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| name = Alex Wesker |
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| occupation = [[Umbrella Intelligence Division]] member (?-2000)<br />[[Project W]] overseer (?-1998)<br />[[Sonido de Tortuga Island]] chief researcher (2003-2006)<br />Ruler of [[Sushestvovanie Island]] (2000-2011) |
| occupation = [[Umbrella Intelligence Division]] member (?-2000)<br />[[Project W]] overseer (?-1998)<br />[[Sonido de Tortuga Island]] chief researcher (2003-2006)<br />Ruler of [[Sushestvovanie Island]] (2000-2011) |
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|first = ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' - ''[[Lost in Nightmares]]'' (File only) |
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| − | '''Alex Wesker''' was |
+ | '''Alex Wesker''' was a high-ranking [[Umbrella Pharmaceuticals]] employee who was part of the Project Wesker eugenics program. In the years following Umbrella's downfall, Wesker took control of a number of islands where she began viral research, one of which ruling over a people that hailed her as the Messiah or even a goddess.<ref>''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'' (2015), file: "[[Town Resident's Memo]]".</ref><ref>''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'' (2015), file: "[[Mine Worker's Diary 1]]".</ref><ref group="note">These files have been heavily altered to remove religious connotations. The Japanese versions explicitly describe her as the {{Nihongo|messiah|救世主様|Kyuuseisyu-sama}} and {{Nihongo|goddess|女神様|megami-sama}}, respectively.</ref> |
==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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===Early Life and Umbrella Employment=== |
===Early Life and Umbrella Employment=== |
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| − | {{Quote|I hope you'll be delighted to know that the experiment's going well.|Alex, to Spencer}} |
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| + | Alex Wesker's early life and true surname are unknown. She was taken from her parents at an early age as part of the Wesker Project, a eugenics project, and renamed after the project leader, Dr. Wesker. As part of the project, she was given a privileged upbringing with access to the best education around, while at home being instilled with the world views of Dr. [[Oswell E. Spencer, Earl Spencer]]. Dr. Lord Spencer's ultimate goal was that these children would later be infected with a [[Progenitor Virus]] strain and usher in a Utopian superhuman society, and though the virus was not yet ready for this goal he recognised the need for the several hundred candidates to share their worldviews with himself.<ref name="wesker">''Resident Evil 5'' (2009), file: "[[Albert Wesker (file)|Albert Wesker]]".</ref> As a young-adult, Alex left her home into higher-level education in a field of her choosing, and was headhunted by [[Umbrella Pharmaceuticals]] as one of a short-list of as little as thirteen candidates.<ref>''Resident Evil 5'' (2010), file: "[[Test Subjects]]".</ref> How many of the other Weskers Alex was raised with is unknown, though she was close to Albert, an Umbrella virologist, of whom the two were considered the best candidates of the project.<ref name="anpo">[http://projectumbrella.net/articles/Yasuhiro-Anpo-Interview-Project-Umbrella ''Yasuhiro Anpo Interview (Project Umbrella)'']</ref> |
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| − | Alex was raised on the orders of Lord Spencer to become one of a superior breed of humans in his eugenics program.<ref name="spence1">''Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition'', (2010), file: "[[Spencer's Memoirs 1]]".</ref><ref name="wesker">''Resident Evil 5'' (2009), file: "[[Albert Wesker (file)|Albert Wesker]]".</ref> The project involved the abduction of a number of children thought to be of "superior" DNA. The children would then be given the surname Wesker, in honor of the project's head researcher.<ref name="wesker" /> |
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| + | By the 1990s, Alex was mostly or even fully aware of Project Wesker, kept a secret to others, and was an acquaintance of Dr. Lord Spencer as a senior member of the [[Umbrella Intelligence Division]]. On the Umbrella CEO's instructions, in 1998 the Wesker candidates were infected with the [[prototype virus]] as part of the next phase in the project.<ref name="spence1">''Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition'', (2010), file: "[[Spencer's Memoirs 1]]".</ref> Alex and Albert were the only confirmed survivors of this procedure, though Albert was able to fake his death for several months. The virus had a 20% probability of negligible mutation for each candidate, and became a certainty in Alex due to an incurable illness she had developed.<ref name="anpo">[http://projectumbrella.net/articles/Yasuhiro-Anpo-Interview-Project-Umbrella ''Yasuhiro Anpo Interview (Project Umbrella)'']</ref> Consequently, she possessed no superhuman powers.<ref>''[[Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles]]'' (2007), file: "[[Virus Memo]]".</ref> When confirming Albert's apparent death in August 1998, Alex strongly suggested replacing their losses by infecting the hundreds of washout candidates who, though not as academically successful still shared the same upbringing, but it appears this never game into fruition.<ref>''Resident Evil 5'' (2009), file: "[[Report on Project W - August 28, 1998]]".</ref> |
