Alexandria

<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Alexandria</default></title>

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<label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Previous Team(s)</label> <label>Base of Operations</label></group> <group><header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label></group> </infobox> Alexandria is a member of the Triumvirate, the former second-in-command of the Protectorate and leader of the Los Angeles Protectorate team.

Personality

Alexandria has perfect memory, and as such she has a vast understanding of a lot of concepts. Her indestructibility and high position gives her an extremely strong sense of confidence. She has this "air" about her, causing people to get out of her way, treat her with a lot of respect and hush their speaking.^{[citation needed]}

Appearance

Alexandria is a tall, muscular woman with long, straight black hair. She is missing an eye, but in civilian guise it is replaced with an advanced prosthetic. She stopped aging shortly after adolescence, but uses makeup in her civilian guise to maintain the appearance of aging.^{[citation needed]}

Her costume was black and light gray, with an image of a tower in the center of her chest, and featured a wide, heavy cape that flowed over her shoulders and draped onto the ground beside and behind her<ref>Extermination 8.1</ref>.

Abilities and Powers

Alexandria is considered the epitome of 'flying brick' capes. The triad of flight, strength and invincibility recurs often enough, in enough variations, that it’s often referred to as ‘the Alexandria package’ in honor of her.<ref name="Cast2"/>

According to experts, Alexandria is one of the strongest parahumans that Cauldron recorded. She has the ability to fly at speeds nearly matching Legend, a virtually invincible body, near-perfect memory retention, accelerated processing and learning, and - as a result - the ability to sense emotions based on body language.<ref name="Cast2">Cast (in depth)</ref> But those who could hide their emotions through expert training or the use of abilities of their own could still fool her.<ref name="SB1"/>

Her mental faculties were offloaded to her Passenger<ref name="SB2">Archived Comment by Wildbow</ref>, this rendered her immune to the effects of those such as the Simurgh, and were the source of her thinker abilities. Her seeming invincibility derives from a hardening and strengthening of her tissues that places her body in a form of stasis.<ref name="list">Wildbow's Parahuman List</ref> This manifested when she first gained her power and increased as she grew, eventually keeping her from aging.<ref name="SB3">Comment by Wildbow archived on Spacebattles</ref> Thus despite being a 'perfect' example of parahuman potential she is as warped as any deviant specimen,<ref name="I24.y"/></ref> her flesh was more like a crystalline formation then flesh.<ref name="30.5"/>

She was able to achieve incredible speeds in flight being able to fly around the earth in minutes.<ref name="25.4"/> Despite this she was still out classed speed wise by Legend.

Her power didn't defend against abilities that made heavy use of inter-dimensional phenomena, such as Scrub, Damsel of Distress, Foil, or March. Eidolon made use of this vulnerability to destroy her clones.<ref>Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

History

Background

After gaining her powers, the girl who would be Alexandria spent two years guarding her doctor while earning a reputation as a superheroine. Alexandria first appeared in los angelous.<ref name="15.z">Interlude 15.z</ref>

Eventually, Alexandria would be introduced to the other members of The Triumvirate. Hero told her that he had heard of her and mentioned how she had taken Strongarm and Mongler before being informed of the young heroine's full abilities. Legend commented on the fact the heroes usually wore brighter colors and she told him that it was easier to get blood out of her black and grey costume.

Alexandria then informed them of her proposal, that they form a team that followed the regulations and stipulations of the United States government. When asked about who would lead the team, she suggested Hero or Legend. She told them that it was part of an eight stage plan to incorporate parahumans into society before telling them how they could set up the organization she was proposing.<ref name="15.z"/>

When asked about how she would guarantee the plan, she said that her civilian identity would take a position in the government. She told them that they should consider it before offering to give them booklets full of information relevant to her proposal.

She lost an eye to the Siberian during the same fight that led to Hero's death,<ref name="I13">Interlude 13</ref> and required Eidolon's powers to heal her enough to use a glass eye to maintain normal appearance, as normal healers could not affect her due to her power.<ref name="15.z"/>

After Hero's death, she became the leader of a smaller team based in Los Angeles.<ref name="R1">Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

Story Start

Alexandria was an international recognized cape.<ref name="Cast1">Cast (spoiler free)</ref><ref>Extermination 8.1]]</ref>

Post-Leviathan

Met at the oil-rig to discuss the situation of the world.<ref name="14.y">Interlude 14.y</ref><ref name="15.z"/>

Post-Slaughterhouse Nine

Alexandria participated in the later stages of the Battle against Echidna. She arrived as The Protectorate members mustered against the newly reclassified s-class threat. She was duplicated,<ref name="19.5">Scourge 19.5</ref> creating Apocrypha, whose appearance revealed her secret identity. Ignis Fatuus revealed her and her colleagues' secret membership of Cauldron.

Post-Echidna

She confronted Skitter after she turned herself in to the PRT, in order to properly control the teenage villain alexandria tried to engineer a situation that would make Skitter try to attack her. This would then allow her to arrest Skitter and shore up her standing in the PRT.<ref name="SB1">Conversation with Wildbow archived on Spacebattles</ref> What the heroine failed to account for was Skitter's ability to offload her emotional responses to her swarm much as Rebbecca did with her own mental abilities. This caused a severe miscalculationn when Skitter snapped after thinking that Alexandria had butchered one of her friends and killed the fallen heroine.<ref name="22.4">Cell 22.4</ref>

She later seemingly returned from the dead in the Battle against Behemoth, her invulnerable body was possessed by Pretender.<ref name="I24.y">Interlude 24.y</ref> She later fought a new threat that that could teleport, forcing Alexandria to chase the aberrition around the Globe.<ref name="25.4">Scarab 25.4</ref>

Golden Morning

Her body was finally destroyed by Scion.<ref name="30.5">Speck 30.5</ref>

Quotes

• "Threats is the wrong word … But English is a limited language in some ways. There's really no word to articulate what I mean. A threat with a measure of inevitability to it. A promise? Too feeble. People break promises too often. A curse? A malediction? Too... magical. An oath? The connotations are wrong. When I say I'll do something, I make it happen." ~ Alexandria to Skitter

Fanart Gallery

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Trivia

• The etymology of Alexandria effectively means 'Defender of Man'.
• Humans generally stop growing around the age of 25 when the final stages of bone developemt end with the clavicle fusing into a solid piece. People continue to have some bone development after this as a natural process of upkeep and adaptation.^{[citation needed]}

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