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Name Alexis Essex aka Lexi aka Sweets
Age Old enough!
Gender Female
Species Siren
Ethnicity Edani
Height 5’ 2”
Occupation Professional Gamer, Hacker, Mischief Engineer, Prosthetic Fashionista, Robot Mechanic, Scavenger, Snack Connossieur
Residence Pending
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Physical Description
Her eyes have been enhanced by ocular implants. She has customizable robotic prosthetic legs and a customizable robotic prosthetic right arm. She’s very pale - always has been - and burns rather than tans, making personal shields a necessity. She changes her hair color often.
Personality
She likes adventure and sweets. She’s an explorer at heart. Sometimes she likes cute boys; sometimes…she also likes cute girls. Sometimes she likes both! She hated her prosthetics for a long time; then she was just annoyed by them. Finally, she accepted them and figured she might as well make them stylish. ‘cause if you can have claws, why wouldn’t you have claws, you PLEBIAN?! She…gets bored easily. That’s why she’s constantly changing her hair color, why she prefers adventuring to mechanical stuff, and why she’s never had a partner for more than a few months. She gets bored. And when she gets bored, she gets unpredictable…which, ironically, is somewhat predictable.
Oh, and don’t EVER fuck with Rabbit (her robot friend & partner in crime adventure). This little friend of hers has surprising functionality and adaptability, can upgrade and repair itself, and is basically the god of robots. And rabbits. And (almost) the only constant in Lexi’s life.
Lexi’s the kind of person who’s always doing something. She HATES just waiting around doing nothing. Even if it’s something casual, she’s gotta be doing something or she’ll get bored faster than usual.
Lexi has to be positive. She has to be. If she’s not positive, she spirals. She has flashbacks to the incident that took her legs and her arm from her, and it took her a while to climb out of her depression after she was released from the hospital. She’s not the type to be malicious, but she can be vindictive; she tries not to be, though. It’s not that she’s high-energy; it’s just that she tries to be a good person and tries to stay on the sunny side of things, so to speak. She would never want to seriously hurt anyone, including herself, but everyone has a dark side. She doesn’t wanna know what hers might be like.
Magic/Abilities
So, first we have to talk about the elephant in the room. Yes, it’s true: she has no legs and no right arm. She does, however, have prosthetic adaptation implant devices (i.e. PAIDs) that she likes to customize. The prosthetics are damn near indestructible but the downside is that she can’t feel anything below the implants. This…can cause problems sometimes. On the plus side, they’re watertight and shielded to prevent damage or interference from things like radiation (not that it doesn’t affect the rest of her, of course), caustic substances, extreme temperatures and their logical results, EMPs, et cetera. They’re put out by BioTech Industries and completely customizable, so why not have a little fun with them? She’s stuck with them, after all. It’s either that or…y’know…be useless. And who wants that?
Before her…incident…Lexi was a gymnast. She was quite talented and on her way to stardom, but…well, things happened. Once she got used to her prosthetics and finally began to crawl out of the funk they put her in, she started practicing again. The prosthetics, even the slimmer and lightweight ones, are a bit clunky; while she’s regained her flexibility, her skill as a gymnast has suffered a little as a result. She could still compete - if it weren’t against the anti-enhancement rules - but whether she could be as outstanding as she was is debatable. They’re also hard to get into a lot of clothing, so she’s had to adjust her wardrobe a bit; she used to wear much tighter and more aerodynamic stuff due to her gymnastics, but now she just can’t.
While she isn’t necessarily a genius - or maybe she IS…maybe…she has learned a lot about mechanical stuff just by tinkering. Her true technological talent, however, lies in computers and hacking in particular. She also practiced a lot with pistols, something her dad taught her years ago.
Oh, yes…the most important thing…well, things. Lexi stopped aging about a decade ago but more importantly, her voice can hit notes that humans just…can’t. These notes have multiple effects, depending on how they’re used. They can inspire, they can placate, they can frighten…they can enrage…while her voice isn’t hypnotic in and of itself, singing specific notes that only she and her kind can sing can solve problems as well as cause them. She can also “breathe” underwater, her skin absorbing oxygen and nitrogen and processing it very quickly; her body recycles air, though it’s not an unlimited process, allowing her to go without oxygen for a while if she’s properly prepared or enter a low-oxygen area (such as being underwater) and remain there for a long time.
Relationships
Ellis Essex: Elder brother; only living relative. Also a prat. And kind of a bully. Basically, he’s boring.
History
Doing a show in a frontier town is always dangerous. People get rowdy, people get physical, people get…touchy…Lexi no like touchy. In a frontier town called Meteor Mine, you get all kinds of people - only a handful of them nice. Extracting precious minerals is big business, after all, and you don’t exactly hire high-class socialites to rip apart a planet from the inside. It’s dirty, dangerous work but somebody’s gotta do it.
And somebody’s gotta entertain. That somebody was Lexi. Her brother managed the business side of things while she performed a mix of ballet and gymnastics to charm and amaze. She wasn’t allowed to sing in the cities, but out on the frontier? No such rule. There was a reason she wasn’t allowed to sing, of course: riots tend to be unhealthy for entertainment venues, especially the nicer ones.
