Name (This is your nickname, or whatever you wish to be called): Khat Livejournal Username: el_khatosupreme E-mail: katethekaterific@gmail.com AIM/MSN: [AIM]; iamthetreegoat Current Characters at Luceti: N/A
Character
Name: Alexander “Alex” Handover Gender: Male; biologically female Age: 19 Wing Color: dark blue where the wings meet the back and fading to white towards the tips Physical Appearance (Here you can either link us to a picture or provide descriptive text): Steven Strait as Warren Peace from Sky High is my PB. History: Alex was born as Alexandra Marie Handover to parents Martin and Grace Handover, five years after his older sister, Janette. He lived in Leavenworth, Washington his whole life and managed to have very few friends in a town of only about 2,000 people. He had buddies, but really wasn’t very intimately close with anyone.
As a young girl, Alex was what most would think of as a tomboy. She never wore dresses unless her parents forced her to and was always climbing things and playing rough. Like most boys, she gravitated towards action figures and sneakers, instead of Barbies and shoes with bows on them. Eventually, at a still relatively young age, she started asserting that she was a boy to her mother. “Mommy, I can’t wear this dress! Boys don’t wear dresses!” Her mother brushed it off as Alex having a wild imagination and wanting to get out of wearing frilly dresses. Her primary playmate was her cousin Derek, but they grew apart by fifth grade.
As Alex entered middle school and her parents insisted on her wearing skirts to school, instead of blue jeans, she got into the habit of wearing a skirt until she got to school and then changing into a pair of jeans in the bathroom before class. She also started pulling her hair back as an alternative to cutting it short, which her parents refused to let her do. By the eighth grade, everyone in Alex’s class had seemed to learn the word “dyke” and used it to describe Alex and she was the subject of teasing for a long time.
By high school, Alex knew for sure that there was something wrong, for her, with being seen as a girl. As puberty started kicking into gear and she started getting breast, Alex bought an ACE bandage and bound her chest on a regular basis, telling her parents that it was just easier for her to take care of herself that way. By the time freshman year was half way over, Alex insisted on being called “Alex,” not “Alexandra,” and presented himself as male as often as he could, without his parents finding out, for fear of their disapproval - a result of fundamentalist Christian beliefs.
In the second semester of his sophomore year, Alex met his friend Charlie - a transgirl - in a class they shared. They didn’t talk much until they were paired together for a project in class and started hanging out regularly. It was with Charlie’s encouragement that, in his Junior year of high school, Alex came out to his parents.
Their reaction was only a little better than what Alex had expected. While they didn’t kick him out, they tried to convince him that maybe he was confused and when he wouldn’t concede to that, they basically refused to be seen with him in public or give him money for things he needed to adjust and take on a life in the male role. Pretty much a “what would the neighbors think?” scenario.
In the privacy of their home, however, Alex’s mother tried to be supportive, despite her fundamentalist attitude. However, because of her lack of research and willingness to do any (again, “what would the neighbors think?”), she wasn’t very helpful. Alex’s father on the other hand, made no distinct effort to be helpful or supportive of Alex. As a result, Alex turned to his sister’s college friend and roommate Michael for a male role model. With both Michael and Janette living in an apartment near Alex’s neighborhood, Alex got to see them both often.
Janette was the only one in Alex’s immediate family who was genuinely helpful. She helped Alex find a therapist that helped advice him, and during the summer before his senior year of high school, after four months of therapy, he started hormone replacement therapy (HRT). He graduated high school as Alexander Mitchell Handover. Before being swept away to Luceti!land, Alex was making plans to get attend a local community college to get a transfer degree before going to a university and becoming certified to teach high school English.
Personality: Alex is a cool and collective personality. Things tend to roll off his back, unless they’re deeply and intimately offensive - like making cracks about him being trans. That’s not cool. In the face of disaster, he’ll have a quick rush of panic, like any normal human being, but after he calms himself, he’ll stay calm. During that “quick rush of panic,” though, anything from cursing to kicking and screaming is fair game. As for things that are upsetting or sad? Well, men don’t cry, do they? (Obviously, the answer is, yes, yes they do. But Alex wouldn’t ever admit to having cried in a public place). As he’s a little short in experience with girls, however, it’s really easy to fluster him over a pretty girl or a general “she your girlfriend?” type comment.
To match that nonchalant take on life, Alex has a sense of humor to match. Mostly sarcastic or satirical with a dirty twist to it. “That’s what she said,” is a favorite crack of his and he’ll say things that are obviously offensive with a straight face and a sly smile to make a crack. He doesn’t really mean what he’s saying, he just likes to crack these jokes as a more creative way of saying how ridiculous or silly something is.
