Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2013 22:00:11 GMT -5
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[/color] Ryan Alexander Ruckshack
Name ;;
Nickname(s) ;;[/color] Ry, RyRy
Age ;;[/color] 15
Birthday ;;[/color] November 21
Gender ;;[/color] Male
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Species ;;[/color] DemiGod
Immortal Parent ;;[/color] Ceres
Years at Camp ;;[/color] 5
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Celebrity Claim ;;[/color] Connor Jessup
Appearance ;;[/color] Ryan stands at height 5'7". He has short, dirty blonde hair is either slightly spiked, or slightly flopped over in the front. He does little to style it and just lets it fall where it wants. He has rather expressive, hazel eyes. Ryan isn't good at hiding emotions at all, so almost anyone can tell how he's feeling by simply looking at him. That said, he isn't good at poker-facing, and his facial expressions are anything but menacing (for the majority of the time).
He wears things that are functional, comfortable, and easily cleanable (since they accumulate dirt and dust daily). Outside of training, Ry wears the purple camp t-shirt, or an earthy-colored shirt with either sweatpants or jeans. He has a few imperfections, particularly a scar along the calf of his right leg from a training session gone horribly wrong. Along with the traditional, initiative scarring of a Roman solider, Ryan also has the infamous SPQR, as all others do, along with five bars, and the symbol of Ceres on his arm.
Weapon wise, Ryan carries throwing daggers and a sickle. He carries them during training hours, but when going into the forest, or on his rounds to look after the vegetation, he leaves them in his barrack. He is always seen carrying around a staff. It has a vine carved into it, wrapping its way around the wood, and then a real life vine wrapped onto it in the opposite way (made by a surly Vulcan kid during his first week of Camp). Ryan usually just uses it as a walking stick, but he can use it in defense if needed.
Personality ;;[/color] Ryan does not like fighting. He's a peaceful son of Ceres and would much rather heal people and grow plants than go to train. He's not the best weapons fighter and he knows it all to well; he never will be either since he dislikes it. His fighting/life style is more passive defensive than aggressive offensive. Ryan promotes life, and tries to fight without harming the earth (or the person). Despite his dislike of fighting, he has been able to master fighting with a sickle and throwing knives in order to survive at Camp. He only trains when he needs to aka its in his schedule. Outside of training, he enjoys growing/healing plants, trying to find friends, and learning how to heal. He doesn't stick around the training grounds for "fun" or "extra practice". Once his training time is up, he strips his armor, and is walking as fast as he can in the opposite direction. Most likely towards the forest, the infirmary, or to a plant. Ryan knows how to occupy himself well; he also knows how to blend into the background and be "invisible" with people. He likes standing by the side lines and observing since his inability to make many friends has rendered him slightly insecure. His good observation skills have led him to being able to "read" people by their body language, facial expression, and tone of voice.
Soft and kind by nature, the Roman camp has done little to harden his natural state (although he did try to toughen up at one point, he failed/couldn't since he felt too mean). He has a big heart, and tries to look out for nearly everyone, since they have become his family to an extent. To the stranger or friend, Ryan is kind, polite, sociable, and light; however, he is a bit shy at first (again because of his initial inability to find friends). He is uncomfortable around older men and if left by himself with an adult he semi freaks out. Outside of the fighting rink (and he barely is able to stand it there) he can't stand being touched. People outside of camp would never think that he could be dangerous with (or even own) knives or a sickle. Ryan likes quotes, and often uses them if he cannot find words of his own to use. He quotes anything: movies, books, poems, song lyrics, whatever he can think of to get the point across. From being alone most of the time, Ryan likes (and has memorized) any type of books, movies, and songs. He is actually very smart and did rather well, academically, in school. Going with her son of the goddess of agriculture roots, Ryan loves plants, and the earth. Even though he's become superb at using his powers of plant manipulation, he believes that he still has a lot to learn; he's been doing it ever since she was little, even if he'd never been aware of it. Ryan, if he could during training, would use plants, and plants alone to fight. But now, since blades have been semi etched into him, he would probably use a combination of knife/sickle, and plants if confronted with a real life threat (other than camp squabbles).
Despite his kindness exterior, Ryan's far from a saint. To him, there is no point in trying to become friends with everyone, or try to please people in this sort of Camp. It's just not natural. He's going to be himself: random, independent, and peaceful, and no one is going to tell him otherwise. Even though he tries to stay on people's good side and tries to be friendly, he knows that it's near impossible for everyone to have a liking for each other, especially here. People who look down on him first or seem egocentric are usually the ones that he comes to dislike. He is willing to mend fences and believes in second chances but if the offense has been too great or repeated too many times, he kind of shuts down. However, if it comes down to the wire, he will defend even those who he does not like. They are a unified camp, after all.
Family ;;[/color]
- Matthew Ruckshack - Father
History ;;[/color] Matthew Ruckshack was one of those men who liked to be busy. He worked all day at an entirely self made, annual, garden shop. He did everything himself: growing, buying, arranging, tending, selling; the whole nine yards. Matt was unshakably passionate and dedicated to his shop; he truly loved what he did, even if he had little to show for it. Then again, he liked working hard for his money. His shop was a small place off the beaten path, but the costumers he did have would always come back, hopefully with a few friends and more business. It was just before his busy Christmas sale that he met her: Ceres. She had been attracted by all the well kept plants. The tightly run business, managed with precision. The natural remedies. His determination to keep a single bush from dying. When she came into the shop, he, of course, noticed her. It was actually quite hard to miss her. She was rather attractive... The night after she came, Matt realized that one of his dying bushes had healed "miraculously".
