Alexis Redmond
(a.k.a. Lexa, Lexi)
Alexis Redmond is the protagonist of the Ashrain storyline. Born thirteen years before the Great Cataclysm that wiped out virtually the entire human race, including her family, Alexis grew up alone in the harsh new world of Ashrain, surviving with the help of fellow survivors and her own iron will. Now, over a decade later, she travels across the rugged, unforgiving wasteland that was once the North American Midwest, in pursuit of a singular goal that she is willing to achieve at any cost, and by any means.
Personality and Traits
Description
Alexis Redmond was thirteen years old when the Great Cataclysm occurred. Fourteen years later, at twenty-seven years old, a life spent surviving in the ruined, fallen world of Ashrain has hardened her into a stubborn, indomitable force, capable of withstanding unimaginable odds. Despite this, she has retained her sense of morality and humanity, buried deep beneath the instinct that has enabled her to survive for so many years. Alexis is approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall, with a full head of wavy red hair that she chopped to her shoulders for ease and wears pulled back in a tight ponytail behind her head. Though she was once quite curvaceous and attractive, a decade and a half of scrounging and fighting in the wilds of Ashrain has hardened her body as well as her mind. She is thinned from the malnutrition that affects every human survivor, but she is still strong enough to hold her own in a fight, making her a dangerous force to be underestimated. Alexis uses this to her advantage, using what remains of her considerable physical assets to distract her enemies just long enough to overpower them, giving her a split second edge. Against the predators of nature, she arms herself with weapons scavenged and fashioned from materials along the roadside, constantly adding to her arsenal to make up for lost tools. She is strong, saavy, smart, and resourceful, able to make the most of even the most dire situation. She is innovative and creative when it comes to her surroundings. When ambushed by a wild, vicious dog in the wilds, she was able to kill it hand to mouth using only a knife. Later, after discovering a small cluster of arrows for a bow in a ruined structure, she fashioned one for herself out of an elastic strap and the plastic wheel of a kiddie-car, forming a hand-held sling/bow capable of a fatal shot. After fourteen years of survival in the ruins of Ashrain, and the supposed but unconfirmed death of her entire family, Alexis is a quiet, reserved person, preferring not to speak to or interact with others more than she has to in order to survive. This introspective demeanor gives her a cold, calculating appearance from the outside, despite the inherrent friendliness and kindness that typified her before the Great Cataclysm. Outwardly, Alexis maintains blank eyes and a vacant expression so as not to give anything of herself away. Inwardly, she fights to maintain hope and conviction in a world of hopelessness, desolation, and loss.Biography
Childhood
Before the End
Alexis Redmond grew up in the city of Maple Hill, North Carolina, the eldest daughter of a family of four including her mother, father, and younger sister by several years. Driven and motivated, she had big plans for her life when she grew up, and strived to achieve those ends even from an early age. Consequentially, she would later consider herself to be somewhat neglectful of her sibling and family, often spending more time in her studies or pursuits than enjoying the little moments, like playing with her sister in the backyard or helping her mother tend her herb garden in the backyard of their family home. She was very saavy in the outdoors and had a love of camping, wildlife, and exploration. Her sense of direction was particularly keen, a skil which she put to use in hobbies that included geocaching and hiking. Alexis's father would often say of her that she could find her way home without a compass in the apocalypse. When Alexis was thirteen years old, she left home on her own for the first time to attend a hiking trip with friends in the Rocky Mountains on the other side of the country. It was her dream trip, hosted by a family friend, and involved a week-long trek with multiple camping stops. After saying a tearful farewell to her family, she boarded a plane, flew to an airport in California, and from there set off for the mountains. After arriving at their destination, they began the first leg of their trek, journeying for two days and stopping in a small village deep in the mountains on the third.Forty-Seven Seconds
While they were stopped in the little mountain town, Alexis pulled out her phone to casually scroll through social media in the hopes of seeing what her family was up to while she was away. While scrolling through posts, she happened upon a live feed from Washington DC, a live feed which depicted a massive, unidentified object hovering over the city, having descended from the sky. The feed lasted for forty-seven seconds exactly. Then, it ended in a buzz of feedback. A moment later, Alexis's phone died, along with every other mechanical device in the small village: phones, lights, cars, and everything else. The blackout was immediate and global, wiping out every last piece of electrical technology humanity possessed. At first, Alexis and her small group of friends, along with others in the small mountain town, wondered if it was simply a mistake. A problem with the local power grid. Only one person in the village had been watching the right news feed at the right time to see the colossal object floating in midair above the US Capital. As such, there was little panic in the village during the first hour following the blackout. Then, as the second hour passed, the Great Cataclysm rolled over them.X-Day
