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Alex Kralie | Marble Hornets | Reserved
Name: Lirance
Age: 25
Contact Info: pm
Other Characters: n/a
Character Information
Name: Alex Kralie
Canon: Marble Hornets
Age: never stated in series, probably 29
Gender: male
Canon Point: post Entry #86 spoilers
Background Link: A very sparse outline of Alex's appearances throughout the series.
Inventory: gross bloody clothes, impotent rage, a baseball cap
Personality: HE IS KIND OF A HUGE DICK okay hold on let me back this up
Part of the tragedy of Alex Kralie is that he used to be a really nice guy. His production blog reveals a guy who is genuinely excited to make his shitty movie script become a reality. He was just a film student who wanted to follow his dreams, and in one terrible summer, everything in his life completely fell apart.
When the Operator first entered his life, he didn't seem to think much of it, since it seemed to just be an especially tall man in a suit. It became a constant presence in his life, standing on the edge of sets, staring at him from outside his home, and even entering his room. Obsession began to consume him. He filmed himself constantly and would chase after it, sometimes even into the woods at night, and his condition rocketed downward in each stunningly oblivious display of "horror protagonist-itis" until he became absolutely insufferable to be around. Alex took his paranoia and fear out on his cast, yelling at them when their acting wasn't up to his standards. Something in him finally snapped, and he began to attack the people he knew and leave them for the Operator. By the end of the summer, he isolated himself from everyone, dropped the project, and left the area entirely to go live with his girlfriend Amy to escape it all.
Alex Kralie's emotional development started out rock bottom at the beginning of the series and somehow managed to get even worse as the series goes on.
At the beginning of the movie filming, Jay and Alex weren't especially close friends, but for whatever reason, Alex let Jay have his shitty haunted tapes and contacted him for help years later when Amy disappeared. Alex was already distrustful and paranoid about Jay, considering he uploaded all the footage to the internet, probably led two masked harassers to him, and definitely broke into his house and led the Operator straight to him, which led to a complete dissolution of whatever was left of their friendship. But despite Alex's previous violent tendencies, he never made a move against Jay -- until the Operator deliberately spurred Alex's condition to even more dangerous heights. Alex's paranoia and delusions became so great that he strangled a completely unrelated person, believing him to be Jay, before he finally got the right guy and tried to shoot him. To Alex, Jay became a blundering hazard who had already dragged another person into this mess, and would probably continue to do so unknowingly with others. Jay desperately needed to be stopped.
Season one showed a guy whose fear was eating him alive -- by season three he was of the opinion that murder was literally the only solution.
Before, he was shown to only attack people and let the Operator do the rest, and that seemed to be enough for the both of them. Now, he believes that the only way to get it to leave everyone is to kill them. Everyone affected by it can spread its influence to others: Tim did it to Alex, Alex did it to his girlfriend Amy, Jay did it to Amy's roommate Jessica. Rather than try to manage it with medication and therapy, Alex wants it to stop entirely. This cannot be allowed to continue; it has to stop now. Everyone must die. If they're dead, they can't spread it anymore. There cannot be anyone left, or it will never end.
Alex is very clearly in the wrong here, but he believes so strongly that everything he's done was for a greater good. It's an awful, awful job, but someone has to do it. It doesn't matter that arson or murder are hilariously illegal and terrible, as long as the Operator is stopped. Though he thinks he's fighting against it, however, he's only playing right into its hands. He's a puppet to its will, and he can't even see the strings.
Alex still has the capacity to not act like a total dick, but since most of his interactions in the series are with Jay and Tim, there aren't very many opportunities to see him somewhat normal. When he finds Jessica and tries to lure her out into the woods to kill her, he speaks rather kindly to her. Admittedly, this is because he wants to make her trust her, but even as he aims the gun at her and prepares to shoot, he apologizes to her. He doesn't want to do it, he never wanted her involved, but now that she is, it has to be done.
