Doctor Alexander Theodore Bettencourt was a British soldier, explorer, adventurer, politician, and statesman. He has received the Victoria Cross two times, one during his military service, and one posthumously. He was killed in action in early October 2011 near the outskirts of Kandahar, Afghanistan. He is known as a combat veteran of the special forces, and ranks as the most highly trained operative in human history. He was an elite assassin trained to kill an enemy with any threatening object ranging from a pen to a paper towel. He reached the highest physical and mental challenges in the British military.
He was born on September 24, 1972 in Manchester, Lancashire, England, in the United Kingdom, to two wealthy British politicians Jacques Guillaume and Veronica (nee MacLaren.) He was raised in a French-speaking family with origins in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, France, at the time part of the German Empire. His paternal great-great-grandfather was a French general and at one time, infamous Marshal of France. His maternal grandfather, Alexander Jonathan MacLaren, was a British officer in the British Royal Marines. He is of French, German, Scottish, and Irish descent. He was raised a devout Roman Catholic, although he actually usually refused to show it, and changed to Anglicanism. His family descends from Clan MacLaren.
Bettencourt has fiery red hair, an auburn (reddish-brown) mustache, pale, light skin, and freckles. His main weapons of choice are an L96 bolt-action sniper rifle, as well as a Browning HP pistol. He also sometimes uses an HK MP5 submachine gun. He was a veteran of the British Royal Marines, Special Air Service, and the Special Reconnaissance, as well as all of the special operations branches and special forces groups in the British military. He was a special agent for the MI6 for a while, and infiltrated a Russian nuclear program. He was a former hand-to-hand combat instructor in the British Army. He proved to be an excellent marksman, as well as an expert knife thrower with quick wits and a deadpan sense of humor. He is a skilled drummer and an amazing dancer. Despite his sometimes rather bookwormish appearance, he is a skilled gunfighter with an M1911 pistol. Throughout the series franchise The Archduke of Prussia, he wears different clothes matched with different weapons throughout the series, including, but are not limited to:
1. White, clean lab coat and khaki pants with glasses and a tucked-in red shit, with a nickel plated double-barreled shotgun, and a Webley Revolver as a sidearm in a brown, leather holster slung from his right hip.
2. A standard issue Ghillie suit with a white and black mask and an L96 or M21 sniper rifle as a main weapon, and a SIG Sauer P226 pistol as a sidearm in a holster, faced forwards, on his left hip.
3. An SAS counter-terrorism raider outfit with a gas respirator and a black and purple jumpsuit with a black vest and bullet-proof jacket, armed with an HK MP5 and a Browning HP pistol as his weapons.
4. A plain white shirt with a black turtleneck and tight, blue jeans with a black belt, and running shoes, and a scoped M1903 Springfield rifle as a main weapon and an HK USP semi-automatic pistol as a sidearm.
5. A WW1-era British khaki uniform with puttee rolls and a Lee-Enfield bolt-action rifle with a bayonet, as well as an M1 Garand with a bayonet, and an M1911 pistol and a Mark I trench knife as a sidearm weapon.
6. A DPM Smock Windproof and trousers, as well as an SA80 bullpup assault rifle, as well as an HK UMP and/or an HK G36, with an HK45 pistol as a sidearm.
He received the Victoria Cross and many other military decorations and awards. He was killed in action while serving with a group of British Army riflemen while securing defensive position in an assault on Taliban positions, near the outskirts of the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan. His death is described by fellow Victoria Cross recipient and automatic rifleman Francis Doherty:
"Personally, I literally thought that Doctor Alexander Bettencourt was a god. I was born in Ireland, and raised a devout Roman Catholic in a British family with Irish Catholic descent from Derry. Bettencourt was fluent in his native English, as well as his family's French, and German, Latin, Gaelic, Swahili, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Afrikaans, Dutch, Maori, and even Comanche. I am an ordinary automatic rifleman. I took my machine-gun out there and blasted the hell out of the Taliban. But they just kept on coming towards us. I threw down my machine-gun and went for a rifle. In took my rifle, mounted a bayonet on it, and charged forward with Bettencourt. We then put some burst fire on a machine-gun nest, and I gave a grenade to Bettencourt. He is just an army medic, but hell, can he fight! He threw that grenade probably about 80 feet, and it exploded right in front of the Taliban machine-gunner. He dropped dead, but a man came out with a suspicious-looking fuel tank on his back, and he was armed with a flamethrower. He set fire to the grass, and we took cover in the field. Bettencourt ran for his stretcher, and we saw our wounded, burning lieutenant colonel, Lt. Col. Winchester, on the ground in flames. I gave Bettencourt some cover fire, and shot at the fuel tank, exploding the man holding it. I then finally went for the stretcher and Bettencourt and I carried it back to a small, dug-out style trench. Bettencourt got shot, but kept on going. We took him back, and nursed him back to health. I then saw Bettencourt spitting up blood, and he dropped dead. I was devastated that my best friend that I had known since I was a young boy was just killed, but the Queen had blessed me with my gift and my machine-gun, and I had to carry on."
