Post by Ryder James Crowe on Mar 29, 2013 9:23:33 GMT -5
Ryder James Crowe
HUMAN/HUNTER - CAM GIGANDET - MOUNTAIN - Miz
the basics.
get to know me a little
NICKNAMES
Ry, Easy, Easy Rider, and sometimes Chey calls him Jamie for the fuck of it cause she KNOWS he hates it!
AGE
22 years old
BIRTHDATE
September 18th (he's a Scorpio, yo.)
SPECIES
Human first, Hunter always.
POWERS AND ABILITIES
He has no magic powers as he is a human-- but he can kick your ass seven ways to Sunday! Being trained as a hunter from the time he could hold a gun, the young man knows a thing or fifty about self-preservation. Whether it be shooting, hand-to-hand combat, or other weapons, he's an ace. Also, with all those mechanical engineering courses along with basic supernatural knowledge he has been able to customize and create weapons specifically for the fiends they hunt. Ryder is actually an all around smarty pants so...ask him anything and he'll probably have an answer.
Other than being a brain and hunting like a pro...which I guess he is, Ryder is really great with his hands. He really enjoys working on cars, especially the classics.
Other than being a brain and hunting like a pro...which I guess he is, Ryder is really great with his hands. He really enjoys working on cars, especially the classics.
CHARACTER TYPE
canon
LIKES
--- >> UFC
--- >> Whiskey-- straight
--- >> Food-- like his dad he's always chewing on something
--- >> Weapons, especially those he's manufactured himself
--- >> A good fist fight
--- >> Taking the head off a vampire
--- >> Teasing his baby sister about no dating
--- >> Getting his hands greasy; ie...fixin' stuff
DISLIKES
--- >> Himself at the moment
--- >> Supernaturals; especially vampires
--- >> Waking up late
--- >> Watered down whiskey
--- >> Guys hitting on his baby sister
--- >> His baby sister flirting back
WEAKNESSES
--- >> He's got a chip on his shoulder the size of Texas
--- >> Ryder is heart-broken and lost
--- >> He gets drunk and rowdy--often. Its how he deals with the pain of his loss
--- >> Ryder has shunned most of the hunting community, and as such he goes into most missions alone
--- >> He has been trying to talk himself out of using a R.E.D. in order to bring his love back from the dead
--- >> Food. Anything that's battered, fried, or greasy
--- >> His family, of course
STRENGTHS
--- >> He is utterly brilliant and strategical
--- >> Can make a weapon out of almost anything ( He's McGyver, yo! )
--- >> He is well-versed in most supernatural lore, as he is constantly reading/studying up on it to find out weakness and etc.
--- >> He can fix any vehicle he gets his hands on
--- >> Ryder is real good with his hands; aka...he can kick your ass so hard you'll taste his size 11 1/2's
--- >> His is cool, calm, and collected even in the most chaotic of situations ( of course, that's if he's not out hunting drunk off his ass which has been constantly as of late)
FEARS
--- >> That he'll always feel this anger and self hatred. He'll die an old man still hell bend for revenge
--- >> Ryder is terrified of his daughter growing up to loathe him. He knows she should hate him, but he's scared of that.
--- >> Chey hunting, dating, wearing shortie shorts...practically anything she does
--- >> Clowns. He's got issues, okay?!
--- >> Getting close to folks. It just hurts too bad to lose them so why bother?
SECRETS
--- >> He blames himself for the death of his finance/ baby mama
--- >> Ryder follows Chey out sometimes, just to make sure she is doing what she should
--- >> He thinks he's an unfit father. He doesn't even think he should have custody of her. That's how fucked up he is in the head
--- >> Ryder has been hunting recklessly on purpose. I think he wants to die.
--- >> He likes to eat scones. Don't tell anyone, kay?
personality.
all about me
There are always two sides to every coin. The young hunter is no exception to the rule. Let's call these sides pre-vamp and post-vamp.
