Alexandra "Rekvijem" Rest

Alexandra Rest, commonly called Alex by her friends, is a known Illuminati agent of mixed Croatian and Irish ancestry, authorized for the Solomon Island, Al-Merayah, and Transylvania theaters. Rest became a homeless runaway at the age of 16 and killed more than a dozen individuals in the following 7 years. After joining the Illuminati in October 2013, she became a "wetwork specialist."

=• History •= Born on October 1, 1990, to Alexander and Evelyn Rest, Alexandra was raised in an upper middle class family in Manhattan. Educated at a prep school in the city, she was an athlete focused primarily on field hockey. Always an outcast for being a little weird and preferring books to people, she spent more time out of school in martial arts classes and spending time with her mother than anything. Unbeknownst to Rest, her mother, a thief, taught her numerous tricks of the trade disguised as sleight of hand tricks.

In 2007, while Rest was still 16, her mother was arrested for theft. Her father, a Manhattan businessman, retained custody of her and spoke ill of her mother frequently, to which Rest took offense. They argued frequently until one night when they fought particularly hard, resulting in her locking herself in her room. When her father broke down the door, she viciously beat him and ran away from home.

Unbeknownst to Alexandra, Alexander Rest died from his injuries not long after she ran away. The initial police investigation ruled the death accidental but was later changed to homicide with Alex as a suspect after she had already left New York.

Vagrancy
As a runaway, Rest primarily lived on what she could beg, borrow, and steal. Becoming bisexual by necessity, she seduced many men and women and killed fourteen more people in the name of survival.

She first made her way down the East Coast, spending little time in Manhattan, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. It was in Philadelphia that she first knowingly killed someone, a Temple University frat boy who attempted to have his way with her. Using a metal rod that she was able to grab from the trash, she stabbed her attacker repeatedly in the right kidney and neck. She left his body in the alley where she was attacked, but checked the area for her hair before leaving and kept the rod with her, disposing of it in a lake in Laurel, MD.

Washington, DC
Fleeing first to Baltimore—where she lost her virginity as she parlayed sex for shelter for the first time with a Legg Mason analyst—and then to DC, she robbed a Georgetown boutique by night and used the stolen items to seduce a senator. Though under-aged at the time, her above average height gave the impression that she was older. She successfully parlayed her skills and false identity into becoming a kept woman for over a year until he lost his re-election bid in 2008.

Richmond
Following the senator's defeat, Rest found herself again on the streets in January 2009. Unable to retain most of the possessions she had gained during her stint as a kept woman, Rest left Washington with only a duffle bag full of mostly practical clothes, a generous supply of cash, and a copy of Shakespeare's complete works.

She spent less than a month in Richmond, hooking up primarily with college students until meeting a realtor who offered to take her as far as Charlotte. Having gathered her possessions from the locker where she had been keeping them, she spent the night with him. In the morning, the man was gone, having stolen her possessions in the process. She was forced to beg even for clothes from hotel staff.

Charlotte
After Richmond, Rest made her own way to Charlotte with a brief stay in Raleigh along the way. Having lost her possessions and money, she resorted again to theft in Petersburg, VA, to acquire more money and clothing. After a week in Raleigh, she was able to get a ride to Charlotte where she began her search for the man who had robbed her in Richmond.

Her search initially turned up fruitless. Unwilling to let the search falter, she made ends meet first by working at a local barbecue restaurant. After rebuffing her manager's advances one night, she was fired for fraud after he re-opened her credit check and learned that her entire history was falsified. Following that and some time on the streets she found work as an exotic dancer, becoming popular for making up for her lack of bust size with her aggressive personality and long legs. She continued in this role and lived with Felicia Thompson, another of the dancers, as lovers until mid-2011 when her search for her robber turned up a lead in Atlanta.

Atlanta and Tampa
In September 2011, Rest left Charlotte for Atlanta using money she had saved to pay for a bus ticket. After spending a month in Atlanta living with a bartender and plying him for occupational knowledge, she committed her second murder in Valdosta, GA. She then made her way first to Orlando and then to Tampa.

In Tampa, Rest got a job working for a year as a bartender at a restaurant in Ybor City and living with two of her co-worker waitresses. While she enjoyed her time in Tampa and settled in rather well with the local Cuban population, she was forced to flee the city when her manager warned her that an FBI agent had shown up looking for her.

New Orleans
From late fall 2012 to October 2013, Rest lived in New Orleans. For the first time since leaving Manhattan, she spent extensive periods on the streets, often unable to find work and only making enough to pay for food when she did. Often a night on the streets meant an assault of some sort, and she killed a dozen men in self-defense during her time, evading awkward questions from the police by disposing of the bodies in the swamps.

