Alex S. Coen

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~Coen,Alex~

And this week the trend
Was to crash and burn and then return again
To practice the life that I pretend
Provides enough to get me through the weekend

so I say
Get me a solution
And watch me run with it
And then you gave
You gave me a solution
What have I done with it
Cause I was absolutely sure I had it all figured out
Way back then
And now it's this minute, this hour, this day

Hey there, I am Alex! xD
I have been roleplaying for 4 years and I am medium.
I found this site by lurking in google and I decided to join because FMA is made of win and awesome sauce

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~Character Basics~

~Given Name;
Alex S. Coen
~Nickname;
None so far
~Alias;
Bullet, Hellfire
~Age;
21
~Gender;
Male
~Sexuality;
Heterosexual
~Occupation;
Military, Alchemist, State alchemist - Hellfire alchemist
~Race/Species;
Human

~Character's Appearance~

~Hair Color;
Brown
~Eye Color;
Green
~Height;
5' 9"
~Weight;
137 maximum
~Flaws;

Despite the fact that Alex is a handsome guy, he has a right eye patch that covers his right eye. He has lost this in an attempt to make a new ammunition to be used in combat, however, the experiment with gunpowder, hydrogen, lead, and copper with some other chemical has made him lose his right eye from the small explosion.

~General Appearance; Alex stands at five foot nine, light skinned, and has a long curly brown hair that comes down to his shoulder length. Generally he’s athletic and fit as you may expect from a soldier like himself, and like most of the state alchemists he uses transmutation circle that’s been drawn on the bottom of his brown leather gloves. The transmutation circle is barely noticeable since the color is black, blending with the color of the gloves very well. His eyes are bright emerald green, which he inherited from his mother.

At outside of the military building he wears a modified military uniform. Usually he’s seen green sweater along with charcoal black colored jacket with green trims over it, for his bottom wear he wears a pair of black pants with leather steel reinforced boots with black leather belt. Even away from his work Alex carries a combat knife and a 9mm pistol under his jacket ready to be pulled out anytime, he carries total of five clips with 12 shots in each magazine. During his ‘casual’ events such as dates or funeral Alex has a full black suit ready to go.

Like all military members Alex wears his navy blue uniform inside the building. The badge symbolizing his rank has been well polished and his uniform is well ironed, his black boots has been polished to the finest. Alex is quite proud of his rank as a lieutenant colonel. His pistol is kept in the hoister on his right hip and his combat knife is hung on his left shoulder, of course belted to make sure his weapons don’t fall out and cause any harmful accidents.

~Character Personality~

~Likes;

• Anything to do with firearms and explaining them how they work
  
• Doing work for society
  
• Practice on firing range
  
• Sparring with other members of military
  
• Going to the library and often reading
  
• Traveling
  
• Cute animals
  
• Equivalent exchange
  
• Making faces on mirror or reflective objects when he's bored
  
• Loves to take naps during work
  
• People telling the truth no matter how bad it is
  

~Dislikes;

• Tomatoes, it is considered to be his number one enemy of all.
  
• Paperwork and doing reports
  
• Frauds who covers alchemy as magic or miracles
  
• Criminals
  
• People who are far too rich to think of others
  
• Writing
  
• Cracking codes of other alchemists, but he does it if he must
  
• Liars
  
• Going into people's lives to investigate them.
  
• Alcohol, Alex cannot handle them.
  

~Habits;

• Strips and assembles his pistol over and over when he feels like he has nothing to do.
  
• Bossing around his subordinates
  
• Picks his nose when he feels like he's being lectured while they are not looking.
  

~Weaknesses;

• Holds back against women when he's fighting or sparring them, however, he doesn't hold back if he hates them for real.
  
• Trusts others who are kind easily
  
• Reckless
  
• Unforgiving
  

~Strengths;

• Very resolute
  
• Dead accurate with most types of firearms
  
• Excellent kicking power
  
• Above average reflexes
  

~Goals;

• To become a better person than he is now.
  
• Perfect his alchemy and close quarter combat skills.
  
• To find a purpose of his life.
  

~Secrets;

• Alex doesn't keep a lot of secrets to himself; however, he does keep them to a certain extents. Such as his abilities, his moral codes, and his past about himself and his family, he doesn’t tell others why he hates them he just does.
  
• He keeps himself far away from alcohol knowing that he will get drunk after a first glass. He usually makes an excuse so he won’t disappoint his friends in military.
  
• He feels that military is his home, a natural place where he could live. The fact is, he just doesn’t like the rules around here.
  
• Alex tends to hide that he likes firearms, he finds it people will think he's a violent man.
  

