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[mywayofhelping]

Alex is one of the most manipulative people to ever grace any work of fiction ever. He has canonly been known to use forces that are opposing each other at the same time. If you're the sort of character who would have any sort of drive to accomplish any kind of goal for any personal reason (be it for your own gain or to help your loved ones), he can probably find a way to twist this to his own needs. His main method is to figure out something your character would do anyway that he needs done and push you toward it.

EDIT: Just a clarification about Alex's methods. While he is the type to find things that would force someone to action, more often that not, he'll try to find something your character would be doing anyway and just support them in that. So most of the time, his "using" your character would be more them just acting as they normally would and him taking whatever hidden benefits he can get from that.

So my questions:

1. Is it alright if Alex is using your character even if they feel like they should be doing it anyway?
2. If yes, what are the possible triggers he could utilize from your character? For example, would you betray people to save your family? Are you also a manipulator trying to accomplish secret plans for your own gain? Alex is very good at reading people, so he can probably figure out at least the basics of all of this. And then proceed to use it.


Permissions reference for Alex
4th Wall Breaking: I prefer to avoid this if at all possible. Alex thrives on being mysterious.
Threadjacking: Go for it!
Back threading: I'm gonna do it myself, so not a problem.

Mind Reading: You can try, but canonly Alex always blocks it or clearly is controlling what you're hearing. Unless he's really worried, but that's a rare occurrence. Either way, let me know it's happening and I can tailor his thoughts accordingly.
Location Sensing: Alex has an ability to warp that canonly hasn't been explained that well, so I'd prefer it if you didn't.
Telepathy: I'm going to place this along the same lines as mind reading. Alex has a lot of powers of his own and he always seems to be on guard, so this probably wouldn't work.
Special/Magic Items: Warn me if you're going to try, but there's a good chance he'll block you just because that's canon for him. Might fail cause he's nerfed here, but yeah.

Fighting Capabilities: Alex fights only when he sees no other option. He can use water-based attacks and healing spells, as well as use Psynergy to push people back, levitate, and warp. While he no longer has "nearly-limitless" power, he still has a ton, so it would be a tough fit.
Injury/Death: Definitely talk to me, but with this setting I am very open to it. Mods can kill him at any time of course.
Win/Lose/Tie: Just talk to me. Again, Alex is one of the toughest opponents you'd ever come across plus he tends to avoid fighting.
Medical/Physical Info: Alex is still fairly powerful plus he has healing spells. We also haven't been given a reason for the mask so he's keeping it on.

Romance/Relationships: Alex only likes to get close enough to people to use them, and then he just throws them aside when he doesn't need them anymore. That's not to say romantic feelings are impossible, but once he realizes they're happening, he will probably do his best to avoid you. So yes, this is hard and requires discussion.
Sexual Relations: Even tougher to reach with him, since he tries not to get close to people and that's about as close as you can get. It is possible (he has a son I don't think he knows about), but he would really have to have his guard down around you. And afterwards he would try to never see you again. So yes, this would require a lot of planning.
Physical Contact: Alex has been known to grab onto people if he's going to warp them, otherwise he seems to avoid physical contact as much as possible. You can try to like touch him on the arm or something, but I guarantee he'll try to move away if you do.

Any Triggers/Secrets/Facts you should know: He once played a game of World Chess to become all-powerful and immortal. It nearly worked, but the actual all-powerful and immortal Wise One (who is a flying rock with an eye) threw a wrench in the plan to keep him from being totally successful. Alex is once again seen playing World Chess later, though we have no idea what his exact goals are at this point.

Also, he does care about his cousin Mia and has been known to worry about her. And he had a fling with a king's sister before he ran off and before she realized she was pregnant. So yeah, he knocked up his girlfriend and I don't think he realizes it. Or that she's now dead and he's seen his son twice. Whoops.

Comments

[firstnothing]

Manipulation: go. He might recognize a fellow manipulator though.
Probably quickly it will be easy to figure out that Xemnas runs primarily on logic and common sense. Appeal to better nature, emotions, greed and the like simply won't work. But appealing to logic and enlightened self interest will.

[seventhsong]

Manipulation: Go for it.

Lorelei is not entirely unlike your generic good-natured hero type, with many of the same characteristics. However if Alex relies on body language to gauge his possible 'victim', be advised Lorelei doesn't move or quite act like a human should.

I would offer actual useful weaknesses to use against him but! ..It's 3:30 AM and I can't think of any right now. I'll edit later.

[mywayofhelping]

...Ah ha ha Lorelei oh my goodness.

Alex really seems to rely more on their actions or the nature he perceives them to have based on their family/the company they keep. The odd body language would catch his attention, but he wouldn't rule him out for playing some part~