Post by Dr. Alexandra Sessions on Jul 5, 2007 14:14:54 GMT -5
Alexandra Saorise(SEER-sha) Cathleen Mycroft Sessions
Known As
Alex to liked coworkers and most friends, Alexandra to disliked people, Alex or Cat/Kat to old friends, and any one of her names to family
Age
37
Description of Character
Her height might fool you at first, at about 5’ 3”, but she’s not one to mess with. She usually wears boots, which add a bit to her height. She’s got blonde hair that falls about to her shoulders, maybe a little farther, with deep brown eyes that can make you feel safe or make you feel the flames of hell itself are on you. She’s got a small waist and very well muscled arms, torso, and legs. She likes to work out and stay in shape. And she can pack one hell of a punch. From looking at her you can tell she means business. She does sometimes look relatively delicate, though, a deceiving feature that’s earned several people broken bones.
Alex wears mainly pants and a jacket of cotton that’s just a little bit stiff from the starch she uses with a plain colored shirt or sweater under the jacket or just black or grey slacks and a solid colored sweater. When she doesn’t feel quite up to that, it’s an appropriate t-shirt with pants and usually some sort of thin hoodie. When not on call, though, she looks a bit different from the collected Head of Psychiatrics she usually is. She wears tight tops or camisoles and tight, dark blue jeans with flip flops, heels, boots, or a type of tennis shoes.
Personality
Alex’s’s not someone who’s going to take any nuts at all, so don’t even think about trying it. She likes to dominate, and doesn’t like it when people get in her way. She can take care of herself easily and knows pretty accurately when someone’s lying to her. She doesn’t like to be messed with, and if you do mess with her, you can be sure it won’t be for long. She can be amazingly nice and you can feel completely secure with her, and then the next she’ll be making you feel like you’re getting closer and closer to somewhere you don’t want to be. She’s completely dependable in every way, and if you’re stuck, she’ll get you out of the rut in a flash. She’s good at understanding and connecting with people of all ages. She’s very versatile, almost a split personality, except without all the strange psychopathic killings. As I’ve said before, very dependable when you need it most, but if you’re not on her side, she’ll rip the rug out from underneath and have you pinned before you know you’re on the ground (Metaphorically speaking, if you’re lucky).
Alex, at most times, simply holds an air of defiance. She’s normally a very stable person, but can at times be volatile. She’s the person most people go to for advice. Some good traits she holds include: determined and forceful; emotional and intuitive; powerful and passionate; exciting and magnetic. On her darker side however she can be: Jealous and resentful; compulsive and obsessive; secretive and obstinate. She can harness her abundant energy constructively, tempering her self-confidence with shrewdness and her ambition with magnanimity toward others provided they like them. As another character flaw, she can be blunt to those she dislikes to the point cruelty. In fact, she is not above expressing vindictiveness in deliberate cruelty. She can be too demanding, too unforgiving of faults in others, perhaps because she is not aware of the shortcomings within herself, and may extravagantly express her self-disgust in unreasonable resentment against their fellows. She does, however, make an excellent friend, provided that her companions do nothing to impugn the honor of which she is jealous. Part of the negative side of her nature is a tendency to discard friends once they cease to be useful, but she recognizes this, and fights this tendency fiercely. Her sensitivity, together with a propensity for extreme likes and dislikes, make her quick to detect insult or injury to herself (often when none is intended) and easily aroused to ferocious anger. This may express itself in such destructive speech or action that she makes lifelong enemies by her outspokenness, for she finds it difficult not to be overly critical of anything or anyone to whom she takes a dislike.
Even when Alex appears self-controlled and calm there is a seething intensity of emotional energy under the placid exterior. She is like the volcano not far under the surface of a calm sea; it may burst into eruption at any moment. But those of us who are particularly perceptive will be aware of the harnessed aggression, the immense forcefulness, magnetic intensity, and often strangely hypnotic personality under the tranquil, but watchful composure she has. In conventional social gatherings she is pleasant to be with, thoughtful in conversation, dignified, and reserved, yet affable and courteous; she possess penetrating eyes which make her shyer companions feel naked and defenseless before them. She’s creative and imaginative, perhaps overly so, and sees through people quite easily. Alex is a fun person, just usually not at work. She enjoys distractions and people and parties and can be very reckless at times. She’s been referred to as ‘an equal opportunity very *friendly* person’ if she gets drunk, but shouldn’t believe everything you hear. She can be a little, well, friendly, but for the most part she’s a volatile drunk, moving between the extremes of anger, lust, and happiness. She holds her drink well, though, and it takes quite a while for her to actually get drunk. She also believes in several old Irish superstitions, such as a relative will die if a bird flies into your window or door and dies as a result of it. And despite her first impressions or mood swings or occasional grumpiness, she's always there when someone's lsot or an intern needs help; she just doesn't like to be asked things twice.