Alexis and her group survived X-Day by luck. As with many others who found themselves within mountainous regions such as the Rockies, the Appalachians, or the Himalayas, the cover of the mountains provided shelter from the worst effects of the world-ending event known afterwards by many as the Great Cataclysm. When the tides of fire, hundreds of feet high, swept across the land and burned everything human-kind had strived for hundreds of years to create to cinders and ashes, they broke upon the sides of the mountains, leaving many places within them preserved. But whether scorched by the inferno or not, no place on Earth could avoid the earthquakes, the volcanic eruptions, and the shrouding by the global ash cloud that followed. Within the mountains, shelter was possible in caves and canyons. By quick action and steady thinking, the adult leader of Alexis's party managed to keep her children and her charges alive until the end of X-Day. From there, it became a matter of survival as the world came apart and was remade into the desolate wasteland later to be known as Ashrain. Alexis was the only member of her party who had seen the forty-seven seconds of news footage showing the aliens arriving in DC. As such, she was the only one who knew, throughout the initial destruction, that the epicenter might be in Washington DC, just a few hundred miles north of where her family and the families of nearly everybody she was with lived. And unfortunately, with the global blackout, there was no way for any of them to verify whether any of their loved ones had survived. Consequentially, having seen with her own eyes the devastation caused to her part of the world by the firestorms, and knowing the epicenter of one of the attacks was so near to her family's home, she soon came to the conclusion that they had all perished that day, a notion that would haunt her for the rest of her life in the absence of verifiable proof, but circumstantial certainty.After the End
Those Who Lived
Alexis lived to see the ecological and environmental devastation of the planet formerly known as Earth with her own eyes. Growing up in the ever more dire conditions of the new world soon to be known as Ashrain, she became intimately familiar with desperation and what it could do to a person. The details of what she went through in the decade after the end of the world are muddy and unclear, with so little being known about her past to begin with. However, it can be reasonably concluded that she spent the next fourteen years living with the small cluster of survivors who made it through X-Day with her. Whether or not any of them survived beyond that other than herself is another mystery. Whether she and her group remained within the mountainous region in which they had been caught by the firestorms can be reasonably assumed. There, they may have formed some manner of permament or mobile settlement in which they continued to strive together to survive the ever-worsening conditions as the planet continued to destabilize around them. During this time period, between her thirteenth and eighteenth year, she suppoedly witnessed one of the Constructs of the Ash Gods with her own eyes, suggesting that they migrated from the place where they began their journey for some cause at some point. Alexis was also familiar with the brutality and inhuman practices of human organizations including the Carvers and the Birthers, who she particularly despised suggesting that her group may have had some negative interactions with a Convent in the years that followed. Alexis was also familiar with the wandering tribe known as the Yellowstone Nomads, suggesting that her group may have had interactions with their caravans, or perhaps traveled with them at some point, perhaps in search of a safer place to live following confrontations with hostile groups.The Darkest Hour
When the document known as the Ashrain Manifesto was published, Alexis was twenty years old. She was supposedly familiar with the document, suggesting that she may have been part of a large enough survivor encampment to have been able to read it at some point. However, her attitude towards the Manifesto's proposed human resurgence was negative and doubtful. She was never a part of any organized coalition under the Manifesto, and would continue to look down on it with derogatory stature in the years that followed its dissolution. When the Searing Plague hit humanity in full force, Alexis was spared the deadly disease, suggesting the group she was a part of may not have been so large, in fact, nor had routine contact with other groups that may have been contagious. She nevertheless felt the effects of the disease, like everyone else on the planet, as the human population was reduced by another two-thirds of its volume.
Current Location
Age
27
Date of Birth
-15 AE
Birthplace
Maple Hill, NC
Children
Sex
Female
Eyes
Dark blue
Hair
Long, wavy, red
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Tanned and burnt
Height
5' 10"
Weight
190 lbs
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