~~ The Character ~~

Replacing or Created: Replacing Hashiba Touma/Rowen Hashiba
Name: Alex Kaori
Nicknames: None
Meaning: Protector of Mankind (Greek) Strong (Japanese) Interpreted: Strong Protector of Mankind
Alias (if any): Touma, Alex no Tenku
Age: 18
Birthday: October 16
Astrological Sign: Libra
Appearance:
General: Almost as if he was weightless, Alex seems to glide on his feet when he walks, sometimes tossing his head.  He’s tall, almost 6’0”, and is very thin, weighing only about 150 lbs., but has enough meat on his bones not to look like someone who’s been starved all their life and has to beg people to give him food.  His frame is almost identical top to bottom; his legs are slightly longer.  He looks feminine, his face and long hair give off the illusion along with his dress code.  He doesn’t mean to give off the deception, just does so as if by accident.  His body is slightly curvier as well, not as angular as he should be.  His complexion tends to be either very pale or rosy.
Face: Alex has large, child-like pistachio eyes framed by somewhat long black lashes and topped off with long sky blue eyebrows.  His nose is small but has a rounded tip despite its firm straightness.  His mouth is rather small, but full, giving him the overall look of a typical “angel.”  His face is very balanced, his eyes in the direct centre.
Hair: Knee-length sky blue hair, three bangs come down on either side of his face, framing it as they each get longer than the last, the first about to his upper cheek, the second to his chin, the last to his shoulder.  His hair flows behind him more often than not, due to his almost constant movement and the tossing of his head.  It is very glossy and thick but moves quickly.
Voice: Alex often talks with crescendos, going from a whisper to a slightly loud tone as he speaks, like a violin’s crooning.  He doesn’t often speak loudly when he only has a few words to say, but the more he goes on, the more the tone seems to go from loud to soft with the phrases.  He often almost seems to sing, a gentle voice yet still masculine, though it does tend to lean toward a feminine air often.
Dress: Usually Alex wears loose clothes, and often shirts of pallid colors.  His pants are often loose, and sometimes may be, or are mistaken for, skirts.  He has a very loose clothing choice, nothing excruciatingly hip and trendy (well, usually) and absolutely nothing that would be restrictive.  His clothes are usually made out of something like cotton or linen, nothing man-made like nylon or spandex.  Alex likes to be able to move easily and give off an almost old air in his dress choice.  He also paints his nails (finger and toe) pistachio and almost never wears shoes.
Social Life: Alex’s like is very social.  He has several close friends and many more slight ones, along with acquaintances more than anyone else he knows does.  He has a very wide variety of friends, and enjoys all of their company.  He isn’t a loner at all; he’s very much a people person.  He doesn’t like being alone at any time, and enjoys hanging out with his friends most of the time.
Love Life: Alex doesn’t really have one, he’s just a kind of general friend.  I’m sure someone has a crush on him, maybe a few people, but he would rather just be everyone’s friend and get along with everyone.
Likes: Chickens, pastels, pretty things, people making decisions for him, being a hippie
Dislikes: People who don’t like chickens, Communists, anyone Chinese, dark colors, being forced to do things on his own.
Hobbies: Making friends, hanging out in the bus, painting his nails, and playing with his sisters.
Favorite Subject: He doesn’t really go to school, but art and creative writing
Least Favorite Subject: History and science
Favorite Gemstone: Sapphire
Favorite Color: Sky blue, pistachio and pink.
Favorite Anime: Card Captor Sakura
Favorite Movie: Babe: A Pig in the City
Favorite Anime Character: Utena
Favorite Non-Anime Character: Foghorn Leghorn
Strengths: Alex tends to be a very happy person, often uplifting other people’s spirits.  He loves to talk and converse with anyone and everyone.  He is very popular and makes friends very easily.  He’s also very optimistic, seeing the good before the bad, making the best of everything, never wanting to argue.
Weaknesses: Alex has a problem with calling people he doesn’t like or doesn’t agree with either Chinese Boy/Girl/Man/Lady or Commie Boy/Girl/Man/Lady.  He also tends to take people literally and at their first words and impressions, which isn’t always a good thing.  If you’re wearing something very dark, being commanding, being selfish, or something along those lines and you just happen to meet up with Alex that day, no matter how nice you are, no matter how different you are from that on any other day, he’ll keep you at that first impression.  He also tends to be very undecided on things, not sure what to choose over the other, tending to just shrug and ask one of his friends to decide for him.
Dreams: To help build a world where everything is ruled by freedom and you can do anything you want.
