Alexander King
OOC
| Game | Journal | Portrayed By | Premade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bon Chance High School | king_of_hoops | Nate Richert | King of Pentacles |
Basic Stats
Full Name: Alexander Connor King
Nickname(s): Alex
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Date of Birth: October 12, 1991
Zodiac: Libra
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Single
Hometown: Bon Chance, Louisiana
Grade: Junior
Extracurriculars: Basketball: point guard & co-captain; track; football (wide receiver)
Pet: Yellow lab (Hoops)
Family
Father: Phillip Louis King (oncologist; b. September 18, 1960)
Mother: Marie Isabel King (née Duval; b. November 6, 1963)
Sister: Caroline Lucille King (university student; b. April 30, 1989)
History
The King family is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. Both Phillip King and Marie Duval grew up in the New Orleans area. They met in 1984 — when Marie was still a college student and Philip was just about to start medical school — and dated for three years before getting married in June of 1987. Marie was happy to support Phillip's goal of becoming an oncologist, and equally happy to be the trophy wife of a doctor. She didn't mind Phillip's long hours, or the broken dates when he was called into the hospital. She either didn't know about, or chose to ignore, Phillip's occasional "indiscretions" with the nurses.
In 1989, their first child, a daughter they named Caroline, was born. Phillip was disappointed, because he wanted a son, but Marie cherished her little girl and doted upon her. Two years later, in 1991, the son that Phillip wanted was born, Alexander. Phillip essentially ignored Caroline and focused his attentions on Alexander instead. Whenever he was home from work, he would teach his son about sports, particularly football and basketball, but also playing games of catch occasionally. Alex's earliest memories are of watching sports on TV with his dad, and even of going to the occasional game with him, too. Marie loved both of her children equally, but she found herself lavishing her daughter with more attention, to make up for Phillip's neglect, though she was always careful to never neglect Alex, either.
In the summer of 2001, when Caroline was twelve and Alex was nine, Phillip decided to move the family to Bon Chance (though he kept a place in New Orleans for himself, near the hospital, so he could stay there while he was working), into one of the new mansions that had been built on the lake. Their home in New Orleans had been perfectly fine, size-wise, for the small family, but he wanted the prestige of living in a mansion, such that he didn't even mind the hour-and-a-half commute to work (which he could always shorten through liberal use of speeding). That fall, Caroline and Alex started the new school year in the Bon Chance school district (seventh grade for Caroline, fourth for Alex).
After the family moved to Bon Chance, Phillip was seen around the house even less. With the commute, he often spent the night in New Orleans if he was working late or had to be at the hospital again early in the morning. His condo in New Orleans also made it easier for him to have affairs without his wife (and especially his kids) finding out about it. But when Alex did see his father, it was the same old thing: watching sports together, playing sports together, talking about sports together. Marie was the biggest influence on the kids, though, so Alex was schooled in the ways of being a nice young man. Once he reached junior high school, he started getting involved in the basketball team, a sport he'd loved all his life. At his father's urging, he also joined the football team, but basketball was his passion.
When Alex reached high school, he continued with the basketball and football teams, adding track to the list so that he was involved in some sport each season. It helped keep him in shape, and gave him something to do. The home life of the King family had started deteriorating, with Phillip gone more and more often (and spending most of his time when he was home just watching sports with his son), and Caroline starting to rebel (she'd dyed her light brown hair black, pierced several body parts, and taken to wearing nothing but black, red, and grey), and Marie had started hitting the wine bottle a bit hard. It was just easier to stay busy.
His grades throughout high school have been barely passable. Phillip has made it quite clear that he won't tolerate anything lower than a C from his son, and Alex knows that he has to maintain at least a 1.5 GPA to stay on the teams, so he makes sure to at least do well enough to maintain a C average. Despite his constant involvement in the sports teams, it's not too hard to do a bit of homework and a bit of studying here and there, since his parents have made it clear that he doesn't have to worry about getting an after-school job, they can pay for anything he wants or needs. He's really excited to be the co-captain of the varsity basketball team this year, and hopes to be captain in his senior year.