She turned more to thievery in New Orleans than in any city she had been in. Mardi Gras was her most profitable week as a thief, as she made enough cash to afford a small apartment until the French Quarter Festival, when she made enough money to last her until June.

Murderer
Prior to becoming an Illuminati agent, Rest killed one woman and fifteen men. While most of the killings—including that of her father—began as self-defense, two were outright murders.

First Murder
In May 2008, Rest committed her first legitimate murder when a reporter confronted her with her affair with the senator. Agreeing to meet the reporter in Jones Point Park in Alexandria, she stabbed the woman in the back—again focusing on the kidney—and dumped the body into the Potomac. Having killed the reporter along the waterfront, she successfully avoided blood spatter in the park. The woman's body was later recovered near Cape Charles, VA. No suspect was named.

Second Murder
In Atlanta her search for the realtor who had robbed her seemed to be going poorly until she saw a billboard with his picture. Rest carefully watched the man for a full week, observing his patterns and taking incriminating photos of him that she would later leave with his body. Once she was confident she could isolate him again, she kidnapped him at knife point and forced him to drive to a location near the Florida border. The man revealed he had spent all her money and simply tossed away her clothes and book.

She killed him in a bank-owned house in Valdosta, GA. Unlike most of her killings both then and after, she took her time, focusing on non-lethal injuries for some time before letting the man bleed to death. Once again, she cleaned the scene of traces of her presence.

Taking her victim's money and car, she made her way to Lake City, FL, where she wiped the car and ditched it, hitching a ride to Orlando. After a few days at the local theme parks and a few nights spent with some local flight attendants of both genders, she caught another ride to Tampa where she spent the winter.

Murder Investigation
While Alexandra had left no prints or hair at the scene of her second murder, she had left the incriminating photos. A local elderly woman in Atlanta had described her when police investigated the locations the photos were taken from. When Lake City police identified the victim's vehicle, the matter was referred to the FBI. Their investigation led to the driver who had given her a ride to Orlando as well as to several park employees and eventually flight attendants in Orlando. At first the trail died there, until an agent in Tampa recognized her from her description and reported the lead.

Fugitive Run
From Tampa, Rest first got a ride from one of her roommates up to Gainesville where she spent some time with a professor. Unwilling to stay in one place for too long, she stole a car and made her way to Jacksonville. In Jacksonville, she gave the stolen car to a redheaded female junkie who almost matched her physical description. Providing the woman with an address and a few hundred dollars of cash, she gave her a 'job' to pick up a cocaine shipment for her from Boston. The woman was arrested two days later at a rest area in New Jersey after the stolen car had been identified at several toll booths. It took the FBI another two days to determine that she was not the person they were looking for.

Meanwhile, Alex had cut and dyed her hair black and gotten green contact lenses to disguise her appearance. Hooking up with a sailor in Jacksonville, she arranged a ride to Pensacola where she took a bus to Mobile, AL. After a week spent homeless in Mobile where she developed a healthy hatred for the city, she hitched a ride to New Orleans.

She made extensive underworld connections in Louisiana, enabling her to verify the FBI's continued pursuit. In June 2013, becoming convinced the FBI was closing in on her, she let her hair return to its natural color. She again stole a car in Baton Rouge, gave it to a junkie matching her description in Lafayette, and sent her on her way to Juarez, Mexico, to pick up a shipment of drugs for her. The junkie was arrested trying to cross the border at El Paso, TX.

Following this, she again cut her hair and bleached it blonde this time. She passed the summer without incident, continuing to live on and off the streets of New Orleans until Autumn.

Modus Operandi
While not a serial killer, Alex quickly developed a typical method of killing. Beginning with the journalist in Alexandria, she preferred quick kills by delivering crippling knife blows to the kidney and neck. Including the frat boy in Philadelphia, all of her self-defense killings have used this same method. The only killings that did not follow this mode were her father—who died of blunt force trauma to the head and chest—and the realtor in Georgia who bled to death as the result of several hundred wounds.

Illuminati Career
Shortly after her 23rd birthday, Alexandra was chosen by Gaia while sleeping near the waterfront in Woldenberg Park. The resulting disturbance caused by her uncontrolled powers led her to flee into the Mississippi River by night, somehow managing to make it as far as Chalmette National Park, where she hid by night.

When morning came, she was found by a female Illuminati agent sent to recruit her. The agent offered her work if she could get to Brooklyn by the following day. Still unable to control her powers, she managed through seduction and her knife-fighting experience to subdue the agent. Having impressed her, Rest was able to convince her to teach her to control her power. After an eventful night together, she stole the agent's identity and booked a first-class ticket to JFK. The agent only learned of the identity theft after Rest had already been processed in the Labyrinth.

