As you may have noticed, Ace’s characters and concepts tend to be confusing as hell. This document, compiled from answers written by Ace himself, will help you understand it all a little better.

 

 

Ace the Echidna

Full Name: Alijah of the house of Hara-da

Age: (When assimilated by the ring) 19

Species: Mobian Echidna

Height: 5 feet 2 inches

Fighting style: CQC, House of Edmund fighting style

Moves-

Normal:

Comet Punch(normal, stiff-arm, and anti-air variants)

Chaos Lift(Telekinesis aided by Chaos energy)

Super/Special:

Comet Beam

Chaos Transcend(Transform into Super form for limited amount of time)

Physical characteristics:

Longer dreads than normal, wears a deranged expression when fighting, more muscular than most echidnas, no claws on hands or on gloves; just blades on the gauntlet-like fingers and on a band on the palm

Bio:

(Timeline is concurrent with the Archie series of Sonic the Hedgehog comics)

As a young man, Ace was a punk living in Echidnapolis. While running roughshod on the streets for a few years as someone who would have become a thug and career criminal, he was confronted by a jet black echidna wearing a helmet and a cloak. This caped mystery tossed young Alijah around an alley without having laid a hand on him. The black echidna identified himself as the retired Guardian known as Specter. He told Alijah that he had traced his ancestry back to Demitri, the sire of the Guardians' nemesis: the Dark Legion. To Ace, Specter had essentially told him that he was a son of some villain's illegitimate bastard line. He offered the punk a chance to redeem himself in the eyes of society and make himself something better.

 

Ace told him to go screw himself.

 

Specter knocked him out and dragged him to a monitoring installation on the Great Continent. He trained Ace as he would have any Guardian protege. All of it was just in case the current Guardian's son, Knuckles, died in duty while living on the Floating Island. Events happened that shook Mobius to its very core over the next eight years. Robotnik fell from power. The Floating Island was assaulted by a ground based force and brought down to land. Echidnapolis returned to the main Mobian Zone of reality. Chaos was released from its prison and quelled. And the Brotherhood(as the group of clandestine jedi-like older Guardians were known) accepted Knuckles into their midst. Knuckles even died and came back from the afterlife.

 

It was apparent that Ace wouldn't be needed as an alternate or as assistance.

 

Being a secret himself for so long, Ace decided to roam the planet and find more of them. He made friends and enemies along the way, making it his business to uncover any and every secret that he could. He became a treasure hunter and archealogist so that he could understand the knowledge he uncovered and hoarded for himself.

 

When Dr. Eggman helped drive away a hoard of aliens from the planet, he uncovered a small goldmine of clues and information on an item that dwarfed the Chaos Emeralds in the power that it could bestow upon its weilder. Ace stole all of the Doctor's data on this item and went after it himself. After a week's worth of fighting and Zone hopping, he found the shifting reality where the item was said to be hidden. He found the Emerald green halo and tried to take it for himself, but was killed by its guardian.

 

Ace's soul roamed the reality within the ring for an undetermined amount of time. There, he interacted with the souls of many who had also been killed and swallowed by the ring. They encouraged him to use their memories to get the skills he needed to break free of the ring and fight the guardian who had killed him. He did so and returned from his journey through their lives and experiences a few minutes too early. Ace overheard their plan to consume him when he tried to leave their layer of the ring.

 

He attacked and slaughtered them all.

 

He destroyed them and consumed them instead. All but a handful of the twisted souls met their end at Ace's hands. He broke free of their layer of the ring and met the guardian force known as Caleb on his outermost layer of the ring. The battle went badly for Ace, as he was being sapped by the creature as they fought. The echidna's salvation came in the form of two souls who stepped up to help him even though they once planned to murder him. Shiro and Spades fused their souls with Ace's and helped him to subdue Caleb. To destroy him, they would have to tap into the ring's power from the next layer... the outside world.

 

Ace left the ring a ghost, plagued by the voices of the sould he'd left behind within the ring and attached to the leech-like presence of Caleb. He confined the ring to himself and gained a new body that wasn't bound by the universal laws of any dimension, but was still a basic copy of his own mortal form. He left the shifting reality he was in behind and landed in a place called Metro city on a planet called Earth. The first thing he wanted in this new world was a drink...

 

 

Spades

Full Name: Forgotten

Age: Forgotten, but looks to be early to late teens

Species: Argonian

Height: 5 feet 10 inches

Fighting style: Edge of Soul

Moves-

Normal:

Sky Dragon Slash

Assimilate

Ether spike

Special/Super:

Elemental Control(Thunder/Lightning)

Hurricane Bomb

Redstreak Summon

Physical Characteristics: Has glowing tattoos all over his body. The most notable tattoo is the series of six diamonds on his right arm.

