Alexis

Alexis is a side character in the Elsaverse. She is part of the "Triple A" team of heroes, along with her friends Amanda Reid and Anastasia Bertradino, the three women with powers that are the main protagonists of the novella AAA (2018). Alexis works as a Chief Negotiating Officer for an unnamed company, closing business deals thanks to her power: she is able to know other people's mood and emotions by reading their facial expressions, to the point that she can even anticipate their actions. Although she's depicted as an attractive blonde woman and is said to have had a number of casual relationships with different men, Alexis remains single throughout the whole saga.

Personal
It's not clear whether Alexis was actually born in Sangrive. From the AAA novella's first chapter, it's known that she moved into the city in sixth grade, having studied in some other city before that. Upon her arrival at Riverside Junior Highschool, she got into the school's softball team as a way to meet people, and that she did: Alexis was so good at reading pitches and hitting balls that she quickly became kind of a star player. Being a cute blonde girl, she could have been one of the most popular girls in the school, had she been interested in being so; however, her kind character and her lack of interest in those inane topics pushed her toward Amanda and Anastasia, two lonely friends who were the main target of the school's resident bully, Tina. One day, Alexis read one of Amanda's superb stories, in which she pictured Alexis as her real hero for standing for them when Tina messed with them; Alexis realized that Amanda's feelings were real and she chose to know those two girls better. From that moment on, they became inseparable, and even more so when, years later, their innate traits evolved into real powers.

Nowadays, Alexis is a smart and attractive woman who works as a Chief Negotiating Officer, putting her power to good use. She likes dancing and rock music, and she's a fan of the local band Mayhem, formed by their school friends Jessica Springfield and Sarah. Along with Amanda and Anastasia, Alexis attended the concert in which Charles Reyes started a riot that was fueled by Jessica's angry singing, as she has the power to alter people's mood with her voice. That evening, they all discovered that Jessica indeed had a power, and the three friends played a key role to prevent an even bigger tragedy. However, Alexis was deeply affected by it, as she felt how a boy actually died while she was using her power on him. Alexis had always been the most confident one of the three friends and also their rock, with her power letting her know when one of her friends needs some special support, but this time it was her the one who needed that support. And of course, she got it. Then, when Sarah asked her three friends to help her with Jessica, Alexis realized that Jess was in a much worse situation than her and regained her usual strength, convincing Amanda and Anastasia to covertly use their powers to try and help the police catch Charles.

An IT guy from her company helped Alexis to get in contact with a hacker nicknamed "JohnHax", who agreed to search for Charles' pics at the concert for free. After some weeks without any advance, the hacker finally found an incriminatory picture and sent it to Alexis; to show him her gratitude, she offered some money, but the hacker refused, claiming that he had accepted to do the job for free because one of his friends, a girl named Joan, was a fan of Mayhem. Alexis agreed to pay him by introducing Joan to Sarah; when the meeting took place, Alexis realized that her hacker was actually Joan, and she secretly created a trust fund for her with the 10,000 dollars Alexis was willing to pay her for the hacking job. Later on, when the police were already chasing Charles after the bombing at the Mayoral rally, Joan taught Alexis how to tap into the police's digital feed to check the investigation's progress. That's how the three friends learned that detectives Nathaniel Blake and Michelle Won were after a serial killer who most likely had powers, and decided to step in to help them. Using their own powers, Alexis, Amanda, and Anastasia managed to save Won's life, but also theirs in a team effort that showed how much they care for each other. After the confrontation, Alexis was able to convince Won to let them go, agreeing to meet her later on: in that meeting, she confirmed that Won was on their side and they explained everything they know about powers. Alexis, Amanda, and Anastasia share a house since their college days, with Anastasia moving temporarily out when her husband, Joey Bertradino, was elected as Sangrive's Mayor. Thanks to her power, she is perfectly aware of Amanda's infatuation with her, although her friend has never made a move on her as they all know Alexis is straight. She has had several boyfriends she brought home to have sex with, which always caused some awkward moments for her friends, as Alexis tends to be quite vocal and the house's walls are thin. However, there was a time when Alexis tried to force herself to appreciate gay porn to try and please Amanda, although she just couldn't do it until very recently: with Anastasia and Joey moving into their house after he lost the elections, Amanda playfully put a sexy story in their friends' minds, and Alexis felt aroused and compelled enough to try lesbian sex for the first time.

Powers
From a very young age, Alexis had a special knack for reading facial and body expressions, which let her react accordingly to what she was observing in her counterpart. She used to quickly catch on to people's feelings, which let her be especially empathic and supportive; on the softball field, she was able to right guess where the opponent's pitcher was intending to throw the ball, making it easier for her to connect a hit. This trait became a power during her college years, although the exact moment in which she found out this was a proper power and not just her ordinary intuition is not explicitly mentioned. The whole process of getting a power at all seems special in her case, since other people with powers were born and raised in Sangrive and Alexis arrived in the city when she was about 12. Either way, now she can perfectly read people's emotions just by looking at them: she is not only able to sense their mood but to even anticipate their most imminent movements. This is helpful in many ways, as she can avoid awkward situations or push their counterpart's limits in a negotiation, as it's seen in AAA chapter 4, but it's also a burden, as she can immediately know how much are people actually lusting for her. For this reason, she really appreciates those who are able to interact normally with her despite being seriously attracted to her, as she is perfectly aware of their efforts to suppress their inner urges. The power allows her to be as empathic and supportive as ever, finding always the best way to treat people according to their current emotional situation.

During the riot at Mayhem's concert, she teamed up with Amanda to defuse the situation: Alexis was looking at people's faces, trying to find the angriest people and pointing them to Amanda so that her friend could put a happy story in their minds to calm them. At one point, though, she had to choose between two very angry men, as Amanda can only address one person at a time, and the other guy hit a boy, killing him while Alexis was trying to read his emotions. That was the first time she felt someone dying, and it was a hard blow for her. In AAA chapter 5, she also senses for the first time that someone is devoid of emotions, when she's trying to read Detective Frank Smith, who has a drug problem. Later on, she trains her skill to anticipate people's movements, which ends up being quite useful when she has to face the serial killer who throws knives around, Brandon Henderson.

Although she doesn't know the actual reason, Alexis can't read Charles Reyes' emotions, as he is a Suppressor. And, when she is exchanging written messages with her hacker, she gets the impression she is lost in the conversation's nuances when she can't use her power to know what people are actually thinking. This impression that she's relying a bit too much on her power for her daily interactions gets reinforced when she finds out that her hacker was actually a girl, Joan, which she didn't even suspect. Besides that, she seems to be immune to Jessica Springfield's singing, most likely for being extensively exposed to her voice since they were kids.

Miscellaneous

 * Despite having heard her friend's comments about it when she invited her male partners home, Alexis only realized how thins their house's walls actually are when Amanda brought her lover Serena home. Hearing them going at it for hours sparkled a tiny bit of curiosity in her mind, which makes her decision of giving it a try later on a bit easier to understand.