Altered States - Permissions and Application

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Permissions

Generally, if you want to do something to Alexis that would cause her a moderate or greater level of physical or psychological harm, you should ask me first. This also includes any type of physical touching beyond, like, a hug.

As far as what she can do, her power is healing and I will also ask you before she uses it on your character.



Application

Character Name: Alexis Castle

Canon: Castle

Canon Point: 5x24 “Watershed”

Character Journal: raisingdad

Appearance: Alexis is tall and thin with long red hair and piercing blue eyes. Her hair is actually an exceptionally beautiful hue, one that she got from both sides of her family. Both her mother and paternal grandmother are redheads. She dresses like a typical college student, in jeans and T-shirts, occasionally dressing it up a bit more.

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Age: 19

History: http://castle.wikia.com/wiki/Alexis_Castle

Personality:

The first thing one notices about Alexis Castle is that she’s very mature for her age. While she, for the most part, looks her age, she is 19 going on 30. She has the kind of real maturity that women do not usually reach until their mid-twenties, instead of the “maturity” that college girls believe that they have. Alexis is polite, patient, respectful and good-natured. Where this came from is anybody’s guess, considering that her father is a manchild with a penchant for grown up toys and her mother is a flighty actress who zips in and out of her life. Somewhere, Alexis managed to find stability.

Mostly her maturity helps to ground her father, who it almost seems like she is raising instead of vice versa. Alexis is what could be considered a “good girl”. She generally doesn’t party, use drugs, drink or have sex. She also hates lying to people, particularly her father. One time, after skipping over the turnstile at the subway, she tearfully confessed to her father what she had done as though she had robbed someone at gunpoint. Alexis has loosened up a bit as she’s gotten older, including getting drunk on the night of her graduation from high school. The hangover experience was so bad though that she doubted it would be something she would be doing very often. Her idea of fun is mostly the clean kind, including spending time with her dad. They love to play laser tag around the apartment and Alexis is usually the champion.

Alexis is incredibly loyal to her family, particularly her father. She knows that some people kind of see him as a screw up (even if she probably doesn’t know the half of it), but Castle took his job of raising her very seriously and did an exceptionally good job at it. She will always be grateful and loyal to him because he gave up a lot of his partying lifestyle after she was born. Alexis is number one in his life and, for the most part, Alexis reciprocates. After Kate Beckett, her father’s partner and muse, was shot at the end of Season 3 and Kate’s doctor boyfriend blamed Rick for it, Alexis physically lashed out at the doctor and had to be restrained. She won’t tolerate anyone talking badly about the man who raised her.

Her daily temperament is usually cheerful and curious. She has a tendency to brighten up her father’s day and enjoys bantering with him. Despite her maturity, Alexis did have a twinge of naiveity from growing up in such a sheltered environment. Much of that changed in Season 5 when she was kidnapped by terrorists in connection with her mysterious grandfather, a man she had never met who works as some kind of spy operative. Since then, her natural trust in people has waned, though her sense of curiosity remains. As of the end of Season 5, she was planning an educational trip to Costa Rica.

Alexis Castle is obviously smart, most notably in the area of book knowledge. She got excellent grades in school, enabling her to be the class valedictorian. She attends Columbia University in New York (after briefly flirting with the idea of going to Stanford in California) where she is studying to become a forensic examiner. Unlike her father, Alexis has a natural ability and interest in science. While still in high school, she took an internship in the ME’s office in order to gain some on the job experience. Alexis’s kidnapping incident served to highlight that she is also very clever and resourceful. She was able to figure a way out of the cell she was being kept in and had almost made a full escape. She’s able to reason and use the clues in her environment to solve problems. It’s rare that a person has both book smarts and natural street cleverness.

Alexis can also be incredibly hard on herself if she doesn’t achieve what she hopes to. She was initially rejected from Stanford and she took it extremely hard. She sets much higher academic and personal standards for herself than her father does. Failure is something that she greatly fears and has a level of perfectionism that can sometimes sabotage what she’s trying to accomplish if it doesn’t turn out exactly the way that it should.

Powers/Special Abilities: Nothing extra-human.

River Power: Healing abilities. Alexis will be able to heal the wounds of herself and others. A limitation would be if the person has already lost a lot of blood or if the wound is fatal. She can’t cheat death. Once the person has turned the corner where there is nothing left to do for them, Alexis won’t be able to save them.