Post by xander on Feb 29, 2012 1:57:02 GMT -4
The person behind the character:
Name/Nickname: Tina
Age: 24
Experience: Plenty. Sinestro on the site.
Contact information: Aim: gotta love gits
Character basics:
Real name: Alexander Harris
Code name: Xander
Date of Birth: September 21
Place of Birth: Sunnydale
Age: Same as Buffy Summers
Known family:
Jessica Harris (mother)
Anthony Harris (father)
Rory (uncle)
Dave (uncle)
Carol (cousin)
The Reflection in the mirror:
Hair: Dark brown.
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5’11”
Weight: 170 lbs
Legal Status: Adult
Occupation: Varies
Affiliation: Good
Abilities: Knowledge of military tactics, weapons and various other things. Regular human beyond that.
What's hidden behind the mask:
Personality: Xander is a very quick-witted man with a sarcastic sense of human and no qualms about cracking jokes whenever possible. He loves being able to get other people to laugh, or just get them to look at him like he's completely insane. He doesn't really care, as long as he gets to enjoy himself a little bit. Most of the time, people don't find him amusing, his jokes more bad puns than anything else.
He is a very honest person, and always says what's on his mind. He doesn't really like keeping his feelings to himself, particularly when it's a bad feeling he'd got brewing inside of him. He is always one to say when an idea is bad, or when he feels someone shouldn't be trusted.
Because he is very good at paying attention and seeing people for what they really are, he has been called the eyes of the group- the one who watches. He takes this very seriously, and because of his own thoughts of his position, doesn't feel like he's not an important member of the group. Most of the time, anyway.
He hates to research and isn't a very brave sort, though he will leap into a fight if other people's lives depend on it. However, he's also not against turning tail and running the hell away if a fight seems too out of his league.
History: Xander was born to Anthony and Jessica Harris and grew up in the small California town of Sunnydale. Xander's father was a self-pitying drunk while his mother was a fragile mess; both parents were negligent and even abusive towards their son, leaving him with various insecurities. Xander's lifelong best friend was Willow Rosenberg, who secretly harbored a hopeless crush on him. The pair briefly "dated" when they were five, but broke up over a stolen Barbie. In kindergarten, Xander suffered an unknown humiliation involving Aquaman underpants. Xander and Willow developed a mutual hatred of their snobby classmate Cordelia Chase, which led them to form the "We Hate Cordelia Club", of which Xander was the treasurer. At his sixth birthday party, Xander's parents hired a clown which chased him; this traumatic incident gave him a lifelong phobia of clowns and caused him to suffer from nightmares. When Xander did not get a toy firetruck for his seventh birthday, the house next door burned down and he believed that Willow had set the fire to let him see real firetrucks. When he was thirteen, he attended Willow's bat mitzvah, where his drunken parents caused a scene.
In his sophomore year of high school, Xander met Buffy Summers on her first day at Sunnydale High and overheard her bizarre conversation with school librarian Rupert Giles regarding demons and vampires. Xander and Willow discovered that Sunnydale was situated on a Hellmouth and that Buffy was actually the Slayer, granted supernatural powers and destined to fight the forces of evil. When his other best friend, Jesse McNally, was kidnapped and turned into a vampire, Xander fought him and accidentally staked him when someone pushed Jesse into the stake Xander was holding. After stopping the Harvest together, Buffy, Xander, Willow, and Giles formed the "Scooby Gang", a small group of people who helped Buffy fight the forces of darkness. Xander's exploits with the Scoobies included nearly being raped and decapitated by the She-Mantis, being possessed by the spirit of a hyena, and having his nightmares about the clown from his sixth birthday party come to life. Developing romantic feelings for Buffy, Xander was jealous of her brief relationship with loner Owen Thurman and her attraction to handsome stranger Angel. His hostility towards Angel grew stronger when he learned that Angel was a vampire, albeit one with a soul. Xander finally admitted his feelings to Buffy, and was bitterly disappointed when she rejected him. However, he later saved her life by performing CPR when she was drowned by the Master, something Angel was unable to do due to his lack of breath.
