Alpert, Richard.

[Richard Alpert]

THE ESSENTIALS
Name: Richard Alpert
Age: Unknown (appears late thirties, early forties)
PB: Nestor Carbonell

Affiliation: Other

IN-DEPTH

STRENGTHS

WEAKNESSES

APPEARANCE

Richard stands about five foot eleven and weighs roughly around 175 pounds. Richard has had many different appearances over the years from long brown hair to nicely cut brown hair. Nowadays he has nicely cut brown hair that blends well with his dark oval shapped brown eyes. His skin is rather pale and in contrast to his dark hair he can often look ill. However, once in the sun he can soak up a tan worth owning. Richard tends to wear jeans and shirt, but sometimes he will wear brown clothes that blend in with the nature of the island.

PERSONALITY

It doesn't take an genius to understand where Richard's loyalties lie, and it's not even with sides per say, to be more exact, his friends and family are whom he is diligently and unwaveringly faithful to. If one was to ask Richard to take the fall for them, he may just very well do so, if only for the fact of how friendly he is and his general nature... but if you were to easily be recognized as a friend, Richard wouldn't even question any form of motive behind why he was helping, and in that... he is rather susceptible to whom he befriends, but as such he only seems to completely attach himself in his own private means so as to not broadcast his vulnerabilities.

Despite what Richard may do to ensure himself to remain a sturdy person to rely on, he never seems to escape the toll of stress that such thing can take on him and usually lets them bottle up until a bursting point, though he also lets off the so called 'steam' through other means as to maintain his courteous and sincerely friendly mannerisms so that he can personally know he isn't just creating countless reasons to be bitter.

Some can be booky and wise and just pee themselves from a goat looking at them wrong.. Our young man has hardly ever been deterred, even while other children younger than him at times would try and take advantage of him, or even attempt to humiliate him, Richard has never backed down to show himself a better person, and even in the face of other dangers it is usually part of a difficulty to shake him.
However, there is some downside to his ability to cope which comes at the price of his wavering stability with every emotion he bottles from exerting which ,for being an emotional being, is quite a bad thing. It's no secret that when Severin Snape gets angry things don't just get tense and provoking, shit just will hit the fan leaving the poor soul whom caused such an outburst to face rather uncharacteristic and reckless behavior.

Whether you judge the man before you meet him, or you have known him all your life... Richard is a man of many positive traits, flawed by not only himself but also his biggest fault lays within others his trust resides within, leaving the man balancing on a tight rope for his own emotional balance, as he obviously can hardly manage to not rely on friends, and in turn he will stop at nothing to protect those friends.

BACKSTORY

Richard Alpert was born in London, England to Lillian and Nicholas Alpert. He was born in 1821. Richard's mother was British and his father was American. His mother died in childbirth and he was raised by his father. Richard went to private school and ended up going to Oxford Universty to attend Medical School. After he graduated Medical School, he got a job on a ship called, "The Black Rock". He was assigned to the ship on it's final voyage, but Richard didn't know that. After a few months at sea, the ship

Years passed yet again and he found himself thirty-eight years old and hungry, he ate a mysterious substance and dead or did he? Actually the mysterious substance he ate made him somewhat immortal according to the god he referred to now as Jacob and his friend. In the 1950's Richard was seen in Tustin, CA and again five years later trying to recruit a young John Locke to the island.

In the 1970's a group of new people came to the island. The others natives and he of the island waged war against a new threat on the island, the DI. The war went on for a decade when he found himself with a young Ben Linus. Several years later, Richard would be the brains behind the final attack on the DI with the help of Ben.

Once the Purge had been finished it was time for the island to be at piece or was it? The island never went to peace it decided that the Others couldn’t reproduce and it was with that decision that Ben made Richard go to the States and recruit people to come to the island and help with scientific experiments. Among the people Richard recruited was a Juliet Burke. He was also the only one at the time that wasn't on the island when Oceanic Flight 815 crashed.

WRITING SAMPLE

Richard got up from his front steps and decided to head into his house. He could talk to Ben on the walkie in his house. It was their version of the mobile phones, that were very popular in the outside world. Richard carried the walkie with him as he awaited Benjamin’s response. Richard opened the door of his little yellow house and entered the house. Richard kicked off his shoes once he entered his house and shut the front door of his house. He yawned as he turned on all of his living room lights. He decided that he would have a midnight snack, since Ben hadn’t called to him yet. Richard proceeded into his kitchen as he placed down his walkie on the counter and rattling through his cabinets looking for food.

Richard slammed his cabinets one by one as he shuffled looking for something he wanted. He wanted an Apollo Candy Bar. He had a little obsession with those and always seemed to eat them before bed. Sure it wasn’t healthy, but Richard always liked junk food ever since he found out that he couldn’t age. He loved not being to age, sure it freak some of the people out, but he could actually careless about what people thought about him. He slammed a cabinet door and decided to widen his search into the fridge. Once he opened the fridge, he found just what he was looking for. He smiled and grabbed the bar from the fridge. He opened the bar and slammed the fridge door shut.

The thirty-eight year old or so he thought he was slowly opened the wrapper of the Apollo Bar and placed it towards his noise. In which he sniffed it. He quickly took a bit out of the bar, indulging it. The candy bar was hard, but he didn’t mind as he started to chew like a cow to get it soft. Richard leaned against his counter as he heard a raspy voice on his walkie-talkie. It was Ben’s raspy voice. Richard swallowed the candy bar that he was chewing on in his month when Ben asked him about his little trip. Richard sighed as he grabbed the walkie and started to speak into it. “Yes my trip went well” Richard remarked with a slight pause, “And yes, I did hear something rather interesting, Oceanic Flight 815 vanished out of thin air…” he trailed off “They are on the island aren’t they and what has Jacob said?” Richard asked. Richard was curious to know what Jacob had said, if Ben had even went and saw Jacob.

OOC
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Your age: 20
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