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| − | Alex, like all Wesker children, was programmed to seek out Spencer, eventually rising to a high position within the [[Umbrella Intelligence Division]]. At some point during her work with Umbrella, a painting was commissioned with her and [[Albert Wesker]], a fellow Wesker child, as subjects. Although she initially intended to meet Spencer's demands for making him immortal, she eventually realized, alongside Albert, that following the orders of a man who was near death's door was foolish in the end and made preparations to betray him.<ref name="Spencer memo">''Resident Evil Revelations 2'' (2015), file: "[[Alex's Memo - Spencer]]"</ref> |
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| − | At some point, she developed an incurable illness that weakened her body, before being injected with the same [[t-Virus]] [[Prototype Virus|variant]] as Albert. However, she did not become superhuman, merely surviving it as a normal human due to the illness.<ref name="anpo">[http://projectumbrella.net/articles/Yasuhiro-Anpo-Interview-Project-Umbrella ''Yasuhiro Anpo Interview (Project Umbrella)'']</ref> |
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| + | Alex herself was not as loyal to Dr. Lord Spencer as he believed, and made sure to use her position to build a power base of her own while Umbrella Pharmaceuticals still had resources she could use.<ref name="Spencer memo">''Resident Evil Revelations 2'' (2015), file: "[[Alex's Memo - Spencer]]"</ref> On 19 July 2000, Alex and a team of Umbrella researchers, among whom her loyal confidant, Stuart, landed on [[Sushestvovanie Island]].<ref name=":0">''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'' (2014), file: "[[The Old Man's Journal]]".</ref> A small Russian island which suffered an economic collapse during the Fall of the Soviet Union, Alex chose to take advantage of their desperation before using them as guinea pigs. Using Umbrella's funds, Alex kickstarted an economic recovery by hiring the locals to construct a research complex. Seeking to eventually use the locals as guinea pigs, she also saw the re-opening of its mines, which made an ideal place for abducting test subjects.<ref name=":0" /> Unaware of this, she was hailed as a messianic figure by the locals for her actions.<ref>''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'' (2015), file: "[[The Old Man's Journal]]".</ref> |
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| + | After the final collapse of Umbrella in [[2003]], Alex remained at Dr. Lord Spencer's side. Sent out to Umbrella's old facility at [[Sonido de Tortuga Island]], Alex was instructed to divert viral weapons research towards the creation of a virus which would halt the telomere-shortening properties of human cells which had made ageing an inevitability. To be infected with a such a [[Immortality Virus|mutagen]] would have made him biologically immortal.<ref name="spence1" /><ref name="spence2">''Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition'' (2010), file: "[[Spencer's Memoirs 2]]".</ref> Already feeling the effects of her own degenerative illness, Alex gave up on the project and abandoned Sonido de Tortuga,<ref name="spence4">''Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition'' (2010), file: "[[Spencer's Memoirs 4]]".</ref> taking all research data with her to Sushestvovanie Island, where she reformed it into the t-Phobos Project in 2006, a year after beginning the initial research.<ref name="spence3">''Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition'' (2010), file: "[[Spencer's Memoirs 3]]".</ref> Instead of keeping alive an aged body, Alex's new project instead aimed at creating a virus which would allow memories and personality to be copied into a new body. This may have been brought on by her illness, as a new Alex would not suffer from a terminal disease. The problem in developing this virus, however, was that brain chemistry was the deciding factor in a successful transfer - production of hormones associated with fear would fail a candidate, and six months of exposure to the virus was necessary for Alex's copied consciousness to take over.<ref name=":1">''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'' (2014), file: "[[Notes on the Transfer Procedure]]".</ref> |
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| − | On 28 August [[1998]], Alex made a report on Project W, which stated that before Albert Wesker faked his death, the project was at a 94% rate of success, but after the news of his death, the project went down to just 18%.<ref>''Resident Evil 5'' (2009), file: "[[Report on Project W - August 28, 1998]]".</ref> |
