Character Name: Allen Isaac Ritter (a.k.a. Air)
Board Name: Zaifire
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 24
Zoids: Blade Liger & Konig Wolf
AIM Screenname: qliger

Description & History: Allen stands at 5 foot 9 inches tall with a slender build. He doesn’t know his weight, but when asked he usually estimates it at around 130 pounds. He has reddish-brown short-ish hair and hazel eyes. Due to the fact that he looks much younger than he actually is, people sometimes assume that he is much younger than 24. He usually wears a white blazer with blue jeans, although on hotter days he can be seen with a light colored T-shirt and a cap. His favorite foods are cherries, anything like cherries (cherry pie, cherry candy, and the like), and deep-dish pizza.

Allen is sort of a shy person, and is very awkward in many social situations. However, when it comes to close friends and family, he is very talkative and seems to know how to make people laugh. He likes to tell jokes and can do several voice impressions (some better than others). Also, he gets attached to things easily, and will often go to exceedingly great lengths to ensure that people and things he cares about come to no harm, regardless of his own situation.

Allen was born to parents Lucille Dawson and Michael Ritter close to North Coy Bay on Loramere. There, he lived a fairly normal childhood, except for the occasional skirmish between military factions. These skirmishes were very interesting to Allen when he was very young, and this interest helped nurse his growing fascination with Zoids. Then, shortly before his sixteenth birthday, his parents were killed in a car accident. After this, Allen bounced around from the streets to foster homes. It was during this time that he began to develop his social awkwardness and gained his nickname, Air, from one of his foster parents. To Allen’s dismay, the name stuck.

After he turned eighteen, Allen moved north, doing odd jobs and earning money where he could. Eventually, he worked his way up to Patras, and there began to work in a body shop and rent an apartment. Eventually, he found some distant relatives in town and began to stay with them.

When he was twenty one, Allen came across an old, very beat up Blade Liger in a scrap yard. He asked the owner, a man who introduced himself as Marco, if he could buy the Cat. Marco said yes, but the price exceeded Allen’s budget. So, Marco made a deal: If Allen could work off the money for the liger, he could have it. Allen quickly accepted, and a few months later the liger, whom he had named Spade for the peculiar decal on the front shoulder armor, was his.

Allen continued to work for Marco, all the while working on repairing his new old liger, Spade. When Allen turned twenty three, he bought a winning lottery ticket, and used the money to purchase a particularly whiny, red Konig Wolf that he named Dagger. With his twenty forth birthday came Spade’s finishing touch: A paint job consisting of asphalt grey armor, chalk white structure and spade decals, and light grey claws and cockpit canopy. After this, Spade developed a headstrong personality and a strong bond with Allen. At this, Allen registered himself and his two Zoids in the battling leagues, and is currently moving from place to place in search of battles.