Alexandria Brander

Alex is a human shifter hybrid. She is a traveller working with multiple organizations across the multiverse to prevent wars and to stop malicious groups.

Early Life
Born as Alexandria Brander to a human mother (Cassie Brander) and a previously unknown father (the shifter Aristomites), she lived in a rural Connecticut town with her mother Cassie. She lived with absolutely no knowledge on her background on her connections to 5D. Her father, Aristomites, was leading other shifters in a rebellion against the King Beast in hopes to start an independent society. While hiding on Earth for a period of time, he met and fell in love with Cassie, but was assassinated before Alex was born. Since most of the information about the shifters and beasts was kept from Cassie, she was under the impression that he had simply left her, therefore having minimal impact on Alex.

Her time in high school was especially turbulent, after a string of traumatic events and issues with depression and anxiety. She moved away for college and found a passion for studying psychology. After earning a bachelor's degree she moved to New York City to start grad school and a new life.

Travelling & Fragmentation
Alex came across a time machine in a hotel room in Block Island, New York in 1993. It came in the form of a small device with no labesls on it. Not knowing what it was, she started toying with it, which sent her across random dimensions, planets, and time, resulting in five different fragments of herself being left in each place. One landed on a planet unsuited for life and shortly died, another on Earth Prime in the 23rd century, and another on the Earth Prime of Sera’s timeline. The fourth one landed in the starting location and time, but was later shot dead by a mysterious figure on a beach. The fifth landed on a planet with guided help on how to operate the machine, go back to Earth, and join TTN. This is the fragment that would log on, create an account under the name Parsnip, and go on to have adventures in the primary storyline.

The machine used is a device which cannot sustain travel of creatures that exist in dimensions higher than 4D, hence the fragmentation. Why it was put in her vicinity is still unknown.

King Beast
During the Eucharist, Alex took pity on the captured King Beast and decided the best way to end the battle was to free him. While doing so, she discovered that he could communicate with her, and she could comprehend him. After this, she started receiving strange messages and having her ship broken into by beasts. The King Beast told her soon after that she was a shifter, and that her people were trying to wage a war that could be stopped so long as friendly relations were kept between the two. The beasts, being massive creatures, were running out of space to live in the multiverse, and they wanted to experiment on the generic mutations of shifters in order to change form and occupy less space. After meeting Proteus and other shifters though, she joined their cause instead, and became a temporary leader. This escalated into a fight between her and the King Beast; after losing, she took his offer to turn herself in as a prisoner instead.

In capacity, she was experimented on to learn how to make shifting work. After being released, her natural shifting capabilities were taken away. Squirt was later able to come up with a serum to allow for shifting, usually in hour-long spans.

Squirt's Transformation
Andromeda was originally the shifter form for Alex, accessable only in 5D. However, when she came into contact with Squirt's blood, the incident would change her very being, causing her to become the primary occupier of Alex's body. She stopped requiring serum to shift, becoming much faster and stronger than Alex's regular form. However, she also lost all of her memories and identity in the process.

Alex would eventually be able to regain all of her memories when she went to Nullwhere and filled it up with matter in order to destroy V'ana. Because of how the anti-matter interacted with her, it erased the chaos particles in her soul and the body, returning her back to normal.

The General's Scheme
With Alex's memory's returned, The General decided that now was the time to draw her out and kill her. As time goes on, Alex and GoodName realize that Alexandria Brander's murder is showing up much more in the timeline's media. But she insists on not investigating further, as the memories are too painful to deal with and she's determined to move on with her life, putting her focus back onto toppling the Beast Empire and hunting down Maricela. However, Iris, a crystanium patron she's connected to, insists she goes back to earth to reconnect with her roots and face the mental blockage that's keeping her from reaching her potential.

Eventually, she finally does. However, she realizes that her mother has passed away but the time of her death is time locked, which sets off a red flag. She confronts the Journalist about it, and he breaks down, spitting the whole story out.

The splinter that was shot by an unknown person was initially declared a cold case, as there was no solid evidence of anyone being in the scene who could have murdered her and not much motive by the police during the crime wave to look into it. However, in the 2010s a young journalist is looking through old files of cold cases and stumbles across the unsolved murder. Intrigued, he starts to investigate it, wanting to create a true crime story for a modern audience and to solve it. The more he looked into it, the more he realized there was a lot of weird factors at play. For example, how only one eye witness described someone that could be her prime suspect of her ex or how the footprints in the sand weren't proper.

He looks into the matter further, resulting in meeting a old man named proteus who says he knows everything about what happened. Then he goes on about weird supernatural events and time travellers, which is quite confusing for the journalist. He then meets with her mother, who has similar things to say about what went on. Realizing there's definitely something weird going on here, he continues to try and get to the bottom of what happened. The local media starts to pay attention to the case as well, but it doesn't quite blow up yet.

That's when Maricela showed up to him, telling him that she knows what's really going on. She tells him that she's the commander of an intergalatic army and that Alex is her public enemy #1. She shows the Jounerlaist what "really" happened, processing what's going on and agreeing to work with Maricela. She takes him back to the crime scene, showing very clearly that her ex bf shot her. He then very expertly evaded the scene of the crime in a way the police could have not possibly considered, but it was definitely 100% totally him. She then tells him that if the people investigate and realize time travellers are real, it could mess up the entire timeline, so he needs to get the story out of there!

He brings up the topic and incriminates Haedeon, becoming a massive media sensation. While Haedon isn't jailed due to the lack of any true evidence, it becomes a massive talking point about how a woman was murdered and nobody did anything about it. The Journalist gets a lot of attention and money, but Maricela disappears and leaves him behind. Since she used romance to partly manipulate him, this left him quite sad.

He brings up how that they at least solved the murder, so he at least helped in some way. However, Alex tells him that's very unlikely and that she can prove it. He was not on the beach that night, and since she's the enemy of the empire it makes much more sense that a shapeshifting beast did it. She spills out to the Journalist all about why she really ran away from home: She was in a horribly abusive situation and couldn't handle being constantly traumatized by him over and over again. She then talked about how she was terrified of a world that kept seeming like it was out to get her. This was the first time she had told anyone about what happened, and it just all escaped from her.

The Journalist starts to realize that, in fact, maybe Maricela was lying or spinning the truth in a particular way. Alex deduces that the murderer was actually Maricela, who thought that she was the non-splintered version of Alex. When she realized her mistake and the general interest in the disappeared woman meant her kill wasn't so clean, she went back in time and did all of the cover work - or manipulate someone else to do it for her.

Abilities & Equipment
Abilities:


 * Shifting (with the aid of serum post-capture)
 * Swordfighting: Wanting to be a capable fighter, Parsnip started training in swordfighting not long after she started traveling. This makes her especially suitable for close-range combat.
 * Navigation and tracking

Equipment:


 * La Cherie, a key sword
 * Mercury (ship)

Misc. Info

 * Parsnip adopted Brownie, a mountain dog/brown bear hybrid, after coming across him outside an abandoned Russian laboratory in the 4000s. He live on her ship and with the shifter commune.
 * Her soul ribbon is gold, appearing in varying tones and luster.
 * At the end of the battle during the Cataclysm, her left leg was torn off. She replaced it with a robotic prosthetic, but still prefers her right leg in a fight.