In his junior year, Xander shared a brief relationship with a foreign exchange student who turned out to be an Incan Mummy On Halloween, a spell caused the trick-or-treaters of Sunnydale to take on the personalities and/or traits of their costumes, transforming Xander into a soldier. When the spell was lifted, he retained his memories and knowledge of the military. While hiding from a demonic assassin in Buffy's basement, the tension between Xander and Cordelia resulted in a kiss, and the pair began a secret relationship. When Willow discovered their affair, she was devastated and offended that Xander would rather be with Cordelia than her. Eventually, Cordelia's friends found out about the relationship as well, and Cordelia became alienated from the popular crowd, leading her to break up with Xander on Valentine's Day. Wanting revenge, Xander coerced Amy Madison to cast a love spell on Cordelia so he could hurt her. The spell backfired, and Xander became irresistible to every female in Sunnydale except Cordelia, who, realizing that Xander genuinely cared for her, reunited with him in defiance of her former friends. Xander's infiltration of the Sunnydale High Swim Team nearly led to him being transformed into a Gill Monster. When Angel lost his soul and reverted to the evil Angelus, Xander felt that his long-standing mistrust of the vampire had been validated, especially when he murdered Giles' girlfriend, Jenny Calendar. Xander encouraged Buffy to kill Angelus, deliberately neglecting to tell her that Willow was planning to re-ensoul him.
Xander began to have a romantic interest in Willow in their senior year of high school, and they shared a kiss that contributed to Cordelia suffering a near-fatal injury, and Cordelia's anger led to the arrival of the vengeance demon Anyanka in Sunnydale. Xander was the first of the Scoobies to discover Angel's return from Hell, and that Buffy has been secretly rehabilitating him and still had feelings for him. Furious and disgusted that Buffy still loved Angel after Angelus' siege against Sunnydale only a year before, Xander immediately informed the other Scoobies of Angel's return and even went so far as to manipulate Faith Lehane into attempting to slay him. However, when Angel saved Willow from being killed by a corrupt ex-Watcher who was allegedly assigned to Faith, Xander begrudgingly accepted him back into the fold. Following their break-up, Cordelia stepped up her usual ridicule of Xander, labeling him "The Zeppo" and mocking him for being useless compared to his friends, who were Slayers, witches, werewolves, and vampires. In an attempt to prove her wrong, Xander embarked on an adventure with a group of zombies, led by tough guy Jack O'Toole, and lost his virginity to Faith in the process. However, when O'Toole and his friends tried to blow up Sunnydale High, Xander single-handedly put an end to their plan. Later, he was asked to the Prom by Anya, formerly the vengeance demon Anyanka. During this time, he discovered that Cordelia's family lost their wealth, home, and cars because of her father's tax evasion, and made peace with Cordelia by helping her pay for her prom dress. At his high school graduation, Xander led Sunnydale High's students against Mayor Wilkins and his vampires.
Xander's inferiority complex and feelings of isolation increased when he chose not to enroll in college like his friends had. After graduating from high school, he set upon a cross-country trip inspired by Jack Kerouac's On the Road that ended when his car broke down. Returning to Sunnydale, he moved into his parents' basement, where he had to pay rent, and took a series of odd jobs as a food vendor, a bartender, a phone-sex operator, and a deliveryman. Xander's problems multiplied when he was forced to accept Spike as a roommate for a short time while the Scoobies were hiding from the Initiative. After very little persuasion, he had sex with Anya and they began dating. Initially, his interest in Anya was purely sexual, but as time went on, he developed genuine feelings for her, eventually falling in love. In a dream, Xander gave Buffy his "heart" in the spell that defeated Adam.
