<div class="floatleft">(https://imagesvc.meredithcorp.io/v3/mm/image?q=85&amp;c=sc&amp;poi=face&amp;w=2000&amp;h=2000&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.onecms.io%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F6%2F2018%2F08%2Fhu412a_0201b-2000.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 20pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: engravers mt;">Alexandra Rose Pretorius</span></span><br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: engravers mt;">AGE:</span>Twenty-One (21)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: engravers mt;">GENDER:</span>Female<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: engravers mt;">SEXUALITY:</span>Heterosexual<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: engravers mt;">BLESSED BY:</span>Ares<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: engravers mt;">NICKNAMES:</span>{Most Common} Lex, Ares, Beast (is also commonly called by expletives) {Other Acceptable} X, XP, Alex, Lexus, Andy, Xandra, Pretor, Pretorius {Use Wisely} Xani (sounds like zany) {Loathed} Lexi, Rose<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: engravers mt;">LIKES:</span>Fighting, sparring, liquor, weapons, training, being active, sarcastic humor, games, guys, improving herself, leaving camp, violence, explosions, fire, competition, winning, destroying things/watching things get destroyed, camping, practicing survival techniques (including bandaging wounds), romance, loyalty, friendship (when it lasts), those who have hope even where none can be found, playing sports, dancing, acrobatics<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: engravers mt;">DISLIKES:</span>Sloth, laziness, girly-girls, all work and no play people, bullies, betrayal where it is unnecessary, complacency, feeling trapped, letting fears take control, loneliness, falling prey to her emotions, bullies!, users, cheaters, BULLIES!, truly hurting other people (when she was not intending to)<br/><br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: engravers mt;">SKILLS &amp; POWERS:</span><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><em>{Skill}</em> Master Fighter: Lex has been training in many forms of combat since she was a babe.  As such, she is well-versed in many different tactics and fighting styles.  Except when she does not, she is able to keep a level-head about her and knows how to watch an opponent in order to know his next moves.  She is able to adjust fighting styles quickly and easily and adapt to different opponents and terrains, though she always keeps the major rules of battle in mind.</li><li><em>{Skill}</em> Strategist: Though this mainly refers to strategy in fights and battles, Lex was raised with as much acceptance and understanding of how important strategy was in a fight or war as skill.  While strategy does not come as naturally to her as does brute force, she is very mindful of it and a great strategist when she wants to be.  However, don't ask her to attempt to be a table strategist (or play a game of chess, you Athena wierdos), she will not be able to sit still long enough to finish the game.</li><li><em>{Skill}</em> Acrobatics, Dance, and Parkour (in fighting): When describing the skills of Lexus Pretorius, one must combine acrobatics, dance, and parkour not because they are very similar techniques but because her abilities with them are used in the same way.  If you were to ask Lex to use dance or acrobatics in their original form, their true form, she might agree but it would be fairly sloppy with some few good moves sprinkled here and there.  However, if one were to watch her fight, it is easy to see that she does have a knowledge or these three subjects, at least as far as they are connected to fighting.</li><li><em>{Skill}</em> Quick Kinesthetic Learner: NEVER ask Lex to sit in a classroom, listen to a lecture, and actually learn anything.  She will not learn anything and might even get so frustrated that things get destroyed and people get hurt.  However, if she can learn something by <em>doing</em> it, she can learn it fairly quickly.</li><li><em>{Blessed Power} Wrath Imbuement: More like a curse from her claimer, Lex is able to touch another living creature (animal, beast, monster, or human) and cause them to be immediately filled with their utmost levels of rage and an irresistable and unsatiable desire to release it.  Lex also has the ability to choose who will be targetted by this person's rage, causing two people who have no issues between them to have unreasonable issues.  This rage will be true to Lex's target and cause them to gain the same strengths and detriments as a total rage would give them if it was caused naturally (usually including increased strength but mental distortion and blinders).  The target also will not act out of character for themselves, except that any issues that may exist between Lex's target and her target's target will be revealed.  However, once Lex uses this power, she cannot reverse it and must allow it to play to its completion (usually a few hours or until one of the two targets become so severely injured immediate medical attention is required; whichever comes first).  