Character Study on Alexander The Prophet

I have been long absent in both my blogging and my character study series so I thought I’d start in again with a very interesting study on a very interesting character. This installment in the series is about Alexander the prophet.
He is a 19 year old and one of the only human characters in the book or the entire series. He is introduced near the end of the book but there is a lot more to him than is said.
Alexander was born to Catholic parents who loved him and gave him everything they could. They were devastated when they realized that he was blind when he was a little over a year old. Every doctor they took him to said that he had been born blind and nothing they could do would help him. The family put themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt trying to help him.
When he was 5 years old, his father died leaving his mother with no way to provide for herself or Alexander. By that time he had just started showing signs of being a prophet and his mother was starting to believe he was special.
When he drew a picture of her with a man taking care of her; she thought it was a sign and found the man; inviting him into her home and agreeing to date him. However she missed the picture where the man started to turn evil. The man she was with was a drug dealer who wasn’t doing so well in his business.
He got sick of providing for a child that wasn’t his own and when Alexander was 12 he told him to leave and never come back if he wanted his mother to be safe. Alexander left with nowhere to go to protect his mother. A few months later the man found Alexander’s old paintings and realized what kind of child he really was.
He hunter Alexander down and forced him to sell people paintings and drawings of their future. Alexander did everything he wanted to protect his mother but it was killing him to abuse his gift of prophecy like that.
He believed strongly that he was given this gift to make a difference and help people; not sell them what they wanted to know. He was 16 when Gabriel was made aware of him. Many humans have a guardian angel that is also a guardian to numerous other people and his guardian hadn’t been able to watch him closely enough to realize his gift until then.
Gabriel went to Alexander to bring him back to the school in Sicily and help his mother but by then it was too late. When the archangel found him; the man who had abused his gift and his mother had gone into a drunk rage. He had killed Alexander’s mother and when Alexander had stood in the way, he had beaten him until he was unconscious.
Gabriel took Alexander back to the school and put out a death warrant on the man who had done it. Any angel to see him was to kill him on sight. When Alexander woke up he didn’t believe Gabriel. He had become bitter; not believing in God or angels. When Gabriel was finally able to convince him that he really was the archangel spoken of in the Bible, Alexander begged him to take away his abilities to see the future.
Gabriel told him that if he would keep the gift and teach others how to use it; he would be able to visit his mother in death. Alexander immediately agreed. Once a week it was arranged for Joshua to bring Alexander’s mother from the City of Chaos to visit her son in Sicily.
Alexander thrived in this environment knowing his mother was happy and that he was using his gift for what it was meant to be used for. When he was 18 Raphael started to take an interest in his prophecies. He especially wanted to know about the things Alexander saw about Rachael Taylor.
When her future started to turn into two and then three, Raphael started using Alexander to manipulate the future. At the end of The Rift Alexander is beginning to descend into the same dark mood he had been in with the murderer of his mother. Once again his gift was being used to harm and change things that shouldn’t be changed.
Alexander has learned to see the world in a way that no one else does; through the eyes of the past, present, and future. He can see everything that could happen and he knows everything that has happened in all three worlds; Heaven, Hell, and Earth.
He is wise beyond his 19 years and he is not easily turned away from what he believes in. He is the only person to ever stand up to Raphael, in the quote

“Forgive me, my lord, but you are forcing me to do something that is both wrong and highly impossible. I have done my very best to do what you say but you are requesting things of her that are putting her in the wrong direction and then expecting me to fix it. I am just a prophet. I can’t change the future. Having her reverse her decision with Joshua pointed her in a very bad direction. Her going back to Jesse after following your orders once again is not helping her cause either. You know that she was supposed to fall in love with him on her own at a much later date but you couldn’t wait for that to happen. And now you want me to direct her back onto the right path again after she was misguided by your orders to return her power. I cannot do everything you are asking of me. It is impossible and I do not think it was what God intended us to do when he gave the gift of prophecy.”

Alexander is a kind and gentle soul who would give everything for anyone in the world. He doesn’t think about himself or what is going to happen to him. He thinks of everyone else in existence. He knows what will happen to everyone in existence and he feels it is his responsibility to ease any suffering he can with anyone he comes in contact with.
This character was one of the most interesting to create because he can see everything in existence but he is blind.
This character and many more can be found in The Rift, available in kindle edition on Amazon as well as paper back on amazon and in Barnes& Noble.
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Luck and Love,
SKN Hammerstone

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