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            &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color: #78536f;&quot;&gt;Name:&lt;/b&gt; Kim &lt;/p&gt;
            &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color: #78536f;&quot;&gt;Age:&lt;/b&gt; 42&lt;/p&gt;
            &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color: #78536f;&quot;&gt;Contact:&lt;/b&gt; PM @aproclivity on plurk,aproclivity#8377 &lt;/p&gt;
            &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color: #78536f;&quot;&gt;Character(s) in game:&lt;/b&gt; N/A&lt;/p&gt;
            &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color: #78536f;&quot;&gt;Permissions:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://11calls.dreamwidth.org/10455.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;summary style=&quot;cursor:pointer;color:transparent;margin-left:-1.25em; border-bottom: 3px solid #000;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #78536f; letter-spacing: 0.18em; font-style: italic; font-size: 15pt;&quot;&gt;→ CHARACTER INFO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/summary&gt;
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            &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color: #78536f;&quot;&gt;Character Name:&lt;/b&gt; Alex Reagan &lt;/p&gt;
            &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color: #78536f;&quot;&gt;Age:&lt;/b&gt; 31&lt;/p&gt;
            &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color: #78536f;&quot;&gt;Canon:&lt;/b&gt; The Black Tapes Podcast &lt;/p&gt;
            &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color: #78536f;&quot;&gt;Canon point:&lt;/b&gt; The end of 212 &lt;/p&gt;
            &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color: #78536f;&quot;&gt;History:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Short and general version&lt;/b&gt;
Alex Reagan is a Canadian born journalist who went to the University of Vancouver before heading to Seattle to work at Pacific Northwest Stories (which is kinda like NPR). After working as a segment producer for several years with her friend Nic Silver, Alex broached the idea of doing a podcast on people doing interesting jobs. The first job they were going to focus on was one of paranormal investigator, but while interviewing different paranormal investigators one name kept popping up: Dr. Richard Strand of the Strand Institute, a paranormal investigator who is a rational skeptic(™) and who seeks to disprove all instances of anything paranormal.&lt;/p&gt;

After badgering Strand into an interview, Alex stumbles across some black VHS cassette cases, and Strand informs her that those are the cases he can’t scientifically disprove. Yet. From then on, Alex’s podcast takes the form of focusing on the Strand Institute and their “enigmatic founder Dr. Richard Strand” and the videos that he shows her. At first, the videos appear to have no connection, but as we come more entrenched in the shows mythos, the narrative stretches to demons, shadow figures hunting children, ancient religious cults, murders with upside down faces, Dr. Strand’s missing and presumed dead wife Coralee, physics, sacred geometry, murderous music and whether or not Alex’s own show has somehow brought about the end of the word in a demonic apocalypse. Oops. &lt;a href=&quot;https://11calls.dreamwidth.org/10599.html&quot;&gt;Longer and more in depth history.&lt;/a&gt; (in lieu of a decent wiki entry.)
            &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color: #78536f;&quot;&gt;Personality:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Recklessness&lt;/b&gt;: One of the things that is definitely a major part of Alex’s personality (especially at this canon point) is how reckless Alex is. While amplified by her lack of sleep, Alex is so reckless that she seems to lack any sense of self preservation. Running into danger head on is something that Alex does often even (perhaps even especially) when people are telling her not too. When someone tells Alex not to do something it seems to be the fastest way to &lt;i&gt;make her&lt;/i&gt; do something. Even when Nic is present with her, Alex breaks into Maddie Franks’ apartment and admits to it on the podcast despite Nic reiterating it with her about what a dumb idea it is. Recording Strand, going into a parking garage to meet an unknown person, going to Turkey to meet with an admitted mass murderer who’s escaped from a mental hospital are all things that Alex does with abandon despite what it costs. Even continuing on with the story itself is a reckless act.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Determination:&lt;/b&gt; One of the things at the very core of Alex’s personality is her determination. It’s shown over and over again in the series, right from the theme that has Strand’s “returning one of &lt;i&gt;11 phone calls&lt;/i&gt; from someone named Alex Reagan.” That’s one of the first things that you need to know about her and how that leads into her persistence. Even when Strand quits the show for three months, Alex still reaches out to him very frequently before heading to Chicago to find where he’s holed up in his office. Moving through the show, Alex just throws herself against brick wall and brick wall until they break. In many ways Alex’s unstoppable force of personality is played to be a foil against Strand’s being an unmovable object as they are both defining characteristics for both characters. &lt;/li&gt; 
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Single mindedness.:&lt;/b&gt;When she is on the trail of a story, especially one Alex is personally involved in (like the Black Tapes) everything other than that is tangential. Things that should be important to her like journalism ethics, Strand’s personal life and even the law go right out of the window especially if she thinks someone is hiding something from her. However, in many ways, Alex’s determination also makes her like a puppy with a bone. Determination and perseverance make her jump into things feet first and recorder out, even when cooler heads prevail. She is determined to understand what is going on around her, and to seek not only her truths but the truths of people around her.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Curiosity:&lt;/b&gt; A large part of Alex’s seeking truth comes from an intense curiosity. Her podcast is first meant to be about interesting jobs done by interesting people because these are things that she is curious about. The fact that Alex’s favorite adjective seems to be “enigmatic” definitely points to things that she wants to understand. Indeed, the reason that Alex lies to get back into Strand’s equipment cabinet to see those black tape cases are because she is curious about them, and of course what they mean to him.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Empathy&lt;/b&gt;:  Part of the reason that people tend to connect with Alex other than through her persistence is through her empathy. The closest thing that Alex has to a superpower is her empathy. This empathy makes people want to trust her (honestly even when they shouldn&apos;t) so she can get people who otherwise wouldn&apos;t open up about people or experiences that they&apos;ve had. Her charm goes hand and hand with this and it&apos;s one of the ways that she gets people like law enforcement to open up files and cases and give her access to things that she really shouldn&apos;t have access to. Even when something is horrifying, Alex can still have empathy for it. When watching an interview between Simon Reese and a court appointed psychologist, during which Simon snaps and starts banging his head on a table, Alex’s empathy lies with Simon rather than the psychologist who is being paid to be there.&lt;/li&gt; 
&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
            &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color: #78536f;&quot;&gt;Suitability:&lt;/b&gt; Alex Reagan is from a horror podcast that in part inspired TMA. She’s definitely the sort of person who cannot leave supernatural things alone, even when she knows that she should. Being driven to know things even to the expense of her sleep, health, professional reputation and friendships there’s no way that Alex would let herself be drawn away from the mysteries involved at ADI into the normal world. &lt;/p&gt;
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            &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color: #78536f;&quot;&gt;Powers/Abilities:&lt;/b&gt; Investigative journalist, researcher, annoyingly persistent and easy for Alex to gain someone’s trust. &lt;/p&gt;
            &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color: #78536f;&quot;&gt;Entity Affinity:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;The Eye.&lt;/b&gt; Alex is driven to figure out things and to know them even at the expense of everything else. During her show she literally says so. Even though her drive to solve the story and to know things causes Alex to lose her ability to sleep, her health because of not sleeping, her professional reputation and both professional and personal relationships, she never stops and she won’t. &lt;/p&gt;
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            &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color: #78536f;&quot;&gt;Inventory:&lt;/b&gt; 1. Her audio recorder&lt;br&gt;
2. Her bag containing: her phone, wallet, multiple notebooks, multiple pens, a phone charger and back up battery pack, a charger for her recorder&lt;br&gt;
3. Her red trench coat &lt;br&gt;
4. her glasses&lt;br&gt;
