Alexander Franklin

[Alex Franklin]

::Alexander Joseph Franklin::

"trigger happy hardass."

::Biographical::
Name: Alexander Joseph Franklin
Alias: Alex, Lex, Al, Xander.
Species: Human.
Homeworld: Earth
Gender: Male
Born: January 22nd, 1976 (35)

::Physical::
Height: 6'3"
Hair: Brown.
Eyes: Hazel.
Skin: Ivory.
Features: A few scars on his chest / back from his time in service.
Attire: Military Dress, usually BDU's.
Face Claim: Channing Tatum

::Psychological::
Strengths:

• determined
  
• amazing sniper
  
• great leadership skills
  
• won't go down without a fight
  
• will sacrifice himself if it means his team gets out alive
  
• quick thinker
  
• fast on his feet
  
• responsible

Weaknesses:

• stubborn to a fault
  
• overly cocky
  
• doesn't trust people
  
• prefers to work alone
  
• overly sarcastic
  
• extremely blunt
  
• drinks far too much

Likes:

• alcohol
  
• weapons
  
• reading comic books (batman ftw)
  
• playing video games
  
• hanging out at the shooting range
  
• working out
  
• playing guitar
  
• sports
  
• classic rock
  
• flirting with the ladies

Dislikes:

• irresponsible people
  
• abusive assholes
  
• liars
  
• overly opinionated people
  
• hospitals
  
• getting looked down on
  

Personality:
asshole } this is the side you see when you first meet alex. he comes off as the over-protective asshole who will screw you up if you even do so much as look at him the wrong way. most people don't take the time to get past this layer so they keep up that assumption that that is all he ever is and all he ever will be. the only time he is a true asshole is when someone hurts him or someone whom he is very close to then you better watch out because he'll be after you faster than a mouse after cheese. he will go as far as needed to get it through your head that you don't mess with him or anyone he knows and has been known to send a few people to the hospital, oops?

the friend } this is the layer that usually comes right after you peel through the asshole side of mister franklin. he's actually quite the good friend; always there for them when they need him - even if it is two in the morning. he'll go to the end of the universe to make sure that his friends are happy and would do anything for them. once you're his friend you get the guarntee that he'll watch your back and hurt anyone who hurts you - unless of course you do something to betray his trust or hurt someone in a way that is unforgivable. alex is a pretty hard guy to not trust when you are his friend. sure he doesn't know when to shut up but he'll keep whatever secrets you want kept - he'll just torture you about things when it's just you two.

the sweetheart } now this is a side of alex that hardly no one ever sees. his family and his best friends are usually the only ones who know this side but that's all. he's a complete and utter teddy bear and that's something that most people don't know and he tries to keep it that way because he doesn't want to ruin his 'image'. he figures if other people find out that side to him then they won't respect him as much and would treat him differently.

over protective } yep, that's alex to the tee. if you're close to him he will protect you with his life; literally. he once took a bullet for one of his best friends back home and he doesn't regret it. he would do anything to make sure that the ones that he loves are safe but sometimes goes a little overboard with the whole protection thing. he's had a habit of completely scaring people - boys to be exact - away from his little sister and would gladly do it again just to make sure that they don't get hurt but he has started to realize that he has to let them make their own mistakes but at the same time he doesn't want to see them get hurt.

stubborn } alex is one of the most stubborn people you would ever meet in your life. you tell him he can't do something and he'll do anything within his power to prove you wrong. if he wants something he'll go after it until he gets it and if you are the type of person who tries to prove him wrong he'll do anything to get the tables turned on you and to prove to you that he was right - but he only does that when he knows for a fact that he's correct. he doesn't like to be the one who is always trying to be stubborn about everything - he's only stubborn about a select few things so it's all good.

