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.
Other Results: 5 Challenges, 7 Series
Stories
Rated: Not suitable for young children
Summary: Alex is supposed to be an assassin. A bit difficult when he has emotions and a conscience.
Categories: Angst
Characters: Alex Rider
Warnings: Character death
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [Table of Contents]
Completed: Yes • Words: 4762 • Views: 514
[Report This] Published: 05/03/2009 Updated: 06/03/2009
Rated: General - all ages
Summary: Alex sinks into depression as he faces his first Christmas without his uncle, Ian Rider.
Categories: Angst, Friendship, Hurt/Comfort
Characters: Alan Blunt, Yassen Gregorovich, Tom Harris, Tulip Jones, Alex Rider, Helen Rider, Ian Rider, John Rider, Julia Rothman, Jack Starbright
Warnings: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [Table of Contents]
Completed: Yes • Words: 17833 • Views: 1057
[Report This] Published: 09/01/2009 Updated: 10/01/2009
Rated: Restricted - no under 16s
Summary: No matter how hard Alex tries to live a normal life, trouble is always around the next corner. When he gets kidnapped from school, the situation looks bleak ... but why is Alex willing to die for an organisation that doesn't give a shit about him?
Categories: Angst
Characters: Alex Rider, Original Male Character
Warnings: Abuse, Torture, Violence
Series: None
Chapters: 2 [Table of Contents]
Completed: No • Words: 6790 • Views: 430
[Report This] Published: 11/10/2010 Updated: 29/10/2010
Rated: Adults only
Summary: Yassen Gregorovich had beautiful hands – long, elegant and strong at the same time. They were also among the most terrifying things Alex had ever seen.
Categories: Action/Adventure, Angst, Slash , Hurt/Comfort, Slash > Alex/Yassen
Characters: Alex Rider, Yassen Gregorovich
Warnings: Sex, Torture
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [Table of Contents]
Completed: Yes • Words: 10819 • Views: 877
[Report This] Published: 13/06/2010 Updated: 13/06/2010
Rated: Adults only
Summary: During their first meeting on the helipad of Sayle Enterprises, Alex threatens to kill Yassen one day in retribution for the death of Ian Rider. Yassen decides to show Alex what his future holds if he continues to work for MI6.
Categories: Action/Adventure, *Fests & challenges* > Spy Fest 2009
Characters: Alex Rider, Yassen Gregorovich
Warnings: Abuse, Non-con, Torture, Violence
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [Table of Contents]
Completed: Yes • Words: 8342 • Views: 688
[Report This] Published: 01/10/2009 Updated: 01/10/2009
Rated: Not suitable for young children
Summary: The intruder roughly shook Cub. "If Alex Rider doesn't speak up then I will shoot this kid."
Categories: Humour
Characters: Alex Rider, K Unit, Wolf
Warnings: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [Table of Contents]
Completed: Yes • Words: 2161 • Views: 882
[Report This] Published: 22/07/2009 Updated: 22/07/2009
Rated: General - all ages
Summary: Alex has come back from Snakehead and has started to fit in.It's his first day of Year 10 and Alex goes to school but he finds a big suprise for him. lots of K-unit.
Categories: Friendship
Characters: Alex Rider, K Unit
Warnings: None
Series: None
Chapters: 5 [Table of Contents]
Completed: No • Words: 6498 • Views: 872
[Report This] Published: 29/12/2009 Updated: 13/01/2010
Rated: Not suitable for young children
Summary: Alex Rider has been in SAS for two year. Ever since Jack was killed by Scorpia. Alex was only 14 at the time and had to leave everything behind. He is now 16 and MI6 decided to send thirty student from his old school to SAS for an experiment. WIll Alex be able to keep his cover? (Cross posted on Fanficion.net)
Categories: Action/Adventure, Friendship, Mystery, Humour
Characters: Alex Rider
Warnings: Character death
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [Table of Contents]
Completed: No • Words: 672 • Views: 169
[Report This] Published: 07/08/2010 Updated: 08/08/2010
Rated: Not suitable for young children
Summary: It's in the name. Originally would have been a onshot but will expand to two. Rated T for strong language. Please don't flame
Categories: Angst
Characters: Alex Rider, Jack Starbright, K Unit
Warnings: Character death
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [Table of Contents]
Completed: No • Words: 1424 • Views: 33
[Report This] Published: 26/11/2011 Updated: 26/11/2011
Rated: General - all ages
Summary: In which Alex is cloned and doesn't like it one bit. One-shot with a side of Alex/Tom.
Categories: *Fests & challenges* > Spy Fest 2010, Crack, Humour
Characters: Alex Rider, Fox (Ben Daniels), K Unit, Tom Harris, Wolf, Yassen Gregorovich
Warnings: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [Table of Contents]
Completed: Yes • Words: 1745 • Views: 150
[Report This] Published: 10/06/2010 Updated: 10/06/2010
Rated: Not suitable for young children
Summary: He didn't stand a chance and never had stood a chance.
Categories: Angst, *Fests & challenges* > Spy Fest 2009
Characters: Alex Rider, Yassen Gregorovich
Warnings: Character death, Violence
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [Table of Contents]
Completed: Yes • Words: 3222 • Views: 386
[Report This] Published: 01/10/2009 Updated: 01/10/2009
Rated: Not suitable for young children
Summary: Alex has just come back from a mission and is sitting in maths when he is interupted.Different to most school breakin stories in my opinion
Categories: Action/Adventure, Angst, Hurt/Comfort
Characters: Alex Rider, K Unit
Warnings: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [Table of Contents]
Completed: Yes • Words: 3039 • Views: 127
[Report This] Published: 26/04/2012 Updated: 26/04/2012
Rated: Restricted - no under 16s
Summary: "Tom must never know about such things. About Alex on his knees, begging for his life, pleading and crying as the gun was pressed against his head."
Categories: Slash , *Fests & challenges* > Flash Rider, Angst
Characters: Alex Rider, Original Male Character
Warnings: Abuse, Violence
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [Table of Contents]
Completed: Yes • Words: 951 • Views: 307
[Report This] Published: 07/07/2010 Updated: 07/07/2010
Rated: General - all ages
Summary: It was a never-ending cycle, time after time after time. As soon as one mission was over, MI6 sent him on another. And still the clock winked.
Categories: Drabble
Characters: Alex Rider, Jack Starbright
Warnings: Character death
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [Table of Contents]
Completed: Yes • Words: 303 • Views: 12
[Report This] Published: 19/11/2011 Updated: 19/11/2011
Rated: Not suitable for young children
Summary: I’ll do anything ...
Categories: Angst, Drabble, *Fests & challenges* > Flash Rider
Characters: Alex Rider, Julius Grief
Warnings: SPOILERS for Scorpia Rising
Series: None
Chapters: 1 [Table of Contents]
Completed: Yes • Words: 208 • Views: 183
[Report This] Published: 01/04/2011 Updated: 01/04/2011