5. a copy of the file on Thomas Warren&lt;br&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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            &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color: #78536f;&quot;&gt;Samples:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://eyemind.dreamwidth.org/14248.html&quot;&gt;Log&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://eyemind.dreamwidth.org/5755.html&quot;&gt;Network&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2021 16:33:16 GMT</pubDate>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2021 00:37:54 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;width:600px; display: block; margin:auto; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #fff; background-color: #7c4bb5; font-family: century gothic; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: bold; border-radius: 25px; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;PLAYER&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;width:550px; margin-left:30px;font-family:calibri,arial; font-size:14px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;NAME: Kim&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;CONTACT:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt;aproclivity on plurk, aproclivity#8377 on discord or DM this journal. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;ACTIVE TIMES/PACE:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt; EST mostly during the day but I hit tags at least once a day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;BRACKETS/PROSE:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Either works! I&apos;ll match.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS &amp; TRIGGERS:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Animal death, eye damage/trauma&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #fff; background-color: #8a4ba7; font-family: century gothic; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: bold; border-radius: 25px; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;IN CHARACTER &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;width:550px; margin-left:30px;font-family:calibri,arial; font-size:14px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;PHYSICAL AFFECTION:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Yes! Alex Reagan is definitely a hugger and a toucher. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;PHYSICAL VIOLENCE:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Of course but let&apos;s talk about it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;RELATIONSHIPS:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Yes of course. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;PSYCHIC &amp; PSIONIC INFORMATION:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Alex is someone who is deeply worried that she&apos;s done something who caused the end of the world. She&apos;s terribly afraid of demons, and there&apos;s so of an audible narration in the back of her head due to her profession as a podcast reporter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;MAGICAL INFORMATION:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt; None!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;MEDICAL INFORMATION:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Alex is someone who hasn&apos;t gotten a good night sleep in a very long time. She always carries massive sleep debt and wears makeup normally to hide the very deep circles below her eyes. She is small, but a runner so she keeps in decent shape that way. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS &amp; TRIGGERS:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt; People who think she&apos;s lying or making shit up. It&apos;s something that she finds offensive but isn&apos;t a trigger to be avoided.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #fff; background-color: #93499c; font-family: century gothic; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: bold; border-radius: 25px; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;OUT OF CHARACTER&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;width:550px; margin-left:30px;font-family:calibri,arial; font-size:14px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;BACKTAGGING:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt; I will normally backtag forever. If you&apos;re missing a tag from me please feel free to remind me cause we all know how DW can be at times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;THREADHOPPING:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Sure!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;FOURTHWALLING:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt; In &lt;i&gt;The Black Tapes&lt;/i&gt; everything is &quot;real.&quot; So, basically if people fourth wall her, she&apos;s going to assume they know the show. I&apos;d honestly love that to happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;NOT INTERESTED IN:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Trauma to the eye or animal death. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #fff; background-color: #a54e93; font-family: century gothic; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: bold; border-radius: 25px; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;FIRST IMPRESSIONS&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;width:550px; margin-left:30px;font-family:calibri,arial; font-size:14px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;VISUAL:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt;  Alex is tiny. She stands at 5&apos;1 with a slight frame. With long straight brown hair, and hipster glasses over her dark eyes Alex is someone who can normally be found dressed in jeans or slacks, a button up and either a cardigan or a blazer. Her PB is &lt;a href=&quot;https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/headhuntershorrorhouse/images/3/31/Scream_1x08_002.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20150915161032&quot;&gt;Amelia Rose Blaire.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;AURAL:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt;As a podcaster, Alex has a good voice for radio that sometimes betrays the Canadian accent that she attempts to hide. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6ya0G0-S4c&amp;amp;ab_channel=emyF&quot;&gt;A fan made trailer.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;OLFACTORY:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt; A small indy perfume that contain notes of coffee, lemon, leather, old books.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;small&gt;DEMEANOUR:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Alex is a kind person who inspires confidence and trust in her on first glance. Empathetic to a fault, Alex also can be obsessive and driven, especially while working on a story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #fff; background-color: #7c4bb5; font-family: century gothic; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold; border-radius: 25px; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;☆ code by &lt;a href=&quot;https://kimmiserate.dreamwidth.org/&quot; style=&quot;color: #f6f6f6;&quot;&gt;kimmiserate&lt;/a&gt; ☆&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=11calls&amp;ditemid=10455&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2020 21:53:10 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>It&apos;s where my demons hide, oh it&apos;s where my demons hide.</title>
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  <description>&lt;font face=&quot;georgia&quot;&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;width:100%;margin:0;letter-spacing:2px;font-size:15px;color:#2a2828;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;IN CHARACTER&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Character Name&lt;/b&gt;: Alex Reagan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Canon&lt;/b&gt;: The Black Tapes Podcast&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Canon Point&lt;/b&gt;: The end of 212. .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;In-Game Tattoo Placement&lt;/b&gt;: Inner left wrist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Current Health/Status&lt;/b&gt;: Massively Sleep deprived. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Age:&lt;/b&gt; 31&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Species&lt;/b&gt;: Human&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;red&quot;&gt;Content Warnings:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Graphic violence, blood, endangerment of a child, demons and demonic cults, the possible end of the world. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;History&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;b&gt;Short and general version&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alex Reagan is a Canadian born journalist who went to the University of Vancouver before heading to Seattle to work at Pacific Northwest Stories (which is kinda like NPR). After working as a segment producer for several years with her friend Nic Silver, Alex broached the idea of doing a podcast on people doing interesting jobs. The first job they were going to focus on was one of paranormal investigator, but while interviewing different paranormal investigators one name kept popping up: Dr. Richard Strand of the Strand Institute, a paranormal investigator who is a rational skeptic(™) and who seeks to disprove all instances of anything paranormal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After badgering Strand into an interview, Alex stumbles across some black VHS cassette cases, and Strand informs her that those are the cases he can’t scientifically disprove. Yet. From then on, Alex’s podcast takes the form of focusing on the Strand Institute and their “enigmatic founder Dr. Richard Strand” and the videos that he shows her. At first, the videos appear to have no connection, but as we come more entrenched in the shows mythos, the narrative stretches to demons, shadow figures hunting children, ancient religious cults, murders with upside down faces, Dr. Strand’s missing and presumed dead wife Coralee, physics, sacred geometry, murderous music and whether or not Alex’s own show has somehow brought about the end of the word in a demonic apocalypse. Oops.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Longer and more specific history, including arcs and a more complete view of the story and Alex&apos;s actions in it.