CIVILIAN. MADDEN, ALEXANDRIA

FEMALE

HETEROSEXUAL

TWENTY-ONE

MAY 17, 1991

AMERICAN

ENGLISH
SPANISH
The most basic FRENCH
Handful of swears

LEX
ALEX

0.50

CIVILIAN

N/A

N/A

5 JANUARY 2013 BUBBLES

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WINRY ROCKBELL from FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST

Before coming to Los Angeles, Alexandria derived from an upper middle class family of Boston. They were very much like any other family of their socioeconomic status, though they did live rather humbly. They had a strong value on education and made do without amenities they could have easily afforded and as a result Alexandria sees money in a more practical, almost frugal sense. She can save money away with a great deal of self control and doesn't spend very frivolously. It is important to note, however, that despite coming from a wealthy family in a comfortable economic class, she has been more or less cut off from them. Not completely, if she did turn to them, they would most likely offer her aide, but she is not the type to ask for help. Her family is paying for her education at UCLA but if she gets kicked out for not attending classes then she would probably lose further aide from her parents. The family she derives from is rather conservative but her own personal views and ideals are much more liberal in comparison.

Right now she is on her own and just surviving. She's living in the UCLA dorms, but this may only be temporary if she decides not to continue her schooling.

She takes dance classes with a focus in modern and hip hop dancing at the school and will occasionally help her teachers for credit. To make money she is a server at a bar near the university and on the rare opportunity is a wedding photographer. She updates her blog daily with not only her pictures but also posts ranging from an open journal to a movie review, to a critique of the depravity she sees in the world. As she is still unsure of what she wants to do with her future, she is taking mainly general education courses or blow off classes while at school. Occasionally she'll take a class in a specified department just to try it out.

Alexandria stands taller than the average female her age at 5'7”. Her body can be considered fit from all of the exercise of dancing. Because of the developed muscle, her physique is slim and slightly tomboyish. This isn't helped much by the sometimes masculine way she dresses. She may wear a skirt from time to time, but Alexandria is most comfortable in a pair of shorts and baggy shirts and sweaters. She doesn't express much care for style or pay attention to it, nor does she spend her money for make up, but she is actually not so bad looking without any of it.

Her most feminine feature is of her face. She has a round, pretty, face framed with long blonde hair. She would most often pull her hair back out of her face and into a ponytail, or the rare braid, but she would most commonly prefer to not fuss over it and let it fall into her shoulders. While she is nearsighted, she doesn't wear glasses. She either wears contacts or would prefer go blind. She does own a pair of glasses but it is not common for her to wear them and they are never at hand. She has no tattoos as of yet though she does often doodle ideas in the corners of napkins imagining what she would get if she did.

Alexandria is a curious person. Not nosy, but curious. The world around her is mysterious, exciting, and interesting place. Cultures different vastly from her own are of particular special interest. When approached with a new opportunity or challenge she may often dive in without looking. Dive in;that is to say her thirst for knowledge cannot be satisfied by books alone. Alexandria is far from a book worm, immersing herself in real world situations is how she prefers to explore new things. New foods, new people, new places. She'd like to think of herself as well cultured and centered. For that reason she isn't particularly shy and establishes herself in ways that meeting new people is easy wherever she goes.

Despite being rather social and, again, rather curious she isn't very interested in conflicts between people, or even the concerns of the average joe. That is something that is usually quite evident when speaking with her. You could hold her interest for ages talking about what your family traditions might be but the moment you start complaining about your roommate she starts to tune you out. Gossip to her seems insubstantial, and violence isn't tolerated. She expresses a great deal of displeasure and agitation when arguments or altercations break out around her, she is often first to jump between two people to ask them to stop. She didn't even see problems as hers to fix; she wouldn't ask why someone is upset, she would simply expect them to change their behavior regardless of how they feel. Alexandria doesn't often care. While she may step in to prevent a problem between two people if it displeases her, you shouldn't expect her to try and find a solution to the problems. She handles her own conflicts even more poorly, trying to ignore them altogether rather than fix them. In situations of dire need or advantage, Alexandria may face her own problems or find ways of handling them, but only if she must.

Perhaps the greatest strength at Alexandria's disposal is her adaptability. Within reason she finds it somewhat easy to fend for herself. During her time abroad she got pretty good at adjusting to new settings to survive. Despite not knowing the native language at all, she was able to thrive in Paris. She is smart and uses her intelligence as a resource in a pinch but not as a crutch. That is to say she doesn't consider herself particularly book smart, though she is fairly educated. When she completes a task, she doesn't restrict herself to the way that is prescribed or the way that she is told to do it by her books and elders. Rather Alexandria finds her own way. No, she actually has to find her own way.

