Kaisou- Paranormal AU App
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Invited by: Soap
Other Characters: N/A
Character Name: Alec hardy
Canon: Broadchurch CRAU
Canon History: wiki
CRAU Tramitem
TramItem is an AU wherein there is memory regain and portals opening up to other universes. Whereas some characters regained powers, normal characters remained normal.
Alec was born just outside of Edinburgh in the suburb of Stockbridge. Though he had a tumultuous childhood with disengaged parents, he was close to his cousin Anthony. Enough so that he eventually moved to NYC to look after the brat well before game start, as a middle school teacher-- and hated it. He lived in a poor apartment and was suffering from a heart condition that he refused to share and as the world grew more complicated, grew concerned about how things were changing around them. He also befriended Anthony's boyfriend Fell, even if he disapproved of his bratty cousin most times.
The most significant thing here is their strange familial bond.
CRAU Avalon
Alec came directly from Tramitem to Avalon, with his strange mixed memories attached, but without Crowley acknowledging him as family, which he took rather poorly, and tried to hide it poorly. There he developed magical skills in order to protect those he cared about, mostly dealing with shadows and blood magic and was attacked by a clone of Crowley who he wasn't quite sure wasn't a clone at the time. The shadows and blood magic did nothing for his (canonical) heart condition.
Canon Personality:
Alec is a hard-nosed workaholic with piss poor people skills. He tends to run roughshod over others, wanting to get results and not really noticing if their feelings get hurt along the way. This is because he believes that professionals are professionals and feelings (that he's not got a good grasp on to begin with) shouldn't come into the mix. That being said he is a professional himself and so is polite to the victims families/regular people/suspects (to an extent). Still while he's not good at peopleing, he's got a good heart. He is a detective because he believes in justice. He believes in finding the murderers and making them face what they did and pay for their crimes. He will even smudge outside the lines a bit in terms of what he can do and what he can't--but he never goes as far as to break the law. He's not a maverick. And ultimately believes that they have to follow the law, even if the outcomes aren't fair.
Also, while Alec is bad at people, there's evidence that he cares- he just doesn't have the tools (or the patience) to know how to relate. His caring nature comes in the form of self-sacrifice. He sacrificed his own career for his wife, for example, so she wouldn't have her own career tanked. The biggest aspect of his self-sacrificial nature is that he refuses to get a pacemaker put in because he might die during the operation, though he will definitely die without it. This is not out of a fear of death, but out of not wanting to die until he solves the case and brings the murderer to justice because he owes it to the murdered children. We also see his softer side as we see him longing for connection-- but at the same time not sure how to get it/unable to sacrifice his pride/work to get there. (Though this softens over time)
AU History:
Alec is the youngest twin by six minutes, and as the baby of the family has often gotten his way, though it doesn't feel like to him.
For a while he was raised with his brother (Anthony Crowley) in London, but after the divorce when they were 10, he went to live with his mother (Maura Hardy) in their modest cottage in Scotland with his grandparents.
When they were 11 his mother disappeared on a dark and stormy night on All Hallows Eve. Alec tried to follow her out but got lost in the storm and was found two days later two miles from home lying beside a loch shore with no idea how he got there.
Though he and Anthony met on occasion throughout the year, it wasn't until they were 12 at summer camp that they started to bond over a love of mysteries and creepy stories. They had been reading in bed one night when a fire broke out-- All of the children were pulled out and Alec fought trying to get to Anthony -making the counselor go back in and he blames himself for her death.
Out of sense of guilt and fear Alec pulled away from his brother using all his energy instead to focus on the paranormal research and spiritual lines in an effort to find his mother. He was certain something mysterious took her away because he could always see in the shadows when others couldn't and he knows there is something out there.
When he was 19 he went off on his own without telling anyone to explore the spiritual centers of the world, following his whim and spending his inheritance from his grandparents who had passed. He didn't turn up again until he was 27, looking somewhat like a wild man, told Anthony hello and then invested the rest of his funds into an education, determined to learn all the history he could about certain areas to tie them back to paranormal activities.
He didn't really settle in Kaisou until he was 45, working on a PHD and teaching at Kaisou University. He lives at a small overpriced apartment that overlooks a small lake and is not happy about it.
Currently he is researching Maxwell Lanksy's odd disappearance and is Raha's hard nosed academic advisor.
AU Personality Differences: Negligible really. Alec is a fairly static character.