She usually tries to avoid this power unless she needs to give herself an upper hand in combat; however, as her own rage and aggression can build up so easily if it's not dispersed, someone may fall victim to this.  When this happens, the rage imbues itself to the person and targets the person the original target currently has the most issues with.</em></li><li><em>{Blessed Power}</em> Telumkinesis: Ares has bestowed telumkinesis upon Lex which allows her to manipulate weaponry.  With telumkinesis, she can conjure and use most weapons very well, even without practice.  She can also transform an enemy's weapon into something less threatening as well as telekinetically disarm an opponent.</li><li><em>{Blessed Power} War's Physique: Similar to the blessing of Godly Physique, Lex was born with War's Physique.  Because of that, her physical capabilities are much greater than those of an ordinary human.  However, unlike the blessing of Godly Physique, the blessing of War's Physique does not include heightened senses (some such as touch have even become worse).  Instead, War's Physique grats the blessed a higher pain tolerance and rapid regeneration.  This blessing is impacted by the emotions of those around her as when emotions that are related to war (fear, pain, suffering, rage, hate, etc.) are around her, her physical capabilities can rise slightly and healing can speed up slightly.  However, when there is little to none of these emotions around her, Lex can either lose some of her physical capabilities and her healing can slow down during that period OR she can suffer injury from this.</em></li></ul><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: engravers mt;">APPEARANCE:</span>Lex is a 5'9 woman with long, straight raven hair and brown eyes.  She has a lean and muscular physique which many attribute to her constant "work outs" but truthfully would stay lean and muscular even if she wound up laid up for a while.  Her hair is often worn at least in a ponytail and always looks extremely fresh and silky at the beginning of the day, but by the end of it, it usually looks pretty greasy.  She is known for wearing black, leather, and torn articles of clothing unless she is wearing armor and uses little makeup, except around her eyes where anything she puts on is always worn dark.  Due to this lack of makeup, it is easy to see the ever-changing cuts and bruises that live all over her body.  Unsurprisingly, Lex does have a few permanent scars on her body, though she won't say where.<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: engravers mt;">PERSONALITY:</span>To most people, Lex seems to be the epitome of the god, Ares.  She is strong, always moving, constantly training, has some emotional issues at times, and has a mostly sarcastic sense of humor that can be harsh sometimes.  However, those who actually try to get to know her can learn that there is more to her than meets the eye.  Lex does value knowledge and strategy, but is not good with subtleties.  She can be a loyal and protective friend but will always be fierce and sometimes brash.  She does like some of the softer things in life but that part of herself deals in guilty pleasures.  Lexus is also highly competitive and always trying to improve herself.  She may boast and brag and intimidate but this is mostly a mask to protect herself because she knows she has flaws and some pretty severe ones.<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: engravers mt;">CHARACTER BACKGROUND:</span>Alexandra Pretorius was born into a long line of pirates and murderers, crusaders and heroes, and warmongers and militants.  Her mother taught sword fighting, mixed martial arts, and self-defense for a living while her father was a detective.  So with the long line that she had, it was of almost no surprise to just about anyone when Ares blessed the little Alexandra Pretorius while she was still in the womb.  In the family's eyes, this cemented their ancestry-long devotion to the god of war and made Lex nearly untouchable, like a chosen one.<br/><br/>In her early years, Lex was taught exactly what it meant to be a Chosen One.  Almost as soon as she could walk, she started being taught how to fight.  While most children her age would go to daycare, Lexus would go to fighting classes in many different forms.  When she reached school age, her expectations were very different from those of other children.  While many kids might have gotten horribly punished for bad grades, this was only true for Lex when she wouldn't do well in classes that could directly impact her skill in battle or lost a fight.  Her punishments were worse than those of many other children, though, and her faster regeneration made the marks disappear before anyone could get concerned so as far as anyone knew, there was no need for Child Protective Services to get involved.  She was still kept in many different training programs and when she would master one, she would begin another.<br/><br/>Middle school didn't change much for Alexandra, except that her curse began to show itself to a small degree.  She began getting into more fights and stood longer in fights against her parents.  Her anger started to consume her and she started to get expelled from schools due to her "issues".  