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| + | During work on t-Phobos, Alex received news firstly of Spencer's death in mid-2006, and secondly of Albert's death in early 2009. Though she had grown to see him as a feeble old man with delusions of grandeur, she appreciated his eugenics views and strove to see t-Phobos become a success, which would realise his dream but by making her the god of the new world instead.<ref name="Spencer memo">''Resident Evil Revelations 2'' (2015), file: "[[Alex's Memo - Spencer]]"</ref> When she heard of Albert's death, she took a more personal blow, and as now the sole remaining of the thirteen candidates, she insisted the project be sped-up.<ref>''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'' (2014), file: "[[Stuart's Memo - The Wesker Project]]".</ref> Outside of t-Phobos, Alex also set-up the [[Kodoku Project]], which aimed to create new bio-weaponry, being developed by loyal researchers within Umbrella's abandoned base on Sonido de Tortuga.<ref>''[[BIOHAZARD heavenly island]]''.</ref> |
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| − | On 19 July 2000, Alex arrived on the remote formerly Soviet Union-affiliated [[Sushestvovanie Island]] with a large team of researchers, including her confidant, [[Stuart]]. She promised to return the industry to the poverty-stricken region and, through charisma and employment opportunities after reopening the island's mines, came to be revered by the natives of the island as their savior.<ref>''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'' (2015), file: "[[The Old Man's Journal]]".</ref> Her researchers came to think highly of her as well, calling her "Lady Alex" and following her without question. In secret, Alex used the employees hired to work in the mines as her personal test subjects to develop the [[t-Phobos Virus]], turning most of them into [[Afflicted|B.O.W.s]]. |
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| + | t-Phobos research had been tested on the wider population since 2008, largely by recruiting mine workers as a source of research and passing off their absence as them signing on to a full year's work.<ref name=":0" /> Alterations to the virus in January 2010 reduced the chances of killing the host and reducing the chance of them developing an immunity,<ref>''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'' (2014), file: "[[Clinical Experiment Notes]]".</ref> but the test subjects to continue failing, having been overcome by their fears and turned into mutants rather than developing Alex's new life. Towards the end of the project, Alex separated herself from it, possibly due to her health, and moved on the duties of chief researcher to another,<ref>''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'' (2014), file: "[[Research Facility Chief's Journal 1]]".</ref> who worker with her and Stuart.<ref>''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'' (2014), file: "[[Research Facility Chief's Journal 2]]".</ref> With the virus finalised, though without any candidates, day-to-day work moved on to modifying the [[Uroboros Virus]]. |
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| − | After the fall of most of Umbrella, Alex continued her work for Spencer, being the last remaining child at his side.<ref name="spence1" /> The brightest of them all, in Spencer's view and words, "Alex excels at absorbing the abilities of others."<ref name="spence2">''Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition'' (2010), file: "[[Spencer's Memoirs 2]]".</ref> Alex was tasked with conducting experiments for Spencer on a research facility on [[Sonido de Tortuga Island]],<ref name="spence2" /> where she would study Umbrella's viruses in order to elucidate the latent ability of immortality from the Progenitor Virus for Spencer.<ref name="spence1" /><ref name="wesker" /><ref name="spence3">''Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition'' (2010), file: "[[Spencer's Memoirs 3]]".</ref> Alex failed to develop the virus, instead siphoning out resources for personal projects but reported progress to Spencer in order to keep her supply of resources. Then, in [[2006]], she abandoned Spencer and the island taking all of the results.<ref name="spence4">''Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition'' (2010), file: "[[Spencer's Memoirs 4]]".</ref> |
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| + | Running out of options, Alex began looking for new candidates from outside the island, and found her solution with [[Neil Fisher]]. Though the leader of the prominent NGO, [[TerraSave]], Fisher had come to share the views of the incarcerated [[FBC]] leader [[Morgan Lansdale]], that radical actions had to be taken to ensure global stability in the face of bioterrorism. The two agreed to a pact: he would supply members of his own organisation, who had experiences with facing mutants, in exchange for a sample of Uroboros so that a vaccine could be created, rendering it worthless as a black market product. |
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| − | When the [[Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance|BSAA]] confirmed the death of Albert in a recent mission in Africa, Alex immediately ordered her research team, led by [[Stuart]], to head to the former [[Umbrella Africa Laboratory]] to retrieve a sample of the [[Uroboros Virus]].<ref>[[Report on the Uroboros Virus]]</ref> Alex was one of the few people who actually knew about the laboratory's existence and location, following Spencer's assassination at the hands of Albert, she was able to figure out that Albert had discovered the location of the laboratory and would use it to realize his goals. |