Family: Mother: Corazon Kaori (Strong Heart).  Corazon, normally just called “Cora” was a very major part of Alex’s life.  As a baby and small child, she was the one who mostly took care of him and she showed her son what she was doing, teaching him the ways of the woman.  She loved her son very much and all the time, and often held him when she walked around visiting the other buses.  Her heritage is unclear; her eyes are bright green, and her hair is dark blue.  Her hair reaches down to her waist, but is held back with a silver ring at the space between her shoulder blades.  She usually wears a kimono, oddly enough for a hippie, but it gives her a very refined look.  Her skin is quite well tanned; her limbs are rather long.  Cora seems to be the picture of elegance.  She has a very soft voice, but she screams louder and shriller than anyone else in the hippie park.  She is a very kind soul and it takes a very long time for her to get angry enough to scream.  She spends most of her time talking with the other women or doing the housework.  Cora keeps Alex by her a lot; she enjoys having him around, being quite the good little houseboy.
Father: Nori Kaori (Strong Belief). An ethnically Japanese hippie, however contradictory that sounds, Nori is one of the driving forces in Alex’s life.  Shoulder length white hair and bright red-brown eyes dance around in his commonly angry features.  He seeks peace on earth as well as within himself.  He is short and stout and his complexion is often red with fury or exertion.  Nori gave Alex a good portion of his education that featured lessons like “God sent them Chinese Commies to test us!  To test freedom!” and “God loves us... except those Commies!”  Deeply religious, this was the area where his teaching exceeded all others.  Raised in a religious household, Nori passes it onto his children to help make their lives as good as his. Or at least that’s his belief.  He is very stubborn and does not back down for anything on his belief.  He does not encourage people who are like noodles on their positions, just going along with everyone else.  So Nori didn’t really like his parents, who didn’t happen to care what was going on or what the issues were.  So he moved out into a school bus which he painted and made his, and found a wife.  He had several children, and was somewhat disappointed with the way Alex turned out, but still loves his son.  Nori personally thinks that it comes from all the sisters and his over-protective mother.
Sister: Rothrock Kaori (Strong Weak One). The younger twin, also the lazy and less active one.  She doesn’t really like running around and playing like her sister, she prefers to talk and gossip. She’s the girly one; she doesn’t really appreciate what her sister does all the time, but will sometimes take part in the sports when they’re down a person.  Rothrock is often called “Roth,” “Goth,” “Rock,” or “Rock head,” but she prefers “Roth” by far.  She likes her brother, even though she’s a little weirded-out when he steals her nail polish or something of the like, but appreciates his willingness to gossip and be girly with her.  Roth has chin-length dark blue hair, curled slightly into her face, and eyebrow-length bangs.  She doesn’t tend to do much with her hair; she tends to leave it down.  She has green-brown eyes and long eyebrows.  She is 10 years old and still acts like a 10-year-old, maybe a bit like a teenager or pre-teen at times, as well.  She usually wears dresses or loose pants and blouses.
Sister: Rangle Kaori (Strong Cowboy).  The older twin, also more athletic and willing to run around, Rangle loves to play sports of any kind at any time.  She acts more tomboyish and wears things more like her brother, pants and shirts.  She tends to get his hand-me-downs but doesn’t really care that they’re hand-me-downs, mostly because she knows she’ll make them her own by the time they’re worn out with all the grass and mud stains she gets on them.  She is almost always addressed as “Rangle” but sometimes is called “Rang.”  She couldn’t care less what people call her as long as they’re not insulting her.  She takes any harassment very seriously and has a very quick temper, and will proceed to beat you up if you insult any part of her family.  She has the same dark blue hair, but hers is cut ear-length and her green brown eyes are the same as Roth’s.  The same 10 years old, but Rangle is slightly more mature than her sister is, trying to act up to a higher number age.  Rangle likes her brother, but isn’t a big fan of his weird opinions on things, like his dress code of painted nails.  She’s hung around with boys her whole life, but doesn’t see Alex as a normal guy.
Sister: Umeko Kaori (Strong Plum Blossom).  Alex’s older sister, Umeko is more like her father than her mother.  She has straight white hair with a few dark blue streaks running through it.  Her eyes are strictly red-brown, and sometimes have a flame rearing its head in them.  She has a raring temper some of the time, especially when her family has been insulted.  She isn’t like Rangle, in fact, she’s not athletic at all.  She just is very quick to judge anyone who comes near her, even at her current age of 24.  She still lives at home, she helps her mother out most of the time.  She loves to watch her sisters growing up, her brother as well.  She doesn’t think that Alex will ever get anywhere in life, but then again, Umeko doesn’t think too highly of herself.  She wonders if she’ll ever be able to marry and have kids of her own, but she knows she’ll have to get out of the “Hippie Park” first.  Umeko loves kids almost as much as one can, and wants to help her sisters grow up to be fine, upstanding citizens.  She also wishes them a better life that she has.
