Ben Windrider

Leader and founder of the Spiral Guardians

Girl Friend (later future wife) is Luna Lovegood

Best Friends include the Warner Siblings (and their girlfriends/boyfriend), Parzival (aka Wade Watts), Roy Greenhilt (from The Order of the Stick), and a fair majority of his crew.

In the beginning, Ben's parents are blasted by the Clockwork Armada for being part of the "Resistance". Leaving him orphaned and alone at age six. That is until one day, he was found by some pirates in Skull Island and was raised there and was taught in the ways of swords, stealth, gunnery, cunning, and hoodoo. Of course the wizards from Wizard City would sometimes come over to help raise him. And sure enough, he became the first one to master all of the five classes of Pirate; Buccaneers (The Masters of Swords and Strength), Musketeers (The Masters of Firearms and Sharpshooting), Privateers (Masters of Leadership and Healing), Swashbucklers (Masters of Stealth and Steel) and Witch Doctors (Masters of the Arcane Arts).

Later, they discovered that he has magical heritage in his father's side. And since his mother's side is all pirate, the wizards and pirates have then called him "Ben the Half Blood Pirate" due to him being a half blood wizard and a pirate.

But, what Ben wanted more than education was real adventure. So he formed a pirate crew (full of anthropomorphic animals of different species) and got out a ship from a magic bottle which can be summoned when opening the bottle. And that ship can fly through Skyways like any ship from the Spiral.

After so many adventures in the Spiral (mostly involving hunting for pieces of Marco Pollo's map to El Dorado), Ben decided to leave the Spiral to see if there's anyplace else to go to. Even though some of his crew advice against this, He put boost speed on and zoomed way out of the Spiral.

The ship crashed on a planet not from the Spiral. Neither Ben nor his crew knew what place it is. But eventually, they met other humans (and surprisingly not much anthropomorphic animals present besides Ben's crew) and discovered that the planet they just got on is called Earth.

He then decides to go on even more adventures, this time on Earth. However, there are a few setbacks and lots of the inhabitants think Ben and his bunch are weird. And more surprising is when they read about Earth's history, it interestingly all sounds almost like everything they knew from the Spiral (Like Napoleon reminds them of Napoleguin, the Wild West reminds them of Cool Ranch, and Earth's version of "El Dorado" doesn't have any evil golden mechanical giants guarding the place as the Spiral said about theirs).

But then, while the adventures went on, Ben and his crew discovered Hogwarts (which kinda reminds Ben of Ravenwood Institute from Wizard City) and made friends with one of the students there, Luna Lovegood, who is graduating from Hogwarts and is been considered different by some of her school mates. Even though she has a few friends, she is still believed to be crazy. But Ben was intrigued by Luna's knowledge, is curious about the 'nargles' Luna mentions at times, and surprisingly can also see Thestrals (creatures that can only be seen by those who have witnessed death) like he can since he saw his parents get killed and she lost her mother to a backfired spell when she was nine. It was then on that Ben was starting to develop feelings toward her.

After Luna graduated, Ben was proud of her. Suddenly, a few Armada Clockwork officers appeared and one of them has it's musket pointing at Luna. Ben reacted quickly and smashed the clockwork with his sword. And coincidentally after that happened, Luna used her magic to make another clockwork (who was sneaking up towards Ben) explode. They felt grateful towards each other.

Once the clockworks are destroyed, the crew began to wonder how the Clockworks came to Earth. And then Ben realizes that The Clockwork Armada is hunting him, and he's being tracked down. To put it more bluntly, the Armada is more clever than they thought. As a matter of fact, Supreme Commander Kane wants to kill him before Ben can even have a chance to return to the Spiral, and if Kane succeeds, no one will interfere with his plans to conquer the Spiral.

Ben didn't want to put anyone else in danger, and starts to believe that he's better off alone and dead. But his crew and Luna comforted him and said that they are in this together and they will find a way to end this conflict.

And seeing that the Armada is growing stronger through all the pain he's took from the fight, Ben decides to expand his crew up a bit. Mostly because Kane usually makes even more Clockworks every single day and he's going to need more back up than ever if he's going to put a stop to all this madness.

Luna agrees to go with Ben, due to the fact that he saved her life, and she's starting to like him as much as he likes her. And Ben promises Luna's father that he'll protect her. During their travels, Ben discovered a way to travel through reality using a magic stone he found. And from that, he, his crew and Luna ended up in an alternate universe where cartoons were real. From actual places (like Burbank, California where the Warners live) to new worlds unknown to them, Ben was going everywhere. Even in the most craziest (and sometimes pointless) scenarios.

Trivia:

* He's sometimes rivals/part time enemies with both Ashton Craven (cousin to Peter Pan) and Skylar Jones
* At some point, he had a crush on Nebula, adopted daughter of the mad titan Thanos
* His older half-brother is Captain Hook (they both share a father, but have different mothers), which is a legit reason why Ashton is a rival.
* When Ben married Luna, she was 12 weeks pregnant with twins Lorcan and Lysander Scamander, from her ex-fiancé Rolf Scamander (Rolf and Luna remained as friends later, and Ben accepted the Scamander twins as step-sons, even though Rolf became their Legal Guardian, Ben and Luna were allowed to visit them). 2 years after Lorcan and Lysander were born, Ben and Luna started expecting their REAL first child, Philip Timothy Windrider. And then Theodosia Luana Windrider 3 years later.