History: (I'm sorry if this is a little bit short for peoples' tastes! GANGSTA. is currently an ongoing series, so the histories of the characters aren't too intensive just yet. I did pull Alex out of a timeline where a decently good amount of information is told about her, though.) In the crime-ridden streets of Ergastulum, Alex spent her days working as a prostitute. Of course, this wasn't exactly by will as it was under the influence of a violent and manipulating pimp named Barry... No, Alex's life wasn't the greatest from her experiences working under Barry, and the fact that her memories of the past before being caught in his web are foggy can be just another thing to add to her problems. After being given a particular drug that helped to "stabilize" her for her pimp's own goals, Alex's memories of events from before had slowly been eaten away, fortunately leaving her able to remember her mother and brother. (It's too bad she can't even remember her brother's own face, though...)
Fast forwarding through her awful experiences working the streets, Alex is soon caught in the middle of a hit job done by two men known as Benriya or "utility men". These two men, Worick Arcangelo and Nicolas Brown, were hired by the police and neighboring mafioso to "dispose" of Barry and his gang for the continuous ruckus they had stirred up in the city. The mafia didn't exactly take kindly to imbeciles stirring up business in the city they controlled and managed to maintain some amount of stability for. When Nicolas and Worick had caught sight of Alex, Nicolas believed it best to kill her, since she was a witness and worked for Barry, after all... Worick on the other hand saw no gain in killing her, and so the prostitute's life was somehow spared through convincing. And when the deed was done and Barry's body was covered with bullet holes and slashes, Alex appeared in front of the carnage, grabbed a gun, and shedding a single tear, shot Barry's already-dead body several times point blank. She was free. She was finally free.
After shooting her pimp and the man who essentially "took care of her", Alex felt nauseous and was in a daze, with Nicolas and Worick leading her away from the scene. When the Benriya were confronted by the police and asked why they didn't kill Alex as well, Worick responded in saying that Alex was their "loot and treasure" for the job, and that she would be working as their secretary from then on. As skeptical as Officer Chad (that old grump) was, he could see that from Alex's soft-spoken nature that she didn't seem to pose any threat. And, well, if he argued with Benriya, the police would have just lost their only way in dealing with those... "out of our reach" issues that those law-abiding/serving folks couldn't touch. As worried as Alex was about her future, she knew that these men couldn't have been that bad if they did spare her life...
And things really weren't that bad after all. Her secretary job left her in charge of the phone in the Benriya's apartment to answer any calls for jobs they were offered, as well as heading off on small deliveries with the guys. And as time went by, Alex could feel herself slowly being put back together again, save for those memories that were still lost somewhere in her head... And, there was one more problem... Although Alex had thought to finally have been free from Barry and everything surrounding him, she realized it wasn't exactly over. All alone in the Benriya's apartment one rainy day, Alex had looked out the window to see what appeared to be Barry - a very bloody Barry with a smile that could match that of the devil, looking up towards her. Overcome by pure terror and panic, all Alex could do was huddle herself into a corner as she began to hear footsteps going up the apartment's stairs and the opening of a door to the room. ... A short while later, Alex wakes up in a bed in the small clinic run by Dr. Theo and Nina, people she had met during her time in helping Benriya with deliveries. The cool-headed Dr. Theo explains to Alex that she was experiencing hallucinations of Barry's phantom, showing that her mind isn't exactly in the right place. The grip that the pimp had on Alex had become so powerful that it had nearly broken her, and she was now having to resort to taking tranquilizing drugs prescribed by Dr. Theo to prevent any more hallucinations from occurring (even if they still continued to persist, but not as greatly as before...).
Life hasn't been easy for our dear Alex, but she's never said that it is. As our lady in the skin-tight, black dress and heels continues her stay with Benriya, she hopes to not only forget about her horrible treatment from the past, but to also remember the kinder memories she had with her mother and brother as well as create new ones with the men that she has begun to open her heart to and have the same done to her.
Re: Alex Benedetto / GANGSTA.
In the crime-ridden streets of Ergastulum, Alex spent her days working as a prostitute. Of course, this wasn't exactly by will as it was under the influence of a violent and manipulating pimp named Barry... No, Alex's life wasn't the greatest from her experiences working under Barry, and the fact that her memories of the past before being caught in his web are foggy can be just another thing to add to her problems. After being given a particular drug that helped to "stabilize" her for her pimp's own goals, Alex's memories of events from before had slowly been eaten away, fortunately leaving her able to remember her mother and brother. (It's too bad she can't even remember her brother's own face, though...)
Fast forwarding through her awful experiences working the streets, Alex is soon caught in the middle of a hit job done by two men known as Benriya or "utility men". These two men, Worick Arcangelo and Nicolas Brown, were hired by the police and neighboring mafioso to "dispose" of Barry and his gang for the continuous ruckus they had stirred up in the city. The mafia didn't exactly take kindly to imbeciles stirring up business in the city they controlled and managed to maintain some amount of stability for. When Nicolas and Worick had caught sight of Alex, Nicolas believed it best to kill her, since she was a witness and worked for Barry, after all... Worick on the other hand saw no gain in killing her, and so the prostitute's life was somehow spared through convincing. And when the deed was done and Barry's body was covered with bullet holes and slashes, Alex appeared in front of the carnage, grabbed a gun, and shedding a single tear, shot Barry's already-dead body several times point blank. She was free. She was finally free.
After shooting her pimp and the man who essentially "took care of her", Alex felt nauseous and was in a daze, with Nicolas and Worick leading her away from the scene. When the Benriya were confronted by the police and asked why they didn't kill Alex as well, Worick responded in saying that Alex was their "loot and treasure" for the job, and that she would be working as their secretary from then on. As skeptical as Officer Chad (that old grump) was, he could see that from Alex's soft-spoken nature that she didn't seem to pose any threat. And, well, if he argued with Benriya, the police would have just lost their only way in dealing with those... "out of our reach" issues that those law-abiding/serving folks couldn't touch. As worried as Alex was about her future, she knew that these men couldn't have been that bad if they did spare her life...
And things really weren't that bad after all. Her secretary job left her in charge of the phone in the Benriya's apartment to answer any calls for jobs they were offered, as well as heading off on small deliveries with the guys. And as time went by, Alex could feel herself slowly being put back together again, save for those memories that were still lost somewhere in her head... And, there was one more problem... Although Alex had thought to finally have been free from Barry and everything surrounding him, she realized it wasn't exactly over. All alone in the Benriya's apartment one rainy day, Alex had looked out the window to see what appeared to be Barry - a very bloody Barry with a smile that could match that of the devil, looking up towards her. Overcome by pure terror and panic, all Alex could do was huddle herself into a corner as she began to hear footsteps going up the apartment's stairs and the opening of a door to the room. ... A short while later, Alex wakes up in a bed in the small clinic run by Dr. Theo and Nina, people she had met during her time in helping Benriya with deliveries. The cool-headed Dr. Theo explains to Alex that she was experiencing hallucinations of Barry's phantom, showing that her mind isn't exactly in the right place. The grip that the pimp had on Alex had become so powerful that it had nearly broken her, and she was now having to resort to taking tranquilizing drugs prescribed by Dr. Theo to prevent any more hallucinations from occurring (even if they still continued to persist, but not as greatly as before...).
Life hasn't been easy for our dear Alex, but she's never said that it is. As our lady in the skin-tight, black dress and heels continues her stay with Benriya, she hopes to not only forget about her horrible treatment from the past, but to also remember the kinder memories she had with her mother and brother as well as create new ones with the men that she has begun to open her heart to and have the same done to her.