I wanna see. I heard he gets a bigger role in 3, and thus it would help me refine him as a character even more. Alas, I don't even own the first two, I just borrowed them from a friend of mine. Beat them both in under a week apiece though. I call that skills considering the length of cutscenes and stuff.

Allen is probably the most realistic character in the game. The closest you even get with any other actual named character, IMHO, is the guys of the Elsa, and even they aren't all that normal. Hammer is really smart, Tony is a player, and the Captain is a drunk. Which leaves Allen to fill the every man role, the every person role really, and he does it rather well.

And I must agree, torturing a character can be half the fun sometimes because it helps to create more depth to them. No truly well adjusted person has had a wholly happy life. I cannot abide by that.

It is on a community, but as I've mentioned, it's kinda a small private group thing with my friends and as such we're not supposed to give it away. Sorry. I wish I could though, just to get outside opinions on my use of Allen. I also wish I could find Xenosaga RPers to play with so that I could evolve Allen through actual interaction with those he would know.

People thinking him crazy for talking about Gnosis really make Allen whimper.