Post by Alex on May 13, 2011 11:39:23 GMT -5
STEPHANIE MARCH AS ALEX CABOT
SVU/Charmed - Bi - Witch/Whitelighter
Legal Name Alexandra Maxine Cabot
Other Names Ms. Cabot, Counselor
Age 35
Alliance
The Manhattan D.A's Office
The 16th Prescient
Charges
The Elders
Good Magic
Good Witches
Innocents
Powers and Limitations
Sensing-Triggered by concentrating this power allows Alex to sense anything and anyone the only places this power does not work is in the underworld
Telepathy-Reading the thoughts of others and if the others happen to be magical tap into their powers. Alex tries not to use this power especially when legal matters are involved but in extreme frustrations she might not have a choice
Healing Touch-Also granted to whitelighters and triggered by the emotion love, Alex can use it although it's not easy for her yet she has to tap into someone else who has this power at this point but it will get to a point where she can do it on her own. There are a few rules though she can't heal herself, she can't heal self inflicted wounds and she cannot heal those that are evil, dead, forbidden or animals.
Remote/Teleorbing-There are about three parts to this power. Originally just orbing, Alex can use this to teleport from place to place and take others with them. Remote orbing was the next advance in her powers and she could use it to just orb people and objects wherever she wanted them without having to be in possession or in contact with them. Teleorbing is the power granted to her that allows her to move things and people by voice.
Basic Witch Powers-Scrying spell casting and potion making are powers granted to basic witches and Alex has them
History
Niece of Judge Bill Hermann, Alexandra comes from a very legally oriented family. No one knows too much about her past and being surrounded by people with the passion for the law, she gained the passion too and has worked vigorously to eventually get to where she is today. She as assigned to the Special Victims Unit in 2000. She has worked there for three years building relationships with her colleagues and being relentless in her crusade against perps. Her conviction rate although unknown happens to be very high and during her time spent there, she has earned the respect of many.
In 2003, she has gone to the Witness protection program because her life was threatened. This is the part where it gets fuzzy. Most of her colleagues know that she has been there and has gotten out but, the real story is that she has died in witness protection. By the time she came back as a witch/whitelighter she had to make up a story and she said to them that she was no longer in danger so that’s why she got out. During this time, Alex has found her heritage as a witch which infuriated her because it was kept secret from her for so long but she’s since moved on and forgiven the people that had been responsible mostly her family . She has decided to go and be a Bauru chief but after about a year of dong that along with having a fling, she has come back to SVU in 2009. After being touched by the testimony of a rape victim, she went to war inflicted countries after she has gained a leave of absence to prosecute there. She has now come back in 2011 as a prosecutor or at least one of them, this time hopefully the legal part of her job will be a bit easier because she won’t be doing this alone but hopefully she can fend off the magical fiends as well and find some happiness in the process.
Personality
Alex has her good side and her bad side. On the one hand she’s a compassionate soul who would do anything for justice. Although the anything part might require her pushing the envelope a little bit too far. Persuasive but willing to look at reason unless she’s ticked beyond reasoning, she’s a very good prosecutor. But of course there are times where she can be very vindictive in the name of justice and other reasons it’s at this point where she’s at her most dangerous when she is so driven to her goal she won’t see reason. She is a very good listener otherwise though and she listens to some more than others but she’s a good person. Very protective of innocent people and her colleagues, she tries to not take things out on people around her she insists on taking the pain out on herself.
Strengths
Persuasion-They say it's one of the strongeest weapons and in this case yes it is. Alex can use her power of persuasion espeically in the legal sense and she does excersize caution and discretion this just helps things get done, it's not like she's breaking the law it's like she's pushing the envelope a little bit.
Knowledge-Knowledge is power in both legal and magical sense and Alex is a quick learner, she can use what she learns to do anything she wants mostly she uses it for justice.
Good Listener-Alex can listen and give advice it seems to be something that just comes naturally to her that mother instincts even though she might never have a child of her own she has god daughters and sons and all
Powers-Alex has quite a bit of it seeing as how she's a hybrid and with powers come responsibility and she seems to be just that for the most part but it is something that she views as her strengths
Weaknesses
Innocents-Seems to be her weakness, getting people that are innocent hurt. Of course her definition of innocents differ slightly from time to time but she is a kind of person that tries to protect everyone if she can
Overboard-She can go overboard sometimes in the name of justice it just takes the right people to get her back on track
Fears-Her fears tend to hinder her but who's fears doesn't
Likes
Winning Cases-What prosecutor dosn't like getting a conviction, she sure does and she sometimes goes a little too far to get it.
Powers-Although she does not agree on how long it's been kept from her that she has powers, Alex still likes being able to use it because it's more weapon to her to deal with the supernatural and sometimes natural evil in her life.
Justice-It's why she started her career in the first place, she wanted to speak for the victims
Colleagues and Charges-Probably the only people Alex lets inside her inner circle in life and even than no one knows all there is to know about her. She likes having them around but she also wants to protect them.
Dislikes
Lena Petrovsky-The woman and Alex have had a lot of issues in the past and still does these days Alex accepts her as a person of authority but it does not mean she has to like it.
Spiders-She's afraid of em
Open Water-She's afraid of that too
Lawyers-Alex has never liked them, especially the ones she's come across
Disorder-She believes it's not necessary all the violence and etc etc
Habits
Shaking Legs-Alex seems to not be able to sit still and just does this out of habit.
Leaning on certain people-As a prosecutor, Alex has been known to lean on certain judges to do what she wants done by asking for favors, this went on so far as to catch the eye of one of her judges she had worked with and it didn't go over very well.
Relentless-When she wants to go after something/someone there's about a 1% chance of stopping her. It didn't get any better when she died and came back she's been relentless as a prosecutor and she's relentless as a witch/whitelighter
Self Inflicted Pain-This is fairly simple, using her powers or using a knife she hurts herself this is very bad because she does this not to hurt others but this ends up making her pass out and stuff the worst part of it is the wounds normally stay with her for awhile. While she has not had this habit when she was alive she has developed it in death.
Fears
Spiders-Alex has always been afraid of them even at a young age and she tends to freeze when she's near one.
Losing Self Control-Alex always have had the habit of jumping to her guns and losing her temper easily she fears its going to go further to where she loses self control one day and does something drastic.
Open Water-Alex has never had the time or the patience to learn swimming and while in witness protection she has been nearly drowned to death on the beach. Her life had been saved at the last minute but she's never gotten over it since.
Author's Note
This bio is all in my own words but. The concept of magic and whitelighters all come from the show Charmed the credit goes to them. The original character in itself goes to the fantastic writers of SVU. Obviously this profile will be on-going and things will be updated so keep a look out for that. The next post will include Alex's relationships. As always, thanks for reading.