the winged snake to calm himself and prove he was not a threat instead of countering the threat. This act drew him into the coming conflict between monsters and humans, and from the resulting chaos he created a new science- titanoology, a method of determining the threat that giant creatures posed as invasive entities. The initial war against the monster escalated in the arrival of Strider, an alien weapon created from flesh, and it was again Alex who suggested tolerance rather than hostility, convincing Nathanial Teach, leader of the pree-GAAF forces, to summon Earth's monster to fight the invader instead of trying to battle all of them. After the alien fell, the men and women that had involved themselves in the battle saw it fit to form an organization, one dedicated to both restraining and understanding the monstrous threat that now existed on Earth, and Alex was pulled in as its central hypothetical mind, the one that generated all the ideas.
Although his role in the ongoing war is in danger of shrinking with greater understanding and different interpretations of monsters arising, he is still an important player and key figure in the GAAF.
Living Quarters: Alex's living space is a cross between the cramped, messy apartment he occupied in Miami, Florida before his abduction and his office on the Platform, the vast oceanic HQ of the WGAAF. Its is filled with various personal effects, scribbled-on and crumbled-up pieces of paper, and numerous knickknacks from his extensive world travels, the most valuable of which are parts shed from actual Aberrations and UAEs that plagued his home dimension. These include broken teeth, cast off claws, and, most sentimentally, a shed scale from Quetzar that he found on the day they met. This six-foot emerald shield is mounted directly above the busy desktop that sits centered on the back wall of his room.
Monsters and characters associated with: Quetzar and Kedos both know Alex, although in much different ways. Alex was the first human that Quetzar saw after awakening from his centuries-long slumber in the wake of the Aztec's extinction, and thus knows him fondly as his first human friend in several hundred years. Kedos, on the other hand, despises Alex with all of his dead, black heart. The human was the very first to ever escape his grasp, and the dragon will never forgive him for it. Fainis also recognized and hold a strange fascination in Alex, most likely for his embrace of change rather than rejection, a rare trait in human beings. The intrigue is not returned however, as Alex is petrified by both the canine and human forms of the sadistic Outer Worlder.
Height: 5'5"
Mass: 127 lb
Age: Late 20's
Description: Alex is a short, lanky man with a messy bundle of curly chestnut hair and an olive complexion lightened from the sunbaked hue of his Iranian ancestors. He has bright ringed eyes of a bluish green tone under thick eyebrows and a pooched, simian mouth that gives him the appearance of a perpetual pout. Quite thin and gangly, with numerous small cuts and nicks "around the edges" from trekking through the Central American jungles for eleven months. Two long, thin cuts in particular run high across his left cheekbone, received from a trapped feral cat.
Personality: Alex was, until the rise of giant creatures and the formation of the GAAF, someone with big ideas, but no means of achieving them. Now that he is actually in a position of power though, he is not quite sure what to do with it. He is the "world's most important loser." Although brilliant in his element of monsters, quick thinking, and crazy ideas, he is a very particular person. He needs complete control of a situation or working area to get anything done, so he refuses to work with others, despite the fact that he literally has thousands of good minds and hands at his disposal. It's not that he dislikes other people, it's just that he's always been so busy with his own ideas that he never learned to deal with them. He doesn't try to fit in or stand out, he simply takes his own path.
Even if he doesn't quite understand other people, Alex is very tolerant of them, unwilling to judge anyone until they prove that they deserve a bad name. He would like to assume the best of people. He is not a friend of man- because that would require him to know his fellow man as well as a friend does- but is certainly a good Samaritan. He developed the science of titanoology and helped begin the GAAF to help people, as well as the giant creatures that threaten them. Alex is just as sympathetic to monsters as he is to people. Alex is where he is today because he understand monsters more than he does people. He is the entire reason that the GAAF has recruited several monster to their cause instead of killing them where they stood and losing a potential ally. Just as much as he works to protect people, Alex works to better understand and coexist with monsters. That is what he believes is the eventual goal of the GAAF- not the destruction of the threat, but coexistence.
Despite his lack of social grace, Alex displays a sharp sense pf humor and does not stop himself from shooting off his mouth, even when he isn't particularly amused or happy. He'll smile even if he wants to cry, because smiling is easier, for him and those around him too.
History: Alex has always chased monsters, even if they were much smaller in the beginning. He discovered a slumbering Quetzar while studying the effect of feral cat populations on local lizards and awaken the sleeping serpent with a touch. After the alarmed deity took to the air over the nearest large city and came under military fire, Alex was the one that convinced both the winged snake to calm himself and prove he was not a threat instead of countering the threat. This act drew him into the coming conflict between monsters and humans, and from the resulting chaos he created a new science- titanoology, a method of determining the threat that giant creatures posed as invasive entities. The initial war against the monster escalated in the arrival of Strider, an alien weapon created from flesh, and it was again Alex who suggested tolerance rather than hostility, convincing Nathanial Teach, leader of the pree-GAAF forces, to summon Earth's monster to fight the invader instead of trying to battle all of them. After the alien fell, the men and women that had involved themselves in the battle saw it fit to form an organization, one dedicated to both restraining and understanding the monstrous threat that now existed on Earth, and Alex was pulled in as its central hypothetical mind, the one that generated all the ideas.
Although his role in the ongoing war is in danger of shrinking with greater understanding and different interpretations of monsters arising, he is still an important player and key figure in the GAAF.
Living Quarters: Alex's living space is a cross between the cramped, messy apartment he occupied in Miami, Florida before his abduction and his office on the Platform, the vast oceanic HQ of the WGAAF. Its is filled with various personal effects, scribbled-on and crumbled-up pieces of paper, and numerous knickknacks from his extensive world travels, the most valuable of which are parts shed from actual Aberrations and UAEs that plagued his home dimension. These include broken teeth, cast off claws, and, most sentimentally, a shed scale from Quetzar that he found on the day they met. This six-foot emerald shield is mounted directly above the busy desktop that sits centered on the back wall of his room.
Monsters and characters associated with: Quetzar and Kedos both know Alex, although in much different ways. Alex was the first human that Quetzar saw after awakening from his centuries-long slumber in the wake of the Aztec's extinction, and thus knows him fondly as his first human friend in several hundred years. Kedos, on the other hand, despises Alex with all of his dead, black heart. The human was the very first to ever escape his grasp, and the dragon will never forgive him for it. Fainis also recognized and hold a strange fascination in Alex, most likely for his embrace of change rather than rejection, a rare trait in human beings. The intrigue is not returned however, as Alex is petrified by both the canine and human forms of the sadistic Outer Worlder.