In what some would call an insecurity, Alex makes a distinct effort to act male, in an admittedly stereotypical fashion - he sits with his legs spread, takes in an interest in sports (although not an extensive one, just enough to sit and watch a game with the bros and make an afternoon of it), etc. While he knows that not all men act that way, something in the back of his head rationalizes it as “I have to compensate for not being biologically male.” That and his male role models were pretty much the same way, so why wouldn’t he act like that?
There’s not anything too notable about his likes and dislikes, except that Alex has an understandable aversion to physical contact with strangers. Not to the extent of refusing to shake someone’s hand, but a hug or a pat on the back with someone that he’s not really close to is a bit much for him. A typical reaction to something like that would be for Alex to brush the person off and continue on with what he was doing, coolly and collectively.
- He’s built: Part of that “making a distinct effort to act manly” thing was working out and HRT has helped enable him to grow muscle like a biologically male teen, so he’sgotsome muscle. Not that he has any formal training to know how to use it, but at least he can hold his own. If anything, he can scare people off? - He’s open minded: I don’t know if this is a strength, or just a neutral characteristic, but I think of it as a strength. Given his…self, Alex doesn’t see himself as having room to judge anyone for sexual orientation, gender identity or anything of the sort. You like to wear a dress and sing karaoke on Tuesday nights? Well…that’s your business and that’s all fine and dandy. Have fun, but don’t ask him to come along. He doesn’t like karaoke. - He’s a loyal friend: While Alex has never found himself jumping into a combat situation to save a friend or fending off some mythological creature to defend his home, going to public high school can be just as hard. If one of his friends is taking some verbal abuse - or physical for that matter - Alex has no issue with stepping in and taking care of business.
Weaknesses:
- He’s awkward: Several of my friends (and other people I’ve talked to) who have made the transition from female to male have described it as “a second puberty,” because all of the sex characteristics that usually appear during puberty for boys are showing up for the first time for them at ages ranging from a person’s early 20s to their 50s, as a result of HRT. Alex isn’t an exception to this, so he’s a little awkward - adjusting to an increase in libido, his voice cracking and acne, to name a few of the things he’s dealing with. - He’s determined to keep his sex a secret: even at the cost of pushing new people away if he’s afraid they’ll find out. It’s really important to Alex that people see him as a man and the only way I could see him telling someone he was trans is if he trusted them enough not to be disapproving or tell anyone else. - His sense of humor: It tends to get him into trouble. Turns out, you’re not actually supposed to sarcastically imply that the teacher doesn’t know what she’s talking about or make a remark about the girl sitting next to you wearing a skirt way to short for anyone to wear. Basically, he’s a smart aleck, and people don’t tend to like smart alecks, strangely enough.
Samples (ALL samples must be set in Luceti-verse.)
First Person: [Voice Post]
[The post comes in mid-sentence, and when it does start, the voice coming from it is daze and quiet, like the person’s talking to themselves.]
- the hell is going on? I went to sleep in my bed, logic says I should wake up in my bed, but no. I’m…wherever this i-
[He stops himself short when he looks over his shoulder to investigate why is back feels so weird. And discovers the wings.]
…wings. Okay…that solves that mystery. I’m obviously dreaming. I’ll just…wait here until I wake up. And then I’ll be at home and I can go about my day.
Third Person: So, it wasn’t a dream, like Alex had originally thought. Dreams didn’t last things long. The days had already turned into weeks and were heading straight for months. Besides that, numerous people had already insisted that it wasn’t a dream, that this was all real. The only place Alex had ever heard about people with wings was in the Sunday school his parents made him attend when he was little, so it was hard for him to believe that any place where he had wings wasn’t a dream.
The same people that told him this was for real told him that there wasn’t a way out of it. No way home. That made it harder for Alex to accept. No way home meant he’d never see his family. He wouldn’t see Janette or Michael again, unless he was mysteriously taken back home, as was apparently common. But even if he was, who was to say when that would happen? It could be ten, twenty, thirty years before he saw any of his family again. Or Charlie. Shit, what was he gonna do without Charlie for an undetermined amount of time?
After thinking about it for a good twenty or thirty minutes, Alex figured there was only one thing he could do. He looked down at the journal that was sitting next to him on his bed. It worked just like Facebook, right? You make a post and people leave comments. He couldn’t just sit around and wait for the world to come and make friends with him and if he was going to be stuck here for a while, Alex was going to need friends. It’s proven fact, he learned about it in the one semester of psychology he took.
