Face claim: Erin Heatherton
Legal Name:
Alexandra Émilie Decoteaux
Nicknames
Alex, Lex
Born on
May 16th, 1992
Born in
Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Age
23
Sexuality
Bisexual
Homeless for
8 years
The Anarchist
Makes Money Through
Theft, Fencing, Prostitution
Build
Standing proud and tall at 172 cm and a relatively healthy 116kg, Alexandra's athletic figure is well toned and taken care of. Even without much else, she spares herself the effort and time to make sure to take care of her own body- her second most prized possession. Not in a self-centred way, naturally, but in the way that it is what she has to be able to continue to do what she does for herself and the group. Whenever she decides to do something for the group.
Constantly losing weight, not necessarily by personal choice, her muscles are well defined and her very active nature assuring that she doesn't have much body fat to spare. Frequently, her otherwise smooth skin is marred by small scratches and cuts that she does her best to keep track of.
Eye color
Green
Hair color
Blonde
Personality
One could use a few words to describe Alexandra. If one were to, they would probably use words like sarcastic, sassy, flirtatious, blunt, and fun-loving. Unfortunately, a few words can not adequately describe the paradox of her own personality. She does not act according to any morals of her own, yet encourages others to have them. She believes in looking after herself before others, yet frequently does things to benefit the group even if it means damaging herself and her mental state. She is loyal and protective, yet constantly acts as though she does not care. That is always what she acts like. The sort of front that she puts out, the image of an uncaring, sarcastic girl who will always look out for herself first.
Alexandra is, of all things, not an easy person to make angry. There are a few key things that will set her off instantly, like threatening someone she cares about, but otherwise it is very difficult. As a self-described student of the Humanist school of thought, Alexandra is anti-war and anti-capitalist, and very much so believes in her own personal freedom and the freedom of those around her. She has an often dangerous lack of respect for authority and despite this, she has yet to be arrested in almost a year. Her own personal connections to anarchist and other similar groups in city and her knowledge of various methods of crime used by them has yet to be fully explored, fortunately. It's just usually the cops that piss her off.
She's a wild child, and likes to be left to do what she wants. She will maybe do something if it is asked of her, but any attempts to control her or restrict her freedoms will almost certainly be met by hostility. Likewise, she is not one to enforce or press her own beliefs on anyone. Her love for freedom does not exist only for herself, but for everyone. Towards the rest of the group, Alexandra feels greatly protective. Even if they are older, she feels a responsibility to help them and take care of them if needed.
Likes
Vaping
Parkour (Her main means of transportation- besides bus and subway hopping)
Stealing from rich people (Her favourite pastime)
Hot Meals
Warm Meals
Cold Meals
Almost any Meal
Spring Weather
Hotels
Hotels with Bad Security
Any Building with Bad Security
Stealing from Stores
Stealing most things in general
Escaping from Police
People who tell her to surrender
Dislikes
Police
Buildings with good security
Being unable to go anywhere
Gangs
The Police
Most Drugs Besides Weed
Centipedes
Having to Get a Real Job
Prostitution
'Community Outreach'
Uncharitable Rich People
Banks
The Goddamn Police
Loves
Chocolate
Clean Clothes
Puppies
Kittens
Kids
Razors (For Shaving)
Fears
A lack of freedom. Alexandra's most prized possession is her freedom, and it is why she is content with the streets. She has the knowledge to survive, of where to find shelter and food and water if necessary. It is the freedom that she is in love with. The freedom to go anywhere, do anything she pleased. She has accepted for herself that she may never go anywhere with her life. And she is fine with that.
Dreams
Alex doesn't live thinking about dreams. About what she might do. She lives day to day, and she feels defeated in that she has nothing left. No family, no home, nothing. Her only true friends that she'd had are an ocean away. Her only real dream is to one day, maybe, return to France.
Role
Alexandra views her role in the group as that of a provider. She doesn't care if the others notice what she does or not, all that she cares about is that she is able to help them all and pull her own weight. She often hides what she does- especially what she considers the more disgraceful parts- but everyone generally has an idea of her constant thievery. She will wordlessly help others in the group without them asking, which is amusingly in contrast to the simple mask that she puts on of not caring.
Skills
Alexandra is skilled in the art of parkour, and is extremely athletic. Besides hopping subways and buses, it is her main method of transportation through the city. It allows her to get around very quickly, and when necessary, escape from the police. She is also a very accomplished thief. She likes to refer to herself as professional, but she is able to expertly shoplift and steal food items from the back rooms of grocery stores when the opportunity arises. She enjoys this greatly. She is bilingual, fluent in both French and English, and is able to mimic a standard American/Canadian accent very effectively.
Most of what Alexandra does in order to gain money consists of things such as thievery, fencing illegal and stolen items, and acting as a courier. It's modest work, and work that she finds more than easy that pays out very well. However, when things get tough, she resorts to self-prostitution. Selling herself, and acting as an escort. In her heart, she despises it, and tries her best to keep whenever she does this from the rest of the group. She's sure that at least the Leader and the Mother might know, but she's not sure about anyone else. It pays far better than almost anything else, and for that she is thankful. Otherwise she'd be selling herself for nothing.
Alexandra is the only child of David and Nicolette Decoteaux, born in the southern port city of Marseille, France. The Decoteaux family was rather well off to begin with. Though stricken with a large amount of debt and an unstable job market, David managed to keep his family afloat. They were a close knit family. She was fortunate for this, and excelled in much of what she tried as a young girl. Whether it was dancing, or singing. It was around the age of thirteen that she hit her bad streak.
Marseille, being a big city, had plenty of bad parts to it. Looking for somewhere to belong, and looking at the poverty that she had seen and felt growing up, she found her acceptance in a slightly older boy named Adrien. He was everything that a young, impressionable girl could have wanted. Looks, and a wild and free spirit that has carried with Alexandra to the present. It was through her friendship with him that she began to first develop her beliefs.
The beliefs in unlimited freedom and the evils of capitalism that caused such poverty that she had seen, however twisted those beliefs may have been, stuck with Alexandra. And they stuck with her even after her parents were killed in a motor accident when she was fourteen. It changed her life. Without her parents, she was sent to the care of her grandparents in Montreal, Quebec. In Canada, Alexandra mostly became who she was today. Her skills that she had trained with and learned in France, such as parkour and drawing, she carried with her to Canada. This was where her beliefs really flourished.
Being filled with angst and pain from her parents' death only made it worse for her when the crash of 2008 came, putting her and her elderly grandparents out of a home and onto the street. It was here that she developed her affinity for thievery. She soon became an accomplished thief, able to steal food and other resources out of stores and homes. It was enough for her to survive, but not enough for her disease-stricken grandparents who were not able to survive the harsher life on the streets on Montreal in the winter.
With no one left, nowhere left to go, and an ocean away from anyone she knew who could have helped her, Alexandra was well and truly alone. There were no connections she had, no particular people skills, no ability to get a job. She might as well as killed herself. She became a squatter, moving around the city and living day by day until she finally became drawn to organised anarchism in Canada.
She grew ties, participating in protests and demonstrations with the aid of new friends. She moved from city to city, from Montreal to Toronto, then Toronto to Detroit, Detroit to Chicago, Chicago to Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, and eventually from Philadelphia to New York where she now resides. Alex's life in New York is the only one that she's really ever 'settled down' in. In New York, she has a psuedo-family. Other people to help look after.