At times Alexandria can be a bit foolhardy and careless. “Street smarts” is supposedly something she has a lot of (by her opinion) and yet she often does foolish things. She doesn't always fully consider consequences to her actions. She is fair at using judgment to prepare herself for the worst but when a plan of action fails, she is likely to go off the fly and hope for the best. Hoping for the best has gotten her to this point, really; because of this she cannot help but be rather optimistic. Despite being the occasional screw up, she is independent and would rather suffer than ask others for help. Her pride is inconvenient at best. It doesn't cause her major problems but enough...

Ok so she doesn't like asking for help, and doesn't go out of her way to help others; she is a bit of a loner. Don't mistake it-- remember she loves talking to people, but she's most accustomed to looking out for only herself and may actually forget those she is responsible for or even cares about if not constantly reminded. It is difficult for her to be mindful of others and she usually is not. Under certain conditions she may be quick to anger, but can usually avoid taking action out of anger.

While proud of her achievements, whatever they are, Alexandria is typically rather humble about them. She does not make a big deal about her achievements and takes victories with appreciation rather than boasting them. She doesn't like to make herself seem greater than she is and she is not envious of things others may have. Material items have little use to her and she is more fascinated by experiences people have had than by what they do or don't posses. She's never been sure of herself, and sometimes she will doubt her abilities to accomplish something. For this reason she works best when she is able to ignore that fear and is stopped most easily by reminding her of it.

Alexandria is proud of her history, of where she comes from, and would openly talk about it to anyone who cared. Actually, she likes to share with people who didn't even ask! In the grand scheme of things, however, her life was somewhat average, not too atypical or unheard of for any other girl her age. Alexandria's parent's were Jessica Mei and Thomas Madden. Jessica Mei was a half Chinese half Irish girl from Chicago who went to MIT to study engineering. She met Thomas her first year at university and developed what was only a small crush. Meanwhile Thomas hardly noticed anyone, he was always very studious to the point where he sometimes forgot to eat while studying. Everyone was stressed about the physics final that year, but no one doubted that Thomas would pass with flying colors. Jessica turned to Thomas for help. In that week alone the two developed feelings. Thomas helped Jessica study and Jessica brought out a more social side of him. When exams came, both passed but Jessica ultimately decided that engineering wasn't for her and switched to premed. Though now in different departments, the two started a steady relationship throughout their undergraduate and graduate educations. Following that they married, found a house in Boston, and had children. A son and two years later they gave birth to a daughter who they would name Alexandria.

The children grew up in their modest home in Boston. Alexandria's mother stopped working when she had her first child and remained a stay at home mother until after Alexandria was put into school. After that point, they hired a live in nanny to care for the children. Alexandria lived without conflict, she was fed and well taken care of without much need or want for anything. In school teachers had problems getting her to do assignments until it was revealed that they simply weren't challenging enough to hold her interest. She was diagnosed with attention deficit and promoted a grade ahead in the 3rd grade. Alexandria's grades initially suffered then, the extra work was unwelcome. Alexandria's father pressed his kids to excel in school so that they would have options for college and she slowly began to take actions, but only enough to get by. Meanwhile, Alexandria was enrolled in dance and taught to play the piano. While she did her work and proved to be a very smart girl, she had a number of behavioral problems at home, rebelling against everything her parents asked. Into high school where she was enrolled into AP level courses and rather well favored by her teachers and classmates. She made friends then, a small handful of friends who didn't care about her insistence to do things her own way.

Upon graduating from high school, Alexandria didn't know what she wanted to do in life. Her own aspirations were all over the place and she hadn't invested much thought on making what she thought was such a final decision, meanwhile her father was pressing her more and more to study engineering at his own Alma mater. He went so far as to even put Alexandria into contact with friends of his from school who were currently engineers to exchange talk about her studies and their experiences. The last thing that Alexandria wanted was to study engineering. Math was never her strongest subject and she worried about that. The field of study itself didn't interest her much. She certainly had options; her test scores were decent, her family had money, and she was able to find passion in a lot of different areas, but her life was far from figured out. But perhaps she had too many options.