Bio:

 

His first memory was being blasted through the barriers that separate dimensions. Something called Larz apparently had something to do with this event. He arrived in a nonsensical reality where there was no way out. He endlessly fought monsters with as vicious a temperment as his own. This lone demonic person forced his way through the ruins to the glowing green ring that called out to him. Before he could claim it for himself, he was killed.

 

His soul was pulled into the ring, but wouldn't diminish like many others had. He held onto his sense of self by remembering his name and the part of him that had escaped the Larz. He was the instinct. He was a warning to his real self not to delve into the deepest part of his soul. A warning and a limiter that was tossed away using the Larz. The other one lived on, but he was separated and cast into the ring to wait. He waited in the road that never ended, singing and fighting anyone he thought could become his other self. The Reason to his Instinct. The Good to his Evil. The Man to his Monster.

 

He found a musclebound individual with dreads on his roadways and sang out his warning. His song of omen.

 

After which he declared himself with the only thing that kept him alive in this place of intangible spirits and pain.

 

Spades.

 

 

Master Tonberry Shiro

Full Name: Shiro of the Lusus End

Age: Over a millenium or two

Species: Tonberry

Height: 3 feet tall

Fighting Style: Master Tonberry

Moves-

Normal:

Stab!

Karma

Sleepel

Confuse

Demi

Special/Super:

Chains of Karma

Hastega

Flare

Ultima

Everyone's Grudge

Physcial Characteristics: A completely white Tonberry with the same weird markings on its skin and clothes as in Final Fantasy 10.

Bio:

 

As witnesses to the birth of gods and the events of over a dozen Final Fantasy events(Events so large and world shaking that they irrevocably change history and the world), the Tonberry race is gifted with immortality and the power to cross worlds. Sometimes, they have the habit of running into the very people who are tangled within the events of such adventures. Most of the time, they chase them off with their karma hexes and Death scythe knives. On occasion, they are also defeated.

 

But one Master Tonberry got lucky and managed to wipe out an entire party of warriors, making the leader run for his insignificant life. He was filled with the power of his fallen foes, gaining their mostly positive karma in the process. Possessed by thoughts and memories he wasn't supposed to have, this Tonberry wrought havoc against everything he thought was a threat to himself or this supposed important person, Ramza Beoulve.

 

When his task with Ramza was done, the Master Tonberry went about its business roaming different realities. His mind regressed to a whimsical state that was free of all good and evil. No perception of either of the two allowed for a clean slate. No karma.

 

This childlike entity moved randomly from place to place, from watching one event to fighting the great Aeons and then to a place where no Tonberry had ever set a webbed foot.

 

It was a small reality that was like a trap. It allowed the Tonberry in, but it could not get out.

 

It stayed still for a long time, waiting and watching for an opportunity.

 

He was disturbed from his waiting by a punch in the face. The owner of the fist proved to be a capable playmate. Shiro backed this individual with his strength when it came time to leave.

 

When Ace was free however, he bound himself to the other souls in the ring, including the Tonberry. He was stuck. The only thing left to do now was wait some more for a time when they would be unbound and Ace could find a way for everyone to exist by themselves instead of just a part of one another.

 

 

Shardshatter

Full Name: N/A

Age:N/A

Species: Abomination

Height: 6 feet tall

Fighting Style: Memories of the Emerald Ring

Moves-

Normal

Mercury Freeze

Venus Chain-blade

Comet Punch

Mars Regeneration

Jupiter Leap(Leg enhancement that can also be used for kicking)

Luna Shield

Pluto Far-hand

Uranus Spear

Neptune Reverb

Saturn Crush(Arm enhancement)

Special/Super:

Don Tonberry Summon

Eden Summon

Zantetsuken

Extinction Event Comet Beam

Physical Characteristics: Jet black man who stands around like a zombie until he sets himself in motion. Has a gold Eye of Horus where his right eye should be.

Bio:

 

Its a nuisance to have so many voices and ghosts in your head at one time. Ace remedied his problem with this dementia inducing being that could call upon the planets in the Sol system for strength. With its heavenly 'brothers' tapped, it would leave Ace alone and do unbelievable amounts of destruction. The antics of such a being became boring after a while and summoning it became more of a chore than was necessary. So Ace decided to unleash it on something that could actually kill it.

 

Frieza impaled the monster with a Master Tonberry and ended the suffering of thousands of greedy powerful souls enslaved to Ace's will.

 

 

Caleb

Full Name: N/A

Age: N/A

Species: Guardian Force

Height:_Human form-5 feet 11 inches _Beast form-8 feet from head to tail

Fighting Style: N/A

Moves:

Normal

Bind

Sap

Oversoul

Special/Super:

Summon

Claw Swipes

Gore

Ixion Polaris

Physical Characteristics: Becomes a tall Asian man in dark robes when summoned by Ace in a non-battle situation. He takes on the shape of a monster when it comes time to fight.