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| + | Some time in 2011, the operation began, with the abduction of over a dozen people at a company party, among whom Fisher himself as a means of obtaining Uroboros. One by one the pool was again met with failures, seeing the mutation of Gabriel Chavez when he attempted to escape the island in a booby-trapped helicopter while several others were killed by mutants, leaving only three remaining candidates: Claire Redfield, Moira Burton and Natalia Korda. Stuart's team continued monitoring the survivors' progress, and concluded Korda, a child, was the ideal candidate as childhood trauma made her incapable of feeling fear.<ref name=":2">''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'' (2014), file: "[[Stuart's Memo - Natalia Korda]]".</ref> Fisher was ordered therefore to abduct Korda and take her directly to Alex,<ref>''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'' (2014), file: "[[Neil's Report]]".</ref> so that she could be put in a comatose state for the next six months to ensure the experiment's success.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> |
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| − | Alex realized that the illness she had was weakening her body from the inside. Knowing that she wouldn't be able to escape her imminent death, and that biological immortality could not be obtained by viruses or human experiments, Alex turned to her last resort; transferring a digitized copy of her human consciousness into another host. To that end, she affiliated herself with senior [[TerraSave]] member [[Neil Fisher]], who was looking for a way to bring back the [[Federal Bioterrorism Commission]]. She enlisted his help to procure a human host with a special mental condition in exchange of a Uroboros Virus sample in return. Alex received word from Stuart that he would exterminate everyone who participated in their previous researches, himself included. |
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| + | Seeking to tie-up loose ends, Alex infected Fisher with the modified Uroboros strain to turn him into a monster rather than simply handing it over. Stuart meanwhile oversaw the killing of all researchers ahead of his own suicide so that they not accidentally interfere with other plans. As Korda was placed into storage in a bunker beneath her tower, Alex was confronted by Redfield and Burton, the two remaining candidates who had also become unnecessary to her plans. Believing everything to be complete, Alex took out a handgun and shot herself in the head, which triggered the facility's self-destruct system. |
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| − | In 2011, Alex sent her private militia to abduct [[Claire Redfield]], [[Moira Burton]], and other TerraSave members to Sushestvovanie Island to be used as test subjects for t-Phobos. While Claire and Moira tried to escape, she taunted them over the PA system while quoting various works of [[List of Franz Kafka references in Resident Evil|Franz Kafka]]. Especially, she was also able to trap fellow TerraSave Members at the same time, which she was responsible to activate the siren to lure them out. Alex also taunted [[Gabriel Chavez]] while he attempted to escape the island by riding a helicopter out before it crashed after Alex remotely sabotaged the vehicle's controls. Amidst the confusion, Alex sent Neil to abduct Natalia Korda, one of her prisoners on the island, to commence her "rebirth ceremony." |
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| + | Alex, however, did not die as planned. In her final moments between pulling the trigger and her intended death, she felt the fear of dying and becoming nothing. Her unconscious body began to quickly mutate, turning her into powerful and disfigured mutant, wearing robes and a mask to disguise her deformation. In the six month wait for Korda's awakening, Alex fell into an existential crisis. She had once triumphed the project as effectively making her immortal, birthed into a new body, but was disturbed at the idea of two Alexes existing simultaneously. Korda therefore began to be seen as an impostor Alex, unworthy of holding the mantle of a god.<ref name=":3">''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'' (2014), file: "[[Hatred of Natalia]]".</ref>[[File:Monster alex 2nd form.jpg|thumb|left|Alex after injecting herself the Uroboros virus.]] |
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| − | When Claire and Moira discovered Neil Fisher's betrayal in TerraSave who was responsible for the attack of their headquarters, Alex instead betrayed Neil by injecting him with the Uroboros virus. She also brought up about the [[Terragrigia Panic]] seven years ago and Neil was one of [[Morgan Lansdale]]'s puppets as she left him to mutate. After Neil was defeated, Alex prepared to transfer the part of her own consciousness into Natalia. Later, she was confronted by Claire and Moira, during which she revealed her true intentions before shooting herself in the head. However, moments before she shot herself, she feared for her own life, allowing the t-Phobos virus inside her to mutate. Her suicidal death caused the whole tower to be activated in self-destruct sequence. |