~Overall Personality; Alex is very laid back and easy-going person… maybe too laid back and easy going, no matter how bad the situation Alex always says or thinks it’s all going to work out unless he’s actually serious. He’s easy to be friends with, but there’s a rather funny side to him. He may be an easy going guy, but he just doesn’t know what the hell to do with his life; this was the reason why he joined the military in first place. To find his purpose and make something out of it rather than being cooped up in his house studying and hitting sandbags every single day of his life, he wanted to use his talents to best extend in the field. Alex hoped that the military of central could give him that answer.

As years passed Alex has shown major changes in himself. He became more respectful, loyal, and be self-confident at the things he does. He doesn’t hesitate to kill people when he’s ordered to, but as cold he could be at times he has a moral code that he keeps. One of them has to do with holding back when he’s sparring or fighting against a woman, he just feels that hurting them is just wrong; however, if that woman goes to an extant making him want to kill her Alex won’t hold back. There are times Alex does get serious, when he does his personality transforms into a total veteran commando with swift leadership and unshakable calm within his eyes. In flaw, when he does become serious in exchange he tends to be reckless and when he does Alex throws himself out into the fight without thinking.

What Alex hates the most are liars, he feels that lying will only make the society worse. So he tells nothing more than truth, blunt and brutally honest and he loves honest people the best. So as an example of honest people, Alex tells truth and nothing but the truth except his enemies. This usually ends him up with weak link with his friends in the military since he’s so honest that he even hurts their emotions. He can’t help himself because he feels that way; Alex just doesn’t like lying to people.


~Character History~

~Current Town;
~Parents;
Siegfried Coen and Anew Coen
~Siblings ;
None
~Other Family;
None
~Pets;
None
~Full History; Alex was born in east city, but his childhood was not a very happy one. He and his family lived in the poor parts of the city because of the fact that his mother and father couldn’t get good jobs to support the family; even with them combined together it just wasn’t enough. Due to this, Alex was homeschooled by his father in hopes that their son will becomes a better person than they were. Alex was taught alchemy, math, science, and history. All the basic things that he needed to survive out in the society once they left their wings. Every year his parents mourned and fought because Alex couldn’t have a birthday party because they were too poor, only fun he had around here was shooting down birds with his slignshots. He was good with it actually, he always managed to get birds on their heads with little pebbles. Even if they did had hit hard parts they managed to survive and pull it off, but their luck ran out when Alex turned 9 years old.

Their wallets and their bank account were emptied due to taxes. His mother and father sold everything in their house just to feed their son. Furniture, jewelry, and even their clothes; however, all turned out to be vein. Alex’s mother went into prostitution and when his father found out about it he disapproved it, they fought all night. Dignity or money? It wasn’t long before they separated, his father couldn’t shake off the anger and started to gamble and drink in the bar everyday just to get his stress off. The man would come back every night beaten up, drunk, and angry.

His mother wrote him letters every day, but his father hid them hoping that will make things better. He lied to his son that his mother was killed by a gunshot when she went to grocery shopping, but in reality they separated. After long five years Alex found all the letters that his father hid, unable to comprehend the situation Alex became angry and frustrated at his father for lying to him. Not only that it hurt him up to a point where had had a grudge on him, the lie hurt more than truth. He found that out the hard way with his despicable father.

When his father came back from drinking Alex demanded answers from him and even beat him up to interrogate him. His father told him everything, what happened that night after they had an argument, with his heart shattered Alex kicked his father out to the streets letting him give him a rotting death that Alex believed that he deserved. Shortly he got a job at a restaurant; Alex supported himself he had to with his mother and father gone by his side. When he came home every night Alex continued his studies, but just didn’t know what to do with his life.

Without thinking he went to work, came home, studied, slept, and repeated without thinking. He wasted the years of his life thinking what he should do for last four years until he learned about Elric brothers. Alex hoped that the military will give him answers what he should do with his life, so he studied harder and even performed alchemy in his home. He also trained his body and mind to prepare him to be the state alchemist, of all alchemy he performed though… was turned out to be failure and became discharged during transmuting sequence.

Alex didn’t stop there; he kept trying then until he transmuted a firearm out of a block of iron. Overjoyed he felt that he was finally ready after long months of training, he took up a firearm and started to train with it. Naturally thanks to his childhood slingshot training he was talented with these kinds of things. Finally, when he took the test on his fated day he passed. Alex became the dog of the military with a title of: ‘Hellfire alchemist’, he wasn’t ready to stop his work there he wanted to make better ammunitions than he could make than lead bullets. Alex experimented with all kinds of chemicals to make better ammunition that could take out an enemy with a single shot; however, his experiment went horribly wrong and costed him his right eye. He recovered from the explosion and shortly went back to work.