Friends: Officer Officer Elmo (Officer, Protector) – Officer Elmo is a smiling, happy and sometimes confused character.  He’s not an idiot or anything, he just doesn’t understand why people who KNOW him call him by his LAST name and people who DON’T know him call him by his FIRST name.  He’s Euri’s superior, and is one of the several officers who tends to sample what he confiscates.   He’s always called Elmo around the workplace but no one makes fun of that, no references are ever made to Sesame Street or the little red monster.  This is even as Elmo occasionally impersonates the monster and his irritating giggle, and has the same red, semi-curly hair as the puppet and pale pink eyes that almost look white—not unlike our puppety friend.  Elmo is always happy, never wants to be down, and always wants everything to be happy smappy – not unlike Alex.  In fact, Alex and Elmo are very close personality wise.  Always happy, wanting everyone else to be happy.  Elmo has the oddest nose; it’s extremely rounded, as if it were a parenthesis.  His semi-curly red hair is in a big clump on top of his head and also comes down his neck; sometimes it curls to the front a little.  He’s always seen with a smile on his pale face.  He is found most commonly in uniform; a light blue jacket-shirt with two breast pockets. Underneath he wears a white collared shirt with a navy blue tie. He wears a brown belt and navy blue pants as well.  His ethnicity is unclear.  He is currently 37 years of age.
Officer Euridice Enos (Justice Man) – Officer Elmo’s partner, Euridice is more commonly called “Pallie”, “Skipper,” or something to that like.  His actual real nickname is “Euri,” and he prefers that a terribly lot more than “Skipper.”  He is often the one yelling at Elmo, telling him that he needs to get to work and stop smoking all the confiscated drugs.  But due to the fact that everyone loves Elmo, Euri is often the one who gets the punishment instead of him.  He knows that Elmo’s not being a good officer, but he can’t really do much about it.  A 35-year old “Junior Police Officer”, Euri is most commonly found in “uniform;” which is a white collared shirt with a black tie underneath a long-sleeved navy sweater.  Black pants; shiny black loafers and his hat complete the outfit.  His hat has a shiny black visor with a ¼ inch gold band around the head.  Above the band is another ½ inch of the shiny black material, which is then stitched onto the rest of the hat, about an inch of navy blue cloth made into the flat-topped general “people protectors” hat (IE Army, Navy, Marines, etc.).  Euri has shoulder-length black hair with a seemingly receding hairline.  His eyes are black as well; you can’t make out where the pupil is or where the iris is, it’s all just one slanty mess of eye.  If you haven’t guessed by now, Euri is ethnically Chinese and happy to be that way.  He dislikes very much how the hippies call him a Communist.  He is very stoic and cold; he doesn’t ever smile, at least not in the company of the buffoons he’s been assigned to.
Ellema Yaron (Milking a Cow while Singing) – Ellema, commonly addressed as “El” or “Ron”, is Alex’s oldest buddy, coming in at 42 years of age.  Ethnically Japanese, he has black hair and white eyes.  Only the irises are white, not the pupils.  His black hair is straight but styled oddly; the first part comes around and shapes in toward his chin, cupping his face.  The second part is an overly long rattail; it comes all the way down to his waist with a silver band holding the hair together an inch or so up. His skin is lightly tanned and he always looks like he’s going to ask a question.  His nose and mouth are quite small, and pointed.  He is most commonly found wearing a white tank top with an odd cuff at the bottom, a green gem holding it in place.  His pants start at his belly button but are hidden under the tank top until about his waist, a little below.  His pants are grey, relatively baggy and have a bulge in them about mid-thigh.  They also have those white chuffs on the bottom, held on by green gems.  He has matching cuffs on his wrists.  He never wears shoes, just like any other hippie, it seems.  His best friend is actually a squinty-eyed cow he named “Bessie.”  Bessie has her own chunk of land at the Hippie Park and Ron just loves her to death.  When he first came to become a hippie, his parents came as well.  They stayed for only a day and quickly turned tail and went back to the city.  Ron is very well disciplined and likes to think of Alex and company as friends, and his family as well.
