AINSWORTH, Xander

[attr="class","hdtitle"]PERSONALITY

[attr="class","hdinfo"]Ahh.. Xander is a rather intriguing character, to say the least. He believes himself to run on pure logic. He keeps a very cold, detached, and sarcastic front when talking to others. This shines when doing problems that involve math and science, because he's great at equations. However, not too many are fond of Xander's games and enjoyment of playing with the minds of others by making sly, demeaning comments towards them.

In some ways, he's quite egotistical. He presents himself as being better than those around him, and when in the face of a one-on-one confrontation, he'll often offer verbal banter in return just to not look like a coward. This often can lead to dangerous results, as he's likely to lash out when scared or upset.


While not fully understanding the emotions of others, he does find them fascinating- which is why he studies them to such a degree, and often attempt to bring them out of others. Namely anger, though he may occasionally try sadness, or joy. He doesn't understand love, so he doesn't bother.


Under such a cold front, though, there's an obvious sense of emotional fragility. Due to spending so much time in therapy and isolation, he's rather naive when it comes to certain parts of the world, especially those of sexual nature. He can be surprisingly innocent in his thinking. However, he has a hyper-sensitivity to people's expressions, often do to severe mistrust of others, and is very much able to pinpoint a liar by observing.


Social situations especially are very hard on Xander, as he prefers solitude and the company of animals these days. He finds them easier to understand these days, and highly social situations are likely to upset him if he has to stay. Often, you'll find him retreating to a corner of the facility in such times. For your own safety, I would not approach him during these times in an overly direct manner.


If there's any winning point to Xander, it's that once he's gained a sense of adoration towards you, he will do anything in his power to keep you safe. Nothing will stop him from ensuring that. But that's if you can put up with, or stop, his dickish ways of handling others.


A final thing to note is that Xander himself still talks to his Therapist, and will talk to her when at his lowest points over the phone.

[attr="class","hdtitle"]HISTORY/MISC.

[attr="class","hdinfo"]Xander's current family is a loving one, and has raised him well since his adoption at around seven years of age. However, even at that age you could tell something had just gone wrong with his past family. He never spoke of it, and the officials who'd originally dropped him off at the orphanage didn't say much, to avoid biased treatment. All people really knew was it'd involved a court case, one that had to do with very horrid acts you'd never discuss casually at the dinner table.


Despite the child's obvious mental scars, his new family tried their best to include him in everything. They spoiled him royaly at first- after all, both worked very well paying jobs. They could spare the money- and his brothers, though a bit wary of him, spoke to him often. Xander rarely carried on a conversation too long around this age, very much in his own thoughts. In fact, this is something he has indeed carried on into his later years.


However, the peculiar silence quickly led to downright disturbing behaviors. Say, for instance, he tried to drown the family dog because it barked too much. Or he locked the youngest sibling in a closet for hours on end, because he painted on the wall. He'd become more aggressive towards them for no reason, with the wild idea they were plotting something behind his back. It grew to the point Xander was not allowed outside of his room without supervision.


He was taken to many shrinks due to this as he grew up, but no one was truly able to get him to discuss the problems at hand in too much detail save for "I felt it was the right thing to do at the time."


Nevertheless, they finally settled on a Psychologist who had an idea on how to help Xander that didn't involve locking him away in a ward, and that was emotional training. They focused on his bond making, tried to strengthen his empathy for others, and overall educated him on the 'right' and 'wrong' things to do. The process was at the very least tiring for him, and made him very emotionally raw at the end of the day (which was hell for his family, and made his outbursts worse).


The therapy turned out to be a success, for the most part. He learned to acknowledge emotional ties to things to a degree where he wouldn't try to harm just anyone who did wrong, and he learned to at the very least go to his hiding place when said emotions grew out of control. However, he still had his.. problems.


The bulk of said problems accumulated to middle school. The amount of children present, with the volume levels, already left him a bit anxious. It only accumulated as the student body was not entirely kind one- as any rational person would expect- and there were a few who would bully the others. Xander was one of these people, and he didn't quite know how to handle it.


He gained a rather sarcastic and cruel front, stealing things for his benefit, scaring people off with his words when he could. He even challenged the teacher at points, and would get violent if approached too closely. While reprimanded, he never truly did enough to be suspended for longer than a week or two.


This, however, accumulated into one of his worst crimes- physical assault and attempted murder of one of the bullies in question. He decided, in his own bizarre way of thinking, that killing off this individual would be better for the school, and himself. He tried to stab the boy multiple times with one of the plastic knives, and when that failed he resorted to strangling him.


Xander was immediately pulled from the school, put under expulsion, and questioned by police, psychiatrists, and most importantly, his family. From the looks and sounds of it, it seemed whatever happened was clearly due to mental instability- and that was the one thing that changed his sentence from Juvenile Detention to the Psych Ward. His parents were unwilling at first, as they feared it would make things worse, but with encouragement from their main Therapist they allowed him to be taken.


He spent about two years in the ward- up until the age of 14- and went through more intense therapy during it. On some levels it helped him, and the sheer solitude of living in the ward calmed Xander quite a bit. He left, at the very least, seeing murder as something to only use as a last resort, when he or someone else was being attacked, and.. that's all that mattered for the time being.


Even with this confirmation though, his family simply didn't feel right allowing him back in the public school system. He was home schooled for the remainder of his years up until this one, in which they decided it'd been long enough, and they could at least attempt to guide him back into public eye.


And thus, they found this school. One could only hope things went well, and he was monitored- Just in case things went back to before.