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Alex becomes more and more mired in the Tapes, their possible connections and Strand&apos;s own personal history, she becomes more and more sleep deprived, and more and more obsessed with the idea that the Tapes are connected, and that the things that they show and represent are in fact real. Where as in the beginning of the show Alex was framed as being more of an agnostic who doesn&apos;t know what she believes in (other than her early on expressed fear of demons, based on a viewing of &lt;i&gt;The Exorcist&lt;/i&gt; too young) as what Strand calls coincidence and intrigues start to pile up around her, The abduction of a small child that she&apos;d interviewed based on one of Strand&apos;s tapes, including her and Strand being called in for questioning and how he is subsequently found in an abandoned cabin filled with occult themes: (sacred geometry, pentagrams and mathematical equations based on the Pythagorean comma) sets off the chain reaction of her inability to sleep and where her belief in what happens seems to solidify. Her being exposed to a possible actual psychic (Tannis Braun) booking out of the cabin because of something incredibly &quot;dark&quot; being present, the way that the things that were drawn in Sebastian&apos;s bedroom, Simon and Trent&apos;s hospital room and the cabin are the same, the return of Sebastian&apos;s kidnapper who will only speak to Strand and the connection of monks and cave paintings only entrench her in her belief. And that&apos;s before the intrigue involving the fact that Strand&apos;s missing wife, Coralee who has been presumed dead at the hands of a serial killer in 1998 is actually alive and has been sighted, and that a multi-billionaire crashed a set up coffee date with Alex, Strand and Nic in order to steal Strand&apos;s coffee to probably procure DNA from it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following the new sighting of Coralee in Lake Tahoe, and with Strand angry and lashing out at Alex and making accusation about the nature of her and her work, Strand disappears for six months after the end of season one. While Alex makes multiple attempts to reach him (as would be expected by someone who called him eleven times and went to his publisher in order to ask for help in procuring an interview) Strand refuses to return her calls, texts or emails despite the fact that Alex receives conformation from others that he has. Due to the popularity of her podcast, two different women reach out to Alex with concerns that matched those involving Sebastian Torres (a weird imaginary friend, dark smudges in photographs, odd symbols and various other possibly paranormal in nature things) while Alex tries to play the skeptic she can&apos;t do it anywhere near as Strand can. Overwhelmed and worried, Alex flies from Seattle to Chicago to see Strand in his office. There, she finds him to be a changed man; gone are his suits and pristine academic nature. Instead he has grown a &quot;unabomber&quot; beard and is dressing entirely in flannel. The Strand Institute has turned into a conspiracy bunker with theories and possible sightings and anything that would help Strand find his missing wife. For the first time, he asks Alex to turn off her recorder, and he explains to her what he needs help with. Alex does, but she also makes him agree that if it becomes relevant to the things that she&apos;s investigating on the show then she&apos;ll be allowed to share them. When asked why he doesn&apos;t let his assistant help, Strand just replies: &quot;you and I we have a..&quot; Alex cuts him off simply saying &quot;yeah.&quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this point, the show splits into three different but interconnected avenues: the actual black tapes/black tapes cases (creepy kids, demons, demonic cults, Satantic months and sounds that kill you in a year) that may or may not be connected, the search for Coralee/Thomas Warren&apos;s involvement in her disappearance and Alex&apos;s continued intrusions into Strand&apos;s life. All three of these are informed and shaped by how Alex&apos;s inability to sleep causes her to make terrible decisions and disregard her journalism ethics. Alex has always been forceful and intrusive, but in season two, this moves to an entirely new level as she begins to spin out of control which is aided by various other intrusions into her own life and belief in the things that she&apos;s investigating. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The external forces that are pressing in on her are numerous: someone anonymously sending a countdown timer that ends one year exactly (down to the minute) when to when Alex and Nic were first played the Unsound. With it&apos;s mythology around people dying within one year of hearing it, and the fact that no one other than the three of them should have known the exact time and date that it played, it makes Alex frightened and paranoid. Her fear and paranoia only grow in the second circumstance: when a creepy bookseller tries to make Alex say the name of demons and she ends up chanting them later in her sleep. The third comes with Simon Reese&apos;s involvement in calling Alex, bilocating to her apartment and attempting to hold a knocking conversation with her when she was recording a sleep note, the things that he knows about that haven’t been released on her show, his subsequent unexplained escape from the maximum security mental hospital where he was held, the murders of people involved with other members of the Brothers of the Mount/The Order of the Cenophus and everything surrounding Maddie Franks.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maddie Franks and the discovery of her body are the fourth external circumstance: while investigating the second case that a person brought to her, Alex becomes fixated on the fact that the woman&apos;s housekeeper is involved. The woman, Maddie Franks denies any involvement in what&apos;s happening in the Hochman residence, but while Nic was going over the sound activated nanny cam footage it&apos;s discovered that she too was a member of the Order and was the one who had been causing what was happening to the baby, Robbie. The Hochman family subsequently went missing and Alex and Nic went to talk to Maddie Franks. When the housekeeper doesn&apos;t answer the door, Alex tries the handle, finds it unlocked and goes in despite Nic telling her not too. There, she discovers the housekeeper&apos;s body hanging from the ceiling fan and the walls are covered in sacred geometry and symbols that have been stained with blood that doesn&apos;t belong to her. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A fifth comes from the way that people who try and help Alex go missing: Sammy the hacker who sends them a panicked voicemail just before she disappears and the way that her friend, Amalia is changed and acting different than she had before she’d gone missing while investigating on Alex’s behalf in Russia. The last one is how outside information from neither Strand or his family seem to validate the things that she already knows: a box found in an abandoned mental hospital that bares a striking resemblance to Simon’s case. The combination of all of those things cause Alex’s bosses to send her on a forced “vacation” where she heads to a friend’s cabin in the woods as she weights for the end of the unsound anniversary countdown. She’s fine and Alex does seem better when she returns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But that doesn’t negate the other serious breach of trust that Alex does in season two: while Strand and Amalia are privately talking in the recording studio Alex turns on the talk-back mike and records what they’re saying. Further, she has a recording of what Strand asked her not to share and deletes it only at Nic’s insistence, more than that that she does it in front of him. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The branch that deals with the tapes is gnarled and convoluted, going back to Strand’s life, family and Warren all at various points. Hitting a dead end and with Strand still MIA as he’s chasing down his own leads about Coralee, Alex reaches back out to Tannis Braun who tells her that she needs to go “deeper and not wider” into the dark web around Strand and his black tapes cases. Giving him the name of a black tape that she’s not aware of ‘Cheryl’ Alex asks to see it, the first tape that Strand himself had not shown her. On it is Strand as a child with a girl who was later revealed to be his sister (when she herself called contacted the show). The tape itself focused on the two children seeing shadow figures at their home in Pennsylvania. Cheryl opens the door and lets them inside. Both children are frightened but nothing appears on the tape other than them. It&apos;s from Cheryl that Alex learns more details of Richard&apos;s past: his deeply unhappy home life, his abusive father, the way that his father &quot;took an interest&quot; in Richard following the tape and began to bring him home various occult things from Howard&apos;s world travels. More than that, Cheryl tells Alex to ask Richard about &quot;the boy in the river.&quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Alex does ask, Strand denies knowing anything about it so Alex begins to investigate further and discovers that when Strand was sixteen he led his friends to the body of a missing boy at a tributary of Red Brook Creek. In interviewing the boys, Alex discovers that Richard (then called &apos;Richie&apos;) said that he&apos;d dreamed about where Bobby would be and he took them &quot;directly&quot; to the site where they found the body, and had described this to them before hand. While the police may have initially suspected that it was Strand who had killed Bobby Maimes, his friends never did. Instead they described him as the most honest and upfront kid they&apos;d ever known. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When confronted about him possibly being psychic and the tapes being connected and Bobby being the first tape, Alex and Strand have the worst fight that they’ve ever had culminating in his asking her to leave him alone. This forces Alex to look at her choices and realize that she’d been wrong so she apologizes and he accepts. While things aren’t entirely mended their better and their relationship solidified once more following Coralee’s rescue/kidnapping them when they were finally on the way to confront Thomas Warren. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also in connection to the tapes, we hear from a girl who&apos;s exorcism was at the center of the fifth tape that Strand showed Alex. In reaching out, she explained some things including the inclusion of a device that had been manufactured by Thomas Warren&apos;s corporation: Daeva Corp.  Further, it&apos;d become obvious that Strand&apos;s teaching gigs had been funded by grant money through shell companies that belonged to Warren as well. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Warren is intrinsically tied to the search for Coralee because Strand is convinced that Warren has something on her, something that made her disappear. Further, it’s evident that Warren also has access to Howard Strand’s work and is connected to the Cult of Tiamat—the symbol for which was on a ring that Coralee never removed. Alex tries desperately throughout the season to get an interview with Warren to confront him about everything. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When he finally agrees, it’s too an interview minus a recorder and at first it doesn’t include Strand at all. Nic, Alex’s producer, convinces Warren that Strand should be able to come along. When they arrive at Davea Corp together, armed security are coming their way. While Alex begins to panic, a van screeched up with Coralee and two others inside of it. She says, entirely unironically “come with me if you want to live.” Alex at first refuses until Strand tells her to get into the van saying, “Alex I’d like to introduce you to Coralee.