By the time he went back Alex was placed under 105th Covert Ops division. Under them the days seemed to pass by in a rather quick manner, while working he was in charge of showing the recruits around the building as well as training them in CQC (close quarter combat) and firearms. Alex did enjoy his work; this was his home and felt he finally found a purpose in his life. As years passed Alex showed outstanding performance in the field of combat except his paperwork and reports, he moved up in a steady pace. He had beaten and took down frauds, criminals, and even famous bandits, Alex's story and legacy was just beginning.

~Other Miscellaneous Stuff~

~Roleplay Sample;

Snore….. Snore…..

It was a rainy day, there were stack piles of paperwork on Alex’s desk and he just couldn’t handle it. Sleeping like a peaceful angel the rain drops gently tapped on the window behind him, but it wasn’t long before his peaceful nap time was disturbed by a thunder and lightning. The gray skies roared in anger as Alex jumped up, “I’m up, sir! I wasn’t sleeping!” He looked around his office only to find himself alone, maybe they all went home for today. The training was cancelled and Alex was stuck doing nothing but paperwork in his office.

“Great….” He walked out of the office in an attempt to grab some tea. Alex adjusted his hair and wiped the drool that was coming out on side of his mouth, oh man, he really needed some adjusting. His proud uniform was messed up and his boots were covered in mud, hell, he should go home and do some laundry. The paper work wasn’t finished yet thought, it was farrr from over. This was going to end him up here all night for sure if he kept his work up at this rate, not to mention he could be tired while training the recruits tomorrow.

He walked down the hallway hearing tapping noises nearby; the lights went on and off flickering. Alex became suspicious of the fact that maybe his comrades may be behind this silly prank, but just in case he whipped out the 9mm. pistol from his side and a combat knife watching every little corners. The lights went flickering again along with the tapping noise, what the hell was going on? Alex decided to check out the generator room, he busted the door open and pointed his weapon to every corner making sure there weren’t enemies to give him a surprise attack.

Alex checked the switches, they were fine but- lights flickered once more and the whole place went dark. He crept out of the generator room, his shoulders stiffened and cool sweat ran down his back. Thunder and lightning roared and flashed in the distance, what was going on around here? Alex kept his gun in front of him as he walked back to his office, “Slowly… slowly….” He bumped into the door, he didn’t remember shutting it! He busted his office door open, it was dark he couldn’t see anything at all!

“You have no way out, show yourself!” Alex warned.

Then he felt a cold hand grabbing his shoulder, Alex quickly turned around. No one was there he was starting to get a little bit creeped out by this whole issue as the cold chills shivered down his spine, he slowly walked into his office maybe he was having a dream maybe if he slept again he could- the hand caught him again, but this time it was multiple hands. Alex yelled in fear as he finally passed out from the terror it was then the lights came back on with his subordinates confused.

“Warrant officer Alex? Oh geez, his face is pale.”

“Looks like he’s seen a ghost or something, it was just a black out….”

~Anything Else;

As his title says, Alex is a Hellfire alchemist. No, he does not make flames like Colonel Mustang does, but rather he makes firearms out of metal and he can make them as much as he desires; however, like the equivalent exchange says he has to have certain amount of iron or steel to make them. He can only transmute pistols, sub-machineguns, and rifles depending on the materials that he has in front of him; however, he cannot transmute rocket launchers or cannons. Alex is also able to transmute melee weapons, but because he prefers small and tactical weapons he prefers combat knives or survival knives the best weapon of choice to go along with his firearms.

Alex can make different types of ammunitions as well, but he will need lead and some iron or copper to make them. Again, depending on the materials he can make from .22 calibers to 7.62mm rounds; however, there are times transmuting goes wrong where the lead is smaller than the jacket leaving an air pocket that causes the bullet to be rather inaccurate. Rarely that ever happens unless he tries to make bigger bullets with lesser lead than he has than the materials for the jacket itself. Usually that doesn’t happen since he had done this a lot of times before.

He knows that finding lead out there is rather difficult, so he carries some ammunition and a weapon of his own choice. A combat knife and a 9mm. pistol with four clips that holds up to twelve rounds with it ready to be loaded, once he’s out Alex has no choice but to use solid slug weapons and a weapons he transmutes on his own. If he does manage to find lead with some iron or copper lying around he’s definitely in luck.

His combat abilities are up most impressive, the military doesn’t seem to use the technique that he uses. Alex uses Krav Maga techniques to fight against his armed or unarmed opponents in CQC (close quarter combat). A lot of them have to do with disarming his foes, putting them in holds, or even counter attacking them. He executes his combat abilities in quick and deadly force, sometimes he uses some techniques that he had invented on his own using only pistol and a combat / survival knife together or sometimes rarely sub machineguns.

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[Greed]

I love this character. The only thing you need to fix is your alias. Hellfire would be his work alias. You can keep bullet there, just add Hellfire and I will accept your character.

[Greed]

Thank you very much for fixing that.

ACCEPTED!!!