Xander eventually matured, pursuing a more stable career in carpentry and construction work, and moving into his own apartment with Anya. When the famous vampire, Dracula, came to Sunnydale in search of the Slayer, he hypnotized Xander into briefly becoming his willing manservant. The pair apparently remained in touch through letters following Dracula's departure. After being hit by the demon Toth's Ferula Gemini, Xander was split into two separate beings; one displaying his strengths while carrying a flattened nickel and one displaying his weaknesses. He defended Willow and Anya equally from Anya's ex-boyfriend, Olaf the Troll, despite being forced to choose between them. Shortly before going into battle with the hell-goddess Glory, Xander asked Anya to marry him should they survive.
Xander had doubts about his future with Anya. Hoping for a happy ending, he summoned the demon Sweet to turn Sunnydale into a living musical, which went horribly wrong when people started bursting into flames as well as song. Xander's fears over marrying Anya were made worse by a visit from a demon pretending to be his future self, showing him a bitter future trapped in a marriage similar to that of his parents. Although the vision was later revealed to be false, Xander became more conscious of the doubts he was already having, and decided call off the wedding, leaving a heartbroken Anya at the altar. When Anya subsequently had sex with Spike at the Magic Box, Xander attacked and very nearly killed him in a jealous rage, but abandoned those plans out of anger and disgust when he and the other Scoobies discovered that Buffy and Spike had been sleeping together behind their backs for quite some time. When Spike subsequently attempted to rape Buffy, Xander was infuriated, and later realized that Buffy had not told them about her relationship with Spike because she knew that Xander would react as he had. Xander subsequently made amends with Buffy. When Willow's girlfriend, Tara Maclay, was fatally shot by Warren Mears, who was trying to kill Buffy, Xander blamed himself for both that and Willow's subsequent turn to the dark side, remarking that he had seen Warren's gun before he raised it and was merely frozen with fear while he shot both Buffy and Tara. Xander was so enraged at Tara's death that he supported Willow's intentions to kill Warren in revenge until she actually did so. When Willow attempted to destroy the world, it is Xander who stopped her, simply by refusing to leave her and loving her, which manages to return her to her senses and restore her humanity.
Xander struggled over his feelings with Anya, as well as suffering a devastating injury. When Buffy's sister Dawn mistakenly believed herself to be a Potential Slayer, Xander empathized with her disappointment at not being the one in the spotlight. Despite admitting that they still loved each other, he and Anya finally broke up for good, but continued to have the odd fling in times of crisis. Xander had his left eye gouged out by the evil preacher Caleb, and began wearing an eye patch. In the final battle against the First Evil, Anya was killed by a Bringer's sword, and her body remained in the new Sunnydale High's ruins as the empty town was swallowed by the earth. Andrew Wells, whom she had fought alongside, comforted Xander by saying that Anya had died saving his life. Xander replied by saying, "That's my girl. Always doing the stupid thing."
Code word: Armageddon
Name/Nickname: Tina
Age: 24
Experience: Plenty. Sinestro on the site.
Contact information: Aim: gotta love gits
Character basics:
Real name: Alexander Harris
Code name: Xander
Date of Birth: September 21
Place of Birth: Sunnydale
Age: Same as Buffy Summers
Known family:
Jessica Harris (mother)
Anthony Harris (father)
Rory (uncle)
Dave (uncle)
Carol (cousin)
The Reflection in the mirror:
Hair: Dark brown.
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5’11”
Weight: 170 lbs
Legal Status: Adult
Occupation: Varies
Affiliation: Good
Abilities: Knowledge of military tactics, weapons and various other things. Regular human beyond that.
What's hidden behind the mask:
Personality: Xander is a very quick-witted man with a sarcastic sense of human and no qualms about cracking jokes whenever possible. He loves being able to get other people to laugh, or just get them to look at him like he's completely insane. He doesn't really care, as long as he gets to enjoy himself a little bit. Most of the time, people don't find him amusing, his jokes more bad puns than anything else.
He is a very honest person, and always says what's on his mind. He doesn't really like keeping his feelings to himself, particularly when it's a bad feeling he'd got brewing inside of him. He is always one to say when an idea is bad, or when he feels someone shouldn't be trusted.
Because he is very good at paying attention and seeing people for what they really are, he has been called the eyes of the group- the one who watches. He takes this very seriously, and because of his own thoughts of his position, doesn't feel like he's not an important member of the group. Most of the time, anyway.