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coralee brings Alex and Strand to an empty Airbnb listing, and the two others with her stay outside to keep watch. Coralee and Strand go into the bedroom to talk for a long period. When Coralee comes out, Alex asks if now is a good time for her to interview Strand’s long missing wife. She denied it with a shake of her head. Strand comes out behind her on the porch to watch Coralee leave without a word. After giving Strand twenty minutes of quiet (somewhat of a world record where Alex Reagan is concerned) she lets him just speak first. In that conversation, and throughout the night that they spend together, Strand tells her what Coralee had said: that she had been sent by Warren as a “watcher” The watcher’s role in this case was  to seduce, marry and have a child by Strand. Further, she was supposed to protect him from “the other side” because of Strand’s lineage. Warren believes that there’s something in Strand’s familial DNA that would allow him to help bring about the end of the world. In the end Coralee fell in love with him, and she began to protect him because she loved him rather than because of Warren’s orders. Warren ordered her taken at that point, and that’s the reason that she disappeared on him, leaving him to be accused of murder and causing him to lose his reputation, his sister and most importantly: his daughter. Coralee then tells Strand to stay away from DaevaCorp, Warren and everything else. It turns out, after Strand and Alex went to the hotel where Coralee and he had his wedding (where they had discovered a book cypher from her) Coralee and Strand had been in contact and were working on aspects of the investigation without Strand’s informing Alex of that fact beyond something designed to make her jealous: telling her that he was working with a friend and that the friend was a woman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also during this conversation, it comes out that while Coralee was missing, Strand went into the woods himself for several days, trying to rekindle the same abilities that he’d used to find Bobby Maimes. When he is unable to do so, Strand takes his anger and frustration and grief (and his father’s money) and opens the Institute with the intention of discrediting anything paranormal. This is a particularly fuck you gesture given as Howard Strand’s life was based around the occult and artifacts and he was deeply involved with Warren and the cult itself. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alex and Strand discover that in a conversation with Warren alone at a restaurant, where Warren baits Strand with how much Coralee loves him, and then he goes on to offer to fund Strand’s Institute, trying to seduce him over to the idea of working with DaevaCorp. When Alex defends Strand saying that she doesn’t think he needs that kind of help, Warren reveals that Strand doesn’t have the million dollar prize that was one of the reasons that Alex had been so keen to interview him in the first place. Strand admits it, but then Warren goes on to tell him about how Howard was working with Daeva Corp, and that what had seemed like an accidental death was actually Howard Strand being murdered. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Strand leaves in a huff, but not before Warren gives him one of Howard’s research journals as proof. From there, they return to the studio. Throughout the end of season one and in season two, someone who they assumed was the person who was involved in the tape with the Unsound had been sending them audio files from where he had gone to try and avoid dying within the year. The pieces of audio turn out to be what the Order of the Cenophus refers to as The Mysterium. The Mysterium is a five piece symphony that if played in the proper place (the Axis Mundae) will open the door to demons. During much of the last half of season two, working with coordinates that they’d been given Alex had been assuming that the Axis Mundae was located on the top of Mount Erat. Nic discovers that what they thought were map coordinates was actually the IP address of the studio.  Given that it means that Alex has played the Axis Mundae in order, in full on her show. It is, in Alex’s own words: “it’s happening. And it’s our fault.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Personality&lt;/b&gt;: One of the things at the very core of Alex’s personality is her determination. It’s shown over and over again in the series, right from the theme that has Strand’s“returning one of 11 phone calls from someone named Alex Reagan.” That’s one of the first things that you need to know about her and how that leads into her persistence. The two go hand and hand, and while more often than not, they can be traits that are valuable to her both as a person as well as a reporter, they can often lead her down a path to destruction. When she wants something (especially along the lines of a story) Alex rarely takes no for an answer, even when cooler heads prevail on her to do so. In that way, Alex is often the epitome of the “Person No! Person YES.” meme. Even those eleven phone calls of Alex’s come after multiple people have told her that Strand isn’t going to talk to her, including his assistants and publishers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When she is on the trail of a story, especially one Alex is personally involved in (like the Black Tapes) everything other than that is tangential. Things that should be important to her like journalism ethics, Strand’s personal life and even the law go right out of the window especially if she thinks someone is hiding something from her. To be fair, Strand is shady af in this area and that&apos;s where most of her lapsing ethics come from, but as she grows more involved her personal and professional curiosity grows into something that becomes an obsession. As Alex herself says, “I feel like the black tapes paranormal train is going to leave with or without me and I deserve to be on it.” However, in many ways, Alex’s determination also makes her like an earnest puppy with a bone. Her enthusiasm for things can be entirely contagious at times, and her determination comes from a place of that. Determination and perseverance make her jump into things feet first and recorder out, even when cooler heads prevail. She is determined to understand what is going on around her, and to seek not only her truths but the truths of people around her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A large part of Alex’s seeking truth comes from an intense curiosity. Her podcast is first meant to be about interesting jobs done by interesting people because these are things that she is curious about. The fact that Alex’s favorite adjective seems to be “enigmatic” definitely points to things that she wants to understand. Indeed, the reason that Alex lies to get back into Strand’s equipment cabinet to see those black tape cases are because she is curious about them, and of course what they mean to him. Often, however, Alex’s curiosity comes with a large side of curiosity killing the cat; it tends to drive her mental and to do things that she otherwise might not do like record Strand and Amalia without their permission, and more than that, even when she said that she wouldn’t. Her curiosity can sometimes come with a sense of entitlement, especially when it comes to the show and to Strand’s personal life. Digging into his personal life becomes something that Alex can’t seem to help but do, probably because she often feels like he’s withholding information, manipulating her or outright lying to her. Alex hates being lied to in no uncertain terms, because she sees this as a betrayal of the opposite ways that they both have of searching for truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alex’s curiosity also tends to lean more to the side of belief and she often acts as a sort of Mulder to Strand’s Scully. As her intellect and heart start to put things together, she starts to believe in this world of demons and cults and shadow figures though she tries very hard to cling to Strand’s assurances that what she&apos;s actually seeing is “apophenia” (the notion of putting together random instances and seeing connects where there aren&apos;t any). Her power of belief in the world is so strong that Alex starts to lose her ability to sleep which makes her obsessive tendencies even worse. While it is possible that within the world of her canon there is something supernatural involved with her lack of sleep until the show takes an actual stand one way or another, I&apos;m going to say that it&apos;s probably anxiety that this stuff is real and that it might be after her now because of her association with Richard Strand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This anxiety and her sleep problems have the distinct possibility of becoming worse in game if she is not reassured that she doesn&apos;t cause the end of the world because in canon, Simon Reese assures her that yep, she did cause it and that it’s coming and that her lack of sleep and seeing things in the dark and her dreams are all a herald of her being infected by it before anyone else is thanks to her listening to all parts of the evil symphony first. (Yep I know how that sounds.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part of the reason that people tend to connect with Alex other than through her persistence is through her empathy. In fact I would go so far as to say that the closest thing that Alex has to a super power is her empathy. This empathy makes people want to trust her (honestly even when they shouldn&apos;t) so she can get people who otherwise wouldn&apos;t open up about people or experiences that they&apos;ve had. Her charm goes hand and hand with this and it&apos;s one of the ways that she gets people like law enforcement to open up files and cases and give her access to things that she really shouldn&apos;t have access too. It’s important to note that despite how many lapses Alex may have in her professional ethics, she rarely, if ever, attempts to manipulate people into giving her information. Indeed, sometimes when she would be better served to lie (or at least to withhold information, like when she’s speaking to John Uvela at Urraca Mesa about the fallen totems) she doesn’t.