Celebrity
Kathryn Erbe
Background
Alex Sessions grew up in Georgia, in the country on a farm with her rather large family. They then bought a farm in New York, moving up there but keeping the farm in Georgia. And oh yes, she’s got quite the family. She's got five siblings. Her grandmother had 63 first cousins, so do the math for Alex. She’s very close to her relatives. She grew up surrounded by plenty of people. When she was thirteen her grandfather died. She says particularly close to him, and sank into a clinic depression until she was fifteen, with only patches of happiness showing through. She eventually recovered, though, returning to her normal self. She re-embraced her family and school, as well. When it came time to graduate, she was Valedictorian, and she went on to the police academy after college. Yes, the police academy.
Would you find it surprising that Alex is a former cop? No? Good. In New York she was a detective. That’s just about all she’d ever wanted to be, it’s what her father and two of her brothers were and are. She married a man, also a cop(see a pattern?), when she was out of the police academy. They were only married for four years, though. He was shot and killed in the line of duty. Dealing with that and trying to throw herself into work a little harder, she transferred and moved up to detective.
A series of, well, events, we’ll say, led her leave the force. The only thing she’d ever been interested in besides criminology was psychology, which really came with the territory of her former job. Because she’d liked the subject so much, she’d taken of plenty of psych courses in college. She went back to earn her medical degree, and then she went out job hunting. She ended up here, making her place, her rather commanding presence helping a lot. When she gave orders, people listened. She's been here since the reopening. She’s managed to drag an enemy along with her, though. An ex-boyfriend; she always did attract lousy guys. She’s had several death threats from him, and started carrying her gun again. She’s had to be careful about it, though, working where she does.
Medical Conditions
About You
Secret or Nix
Known As
Alex to liked coworkers and most friends, Alexandra to disliked people, Alex or Cat/Kat to old friends, and any one of her names to family
Age
37
Description of Character
Her height might fool you at first, at about 5’ 3”, but she’s not one to mess with. She usually wears boots, which add a bit to her height. She’s got blonde hair that falls about to her shoulders, maybe a little farther, with deep brown eyes that can make you feel safe or make you feel the flames of hell itself are on you. She’s got a small waist and very well muscled arms, torso, and legs. She likes to work out and stay in shape. And she can pack one hell of a punch. From looking at her you can tell she means business. She does sometimes look relatively delicate, though, a deceiving feature that’s earned several people broken bones.
Alex wears mainly pants and a jacket of cotton that’s just a little bit stiff from the starch she uses with a plain colored shirt or sweater under the jacket or just black or grey slacks and a solid colored sweater. When she doesn’t feel quite up to that, it’s an appropriate t-shirt with pants and usually some sort of thin hoodie. When not on call, though, she looks a bit different from the collected Head of Psychiatrics she usually is. She wears tight tops or camisoles and tight, dark blue jeans with flip flops, heels, boots, or a type of tennis shoes.
Personality
Alex’s’s not someone who’s going to take any nuts at all, so don’t even think about trying it. She likes to dominate, and doesn’t like it when people get in her way. She can take care of herself easily and knows pretty accurately when someone’s lying to her. She doesn’t like to be messed with, and if you do mess with her, you can be sure it won’t be for long. She can be amazingly nice and you can feel completely secure with her, and then the next she’ll be making you feel like you’re getting closer and closer to somewhere you don’t want to be. She’s completely dependable in every way, and if you’re stuck, she’ll get you out of the rut in a flash. She’s good at understanding and connecting with people of all ages. She’s very versatile, almost a split personality, except without all the strange psychopathic killings. As I’ve said before, very dependable when you need it most, but if you’re not on her side, she’ll rip the rug out from underneath and have you pinned before you know you’re on the ground (Metaphorically speaking, if you’re lucky).
