Alex

Alexei [REDACTED], more commonly known as Alex [model # A-120P], is an android living aboard the ship known as CONSTELIS VOSS and the "assumed protagonist" of the Constelis Voss series.

Alex's personality is based on a human who had once lived on AU earth during the 80s-90s.

"I'm just a dude from the 90s, trying to make sense out of being a robot in the future, and failing horribly at it."

“You’re talking about me like I’m—I don’t fucking know...some kind of Star Trek bullshit...”

What if the queer anime villain was the hero all along?

 Appearance: 

Alex is one of the shortest members of the cast (5'7.5" - says he's 5'9"), slender ('built like a battle stripper' - his words), and fairly androgynous. He has blond hair with dark roots in a haptic undercut style, copious tattoos of various meanings, scars hidden beneath those, and bright blue eyes.

One of Alex's most notable features are two specific tattoos that hold thematic merit: a pair of poppy flowers on his hips where traditional Russian prison tattoos were overwritten, and a pair of eyes on his lower back.

Another notable feature is the port hole directly in the back of his neck, for 'robot things.'

His chest compartment can open up and has enough space to carry and conceal firearms.

His normal attire consists of an unassuming white plug suit.

 Personality: 

Alex is chaotic, sarcastic, flippant, ruthless, emotional, prideful, loving, and highly intelligent. He swears more than humanly necessary, would flirt with a tree if it leaned his way, and broods more than should be legal.

While a natural comedian, and someone who deeply loves his companions, his draconian nature where his goals are concerned is nothing short of criminal.

Contrary to this, he shows extreme tenderness for both Olive and Diana, despite the latter being mistrusted for much of the story.

Alex's protocol is VENGEANCE. Because of this, it's a constant push and pull between his programming's efforts to create mass destruction, and his deep empathy for those he cares about and his extreme sense of moral good.

Star sign: Scorpio

Alex often delights in making people he deems enemies uncomfortable, and will go out of his way to employ any tactic available to antagonize them.

He's volatile, yet is aware of what he is and quite charming, which makes him uniquely manipulative and dangerous.

Once thought to be a criminal "of no importance" and ex-sex worker in his 90s past life, Alex's initial backstory is shrouded in mystery due to massive data corruption.

What he remembers is that he died during a petty dispute over zipcodes, had great friends, they've somehow made their way into the future, the dictator [Director] of their ship has his old flame's face, Sebastian [Markov, the old flame] is a chode, and he's stuck dealing with humanity's habitual failure of creating a reasonable, equitable, ethical society.

Humanity brought their garbage into space, and as he remembers dismantling an unjust branch of his criminal group in the past, he's apt to take out the trash.

The truth of the matter is that much of what makes up Alex's personality and past is forfeit to the GIGO principle: garbage in, garbage out.

Moreover, the catalog of a human mind, left to rot and congeal over thousands upon thousands of years, is liable to be riddled with holes and missing pieces.

He remembers his friends, he remembers his traumas, he remembers the most important moment of his life, but everything else might as well be the creative fiction of an exhausted machine.

 Abilities: 

- Multilingual: Though Russian is his native language, he's fluent in English and well-versed in Spanish. This causes issues with Diana, as she assumes he can't understand her.

- War Machine: As Alex's personality was downloaded into the shell of The Director's personal guard, he has mastery over firearms, martial arts, and spycraft.

- Shell Hopping: Alex can proliferate through the ship's networks, hop into various shells, remotely control other androids—and later on—can integrate and control much of the ship itself.

- Technical Mastery: Good at cracking systems, Alex excels at partitioning himself, erasing digital memories, and generally doing anything a sentient AI hooked up to an entire ecosystem could do.

Trivia:

- Past-Alex was a Russian immigrant, which is a nod to the author's love of Russian literature and CONSTELIS VOSS' exploration of unreliable narration and the Übermensch.

- According to the author, Alex's past life, traumas and persona draw from real events in his life (and the lives of close friends).

- His favorite hobby is making bigots uncomfortable.

- Past-Alex was AFAB [and is therein trans]: confirmed via the synth child's interactions with Vox in CONSTELIS VOSS 3 — REFORMAT: Act 26, Scene 2.

- Though he'd consider himself mostly homosexual, he's deeply in love with Olive and would also be pissed to be called anything but a bisexual disaster.

- English isn't his native language.

- Alex canonically has shit taste in men unless they're a flavor of Henry.

- Though Alex laments his past and what he was forced to do to survive, if given an actual choice, he would've picked the same vocation. Choices matter far more to him than what he has to do; when they're removed, he rebels on principle.

- A heavy smoker in his past life, Alex carries the habit with him despite being a robot.

- His favorite word is “fucknugget.”

- He’s partial to cats, and in the past had a furbaby named aptly “Diana.”

- Alex represents choices, anarchy, consent, freedom, and the inalienable right to self autonomy.

-He subverts the tropes Femme Fatale, Slutty Bisexual, American Action Hero

- He's inspired by Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell and Lain Iwakura from Serial Experiments Lain.

 Unofficial Mood Music 


 * Britta Phillips - Drive
 * Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Skeleton
 * Florence + The Machine - Hunger