The Labyrinth
Once under Illuminati 'protection,' Alexandra's FBI files were removed for safe keeping, and all local police records related to her activities were destroyed. She was informed of her father's death and some of the details of how close the FBI actually had come to capturing her for his murder and the murder of the Atlanta realtor. This included a team sent to wait for her to land at JFK only to find themselves stuck in sudden traffic. Rather than condemning her for her prior history and the identity theft she had perpetrated on one of their agents, the Illuminati gave her a 'signing bonus' before sending her on to New England.

Ealdwic
After three months in the field, primarily focusing her development on elemental and blood magic in order to defend herself better against the mobs of undead and cultists in particular, Alex—once-again a redhead—finally made her way to Ealdwic for the first time. She quickly plugged herself in to the local social scene, making contacts across the factions and developing a well-cultivated reputation for being a wild child. Using her homelessness—though not poverty—to her advantage, she made inroads with several individuals across factional lines.

Tampa
As of 1 February, 2014, Rest lives in an apartment in North Hyde Park, Tampa, FL, provided by the Illuminati from her earnings. While still working out of Brooklyn, NY, she spends her free time primarily in Florida or London. In March of 2014, Rest, Rye Saffron, and Natasha Petrova established "Tampa Tuesdays" as a joint beach day. Also in March 2014, Saffron and Rest began discussions in earnest of possibly moving in together.

=• Physical Description •= Alex is a natural redhead with golden tan skin from constantly being outdoors. She is muscular in a wiry way, appearing to be keeping just ahead of malnourishment despite her healthy weight. She walks with a peculiar gait much of the time, always seeming like she's ready to pounce. Her measurements are 30A-23-33.

In addition to ascending onyx ear studs, she has the following piercings: left nostril (silver ring, sometimes diamond stud), tongue (silver ball), left eyebrow (silver spikes), labret (silver spike), and navel (various). She also has the following tattoos: right shoulder (8-point star), left forearm (rose), stomach (Celtic knot centered on navel), right calf (wreath of roses), and a tramp stamp (eyes).

In the field Rest can typically be found wearing her sword, Rosalind, and dressing either in Illuminati uniforms or region-appropriate garb. When in Tampa and not attending clubs, she tends toward shorts and camisoles. Most frequently she appears in London wearing either work clothes or her Tampa clothing, unless she had planned to spend significant time in London. Regardless of the clothing, she is always armed with carefully concealed knives.

Her accent is predominantly a Manhattan accent with hints of having spent time in the American South. Recently she began to assimilate some London sounds and terms as well.

She is left-handed.

=• Personality •= Alex's personality has changed significantly since she left New York. In her parents' home she had been an athlete with bookish tendencies, some social awkwardness, and a fierce temper. Realizing quickly that she would have to adapt to survive, she became more outgoing and seductive and learned to control her temper to a large degree. By the time she made it to Washington, she had mostly completed the transformation into her present persona, suffering only a few awkward moments during her year with the senator.

Social Personality
Rest is fairly wild and forceful of personality, as is often very quickly demonstrated. Her mischievous streak tends to be amplified in a crowd, and she can be aggressively flirtatious to both males and females. Despite her boisterous demeanor, she is a complete tease to the non-consenting.

The temper she had in her early teenage years is mostly gone now, and she gives the impression of being very laid back. While she is slow to anger, she has been known to hold grudges for long periods of time, as demonstrated by her second murder. Further, she has a special hatred for sexual predators and has spent much of her free time since joining the Illuminati in pursuing and eliminating them.

While a high school dropout and a vagrant, Alexandra is quite smart and very well read. She can quote Shakespeare extensively and has read most classics of American, English, and French and Russian literature; the latter two in English. Having spent significant time among Hispanic and Creole populations, she understands Spanish, French, and Creole to some extent although she does not speak any of the languages fluently.

Although she has obtained a great deal of potentially damaging information on individuals throughout the southeast ranging from clergy to politicians, she has demonstrated discretion in maintaining these secrets, choosing never to burn bridges she does not have to. Likewise, she has never stolen from any individual who has given her aid. It is a testament to her loyalty and demeanor that none of her former lovers has ever ratted her out.

Personality Disorders
Shortly after moving in on her own in February 2014, Rest began to manifest signs privately of stress-triggered obsessive-compulsive disorder as well as manic tendencies. It is unclear what the specific triggers are, although the most frequent stressor appears to be loneliness. Publicly, she has not yet manifested any symptoms, but she has privately displayed the symptoms to Rye Saffron. On 18 March 2014, while staying with Saffron, Rest awoke after two hours to clean and organize Saffron's kitchen and refrigerator. When asked, Rest did not appear to realize the extent of her activities.

