Lexx's Biography
Lexx's Biography
Having lost their previous two children (Zaile and Kane) to station officials, Shira Lexx's mother, Shira Lessa came to Litta, where he was born and became a Soul Brother to Riley. He inherited 'pure' Rishan first generation genes from his father, Shira Taumas. When he was age two, his father became second in command on the space station Risha 1 and they moved there, where his parents also planned to have another daughter (and eventually would. He had a pet Sallomandyr while living there. They never told him about his older siblings.
While still young, his father died. He may have gone back to Litta for a while with his mother after his father's death before they returned to Risha 1.
He was at age 8 or 9 when his mother died.[1] The guardians his parents left for him blew his inheritance on themselves and left him to fend for himself. He got picked up by station authorities as a 'station rat' while scrounging for food,[2] and was sent to the Alien Dice Academy so he wouldn't be their problem. [3]
He had been mischievous when he first came to the Academy. The girls had always been big on keeping diaries and so had some of the guys. He'd been notorious for figuring out ways to swipe these books when they were misplaced and pulling numerous pranks with them, using what had been written. Lexx had at times, been a pest to the other students and especially the faculty. This was back when he was young and not so weighted down by the reality of his life. [4] (When he later playfully teased Chel that he would read her diary, and she reacted badly to it, he decided to give her Kipiro. [5])
- Lexx and his sister Kaimar's ages are completely messed up. Normally, a Rishan can live up to 140 years, but the ADC gave them all kinds of hormone treatment to force them to age, thus... he's actually 18. His youngest sister is really only 8 and has been in stasis for a very long time, you see... she was born months after Lexx's father died and since Lessa was unable to care for two children, she was adopted to another family... and supposed to be returned when she turned five. That didn't happen because of Lessa's death and then Lexx was on his own for a short time, but once he ended up in the ADC as a 'pure' strain, the ADC 'aquired' his sister and put her in 'storage'. Lexx of course doesn't remember her because he was very young.
He was fifth of the top ten most talented students at the Academy, [6] although his attitude was slightly different than most of the students - mostly because he came at an old enough age to have memories of a normal happy family before coming there. He had only a few friends, namely Coli, Acadiu, Traice, and Toine. Toine was his Sairah roommate, and died of a bad reaction to drugs administered to him to make him thinner. Watching him die by vomiting until his throat ruptured gave Lexx a lifelong intolerance to the sound of, and especially the sight of, someone throwing up. [7]
There were only 5 from the Academy that he considered friends: Acadiu, Traice, Maline, Canna, and Laen. [8]
When he was of age (18 by the ADC calendar, 21 by Earth's), being one of the more promising students, he got bonded to a 20 sided Master Dice, starting with an initial bad roll of 2 (which may account for his habit of saying 'deuce' in place of a swear word). [9] He was also injected with nanites in case he became suicidal, due to their having lost several players that way. [10]
When the full impact of what he was into hit him, he did become suicidal,[11] trying seven times to end his life, and gaining scars when they failed.[12] Lexx was at a point that there was no physical way out that he wanted to accept because it's almost impossible to win against, but if you kill yourself, well, you WIN ultimately, at least from his perspective. They invested all that money in him, he dies... of course, that backfired with their safeties. The suicidal phase was over for him before he actually started the game. Once he selected his Dice... he became committed to at least trying and at a point he is very attached to some of the dice and feels responsible for them. He did keep a bad habit of cutting himself when severely depressed though.
When it came time to select his first basic Dice, he decided to follow his heart instead of selecting the biggest and strongest. In this manner he selected two runt Sallomandyrs slated for pit bait which he named Zeta and Epsy, as well as a small kitten which became Stealth. His friends feared he was sabotaging himself, but his Dice ended up very loyal to him as a result.
Once put into play, he became reaquainted with Riley again, whom he hadn't seen since leaving Litta. Riley became determined to help Lexx. He also had the misfortune of meeting Trasik, who has decided to obtain Lexx by any means possible, leading to the worst battles he's had to face. He's also had some very bad experiences with Premium Visitations, especially with one who knew how to shut off his nanites while he was demonstrating he couldn't get drunk with them.
He became friends with Damian after saving Damian's life from an encounter pursuing women that went wrong. Although much too touchy/feely for his liking, he has been a true friend to him.
He had made a mistake when he first met Claudia. He had helped her, and wound up with a persistant and overly-amorous friend who didn't understand why he didn't want her to 'thank' him. He does find her attractive, but her aggressive approach makes him very uncomfortable. [13]
He surprised everyone by having already won two of the three sets required to win his freedom, a freedom the ADC doesn't want to give him, but due to how popular a player he is, they can't hide him.
The ADC had offered him an arena contract four times so far since the middle of his last set, where he would still belong to the corporation and be forced to battle on their schedules and places for the rest of his life, but he would gain the benefits of a cut of the winnings and would never be captured. They were acknowledging that he might actually beat the game and wanted to cut him off before he was fully free. [14]
He decided to play his third set on Earth, where he became acquainted with Chelsea Reid in the pursuit of Stealth, and developed a friendship that began to develop romantically.
Due to fears that Lexx's developing relationship with Chel might hurt their profits [15], the ADC decided to modify his contract slightly. He was given the option to be removed from active game play, where he could no longer be captured or challenged and would be retired in good standing with the ADC and Network, [16] in return for DNA extraction on a regular basis for a period of 10 years for the purpose of creating progeny they would own (as well as all naturally born children in that time becoming property of the ADC), with a full release from the ADC, with disclosures, after that time. [17] He refused, and they suggested he not have any future relationship with Chel, which he also refused. [18] Because he refused, they declared that his ship was being upgraded immediately to include full audio transmissions at all times... though their offer remains open. [19] He received a second audio earring to go with his tracking ring. [20]