::Professional::
Occupation: United States Army Green Beret
Rank: Major (O-4) - soon to be up for promotion
Organization: United States Army
Languages:

• English (fluent)
  
• Italian (fluent)
  
• Russian (fluent)
  
• Spanish (fluent)
  

Equipment:

• Columbia River AG Russell Sting Boot Knife 3.197" Double Edge Blade, Zytel Sheath
  
• Condor Tool & Knife Windfang Neck Knife 2-1/8" Carbon Steel Black Blade, Kydex Sheath
  
• Spyderco Knives Military Serrated S30V Stainless G-10 Handles
  
• Pistol, Semiautomatic, 9mm, M9
  

::History::
birth - age 4 } january twenty-first of the year nineteen ninety one was the day that a young boy by the name of alexander came into the world. it was a late evening - eleven pm to be exact on one of the snowiest nights of the year when the boy first opened his eyes to the world and saw all that there was to see in a hospital room on that day. his parents, wendy and randy were two friends who simply liked to get friendly with each other - that was all. they weren't a couple and they never became one. like any seventeen year old couple they were scared senseless when they first found out about the pregnancy and tried multiple ways to get rid of their "mistake". alex was an unplanned and unwanted baby so of course his biological mother and father wanted nothing to do with him. he was kept for a few months - until the foster home papers all went through and he was able to be taken away because he wasn't wanted. up until the way he was taken away he was neglected by his parents so he wasn't really the healthiest of babies. after he was taken from his parents he was put into a foster home with five other foster children whose parents did not want them. he stayed there until he was four - growing up with the same five children and "mother". he was often picked on and neglected though because he was the youngest and didn't require much attention because he was a very quiet baby. he didn't speak one word at all in those years in that foster home so a lot of the children thought that he was stupid or suffered from mental stupidity but he didn't - he just had nothing to say to any of them so he refused to speak.

age 4 - 5 } it was in this year that alex finally began to talk when he got sent to his first foster home. it was the home of mister thomas winstone. tom was a divorced man and the foster agency thought that he was a good stable man who would do fine as a father and for the first month or so he was; until he got a new boyfriend. yes, boyfriend. he was a gay man (hence the reason his wife divorced him - she found out) but not like alex really knew about what went on between tom and his boyfriend. it was at the age of four that he was first "touched" inappropriately by a person - a person that he trusted. and that was where life began to go even more downhill than it was already. tom turned out to be a very abusive individual who cared nothing about alex - basically he just wanted a boy toy whom he could play with when his boyfriend - dan - wasn't around. the first time alex had tried to get away from tom, tried to tell him to stop he got beat and alex never tried again. he was forever scared of the man and a few months later dan was in on the whole thing so the two older men often hurt alex and he did nothing but sit there and take it. after eight months they didn't want alex anymore and sent him back to the foster home - that's the last alex ever heard from them.

age 5 - 10 } these were the five years that alex spent with the senegal's - alyssa's family. they had wanted a son and since alex was one of the only boys who still had no family he was given to them. when alex first went there he was a quiet, shy boy who didn't really want anything to do with anyone because of what happened in his previous foster home but he soon came around when he figured he was safe enough but instead of going back to his sweetheart self he was more bitter than anything else. he spent most of his time with a glum look on his face and took up dancing with alyssa. at the age of five was the first time he began to actually dance and he immediately fell in love with it. dancing had begun to be his escape from the thoughts of what had happened the year previously. he spent the next five years growing up in a semi-normal life but then the unexpected happened. alyssa's family didn't want him any longer so he got sent back into foster care and the most unlikely of people turned up and wanted in his life. his biological father.