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| + | When the weeks approached before Korda's awakening, Alex began planning her death, and released the Uroboros B.O.W.s, [[Revenant]]s, onto the island with the goal of killing everything left.<ref name=":3" /> Alex found Korda outside the mines, escorted by BSAA supervisor [[Barry Burton]]. Knocking Burton off a cliff, she was free to do with Korda as she pleased. Infuriated that Korda showed no sign of the copied-consciousness, she declared her to be a failure and began choking her. With Korda close to passing out, something sparked in Alex's mind and she became fled before finishing the job.<ref>''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'' (2014), file: "[[No Longer Afraid]]".</ref> She confronted Korda and Burton again in the mines, where she infected herself with the modified Uroboros virus.<ref>''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'' (2014), file: "[[Transcend]]".</ref> Alex tried once more in trying to kill Korda, but was knocked to the ground by Moira, who had survived the past six months on the island as well. Chasing the three out to a cliff-edge, Alex's time ran short when faced with a BSAA assault on Sushestvovanie.<ref>''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'' (2014), file: "[[Hope]]".</ref> With weapons supplied by the BSAA, Alex was killed by a rocket launcher before she could achieve vengeance.<ref>''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'' (2014), file: "[[Finding Our Way]]".</ref> |
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| − | Six months later, Alex barely survives the suicide attempt at the cost of her physical form. She uses a robe and a mask to conceal her hideous body from sight. Around this time Alex begins to harbor a certain hatred towards Natalia Korda, and even went as far as to leave a note, detailing her plans to put Natalia to death. |
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| − | Natalia and Alex finally meet face to face when she wanders into a candle-filled chamber with [[Barry Burton]], father of Moira Burton. Laughing at Natalia, Alex claims to have killed Moira six months ago, infuriating Barry who is also surprised to hear that Alex is a Wesker Child. Alex summons a group of Revenant to kill Natalia, but they evade the creatures and retreat to the bowels of the ruined facility. |
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| + | Alex's legacy continued after her death, though not entirely as she had planned. The copied consciousness by July 2013 achieved a success in Korda, who became intrigued by the writings of Franz Kafka and newspaper articles on bioterrorism. The following year, the Kodoku Project was completed, with the researchers offering themselves as test-subjects out of a cultlike devotion to Alex, though the Ultimate Bioweapon on Sondio de Tortugo was destroyed during a BSAA operation coinciding with an attempt by [[Sheng-ya Pharmaceutical]] to steal the research. |
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| − | Alex manages to ambush them at the abandoned town as she knocks Barry onto the cliff and attempts to kill Natalia by choking her. Alex becomes angered to see Natalia retains her human form while hers is mutated. As Natalia open her eyes, she manages to break free from her grasp, making her scream in terror at the glance of her. It is implied that Alex has seen the "Alex's form" of Natalia. |
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| − | She later taunts them again by quoting the words of Franz Kafka as well as Natalia's teddy bear, [[Lottie]]. When they confront her at her secret underground cave, she takes a vial dose of Uroboros virus in a last ditch attempt to destroy Natalia. Alex screams about her wish to "transcend" and the realization on Albert's true motives, as she transforms into Monster Alex. A duel ensued between her and Barry, all the while shouting at Natalia for being a "fake". Barry manages to bring her down temporarily, however, she manages to knock Barry down, making her way on Natalia to exact her revenge, only to be interrupted by Moira. As the trio escapes, the Uroboros consumed her further as she pursues the survivors. Claire Redfield then shows up with a helicopter and urges the survivors to get on board. Claire joins Barry in their attempt to defeat the monstrosity. As Barry distracts Alex through the mines, Claire manages to shoot her exposed core with an [[RPG-7]], killing her. |
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| − | In addition, during the Idol Survival incident, Claire Redfield alongside [[Laura Bierce]] and [[Zǐlì]] investigated the underground lab, which featured several photos of Alex Wesker. Although Laura and Zǐlì did not recognize her or the man in the photographs and wondered what the significance of the photos were, Claire immediately recognized her, initially referring to her as the Overseer before correcting herself and referring to her by her true name of Alex Wesker, and deduced that the island must have been the one she had been stationed at before turning traitor against Spencer and disappearing. |