One the one side Ryder was always a bright, eager male. One of the truly honorable men in the world, the hunter would just as soon throw himself into the path of a speeding bullet or pouncing werewolf to protect someone rather than to turn the other cheek. Ryder was one of the most good-natured guys you’d ever meet. He never sweat the small stuff, didn’t let the man get him down, and was cool as a cucumber. Being the middle child, he was always the peacemaker; breaking up sibling squabbles between his big bro and little sis, and would be the first one to settle a disagreement even if it had nothing to do with him or his family. He would go out on a limb for anybody. Ever the Boy Scout; he was always helping out strangers, walking old people across the street, opening doors for ladies…that kind of thing.
He always had his nose in a book or his hands in the grease; the young man constantly needed to fill his brain with new information. It was like fuel for him.
He loved his family intensely, took his responsibilities seriously, and protected strangers with a bravery that was uncommon for a guy so young.
Kind hearted and a gentleman he has always respected those of the opposite sex. He was never a wanna-be-ladies man and remained somewhat old-fashioned when it came to lovers.
Post-vamp is a whole 'nother story. Since the tragedy the young hunter has changed completely.
Blaming himself for the horrible events that scattered hi life to the wind, Ryder has almost completely withdrawn from his family and friends.
Self-loathing drove him to the bottle and not long after turned into an anger that is still slowly consuming him.
He hunts recklessly to exact revenge and hopes that if he can't kill every fucking vampire out there that he will fall to one himself.
Yes, he does have a death wish...
He feels he doesn't deserve what he has left in his life and does everything to push it away.
This coin, my friends, needs a shining!
history.
this is the story of my life
Ryder was born into a pretty normal family. He had a pair of loving parents, an older brother that would beat the crap out of him, an older sister that doted on him, and a younger sister he loved to tease. The Crowe's had an extended family that reached out all over the country; it was a close knit group…of course that was where the ‘normal’ ended.
You see, his father was Robert Crowe, born hunter and the owner of a hunter bar where others of their kind could gather. His mother, smart as a whip and a hunter as well. The extended family consisted of your normal everyday people that hunted down supernatural beings for a living.
Ryder was brought up around guns, aliases, and well, all the things that went bump in the night that MOST people thought were fairytales or characters from horror movies. Like his dad before him and his older brother, Ryder had always known that he would become a hunter. Simply put- it was in his blood. Thing was, he wanted to be more than a hunter. He wanted to do more than shoot things and chop off heads.
The loss of his mother at the age of 9 really shattered the family including; Ryder, but it cemented one fact in the youth's brain. He would be a hunter no matter what, until the day he died, and he would never EVER lose any one close to him again to a God forsaken supernatural.
The young man’s nose was always in a book, and more than most times you would find him off at the library researching mythical lore or studying subjects like science and the mechanics of things.
When the young man grew into a teenager he found he had a fascination with taking things apart and putting things together, and this is where his future in the manufacturing of unique weapons as well as his love for working on cars was born.
He started making weapons out of anything he could get his hands on; his favorites being the compound bow with dead man’s blood arrowheads and the gun he made from a steering wheel lock.
Of course, he was a Crowe, and Ryder wasn’t all work and no play. He loved hanging out with his siblings and his friends (most of which had no idea about the supernatural world-- thank goodness for the children of the hunters he grew up with)
He dated, played sports, and of course, snuck out on as many hunters with dad and big brother as he could.
Mr. Smarty-pants was top in his class and graduated a year early from high school, and soon after enrolled in as many courses as he could, working his way towards a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
In was in one of these classes that he met the girl of his dreams, Jaelen, who seemed to have a passion for learning as much as he did.
At first they just conversed back and forth in the college chat room, moved up to talking on the phone, and finally, he summoned up enough courage to ask her out on a -real- date.
Jaelen was everything he had imagined and more. She was smart, beautiful, and had an amazing personality. After a few dates he took her home to meet his family, and as he expected, they took a liking to her as well.
