History Characters / YIIKAPostModernRPG

* CatchPhrase: "What the hell is going on?!", or anything of the sort where he just asks anyone in the vicinity to explain the weird shit that's happening during his adventure. Expect to hear it a lot.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Every member of the cast apart from Claudio can be considered to be one of these.

* CatchPhrase: Not really one, but his frequent utterance of "What the hell is going on?!" ''nearly'' counts as one.

* AmbiguouslyBi: While Alex does take several female romantic interests throughout the game and spares no details about the many girlfriends he had during college, he can also be compelled into trying to kiss Rory.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Alex manages to grate on everyone's nerves in one way or another and is in general a clueless, self centered jackass. He does, however, show enough positive atributes for his friends to genuinely like him.

* OptionalPartyMember: Whether he stays with the party is largely determinant; if you don't encourage him, [[spoiler:he commits suicide and the player is locked out of using him again until a NewGame+ or change in save file]].

* AMistakeIsBorn: It's explained in the Mind Dungeon that Alex's dad regarded him as one.

* DifficultButAwesome: Alex's standard LP attack. Which has both the lowest and highest potential damage output out of the available standard attacks in the game.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Alex is a clueless, self-centered ass but it's mainly from a lack of real world experience and perspective beyond what he learned at college. In interacting with his friends, he tries to rectify this with...varied...results.
* LackOfEmpathy: He gets upset at Rory when meeting him again after a short TimeSkip, accusing the latter of lying about what happened to his sister (who [[spoiler: committed suicide]]) when it's obvious that Rory was hurting and didn't want to open up about it. Keep in mind that Rory knew Alex for less than a day and most people, for obvious reasons, don't open up about something as sensitive as that to a stranger they just met. To his credit, he does apologise later on.
* MotorMouth: Definitely.
* [[spoiler: ThisLoserIsYou:]] If the rest of the game didn't tip you off, [[spoiler: he's eventually revealed to be a parallel universe counterpart of the player in the end.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:He takes his own life if you don't encourage him at prompted moments and pick him up from his house in wind-town.]]

* MasterOfUnlocking: Played with and subverted. When Alex mentions that the van holding [[spoiler:Essentia]] is locked, Claudio accuses him of being racist by assuming all black people can pick locks (Alex literally said nothing of the sort)... then admits that he ''does'' know how to pick locks (attributing it to a "Sherlock Holmes phase")... and then further admits he doesn't know how to pick ''car'' locks.

* MsExposition: When Alex finally gets to meet her, she dumps a large amount of exposition on her purpose, the Soul Space, and the Soul Survivors.

* ThisLoserIsYou: If the rest of the game didn't tip you off, he's eventually revealed to be a parallel universe counterpart of the player in the end.

--> "LEMONADE!"

* AlternateSelf: [[Spoiler: He's not this dimension's original Michael. He's eventually able to meet all of his alternate selves at once, transforming him into Proto-Michael.]]

* DimensionTraveler: [[spoiler: He's eventually able to travel into the Soul Space and communicate with ever other Michael in the multiverse, thereby transforming him into Proto-Michael. Additionally, the player character Michael was never the one from this dimension. He traveled through the Soul Space to a dimension where he could remain with Alex rather than moving away.]]