Fighting Style
For more personal and covert assignments, Rest has always focused on her array of knives, using her seductive personality to get close to victims before eliminating them. For more martial combat, Rest spent the first three months of her Illuminati career primarily focused on elemental and blood magic, but she decided to transition to the use of blades augmented by chaos magic in February 2014. Where she was mostly adequate in the use of elemental and blood magic, she has flourished since switching. Despite her relatively lean stature, she has proven adept at blocking incoming attacks and being able to absorb a great deal of punishment.

=• Relationships •= Alex is bisexual by necessity, finding it useful to parlay her sex drive for shelter and preferring female partners to reduce risk of disease and pregnancy. Since becoming an Illuminati agent, she has continued to be flirtatious with both genders, although less of necessity than she would have them believe.

Pre-Illuminati Career
Rest maintains relationships from her pre-Illuminati career with her mother Evelyn Rest and her Tampa friends, Cristina Ramirez and Xiomara Velasquez. The only other significant relationship she had prior to October 2013 was with Felicia Thompson.

Illuminati Career
Rest has frequently been found at The Horned God and The Crusades clubs in Ealdwic, as well as Club Prana, Coyote Ugly, and other Tampa area nightclubs. Among her social circle are Mariah Saffron, Alexis Anive, Alicia Villicana, Joseph Reiner, Salem Efferus, Elania Vikaernes and Chad Marlon.

Mariah Saffron
In January 2014, Alex met and befriended Mariah (Rye) Saffron, who allowed her to stay in her apartment when she could find no other shelter. The two appear to have developed a strong friendship that has persisted into Rest's Tampa career. This includes frequent hangouts in Tampa and at The Crusades club in London where Rye's apparent boyfriend Salem Efferus works as a bartender. Rest has generally made no secret of her attraction to Saffron, flirting with her frequently in public and on Twitter. While Saffron has not reciprocated, she has received the flirtation with humor.

Alexandra has proven very loyal to Saffron, including rescuing her from vampires and consoling her at the end of her relationship with William Thyrus. She often threatens Saffron's suitors with harm, typically of the stabbing variety. Beyond the sapphic overtures, it is clear Rest regards Saffron as her best friend.

Alexis Anive
Alexis (Lexi) Anive is a frequent sexual partner of Rest. The two met at the end of February 2014 and began a relationship of frequent hookups. Despite the high frequency of their liaisons, the two appear to be friends with benefits rather than true lovers. In mid-March, Alex invited Lexi to live with her on a trial basis.

Alicia Villicana
Not much is known about Rest's relationship with Alicia Villicana other than that they seem to have some level of personal knowledge of one another beyond mere acquaintance. It is theorized that Villicana offered her housing while Rest was homeless. A sexual relationship does not appear likely in this case due to Villicana's apparent disapproval of Alex's lifestyle.

Joseph Reiner
Also in late January 2014, Alexandra made acquaintance with Joseph Reiner while in the company of Joan Haley and Alicia Villicana. In the course of the night, after much teasing, the conservative Reiner was goaded into doing a body shot off of Rest. While Reiner appeared at first resistant to Alex due to his conservative nature and Rest's apparent desire to make him squirm publicly, they eventually bonded over mutual appreciation of literature. At some point in early February 2014, their relationship became sexual.

Since their sexual encounter, Alex has exhibited both hostility and amorous affection towards Reiner, often within moments of each other. It has become publicly known that this is related to his disinterest in continuing a non-exclusive sexual relationship with her, whereas she has no interest in an exclusive arrangement beyond 'friends with benefits.' Both seem to be more accepting of the hot and cold nature of their relationship than their friends.

Despite Rest's frequent hostility to him, she also appears to care deeply for him.

Elania Vikaernes
Elania Vikaernes is the head of the recently re-formed Hawthorn Consortium. While Alex has exhibited her usual flirtation with Vikaernes, the Norwegian woman has thus far resisted. On one of their first encounters, this resistance included throwing a martini in Rest's face. Their relationship has since apparently settled into a normal pattern of flirtation and more playful resistance, similar to Rest's relationship with Saffron.

Salem Efferus
Salem Efferus is Mariah Saffron's apparent boyfriend as of mid-February 2014. Rest is often catty and hostile to him, frequently threatening to stab him—particularly 'on Friday.' It is strongly suspected this is related to a combination of Alex's feelings for Saffron as well as her concerns of a repeat of her relationship with William Thyrus.

Chad Marlon
Chad Marlon, a known Templar agent and new employee of the Hawthorn Consortium was another of Rest's sexual relations. Having recently arrived in London from Indiana, he was easily seduced by the aggressive redhead. After a week of multiple relations with her, he moved on to an apparently more stable relationship with Suzi Tanada. His relationship with Rest since seems to be more of limiting Tanada's exposure to the redhead.