Alex Danvers

## Background

### 1986 - 2009: Alex Danvers

Born in 1986, Alex is the daughter of scientists, Jeremiah & Eliza Danvers of National City. Because of her parents' occupations, Alex got to go on many trips & visited many places like Japan, Greece & Egypt.

Since a young age, Alex displayed a natural gift in her education & easily surpassed her teachers' expectations. However, her parents wanted her to stay with her classmates so they didn't allow her to skip grades. It worked out as Alex became best friends with another National City resident, Vicki Donahue. The two of them did everything together from homework, sports & regular teen activities.

The two would go on to attend Davis High School, during which her relationship with her father became strained due to the many hours he worked. It also didn't help when her parents adopted a young girl named Tara into their family. Alex was initially distant & annoyed with her new sister as she felt embarrassed when she followed her around at school an& acted weird in front of her friends. In time, Alex warmed up to Thara & became a protective big sister.

To help cope with her father's work schedule, Alex completely put her focus into her studies & social life, becoming a popular girl alongside Vicki. The two of them were known as the popular girls of their class. It would come to a halt as Alex discovered she had romantic feelings for her. She began starting meaningless fights with her. The dissolve of her friendship with Vicki ended up strengthening hers & Thara's.

Alex would hit the books again after that, securing herself a scholarship to National City University. While there, she decided to pursue an MD/PhD. Despite her intelligence & high academic scores, Alex began partying a lot & drinking heavy to cope with her insecurities & troubles. It would get to the point that it affected her academics & she was put on probation.

In 2009, Alex was driving home after a night at the club. Due to the amount of alcohol in her system, she was pulled over & arrested for a DUI. A couple hours after being booked, Alex was met with by a man going by the name Rockwell. He told her that if she could get her act together, he would like to offer her a position at ARGUS.

### 2009 - 2013: Alex Danvers

Upon completing her training, Alex was put to work in the field. Still struggling with her sexuality, Alex devoted nearly all of her time towards her work. Though her personal life suffered, she excelled at work. She soon proved herself as one of the best agents, quickly becoming Steve's go to person.

Things in National City took a sudden change when Supergirl soon became a regular occurence. The two would meet after she saved Alex & other ARGUS' agents during an attempted hijacking of their train. The two began a rapport that grew so strong that Supergirl eventually disclosed her civilian identity of Kara Kent to her. This revelation brought the two to having a genuine friendship, with & without the capes on, & allowed Alex to be a regular ally of the Super Squad.

Not long after, Alex was later sent across the country to work out of the office in Metropolis. During this time, Alex eventually met GCPD Detective Maggie Sawyer. When Alex invited Maggie out for drinks after a day of work, Maggie told her she was surprised that she was into girls. Though she attempted to deny it, Alex went along with the date anyways. The rest of the night, Alex couldn't stop thinking about it & the fact that it may be the truth. After coming out to her family & friends, she began to spend more time with Maggie as they explored their new relationship.

The two worked together well in the streets & the sheets. Things went so well between them that Maggie proposed after a little over a year together. Their relationship continued to grow stronger, with their wedding getting closer. Things came to a halt when Alex began constantly disappearing without saying a word. It got so bad that Maggie tailed Alex one night & would see her embracing her old friend Samantha Arias, believing them to be having an affair. She confronted Alex about it the next day, which she adamantly refused but she also would not reveal the nature of her visit. The two argued for the coming weeks before Maggie ended the relationship, feeling that she couldn’t trust Alex. Maggie was devastated as Alex knew this was the cause of her previous relationship's demise.

In truth, Alex had been sneaking out as Lutessa had contacted her about Sam's recurring blackouts. Alex ran multiple MRIs on her & eventually induced a coma, which revealed that Sam had an alter Kryptonian personality named Reign. The two realized that it was Sam, as Reign, that had been causing all the recent chaos in Metropolis. Feeling this was a bit out of their league but also not wanting to contact ARGUS, Alex reached out to her pal Supergirl. The three of them were able to split Sam & Reign as two different entities then Sam was able to defeat Reign with Black Kryptonite.

With Reign gone from Metropolis, Alex eventually returned to National City as her stationing had only been extended due to Reign's appearance.

## Romantic Relationships

* Maggie Sawyer: Girlfriend (2011 - 2013); Fiancée (2013)
* Sara Lance: One Night Stand (2013)
* Kelly Olsen: Girlfriend (2018 - )

## Personality

Alex is a courageous & independent person, who faces danger head on. She is caring, confident, headstrong & with the same passion for bio-engineering like her parents. She had dedicated her life to protecting her sister Tara & rarely found time for herself since being a teenager. Despite her good traits, Alex can be impulsive & prone to make difficult decisions that cross the line between right and wrong. However, she has a great sense of justice.