Exactly what happened in Meteor is unknown. Some say a riot broke out there that started a fire, which pushed everyone to be evacuated to the mine’s staging area since it was more secure; others say the venue changed at the last minute and something happened in the mine itself that caused the explosion. There are as many stories and theories as there were dollars flying into the governor’s pocket when he publicly announced his “aid” to the victims of the disaster. There were cover-ups, bribes, and who-knows-what-else. Whatever happened, Lexi got caught in the middle of it.
When the ground erupted, there was fire and burning metal and soil everywhere. The air itself was supposedly seared with the heat from the explosion, whether it came from above-ground somewhere or down in the mine. The town itself was tiny, barely fifty people inhabiting it when it was at its busiest, and the Meteor Mine explosion easily cut that number in half. Lexi’s brother was lucky to have escaped mostly unharmed. Lexi…was not so fortunate.
A big media storm was led by the governor himself as he actively sought to “help that poor, unfortunate girl and get her back on her legs and dancing again!” It was, admittedly, him that ultimately paid for her initial prosthetics - but only after Lexi’s brother came very close to driving the man into bankruptcy and disgrace about his shoddy business practices and cheap short-cuts by threatening to go public…and then refusing to take a hint when he was threatened in turn. It became something of a silent cold war until the governor finally broke and helped her as he said he would, rather than just bolstering his own reputation by pretending to. The settlement the Essex family was quietly paid also helped to shut them up. Lexi had to pay for her own ocular implants, however; her eyes were damaged by the blinding light from the fires that raged after the explosion.
More than ten years have passed since that incident. Lexi sank into a deep depression that lasted for several years before her brother finally helped her pull herself out of it. Her brother used his share of the money to start his own small equipment and project financing company rather than continuing to manage the finances for others. But the media frenzy surrounding the Meteor Mine explosion, while some have forgotten it, is still remembered by the survivors and those who followed the story.
Inventory
- Anti-Magic Incendiary: These grenades put out a localized AMP, or anti-magic pulse, that “shocks” all magic in its hundred-foot radius. This effectively shuts down anything magical. While there is some technology that’s shielded against AMPs, it’s better to either not be utilizing magic or to have anything magical shut down if you’re caught in its radius. Worse, the initial explosion puts out a massive amount of heat, setting flammable objects on fire. These are illegal to carry in the city by non-security personnel.
- Ion Pulsar Pistol: While illegal to carry in a city, it’s not technically outlawed beyond them. The magazines loaded into this pistol are filled with unstable, highly charged liquid contained by the internally electromagnetically charged magazines themselves; when the safety is switched off, a solid round is almost immediately “primed” and remains so until the gun is fired. In addition to the size of the wounds caused by this weapon, the wounds themselves are severely burned and magnetized, drawing iron out of the blood. While one wound may not be fatal if, say, you’re shot in the shoulder…several shots to the arm could easily kill someone. However, the rounds are extremely effective against anything with energy running through it - such as robots. And machinery. It’s suspected by Lexi that magitech is infused into the design of the gun to keep everything stable, though that’s never been confirmed by the shady weapons dealer she buys things from.
- Multifunctional Environmental Scanning System (MESS): This handheld device can absorb ambient energy, including magic, to keep itself functioning. It acts both as a bioscanner and as a signal analyzer and can be fine-tuned to look for anything that puts out some kind of signal or has some kind of energy running through it. It can also be used to detect a variety of minerals and other substances, making it a vital tool in many professions but especially mining, scavenging, and similar resource-gathering jobs.
- Rabbit: Not an actual rabbit. It’s a neat little robot that Lexi found in a junkyard a couple years ago and fixed up. It needed a lot of work but the personality chip was still intact and functional. New receivers, new servos, modified “feet”, an upgraded power cell, not to mention rewiring and soldering and buffing and polishing…ahem. Rabbit has a surprising number of functions available. Numerous small tools on a wheel that extends from its “mouth” allow it to be flexible and utilitarian not only when fixing something, but also when scavenging. Its “eyes” have both photographic and video capabilities of high quality and even have several visual modes including night vision, thermal imaging, and blacklight. It can store several terabytes of data, has some insane encryption and digital security, and is protected both by light armor plating and a personal shield. It can project this shield to another object or even person or animal, but the cost is that it can’t protect itself and something or someone else at the same time. It’s able to go just about anywhere and can even utilize an electromagnet to cling to certain surfaces. And Lexi LOVES her Rabbit.
- Recon Implants: While Lexi never had bad vision beyond a little near-sightedness, the visual acuity afforded her by her ocular implants is astonishing. She can actually zoom in or out, swap to an infrared mode, and even bring up information about anything or anyone that surrounds her just by focusing on it. The information that comes up is limited to what her brain can process, of course. They can’t interface with anything, which would make hacking SO much easier, but the benefits outweigh the detriments. Her vision can be whited out but it must be done very quickly to overcome the implants’ adaptability.
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