Alexander Ryder

Alex is a somewhat tall boy. He is approximately 6'2 at the tip of his head, with a very lanky weight of 110 lbs. He has a scar running down his head, starting at the top of his pale forehead, shutting off some of his dirty blond spikes, running over his permanently shut right eyelids, down to the chin, curving over the lip. He wears an eye patch simply to cover the worst of it. His one remaining eye is a piercing blue, reminiscent of the pain he suffers. He has a thin chin where the scar ends, making that side of the chin somewhat chiseled. Overall, he has an underfed look, due to his vigorous work.

His facial features aside, he has long arms and legs, full of black spots and other scars due to smaller accidents and blowouts. He has broad shoulders, plain and simple. His torso is, compared to some, simply bigger, while he has an underfed belly. He has long legs, most of the hair completely shocked off, usually going barefoot, showing his almost charred toes.

Before the accident, he was a very easygoing boy. He was very likable and kind, with a touch of coldness to strangers, whilst warming up afterward. He did have a temper though, and was very cocky and hotheaded. This can still occasionally show up in him, but is no longer the boy he was.

After that accident, he became very shy. He was now an introvert, who accepted any human contact he could get. He is able to survive without any contact at all, if he has to. However, he became merciless, and if somebody was close to death, he would just let them bleed out. He became even more kind to those he did keep or even befriend, though.

He is almost bipolar now. Sometimes, his first personality shines brightly, other times, his current shows. The first personality, is somewhat dulled actually. He is less brave and not cocky anymore, plus the merciless trait still shows either way. A major flaw is that if he changes, he could completely forget what he is doing, and it could cost one their life.

At the beginning of his life, he led a somewhat okay life. He had friends, family, a very lively post-work social life. His family, consisting of father Watson, mother Dina, and twin sister Erica. He went to work early on, doing easy tasks, such as checking the circuits, easily going through the ranks. His life was good; he was joyful.

His life went downhill from the point he graduated to fixing Wires, at 10 years old. It was a damp room, he always had shaky hands due to his concentration. He did fine the first year, fixing some of the finest. But when he went to fix an unstable machine, it all went awry. He quickly coiled the wires, something he hadn't done since his first day, and two slipped out, quickly swiping around. In his attempts to grab them, he grabbed one, but the other slashed his right eye. He had immediate medical attention, but everything changed.

He became more meek, more shy. He had become more merciless, however, he became more kind to whoever stayed. Few stayed, and he became a loner. His parents died, as many people often do, in separate electrical accidents. They didn't have enough to feed them both, but while Alex barely survived, Erica perished while at work.

Alex had a nervous breakdown at 13, requiring a month of rest and therapy. He became more calm, but nevertheless, he was still the shy boy he had become. To the day, he is fixing circuits again.