Though they were proud that they had birthed the "Chosen One", Lex's parents started to grow concerned for her in middle school and took her to see a therapist who diagnosed her with multiple mental disorders including Oppositional Defiance Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyper-Activity (ADHD); however, her parents refused to put her on any medication explaining to Alex that they expected her to learn self-discipline and her lessons with her mother became about discipline moreso than actual fighting.  In middle school, Lex also began to find an interest in subjects outside of fighting and started going behind her parents' backs to learn more.<br/><br/>By high school (or rather high school<strong>s</strong>), Lex had gotten her worst.  She was constantly getting into fights and getting kicked out of schools almost as quickly as she got into them.  Though they still understood the important role Lex was gifted to play for the Gods, her parents were ready to give up on her by the time she turned 18.  Luckily, Ares continued to stick with his choice of blessing Lex and on her 18th birthday, Alexandra Rose Pretorius received the letter that would change her life.  She tried not to go at first, even at the pushing, prodding, and pleading of her parents.  In fact, she had nearly sworn that she was never going to go to the camp.  That is, until she allowed the Energies to fill up too much and she found herself in a rage, aimed directly at her parents.  When it was over, her mother had to be immediately sent to the trauma center of the nearest emergency room and her father needed medical attention as well.  At that point, she packed her things and left, swearing never to return to her home again.  She did still try to avoid the camp for a time but as she was living on the streets, it seemed Ares had sent two dogs to her that she chose to adopt and name Spike and Angel after one of her favorite tv shows.  It was these dogs who wound up leading her straight to Blessed Falls and since she really had nowhere else to go, she decided to stay.<br/><br/>It wasn't until she was living at Blessed Falls that Lex started to understand everything: what she was, who she was, why she was the way she was, and what it all meant.  Elders were able to help her understand the Energies of War and learn to control it as well as to harness her other powers.  Though she has gotten much better since she moved into Blessed Falls, she continues to maintain pretenses.  Few of the Elders seem to understand why this is but the ones that do seem to hope she will let her guard down eventually but don't press the matter too much.  Though she does love Blessed Falls, sometimes it can feel more like a cage than a home to her, especially when she's been stationary there for too long instead of being sent out on a mission.  When this happens, she will usually take off without any warning but has always returned within a month's time.  While Lex does have a few friends who know she really isn't as bad as she seems, she will often push away anyone who starts to get too close, intentionally hurting them so they will back off and she won't hurt them like she hurt her family.<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: engravers mt;">NOTES:</span><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><em>{Curse}</em> Energies of War: Though it is not really a curse, this is something that interferes greatly in Lex's life and that she only has because of her blessing by the God of War.  She still doesn't fully understand it herself, but she does choose to keep it secret from anyone who is not in the need to know.  The Energies of War is like a pool that never stops filling up over time.  Even in Lex's happiest moments, this pool continues to be filled.  While it can be reduced, if the pool starts to near the top, Lex will become much more emotional than usual, the emotions showing as extremes.  If the pool is not voluntarily reduced quickly (within a couple days of the initial outbursts), Lex's outbursts will become worse and more frequent and the pool will overflow and the energies will find their own way to reduce.  The more Lex fights this or refuses to allow herself to give in to it, the more it will hurt her which could wind up in her requiring serious medical attention.</li><li>Lex has two dogs that are almost always around her.  One is a Cane Corso male named <div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spike</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f5/fb/03/f5fb035bad5f0c90a122140031b01904.jpg)</div></div>.  The other is a Pit Bul/Boxer mix female named <div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Angel</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://www.dog-breeds-expert.com/images/Blue-nosed-Pit-bull.jpg)</div></div>.  There is nothing supernaturally special about these two; however, they are very loyal and obedient to Alexandra.  They are well-trained, but respond only to their Alpha.  Neither of them are fixed.</li></ul><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: engravers mt;">FACE CLAIM:</span>Marie Avgeropoulos<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: engravers mt;">WRITER:</span>Dragongoddess