Editing Alex Taylor (section)

==Background==
He's on the school rolls as a male and wears the boys' uniform, but that's the extent to which he bows to societal convention. He's blond and green-eyed, and keeps his hair as long as the rules will let him get away with; he wears earrings and a necklace with a yin-yang pendant under his uniform, occasionally a bit of eyeliner or lip-gloss. On weekends and holidays he dresses even more androgynously, if anything (at least, when he's not passing as someone else). 

He's a foster child, living with the Owens, a poor family supplementing a meager income with foster care payments, living in that block of the catchment that the borough council wants to knock down but can't seem to really get rid of. The Owens are also quite religious, and they and all their foster brood (4 including Alex, the oldest, but none of their own) attend services every Sunday, as well as insisting on religious assembly; they send their kids to St. Jude's because of Church, not the academics.

He's in year 11, taking a music elective -- he's a musician, and plays the flute (he has a tarnished old one that he was given by a previous foster family) quite well -- in addition to the required courses. He's smart but skates by on the minimum requirements, doing homework cursorily if at all, and his foster parents don't really care too much.