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Abilities/Powers/Weaknesses &amp; Warping&lt;/b&gt;: N/A&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Inventory&lt;/b&gt;:  1. Her audio recorder &lt;br /&gt;2. Her bag containing: her phone, wallet, multiple notebooks, multiple pens, a phone charger and back up battery pack, a charger for her recorder &lt;br /&gt;3. Her red trench coat &lt;br /&gt;4. her glasses&lt;br /&gt;5. a copy of the file on Thomas Warren&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Writing Samples&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://soddersays.dreamwidth.org/45339.html?thread=13486619#cmt13486619&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://thespherelogs.dreamwidth.org/10997.html?thread=823797#cmt823797&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;width:100%;margin:0;letter-spacing:2px;font-size:15px;color:#2a2828;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;OUT OF CHARACTER&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Player Name&lt;/b&gt;: Kim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Player Age&lt;/b&gt;: 40 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Player Contact&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://plurk.com/aproclivity&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://plurk.com/favicon.ico&apos; alt=&apos;[plurk.com profile] &apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://plurk.com/aproclivity&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;aproclivity&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Other Characters In Game&lt;/b&gt;: N/A &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;In-Game Tag If Accepted&lt;/b&gt;:Alex Reagan: Kim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Permissions for Character&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://11calls.dreamwidth.org/5116.html&quot;&gt;Permissions.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Are you comfortable with prominent elements of fourth-walling?&lt;/b&gt;: Yes. Alex will just assume that it&apos;s people who have heard her show though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;What themes of horror/psychological thrillers do you enjoy the most?&lt;/b&gt;: I like. Uh. Being frightened. The way fear shows us who we are in stressful circumstances through its transformative nature. I like being safely scared. Also, it&apos;s easier for me to lose myself in horror content than in other things. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Is there anything in particular you &lt;u&gt;absolutely&lt;/u&gt; need specific content warnings for?&lt;/b&gt;: Eye violence, animal death &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Additional Information&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=11calls&amp;ditemid=7760&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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Alex Reagan

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&quot;Hello. I&apos;m returning one of eleven calls from someone named &apos;Alex Reagan&apos;?&quot;

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The Black Tapes Podcast

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&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;NAME:&lt;/span&gt; Kim&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;JOURNAL:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://theliving.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://theliving.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;theliving&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;PLURK:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://plurk.com/aproclivity&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://plurk.com/favicon.ico&apos; alt=&apos;[plurk.com profile] &apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://plurk.com/aproclivity&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;aproclivity&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;TIMEZONE:&lt;/span&gt;EST&lt;/div&gt;








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Alex Reagan is a plucky, driven, Canadian-born investigative journalist for the fictional equivalent of NPR, Pacific Northwest Stories. Her personal podcast, &lt;i&gt;The Black Tapes&lt;/i&gt; starts as a show based around interesting people doing interesting things and then dives into the world of the paranormal and the nature of belief. Playing the agnostic believer to the devout skeptic, Alex dives into the world of demons, cults, sacred geometry, horrifying children and the possible end of the world--which may be her fault. Oops. Obsessive and driven in nature, Alex is also empathetic to a fault despite the fact that her moral code may be loose and flexible (at best) at times.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;






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One of the things at the very core of Alex’s personality is her determination. It’s shown over and over again in the series, right from the theme that has Strand’s“returning one of 11 phone calls from someone named Alex Reagan.” That’s one of the first things that you need to know about her and how that leads into her persistence. The two go hand and hand, and while more often than not, they can be traits that are valuable to her both as a person as well as a reporter, they can often lead her down a path to destruction. When she wants something (especially along the lines of a story) Alex rarely takes no for an answer, even when cooler heads prevail on her to do so. In that way, Alex is often the epitome of the “Person No! Person YES.” meme. Even those eleven phone calls of Alex’s come after multiple people have told her that Strand isn’t going to talk to her, including his assistants and publishers. &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

When she is on the trail of a story, especially one Alex is personally involved in (like the Black Tapes) everything other than that is tangential. Things that should be important to her like journalism ethics, Strand’s personal life and even the law go right out of the window especially if she thinks someone is hiding something from her. To be fair, Strand is shady af in this area and that&apos;s where most of her lapsing ethics come from, but as she grows more involved her personal and professional curiosity grows into something that becomes an obsession. As Alex herself says, “I feel like the black tapes paranormal train is going to leave with or without me and I deserve to be on it.” However, in many ways, Alex’s determination also makes her like an earnest puppy with a bone. Her enthusiasm for things can be entirely contagious at times, and her determination comes from a place of that. Determination and perseverance make her jump into things feet first and recorder out, even when cooler heads prevail. She is determined to understand what is going on around her, and to seek not only her truths but the truths of people around her.  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

A large part of Alex’s seeking truth comes from an intense curiosity. Her podcast is first meant to be about interesting jobs done by interesting people because these are things that she is curious about. The fact that Alex’s favorite adjective seems to be “enigmatic” definitely points to things that she wants to understand. Indeed, the reason that Alex lies to get back into Strand’s equipment cabinet to see those black tape cases are because she is curious about them, and of course what they mean to him. Often, however, Alex’s curiosity comes with a large side of curiosity killing the cat; it tends to drive her mental and to do things that she otherwise might not do like record Strand and Amalia without their permission, and more than that, even when she said that she wouldn’t. Her curiosity can sometimes come with a sense of entitlement, especially when it comes to the show and to Strand’s personal life. Digging into his personal life becomes something that Alex can’t seem to help but do, probably because she often feels like he’s withholding information, manipulating her or outright lying to her. Alex hates being lied to in no uncertain terms, because she sees this as a betrayal of the opposite ways that they both have of searching for truth.  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt; 

Alex’s curiosity also tends to lean more to the side of belief and she often acts as a sort of Mulder to Strand’s Scully. As her intellect and heart start to put things together, she starts to believe in this world of demons and cults and shadow figures though she tries very hard to cling to Strand’s assurances that what she&apos;s actually seeing is “apophenia” (the notion of putting together random instances and seeing connects where there aren&apos;t any). Her power of belief in the world is so strong that Alex starts to lose her ability to sleep which makes her obsessive tendencies even worse. While it is possible that within the world of her canon there is something supernatural involved with her lack of sleep until the show takes an actual stand one way or another, I&apos;m going to say that it&apos;s probably anxiety that this stuff is real and that it might be after her now because of her association with Richard Strand.  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

