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[evilspawn]

player information.

name: Brandon, please.
are you over 18?: I am 23. Don’t hurt me even though there’s a 3 in the number!
personal dw: episodic
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc: suchaheartleads - IM
characters in abax: Jenna Sommers [gradstudent], Dan Humphrey [brooklyns]


in character information.

series: Grey’s Anatomy
name: Alex Karev
age: 28
sex: M
race: Human
weight: 160lb.
height: 5’11
cause of death: Can it say a broken heart? Can the gods of Abax be cheeky?
canon point: 3x24 “Didn’t We Almost Have It All” after discovering Rebecca/Ava has left the hospital.
previous cr: I don’t!

history: Here, have a pretty, pretty emotionally stunted link!

alternate history: N/A

personality:

On the surface, Alex Karev is a typical man. He likes boobs, booze, and sports. He’s traditional in that way and falls into the traditional gender roles. He was a wrestler in college. He was also in a fraternity. He’s tough, quiet and he doesn’t take shit. He’s not afraid to run his mouth. He will talk back. He has a smart mouth when he wants to and if the event needs it, he will come to blows. He has a temper. He’s slammed a patient up against a wall before. He's really cocky. At this point in his career he has a bit of a problem with authority. His way is the right way. He makes it a point to not get to know his patients. He’s not a soft, pansy man. He is a man.

But, Alex is a very complicated man.

He grew up with an abusive father and a little brother and sister to take care of. He finally fought back – punching his “old man” as he would say. This is something he internally regrets and admits regretting to a patient. His mother was mentally ill and he had to take care of her – something that comes back up with Ava/Rebecca in the fourth season. He spends years in and out of foster homes – 17 of them. Through this, he built a wall around himself as defense mechanism. He specifically doesn’t make connections or open himself up to people. He can come off as – well, an ass. And to some extent, he really is one. He doesn’t care what people think of him. He speaks before thinking. He’s been nicknamed Dr. Evilspawn, the Antichrist… He’s mean-spirited at times and competitive. He labeled George O’Malley 007. He antagonizes for fun and he claims he doesn’t need friends. He steals surgeries. He lies to Callie about being the "heart in the elevator guy." In Season 7, he tells on Meredith when it comes to her tampering with Derek's clinical trial.

But, the truth of the matter is, Alex does care about people. He connects to his patients – usually privately. He sympathizes with patients of his including a boy with an abusive father and a girl that’s never been kissed. And in one case, he became too attached. He saved a woman whose face was smashed in a ferry boat accident. Over the next few months, he grows closer to her – even before she receives reconstructive surgery. Before this, he even develops an attraction to Dr. Addison Montgomery. But, in the season 3 finale after pushing away his true feelings for Rebecca who essentially asks him to ask her to stay, he professes that he isn’t a good guy. Addison points out that he is and that he shouldn’t let Rebecca/Ava go. She leaves. Returning to season 7, Alex shows remorse with what he does to Meredith. In Season 8, he does all he can to help Meredith and Derek get Zola back.

What he also does do is stick up for them. As he says in Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response, they’re his team. He didn’t choose Meredith, Cristina, Izzie or even George – but they’re his team. He doesn’t reveal Izzie to be the intern who cut the LVAD wire. He sticks to those guns. This is another way of showing that Alex cares – that he is a human being.

Which brings me to another part of his personality. If he does go the extra mile, show some form of decency or real feeling – especially of the romantic variety – and that blows up in his face – he shuts down. He gets meaner. He belittles, pushes the romantic object away – or, everyone else. If there’s one phrase that describes Alex Karev, it’s “One step forward, two steps back.” Because, whenever he shows signs of being a better man… he hits a point where he lowers himself back to the level that may be shared with scum. He fights Izzie at the beginning of season 5 when it comes out that he and her are getting along. He uses Lexie in season 4 while attempting to get over Rebecca.

Another aspect to Alex’s personality: sex. He sees it as perfectly healthy. He enjoys it. It’s fun. After a heartbreak, he’s been known to be promiscuous. He slept with Olivia while she was dating George. He’s slept with nurses, interns (a visiting one in Season 6, an intern under him as well) – and he doesn’t hide this. He’s not ashamed. It’s just a part of him. And as for sexuality, it’s always the ladies. He sleeps with an older female patient in The Emerald City bar who thinks she’s dying. He also cheats on Izzie when he realizes there are real feelings there. And he cheats on Rebecca and Lexie simultaneously. A part of him cares when he has done this but he pushes that part down.

When it comes to relationships, he does attempt to be the better guy. In Season 4 with Rebecca he takes extra shifts at the bar across the street and he takes care of the mentally ill Rebecca. With Izzie in Season 5, he stands by her when it comes to her cancer and he even marries her. He holds her dying against her because she essentially scared him. By season 5, he loves her more than anyone.

