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OOC Post: A Little About Dexter
Jan. 27th, 2022 05:19 pmAge: To my guess, 32 during Darkly Dreaming Dexter and Dearly Devoted Dexter. A year had likely already passed since then. (Still re-reading the books. Might edit this part later)
Appearance: Dexter is about the average human male height and weight. He's very physically fit, for I believe in between doing his nightly deeds as a serial killer, working for Miami Homicide, and spending time with his athletic girlfriend, he's a very active guy. The color of his hair is rust color red, and his eyes are ocean blue. When he's doing a killing, he wears a plastic mask in which hides his identity, along with plastic, rubber gloves, anything of the sort in which blood does not get on his clothes.
Personality: Dexter is an emotionless person. In a way, the lights are on, but there's nobody home. He best describes himself as Happy-Go-Lucky, Dead Inside Dexter. He's basically a polite wolf in sheep's clothing. Due to what happened to him when he was three years old (his mother was killed in a very violent way), this has deeply affected him in a number of ways.
Harry Morgan, his foster dad, had instructed and helped Dexter channel these urges to kill something, a serial killer who only goes after the really bad people, people like himself. Harry also taught Dexter how to act human, as close to perfectly normal as any decent person could be because Dexter can't really feel human emotions. Dexter's outer mask in blending in with the rest of the human race comes off as cheerful, witty, and highly optimistic. (The book persona of Dexter is sooo witty and funny; even as he talks about himself with some loathing, and about what he doesn't understand in terms to humanity, and human society.)
When he's in Hunt Mode when going after other human predators, he comes off as cold and steely, precise, and above all creepy. And when he speaks, he also could feel the darkness, the hidden companion known as the Dark Passenger, speak with him. It's like they speak in unison, as one person. The kills made are very neat and orderly. There's no leftovers left behind in any room that's set up ahead of time for the urges to be put into action. There's definitely no blood left behind either, for the sight of it all by itself disgusts Dexter--he can't stand the sight of unorganized, free blood. Get him to talk about it and there would be a sense of hate in his voice.
The Dark Passenger itself is an entity that only Dexter knows about. It's best described like a calm and cool backseat rider, settling in the back of his mind most of the until it's time for a hunt to satisfy Dexter's killing urges. Dexter welcomes it to take over and strike. Together, they share a symbiotic relationship. Dexter lets the Passenger kill with him, and in turn it helps Dexter out on various murder cases. Dexter works as a blood spatter specialist, and likes it in a way because he feels good to organize blood and explain how a person died upon this evidence. It serves him justice.
The Passenger may be a part of who Dexter is, but it's also got a mind of its own. In reading one of the other Dexter novels, there's something in depth about it. Before it was Dexter's symbiote, it was just, well, it. It was only one of a kind, and had been existing ever since the beginning of time, when Earth was first created. For a time all it could do was watch the animals and world go by, and all the while it questioned its own existence. (Who am I? Why am I here? Is there anything like me out there?) Then, it started to jump into the bodies of various animals, predator and prey for experiment purposes. It liked to ride inside the predators more, and none of the animals (dinosaurs, birds, insects) were aware that there was something in there, watching what they saw, sensing the same things they sensed. And then, one day, the human race was born, with their amazing hands and their deceptive nature. At this, the invisible entity laughed and thought, Hey, I could work really work with this.
...Or, a lot about the Passenger could be a sort of split personality, to personify Dexter's urges to kill other human predators.
(I've been writing it as the former. Some people don't like the third novel, Dexter in the Dark, but I do!)
Appearance: Dexter is about the average human male height and weight. He's very physically fit, for I believe in between doing his nightly deeds as a serial killer, working for Miami Homicide, and spending time with his athletic girlfriend, he's a very active guy. The color of his hair is rust color red, and his eyes are ocean blue. When he's doing a killing, he wears a plastic mask in which hides his identity, along with plastic, rubber gloves, anything of the sort in which blood does not get on his clothes.
Personality: Dexter is an emotionless person. In a way, the lights are on, but there's nobody home. He best describes himself as Happy-Go-Lucky, Dead Inside Dexter. He's basically a polite wolf in sheep's clothing. Due to what happened to him when he was three years old (his mother was killed in a very violent way), this has deeply affected him in a number of ways.
Harry Morgan, his foster dad, had instructed and helped Dexter channel these urges to kill something, a serial killer who only goes after the really bad people, people like himself. Harry also taught Dexter how to act human, as close to perfectly normal as any decent person could be because Dexter can't really feel human emotions. Dexter's outer mask in blending in with the rest of the human race comes off as cheerful, witty, and highly optimistic. (The book persona of Dexter is sooo witty and funny; even as he talks about himself with some loathing, and about what he doesn't understand in terms to humanity, and human society.)
When he's in Hunt Mode when going after other human predators, he comes off as cold and steely, precise, and above all creepy. And when he speaks, he also could feel the darkness, the hidden companion known as the Dark Passenger, speak with him. It's like they speak in unison, as one person. The kills made are very neat and orderly. There's no leftovers left behind in any room that's set up ahead of time for the urges to be put into action. There's definitely no blood left behind either, for the sight of it all by itself disgusts Dexter--he can't stand the sight of unorganized, free blood. Get him to talk about it and there would be a sense of hate in his voice.
The Dark Passenger itself is an entity that only Dexter knows about. It's best described like a calm and cool backseat rider, settling in the back of his mind most of the until it's time for a hunt to satisfy Dexter's killing urges. Dexter welcomes it to take over and strike. Together, they share a symbiotic relationship. Dexter lets the Passenger kill with him, and in turn it helps Dexter out on various murder cases. Dexter works as a blood spatter specialist, and likes it in a way because he feels good to organize blood and explain how a person died upon this evidence. It serves him justice.
The Passenger may be a part of who Dexter is, but it's also got a mind of its own. In reading one of the other Dexter novels, there's something in depth about it. Before it was Dexter's symbiote, it was just, well, it. It was only one of a kind, and had been existing ever since the beginning of time, when Earth was first created. For a time all it could do was watch the animals and world go by, and all the while it questioned its own existence. (Who am I? Why am I here? Is there anything like me out there?) Then, it started to jump into the bodies of various animals, predator and prey for experiment purposes. It liked to ride inside the predators more, and none of the animals (dinosaurs, birds, insects) were aware that there was something in there, watching what they saw, sensing the same things they sensed. And then, one day, the human race was born, with their amazing hands and their deceptive nature. At this, the invisible entity laughed and thought, Hey, I could work really work with this.
...Or, a lot about the Passenger could be a sort of split personality, to personify Dexter's urges to kill other human predators.
(I've been writing it as the former. Some people don't like the third novel, Dexter in the Dark, but I do!)