So Alex picked up the book and started writing. Just like on Facebook.
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Character
Name: Alexander “Alex” Handover
Gender: Male; biologically female
Age: 19
Wing Color: dark blue where the wings meet the back and fading to white towards the tips
Physical Appearance (Here you can either link us to a picture or provide descriptive text): Steven Strait as Warren Peace from Sky High is my PB.
History:
Alex was born as Alexandra Marie Handover to parents Martin and Grace Handover, five years after his older sister, Janette. He lived in Leavenworth, Washington his whole life and managed to have very few friends in a town of only about 2,000 people. He had buddies, but really wasn’t very intimately close with anyone.
As a young girl, Alex was what most would think of as a tomboy. She never wore dresses unless her parents forced her to and was always climbing things and playing rough. Like most boys, she gravitated towards action figures and sneakers, instead of Barbies and shoes with bows on them. Eventually, at a still relatively young age, she started asserting that she was a boy to her mother. “Mommy, I can’t wear this dress! Boys don’t wear dresses!” Her mother brushed it off as Alex having a wild imagination and wanting to get out of wearing frilly dresses. Her primary playmate was her cousin Derek, but they grew apart by fifth grade.
As Alex entered middle school and her parents insisted on her wearing skirts to school, instead of blue jeans, she got into the habit of wearing a skirt until she got to school and then changing into a pair of jeans in the bathroom before class. She also started pulling her hair back as an alternative to cutting it short, which her parents refused to let her do. By the eighth grade, everyone in Alex’s class had seemed to learn the word “dyke” and used it to describe Alex and she was the subject of teasing for a long time.
By high school, Alex knew for sure that there was something wrong, for her, with being seen as a girl. As puberty started kicking into gear and she started getting breast, Alex bought an ACE bandage and bound her chest on a regular basis, telling her parents that it was just easier for her to take care of herself that way. By the time freshman year was half way over, Alex insisted on being called “Alex,” not “Alexandra,” and presented himself as male as often as he could, without his parents finding out, for fear of their disapproval - a result of fundamentalist Christian beliefs.
In the second semester of his sophomore year, Alex met his friend Charlie - a transgirl - in a class they shared. They didn’t talk much until they were paired together for a project in class and started hanging out regularly. It was with Charlie’s encouragement that, in his Junior year of high school, Alex came out to his parents.
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In the privacy of their home, however, Alex’s mother tried to be supportive, despite her fundamentalist attitude. However, because of her lack of research and willingness to do any (again, “what would the neighbors think?”), she wasn’t very helpful. Alex’s father on the other hand, made no distinct effort to be helpful or supportive of Alex. As a result, Alex turned to his sister’s college friend and roommate Michael for a male role model. With both Michael and Janette living in an apartment near Alex’s neighborhood, Alex got to see them both often.
Janette was the only one in Alex’s immediate family who was genuinely helpful. She helped Alex find a therapist that helped advice him, and during the summer before his senior year of high school, after four months of therapy, he started hormone replacement therapy (HRT). He graduated high school as Alexander Mitchell Handover. Before being swept away to Luceti!land, Alex was making plans to get attend a local community college to get a transfer degree before going to a university and becoming certified to teach high school English.
Personality: Alex is a cool and collective personality. Things tend to roll off his back, unless they’re deeply and intimately offensive - like making cracks about him being trans. That’s not cool. In the face of disaster, he’ll have a quick rush of panic, like any normal human being, but after he calms himself, he’ll stay calm. During that “quick rush of panic,” though, anything from cursing to kicking and screaming is fair game. As for things that are upsetting or sad? Well, men don’t cry, do they? (Obviously, the answer is, yes, yes they do. But Alex wouldn’t ever admit to having cried in a public place). As he’s a little short in experience with girls, however, it’s really easy to fluster him over a pretty girl or a general “she your girlfriend?” type comment.
To match that nonchalant take on life, Alex has a sense of humor to match. Mostly sarcastic or satirical with a dirty twist to it. “That’s what she said,” is a favorite crack of his and he’ll say things that are obviously offensive with a straight face and a sly smile to make a crack. He doesn’t really mean what he’s saying, he just likes to crack these jokes as a more creative way of saying how ridiculous or silly something is.
In what some would call an insecurity, Alex makes a distinct effort to act male, in an admittedly stereotypical fashion - he sits with his legs spread, takes in an interest in sports (although not an extensive one, just enough to sit and watch a game with the bros and make an afternoon of it), etc. While he knows that not all men act that way, something in the back of his head rationalizes it as “I have to compensate for not being biologically male.” That and his male role models were pretty much the same way, so why wouldn’t he act like that?