Alex, at most times, simply holds an air of defiance. She’s normally a very stable person, but can at times be volatile. She’s the person most people go to for advice. Some good traits she holds include: determined and forceful; emotional and intuitive; powerful and passionate; exciting and magnetic. On her darker side however she can be: Jealous and resentful; compulsive and obsessive; secretive and obstinate. She can harness her abundant energy constructively, tempering her self-confidence with shrewdness and her ambition with magnanimity toward others provided they like them. As another character flaw, she can be blunt to those she dislikes to the point cruelty. In fact, she is not above expressing vindictiveness in deliberate cruelty. She can be too demanding, too unforgiving of faults in others, perhaps because she is not aware of the shortcomings within herself, and may extravagantly express her self-disgust in unreasonable resentment against their fellows. She does, however, make an excellent friend, provided that her companions do nothing to impugn the honor of which she is jealous. Part of the negative side of her nature is a tendency to discard friends once they cease to be useful, but she recognizes this, and fights this tendency fiercely. Her sensitivity, together with a propensity for extreme likes and dislikes, make her quick to detect insult or injury to herself (often when none is intended) and easily aroused to ferocious anger. This may express itself in such destructive speech or action that she makes lifelong enemies by her outspokenness, for she finds it difficult not to be overly critical of anything or anyone to whom she takes a dislike.
Even when Alex appears self-controlled and calm there is a seething intensity of emotional energy under the placid exterior. She is like the volcano not far under the surface of a calm sea; it may burst into eruption at any moment. But those of us who are particularly perceptive will be aware of the harnessed aggression, the immense forcefulness, magnetic intensity, and often strangely hypnotic personality under the tranquil, but watchful composure she has. In conventional social gatherings she is pleasant to be with, thoughtful in conversation, dignified, and reserved, yet affable and courteous; she possess penetrating eyes which make her shyer companions feel naked and defenseless before them. She’s creative and imaginative, perhaps overly so, and sees through people quite easily. Alex is a fun person, just usually not at work. She enjoys distractions and people and parties and can be very reckless at times. She’s been referred to as ‘an equal opportunity very *friendly* person’ if she gets drunk, but shouldn’t believe everything you hear. She can be a little, well, friendly, but for the most part she’s a volatile drunk, moving between the extremes of anger, lust, and happiness. She holds her drink well, though, and it takes quite a while for her to actually get drunk. She also believes in several old Irish superstitions, such as a relative will die if a bird flies into your window or door and dies as a result of it. And despite her first impressions or mood swings or occasional grumpiness, she's always there when someone's lsot or an intern needs help; she just doesn't like to be asked things twice.
Celebrity
Kathryn Erbe
Background
Alex Sessions grew up in Georgia, in the country on a farm with her rather large family. They then bought a farm in New York, moving up there but keeping the farm in Georgia. And oh yes, she’s got quite the family. She's got five siblings. Her grandmother had 63 first cousins, so do the math for Alex. She’s very close to her relatives. She grew up surrounded by plenty of people. When she was thirteen her grandfather died. She says particularly close to him, and sank into a clinic depression until she was fifteen, with only patches of happiness showing through. She eventually recovered, though, returning to her normal self. She re-embraced her family and school, as well. When it came time to graduate, she was Valedictorian, and she went on to the police academy after college. Yes, the police academy.
Would you find it surprising that Alex is a former cop? No? Good. In New York she was a detective. That’s just about all she’d ever wanted to be, it’s what her father and two of her brothers were and are. She married a man, also a cop(see a pattern?), when she was out of the police academy. They were only married for four years, though. He was shot and killed in the line of duty. Dealing with that and trying to throw herself into work a little harder, she transferred and moved up to detective.
A series of, well, events, we’ll say, led her leave the force. The only thing she’d ever been interested in besides criminology was psychology, which really came with the territory of her former job. Because she’d liked the subject so much, she’d taken of plenty of psych courses in college. She went back to earn her medical degree, and then she went out job hunting. She ended up here, making her place, her rather commanding presence helping a lot. When she gave orders, people listened. She's been here since the reopening. She’s managed to drag an enemy along with her, though. An ex-boyfriend; she always did attract lousy guys. She’s had several death threats from him, and started carrying her gun again. She’s had to be careful about it, though, working where she does.
Medical Conditions
About You
Secret or Nix
