Alex (Puppy Affection)

Alex is one of the primary protagonists of the web short story Puppy Affection, the first OC written and published by user Caio202.

He is a 14 years old teenage boy who found the titular puppies, along with his little brother Bryan, and adopted them.

Story
One day, Alex and his family was on a tour in a park, when he and his youngest brother, the 5 years old Bryan, heard puppies crying in the thicket. They meet two one-month old brown puppies, who were brought to there by a female, hungry, sentient, evil harpy eagle who was looking for eat them. The puppies were hungry, crying, terrified and one of them was hurt. Unable to leave such innocent creatures there, alone, hungry and helpless, and also because he loves animals, Alex propose to adopt the adorable puppies. His brother, Bryan, also loved them, and the boys took the puppies and asked to their father to allow the adoption. Because they're good sons, the father allows and the family took the puppies to their house, where Alex takes care of the puppies and feeds them. When the harpy arrives at the location when she keept the puppies and does not find them, she freaks out and managed to search the family to their house.

Some day, the parents aren't at home and Alex and his siblings are on backyard playing with the little dogs. The harpy invades their backyard to take the puppies, and Alex manages to take them from home before she picks up them, only for Bryan be captured by her. Bryan cries after one of the puppies is hurt by the eagle, with Alex conforts him, when the eagle picks him. Alex manages to prevents him for being captured, but is worthless and the little boy is dragged away by the furious bird, who demand them to deliever her the puppies so that she deliever Bryan back to them.

So Alex is forced to take the puppies to eagle lair with his older brother, Malcolm, who got hurt on his face by the harpy when he tried to drive her away. Taking the puppies to the harpy's lair is hightly painful to Alex, who loves the puppies and knows his little brother, Bryan, loves them too and would suffer with their deaths, since he now have to give the puppies back to the harpy in order to take the youngest Bryan back, knowing the little dogs will be eaten. In the path, he tearfully comforts the puppies, saying won't let nothing bad happen to them, knowing he has to deliever them to harpy if he wants save his brother, since there's no choice. But also, he thinks a way to save both his brother and the dogs.

Arriving at the lair, the two teenage boys faces a large amount of human child bones, showing the bird has been kidnapping and eating countless children, including babies. Bryan is tied with vines, and the harpy is at a pedestal waiting her prey. When she demands the dogs, who she refers as her food, Alex suffer in deliever the little animals to be eaten, but Malcolm comforts him, saying this is what must be done. When Alex put the crying puppies, Mark and Luck, on the pedestal's foot as holocaust to the eagle, Mark touchs him with his little pawn, begging for not die, which breaks up Alex. Then, he angrily tells the harpy to deliever Bryan, but the bird says that they must see her eating the puppies so that she will deliever them the boy.