shapelessink

Queer artist & writer

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Alexandra/Lexi
MFBC Archival Creature
I write and draw horny freak shit and also stuff that makes you cry - as I am wont to do.
"Can't a boy be confusing?"


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Narric
@Narric asked:

Hope you're getting plenty of rest!
Have at any point did you consider making Lexi more of a frontline Korps agent with their telepathy (forgot actual name name for the power)(like weaponising intrusive thoughts) or is the role of Librarian the only path that just feels right?

Excellent question!

Very early on, before I had even really worked out what powers she had, I had Lexi figured as a stealth/infiltration type agent whose speciality was obtaining information for use in blackmail and or propaganda.

By the time I started putting words to paper on her Korpsigin story ('Overdue'), her powers were a lot more established and I really liked the idea of them being a double edged sword for someone who doesn't really know how to control them at first. That's where I got the idea for the later story 'Black Book' which functionally centres around Lexi fucking up with her powers. The telepathic imprinting power pigeon holes her a little, and is quite limited in its field-usage, but it's very well suited for background work. There are for sure some creative ways it can be used though (If you've read Overdue, you'll be pleased to know I'm about 40% through a remaster of it that expands greatly on the power she and Maxwell share, and how it has been used historically for good and bad).

To this end, Lexi never really ends up as a frontline agent, but like Maxwell before her, eventually becomes a reasonably prominent support agent. She's more at home on-base operating effectively as an intel source and distributor than she is on the ground putting hoof to Heroes faces. The Librarian thing, I think, works as a cutesy euphemism. She's this big towering figure that haunts the stacks and delights in sharing the materials that KARD houses with patrons of the library, but deeper than that, she's effectively an archivist of sensitive secrets whose job it is to obtain, preserve, and disseminate key intel useful to the Korps mission statement - it's a bit like calling Q an engineer. It's not wrong but it buries the lead a bit, and she enjoys that.

With that said though,

Lexi does do field operations, especially after a few years of settling down, building her confidence, and getting more familiar with her powers. She does eventually becomes a niche known terror, but she's unlikely to face off against a major threat as anything more than support for more powerful agents. She's trained in a couple of types of combat, but she's more useful getting information to where it needs to be.


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