age 10 - 11 } so you would think that alex's father had changed and wanted to get involved in his fathers life once again, wouldn't you? apparently not. all his father wanted was someone to put the blame on if he got caught with drunks or something along those lines. his father wasn't only a drug addict but a drug dealer and he was the first one to introduce alex to alcohol and drugs. it was from then that alex got hooked on the deadly things and got completely and utterly screwed up. he stayed with his dad for a few months but that was more than enough to get the boy hooked on drugs to the point where he actually began to steal them off of his dad and would do anything to get what he wanted. one of those nights turned out terribly wrong though - his father turned on him, raped him and well, alex was once again scared senseless. his father was abusive emotionally, physically and sexually but alex put up with it - he just began to drink and do more drugs. one night while he was sent to pick up some 'goods' for his father he was caught by a cop - mister randy franklin - and alex was put into rehab while his father was put into jail. there goes alex having a home again, right?

age 11 - 15 } after getting out of rehab alex fell back into old ways once more but instead of having no one that cared about him he had someone who wanted to help him - police agent randy franklin and his family had wanted another son for the longest time and when they went to the foster home and saw alex, randy remembered him as the boy he had arrested a few months previously and already knew the boys track record and wanted to help him through everything. alex went but that didn't mean that he changed any. he still stay addicted to the drugs and alcohol but because he lived with a fbi agent he found it a lot harder to get what he wanted but he still found ways to but thankfully randy and jessica didn't give up on him. alex finally quit his ways by the age of fourteen after constant help from randy and jessica and he could never be happier. he had a bright future ahead of him and they wanted to help him.

age 15 - 18 } alex got accepted into valley forge military academy when he was about to go into his freshman year of high school. he was done with his old ways, alex franklin was determined to become the best that he could be and his heart burned with the love for the military. during his high school career at the military academy he made a lot of significant improvements in his life most of them being striving to go to West Point Academy. Upon graduation from Valley Forge he was accepted into West Point and so began his career toward becoming an officer in the United States Military.

age 18 + } alex excelled at West Point, quickly making it to the top of his class and majoring in Behavioral Science: Leadership Major as well as Military History. upon graduation at the age of 21 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. after he was commissioned alex applied for a selection program with the special forces and was chosen. he spent the next two years training and getting certifications such as jump wings, medical training, president's hundred's badge, expert marksmanship badge, ranger tab (he completed ranger training), special forces tab and the like. alex was later applied for the green berets and got in easily (for him anyway) and has faithfully served his country ever since.

::Sample::

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École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr
Cadet Accommodation
Male Dormitory

Well this was just peachy. Alex was looking forward to going back home; or whatever he considered the SGA to be to him. He never really had a set home, well apart from Randy and Jessica's who ere now his parents but that was beside the point. His home was never set in stone to be honest. He was always moving around, always hopping from one place to the other and in all honesty it drove him insane to no end. But that was the life of a military brat and it was now going to be his life for however long he chose to make it his life. Alex was a straight-forward, blunt individual who knew what he wanted in life and he was going to go after it no matter what. One thing he wanted more than anything right now was to make his career in the military one of the best thing in his life and so far he was well on the way to that.

After placing his bag on his bed Alex changed out of his usual military attire and into a pair of jeans, dress shoes, a t-shirt and a blazer. His dog tags remained on but tucked inside his shirt, his watch remained on his wrist and he then checked to make sure that he was cleanly shaven and he didn't have a five o'clock shadow. There was one thing that Alex prided himself in and that was his appearance and that was obvious but he wasn't some crazy over the top egotistical man who thought that he was the sexiest thing to ever live. Instead he just wanted to make sure that he looked presentable.

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Alex made his way outside the dorms, locking the door behind him and he shoved the key in his pocket before he went in search of the other cadets. He didn't know what everyone was up to but he sure as hell knew that he didn't want to spend the rest of the day alone. As he turned the corner he heard the sound of the other cadets and he followed their voices. Apparently their talk was of nothing too important so he didn't think they'd mind if he joined in. He parked himself a seat on the bench next to the Freshman Cadet and nodded his head toward the others as he leaned back, waiting to see what everyone was going to do. Words weren't necessary for this Cadet, he preferred to observe first, talk later.

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Name: Kelley
Experience: Nearly ten years
Characters: Just Alex
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