Name: laura
Age: 33
Contact: brisket on plurk

Character Name: Alex Millar
Canon: Being Human (UK)
Canon Point: end of series
Appearance: here
Age: early 20s, 23ish?

Character snapshot: 
Alex Millar is many things: Scottish, a ghost, a tomboy, and snarky as all get out. She is a fiercely loyal friend, sometimes to a fault, especially when she's trying to save people who she loves and cares for. She's brave and stubborn, determined to help those who need her. She has no qualms saying "keeping it real" nor does she hold back when it comes to over-sharing, she has patience and understanding for those around her. And she’s always eager to help.

World description: 
It's the "normal world", 21st Century, namely the UK, however vampires and werewolves and ghosts and other supernatural creatures exist. They are hidden from the real world as you'd think they would be. But the show takes place in Barry Island, South Wales. Ghosts can only be seen by other supernatural beings in her world.

History: 
Alex came to Barry Island from Scotland for a holiday with her family (her father and brothers). However, she is later killed and she becomes a ghost. Eventually, she moves in with Tom (a werewolf) and Hal (a vampire who she'd gone on date with and died as a result of her connection to him) at Honolulu Heights as a new supernatural trinity (a werewolf, a vampire and a ghost all living together). Lots of hijinks ensue, like helping ghosts pass over, defeating a sinister government plot and Hal struggling with his addiction to blood. It all leads up to the three of them having to fight the Devil himself and supposedly winning that battle to save the world.


What are your character’s mental/emotional strengths? 
She tries to see the good in people and help them on their road to redemption, although sometimes that road can be bumpy, and she can make false assumptions, which usually leads her to give someone more chances than they probably deserve. Because of her nurturing nature, she sympathizes and wants to protect Tom, who is sheltered and despite his hard life, rather naive when it comes to the evils of the world or the true nature of people. She is hopeful and good at pulling people out of any sort of negative spiral without being obnoxiously optimistic. 

Her mischievous side also has its limits, however, she does not use her 'powers' for 'evil' like some other ghosts do. 

What are your character’s mental/emotional weaknesses? 
At first, she is pretty bitter about her life being ended so unnecessarily (being murdered is rough and all), she longs to be alive, to be able to change her clothes, to have sex, or to eat, she attempts to do the latter once or twice and fails, much to her frustration. As with many ghosts, Alex fears of being forgotten or irrelevant. And while she's mostly accepted her ghostly fate, she fears that she will start to go crazy if she's a ghost too long, if she's left alone, like another ghost she runs into, Lady Mary, who has been dead for over two hundred years and is completely bonkers.

What events or circumstances in your character’s past have impacted them the most? 
Her mother walked out on her family, as a result, Alex was responsible to help her father raise her brothers. As a result, she seems to have a deeper affection and understanding of those she can relate to, boys. 

Obviously, the next biggest event would be when she was murdered by a vampire as bait/as an example and turned into a ghost which is basically her whole arc on the show. 

What impressions do others tend to have of your character and how do those impressions differ from who your character truly is?
She's a tomboy to be sure, she's very snarky and can be a bit crude. She's stubborn but loyal. She uses a lot of pop culture references as well. She because of her easy attitude and sarcasm, she might seem confident but she's honestly as insecure as the next person.

Her lack of a solid feminine influence in her life makes it hard for her to relate to other women, especially in terms of femininity, like discussing what some may see as a woman's typical topics conversation: fashion and makeup. She comes off as loud, a bit crude and brash. She has no qualms saying it how it is nor does she hold back when it comes to over-sharing. As a result, she uses her honesty, snark, and spunk to hide her vulnerabilities.  And she's definitely still wrestling with the trauma of dying.

What motivates your character?
Back home, it was finding her unfinished business and keeping her friends safe. I think that here it'd be either trying to find a way back to Hal and Tom or going home. But once she settles a bit, she'd be keen to keep the people she makes friends with safe and helping others if and how she can. 

How does your character handle crisis or adversity?
She uses humor to try to mask when she is afraid or stressed out, she can become a bit chatty as well. She doesn't necessarily ramble on so much as make jokes at 'inappropriate' times, use biting sarcasm. and try to defuse situations with humor, preferring to make light of things than be mature. 

There are times when she is very mature when it's needed, being the voice of reason for Hal or Tom, a guiding, albeit exasperated hand. And she can make the tough choices if she needs to. Mostly, she's great at following someone's lead rather than be a leader but she will step up if she has to.

Skills, abilities, and physical weaknesses: 
As a ghost, she was mostly invisible to living beings except for those of supernatural origins or psychics, intangibile, has telekinesis and she could not be harmed/does not age.  A canon power was "rentaghosting" -  she can teleport over long distances at will and bring items with her but no living beings.  She also could not change her appearance in anyway, nor could she eat, drink or sleep. 

A ghost's abilities fluctuate with their emotions. As for weaknesses, If a ghost suffers too much stress or grief and isn't able to handle it,  the ghost might drift/fade away. If the home a ghost has been attached to is destroyed, they will be lost/disappear.  Ghosts in the BH:UK verse are also able to be destroyed by demons and other ghosts.

Inventory: 

• leather jacket
• green dress
• tights
• combat boots
• black tank top
• underwear
• three rings
   

What aspects of your character are you most interested in exploring in a horror setting?
I think being human but also having her ghostly powers is going to be a very interesting. As for a horror aspect, I am down for just about anything besides extreme body horror/gore. But I'm down for like her being haunted or helping those are being haunted, helping people with their unfinished business, etc. Maybe also her becoming like a scary kind of ghost because of some aspect of the game. Or perhaps people not being able to see her sometimes and she has to use like... oujia boards or haunting tactics to be "heard".

Also eating cake.

What is your character’s mental state upon entering the game? 
Alex will be double pissed. She will have just had her happy ending after fighting the devil and experiencing a fake happy ending. So she will be absolutely convinced this is some kind of trick of the devil, that he's out there destroying the rest of the world while she's stuck in some fake world. She will be desperate to get back but have absolutely no frame of reference on how to do that, so she might seek out those who might. She will act out towards authority figures and be confused as to why she's been thrown together with these randos. 

What unsettles and frightens your character? What sort of encounters would chip away at your character’s psychological stability? 
There's canon demons that the guardians of the after life that all ghosts see once they die and are terrified of called The Men with Sticks and Rocks. But she's also terrified of  being forgotten or irrelevant, of fading away as a ghost. She's also desperate to keep the people she loves safe and sound including her family and friends, especially Hal and Tom. 

What horrifying events or genre elements would you like to see utilized in the game?
I'm honestly not sure. I'm down for anything. I do love a good scary death FOG situation or scary weather scenarios. Baba Yaga is always a good one, would be fun if someone unleashed her or bloody mary on the town by accident.

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