NAME: Xander Montgomery
AGE: 41
GENDER & PRONOUNS: he/him
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: heterosexual
STATUS: Resident
CLASS: Virtue
HIERARCHY: Queen
OCCUPATION: Head of Neurology
HOUSING: St Mary's Palace
FACE CLAIM: Ben Barnes
GOOD: Perceptive, composed, loyal
BAD: emotionally detached, manipulative, arrogant
UGLY: {redacted}
PHYSICAL
HAIR: Dark brown, usually neatly styled but slightly tousled enough to keep a boyish charm. EYES: dark brown—calm, observant, and unsettlingly perceptive, as if he’s always reading more than you intended to show. HEIGHT: 6'1" MARKINGS: A thin surgical scar along the side of his right hand from a residency accident during an emergency procedure—one of the few moments in his life where control slipped.
FAMILY
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single
SIBLINGS: Twin Brother — Xavier Montgomery (his closest ally and the only person who truly understands him)
PARENTS: Father — (alive) Mother — (alive)
PHYSICAL PROWESS: His strength lies in control and efficiency. Years of disciplined fitness and careful body awareness give him quiet precision in movement. He reacts quickly, maintains composure under stress, and understands body mechanics well enough to neutralize a threat if necessary. ABILITIES: Xander excels at recognizing subtle shifts in expression, tone, and body language. His ability to predict reactions often makes conversations feel almost choreographed. SPOKEN LANGUAGES: English, French HOBBIES: Reading neurological research journals and rare medical case studies. Long evening walks through Virtue’s gardens, where he can think uninterrupted.
COLORS: he likes darker shades of blue, sometimes black. SMELLS: the smell of nature, ocean, rivers, anything outdoors DRINKS: all kinds. FOOD: not picky.
CHARACTERS:
TV SHOWS :Thomas Shelby (Peaky Blinders), Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal), Petyr Baelish (Game of Thrones) MARVEL - Vision, Doctor Strange, Black Panther (T’Challa) FEARS: Losing control of his own emotional detachment. TRIGGERS : N/A
BACKGROUND
Xander Montgomery was born second — by minutes, not by expectation.
As one half of the Montgomery twins, heirs to a long-standing lineage of high-ranking Virtues, Xander grew up in a household where reputation was sacred and emotion was measured. Their parents were disciplined, composed, and unwavering in their standards. Love was present, but structured. Support was abundant — so long as rules were followed.
From childhood, Xander and Xavier were inseparable. They challenged teachers, friends, even family to tell them apart, switching roles with unsettling ease. What began as a harmless game slowly became something more philosophical to Xander. How well did anyone truly know another person? How easily could perception be shaped?
Where Xavier sought victory and validation, Xander preferred observation. He watched reactions. Studied patterns. Learned the mechanics of attention, admiration, desire. He discovered early that people were far more predictable than they believed themselves to be — especially when emotion was involved.
Gifted academically and relentlessly competitive, Xander gravitated toward medicine, eventually specializing in Neurology. The human brain fascinated him; it was the closest thing to honest architecture he could find. Unlike people, neural pathways did not pretend to be anything other than what they were.
When Xavier’s wife was arrested in the middle of their anniversary dinner — publicly exposed for embezzling from the Montgomery family business — it did more than stain their name. It reshaped Xander’s worldview. Watching his brother humiliated, watching years of devotion dismantled in seconds, solidified a belief he had long held:
Love is a liability. Marriage is exposure. Devotion is exploitable.
Xander had never liked her. He had observed her too carefully, and he’d tell others her precision unsettled him. But even he had not predicted that betrayal.
That failure to foresee it has never sat comfortably with him.
Now, Xander moves through Virtue with effortless grace — boyish charm hiding surgical perception. He engages respectfully, laughs easily, and makes others feel uniquely seen. But cross him, or worse, threaten his family, and the warmth evaporates. He does not raise his voice. He does not posture.
He simply removes obstacles.