Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:07:50 GMT

basic info.
FULL NAME: Alexander Carlisle
NICKNAMES: Alex
GENDER: Male
D.O.B./AGE: February 14th 1987 // 21
OCCUPATION: Librarian in the college library
MARITAL STATUS: Single
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Gay
VICES: Sadly, Alex's only true vices are owl sweaters and books. However, ice cream is a definitely plus.
EDUCATION: High school. Graduated with fairly average grades.

interests & personality.
LIKES: Books, owls, order, people who he can talk to and learning new facts
DISLIKES: Boisterous, over the top show-offs and arguments (as he hears enough ‘heated debates’ at home).
GOALS: Alex wants more than anything to become the head librarian. Having always found solace in the library, to him he feels the most securest there.
FOUR WORDS TO DESCRIBE HIM: Kind-hearted, quiet, helpful and secretive.
THREE THINGS ABOUT HIM THAT MAKE HIM/HER UNIQUE:
1.At twenty one years of age, he hasn’t achieved anything spectacular, however he has chronologically ordered every novel by authors lettered A-F. Alex deems that as an exceptional feat.
2.Although Alex is gay, it's very much in the closet and he's never yet shared a kiss with anyone, let alone anything else.
3. He can tell you, down to the shelf number, where to find nearly every single book in the library

FAVORITE BOOK: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
HIS BEST MEMORY: Getting the job at the library. He'd worked in his high school library as a teen, so finally getting a fully paid job doing what he loved was the single most incredible thing.
HIS WORST MEMORY: His parents rejecting his wants and wishes. They're neither accepting of his aspirations or his distaste infemale company. They have suspicions of his sexuality and his father claims it makes him less of a man.
SHARE FIVE DETAILED FACTS ABOUT HIM TO GIVE US AN IDEA OF WHO HE IS AND WHERE HECOMES FROM:
1. He grew up in Hollywood, where his parents were very high class lawyers, however the stress of the city caused them to move to Aspire when Alex was 13, where they continue to work as lawyers, however out of the hubbub of Hollywood.
2. When he was a child, Alex spent 5 months pretending to be deaf, so his parents would stop trying to make him do anything other than allowing him to read. It worked, sort of, however after several tests by doctors, they determined Alex was simply being a stubborn 12 year old, rather than having developed deafness. He got a clip round the ear for that.
3. Alex has a twin sister, Jenny, who ran away at the age of 16. He refuses to talk about her, and doesn't mention her existance to friends he may make. Her room in the family home remains untouched, his mother insistant she will return. When his parents aren't in, he sits in her room to read.
4. Sometimes, Alex thinks he can hear Jenny in his head. He's positive she's not dead, and believes she's run back to Hollywood. He wants to find her, however is too scared to leave the security of where they live.
5. He has a very noticeable stammer, and for that rarely starts a conversation. He gets nervous around people whom he doesn't know.
BACK STORY :
Alex Carlisle is a man without a mission. He’s a man without a large amount of drive, without impossible aspirations, without the dying need to save the world or make the planet a better place. He doesn’t want to rule the oceans, doesn’t want to be president, or a star on the silver screen. When he wakes up, he doesn’t spend an hour making himself look like a photographed idol, he doesn’t go jogging to be a sports jock, he doesn’t wake up wishing that day was the day he’d write something so beautiful it would catch the hearts of people everywhere. Alex Carlisle is a simple, satisfied young man, who’s content to carry on as he is.

He has a badge and a chance of promotion next year, when Mrs Reynolds, the library assistant in charge of sections ‘Fashion Photography through to Medical Science’ leaves, so Alex is doing everything he ever wanted to do. He has a passion for books, something rooted from childhood.

His father is a lawyer as is his mother, so naturally when graduating from high school, Alex too was expected to follow in their prestigious footsteps and attend Harvard Law. However, upon watching how stressed his parents constantly seemed and how they were nearly always at loggerheads, the newly graduated Alex kept his feet firmly planted on home turf. More appropriately, the deep teal shaded carpet in the university library. He started at the bottom, nothing more than an eighteen year old bookshelf stacker, working his way through the ranks to where he is now, a level that achieves a badge and recognition by the head librarian. Alex doesn’t want to leave, happy in his world of books, where the letters form words, words form sentences, sentences read by open minds and curious eyes. Alex keeps them ordered. Gives them their resources.

Living at home is the only thing Alex wants to change about his life. However, being a twenty one year old librarian, he mostly works with women over the age of forty, who are nice people, interesting and friendly, however not companions Alex sees himself being with. Regardless of age, Alex has a preference for the masculine sex, something which his co-workers are fully aware of. For this, whenever a mildly attractive man walks in who sets their ‘gaydar’ off, he’s usually pushed in his direction, watched by eager female eyes, who coo and treat Alex as if he is their son. He hasn’t found true love between the bookshelves, not yet, but that doesn’t stop them trying.

He earns enough that he doesn’t have to rely on his parents for money, nevertheless as an only child of two parents who could be a lot more attentive, they substitute affection for a rather substantial allowance. Alex saves this, using it to buy the books on the ‘for sale shelves’ and small wooden owls. Some boys collect cars and porn magazines. Alex collects owl paraphernalia.

Alex is a short man, standing at around five foot three on a good day, and five foot four on tiptoes – his usual state when stacking shelves. His sandy strawberry blonde hair is usually jammed under a hat, due to an unfortunate hereditary baldness crisis, which he curses his father for on a regular basis. In true librarian fashion, he is a possessor of a pair of mighty fine spectacles, which he does actually need, to ensure he doesn’t see things in ‘blur vision’. Behind the frames, is a pair of piercingly blue eyes, warm and friendly, much like his personality. He’s a kind man, never one to allow a harsh word past his plump lips, always there to assist.