What's in a Name?

Alec Buckley

Alec Buckley- Canadian-American (Welsh/Scotch-Irish ancestry); Connor Ngo's best friend and a good friend of Naomi Nichols, Alec Buckley is a "daywalker" who has a casual, if somewhat unkempt appearance, with messy, curly red hair, mischievous green eyes, and a light complexion. He was born in a small city called Whitehorse on May 26th but partially raised in the suburbs of Ottawa, Canada, preferring to play video games and hockey with the guys over the awkwardness of understanding his female counterparts and their "girliness". He moved to the US after his father, an SAP consultant, relocated to a branch of his company that was in New York, and he likes the iconic fried dough pastries known as BeaverTails. He speaks with a faint Canadian accent, a running inside joke among him and his friends, as he says eh often and pronounces the word about as "aboot". Alec likes to skateboard to move around and receive a good workout and has worn toques to endure extremely cold, long winters, which were followed by surprisingly warm, short summers. He is sarcastic, talkative, and fond of amusement and chatter, with a vigorous online social life and propensity for bluntness and using profanity when heatedly formulating an opinion. He also had a friend with a mixed Koyukon Athabascan, Yup'ik, and Japanese background who frequently ate nivagi, herring eggs, birch syrup, and muktuk and knew Iñupiaq animal names, such as itiġiaqpak for mink. While Alec is usually calm and cheerful, he can have a quick temper and seem overly excitable, wondering in his darkest moments what would Seth Rogen do, and his blood type is AB. Alec was a talkative child who was always being a menace somehow, as he liked to stir up trouble and often found himself "debating" with his parents and teachers. Fearless and adventurous, he is open to experience and up for trying anything new, having a hidden passion for cooking and experimenting with ethnic cuisine. 

This includes Nanaimo Bars, poutine, moose stew, split pea soup, and chicken tikka, and he also prizes spontaneity and has a fun-loving, thrill-seeking nature. Sharp-minded and free-thinking, he is the kind of person who would impulsively take a road trip across the country and often has clever banter when he is debating, saying shocking things to trigger a reaction. Alec uses most of his ideas to bring attention to himself, which brings about disastrous results once he impulsively follows through with them without much thought. He was an eager and energetic child who broke every playground rule in the book and wasn't allowed to have sugar, as he would end up bouncing off the walls. As every day was a holiday for him, he woke up one morning wearing his favorite shamrock panties and declared it St. Patrick's Day. He has previously gotten scolded for not standing up as his classmates recited the pledge of allegiance during the morning announcements. Alec has interests in computers, writing, and music as well, being a skilled drummer who plays the snare drum for the high school band. He once tried googling himself on the internet for fun and has demonstrated a strong aptitude for technology from a young age. He was always fascinated by robots and would put together his own toy contraptions as young boy and tried launching a cartoon database during his early teens. He is often seen as a huge nerd for old internet culture and uses past memes, frequently referencing Rickrolling while considering current memes and internet culture "weird and scary". Alec is said to have a strange, eclectic taste in music as well and is a fan of obscure Canadian indie rock bands like Mother Mother and Tokyo Police Club, causing him to stay out late attending local rock concerts. He also likes to edit Wikipedia in his spare time and is not averse to enjoying a funny clip or so from his favorite adult cartoon series, American Dad. 

Good-humored and comical, he is close with both Connor and his twin sister Emma, who harbors secret feelings for him, although he is often dense and clueless when it comes to girls. He also has a special fondness for his classmate Brittany Betancur, a gamer girl with long dirty blonde hair from another high school whom he finds "brilliant" and embraces regardless of her quirks and imperfections. Despite his snarky demeanor, he has a sensitive side and is always willing to lend a listening ear and helping hand to his friends and can occasionally seem unexpectedly deep and insightful when giving advice. He is particularly fascinated by Brittany's unique way of projecting herself, claiming he "likes weird people" and admiring her for her authenticity and ability to stand out and be herself. While he values intelligence and intellect, Alec is nonetheless fascinated by crude humor and the female anatomy, expressing an unrestrained interest in sex. He claims not to particularly like internet pornography however, finding it forced and "incredibly boring" as the same events take place repeatedly, as well as degrading to women. He instead admits that he would rather just use his imagination to envision an attractive girl, which he finds much more arousing. Ironically, he adores his younger adoptive 12-year-old sister Dhriti, who is of Indian descent and has a fascination with horses, rainbows, and zombies, although her inner teenager calls her to fantasize about zombies making out. Alec is there for Dhriti through her crazy antics, whether it involves rebelling by dying her natural black hair purple or putting an unflattering photo of herself under his bed to scare away monsters. He has somewhat of a rivalry with his older brother Todd however, who actually works in Ontario as a biomedical engineer.