Post by Jordanna on Jan 17, 2006 22:40:40 GMT -5
Character's Name: Alexander Malone. (His full first name is almost never used; friends simply address him as Alex or Foxy.)
Mutant Nickname: Foxy (due to his red hair and "sly" mutant talent). This is also his stage name.
Mutant Power: The ability to perfectly mimic any voice, and almost any animal sound.
Occupation: Singer/dancer/comic; star attraction at the Paragon Club.
Gender: Male.
Age: Thirty-four.
Height: 5' 11".
Hair Color: Red.
Eye Color: Blue.
Physical Description: Alex has a highly expressive, impish face, and a wiry but agile and well-conditioned body. Inexhaustibly active, he is almost never still. When he talks, his hands convey at least as much as his words do.
Country/Hometown: New York City, USA.
Immediate Family: None.
Personality: In public, Alex is a dazzling entertainer: self-confident, quirkily comedic, and brimming with an energy that can be exhausting just to watch. However, this stage persona shields a very intelligent and sensitive young man, who is actually quite shy and insecure. His ever-present fears of exposure and rejection as a mutant have caused him to keenly crave applause. He has a restless, perfectionistic sense of creativity that keeps him constantly trying new acts. He has had few close friends, but those he does have find him to be compassionate, helpful, intensely loyal, and playfully humorous.
Weaknesses: His fear of exposure has often weighed heavily upon Alex. He can be overly eager to please his friends or his audience at times. He has no fighting skills or particular physical strength. He is allergic to cats (and felinoid mutants).
Additional Skills: Alex's self-taught dancing talents are superb, if slightly eccentric. He has learned how to throw his voice--an ability that is extremely useful in conjunction with his mutation. In the process of learning a vast repertoire of songs, he has developed an excellent memory, and he has a (sometimes confusing) knack for fast talking. He is an excellent cook, although his culinary masterpieces are at times a bit too creative.
Hobbies/Interests: Alex's life is very much wrapped up in his work and workplace. He likes to help his friend and employer Sid, to whom he feels indebted. Besides working incessantly to come up with new acts of his own, he often brainstorms ideas to improve the Paragon Club itself--with varying degrees of success. He enjoys trying out new recipes in the club's kitchen or at Sid's home (also with variable success). While not a habitual prankster, sometimes he can't resist using his vocal abilities to play little tricks on people. Extremely fond of Sid's children, he spends quite a bit of time acting as babysitter/big brother/surrogate uncle to them.
Personal History: The son of poor Russian immigrants, born only six months after they fled to America from the Soviet Union, Alex knew hardship from an early age. He was an intelligent and optimistic child, but his humble background limited the prospects for his future--until, at the age of fourteen, his life was changed dramatically. An accident took the lives of his parents, and the trauma of that event caused his mutation to emerge.
Placed in the hands of foster caretakers who were strongly anti-mutant, Alex concealed his new ability, but he silently resented their views and ran away several months later. After nearly starving on the streets and resorting a few times to petty theft, he forced himself to overcome fears of how he would be treated as a mutant. Starting out in Central Park and on street corners, he began to entertain people with his "talent" for impressions--and to his surprise, most people did not realize that he was a mutant, assuming his gift was just a remarkable trick.
For the next several years, Alex performed as a novelty act in various mostly low-grade clubs and sideshows. He traveled across the country, made a few friends, learned to sing, dance, and play comedy, and steadily improved his craft--but everywhere he went, he was eventually exposed as a mutant and forced to move on. (At one point when he was seventeen, he fell into the hands of a con man who employed him in several swindles, but he finally rebelled against this wrongdoing on his own.)
Returning to New York at the age of twenty-six, Alex had come to one of his lower points, scraping out a living with a rather foolish ventriloquist act. Then he was discovered by Sidney Rosenstein, owner of the Paragon Club. The son of Holocaust survivors, Sid understood prejudice all too well; he accepted Alex for what he was, and brought him to work at the Paragon. Under Sid's patronage, Alex was finally able to tap his potential, and blossomed into a brilliant entertainer who became the club's star attraction. Having brought each other mutual success, the two men became devoted friends, and even Sid's family embraced Alex.
When Nocturne's mutant mafia tried to extort Sid, Alex sought help from Regina Dawson. The subsequent murder of Sid's wife caught them all up in an effort to bring Nocturne down.
Anything else: Alex rather sensibly altered his birth name, Aleksei Malinovsky, when he began performing seriously. He chose Malone for its similarity to his real name, and because he was using an Irish accent in his act at the time. Finding that most people assumed it was his real name, he went along with it, and has tacitly feigned Irish descent ever since.
