I thought I'd share the BIO I used when applying, nothing fancy.. but if you're interested and bored it might be a decent read!
Anyways, I used the actor Chris Evans (The human torch) to portray Ryan as a character. So when you're RPing and interacting with him.. just imagine the guy that played the human torch. He usually talks with the same kind of sarcasm and wit, blah blah. Anyways here's the bio:
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At an early age, Ryan knew his place in the world. He was a human, the lowest on the totem poll, the stepping stone for all the other races. And he hated it.
Born a peasant in a small farming community, the local vampire lord did much to make the humans remember their place in the world. They were beaten, made a mockery of, and sometimes taken away to never return. As a youth he was forced to work the fields, while he took note of the grander lifestyles his overseers seem to evoke. When he would question his mother and father about these inequalities, they would always say the same damn answer, "That is just the way of things, my son."
His father was a coward, and Ryan always resented how the old man bowed down before the vampire. Once he recalled as his old man watched helplessly while a vampire began to take advantage of his mother. Ryan, enraged at this, quickly intervened. But, as most humans were, he was repelled and badly beaten.
When the vampire lord found out about this small altercation, Ryan and his family were to be made example of. His parents were to be banished from the community, while the young Ryan was to be publicly lashed 20 times across his back and to live out his remaining days in shame. Many assumed the Redfield family doomed, and Ryan, lost and alone, took refuge in his small house that now seemed depressingly empty.
It was by chance that an old wandering Werewolf, a barbarian they called their trade, came to Ryan's small village to work in the farmlands for food and pay. Unlike the vampires, Ryan noticed right away that this particular Werewolf seemed to care not for the social caste of Vampire, Werewolf, or human. He worked side by side the 'lesser race', sharing their workload and even at times helping them with their labors.
On one particular occasion Ryan recalled being bull-rushed by a charging steed, surely doomed to be crushed under the beasts hooves. However, due to the intervention of that very Werewolf, known as Kalm, Ryan would live through that day. The two became friends and Ryan invited Kalm into his household, and it was soon that Kalm was a mentor to the young human.
Kalm spread the teaching of the tales of old, speaking to Ryan of the Werewolf King and the Three, all tales in which Ryan noted the absence of a human hero. "That is just the way of things, my boy." Kalm would tell him. As Ryan grew, so did his ambitions, and Kalm took note of this. He would take the young teen on hunts into the wild, show the human how to improve his strength and endurance, and warn him that not all Werewolves were as kind as he.
For years the two relished in each other's company, but, as all beings do, Kalm was one day to die. It came as a shock to Ryan, then 19 years old, but his mentor had prepared him for it. Ryan was alone again, and as he recalled his old friend's dying words, he promised to live his life by them: "Become strong, Ryan. Prove to them, the Humans are more than cattle..."
And so it became his quest. It became his obsession. Six years passed, and Ryan, now 25, set out to become the Hero in his own story.
-- Edited by TheKalm on Monday 17th of August 2009 02:30:22 PM
