Alexander Blake

Quick Facts

 * Full Name: Alexander Blake
 * Nickname: Xander, Xan
 * Gender: Male
 * Race: Human
 * Age: 17
 * Hair: Dark, messy
 * Eyes: Green
 * Genre: Realistic, Fantasy
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Family
In most versions he has a little sister, Katie, and lives with her and their mother most of the year. For fantasy versions, both parents are gone and they live with their grandmother and a menagerie of animals.

Appearance
Xander isn't very tall, several inches under the average for guys his age. His hair is messy with longer bangs that often get in his way. The back is short and spiky, no matter how much he tries to smooth it down. He has two piercing in his left ear and one in his right.

Bio
Most people would call Xander wierd or trouble when asked about him. He doesn't particularly care if other kids at school believe that or not, prefering to keep most people at a distance. It's better, besides no one would believe what he did after school. Handling a toothless old tiger or making sure a raccoon got its shots might seem too incredible to be true, but when your grandmother is a vet and licensed to take in all sorts of animals in need of help or healing...it ends up being second nature after a while. Not many people know about the exotic animals, they just call Mrs. Blake "that crazy cat lady" but colleagues call her "Dr. Doolittle".

Xander and his younger sister didn't always live there though, and before that Xan was actually getting into trouble fairly often. It got worse after their parents died, but that's about when their grandmother stepped up an said they could live with her. Xan was promptly put to work and it turned out that he enjoyed working with the animals.

Abilities and Skills

 * He has a way with the animals, a "natural magic" as his grandmother would call it. They seem to trust him.
 * He's physically strong, but more of the natural sort that comes from hard physical work.