Born on the tiny planet of Papetoon, Paddy showed natural pilot skills. Paddy's father, Michael, was labelled "terrorist" by the oppressive lizard government that ruled their planet. Michael sent Paddy to the Cornerian flight academy when he was 12 in hopes of Paddy rising up against the lizards. At the academy, Paddy met his bunkmates, Fox McCloud, Falco Lomardi, and Slippy Toad. It was sad for his friends when Paddy left at the age of 15, back to his tiny opressed planet. When he returned, he discovered a plot to kill him at an unlikely time. When riding through the woods with friends on jet speeders, a large lizard-built fighter opened fire. Paddy fell off of his tiny floating craft and was knocked unconscious. When he awoke, he discovered that his friends had been killed. He returned home and his father thought it was time to send him to a safe planet. At the age of 18, Paddy entered Corneria City University to study biology. On graduation day, Paddy was packing up his dorm and decided to contact his parents through the video phone. All he found was a message posted in front of the screen by his father. The note read:

My son,

The sorrow in my heart grows deeper for you as I write this note, knowing what you are about to hear. As I write this note, the lizards, led by a powerful leader named Andross, are running through the village, killing every living creature they can find. I fear that they come near to our cottage.Take heed of this, my son, avenge the innocent, and take arms against the evil that lurks in the once peacful Lylat. I ask of you my son. Do it for the young babies, the mothers, and fathers and friends that you once knew. Do it for your loving mother. Do it for me.

-Your loving father

Just then the note was blown off of the screen by a gust of wind, and he could see his cottage, ransacked and destroyed, no doubt the inhabitants destroyed with it. The once calm "Paddy" was no more. "Fang" was what he was to be called now. He joined the Cornerian air force, and met with old friends and with new. He was known to me calm, quiet and modest as a person, but full of wrath and anger as a soldier. He was once known to have said under one of his fits of rage, "Too many have died, too many have suffered, too many souls have been ripped to shreds. I will take the burden of the innocent upon my shoulders, and avenge them."

Name: Fang O'Riley (born: Patrick "Paddy" O'Riley)

Age: 25

Gender: male

Species: grey wolf (brown, white, grey)

Ship: the "White Fang" (basic Arwing structure)