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Lexington "Lex" Richards
Player: Jen
Relationships: Single
Lex had always been one of the kids who liked to start trouble. Pranks on people were his biggest thing but...bad pranks. Like lighting one of the cheerleader's hair on fire in eighth grade because she turned him down for a date. So when he moved to Colorado to start high school and met Marcus Hamilton (who would be later known to PC citizens as Vincent Caine) and his twin brother, Vaughn Hamilton...Lex was in seventh heaven.
Lex and Marcus met when they were thirteen year old freshmen. They pulled their pranks on teachers, students, and most importantly...people they didn't like. Marcus used to tell Lex that his twin brother, Vaughn, hated him and their three year old sister, Chasity because their parents liked them better. Since Lex and Marcus were best buds, he didn't like Vaughn too much by association and the two never really got along when Lex came to their house to hang out with Marcus.
As they got older, Marcus' "pranks" started to become more hurtful to
people and Lex began to wonder if his friend was a little...out there.
At the age of 16, Marcus' bright idea to to see what would happen when
someone "commits suicide" off a bridge, changed Lex forever. They built
a dummy and went to the local bridge in their small town, throwing it
over onto the highway. It caused a horrible accident...some people lost
their lives.
Lex was shook into reality by the event and went to tell Marcus later
that night--that he was turning them in. However, when he got to the
Hamiltons place...their house was abandoned. Vaughn was gone. Marcus was
gone. Chasity was gone. It was as though the Hamiltons never existed. A
year after the Hamiltons disappearance, when Lex was seventeen years
old, he found a note outside his door that read:
"Marcus killed Chasity. That's why we had to leave."
Lex never knew where the note came from and didn't know if it was a joke
or...something more. He ended up going to college for child psychology,
inspired by his experiences with Marcus though through the years, he
kept tabs on Marcus Hamilton who he learned had changed his name to
“Vincent Caine" and ,Vaughn Hamilton as well.
Lex was shocked to find out the things Vince had done in a town called
Port Charles: rape, embezzlement, corporate theft...his childhood best
friend had become some kind of a monster. Lex was even more shocked to
find out two years ago that his friend had been murdered.
As he got older, Lex turned his prankster personality into a more
humorous attitude to hide the horrors of his adolescence, the "highway
prank" gone wrong always on his mind. The note that he found when he was
seventeen has always stayed with him...because, Lex had tried to find
anything on Chasity Hamilton...but never could. Til this day, he doesn't
know if what the note said was true and Chasity was murdered or if was
just a sick joke.
Out of college at 26, he landed a job as a guidance counselor in the
local high school in his hometown where he's worked ever since. Because
of his experiences, Lex really gets involved with his students and cares
about them deeply, not wanting them to turn out like his friend Marcus
did, a person who liked to hurt other people.
Though, Lex requests an immediate transfer when doing his usual check up
on Vaughn Hamilton, he's shocked to find out that Vaughn confessed to
murdering his brother, Vincent! Taking on the job as the new guidance
counselor at PCH, Lex is looking forward to meeting a new batch of kids
and speaking to Vaughn so he can finally answer his question...
What happened to Chasity Hamilton?
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