Alex is the godfather of Sid's youngest child, Caleb. Neither Caleb nor middle child Holly know Alex is a mutant, but he confessed his nature to oldest child Tara after she became a mutant herself.
Mutant Nickname: Foxy (due to his red hair and "sly" mutant talent). This is also his stage name.
Mutant Power: The ability to perfectly mimic any voice, and almost any animal sound.
Occupation: Singer/dancer/comic; star attraction at the Paragon Club.
Gender: Male.
Age: Thirty-four.
Height: 5' 11".
Hair Color: Red.
Eye Color: Blue.
Physical Description: Alex has a highly expressive, impish face, and a wiry but agile and well-conditioned body. Inexhaustibly active, he is almost never still. When he talks, his hands convey at least as much as his words do.
Country/Hometown: New York City, USA.
Immediate Family: None.
Personality: In public, Alex is a dazzling entertainer: self-confident, quirkily comedic, and brimming with an energy that can be exhausting just to watch. However, this stage persona shields a very intelligent and sensitive young man, who is actually quite shy and insecure. His ever-present fears of exposure and rejection as a mutant have caused him to keenly crave applause. He has a restless, perfectionistic sense of creativity that keeps him constantly trying new acts. He has had few close friends, but those he does have find him to be compassionate, helpful, intensely loyal, and playfully humorous.
Weaknesses: His fear of exposure has often weighed heavily upon Alex. He can be overly eager to please his friends or his audience at times. He has no fighting skills or particular physical strength. He is allergic to cats (and felinoid mutants).
Additional Skills: Alex's self-taught dancing talents are superb, if slightly eccentric. He has learned how to throw his voice--an ability that is extremely useful in conjunction with his mutation. In the process of learning a vast repertoire of songs, he has developed an excellent memory, and he has a (sometimes confusing) knack for fast talking. He is an excellent cook, although his culinary masterpieces are at times a bit too creative.
Hobbies/Interests: Alex's life is very much wrapped up in his work and workplace. He likes to help his friend and employer Sid, to whom he feels indebted. Besides working incessantly to come up with new acts of his own, he often brainstorms ideas to improve the Paragon Club itself--with varying degrees of success. He enjoys trying out new recipes in the club's kitchen or at Sid's home (also with variable success). While not a habitual prankster, sometimes he can't resist using his vocal abilities to play little tricks on people. Extremely fond of Sid's children, he spends quite a bit of time acting as babysitter/big brother/surrogate uncle to them.
Personal History: The son of poor Russian immigrants, born only six months after they fled to America from the Soviet Union, Alex knew hardship from an early age. He was an intelligent and optimistic child, but his humble background limited the prospects for his future--until, at the age of fourteen, his life was changed dramatically. An accident took the lives of his parents, and the trauma of that event caused his mutation to emerge.
Placed in the hands of foster caretakers who were strongly anti-mutant, Alex concealed his new ability, but he silently resented their views and ran away several months later. After nearly starving on the streets and resorting a few times to petty theft, he forced himself to overcome fears of how he would be treated as a mutant. Starting out in Central Park and on street corners, he began to entertain people with his "talent" for impressions--and to his surprise, most people did not realize that he was a mutant, assuming his gift was just a remarkable trick.
For the next several years, Alex performed as a novelty act in various mostly low-grade clubs and sideshows. He traveled across the country, made a few friends, learned to sing, dance, and play comedy, and steadily improved his craft--but everywhere he went, he was eventually exposed as a mutant and forced to move on. (At one point when he was seventeen, he fell into the hands of a con man who employed him in several swindles, but he finally rebelled against this wrongdoing on his own.)
Returning to New York at the age of twenty-six, Alex had come to one of his lower points, scraping out a living with a rather foolish ventriloquist act. Then he was discovered by Sidney Rosenstein, owner of the Paragon Club. The son of Holocaust survivors, Sid understood prejudice all too well; he accepted Alex for what he was, and brought him to work at the Paragon. Under Sid's patronage, Alex was finally able to tap his potential, and blossomed into a brilliant entertainer who became the club's star attraction. Having brought each other mutual success, the two men became devoted friends, and even Sid's family embraced Alex.
When Nocturne's mutant mafia tried to extort Sid, Alex sought help from Regina Dawson. The subsequent murder of Sid's wife caught them all up in an effort to bring Nocturne down.
Anything else: Alex rather sensibly altered his birth name, Aleksei Malinovsky, when he began performing seriously. He chose Malone for its similarity to his real name, and because he was using an Irish accent in his act at the time. Finding that most people assumed it was his real name, he went along with it, and has tacitly feigned Irish descent ever since.
Alex is the godfather of Sid's youngest child, Caleb. Neither Caleb nor middle child Holly know Alex is a mutant, but he confessed his nature to oldest child Tara after she became a mutant herself.