Lex

**Lex** or otherwise referred to as "Detective Strawberry" by the RUC is a detective who used to work for the [Police Force], before issues regarding the RUC drove him to resign and carry out justice on his own.

### [Police Force]

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One day, Popeye caught Lex's daughter out playing at the local playground while Lex was in the middle of a meeting. One stray ball thrown at Popeye's head was enough to cause him and the RUC grunts with him to spring on Lex's daughter and mercilessly beat her to death. Hearing screaming outside, Lex immediately charged for Popeye, only to be stopped by the other officers, giving Popeye time to escape.

Since that day, Lex has begun investigating the RUC more and more, learning about their many crimes, and vowed to bring them to justice. However, he met a hurdle when the Police Force has been actively obstructing him, forbidding any attempts to arrest the RUC. Frustration mounted as it's become increasingly clear that the Police Force has been enabling the RUC, even helping them on occasions by providing officers as bodyguards for their members during certain events.

The only two who would help Lex were officers Booger and Glenn, but they faced an uphill battle, with the Police Force becoming increasingly hostile towards their investigation attempts. Lex would eventually resign from the Police Force to conduct his investigations independently, though with Booger and Glenn lending a helping hand every now and then. He became more demoralized when he realizes that with the Police Force backing the RUC, there is no way he could possibly have them arrested, and he's not physically able to take vigilante justice onto them. Nevertheless, he continued his investigations, but not for evidence to arrest them, but to figure out the RUC's blindspots and plot their demise.

### RUC's Narrative

Strangely enough, the RUC doesn't view Lex as an 'enemy,' but they give him a completely different name in their own story and pin the death of his daughter on demons. Lex was not amused to find out about all the made-up stuff about him. Popeye doesn't even seem to remember their first encounter correctly, completely buying into the RUC's own narrative (of course, why wouldn't he.)

### Peninsula War

Following the RUC's movements and hearing of their incursions into The Peninsula, Lex followed them there to continue investigating them. Seeing blatant atrocities being committed by the RUC further strengthened his resolve to bring them to justice. He would lay low, and begin documenting every atrocity he witnessed.

Lex would encounter the Resistance forces after they had coalesced into the United Front, somewhere in the [PeninsulaCapital]. Though he was reported to have been fairly distant, conducting his activities independent of the resistance forces, he nevertheless left them on good terms.

This first encounter wouldn't be the last however, as they would also meet each other in [detailsdtails].

During a mission to one "RUSchool" in [Townname], he would encounter the Resistance forces yet again, more specifically The Survivors. They decided to work together to infiltrate the school and learn what they can... though they had trouble keeping a low profile, when they killed an RUC Soldier (there are no teachers in this school, it's literally just all soldiers) to stop him from beating one of the students. Both Lex and The Survivors then had to work together to rescue the same students' friends, keep them safe from the wrath of the "teachers," and [detailsdetails]. This culminated in them running through a hallway towards one of the school's exits, with Lex exhibiting surprising martial ability, as he fended off multiple RUC soldiers along the way. The Survivors, as usual, tore through several more soldiers, even ending up killing Peter along the way. (Though some sources say that Peter got himself killed by pointing his gun backwards.)

After getting the information they needed, they parted ways again, but Lex looked forward to the next time they would meet.

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A note from Lex was delivered to the current Resistance headquarters, asking for them to send a unit to meet him in... \*cough\* "RUTopia" (or better yet, its real name [TOWNNAME]. Apparently he's gotten word that Popeye was headed to the RUMines to oversee operations there and collect the jewels that were mined over the past month. He figured that they can hatch a plan to corner and assassinate Popeye while he's in the mines, but Popeye ended up leaving earlier than he anticipated... and he witnessed a sight that brought back bad memories: a little girl bumped into Popeye by accident. Popeye then moved to attack her, shouting in typical RUC fashion "DEMON DEMON DEMON DEMON CHILD!!!" (paraphrase). Not willing to let this stand, Lex charged towards Popeye and fought off his bodyguards. However, Popeye catches him by surprise, and, still believing in the RUC's version of the story, tries to "speak sense" into Lex by beating him with the Whack-n-jack... you know, his "weapon of peace."

Thankfully, The Survivors arrived, which caused Popeye to run. Lex was heavily injured and bleeding from his wounds, but he was still able to speak. The Survivors called for other Resistance fighters to arrive on the scene and take Lex back to the headquarters to attend to his injuries. The Survivors would have to head to the RUMIne without Lex and whatever plan he could have potentially brainstormed. More information on this operation on the RUMine page.

### Post-War

Thanks to The Survivors arriving in time and getting him medical attention, Lex was able to recover most of his faculties, though he needed to have his head and one of his eyes bandaged up. He would join the others in Justice Tower and stay there for a while. During the period of restoring the Tower's functions, a newcomer to the tower, a young man named Gabe approached him, fascinated by the Detective. He asked him to take him in as his apprentice and teach him how to become a detective. Lex was fairly grumpy and refused multiple times, but eventually relented. Once he was done with his stay, Lex would bid farewell to the residents of Justice Tower, returning to The Republic mainland along with Gabe, his new Junior Detective.

What happens next? That'll have to wait for another time.