— ALEXANDER MORGAN !
MUSE INSPO: paul baker (adults), shawn spencer (psych), seth cohen (the oc), jeff winger (community), johnny bananas (the challenge), nick miller (new girl), logan huntzberger (gilmore girls), fiona gallagher (shameless)
FULL NAME: alexander morgan NICKNAMES: alex, al (only his sisters get away with this) SEXUALITY & PRONOUNS: bisexual, he/him ROMANTIC STATUS: single (chronically) BIRTHDAY: october 24th, 1993 HOMETOWN: portland, oregon OCCUPATION: bartender & co-owner of the 21st Amendment SIBLINGS: one older sister, one younger sister. extremely close, non-negotiable bond PETS: one cat named walter white (walter for short) TATTOOS & PIERCINGS: several small, impulsive tattoos with no meaning beyond “it made me laugh at the time”
AESTHETICS: warm bar lights after last call, chipped mugs instead of glasses, receipts folded into back pockets, notebooks with coffee rings on the pages, hoodies that smell faintly like detergent and smoke, unread texts you meant to answer, handwriting that slopes when he’s tired, playlists started at 2 a.m. and never finished, laughter that comes a beat too fast, windows cracked open for fresh air, staying longer than planned.
THREE POSITIVE TRAITS: charming, adaptable & perceptive THREE NEGATIVE TRAITS: avoidant, flippant & emotionally irresponsible THREE SKILLS: reading people, bartending, talking his way out of things
— ✭ BACKGROUND !
alex was thirteen when his parents died in a car crash. old enough to understand the permanence of it, too young to have any say in what came next. one day he had a home, routines, parents who were supposed to be there forever; the next, everything was logistics and quiet conversations behind closed doors. grief didn’t arrive all at once. it settled in slowly, in ways he wouldn’t recognize until much later.
he and his sisters were taken in by their aunt, who did her best to hold three kids together while all of them were breaking in different directions. alex learned early how to be “fine,” how to keep things moving, how to make the room lighter when it felt like it might cave in. someone had to do it. it became him.
coping came in the form of motion. emotionally at first.. jokes, deflection, not asking for too much. and then physically. college was meant to be a reset, a clean line between before and after. he enrolled undecided, stayed a year and a half, and left when it became clear that no amount of structure or expectations was going to give him the sense of direction he was missing. leaving felt like failure, but staying felt worse.
what followed was a decade of drifting. city to city, state to state. months here, a year there. odd jobs, bar shifts, seasonal work , etc. places that asked just enough of him and nothing more. he learned how to be charming quickly and forgettable on purpose. how to fold himself into a place just long enough to belong, and how to leave without anyone making a fuss. nothing ever stuck because he made sure it didn’t.
jasper was supposed to be temporary. he started working at the 21st amendment not long after arriving, forming an unexpectedly close relationship with the owner. the bar became routine, then refuge, then something dangerously close to home. it was familiar in a way that didn’t demand explanations. last year, when the owner retired, he handed alex co-ownership, a quiet, almost casual act of trust that alex still hasn’t fully processed. he jokes about it, calls it ridiculous, pretends it doesn’t mean as much as it does.
through everything, his sisters remained the one constant. daily calls, group chats that never go quiet, emergency flights without hesitation if one of them needs the others. they are the people who know the versions of him that exist before the jokes, before the exits, before the distance.
— ✭ PERSONALITY !
ON THE OUTSIDE, alex is playful, sarcastic, and chronically unserious. he treats most things like a bit, deflecting depth with humor, softening tension before it has time to land. he’s easy to like, easy to talk to, and easy to underestimate. people often mistake his flippancy for confidence, or think nothing really gets to him, when in reality he’s just very practiced at not letting it show. he tends to get himself in trouble often: with strangers, with the law, with people who care about him. but he always gets himself out of this trouble by using this charisma that he knows helps him connect deeply with people when he needs to.
he loves anything out of the ordinary, and is completely fascinated by people who don't quite fit in to what is expected of them. he can get along with a door knob, really, but he also isn't a type of person who filters what he says (which is what often gets him in trouble)
ON THE INSIDE, he’s afraid of staying still long enough for the grief to catch up to him. alex wants connection, but only in ways that don’t require him to be fully seen or fully depended on. romantic relationships take the hardest hit. he struggles with consistency, vulnerability, and the moment things shift from easy to meaningful. once something starts to matter, he instinctively reaches for distance. he struggles to even express himself clearly, which is why he turns to his private world of writing.
he has ADHD, diagnosed later than it should’ve been, which explains the restlessness, the impulsive decisions, the half-finished ideas, and the way his thoughts race ahead of his ability to sit with his feelings. writing is the one place where things slow down. notebooks filled with observations, fragments, and thoughts he never plans to share, but can’t bring himself to throw away.
alex isn’t cruel. he isn’t malicious. he doesn’t play with people on purpose. he’s just learned how to survive by keeping a bit of space between himself and anything that could hurt him. commitment terrifies him. not because he doesn’t care, but because caring has historically been followed by loss, and he’s tired of learning that lesson again.
overall, he’s a good person who hasn’t quite learned how to stay with himself yet. approach with patience. don’t mistake the jokes for emptiness. and don’t assume he won’t stay. even he’s surprised when he does.