He hates to research and isn't a very brave sort, though he will leap into a fight if other people's lives depend on it. However, he's also not against turning tail and running the hell away if a fight seems too out of his league.
History: Xander was born to Anthony and Jessica Harris and grew up in the small California town of Sunnydale. Xander's father was a self-pitying drunk while his mother was a fragile mess; both parents were negligent and even abusive towards their son, leaving him with various insecurities. Xander's lifelong best friend was Willow Rosenberg, who secretly harbored a hopeless crush on him. The pair briefly "dated" when they were five, but broke up over a stolen Barbie. In kindergarten, Xander suffered an unknown humiliation involving Aquaman underpants. Xander and Willow developed a mutual hatred of their snobby classmate Cordelia Chase, which led them to form the "We Hate Cordelia Club", of which Xander was the treasurer. At his sixth birthday party, Xander's parents hired a clown which chased him; this traumatic incident gave him a lifelong phobia of clowns and caused him to suffer from nightmares. When Xander did not get a toy firetruck for his seventh birthday, the house next door burned down and he believed that Willow had set the fire to let him see real firetrucks. When he was thirteen, he attended Willow's bat mitzvah, where his drunken parents caused a scene.
In his sophomore year of high school, Xander met Buffy Summers on her first day at Sunnydale High and overheard her bizarre conversation with school librarian Rupert Giles regarding demons and vampires. Xander and Willow discovered that Sunnydale was situated on a Hellmouth and that Buffy was actually the Slayer, granted supernatural powers and destined to fight the forces of evil. When his other best friend, Jesse McNally, was kidnapped and turned into a vampire, Xander fought him and accidentally staked him when someone pushed Jesse into the stake Xander was holding. After stopping the Harvest together, Buffy, Xander, Willow, and Giles formed the "Scooby Gang", a small group of people who helped Buffy fight the forces of darkness. Xander's exploits with the Scoobies included nearly being raped and decapitated by the She-Mantis, being possessed by the spirit of a hyena, and having his nightmares about the clown from his sixth birthday party come to life. Developing romantic feelings for Buffy, Xander was jealous of her brief relationship with loner Owen Thurman and her attraction to handsome stranger Angel. His hostility towards Angel grew stronger when he learned that Angel was a vampire, albeit one with a soul. Xander finally admitted his feelings to Buffy, and was bitterly disappointed when she rejected him. However, he later saved her life by performing CPR when she was drowned by the Master, something Angel was unable to do due to his lack of breath.
In his junior year, Xander shared a brief relationship with a foreign exchange student who turned out to be an Incan Mummy On Halloween, a spell caused the trick-or-treaters of Sunnydale to take on the personalities and/or traits of their costumes, transforming Xander into a soldier. When the spell was lifted, he retained his memories and knowledge of the military. While hiding from a demonic assassin in Buffy's basement, the tension between Xander and Cordelia resulted in a kiss, and the pair began a secret relationship. When Willow discovered their affair, she was devastated and offended that Xander would rather be with Cordelia than her. Eventually, Cordelia's friends found out about the relationship as well, and Cordelia became alienated from the popular crowd, leading her to break up with Xander on Valentine's Day. Wanting revenge, Xander coerced Amy Madison to cast a love spell on Cordelia so he could hurt her. The spell backfired, and Xander became irresistible to every female in Sunnydale except Cordelia, who, realizing that Xander genuinely cared for her, reunited with him in defiance of her former friends. Xander's infiltration of the Sunnydale High Swim Team nearly led to him being transformed into a Gill Monster. When Angel lost his soul and reverted to the evil Angelus, Xander felt that his long-standing mistrust of the vampire had been validated, especially when he murdered Giles' girlfriend, Jenny Calendar. Xander encouraged Buffy to kill Angelus, deliberately neglecting to tell her that Willow was planning to re-ensoul him.