Part of the reason that people tend to connect with Alex other than through her persistence is through her empathy. In fact I would go so far as to say that the closest thing that Alex has to a super power is her empathy. This empathy makes people want to trust her (honestly even when they shouldn&apos;t) so she can get people who otherwise wouldn&apos;t open up about people or experiences that they&apos;ve had. Her charm goes hand and hand with this and it&apos;s one of the ways that she gets people like law enforcement to open up files and cases and give her access to things that she really shouldn&apos;t have access too. It’s important to note that despite how many lapses Alex may have in her professional ethics, she rarely, if ever, attempts to manipulate people into giving her information. Indeed, sometimes when she would be better served to lie (or at least to withhold information, like when she’s speaking to John Uvela at Urraca Mesa about the fallen totems) she doesn’t.  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;b&gt;Strengths.: Determination: &lt;/b&gt;One of the things at the very core of Alex’s personality is her determination. It’s shown over and over again in the series, right from the theme that has Strand’s“returning one of 11 phone calls from someone named Alex Reagan.” That’s one of the first things that you need to know about her and how that leads into her persistence.  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;b&gt;Empathy&lt;/b&gt;: Part of the reason that people tend to connect with Alex other than through her persistence is through her empathy. The closest thing that Alex has to a superpower is her empathy. This empathy makes people want to trust her (honestly even when they shouldn&apos;t) so she can get people who otherwise wouldn&apos;t open up about people or experiences that they&apos;ve had. Her charm goes hand and hand with this and it&apos;s one of the ways that she gets people like law enforcement to open up files and cases and give her access to things that she really shouldn&apos;t have access too. It’s important to note that despite how many lapses Alex may have in her professional ethics, she rarely, if ever, attempts to manipulate people into giving her information.  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;b&gt;Curiosity:&lt;/b&gt; A large part of Alex’s seeking truth comes from an intense curiosity. Her podcast is first meant to be about interesting jobs done by interesting people because these are things that she is curious about. The fact that Alex’s favorite adjective seems to be “enigmatic” definitely points to things that she wants to understand. Indeed, the reason that Alex lies to get back into Strand’s equipment cabinet to see those black tape cases are because she is curious about them, and of course what they mean to him.  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;b&gt;Weaknesses:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Curiosity:&lt;/b&gt; A large part of Alex’s seeking truth comes from an intense curiosity. Her podcast is first meant to be about interesting jobs done by interesting people because these are things that she is curious about. The fact that Alex’s favorite adjective seems to be “enigmatic” definitely points to things that she wants to understand. Indeed, the reason that Alex lies to get back into Strand’s equipment cabinet to see those black tape cases are because she is curious about them, and of course what they mean to him. She will follow the curiosity to the end of the line, because she&apos;s driven by a need to see things through, and doesn&apos;t stop even when they&apos;re causing her mental or physical damage.  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;b&gt;Single mindedness:&lt;/b&gt; When she is on the trail of a story, especially one Alex is personally involved in (like the Black Tapes) everything other than that is tangential. Things that should be important to her like journalism ethics, Strand’s personal life and even the law go right out of the window especially if she thinks someone is hiding something from her. However, in many ways, Alex’s determination also makes her like a puppy with a bone. Determination and perseverance make her jump into things feet first and recorder out, even when cooler heads prevail. She is determined to understand what is going on around her, and to seek not only her truths but the truths of people around her.  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;b&gt;Obsessions to leaps of logic:&lt;/b&gt; As her intellect and heart start to put things together, Alex starts to believe in demons, cults and shadow figures though she tries very hard to cling to Strand’s assurances that what she&apos;s actually seeing is “apophenia”. Her power of belief in the world is so strong that Alex starts to lose her ability to sleep which makes her obsessive tendencies even worse.  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;b&gt;Lack of journalism ethics:&lt;/b&gt; Alex’s drive tends to drive her mental and to do things that she otherwise might not do like record Strand and Amalia without their permission, even when she said that she wouldn’t. She feels entitlement especially when it comes to the show and to Strand’s personal life. Digging into his personal life becomes something that Alex can’t seem to help but do, probably because she often feels like he’s withholding information, manipulating her or outright lying to her. She also breaks into buildings and things on leads for a story.  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;b&gt;Alex&apos;s complete and utter fear of demons.&lt;/b&gt; The things that scare Alex most in canon are demons. The demons from her canon are very specific though, and not the same as the demons here. Still, the idea will screw her up for a while. 

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         &lt;li&gt;Investigative skills based on being a journalist.&lt;/li&gt;
         &lt;li&gt;Empathetic, gets people to like, trust and tell their stories to her when they wouldn&apos;t to others.&lt;/li&gt;
         &lt;li&gt;Excellent research skills.&lt;/li&gt;
         &lt;li&gt;Speaks both fluent English and French, reads some latin.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;height: 190px;overflow: auto;padding-right: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;CANONPOINT:&lt;/span&gt; 303 (non canonmates) 306 (canonmates)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;AGE:&lt;/span&gt; 33&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;HEIGHT:&lt;/span&gt; 5&apos;1&quot;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;BUILD:&lt;/span&gt; Slight&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;HAIR:&lt;/span&gt; Long and brunette. Straight.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;EYES:&lt;/span&gt; Brown, with glasses.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;APPEARANCE:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/headhuntershorrorhouse/images/3/31/Scream_1x08_002.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20150915161032&quot;&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;STATUS:&lt;/span&gt; Complicated and depending on canon point.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;OCCUPATION:&lt;/span&gt; Investigative journalist, podcast host.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;RESIDENCE:&lt;/span&gt; Seattle, Washington, US&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;






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&lt;div style=&quot;height: 152px;overflow: auto;padding-right: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;BACKTAGGING:&lt;/span&gt; I will backtag forever!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;4TH-WALLING:&lt;/span&gt; Yes, because TBT is presented as &quot;real&quot; she&apos; she&apos;ll just assume someone is a fan.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;THREADJACKING:&lt;/span&gt; Yes.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;MIND READING:&lt;/span&gt; Yes.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;FIGHTING:&lt;/span&gt; Yes, but let&apos;s talk about it.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;ROMANCE:&lt;/span&gt; Yes! Alex is pansexual af. &lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;INJURY:&lt;/span&gt; Yes but let&apos;s talk about it.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;KILLING:&lt;/span&gt; Possibly, but let&apos;s talk about it.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 3px;&quot;&gt;KINK LIST:&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://11calls.dreamwidth.org/1419.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;






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&lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 10px;font-weight: 100;font-family: times new roman;text-shadow: #ccc 1px 1px 1px;text-align: right;letter-spacing: 5px;&quot;&gt;( &lt;a href=&quot;http://showcased.dreamwidth.org/&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none;color: #000;&quot;&gt;efficio&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/div&gt;



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  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2019 07:37:46 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://11calls.dreamwidth.org/7422.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;Memory share: Reading/recording fanfic. No content warnings apply. Just light and silly.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=11calls&amp;ditemid=7422&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2019 21:51:35 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>The joy of saying fuck it to both your boss and the voice in your head and doing something really dumb is that it means that when you’re out doing something dumb it’s really easy to add more stupid things to do. Given that Alex Reagan is particularly known for doing stupid things, it probably shouldn’t surprise anyone that after seeing Simon in Turkey, as well as touching the Horn of Tiamat that she doubles down on things and decides to change her flight from Turkey to home to Turkey to London. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nic just sighed when she’d told him that she was going to take a detour to look at the cave paintings in Bath, but he didn’t argue with her other than to tell her that Strand was worried and he was calling every day for information on where the hell she had gone and where the hell she was going and why the hell wasn’t she answering his calls and what stupid thing had she done &lt;i&gt;now&lt;/i&gt;. Alex has listened to the voicemails and had read the texts, but she didn’t respond. She has no intention fighting with him from seven thousand miles and multiple time zones away. Alex knows when she gets home it’s going to be a huge fight, but for now that’s a problem for later Alex. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Current Alex has a different problem. When she went to Bath, Alex had discovered that the cave paintings had been closed off and that they required the permission of the Magnus Institute in order to get into them. Alex has heard of it of course—it’s impossible to be in the world of the paranormal as much as she is without hearing about it. Strand had entirely derided it along with the American equivalent The Usher Foundation as being nothing but charlatans who make money off of people who need actual help like The Strand Institute could provide. Indeed, Alex had reached out to the Usher Foundation, but they had sent her a politely worded letter that had informed her that they didn’t do publicity, but if she ever wished to discuss her experiences, then they’d be glad to take a statement from her. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alex can’t say why the phrase ‘taking a statement’ from her inspired such a cold chill down her spine, but it was too similar to the way that her gut felt about Warren for Alex to ever even consider doing it.