Lexie Greene

## Biography

### Early Life

She was born Elizabeth Lexie Greene. Her mother picked her first name. Lexie had a rough childhood. Her parents fought often, causing her mother to leave when Lexie was still young. After she left, Lexie's father refused to use the name Elizabeth, informing her he'd only call her Lexie. He was an alcoholic who constantly belittled Lexie, particularly in regards to her school performance. Lexie has undiagnosed dyslexia. She made it through school by pretending she understood more than she did, and by cheating on tests.

Lexie's father moved them to Portland her senior year of high school, where she met Midas. He later remembered how when she was in high school, she'd make sure to "befriend the socially awkward kids," relinquish her "own lunch money to buy someone else a sandwich," and volunteer "to be in a group with the kids no one else wanted to work with."

In one class, their teacher, Mrs. Allen, paired Midas and Lexie together. Lexie later remembers that Midas wasn't thrilled about it, but still treated her with respect and completed the assignment.  Midas remembers that Lexie saw through his popular jock persona and could tell what he was truly thinking, instead of what he projected to the world. In the end, they earned a B on the assignment, and their time together was one of the few positive experiences Lexie had that year.

### Career

As soon as Lexie graduated from high school, she joined Food For All to get away from her father.

### *Finding Lexie* (2021)

At age 33, Lexie was working at a Food For All office in Somalia when she and a colleague were kidnapped. The assailants drove them into the desert and held them hostage. They would put Lexie on camera and make videos asking for ransom to be paid. They did not otherwise physically harm their hostages, except by denying Dagmar medical treatment after a supposed stroke. Midas's team was called in to extract them.

## Characteristics

* Lexie truly wants to help others. She claims that as someone who grew up invisible, she "see[s] the invisible... they call to me, and I can't help but be nice to them." Midas calls her "a shining light of goodness in an otherwise dark and difficult life."
* Lexie has undiagnosed dyslexia. She had a rough time in school, trying to eke by without attracting attention. Her father didn't help her get tested, and treated her as though she were less intelligent because of her condition.
* Prefers to be positive, optimistic, and not complaining
* Level-headed
* Passionate
* Speaks her mind
* Prefers light and sweet coffee

## Relationships

### Family

* (Lexie's father)
	+ Lexie had a strained relationship with her father. When she was growing up, he'd belittle her, particularly in regards to her intelligence. (She had undiagnosed dyslexia, but her father did not help her get treatment, and her grades suffered.)
	+ Lexie's father was an alcoholic. He died a few years before *Finding Lexie*, of cirrhosis of the liver.
* (Lexie's mother)
	+ Lexie's mother abandoned them when Lexie was still young. She doesn't remember her mother much at all, except for how her parents would yell at each other.

## Appearance(s)

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 *Finding Lexie* (2021), chapter 5
2. ↑ *Finding Lexie* (2021), chapter 1
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 *Finding Lexie* (2021), chapter 6