Xander began to have a romantic interest in Willow in their senior year of high school, and they shared a kiss that contributed to Cordelia suffering a near-fatal injury, and Cordelia's anger led to the arrival of the vengeance demon Anyanka in Sunnydale. Xander was the first of the Scoobies to discover Angel's return from Hell, and that Buffy has been secretly rehabilitating him and still had feelings for him. Furious and disgusted that Buffy still loved Angel after Angelus' siege against Sunnydale only a year before, Xander immediately informed the other Scoobies of Angel's return and even went so far as to manipulate Faith Lehane into attempting to slay him. However, when Angel saved Willow from being killed by a corrupt ex-Watcher who was allegedly assigned to Faith, Xander begrudgingly accepted him back into the fold. Following their break-up, Cordelia stepped up her usual ridicule of Xander, labeling him "The Zeppo" and mocking him for being useless compared to his friends, who were Slayers, witches, werewolves, and vampires. In an attempt to prove her wrong, Xander embarked on an adventure with a group of zombies, led by tough guy Jack O'Toole, and lost his virginity to Faith in the process. However, when O'Toole and his friends tried to blow up Sunnydale High, Xander single-handedly put an end to their plan. Later, he was asked to the Prom by Anya, formerly the vengeance demon Anyanka. During this time, he discovered that Cordelia's family lost their wealth, home, and cars because of her father's tax evasion, and made peace with Cordelia by helping her pay for her prom dress. At his high school graduation, Xander led Sunnydale High's students against Mayor Wilkins and his vampires.
Xander's inferiority complex and feelings of isolation increased when he chose not to enroll in college like his friends had. After graduating from high school, he set upon a cross-country trip inspired by Jack Kerouac's On the Road that ended when his car broke down. Returning to Sunnydale, he moved into his parents' basement, where he had to pay rent, and took a series of odd jobs as a food vendor, a bartender, a phone-sex operator, and a deliveryman. Xander's problems multiplied when he was forced to accept Spike as a roommate for a short time while the Scoobies were hiding from the Initiative. After very little persuasion, he had sex with Anya and they began dating. Initially, his interest in Anya was purely sexual, but as time went on, he developed genuine feelings for her, eventually falling in love. In a dream, Xander gave Buffy his "heart" in the spell that defeated Adam.
Xander eventually matured, pursuing a more stable career in carpentry and construction work, and moving into his own apartment with Anya. When the famous vampire, Dracula, came to Sunnydale in search of the Slayer, he hypnotized Xander into briefly becoming his willing manservant. The pair apparently remained in touch through letters following Dracula's departure. After being hit by the demon Toth's Ferula Gemini, Xander was split into two separate beings; one displaying his strengths while carrying a flattened nickel and one displaying his weaknesses. He defended Willow and Anya equally from Anya's ex-boyfriend, Olaf the Troll, despite being forced to choose between them. Shortly before going into battle with the hell-goddess Glory, Xander asked Anya to marry him should they survive.
Xander had doubts about his future with Anya. Hoping for a happy ending, he summoned the demon Sweet to turn Sunnydale into a living musical, which went horribly wrong when people started bursting into flames as well as song. Xander's fears over marrying Anya were made worse by a visit from a demon pretending to be his future self, showing him a bitter future trapped in a marriage similar to that of his parents. Although the vision was later revealed to be false, Xander became more conscious of the doubts he was already having, and decided call off the wedding, leaving a heartbroken Anya at the altar. When Anya subsequently had sex with Spike at the Magic Box, Xander attacked and very nearly killed him in a jealous rage, but abandoned those plans out of anger and disgust when he and the other Scoobies discovered that Buffy and Spike had been sleeping together behind their backs for quite some time. When Spike subsequently attempted to rape Buffy, Xander was infuriated, and later realized that Buffy had not told them about her relationship with Spike because she knew that Xander would react as he had. Xander subsequently made amends with Buffy. When Willow's girlfriend, Tara Maclay, was fatally shot by Warren Mears, who was trying to kill Buffy, Xander blamed himself for both that and Willow's subsequent turn to the dark side, remarking that he had seen Warren's gun before he raised it and was merely frozen with fear while he shot both Buffy and Tara. Xander was so enraged at Tara's death that he supported Willow's intentions to kill Warren in revenge until she actually did so. When Willow attempted to destroy the world, it is Xander who stopped her, simply by refusing to leave her and loving her, which manages to return her to her senses and restore her humanity.