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s a similar sensation that she has when she’s standing outside of the Institute attempting to get in to see Elias Bouchard for permission to get into the caves. In the end, he doesn’t see her but he does send her down to the archives to see the archivist through Bouchard’s assistant. It doesn’t seem weird because that would be were stuff would be but she still gets a little chill as she walks through the halls. It reminds her unnervingly of being watched and the times that she’s suspected that Simon has been around bilocating. It reminds her of that but it’s definitely not the same for however creepy Simon is about this sort of stuff, Alex is always pretty sure that he’s there to protect her. This isn’t that. This almost has a feeling of...anticipation.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Apophenia&lt;/i&gt; Alex tells herself quickly and it’s mirrored by the voice of Strand in her head, but she’s got her professional smile on her face as she adjusts her large bag and knocks on the open door. She’s in slightly rumpled professional gear, nice jeans and blazer over a shirt with a scarf wrapped around her neck and makeup hides the circles below her eyes which are worse than they normally would be, considering the jet lag and everything around the horn. But her voice is the same Canadian radio ready tone as ever when she speaks.  “Mr. Sims? My name is Alex Reagan. I’m sorry to bother you, but Mr. Bouchard sent me down here.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=11calls&amp;ditemid=6987&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2019 20:12:16 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://11calls.dreamwidth.org/6672.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;Sphere activity tracker, starting August 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=11calls&amp;ditemid=6672&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:28:42 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;big&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;underline&gt;&lt;center&gt;Dualis Threadtracker, August 2019&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/underline&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/big&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://11calls.dreamwidth.org/6472.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;Cut to save my sanity.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=11calls&amp;ditemid=6472&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2019 17:56:30 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://11calls.dreamwidth.org/6195.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;Memory Share: Lois Lane, no CW apply: just five year old alex.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=11calls&amp;ditemid=6195&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2019 17:44:20 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://11calls.dreamwidth.org/6083.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;Memory Share: Meeting Dr. Richard Strand CW: very brief mentions of suicide of a non canon character, ptsd, &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=11calls&amp;ditemid=6083&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2019 17:41:58 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://11calls.dreamwidth.org/5809.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;Alex&apos;s memory share: finding Maddie Franks. TW: violence, blood, grossness, murder, bugs.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=11calls&amp;ditemid=5809&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2019 17:39:10 GMT</pubDate>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2019 18:52:47 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 24px; color: #000000;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;YOU&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Player name:&lt;/b&gt; Kim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contact:&lt;/b&gt; Aproclivity@plurk aproclivity#8331  &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://discord.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://discord.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;discord&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Referral:&lt;/b&gt; Rae&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Current characters:&lt;/b&gt; No one&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 24px; color: #000000&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;THEM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Character Name:&lt;/b&gt; Alex Reagan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Character Age:&lt;/b&gt; 33&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Canon:&lt;/b&gt; The Black Tapes Podcast&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Canon Point:&lt;/b&gt; nearly the end of 303&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;History/World:&lt;/b&gt; Alex Reagan is a Canadian born journalist who went to the University of Vancouver before heading to Seattle to work at Pacific Northwest Stories (which is kinda like NPR). After working as a segment producer for several years with her friend Nic Silver, Alex broached the idea of doing a podcast on people doing interesting jobs. The first job they were going to focus on was one of paranormal investigator, but while interviewing different paranormal investigators one name kept popping up: Dr. Richard Strand of the Strand Institute, a paranormal investigator who is a rational skeptic(™) and who seeks to disprove all instances of anything paranormal. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After badgering Strand into an interview, Alex stumbles across some black VHS cassette cases, and Strand informs her that those are the cases he can’t scientifically disprove. Yet. From then on, Alex’s podcast takes the form of focusing on the Strand Institute and their “enigmatic founder Dr. Richard Strand” and the videos that he shows her. At first, the videos appear to have no connection, but as we come more entrenched in the shows mythos, the narrative stretches to demons, shadow figures hunting children, ancient religious cults, murders with upside down faces, Dr. Strand’s missing and presumed dead wife Coralee, physics, sacred geometry, murderous music and whether or not Alex’s own show has somehow brought about the end of the word in a demonic apocalypse. Oops.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Personality:&lt;/b&gt; One of the things at the very core of Alex’s personality is her determination. It’s shown over and over again in the series, right from the theme that has Strand’s“returning one of 11 phone calls from someone named Alex Reagan.” That’s one of the first things that you need to know about her and how that leads into her persistence. The two go hand and hand, and while more often than not, they can be traits that are valuable to her both as a person as well as a reporter, they can often lead her down a path to destruction. When she wants something (especially along the lines of a story) Alex rarely takes no for an answer, even when cooler heads prevail on her to do so. In that way, Alex is often the epitome of the “Person No! Person YES.” meme. Even those eleven phone calls of Alex’s come after multiple people have told her that Strand isn’t going to talk to her, including his assistants and publishers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When she is on the trail of a story, especially one Alex is personally involved in (like the Black Tapes) everything other than that is tangential. Things that should be important to her like journalism ethics, Strand’s personal life and even the law go right out of the window especially if she thinks someone is hiding something from her. To be fair, Strand is shady af in this area and that&apos;s where most of her lapsing ethics come from, but as she grows more involved her personal and professional curiosity grows into something that becomes an obsession. As Alex herself says, “I feel like the black tapes paranormal train is going to leave with or without me and I deserve to be on it.” However, in many ways, Alex’s determination also makes her like an earnest puppy with a bone. Her enthusiasm for things can be entirely contagious at times, and her determination comes from a place of that. Determination and perseverance make her jump into things feet first and recorder out, even when cooler heads prevail. She is determined to understand what is going on around her, and to seek not only her truths but the truths of people around her. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A large part of Alex’s seeking truth comes from an intense curiosity. Her podcast is first meant to be about interesting jobs done by interesting people because these are things that she is curious about. The fact that Alex’s favorite adjective seems to be “enigmatic” definitely points to things that she wants to understand. Indeed, the reason that Alex lies to get back into Strand’s equipment cabinet to see those black tape cases are because she is curious about them, and of course what they mean to him. Often, however, Alex’s curiosity comes with a large side of curiosity killing the cat; it tends to drive her mental and to do things that she otherwise might not do like record Strand and Amalia without their permission, and more than that, even when she said that she wouldn’t. Her curiosity can sometimes come with a sense of entitlement, especially when it comes to the show and to Strand’s personal life. Digging into his personal life becomes something that Alex can’t seem to help but do, probably because she often feels like he’s withholding information, manipulating her or outright lying to her. Alex hates being lied to in no uncertain terms, because she sees this as a betrayal of the opposite ways that they both have of searching for truth. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alex’s curiosity also tends to lean more to the side of belief and she often acts as a sort of Mulder to Strand’s Scully. As her intellect and heart start to put things together, she starts to believe in this world of demons and cults and shadow figures though she tries very hard to cling to Strand’s assurances that what she&apos;s actually seeing is “apophenia” (the notion of putting together random instances and seeing connects where there aren&apos;t any). Her power of belief in the world is so strong that Alex starts to lose her ability to sleep which makes her obsessive tendencies even worse. While it is possible that within the world of her canon there is something supernatural involved with her lack of sleep until the show takes an actual stand one way or another, I&apos;m going to say that it&apos;s probably anxiety that this stuff is real and that it might be after her now because of her association with Richard Strand. