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|{Full Name}|
Alexa Toretti
|{Nickname}|
Lexi
|{Age}|
17Â
|{Sexuality}|
Lexi does not equate sex with love, and as such while she is a lesbian by conventional definitions she does not have any inhibitions when it comes to sex with men, and she feels no emotional attachment to them.
|{Hometown}|
Boston, Massachusetts
|{Appearance}|
Alexa Toretti is the girl that always looks approachable in an unobtainable way. She has short dark hair that falls just to the base of her neck and deep dark eyes to match. She stands at 5'6 but appears taller in the many heels she wears to party in. Her build is slight and her bust modest often clad in a leather jacket that she deems as her lucky jacket. She is fashionable, in a cheap sense as most of her clothes have been purchased from thrift shops or what she has been able to shoplift from H&M. Lexi tends to go a little heavy on the eye makeup when getting ready for her night out, but it helps to make her look older, and her mother younger in comparison. Â
|{Powers}|
Psychokinetic Conduit: Lexi has the ability to stretch her own conciousness into other people for a variety of effects. As she is very inexperienced with her powers use, she is currently able to activate her power through touch on humans, and can perform feats such as seeing someone's memories, tamper with short term memory, suggestively coerce people into bending to her whims, and with the most of her power cause extreme mental anguish leading to incapacitation. Her power interacts differently with meta-humans than as they tend to have a stronger will than humans and instead she is able to sense other people's abilities and their level of power. Through touch with meta-humans she can use her power to enhance their own abilities or hinder them.
|{Hobbies || Talents}|
Lexi is a party girl and con artist. Her and her mother, Carla, spend most of their free time looking for new marks to scam through gambling, rent scams, or simple sexual advances. She skips school as if it was a hobby and smokes, drinks, and takes whatever illicit substances may end up in front of her. Over the years of scams that may or may not have always gone her way, Alexa has obtained the uncanny ability to talk her way out of any situation and think on her feet in even the most high pressure instances. Lexi loves to make people laugh and being the center of the party, and always bring the fun wherever she goes.
|{Fears || Weaknesses}|
Lexi tends to bite off more than she can chew and then have to use her wit to climb out of the proverbial hole she dug for herself. At times it has come to blows and she has gotten her share of black eyes and bruises. Her mother in and of herself is a huge weakness for Alexa as no matter what her mother's request she can never say no to her. Using her powers in excess can lead to her own mental exhaustion and serious headaches which she then attempts to drown out with alcohol and drugs. Speaking of which, Lexi is most definitely a low grade functioning alcoholic, her favorite drink being whiskey.
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|{Personality}|
Alexa is very carefree. She lives life on a whim and does whatever or whoever she wants at a moments notice. Alexa can make friends with just about anyone, as long as they don't mind her crass and usually vulgar behavior and speech. She doesn't care what anyone thinks about her, but because of this she tends to treat people as if they are disposable. While one day she could be best friends with someone, the next she could be moving on, and leave them high and dry for any emotional attachment they may have acquired with her. The only long standing relationship she has had is with Carla and she doesn't trust anyone except her mother. When hungover Lexi can be a little more biting with her wit and push people away. And who knows how hostile Lexi might be if she can't find a drink in this village.Â
|{History}|
Alexa was born to an unwed mother at the age of 14. Carla never even knew who the father of her daughter was and she never stopped moving around the city of Boston enough to try and find out. Alexa grew up sleeping on the couches of her mother's various boyfriends houses and at times shelters in the city. Her childhood was unconventional but she was never harmed by any of her mother's cons and Lexi loved all of the excitement of moving around. When she was thirteen Carla and Alexa began working together on scamming people out of money through gambling at bars and clubs. Carla acted nothing like a mother to Alexa, and more like a best friend.
Lexi didn't discover her power until she was fifteen. It was by accident when she was trying to use her feminine charms to distract a man during a game of poker with her mother. She saw the man's hand, a full house two queens high, and started to just hope that he would fold while kissing the nape of his neck. Low and behold, he did just that. It was so perplexing to Lexi and so she shared with Carla what had transpired and they started experimenting with what Lexi could do. For the next two years Lexi became the linchpin in all of Carla's schemes to make cash to fuel her heroine addiction and her daughter's alcoholism.
It was on a night that should have been an easy mark that things went horribly wrong. Carla had been working on a heroine dealer to try and secure some product for her to sell, and then stiff him for his cut and keep the rest of the product for herself. Alexa came with her on the final night of her seduction to use her power to convince him to give him the drugs. But, to Alexa's dismay she was unable to use her power on the man, as he had a power of his own. The normal mental images that she would bend to her will when using her powers were replaced by odd static images that left her feeling sick, and she could see glimpses of him spewing fire from his mouth. The plan a failure, they were discovered. Carla was injected with enough heroine that was supposed to die of an overdose, and lying on the cold ground unable to move she watched her daughter be beat by the meta-human, Joseph, Alexa tried to fight back, but she had no formal training in fighting or the use of her power so her street wise fighting skills were no match. As the man held her up by her neck and opened his mouth to attempt to end her life with a spew of incinerating flames, what should have been a jet of flames was barely the flame of a match about to be snuffed out. Alexa was panicking, crying, and her power went haywire. The man dropped her and started to scream in anguish clutching the sides of his head. His nose started to bleed and then he collapsed with a blood curdled wail.
The police came next. Carla was taken to a rehab against her will and found guilty of possession of a class A substance. Alexa was sent to juvenile detention, and Joseph was sent to the morgue. Two months into her new life in the juvenile detention center she was taken to her mother on a visit. Sitting across her mother, they both looked like completely different people. Carla looked as if she had the flu for months, her hair was dull and listless and and was huddled on her small bench with a blanket and shivered every few moments. Lexi was looking slightly better, but she fidgeted every once in a while, and her eyes looked deep and sunken into her skull as if she hadn't slept in days. âHey baby girl. This hasn't been easy, but being your legal guardian your lawyer and I have reached an understanding and struck a deal for you. In exchange for your release and attendance of the Vigilante Village I will plead guilty to the murder of Joseph and stay here in the drug rehab until they believe that I am not a danger to myself or others. This is the best thing I can do for you, baby, and I won't let my mistakes cause you anymore pain. I love you.â
Just like that, Alexa's life changed. Her mother got up and left after her little speech, never looking back, and Alexa screamed for her but she did not turn around. Now she is being sent to the Vigilante Village. All she wanted was a drink, but she knew that was going to be next to impossible to find here. She just donned her lucky jacket, clutched a picture of her and her mother in her hand, and got in the van that would take her to her new life.Â
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It is worth noting that while having no formal fight training Alexa has gotten into many fights in her life and she is not a girl that pulls hair or bites, she will square up and punch someone and do whatever she can to win a fight.Â
|{Face Claim}
Sophia Black D'elia
Character Dialogue || #923068