Rather than making a decision, she tried to delay it by telling her parents that she would go backpacking around Europe-- granted that was something she'd been mapping out since she was 13. Alexandria's mother was against the idea of Alexandria going about Europe alone and her father didn't see her travel plans as practical when he thought she should have been getting a head start on her first college semester. The schools she'd applied to would need her reply soon. They didn't understand and Alexandria had long stopped trying to convince her parents of anything. Just a summer trip, she told them, to celebrate her graduation from high school and for moving on to MIT to be an engineer. Her parents were so ecstatic that they were unable to see through their daughter's lies. Alexandria sent her reply back to MIT, her parent's wrote them a check, and she got her dates to sign up for classes and roommate assignments in the mail. It was squared away and a few short months later, she graduated high school. As a gift for her graduation Alexandria got a round trip ticket to London and spending money. She spent the summer with her family up until the 4th of July, by the end of that week she was packing for her trip. Two weeks clothes, her laptop, and her cherished camera, was all that she packed in her bags, she kissed her family goodbye, told her friends she'd see them in a few weeks, and was off.

When she landed in London, she made arrangements to travel to France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain. Only after her arrangements for the next three months were completed did she call her parents to let them know that she'd landed safely. Only two weeks later did she call from the hostel she was staying to tell them that she had no intention of coming home and that she would in a week's time be preparing to take a train to visit Paris. Her parents were livid, ordering her to come home, scolding her for her decisions, but there wasn't a lot they could do considering her distance. Since she'd turned 18 and was legal just about internationally, she insisted that she didn't need or want their help. They couldn't even travel down to get her-- which they'd threatened to do-- because they didn't know where she was. In an effort to force her home, they closed all of the credit cards they'd given her. Expecting this retaliation, Alexandria already had her money budgeted between travel and food for the next couple of months.

The young woman hadn't even been in Paris for a full day when her bag was snatched, she was unable to fight off her robber and lost her cellphone and most of her cash. Now she was in trouble. Beside the money she had on her person and a few days worth of clothing, she had nothing and her ticket back home had already expired. Naturally, you'd think, she called her parents. At the time, however, Alexandria was too worried. Her parents were upset with her, she'd screwed up big time and out of a mix of pride and fear she refused to call. She spent the next month in Paris dipping between poverty and homelessness until she met a man who owned a diner and was willing to allow her to stay at the apartment above his shop for work. It wasn't an easy time. The language barriers were a daily struggle and she angered more people than she pleased. Since she was rather cheap labor, her new boss often just gave her stern warnings which she'd wrinkle her nose at and ignore. She made money this way over the span of two more months and by the time mid-November rolled around she had enough money to travel to Spain in hopes that she'd be able to thrive there better since she knew the language from her schooling.

Now you're probably thinking of what her parents did in this state? Call the armed forces for their missing daughter? Well with her father pretty damned peeved and her mother getting updates on their daughter's life by her son, her parents actually did a whole lot of nothing. Alexandria kept in contact with her brother at least twice a month during her time abroad, more frequently when she wasn't homeless, of course. (She also never actually told him that she was homeless because she didn't want to be lectured.) When she made the decision to go to Spain, she told him. Her first few weeks there were outside the city, helping a farmer she met on her travels for stay. She made frequent trips to the city to sell their produce with them and even manged to meet a girl her age who was also traveling from the united states; it was a quiet time. Alexandria was a vagabond though. At this point staying still seemed unnatural. She left the farm and moved into the city, getting a job to tutor English to the boy of a rather wealthy family in the city. She moved in with the girl she'd met and the two would share an apartment. In this span of time Alexandria flourished as a party girl, going out, meeting people, networking, and cutting loose. It was innocent at first, she'd never even imagined such a life in Boston with her parents and in London she had been too preoccupied with saving her money for the next few months to go to bars and clubs.

Unfortunately her new roommate was getting jealous by how quickly she was getting acclimated to the city and new life, jealous of the attention Alexandria received, and jealous of how no matter how Alexandria screwed up, things just worked themselves out for her in the end. After an argument, Alexandria's friend not only stole from her but locked her out of their apartment. Alexandria was almost back to square one. Unlike in Paris, though, Alexandria knew the language and had made other friends in the city she couch surfed for several more weeks before ultimately making the decision to return to the United States.

Her homecoming in Boston was met with mixed reactions. Her parents were both angry, despite being obviosuly relieved by her return. Her father would continue to not speak with her, and her brother who'd been living in Chicago returned home to watch her at their parents request. Alexandria was enrolled into community college where she would take a semester of classes then transfer into university, no games. It was as if her parents hadn't learned. Alexandria let her feet drag in doing everything they said then presented them with none other than her acceptance letter to UCLA. For her father it was a no way, he especially liked having her close by now. Her brother tried to convince their mother that it may be good for her, that going along with her would make sure she turned to them if she needed help and take their advice more seriously. Ultimately they decided to play things his way, she moved out to live in the dorms of UCLA across the country from her family. While there she completed a year and a half as an undeclared major(with impressive grades) before she just stopped going to classes altogether. This brings us to current, with Alexandria kind of a student, kind of looking for another place to move to.