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This anxiety and her sleep problems have the distinct possibility of becoming worse in game if she is not reassured that she doesn&apos;t cause the end of the world because in canon, Simon Reese assures her that yep, she did cause it and that it’s coming and that her lack of sleep and seeing things in the dark and her dreams are all a herald of her being infected by it before anyone else is thanks to her listening to all parts of the evil symphony first. (Yep I know how that sounds.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part of the reason that people tend to connect with Alex other than through her persistence is through her empathy. In fact I would go so far as to say that the closest thing that Alex has to a super power is her empathy. This empathy makes people want to trust her (honestly even when they shouldn&apos;t) so she can get people who otherwise wouldn&apos;t open up about people or experiences that they&apos;ve had. Her charm goes hand and hand with this and it&apos;s one of the ways that she gets people like law enforcement to open up files and cases and give her access to things that she really shouldn&apos;t have access too. It’s important to note that despite how many lapses Alex may have in her professional ethics, she rarely, if ever, attempts to manipulate people into giving her information. Indeed, sometimes when she would be better served to lie (or at least to withhold information, like when she’s speaking to John Uvela at Urraca Mesa about the fallen totems) she doesn’t. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Items:&lt;/b&gt; Clothing (jeans, a button up, a cardigan, underwear, a bra and flats) her iphone and a portable charger with cord in her pocket, and her recorder in her other one. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Powers/skills:&lt;/b&gt; Speaks both English and French, reads some latin at this point. Investigative and research skills. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 24px; color: #000000;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;SAMPLE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Honestly, just link something.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Network:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://riverview.dreamwidth.org/133423.html&quot;&gt;Network sample from a past game&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Log:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://riverviewlogs.dreamwidth.org/176174.html&quot;&gt;Prose sample from a past game.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 24px; color: #000000;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;PERMISSIONS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://11calls.dreamwidth.org/5116.html&quot;&gt;https://11calls.dreamwidth.org/5116.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=11calls&amp;ditemid=5277&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;table width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; color: #302f2f; font-family: georgia; line-height: 130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://66.media.tumblr.com/5da79fb287f1d72856cd73675f9696eb/tumblr_ntbo87hDBM1qij1mgo1_500.gif&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;URL&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 8pt; color: #97291a;&quot;&gt;SOURCE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 15pt; color: #97291a;&quot;&gt;★ Character Basics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ CHARACTER NAME:&lt;/span&gt; Alex Reagan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ CANON:&lt;/span&gt; The Black Tapes Podcast&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ CANONPOINT:&lt;/span&gt; End of 303&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ PB:&lt;/span&gt; Amelia Rose Blaire (visuals)/Lori Henry (Voice Actress)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 15pt; color: #97291a;&quot;&gt;★ First Impressions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ VISUAL:&lt;/span&gt; While Alex&apos;s personality may make her feel as though she fills the room, and makes her seem larger than she is, the woman is actually very petite. She&apos;s a small framed 5&apos;1&quot; that she attempts to bulk out with sweaters and scarves and blazers. Despite that, she doesn&apos;t normally augment her height, instead eschewing heels in favor of the more practical flat or chucks. After all, one doesn&apos;t run particularly well from demons in heels, and she&apos;d probably break her neck anyway. The practicality of her footwear and clothing choices go along with the minimal appearing makeup that she chooses for her fair skin. The minimalism found in the makeup behind her hipster glasses is a carefully constructed artifice, created by layer upon layer of color corrector, concealer, foundation and highlighter that she lays over the dark circles below her eyes that take the appearance of near bruises due to her lack of sleep. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite the lack of sleep and it&apos;s lingering effects on her, there&apos;s an intelligence evident in the warmth of Alex&apos;s doe eyes, even if the fact that they&apos;re so expressive tends to give the things that she&apos;s feeling away more often than not. The holder of a large and easy smile, it&apos;s something that Alex gives easily but has multiple facets of. However, more often than not, it&apos;s a smile of amusement rather than a thin line of politeness, however, and wry when she uses bad humor or self-deprecation. Going along with the whole PNW hipster vibe that Alex generally has going, her brunette hair normally just hangs loose down her back, sometimes curling with a slight wave. Occasionally, during late nights or overly hot days, she&apos;ll tie it into a loose knot at the back of her head and secure it with a pencil. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ FASHION:&lt;/span&gt; Alex tends to be business casual to casual. Her normal uniform is jeans or slacks, a button down shirt and a sweater or a blazer depending on the level of interview or studio time she has that day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ DEMEANOUR:&lt;/span&gt; Alex is generally kind and open, and is very expressive. She gives the impression that she&apos;s always really listening to whoever she&apos;s listening to and whatever they&apos;re saying is incredibly important. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ SOUND:&lt;/span&gt; Alex&apos;s voice is incredibly expressive, and it&apos;s possible to hear a smile in it, or her anger even when she&apos;s trying hard to to be. She&apos;s also very Canadian. Complete with &quot;aboot&quot; and a lot of &quot;oh my gawd&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://theblacktapespodcast.com/blog/2015/8/11/the-black-tapes-podcast-bonus-strand-institute-letter-2&quot;&gt;Here is a non-spoilery bit from TBT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ SCENT:&lt;/span&gt; Coffee, a sunny and light floral perfume.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ MENTAL INFORMATION:&lt;/span&gt; Alex is human, but annoyingly persistent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ MAGICAL INFORMATION:&lt;/span&gt;Nothing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 15pt; color: #97291a;&quot;&gt;★ OOC/MUN PREFERENCES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ CONTACT INFO:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://plurk.com/aproclivity&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://plurk.com/favicon.ico&apos; alt=&apos;[plurk.com profile] &apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://plurk.com/aproclivity&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;aproclivity&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; or aproclivity#8377&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ PREFERRED PRONOUNS:&lt;/span&gt; She/Her&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ TIMEZONE:&lt;/span&gt; EST.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ BACKTAGGING:&lt;/span&gt; My life can be kind of crazy, so I tend to backtag forever. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ FOURTHWALLING:&lt;/span&gt; Okay so. In TBT universe, The Black Tapes is a hugely successful podcast in a world that like has Podcast &lt;i&gt;Chopped&lt;/i&gt;. (Seriously.) As it intersects with our world, the show maintained that all of the characters were actually real for most of the period of it&apos;s run. So, Alex will just assume that people have heard of her that way! So I&apos;m totally good for it and would love it, honestly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ THREADJACKING:&lt;/span&gt; Sure, as long as it&apos;s open!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ PHYSICAL AFFECTION:&lt;/span&gt; Alex and I are both so down for this. Alex is a very touchy feely person, so she both wants to touch and be touched.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ PHYSICAL VIOLENCE:&lt;/span&gt; Here for it, let&apos;s talk about it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ RELATIONSHIPS:&lt;/span&gt; I am definitely down for shipping. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 15pt; color: #97291a;&quot;&gt;★ WARNINGS AND OPT OUTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ WARNINGS:&lt;/span&gt; The Black Tapes Podcast is a horror podcast, and as such, elements from it will come up when I&apos;m playing Alex. Things like demons, insomnia, ritualized murder, child endangerment, creepy horror movie cliches and yeah, evil music and math. (I am 100% serious about the evil music and math stuff.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS FOR ALEX:&lt;/span&gt; Demons. Bad journalism. Not sleeping. (But these are not major things, tbh.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ AVOIDED MUN TOPICS:&lt;/span&gt; I really can&apos;t do eye stuff or animal death. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #97291a; font-size: 8pt; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;♚ TO OPT OUT OF ANY OF THESE SUBJECTS OR TO AVOID ALEX ALL TOGETHER:&lt;/span&gt; Please fill out the form below and reply to this post. All comments are screened. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;textarea&gt;1. I would prefer to opt of tags from Alex all together. 
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