It didn’t take long for Ryder to fall in love with her. Of course, there was always a dark cloud above their relationship. Things he couldn’t tell her about his family, about himself.
Jae had no knowledge of the Supernatural, and knowing the analytical type of person she was, Ry knew that to expose this truth would absolutely kill her. So…he decided for now he would keep it a secret.
When they started talking marriage, maybe then he could tell her…and he was sure that time would come soon because he was deeply, absolutely, out of his head crazy about her.
By now he and his older brother had begun hunting together without dad. As long as they were together Robert thought they could take care of one another. Unfortunately, things don’t always work out like you plan them, do they?
Jaelen and Ry were nearly inseparable. They became so much more than just a young couple in love. She was his best friend and what he believed was his true soul mate.
The young man wanted desperately to marry her, but she always said school first, everything else second. He decided to wait until she had her degree and THEN he would pop the big question.
Here's where that thing about things not working out come in...
Despite their practicing safety in ALL aspects, Jae became pregnant with Ryder's child.
She kept up with her courses until the very day she went into labor, and had a 6lb 7oz baby girl with eyes as bright as her daddy's.
The young man could not have been happier.
Just a few short months later Ryder was riding on Cloud Nine when he and bro went on a hunt together to take out what had been described as a ‘small’ coven of vampires that had been hanging out at a crappy college bar. Earlier in the day Jae had confessed that her ideals in life had changed and no longer was she focused on her career. She wanted nothing more than to be a wife and mother to their child. Ry couldn’t wait to tell his family and see what they thought.
Needless to say, the man was pretty damn distracted. The coven turned out to be bigger than they had originally expected and the boys were in for the fight of their life.
His head wasn’t completely in the game, so when his girlfriend happened to wander into the same bar that night with a couple of their friends, he didn’t notice before it was too late.
Ryder got his assed kicked…HARD. If it wasn’t for big brother and a few other hunters that had gotten wind of the coven, he probably would have died that night…which is exactly what he would have wanted instead of the horrible outcome.
You see, by the time he realized Jae was there he was already so wounded he couldn’t have helped her. He begged his brother to save her…but he was already on the move to get his ass out of there and to a hospital before he bled out from a mortal wound. In all the commotion, Bro hadn’t even realized Ry was trying to point out a face that he should have recognized as his sister-in-law-to-be, but alls he could see in the dim bar lighting was just an unfortunate female that had already been fed vamp blood and was on her way to the dark side of life.
Ryder passed out before he knew what had happened, and didn’t wake up until 3 days later.
When he woke up from the short term coma, everyone said life could go back to normal. It was the hunter’s way of life after all. You win some; you loose some and all that.
But no one really knew just how much he’d lost. At least not until they realized Jae had never come home either...
Ryder knew what had happened, but could not admit it to himself, much less his family.
A few nights after he was released from the hospital and had talked his folks into letting him go back to his own apartment; he was awoken in the middle of the night.
He was surprised and horrified to see Jaelen standing there…big pointed teeth and all.
She had become a vampire and had lost all humanity. She wanted blood. HIS blood.
Ryder tried to fight her off without hurting her, but in the end, it was obvious she wasn’t the same Jae he loved. She was a blood-thirsty monster like the kind it was in his blood to kill. He took her life before she could take his, and when the light in her eyes faded, his heart broke.
The hunter blames himself for everything that's happened and has simply closed himself off to everyone else. Unable to look into the face of his daughter without seeing Jae, Ryder usually leaves her with family. Though they don't agree, he feels he is unfit to raise her and they respect that.
Most of the hunter's time is spent getting as drunk as he can and then going out to hunt like that. Reckless abandon is what you might call it.
The longer he’s on his own, the more and more closed off he becomes. The more closed off, the more a danger to himself he becomes.
For now what he does what he does in order to just…be. No friends…no family as far as he’s concerned; at least not until he can learn to deal with this emptiness inside.