Ace Rickaby is the son of Rocky Rickaby and Marley Dash.
Appearance:
Ace bears a cheetah appearance, having grey and beige fur, dark brown hair, black spots, and dark green eyes. He normally wears a white shirt with blue pants, and black boots and a brown jacket with white cuffs and collar.
Childhood:
Ace was born December 25, 1929. As a baby, Ace was reckless, loud, and always getting into scruffs. Ace and his family lived in Rocky's car before being offered to stay in the cellar of the McMurray home. Like his father, Ace exhibited the same behavior his father had when he was younger. Ace started school when he was 6. For the first few weeks, he was normal and enjoyed learning. However, Ace's destructive side took over.
He began helping Misty with her "experiments" such as gluing pancakes to the walls of his classroom, bringing dead insects to class to show his classmates and teacher, and even hugging classmates, all of which he said was for scientific analysis. One day, Ace is fighting with a bully during recess at his school. He is both shocked and relieved when Misty saves him from the attack by smashing a hornets' nest on his head. When Misty is expelled, Ace feels guilty, believing he had caused his sister to get expelled despite him not even starting the fight.
Ace tries cheering Misty up by attempting to get her to wrestle with him but to no avail. When he learns Jenni and Mordecai will be schooling Misty, Ace is objective to it, knowing Mordecai's nature and worried of what he would do to his beloved sister. Despite being terrified of the tuxedo cat, Ace decides to quit school in order to watch over his sister around him.
Ace develops a close bond with Jason Heller, enjoying doing scientific experiments with him and occasionally Misty. Ace's destructive side occasionally took over but he preferred doing his "experiments" outdoors. Still worried for Misty's safety around Mordecai, he and Rocky become more involved in Misty's time around him, annoying the latter. By the time he was a teenager, Ace could do college level mathematics and reading skills due to learning from Misty.
Time at Lackadaisy:
When he turned 15, Ace is allowed to work as a waiter at Lackadaisy. Ace takes a disliking toward the smell of the booze, leading Mitzi and Zib to put his with the band. Ace took an immediate liking to singing on stage and helped Misty gain courage to sing on stage too. Ace grows to become an impressive singer and poet writer, often having psycho poetic rants from time to time.
Personality:
Like his father, Ace is jaunty, humorous, happy-go-lucky, immature, reckless, buffoonish, grandiloquent and zany. Ace is also shown to be wild and mischievous. Ace is a bit of a showoff and he tends to have a carefree attitude. He is also lazy and dislikes hard work but enjoys easy tasks. Ace also loves teasing and being provocative towards others. However, Ace genuinely does care about his sisters, blaming himself for Misty getting expelled and trying to cheer her up. Ace is very wary of both Viktor and Mordecai. While not outwardly threatening to them, Ace does his best to steer his sisters away from them as much as he possibly can.
Ace loves to complain...a lot. He enjoys pointing out flaws and missing points in people's plans. He does not make fun of people's disfigurations or disabilities claiming they are "flaws of life". Ace himself has no disabilities.
Ace is also very creative and a trickster. He enjoys joking around and playing pranks on his friends. However, he hates it when boys flirt around with his sisters as shown when he notices Larry becoming flirty with Misty, he growls angrily and inserts himself in between them.
Ace is also shown to love fishing. One time he goes fishing with his dad for a father-son bonding moment but Rocky freaks out when Ace catches a bass and asks his father to kiss it on the head for him.
Abilities:
Ace is highly skilled in mathematics and literature. he isn't good with many weapons but is an excellent in hand-to-hand combat due to training with Jenni in martial arts. He's also good at poetry and as a talent for sports as he can withstand most injuries and has a high pain tolerance.
Trivia:
Ace's full name is Ace Ransom Rickaby, getting his middle name from his paternal grandfather.
Ace's name comes from his father's catchphrase. "Aces."
Ace is shown to be ambidextrous.
He is a strong believer in mythical creatures, his favorite being Jorgumandr, or as he calls him the "Power snake".
Ace's favorite drink is milk, something he gets from Freckle.
His favorite food are blood oranges.
His favorite color is blue.