Xander struggled over his feelings with Anya, as well as suffering a devastating injury. When Buffy's sister Dawn mistakenly believed herself to be a Potential Slayer, Xander empathized with her disappointment at not being the one in the spotlight. Despite admitting that they still loved each other, he and Anya finally broke up for good, but continued to have the odd fling in times of crisis. Xander had his left eye gouged out by the evil preacher Caleb, and began wearing an eye patch. In the final battle against the First Evil, Anya was killed by a Bringer's sword, and her body remained in the new Sunnydale High's ruins as the empty town was swallowed by the earth. Andrew Wells, whom she had fought alongside, comforted Xander by saying that Anya had died saving his life. Xander replied by saying, "That's my girl. Always doing the stupid thing."
Xander chuckled. “I knew you never should have stopped wearing those tweed suits,” he remarked after the girl said Giles looked like hell. He was aware that the woman was completely unaware of what he was talking about, but Giles wasn’t, and that was the important thing. He gave Buffy a short nod, perfectly happy to move around the place and gather weapons for the lot of them. Snatching the key out of the air when Giles tossed it to him, making a show of it just because he was perfectly thrilled to have managed to catch it with only one eye throwing off his perception, he headed off to the room down the hall. Sharp things always made him feel like he was actually a member of the team whenever he got to swing one around. Kitchen knives for cooking dinner didn’t really count.
He shifted away from the herd, looking around to find a weapon chest. Most houses wouldn’t have anything like that, but he suspecting the Giles abode would. As with his own house, all Summers-visited abodes tended to have some manner of deadly weapon with them. As it turned out, Giles didn’t just have a chest. Leave it to him to have what looked like one of every kind of weapon ever created. For research purposes, he was sure.
Soon enough, he was bringing over a variety to choose from: swords, crossbows, daggers and his personal favorite, battle axes.
He returned to the group just in time to receive a compliment. “Oh,” he said lightly, moving a hand to his face, fingers brushing over the patch gently, “now when did that get there, I wonder? By the way: my name’s Xander. I guess it’s about time for some name-dropping, isn’t it?” he put the weapons down, though kept the axe for himself, just in case anyone had ideas of leaving him behind.
Maybe holding a weapon would tell them that wasn’t going to happen.
“Hey, you stay here and rest,” he said to the girl, “we’re good with the fighting off evil forces thing. How about it, guys? Think we’re ready to go marching in there?” He wasn’t one for making plans- anything he came up with was doomed to fail. Let Giles handle the thinking, he’ll throw the axe around.
He shifted away from the herd, looking around to find a weapon chest. Most houses wouldn’t have anything like that, but he suspecting the Giles abode would. As with his own house, all Summers-visited abodes tended to have some manner of deadly weapon with them. As it turned out, Giles didn’t just have a chest. Leave it to him to have what looked like one of every kind of weapon ever created. For research purposes, he was sure.
Soon enough, he was bringing over a variety to choose from: swords, crossbows, daggers and his personal favorite, battle axes.
He returned to the group just in time to receive a compliment. “Oh,” he said lightly, moving a hand to his face, fingers brushing over the patch gently, “now when did that get there, I wonder? By the way: my name’s Xander. I guess it’s about time for some name-dropping, isn’t it?” he put the weapons down, though kept the axe for himself, just in case anyone had ideas of leaving him behind.
Maybe holding a weapon would tell them that wasn’t going to happen.
“Hey, you stay here and rest,” he said to the girl, “we’re good with the fighting off evil forces thing. How about it, guys? Think we’re ready to go marching in there?” He wasn’t one for making plans- anything he came up with was doomed to fail. Let Giles handle the thinking, he’ll throw the axe around.
Code word: Armageddon