Bio:

 

As a Guardian Force it was Caleb's job to protect the Emerald Ring. He did his job well for a time, but was subjugated to the echidna's will. He wormed his way through the rodent's subconscious whenever he could to mentally attack him, but it became hard when the fool made his mind slippery with alcohol.

 

Ace suddenly went sober for a few days. The day came for him to pull off his most daring assault yet, but there was someone else already trying to kill him. Caleb sat back and watched passively as the echidna dueled with his ivory skinned opponent. He was completely off guard when Ace tore him from his nest deep within the ring's world and placed him into Frieza's psyche.

 

Instead of dying or yielding like so many others, Frieza resisted and indeed dominated him. Unlike Ace, Frieza wasn't afraid to use this parasitic monster for himself. He reshaped Caleb into a tool so that they could fight together against Ace.

 

The alien bled away all of the GF's hate with each successful attack. When Frieza discarded him, Ace wiped the GF's soul and Junctioned him to his own soul. After that fight, Caleb has existed as the Guardian of Ace's soul since he was the keeper of the ring. He is now compliant with the echidna's wishes and comes whenever he summons him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Ace can't actually do it [spellsing] on his own, it's a power he needs Redstreak to use himself. Without the sword in its final form (the guitar/Axe) he's incapable of doing it. It's an ability unique to Redstreak and the one wielding it.

 

2. Ace's strength is comparitive to a Super Saiyan while in Super Ace mode. Normally, he's only as strong as every DBZ character was during the arc when Vegeta first came to Earth. Spades' level is equal to about the level of one of the Androids (17, 18, etc). Since you're going to play FF7 and eventually FFX, then Shiro's power is about the level of a Master Tonberry at the end of either game, very strong. Tonberrys are one of the top class of monsters you'll randomly encounter in that game right next to Malboros and some dragons. His skill is magically based, but his endurance and constitution are very high. Consider him about as strong as Spades. Caleb is a middle tier summon creature, so his strength comes in spurts, but I'd equate it to being as strong as the Aeon, Valefor(FFX) or Cell in one of his unevolved forms. Shard is an amalgamation of the dead spirits in the ring, but since there aren't any more left he prolly won't be coming back. Shard's strength was all spiritual and his body was just a construct akin to an ant colony working together to one goal, that's why it regenerated so much and never felt pain. Shard's strength varies from being as strong as a Super Saiyan to being more powerful than Caleb. If Ace and his other aspects end up getting beaten and sent back into the ring, they could merge another Shard from their own souls like Fusion does to someone's body. It wouldn't last long, but it'd be as strong as Kid Buu.

 

3. The ring, huh? I've been thinking about that for a while.

 

It's essentially one of those energy producing artifacts that lets you bend and twist reality. It's a scientific impossiblity since energy can't be created or destroyed, only converted into one form or another. The ring serves as the physical manifistation of a pocket dimension as well, a place that houses a road to many different dimensions. The artficat is now junctioned to Ace's spirit and has the souls of Spades and Shiro in it. Also belonging to Ace is Caleb, his Guardian Force. The Ring used to tie him to the multitude of souls caught in it until Frieza killed Shard and all of them at once. While inside of it, Shiro and Spades wander the pocket dimsions within, trying to find a way out of it and back to their respective worlds. As of now Spades has pretty much lost interest, but Shiro keeps trying. As far as control or influence is concerned, Ace has massive influence over the ring and everything inside of it, so he can summon (post Frieza vs Ace) his other personalities whenever he pleases. They have to listen to him, but they aren't outright being controlled. The ring gives him the ability to utilize their powers and knowledge(Spades' energy manipulation and Shiro's forbidden magic) and also the adaptation of seeing the UEF field. Since almost everything is connected(example:A tree connected to a kid who sat under it who's connected to a chicken whom he ate that was from another country, and it keeps going farther back in time with more and more conncetions added to the web), it's hard to know where to start.

 

 

4. The thing about the Spades in the SASB world is that he isn't really the actual Spades. He's a split personality that came from Rob Olara when he finally went through his Emergance, a process that unlocks his inborn abilities. Before then, he'd been forcing the transformation into Spades rather than controlling it. When he fought against a reality altering alien named Larz, he manipulated Larz's energies to split his bloodthirsty alternate self from his personality. This other self got flung through the void and ended up in the pocket dimension inside the ring. I based the layer he was trapped in on the Cosmic Interstate from the Sonic comic that Archie does, the Road the Never Ends. He met up with and fought countless people, killing them all until he calmed down one day years later. This Spades is an empty offshoot of the real Spades, that's why he has no memory. The only way he could ever get any sort of memory would be to use his UEF field to find his other self and gleam the memories off of him. At the moment, he's just living in the moment, "hanging around until something happens" as you said.