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Info; Crux Fleet
name | Allen Walker (formerly "Red")
series | D.Gray-Man (manga)
canon point | chapter 207 + 13 months @ Exsilium
companion | Timcanpy
species | human (Noah)
gender | male
age | 17ish (getting old)
birthdate | N/A, celebrated on 12/25
nationality | English
height | 5'9'' / 175 cm (and growiiing)
weight | 123 lbs / 56kg
hair / eyes | white / gray
bloodtype | O
voice | tenor; English accent (possibly RP)
notable features |
• the scar over his left eye (reddish in color, clearly cut into his skin)
• his left arm (segmented like an exoskeleton, deep red in color, almost always covered with a sleeve and glove in public)
affiliation | Exorcist
family |
• Mana Walker (adoptive father; deceased)
hobbies | eating, counting his money...
favorite food | sweet dumplings (mitarashi dango)
favorite colors | black and white, and Timcanpy-yellow
dislikes | alcohol, debts
in brief | irascible orphan turned clown turned cheerful wannabe gentleman turned cardshark turned Exorcist turned savior of souls turned hobo fugitive.
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EXSILIUM HISTORY
Allen arrived in Exsilium on December 1st, just another confused face among a sizable influx of new Transports. Arriving in the far-flung future would be a shock to anyone, and although he was given a brief rundown of the war and their enemy, the United Earth, his primary concern at first remained returning to his world and his comrades, wary of putting too much stock in his kidnappers' story. Especially when the Initiative seemed more concerned with throwing parties than fighting battles, at first.
Within the first few weeks, he met his new roommates, Zelos Wilder and Sophie – who would remain with him for the remainder of their time in Exsilium and become something of a second family – became acquainted with modern technology, and faced off against the fluffy reanimated corpses of residents' former pets. The latter was practically life as usual. And it wasn't until January when he experienced his first time travel mission, to New Mexico in the 1880's. And that was essentially his home turf, time-wise. It was a relatively nonviolent mission, practically a vacation compared to what he was used to back home; Allen still hadn't had a taste of this war firsthand.
He got one in February, on a mission to Uruguay, 2753. The objective was to retrieve an "artificial intelligence", and beat back the United Earth's forces hellbent on stopping them. Allen fought against the UE's soldiers without the use of deadly force, thinking that all he needed to do was keep them away from the Transports retrieving the AI... until he learned that the UE would be destroying the entire coastline the second the Transports transported away, and there was no way to prevent it. This was a sort of certain, wholesale destruction, and powerlessness in the face of it, that he'd have to learn to steel himself against.
Life returned more or less to normal, for a time; Allen picked himself up and kept walking, as is his wont. He explored the wilderness beyond the city of Exsilium and learned why nobody really ventures out that far. In March, his close comrade Lenalee arrived from the future, and, according to her, it'd really been as if he'd never left. A glimmer of hope.
A mission to a college in Baltimore in the 1990's would have passed uneventfully, if Allen hadn't been bodyswapped with his sworn enemy from home, the Noah Tyki Mikk, in a bizarre transporter accident on the way there. The swap lasted for a week and Allen made it out alive, with a slightly better understanding of the Noah.
May brought one of the most significant events in Allen's Exsilium career: Elmer's world. The Initiative attempted to send one Transporter, Elmer C. Albatross, back to his own home world. Unfortunately, the United Earth followed them there, and attacked. It was all-out war, but wholly one-sided – Elmer's world didn't stand a chance against the UE's forces. The Initiative sent waves of Transporters to cities across this version of Earth to fight back, but so much had already been lost. Allen arrived in Paris, already reduced to rubble, and fought desperately against the UE's forces. But there was no one left to save. Defending himself and a friend, Allen turned his Innocence on another human with the intent to harm, and although he didn't fight to kill, he turned a blind eye when his friend did. The United Earth snuffed out billions of lives in a day.
Allen had given up his search for a way home entirely by this point. Not only because of the clear risk involved, but because there was no way he could abandon this — or any world to a similar fate. He wouldn't let himself believe it was possible to bring back those lost, but he could devote his life here to preventing it from happening again.
But there's only so much he could really do. The United Earth bombed Exsilium in June, and although Allen spent days braving the blasts and carrying the weak and injured to underground shelters, temporary blindness be damned, there was still no way to save everyone.
Insert a brief interlude with a mission to the Late Cretaceous Period in July here. He also goes to Disney World, at some point. It can't all be doom and gloom.
In August, a stranger from home arrived – Inspector Howard Link – with some rather poor news. This time the doom and gloom took a very personal turn, as Link informed Allen that he was the host of the Fourteenth Noah, which could someday erode Allen's mind entirely and attack the ones he loves. After verifying this with his Master, Cross Marian, Allen let this revelation simmer for a time, before informing his closest friends that he was harboring a dangerous murderer in his head.
In September, the United Earth rounded up a handful of Transports and stole them away to a secret Holding Compound. This included some of Allen's closest friends, and so of course he participated in the rescue mission. Shortly after, they learned that the United Earth was fed up, and was planning to nuke Exsilium off the map. There was no way to stop this; Transports' one hope was to flee to a base on the moon, which only had room for them and a small number of Initiative employees. Allen tried to stay behind in the city to the very last second, but ultimately failed and ended up watching Exsilium burn, 238,900 miles away.
Refusing to give into despair and with nowhere left to turn, Allen participated in a number of missions, with the end goal of undoing the nuclear strike. After months on the moon, subsisting on space-food and staving off space-madness with regular trips to the virtual reality simulators, everyone's efforts paid off and Exisilium returned...
Sort of.
Something returned, but it wasn't Exsilium anymore; they'd instead brought about a second Ice Age. The city, it seemed, had been erased from time entirely – and the thousands that had lived there may have never been born. Allen returned to this snowed-out world after a year-long return trip home himself, suffering from overwhelming loneliness, after months of self-imposed isolation, and a fresh sort of uncertainty and caginess that came with being declared a traitor by his own Order. But he had learned one very important lesson over the course of that year: not knowing the truth, not being privy the the full story, is a scary and dangerous thing. Now, rather than setting out to alter their future with imprecise strikes at their past, Allen would devote himself to gathering knowledge and learning more about their enemy and this world first and foremost.