Despite Alex's intense drive to keep things from getting worse, he does show regret for what he has to do. Before the Operator attacked Alex and Amy at the end of season one, he took very careful steps to make sure she never got wind of what was going on. He even attacked Jay and removed some tapes from the massive Marble Hornets tape pile to make sure that when they were watched, Jay would never find out where he and Amy had gone and drag them back into it. Unfortunately for everyone, this did not come to pass. It's revealed in a later entry that one of the few things he brought with him when he was living in Tim's attic to ambush him (yeah I know this dude's fucking unbelievable), was a photo of Amy. It's unclear whether Alex really did kill Amy in his crusade to stop the Operator from spreading, especially since his memory of that day is allegedly missing, he at least believes that he had a role in her disappearance, and it weights heavily on him.
Even though Alex has some kind of bone to pick with a majority of the named characters in the series, none of his murders or attacks have been entirely personal with one notable exception. Tim is probably the only person that Alex outright loathes in the entire series. Alex spent years thinking that he was the reason everything had happened, and when he found out Tim was the true source? Alex blamed everything on him. Everything. The Operator being brought into everyone's lives, the fear that ate them all alive, the paranoia -- even things Alex is most definitely responsible for, like people disappearing or Jay's death. To Alex, none of them would have ever happened if Tim hadn't been around; therefore, it's all Tim's fault. This is also another case of Alex being very much wrong, but he hates what his life has become and what he's had to do.
By the end of the series, there's not much left in Alex but anger: at the Operator, at himself, at everyone who'd ever had a hand in making this whole situation worse.
Flavor Abilities: Alex has been known to cause visual tearing and audio distortions, especially during times of duress and anger, and I'd like to keep that.
Suitability: Marble Hornets is a series that explores the effects of isolation, fear, and paranoia on its characters, and the prime example of this is in Alex. The effects the Operator has on people are very similar to the symptoms of cabin fever. He'll react to them with his usual poor coping mechanisms (ie yelling at people, getting pissy, etc), but he'll assume this is all par for the course.
Since the last thing he remembers is getting stabbed and bleeding out, and he knows what happens to people connected to the Operator when they die, he'll assume he's gone to spooky ghost man hell when he arrives in Norfinbury. He'll still be pissed at everything and everyone, but at least he won't be actively trying to murder people. If he's dead and taken, and other people here are dead and taken, then he doesn't have to worry so much about keeping it from spreading.
RP Samples:
THREAD ONE
THREAD TWO
REVISION REQUEST
One of your samples doesn't have ten comments from your character, and combined the two samples don't add up to twenty comments from your character, so we'll need either a longer thread sample or a sample you've written out yourself.
Please reply to this comment with your revisions within three days or your slot will be forfeit.
REVISION
The alarm function on his tablet suddenly blares, breaking the silence. Eight o'clock. Almost by habit he pulls back the heavy curtains and looks outside. Growing up in southern, warmer climates, snow is still a novelty to him, even if it's utterly obnoxious and cold and wet, but he can appreciate it a lot more when he's inside--
There is a man outside the window.
It's just far away enough that Alex can barely see it, lingering at the back of an alley across the street. A black, tailored suit and pale, unnatural flesh -- it blends in almost perfectly against the growing dark and falling snow, but Alex knows. He would know it anywhere.
There's no rush of panic, no startled scream, just lead-heavy dread dropping into the pit of his stomach as he closes the curtains, steps back, and tries to breathe. I knew it. I knew it. It's here.
It won't be enough, but he checks the latches on the window (shut), the locks (bolted), the chair wedged underneath the doorknob (hasn't budged). He learned quickly that all the houses in Norfinbury lock themselves at night that first night -- he still has the shoulder bruises from throwing himself against a door -- and he knows, logically, that he doesn't need to do any of this, but it gives him a small measure of comfort. These are things he can control. If it wants in, it's going to get in, but it won't be because he overlooked something and let it.
He grabs his tablet and sits down in front of the front door to wait.
It's going to be a long night.
ACCEPTED
A standard single-story house with a kitchen, living room, dining room, bathroom, and bedroom. There's a hanging bird cage in the living room, but the door has been left open and there's no sign of bird remains inside.
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