He respects Meredith Grey - deep down. She's a friend. She goes for what she wants, she gets Derek Shepard. Good for her. He looks up to Yang for her coldness and they trade barbs but if she needs him he'll be in her court. He really dislikes George O'Malley. Yeah, he's a part of Alex's team but - man does that guy grate on his nerves. He also loves Izzie Stevens. He may always love Izzie Stevens. At this point in canon, she disgusts him a little bit. She slept with O'Malley and she's in love with a married guy. Instead of identifying with her, or hearing Izzie out he yells at her and then throws a box of tissues at her that night when she's crying loudly. He highly respects Bailey and the Chief. He hates Mark Sloane for making him do menial tasks when he thought he wanted to be in plastics. And he has come to respect Addison Montgomery. But, a possibility with her has passed. Callie's not really an issue for him. He doesn't think one thing or another about her.

When it comes down to it, in the series, it's shown when Alex finds love, he can be very committed. He doesn't have a problem with being faithful - he just... hasn't always been in the past. He can get to a point where he's mature enough to take a relationship seriously. He marries Izzie and says that with this he becomes accountable for another person - he's more then just a smart-mouthed kid. He has a mature guy deep down and when push comes to shove, he's a man - and this time I mean man under the definition of - adult. Alex is a fully capable adult male.

Like all the characters in Grey’s Anatomy, Alex is a screwed up individual. He has walls around his heart. He has a pretty surly disposition and he has a past he tries to make up for every day of his life. He fought his way into med school. Because of this, he is extremely independent. He won’t initially buddy up with anyone – even people he knows – friend-wise. He actually doesn’t call many people his friends. But when push comes to shove, he’ll stick up for them. Another aspect to Alex's personality is his isolating himself. It comes with his independence. He tends to be the outsider more often than not and he likes it that way.

abilities/powers:

Though Alex is human, his skills vary widely across the medical field whether it be recalling symptoms to a disease, the ability to diagnose what is wrong with someone or being able to research and memorize facts. He’s also a gifted surgeon. At this point in canon he’s great at obstetrics and gynecology. Later on in canon, he finds he has a gift for Peds, even going so far as to chase down a fellowship for it. He’s also strong and he has a killer metabolism considering how thin he is and how much he eats. In a recent episode an intern joked that he’d die at 35.

first person sample:

[ When the feed cuts on, Alex has found himself a drink. He’s just that resourceful. He’s also in scrubs. ]

Pretty much everyone I’ve met here is crazy. Insane-even. You all belong in a psych ward. But, trusting just myself has got me these scrubs and this bottle of beer. So, fine.

You all win. What the hell is going on. I make it a point to stay away from the morgue. I like OR’s. The occasional on-call room. It’s not the hospital that bothers me – used to the hospital.

[ He takes a swig from his beer. ]

But, the not empty, not crazy hospital. Look, I just want answers that don’t make me question your sanity. So, what the hell’s going on. I’d like to catch a plane back to Seattle. See, I’m a resident now. That means, I can kick your ass . [ Hah. Not that he wouldn’t do it already. ] You know, the – you who did this. Cause it’s a bad prank if it was one person. If this is an old college thing? I paid my fraternity dues. Literally. And figuratively.

third person sample:

Alex wanted to punch something. He was at Yang’s wedding – a wedding he couldn’t really care less about. And O’Malley and Izzie were having their drama, especially when he knew the kid had cheated on his wife with his ex girlfriend. But, screw that. That bullshit had nothing to do with him. Yang and Burke, being at the wedding, it was the right thing to do. He’d been invited.

What did have something to do with him? Addison. His ‘good guy’ thing. He was right. He didn’t play ball and he didn’t have kids or hold barbecues or play catch. But, Addison got through to him. Hell if he knew how she managed this but she did. She had a point. She had seen the connection he’d made with Ava, how unhappy he’d been when he realized she had a husband.

No, wait. Rebecca. He had to remind himself that her name was Rebecca Pope. She had a husband and a child and even if she’d been running away from that life, she still had it. People loved her. They were looking for her. The connection had been made but what had that mattered? This guy loved her and he was a good guy. He was a small town good guy.

That was why Alex had let it go.

Let her go.

But, Addison struck a chord. Alex left Cristina’s wedding, racing back to Seattle Grace. He hoped he’d catch her. He wasn’t a girl. So, he wasn’t picturing their bittersweet reunion. He didn’t go over what he was going to say in his head. He just ran. Rushed. And he got there too late. Her room was empty. Ava – Rebecca had been signed out. He’d missed his chance to be the good guy.

Well, he knew his next step. Or, the next few steps: get drunk, find a woman, and bone up on being a resident. It was something to look forward to. Being a badass, surgery-stealing, intern hating Bailey. It gave him something to focus on, something to relish. It would be something that could help Alex keep his mind off of everything he’d lost. Meanwhile, Izzie could pine after O’Malley and unknown to him, Meredith and Cristina could enjoy Yang’s honeymoon. He’d start fresh in a week.

Fuck it. He’d stuck his neck out there – and for what? To be something he’s not. To be the good guy.

And where did that get him?

case no: Any is fine!