Alex was then taken into the foster care system, and when she was 12, Gabe was sent to juvie. John briefy stops to pick up the locket before walking out the door, leaving them for CPS. After pleading with John to stay, Alex throws her mother's locket at him out of grief and despair. John, after realizing what he just did, told Alex and Gabe that he couldn't do this anymore and that someone would come by to get them. Alex tried to defuse the situation by suggesting they sell their records and her guitar in order to pay the bills, but despite her best efforts the argument continued to esculate and soon turned physical, resulting in John unintentionally hitting Alex and knocking her to the ground. When Alex was 11, her Dad and Gabe got into an argument over John losing his job. Wendy then gave Alex a locket containing pictures of her and Gabe before passing away. At one point, Alex was visiting her mother in the hospital where Wendy told her how proud she was of her and that she was going to have to be strong for both her father and Gabe. When Alex was ten, her mother was diagnosed with cancer. Alex lived in Portland, Oregon with her parents and older brother Gabe. Using her power, Alex unravels the town's secrets and the truth of her brother's death.Īlex Chen was born on July 10th, 1997, to John and Wendy Chen. The siblings are reunited for one day before Gabe is killed following a mining explosion. After reconnecting, Gabe invites her to the small town of Haven Springs, Colorado, in order to live with him. After eight years, she had eventually been located by Gabe, who had gotten his life back in order. Should Alex get too close or really focus, she feels what emotion the other person is feeling, allowing her to read that person's thoughts.Īs Alex's powers manifested, she was deemed to be too emotionally unstable, and therefore no family wanted to adopt her.

Due to her tragedies, she develops a unique power of empathy that allows her to see a person's emotional aura. However, she also has a selection of other outfits she can choose to wear in her room.įollowing the disappearance of Alex's father, John Chen, the death of her mother, Wendy Chen, and being separated from her older brother, Gabe Chen, Alex mostly grew up in the Oregon foster care system. She wears black nail polish and dresses in a blue denim jacket with three different patches, a navy blue hoodie with a yellow bird and lettering over a black shirt with long sleeves, black skinny jeans and brown hiking boots. She has two small tattoos on her right hand, one of a shooting star and a shield on her middle finger. She wears large red glasses, diamond earrings in her earlobe piercings and two helix piercings with silver hoops on her right ear, and a silver stud in her left nostril piercing. As a consequence, strong negative emotions can take a great toll on her well-being.Īlex is able to customize her outfits in the first four chapters.Īlex has short black hair stylized into a pixie cut with a large protruding bang swept to her left.

Alex has always put the needs of others first rather than confronting her own emotional turmoil. While initially shy towards most people she meets, she is generally friendly and approachable. Due to the nature of her powers, she is also highly observant to her surroundings and sensitive to the needs of others. Alex is described as sharp, witty, and hardened from her time in foster care (children must be in order to survive).

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