Giles Stavros (Baby Goat Crowned with a Wreath) – Giles is addressed as either “Guy”, “Stavros”, “Juice Man” or simply “Giles.”  He’s 21, came about 6 years ago.  His parents are a mystery; he never seems to want to talk about them.  He came on his own and has his own bus though sometimes he stays with other families.  He has a bit of a girly appearance, but not to the degree Alex does.  He has dirty blonde hair that reaches to his shoulders with chin-length bangs.  He holds the bangs back, at least somewhat, with a black headband he always wears.  His eyes are oddly purple and his smile is soft.  He wears a tea stained long-sleeved collared dress shirt and brown deerskin vest and pants.  He, like any proper hippie, never wears shoes.  He’s always smiling when people talk to him, but when he’s just sitting and zoning out he looks very much depressed and sad, as if there’s something he’s still missing.  He tends to actually be one of the smarter ones in the group, one of the pillars of knowledge due to his schooling on the other side of the line.  He does tend to be happy when he’s talked to, he doesn’t ever really tend to want to show his depression, he more wants to hide it and cover it up with a smile, but he never seems to do a very good job.
Filipina Tao (Lover of Horses with Peaches) – More commonly addressed as “Fillip”, he’s scared to death of horses, no matter what his name means.  When he was 6, he had just gotten the cutest little mushroom cut and so they went down to a near-by petting zoo to celebrate.  Fillip immediately ran over to the horses – his favorite animals in the whole world at the time.  But his parents were slow to run behind, at least before the horse started munching on the back of his hair, thinking it was grass or hay.  They complained to the owner of the zoo and he just told them to “read the signs and watch the kids”.  While he grew up, Fillip always tended to keep the back of his hair long so that the horses couldn’t eat it as fast.  Currently, at his age of 18, he has hair a combination of his mother’s straight, long  “banged” black hair, and his dad’s short tightly-waving black; his hair comes down to the middle of his upper arm, and is straight until it reaches his shoulders, where it begins to have tight waves. His bangs are very much like clumps of hair being pulled out, but they still flow down nicely to the bottoms of his eyes.  All of his hair is black, like both of his parents, though his eyes aren’t.  His father’s bright green ones carry over in a slightly dulled tone, due to his mother’s stern black ones.  Fillip’s eyes are long and wide, a combination of his mother’s typical Chinese – slanty, wide, and short – and his father’s not-so-typical Chinese – long and thin. His eyebrows are also unique: with his mother’s comet-like ones (larger weight in the inside and then a long ‘tail’) and his father’s simple line-like ones, his are shorter comets, with a thicker tail, but less thereof.  All three members of the family have small noses and mouths.  Fillip was also forced, throughout his entire life experience so far, to wear a Chinese dress, like the one most commonly thought of as either a shirt or a dress: mock turtleneck with three buttons on the side, mid-upper arm length sleeves, slit at the bottom, accents of a different color on the edges of the fabric.  His is a dark green with accents of sky blue.   Luckily, as he grew older, Fillip was also able to receive a pair of pants – the same green with a sky blue accent at the waistband (hidden under shirt/dress) and at the ends of the pants.  Usually he, like Alex, does not wear shoes, but when he does, they’re dark green slipper-like shoes with sky blue accents around the outside.  Alex and Fillip get along well, they both have cheerful personalities, but Fillip tends to be a worrier and doesn’t like it when people don’t tell him what’s happening. (Note: Fillip’s parents were from China, but were redeemed for this by coming to their hippie colony and converting.)
(Past) History: In his past life, Alex was a wine connoisseur. Erm, no.  Sorry, they switched the cards on me. No, it wasn’t funny, Sparkly.  Anyway, in his past life, Alex happened to be a warrior serving mankind, a “Ronin Warrior,” but the real title was “Youriden Samurai Trooper.”  He bore the Armor of Tenku, the Sky and Space, with a spirit of Wisdom about him all the time.  His, Touma Hashiba’s, parents were divorced, but all three were friendly with one another.  He battled many foes throughout his escapades as a Trooper, and, in the end, died as a warrior.  Touma was a very wise and intelligent young man, with a hunger for dinner, lunch, breakfast, brunch, supper, snacks and knowledge.  Alex would probably have somewhat of a hard time identifying with Touma’s great sense of Wisdom, but Alex would probably make friends with him nonetheless, had they ever the chance to meet.
(New) History: Born and raised as a hippie, Alex was a very happy child.  He was always making friends with everyone, trying never to leave anyone out.  He seemed to always have a sense of kindness and gentleness about him, one that would never let anyone get hurt emotionally so long as he could help it.  Alex was always a place for kids to go to get help with a problem, someone they could trust, but he also depended on his friends to help make decisions that would change and shape his life, he trusted his friends with that.