Element: Shadow
Purchased Powers: Medium sized shadow spirit companion in the shape of a whippet
Contact:
Invited by: Soap
Other Characters: N/A
Character Name: Alec hardy
Canon: Broadchurch CRAU
Canon History: wiki
CRAU Tramitem
TramItem is an AU wherein there is memory regain and portals opening up to other universes. Whereas some characters regained powers, normal characters remained normal.
Alec was born just outside of Edinburgh in the suburb of Stockbridge. Though he had a tumultuous childhood with disengaged parents, he was close to his cousin Anthony. Enough so that he eventually moved to NYC to look after the brat well before game start, as a middle school teacher-- and hated it. He lived in a poor apartment and was suffering from a heart condition that he refused to share and as the world grew more complicated, grew concerned about how things were changing around them. He also befriended Anthony's boyfriend Fell, even if he disapproved of his bratty cousin most times.
The most significant thing here is their strange familial bond.
CRAU Avalon
Alec came directly from Tramitem to Avalon, with his strange mixed memories attached, but without Crowley acknowledging him as family, which he took rather poorly, and tried to hide it poorly. There he developed magical skills in order to protect those he cared about, mostly dealing with shadows and blood magic and was attacked by a clone of Crowley who he wasn't quite sure wasn't a clone at the time. The shadows and blood magic did nothing for his (canonical) heart condition.
Canon Personality:
Alec is a hard-nosed workaholic with piss poor people skills. He tends to run roughshod over others, wanting to get results and not really noticing if their feelings get hurt along the way. This is because he believes that professionals are professionals and feelings (that he's not got a good grasp on to begin with) shouldn't come into the mix. That being said he is a professional himself and so is polite to the victims families/regular people/suspects (to an extent). Still while he's not good at peopleing, he's got a good heart. He is a detective because he believes in justice. He believes in finding the murderers and making them face what they did and pay for their crimes. He will even smudge outside the lines a bit in terms of what he can do and what he can't--but he never goes as far as to break the law. He's not a maverick. And ultimately believes that they have to follow the law, even if the outcomes aren't fair.
Also, while Alec is bad at people, there's evidence that he cares- he just doesn't have the tools (or the patience) to know how to relate. His caring nature comes in the form of self-sacrifice. He sacrificed his own career for his wife, for example, so she wouldn't have her own career tanked. The biggest aspect of his self-sacrificial nature is that he refuses to get a pacemaker put in because he might die during the operation, though he will definitely die without it. This is not out of a fear of death, but out of not wanting to die until he solves the case and brings the murderer to justice because he owes it to the murdered children. We also see his softer side as we see him longing for connection-- but at the same time not sure how to get it/unable to sacrifice his pride/work to get there. (Though this softens over time)
AU History:
Alec is the youngest twin by six minutes, and as the baby of the family has often gotten his way, though it doesn't feel like to him.
For a while he was raised with his brother (Anthony Crowley) in London, but after the divorce when they were 10, he went to live with his mother (Maura Hardy) in their modest cottage in Scotland with his grandparents.
When they were 11 his mother disappeared on a dark and stormy night on All Hallows Eve. Alec tried to follow her out but got lost in the storm and was found two days later two miles from home lying beside a loch shore with no idea how he got there.
Though he and Anthony met on occasion throughout the year, it wasn't until they were 12 at summer camp that they started to bond over a love of mysteries and creepy stories. They had been reading in bed one night when a fire broke out-- All of the children were pulled out and Alec fought trying to get to Anthony -making the counselor go back in and he blames himself for her death.
Out of sense of guilt and fear Alec pulled away from his brother using all his energy instead to focus on the paranormal research and spiritual lines in an effort to find his mother. He was certain something mysterious took her away because he could always see in the shadows when others couldn't and he knows there is something out there.
When he was 19 he went off on his own without telling anyone to explore the spiritual centers of the world, following his whim and spending his inheritance from his grandparents who had passed. He didn't turn up again until he was 27, looking somewhat like a wild man, told Anthony hello and then invested the rest of his funds into an education, determined to learn all the history he could about certain areas to tie them back to paranormal activities.
He didn't really settle in Kaisou until he was 45, working on a PHD and teaching at Kaisou University. He lives at a small overpriced apartment that overlooks a small lake and is not happy about it.
Currently he is researching Maxwell Lanksy's odd disappearance and is Raha's hard nosed academic advisor.
AU Personality Differences: Negligible really. Alec is a fairly static character.
Element: Shadow
Purchased Powers: Medium sized shadow spirit companion in the shape of a whippet