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| − | Like her "brother," due to Spencer's upbringing, Alex Wesker possessed a power-hungry nature as well as delusions of godhood. Her reflections on Albert imply that she held a lot of respect and sympathy for him, due to being a fellow Wesker child and his actions. Her views on Spencer however, indicated that she had a lot of disgust for him, far more than Albert did, for using them as pawns to achieve immortality and his imminent failure. |
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| − | Alex was an avid reader and was infatuated by the works of Franz Kafka. Alex would portrayed herself as Grete Samsa, and she likened her "sibling" Albert Wesker as Gregor Samsa, the characters of Kafka's novella ''The Metamorphosis''. During the course of the game, Alex mentions many things related to Kafka's literature and his life. |
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| − | Despite her evil ambitions, Alex presented herself as a very charismatic individual to others — both the population of Sushestvovanie and her own research team revered her as an almost godlike figure. This is contrast to Albert's megalomaniac and misanthropic view of the masses, he even treated his subordinates like expendable pawns. |
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| − | Like her brother, she was a master manipulator, in the same way Albert tricked the [[Special Tactics and Rescue Service|S.T.A.R.S.]] members into believing he was on their side, Alex was able to manipulate not only the inhabitants of Sushestvovanie, but her own staff as well, her research staff was so devoted to her that by her command they committed suicide when they were no longer of use to her. |
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| − | Pre-mutation, she was only shown to have basic abilities, not receiving any of the [[Prototype Virus]]'s special abilities unlike her brother Albert. It is strongly implied that her not receiving the abilities was because a preceding illness she had when she got the virus interfered with the virus capacity of granting her these abilities. However, at the very least her age may have slowed down, as similar to Albert, she looked like she was in her twenties or thirties when she was actually in her fifties. |
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Alex Wesker was a high-ranking Umbrella Pharmaceuticals employee who was part of the Project Wesker eugenics program. In the years following Umbrella's downfall, Wesker took control of a number of islands where she began viral research, one of which ruling over a people that hailed her as the Messiah or even a goddess.[2][3][note 2]
Biography
Early Life and Umbrella Employment
"I hope you'll be delighted to know that the experiment's going well." — Alex, to Spencer |
A portrait of the Wesker children.
Alex Wesker's early life and true surname are unknown. She was taken from her parents at an early age as part of the Wesker Project, a eugenics project, and renamed after the project leader, Dr. Wesker. As part of the project, she was given a privileged upbringing with access to the best education around, while at home being instilled with the world views of Dr. Oswell E. Spencer, Earl Spencer. Dr. Lord Spencer's ultimate goal was that these children would later be infected with a Progenitor Virus strain and usher in a Utopian superhuman society, and though the virus was not yet ready for this goal he recognised the need for the several hundred candidates to share their worldviews with himself.[4] As a young-adult, Alex left her home into higher-level education in a field of her choosing, and was headhunted by Umbrella Pharmaceuticals as one of a short-list of as little as thirteen candidates.[5] How many of the other Weskers Alex was raised with is unknown, though she was close to Albert, an Umbrella virologist, of whom the two were considered the best candidates of the project.[6]
By the 1990s, Alex was mostly or even fully aware of Project Wesker, kept a secret to others, and was an acquaintance of Dr. Lord Spencer as a senior member of the Umbrella Intelligence Division. On the Umbrella CEO's instructions, in 1998 the Wesker candidates were infected with the prototype virus as part of the next phase in the project.[7] Alex and Albert were the only confirmed survivors of this procedure, though Albert was able to fake his death for several months. The virus had a 20% probability of negligible mutation for each candidate, and became a certainty in Alex due to an incurable illness she had developed.[6] Consequently, she possessed no superhuman powers.[8] When confirming Albert's apparent death in August 1998, Alex strongly suggested replacing their losses by infecting the hundreds of washout candidates who, though not as academically successful still shared the same upbringing, but it appears this never game into fruition.[9]
Betrayal of Umbrella
