Alex Rider
Alex Rider is the main character of the series, his name being the title for the franchise. Alex's parents were killed when their private plane crashed - later revealed to have been caused by a bomb planted by Ash - and he was subsequently raised by his uncle Ian Rider, until Ian himself was killed when Alex was fourteen years old. After his uncle's death, MI6 allows Alex's best friend and housekeeper, Jack Starbright, to become his legal guardian and after that he was working for MI6.
His father and uncle were secretly spies for MI6, and Ian Rider had been, unbeknownst to Alex, training Alex his whole life for a career with MI6, teaching him several languages and enrolling him in karate classes. After his uncle is killed, MI6 send Alex on his first mission. He is trained with the SAS and codenamed "Cub". Alex is repeatedly used by MI6 on assignments, and has also been used by the CIA and ASIS. He is very reluctant to take on these assignments, even though he is very capable of successfully completing them, and usually has to be blackmailed into them.
"Most schoolboys dream of being spies, with Alex, we have a spy that dreams of being a schoolboy," said MI6 chief Alan Blunt. Through his adventures, Alex discovers new things about his uncle, his parents, and his godfather, Ash, who were all involved in secret services, with the exception of his mother, who was a nurse.
His assignments often affect him mentally, his eyes often being described as "having seen too much", and he has few friends left at his school, his classmates viewing him as strange because of his long absences from school.
Alex speaks German, French and Spanish (as well as Japanese in the film adaption) and also has a limited grasp of Italian. He is a black-belt in karate. He is an accomplished diver, and has experience in several extreme sports. He is described as having "fair hair, cut short except for two thick strands hanging over his forehead", "the body of an athlete" and having "a face that would attract plenty of girls" as well as "thin lips", and a "slightly chiselled nose and chin". After the novel Scorpia, he has a bullet wound, as well as several scars and bruises from previous assignments. Alex is fourteen years old in the first seven novels, and will be turning fifteen after the end of Crocodile Tears, the eighth novel.
Rated: Not suitable for young children
Summary: Three weeks before his sixteenth birthday, Alex Rider was committed at the Brookwood Institute of Mental Health in Surrey, England.
Categories: Angst,
*Fests & challenges* >
Flash Rider
Characters: Alex Rider
Warnings: Abuse
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [
Table of Contents]
Completed: Yes • Words: 1061 • Views: 110
[Report This] Published: 26/08/2010
Updated: 26/08/2010
Rated: General - all ages
Summary: 
Alex Rider has been framed. He is not an internationally famous, ruthless thief. Fortunately, Blunt believes him. Unfortunately, his idea of dealing with the situation involves bringing in a certain SAS unit to track Alex’s every move...er... protect him.
Categories: Action/Adventure,
Mystery
Characters: Alex Rider,
K Unit
Warnings: Violence
Series: None
Chapters: 4 [
Table of Contents]
Completed: No • Words: 9756 • Views: 4199
[Report This] Published: 29/11/2008
Updated: 02/10/2009
Rated: Not suitable for young children
Summary: Yassen and Alex have a conversation about whether or not there is such a thing as the greater good and that if there is, does it apply in this setting where Snake is at the point to die but Alex has left him to continue following after Yassen in the hopes of preventing him from delivering a dangerous package to his cohorts. Alex is 16.
Categories: Action/Adventure,
Angst
Characters: Alex Rider,
K Unit,
Yassen Gregorovich
Warnings: AU,
Violence
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [
Table of Contents]
Completed: Yes • Words: 2576 • Views: 147
[Report This] Published: 05/09/2009
Updated: 06/09/2009
Rated: Restricted - no under 16s
Summary: Alex had just finished a mission in Paris when he bumped in to the last person he ever thought he'd see: Yassen. Their paths crossed on more than one occasion, and soon Alex found himself drawn in to something he didn't know if he could handle. Will he be able to cope with everything? Or will he break?
Categories: Action/Adventure,
Angst,
Hurt/Comfort,
Mission,
Romance,
Slash
Characters: Alex Rider,
Yassen Gregorovich
Warnings: Sex,
Violence
Series: None
Chapters: 2 [
Table of Contents]
Completed: No • Words: 7337 • Views: 460
[Report This] Published: 05/05/2011
Updated: 18/05/2011
Rated: Not suitable for young children
Summary: Alex has been through a lot. It was inevitable that he would soon begin to face the consequences. PTSD. We all know what that is. Except Alex until he experiences it first hand. Alex's relationship with Wolf is tested severely. Companion for For Better Or For Worse'
Categories: Angst,
Hurt/Comfort
Characters: Alex Rider,
Original Female character,
Wolf
Warnings: None
Series: None
Chapters: 2 [
Table of Contents]
Completed: Yes • Words: 12385 • Views: 101
[Report This] Published: 25/11/2011
Updated: 25/11/2011
Rated: Not suitable for young children
Summary: Perhaps it was because death just didn't move him the way it does other people. Every one dies, that's a fact. Alex couldn't afford the time it took to feel guilty every time he killed some one.
Categories: Angst,
Drabble
Characters: Alex Rider
Warnings: Character death
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [
Table of Contents]
Completed: Yes • Words: 403 • Views: 93
[Report This] Published: 04/01/2011
Updated: 04/01/2011
Rated: General - all ages
Summary: A sort of sequel to "The Art of Lying" OneShot
Categories: Humour
Characters: Alex Rider,
K Unit
Warnings: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [
Table of Contents]
Completed: Yes • Words: 666 • Views: 100
[Report This] Published: 31/05/2011
Updated: 31/05/2011
Rated: General - all ages
Summary: There are some things so secret, so covert and underground, dark and mysterious, that the secret could end a country. With Aquarius, there are no accidents, there is no gossip. There is truth, and nothing more. Look out Scorpia, your double is closing in.
Categories: Action/Adventure
Characters: Alex Rider
Warnings: Violence
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [
Table of Contents]
Completed: No • Words: 1217 • Views: 38
[Report This] Published: 22/03/2011
Updated: 23/03/2011
Rated: Adults only
Summary: [YG/AR] Kidnapped by Yassen and raised by Scorpia, Alex Rider is the world’s youngest assassin. When a mission takes an unexpected turn, MI6 sends Ian Rider to bring him home. Alex would rather die than work for the people who he thinks killed his father, but the choice is about to be taken out of Alex’s hands. It’s kill or be killed, and the time to choose has run out. AU
Categories: *Fests & challenges* >
Spy Fest 2010,
Slash
Characters: Alan Blunt,
Alex Rider,
Ian Rider,
Julia Rothman,
Nile,
Yassen Gregorovich
Warnings: AU,
Character death,
Non-con,
Sex,
Torture,
Violence
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [
Table of Contents]
Completed: Yes • Words: 22296 • Views: 208
[Report This] Published: 10/06/2010
Updated: 10/06/2010
Rated: Not suitable for young children
Summary: Alex heads back to his old school to pick up his colleague's daughter. However, the repercussions from said excursion are a little higher than expected. What will happen when a teacher figures out Alex's current profession?
Categories: Friendship,
Humour
Characters: Alex Rider,
Original Female character
Warnings: None
Series: None
Chapters: 13 [
Table of Contents]
Completed: Yes • Words: 21487 • Views: 358
[Report This] Published: 09/08/2011
Updated: 22/08/2011
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