After much soul searching & exploration, Alex found the courage to come out as a lesbian to herself then to her family & friends. When dating someone, she becomes more flustered, awkward & almost goofy in the early stages. Above all, Alex is a strong woman, she fights for what she believes in & has a difficult time giving up.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Above Average Human Condition:** As a top agent of ARGUS, Alex is in top physical condition, with heightened reflexes, strength & durability. She regularly engages in intense exercises to maintain her conditioning. She is strong enough to break someone's nose with a single punch.
	+ ***Acrobatics*:** Alex is very agile & nimble, able to fall from multiple feet without injuring herself.
	+ ***Hand to Hand Combat*:** As an agent of the ARGUS, Alex is a highly skilled combatant. As required by the organization, she went through months of training before being let out into the field, which included spending 12 hours a day for five months in the training room. Alex has proved to be capable of defeating multiple alien enemies at once with ease.
* **Genius Level intellect:** Alex has a very sharp intellect. She pursued an M.D./PhD at an accelerated speed & finished the PhD portion by the age of 23.
	+ ***Interrogation/Torture*:** Alex is an effective interrogator & torturer. She once claimed to know six ways to torture someone with just an index finger. Her knowledge of interrogation techniques is so advanced that when she was interrogated with a polygraph, Alex managed to fake the results.
	+ ***Leadership*:** She is an extraordinary leader, capable of managing a handful of agents by herself.
	+ ***Medicine*:** Alex has performed medical procedures on both humans & aliens. She has patched James Olsen up after he was knocked out, examined a comatose Miss Martian after suffering a psychic attack. She also performed an MRI on Samantha Arias when studying her blackouts. She & Tess later worked to treat Sam's failing health following her separation from Reign.
	+ ***Science*:** Alex displayed an aptitude towards science since early childhood, as demonstrated by her interest in science fairs as a child. Having a PhD in bioengineering, Alex is also an expert in alien physiology & has used this knowledge in multiple operations. She is also an accomplished neuroscientist & xenobiologist. Alex herself stated she could've had a promising medical career as a researcher had she not decided to work at the ARGUS instead. She is able to create Blue Kryptonite & synthesize a cure for Red Kryptonite.
	+ ***Tactical Analysis:** She is a highly trained tactician, a skill that gave her the role of Steve's second in command*.
* **Weaponry**
	+ ***Demolitions*:** Alex demonstrated expertise with bombs, as seen when she rigged an entire building with particle mines, linking some of them to a dead man's switch.
	+ ***Firearms*:** Due to her training, Alex is highly trained in using multiple kinds of firearms.
	+ ***Stick Fighting*:** Alex is an accomplished stick-fighter, once able to take down multiple enemies with a pool hue.
	+ ***Throwing*:** Alex practiced fighting with knives as part of her training. She is fully capable of fending the assailants off with a blade.

### Weaknesses

* **Impulsive:** Alex can be impulsive & prone to make difficult decisions crossing the line between right & wrong (some might even classify her as morally grey).

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

#### General

* She loves scary movies.
* Due to her speeding through school, she had finished the PhD portion when she met Bones.
* Alex eats pizza more than anything but her mother's homemade lasagna is her favorite meal.
* Her favorite ice cream is rocky road.
* She considers *Terminator 2: Judgement Day* to be "the greatest movie of all time."
* Her father is the Head Cybernetics Engineer at the DEO & her mother is a bio-engineer.
* She is fond of leather jackets.
* Because her father is rarely ever home due to his work, Alex & Thara both offered to stay at home so their mother wasn't alone. She lived there for some time before eventually moving out when she turned 30 at the urging of her mother. As a compromise, she got an apartment in the same district

#### Relationships

* Her & Maxwell Lord have an antagonistic relationship but have become situational allies when needed.
* Growing up, Samantha acted as a big sister to Alex as she frequently babysat her. The two stayed close after Sam moved & she even chose Alex to be the godmother of her child.
* In college, Alex had a boyfriend name Capraro. He would write poems about her which would eventually lead to their break up.
* After her break up with Maggie, she became devastated, unable to cope with it & started drinking heavily.

## Notes

* Alex Danvers is an original character in the *Arrowverse* & is the adoptive older sister of Kara Zor-El. Because Kara is adopted into the Kent family, her origin story has changed.
* Her middle name is a nod to the actress that plays her in the *Arrowverse*, Chyler Leigh.
* At first, Kelly Olsen was not going to be included & her name in the Earth-44 universe would be Kelly Tesfai, as a nod to Azie Tesfai, the actress that portrays Kelly. However, I decided to incorporate her after all.