There’s not anything too notable about his likes and dislikes, except that Alex has an understandable aversion to physical contact with strangers. Not to the extent of refusing to shake someone’s hand, but a hug or a pat on the back with someone that he’s not really close to is a bit much for him. A typical reaction to something like that would be for Alex to brush the person off and continue on with what he was doing, coolly and collectively.
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- He’s built: Part of that “making a distinct effort to act manly” thing was working out and HRT has helped enable him to grow muscle like a biologically male teen, so he’s got some muscle. Not that he has any formal training to know how to use it, but at least he can hold his own. If anything, he can scare people off?
- He’s open minded: I don’t know if this is a strength, or just a neutral characteristic, but I think of it as a strength. Given his…self, Alex doesn’t see himself as having room to judge anyone for sexual orientation, gender identity or anything of the sort. You like to wear a dress and sing karaoke on Tuesday nights? Well…that’s your business and that’s all fine and dandy. Have fun, but don’t ask him to come along. He doesn’t like karaoke.
- He’s a loyal friend: While Alex has never found himself jumping into a combat situation to save a friend or fending off some mythological creature to defend his home, going to public high school can be just as hard. If one of his friends is taking some verbal abuse - or physical for that matter - Alex has no issue with stepping in and taking care of business.
Weaknesses:
- He’s awkward: Several of my friends (and other people I’ve talked to) who have made the transition from female to male have described it as “a second puberty,” because all of the sex characteristics that usually appear during puberty for boys are showing up for the first time for them at ages ranging from a person’s early 20s to their 50s, as a result of HRT. Alex isn’t an exception to this, so he’s a little awkward - adjusting to an increase in libido, his voice cracking and acne, to name a few of the things he’s dealing with.
- He’s determined to keep his sex a secret: even at the cost of pushing new people away if he’s afraid they’ll find out. It’s really important to Alex that people see him as a man and the only way I could see him telling someone he was trans is if he trusted them enough not to be disapproving or tell anyone else.
- His sense of humor: It tends to get him into trouble. Turns out, you’re not actually supposed to sarcastically imply that the teacher doesn’t know what she’s talking about or make a remark about the girl sitting next to you wearing a skirt way to short for anyone to wear. Basically, he’s a smart aleck, and people don’t tend to like smart alecks, strangely enough.
Samples (ALL samples must be set in Luceti-verse.)
First Person:
[Voice Post]
[The post comes in mid-sentence, and when it does start, the voice coming from it is daze and quiet, like the person’s talking to themselves.]
- the hell is going on? I went to sleep in my bed, logic says I should wake up in my bed, but no. I’m…wherever this i-
[He stops himself short when he looks over his shoulder to investigate why is back feels so weird. And discovers the wings.]
…wings. Okay…that solves that mystery. I’m obviously dreaming. I’ll just…wait here until I wake up. And then I’ll be at home and I can go about my day.
Reply
So, it wasn’t a dream, like Alex had originally thought. Dreams didn’t last things long. The days had already turned into weeks and were heading straight for months. Besides that, numerous people had already insisted that it wasn’t a dream, that this was all real. The only place Alex had ever heard about people with wings was in the Sunday school his parents made him attend when he was little, so it was hard for him to believe that any place where he had wings wasn’t a dream.
The same people that told him this was for real told him that there wasn’t a way out of it. No way home. That made it harder for Alex to accept. No way home meant he’d never see his family. He wouldn’t see Janette or Michael again, unless he was mysteriously taken back home, as was apparently common. But even if he was, who was to say when that would happen? It could be ten, twenty, thirty years before he saw any of his family again. Or Charlie. Shit, what was he gonna do without Charlie for an undetermined amount of time?
After thinking about it for a good twenty or thirty minutes, Alex figured there was only one thing he could do. He looked down at the journal that was sitting next to him on his bed. It worked just like Facebook, right? You make a post and people leave comments. He couldn’t just sit around and wait for the world to come and make friends with him and if he was going to be stuck here for a while, Alex was going to need friends. It’s proven fact, he learned about it in the one semester of psychology he took.
So Alex picked up the book and started writing. Just like on Facebook.
“Anyone wanna hang out? I got some free time.”
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Please create your character journal, and join luceti, lucetiooc, lucetilogs, lucetilocked. You can also join luceticrack and lucetifans if you like, though it is not required. After you are accepted into the communities, reply to the friend add/remove post. Please note that the friend add/remove post is inaccessible until you are accepted into the community. Once you have gotten settled, please remember to comment to housing and tell us where your character will be living!
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