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Player

Player Name: Blue
Other Characters (if any): Daisy, Alice, Gwen, CT, Melanie, Margaret (+ Ruby DTNPC)

Character

Character Name: Alexandra "Alex" Chen
Character Age: 21
Canon: Life is Strange: True Colours
Canon Point: Start of Chapter 5, right before waking up from her internal Nova memory dive
CRAU (if any): N/A
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History: Wiki Link. Choices wise, she's coming from a route where her major choices were:
- She told Gabe about her powers.
- She did not tell Eleanor that Gabe had died when she forgot, later causing Riley not to leave for college.
- She calmed down Mac, meaning he stayed in town.
- She did not take Charlotte's anger, meaning she didn't snap at her friends later and later in the game Charlotte will stand up for her, and Ryan will believe her.
- She took Pike's fear instead of signing her own affidavit.
Other choices are from beyond her canon-point, but she won't get total support at the meeting and she will choose 'forgive' when confronting Jed. I'm playing it loose whether she locked in her romance route with Steph for now.
Personality: The key word to describe Alex is 'empathetic'. It's more than just her abilities, it's the way she processes the emotions she absorbs as a result of them, and how she learns to use her abilities to help people. She truly understands people—something that can be a curse as much as a blessing, but one that she's come to appreciate more with time.

This doesn't stop her from being rather shy and awkward when she's in a new place. If anything, her abilities have made her social life infinitely more complicated over the years, leading to her accidentally saying something she shouldn't know, or making people who feel strongly hard to be around, or just from the pressure of keeping the secret. But beneath the initial awkward surface she's a dorky, goofy, snarky girl with a confidence that grows with time.

It also doesn't stop her from being deeply emotionally repressed in her own special way. Being aware of other people's emotions all the time, to the point that they've often overtaken her own, gives her a convenient excuse to not really unpack her own trauma and emotions in any meaningful way. She's not unaware of how she feels, most of the time, and might even be able to articulate it quite well in the quiet of her own head, but that doesn't mean she deals with it!

She's also creative, stubborn, responsible, and a quick thinker. She's pulled herself through remarkable hardship on the power of her own resilience and through her music.

Initial Game Plan: Alex is going to be a little overwhelmed but also just tough it out, this isn't her first time having to rapidly adjust to being new to a small town with some weird shit going on.
RP Interests: I very much want to have Alex keep trying to help people with her powers, once she's settled and getting to know the town/people. Her Nova state is a great mine for unpacking other characters' emotional states, though it requires a bit of work between players. And of course I want her to make some proper friends, to learn to deal with her own emotions, so on, and for her to meet more people with abilities to realise she's not just an aberration. Also theoretically open to shipping, I'm keeping her in-canon romance vague for now.
Preferred Job: Unsure! If she builds up her nerve, maybe she'll go for entertainer, but she might look for a non-performer job at the Empty Pockets or something first.
NSFW-friendly?: Yes, in theory, but it'd take some build-up.