Alex came to quite a lot of disappointment when he went into the dating world (which was at about 10, 11, 12); everyone was his friend and he never wanted to jeopardize that relationship with anyone.  The older he got, the less appealing he seemed to girls as he grew into being a teenager, with his long hair and feminine appearance.  Some girls believed him to be gay, but he denies it any time you ask him; all the girls abandoned him, so all he has is guy friends.
Alex has pretty much had easy sailing so far in his life, and even when his sisters were born, it didn’t seem to affect him as much as it would have a year or two before, even if he was only eight.  He always took an interest in seeing people happy and being friends with everyone and meeting new people and being friends with them, and spreading a sort of “love” all around the world.
Armor: Tenku /Strata.  It is mostly a dark medium blue with accents of sky blue.
Symbol: An upwards arrow with two other lines under the tip
Attacks: “Atmosphere Crash!” – Alex holds his shepherd’s crook in front of him, and the space inside the crook (rounded part) becomes filled with dark blue light.  He raises it and a sheet of blue light forms from what was in the crook. He cries, “Atmosphere!” Alex smashes the crook down until it hits the ground, when he cries, “Crash!” and there falls the pane over the victim.  The pane shatters and the shards fall into the person sharply, causing great pain.  They can sometimes cut through armor but it isn’t often.  Shards can also fly at people other than the intended victim.

Alex also enjoys smacking people around with his crook.
Weapon: Shepherd’s Crook.  It’s made out of that unbreakable metal.  It’s mainly dark blue with two stripes on it in light blue, with a stripe of dark blue in the middle.  The stripes come to a point in the front. Its name is Lucy!
Character Secrets: Alex sometimes gets depressed that he has no love life.  But then he hangs out with people and “gets happy” again.
Hidden Talent: Alex can communicate telepathically with animals, especially chickens and things in the rodent family (squirrels, chipmunks, rats, hamsters, etc.)
Personality: Alex has a very happy personality, one that is always good for making friends.  He tends to have an air of good will radiating around him.  He’s never sad, never upset, never troubled by anything.  Well, except for making decisions.   He’s just a happy guy, never wanting to cause any trouble, never wanting any trouble to be made.  He just wants to be friends with the whole entire world, it seems, for everything to be one big happy peace, where everyone can be happy and hold hands.  Maybe that’s the hippie in him speaking, but that’s his approach to life.
Alex is always only really focused on what he likes; he doesn’t tend to bother with things he doesn’t.  If he has some chore to do that he really hates, he’ll say, “I’ll get around to it,” really intending to, but then focuses on something more interesting, more happy to him.  Something that makes him happy.  He doesn’t like being forced into doing bad things or getting into disagreements. He prefers everyone be happy and peaceful.
Alex also doesn’t like things off balance.  If he has a ring on one hand, he has to have it one on the other as well. He just has this weird need for completeness, a need for things to match, to balance out, to be even.  It’s just something that nags him and he just feels awkward for him to lack a simple balance.  He always needs emotions and the like to be in a balance as well.  If he were in an abusive situation, he’d feel a need to be completely affectionate toward the abuser, making the emotions balance out.
Alex also feels a need to always be around someone, always have some sort of relationship going.  And not necessarily just a friendly relationship, but he also feels the need for a more intimate relationship. He always forms a deep bond with every person he meets; he always connects with them. They can find something good in him and he can always find something good in them.  He tends to look almost never at the bad qualities as the good ones.
Alex almost seems like some sort of flirt that does so with every person he meets, it’s something to do with his needing to make bonds and make them strong and well.  Flirting seems to be a good way to meet people, to get closer.  So if you want to be friends with the world, why not flirt a little and make them like you back?  Alex doesn’t always intend to be such an incredible flirt, and doesn’t always mean to be, but it just seems to happen.  He sometimes seems to flirt with guys and they will seriously flirt back, thinking that he is indeed a girl, due to his appearance.  He’ll take it for quite a while and then just tell them the truth.  They often get irritated at that point, and Alex will usually apologize heavily then, not wanting any bad feelings.
Due to his very one-on-one, close-relations personality, he tends only to be able to pay attention to one person at a time when he’s with a group.  He has trouble getting many different emotions at once, and tends to work with one person at a time, as if he were some sort of doctor or therapist.
And it’s also this that helps him see both sides of any argument.  He is extremely fair in anything he does, always looking at both sides before asking for help choosing, seeing as both sides have good points, and it wouldn’t be fair to choose just one, now would it?

Writing Sample (1-4 paragraphs): “And that’s when he wrote the po-em.”

Other info you may want to share with us: I’m a GM.  I don’t have to fill out a full writing sample! Mrahaha! Also note that the only way to be redeemed from being a Commie is to become a hippie.