Alex herself was not as loyal to Dr. Lord Spencer as he believed, and made sure to use her position to build a power base of her own while Umbrella Pharmaceuticals still had resources she could use.[10] On 19 July 2000, Alex and a team of Umbrella researchers, among whom her loyal confidant, Stuart, landed on Sushestvovanie Island.[11] A small Russian island which suffered an economic collapse during the Fall of the Soviet Union, Alex chose to take advantage of their desperation before using them as guinea pigs. Using Umbrella's funds, Alex kickstarted an economic recovery by hiring the locals to construct a research complex. Seeking to eventually use the locals as guinea pigs, she also saw the re-opening of its mines, which made an ideal place for abducting test subjects.[11] Unaware of this, she was hailed as a messianic figure by the locals for her actions.[12]
After the final collapse of Umbrella in 2003, Alex remained at Dr. Lord Spencer's side. Sent out to Umbrella's old facility at Sonido de Tortuga Island, Alex was instructed to divert viral weapons research towards the creation of a virus which would halt the telomere-shortening properties of human cells which had made ageing an inevitability. To be infected with a such a mutagen would have made him biologically immortal.[7][13] Already feeling the effects of her own degenerative illness, Alex gave up on the project and abandoned Sonido de Tortuga,[14] taking all research data with her to Sushestvovanie Island, where she reformed it into the t-Phobos Project in 2006, a year after beginning the initial research.[15] Instead of keeping alive an aged body, Alex's new project instead aimed at creating a virus which would allow memories and personality to be copied into a new body. This may have been brought on by her illness, as a new Alex would not suffer from a terminal disease. The problem in developing this virus, however, was that brain chemistry was the deciding factor in a successful transfer - production of hormones associated with fear would fail a candidate, and six months of exposure to the virus was necessary for Alex's copied consciousness to take over.[16]
During work on t-Phobos, Alex received news firstly of Spencer's death in mid-2006, and secondly of Albert's death in early 2009. Though she had grown to see him as a feeble old man with delusions of grandeur, she appreciated his eugenics views and strove to see t-Phobos become a success, which would realise his dream but by making her the god of the new world instead.[10] When she heard of Albert's death, she took a more personal blow, and as now the sole remaining of the thirteen candidates, she insisted the project be sped-up.[17] Outside of t-Phobos, Alex also set-up the Kodoku Project, which aimed to create new bio-weaponry, being developed by loyal researchers within Umbrella's abandoned base on Sonido de Tortuga.[18]
t-Phobos completion (2011)
t-Phobos research had been tested on the wider population since 2008, largely by recruiting mine workers as a source of research and passing off their absence as them signing on to a full year's work.[11] Alterations to the virus in January 2010 reduced the chances of killing the host and reducing the chance of them developing an immunity,[19] but the test subjects to continue failing, having been overcome by their fears and turned into mutants rather than developing Alex's new life. Towards the end of the project, Alex separated herself from it, possibly due to her health, and moved on the duties of chief researcher to another,[20] who worker with her and Stuart.[21] With the virus finalised, though without any candidates, day-to-day work moved on to modifying the Uroboros Virus.
Running out of options, Alex began looking for new candidates from outside the island, and found her solution with Neil Fisher. Though the leader of the prominent NGO, TerraSave, Fisher had come to share the views of the incarcerated FBC leader Morgan Lansdale, that radical actions had to be taken to ensure global stability in the face of bioterrorism. The two agreed to a pact: he would supply members of his own organisation, who had experiences with facing mutants, in exchange for a sample of Uroboros so that a vaccine could be created, rendering it worthless as a black market product.
Some time in 2011, the operation began, with the abduction of over a dozen people at a company party, among whom Fisher himself as a means of obtaining Uroboros. One by one the pool was again met with failures, seeing the mutation of Gabriel Chavez when he attempted to escape the island in a booby-trapped helicopter while several others were killed by mutants, leaving only three remaining candidates: Claire Redfield, Moira Burton and Natalia Korda. Stuart's team continued monitoring the survivors' progress, and concluded Korda, a child, was the ideal candidate as childhood trauma made her incapable of feeling fear.[22] Fisher was ordered therefore to abduct Korda and take her directly to Alex,[23] so that she could be put in a comatose state for the next six months to ensure the experiment's success.[16][22]
Seeking to tie-up loose ends, Alex infected Fisher with the modified Uroboros strain to turn him into a monster rather than simply handing it over. Stuart meanwhile oversaw the killing of all researchers ahead of his own suicide so that they not accidentally interfere with other plans. As Korda was placed into storage in a bunker beneath her tower, Alex was confronted by Redfield and Burton, the two remaining candidates who had also become unnecessary to her plans. Believing everything to be complete, Alex took out a handgun and shot herself in the head, which triggered the facility's self-destruct system.
