Alan (MÄR)

Alan is a character in MÄR: Marchen Awakens Romance. He is voiced by Lex Lang.

History

Alan is a hardened (smoking) warrior, the powerful human who participated in the previous MÄR-Heaven War against the Chess Pieces. Known as the 2nd man, he is Danna Toramizu's partner in the Cross Guard.

In his childhood, he was friend with a boy named Pump who was badly mistreated. When Pump ran away, Alan encountered him again years later with Pump using the alias Halloween who killed those that mistreated him.

During the War Games at the time, Alan fought to a draw with Halloween (who became the Chess Pieces' second-in-command under the No. 1 Knight Phantom). However, because of a curse set by Halloween's Darkness ÄRM, Igneil, in the same fight, Alan was sealed inside the court guardian and custodian of Princess Snow, Edward the Dog. In order to change back into Alan, Ed has to sleep three times, often forcibly knocking himself out, which is too risky and inconvenient for most situations. If Alan sleeps once, he becomes Ed again.

Personality

He is one of the most serious characters in the series though smug and confident ;ironically, due to his time inside Edward, Alan has developed a fear of cats.

Plot

Pre-War Games

After Edward was knocked out, he became Alan. Alan gave Ginta Toramizu his ÄRM of Flame to free Snow while Alan dealt with Ian. After Ginta freed Snow, Halloween appeared and had a brief encounter with Alan.

Following that, Alan managed to detect Dorothy secretly following the group. He then sent Ginta and Snow into one Training Gate and sent Jack and Dorothy into another. As they were training, Alan spoke with Alviss until news of the Chess Pieces attacking MÄR-Heaven reached them. This caused Alviss to head off to fight them. The next day, Alan was attacked by Ian and the Pawn Gido. After Ginta, Jack, Snow, and Dorothy finished their training and fended them off, Alan tells them they must head of Reginlief Castle as Alan falls asleep. This caused him to revert back to Edward.

War Games

On the night before the 3rd Round, Edward latest sleep turned him into Alan again. When he appeared the next morning, Phantom had Halloween tell Pozun to let Alan participate in the War Games. In the 3rd Round, he managed to defeat Alibaba incredibly easily and throw him into a volcano.

After the visit from Phantom and his Zodiac Knights follwing the end of the 3rd Round, Alan and Ed are split apart into two beings by Ginta, using Babbo's Alice transformation. When Gaira sent the other Team MÄR members into the Training Gate, Snow persuaded Alan to let her rest up in one of his.

When it came to the 4th Round, Alan tells Ginta, Jack, Dorothy, Nanashi, and Alviss that he won't be fighting with them since he wants to see how much they improved. After that round, Dorothy speaks with Alan prompting a trip to Caldia. During that time, Alan got a new Guardian ÄRM.

When helping the other Team MÄR members in the Training Gate, Alan ended up paralyzed by Saturn's Darkness ÄRM Finstarnis which allowed the other members of the Zonnens to infiltrate the Training Gates. Alan was having a hard time fending off Saturn until he instructed Merilo to have the others send their magical power to him. It wasn't long before the others were able to leave the Training Gate and finish off Saturn.

In the 6th Round, Team MÄR learned about Alan's cat-phobia when he ended up facing the No. 1 Bishop Chaton. Alan lost the battle.

When Gaira's Training Gate send all of Team MÄR to Tokyo, Ginta and Dorothy managed to find him as a detective searching for an evasive cat. During that time, it was revealed that he somehow knew Lillis (the one responsible for the events at the time).

In the Final Round of the War Games, Alan finally faced off against Halloween. Alan had a difficult time with preventing Halloween's fire attacked from hitting the spectators. Alan managed to use his new Guardian ÄRM Saint Anger to send Halloween flying.

Post-War Games

Alan participated in storming Lestava Castle and helped Ginta fight Magical Roe (the Knight who was responsible for kidnapping Snow in the 6th Round). He alongside Team MÄR were captured by the Ghost Chess alongside Chaton and Loco, but escaped.

When the Chess Pieces' King Caldia's Orb showed up in person in the form of a armored knight, Alan fought him and was the first one killed by him. Before dying, he gave his earring to Chaton. When Caldia's Orb was destroyed, Alan was revived.

In the end of the anime, Alan lives with Chaton, Babbo, and the baby Loco.

ÄRM

His power level is said to be equivalent to a Knight in the method of power ranking used by the Chess Pieces and enough to destroy two guardians in one blow. His ÄRMs include:

* ÄRM of Flame: A flame Nature ÄRM, this is the natural counter to Snow's ÄRM and is able to conjure fire in any form. This is what he uses to light his cigars.
* Shadowman: A Nature ÄRM that can create a being out of a persons shadow, this copy has the same magical powers and skills as the person it is based on.
* Training Gate: A Dimension ÄRM that Alan used to train Ginta, Snow, Jack. and Dorothy. It puts people at the user's will inside this gate, where time slows to 1/60th of its outside time and with many challenges programmed within it, the dimension serves good training ground. The drawback to using this ÄRM is that Alan cannot go inside the Gate himself and he cannot move while he uses it.
* Air Hammer: A set of rings and bangles Dimension ÄRM and Alan's most frequently used weapon. It uses an attack called "Air Freeze" that creates blasts of air shaped into concussive blasts and compensates for Alan's lack of ranged attacks.
* Merilo: A pendant Guardian ÄRM in the form of a polite, slender girl with a cat tail and ears, used to help people the Training Gate train, and to navigate for them. She's referred to as 'the cute one'. Although she does have cat attributes, Alan doesn't fear her because she is an ÄRM .
* Bumolu: A Guardian ÄRM in the form of a rude, fat woman with a bear tail and ears, used to help people the Training Gate train, and to navigate for them. She's referred to as 'the ugly one.'
* Saint Anger: Incarnating Alan's fists of justice and expanding an even wider reach, these armour hands that descend from heaven thunder earth with its deliverance of god's punishment to all sinners.