Relations: Julie Powell (Spouse) / Katie Powell (Daughter)

Early life

Alex was born on a farm as one of seven kids. When he became a young adult, he signed on with a passing trading caravan and left behind his parents and the three siblings that were still alive. While travelling with the caravan, he got to see more of the world and eventually came to realize that the best one could hope for in the wasteland is a loving family and a productive life.

While with the caravans, Alex met Julia, a chemist. The two went on to get married some time later. When they went to Alex's family's farm to share the news, they found it razed to the ground by raiders. The only thing they could salvage from the wreckage was a young brahmin (type of cow) calf, Nessie, that had wandered off and was grazing nearby. With the brahmin in tow, the three found and settled into a cave for temporary shelter that became a permanent abode when they figured out how to use Nessie's dung to give the place some fertility. Not much later, Katie was born.

The little family farmed mushroom for over a decade, until what little fertility they managed to draw from the cave began to run out. Unwilling to risk travelling out in the open with no destination or letting his family starve, Alex put his pride in his farm aside in order to find a new place to settle in.

Alex is a warm and humorous person, greeting even rude comments with jokes and a light tone. He also firmly believes that he's quite boring and not as smart as his wife or as creative as his daughter, but he's perfectly alright with letting the spotlight shine on the people he loves rather than himself.

He didn't inherit his love of farming, but rather, came to take pride in hard work and seeing things grow against all odds. Because of their accomplishment with bringing a barren cave to life, he is fiercely optimistic about humble beginnings.

He loves his farm, but would never put it above his family's welfare, believing firmly that that kind of pride was the reason his parents lost everything. He is almost always worried about his family, usually covering it up with more humour.

He doesn't approve of Julia selling chems (aka drugs) on the side because he'd rather not have that sort of influence around Katie (their daughter), and secretly also because he wants the farm to be enough to sustain them. Despite the disagreement with his wife on the matter, he still pretends like he doesn't know she's still dealing in chems when money is tight.

He has no problems with Katie's love of comic books and adventures, even asking her to read them out loud to him sometimes while he works. In his opinion, those stories are way better than what happens in reality.

Though he's handy with a weapon and has travelled the wasteland for a couple years with a caravan, he's averse to conflict and usually only fights if he has to. In combat, he mostly relies on adrenaline and aggressive sarcasm to get through the fight, crashing from it the moment the fight is over.