Alex, however, did not die as planned. In her final moments between pulling the trigger and her intended death, she felt the fear of dying and becoming nothing. Her unconscious body began to quickly mutate, turning her into powerful and disfigured mutant, wearing robes and a mask to disguise her deformation. In the six month wait for Korda's awakening, Alex fell into an existential crisis. She had once triumphed the project as effectively making her immortal, birthed into a new body, but was disturbed at the idea of two Alexes existing simultaneously. Korda therefore began to be seen as an impostor Alex, unworthy of holding the mantle of a god.[24]
Alex after injecting herself the Uroboros virus.
When the weeks approached before Korda's awakening, Alex began planning her death, and released the Uroboros B.O.W.s, Revenants, onto the island with the goal of killing everything left.[24] Alex found Korda outside the mines, escorted by BSAA supervisor Barry Burton. Knocking Burton off a cliff, she was free to do with Korda as she pleased. Infuriated that Korda showed no sign of the copied-consciousness, she declared her to be a failure and began choking her. With Korda close to passing out, something sparked in Alex's mind and she became fled before finishing the job.[25] She confronted Korda and Burton again in the mines, where she infected herself with the modified Uroboros virus.[26] Alex tried once more in trying to kill Korda, but was knocked to the ground by Moira, who had survived the past six months on the island as well. Chasing the three out to a cliff-edge, Alex's time ran short when faced with a BSAA assault on Sushestvovanie.[27] With weapons supplied by the BSAA, Alex was killed by a rocket launcher before she could achieve vengeance.[28]
Legacy
Alex's legacy continued after her death, though not entirely as she had planned. The copied consciousness by July 2013 achieved a success in Korda, who became intrigued by the writings of Franz Kafka and newspaper articles on bioterrorism. The following year, the Kodoku Project was completed, with the researchers offering themselves as test-subjects out of a cultlike devotion to Alex, though the Ultimate Bioweapon on Sondio de Tortugo was destroyed during a BSAA operation coinciding with an attempt by Sheng-ya Pharmaceutical to steal the research.
Sources
- notes
- references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 BIOHAZARD REVELATIONS 2 ULTIMANIA.
- ↑ Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2015), file: "Town Resident's Memo".
- ↑ Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2015), file: "Mine Worker's Diary 1".
- ↑ Resident Evil 5 (2009), file: "Albert Wesker".
- ↑ Resident Evil 5 (2010), file: "Test Subjects".
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Yasuhiro Anpo Interview (Project Umbrella)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition, (2010), file: "Spencer's Memoirs 1".
- ↑ Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (2007), file: "Virus Memo".
- ↑ Resident Evil 5 (2009), file: "Report on Project W - August 28, 1998".
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Resident Evil Revelations 2 (2015), file: "Alex's Memo - Spencer"
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2014), file: "The Old Man's Journal".
- ↑ Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2015), file: "The Old Man's Journal".
- ↑ Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition (2010), file: "Spencer's Memoirs 2".
- ↑ Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition (2010), file: "Spencer's Memoirs 4".
- ↑ Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition (2010), file: "Spencer's Memoirs 3".
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2014), file: "Notes on the Transfer Procedure".
- ↑ Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2014), file: "Stuart's Memo - The Wesker Project".
- ↑ BIOHAZARD heavenly island.
- ↑ Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2014), file: "Clinical Experiment Notes".
- ↑ Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2014), file: "Research Facility Chief's Journal 1".
- ↑ Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2014), file: "Research Facility Chief's Journal 2".
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2014), file: "Stuart's Memo - Natalia Korda".
- ↑ Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2014), file: "Neil's Report".
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2014), file: "Hatred of Natalia".
- ↑ Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2014), file: "No Longer Afraid".
- ↑ Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2014), file: "Transcend".
- ↑ Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2014), file: "Hope".
- ↑ Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2014), file: "Finding Our Way".
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