She kept coming back. Matt soon took note, and he started watching her. Every day, nearly all the flowers seemed to be healthier. Then, one day, he asked her if she would like a job, since she seemed so good with the plants. She said no, so he plucked up his courage, and bluntly asked her if she would like to go out instead. She agreed to that offer instead. One thing lead to another... and, months later Ceres left a child on his door step. Matt was semi clueless on what to do, but he did his best: juggling a child and his business (his business usually got more of the attention though). When Ry was younger, he would bring his son to work with him. Little did he notice Ryan sprouting baby daisies in the cracks, or healing plants like his mother had once done.
So, RyRy grew: bullies in school, ADHD, dyslexia, the whole nine yards of grief that he got from being a demigod child in a mortal world. He wasn't paid much mind by his father, but Ryan didn't exactly hold anything against him. It was the only thing he knew. True, he would of liked Matt to have been there for him, sometimes, but he understood that his father was a busy man. That being said, he learned how to occupy himself: audio books, books, music, a computer, a forest, and plants (and basically every inanimate object) became his true friends. He could be alone for hours and hours at a time, but he would eventually have to go back to some form of human companionship: mainly his father. Ryan never really got many friends in school, mainly because he was either too hyper, or too random, or too quiet, or just too weird. Instead of playing with action figures like all the other boys, he'd rather fidget infront of the class room window and literally watch the plants grow.
On his sixth birthday, a monster decided to attack him on his school playground. That day, everyone saw the usually peaceful (yet very hyperactive) Ryan Ruckshack single handedly strangle an older student with a vine. He got expelled for that. It initiated a move to a different school, something Matt was less than happy about. As Ryan's life at school took a bit of a nose dive, so did Matt's business. A few months later, the drinking started. All Ryan could do was lock his door and try to ignore the sounds of either a fling, his father's friends, or of glass breaking, and wonder what he had done wrong. One day particular day, he made the mistake of believing that everyone had left the house and came out of his room. He was usually good at avoiding his father's friends, but when he was seven, one of them ended up cornering him. It had happened before, but until then, Ryan didn't understand what was really going on. That day, he finally understood it was wrong. When Ryan finally got his senses back together, the man got knocked back from him. Matt came home to something equivalent of Jack's bean stalk in his living room and one of his best friends unconscious. Matt finally started to realize that his son could do... certain things, but he decided to ignore it. He wanted to keep his life as stable as possible. They got the floor(s) repaired, and Ryan went under his father's rules of house arrest.
A few years later, when he was nine, Ryan got yet another monster (Roman kind) following him. He freaked and ran inside his newer house, only to get it half destroyed (again) from the fight that ensued. That night, Matt came home to a cut up and bruised Ryan, and a house with half a tree growing underneath it. Ryan, of course, got grounded again, and Matt continued to get all the more irritable with his son. That night, Matt got a dream telling him to bring Ry to a special camp. To prevent a scene like this from ever happening again, Matt just prayed that nothing out of the ordinary would happen. They bought a new house, and Matt explained the situation to Ryan: this camp was going to keep him safe (and keep Matt's new house from getting destroyed).
That September, two months before he turned ten, nine year old Ryan Ruckshack got dropped off at the Wolf House. It was fair to say he was beyond terrified. It was a wolf pack. Sure, they looked cool in movies, but horribly scary in real life. It took a while, and to this day, he had no idea what Lupa saw (he certainly doesn't see anything himself, everyone at camp seems so much better than him), but he got admitted into Camp Jupiter and the Probie name plate. From that day froward, Ryan tried to settle himself into Legion life and tried to grasp onto everything that everyone is telling him about... well, everything. He became full of wonder for this place (still is), and after a few weeks, just came to accept all of it as true. Eventually, he got sorted into a cohort, although with no real experience, outrageously brave deeds, love for fighting, or references it was kinda hard...
The training and strictness has been a bit hard on him, but he hasn't strayed far from his personality from when he first stepped foot into Camp. He's had to suck up getting touched in the sparring/training purposes and that's put him a bit on edge, but other than that, he has tried to remain the same boy he was (albeit a failed type of rougher). He is still trying to develop his full powers of plant manipulation and healing. Since he doesn't like weapons fighting that much, he is trying to turn his plant manipulation into a style of fighting. He's also had to learn (out of necessity) how to combat hand/hand (he hates/fails at it), knife throw, fight with a sickle (both which he's pretty decent with), and sword fight (which he's not as good at). Ry also enjoys hanging out with the Apollo kids in the infirmary in his free time; he wants to be more of a healer than a fighter.
Even though there was a lot of suspicion about his parent, Ryan didn't get officially claimed until his thirteenth birthday, right on the dime. Nearly a year later, the Camp got engaged in the battle of Mt. Orthys. Ryan helped where he could: grew confusing forests, tied enemies up with vines, every passive aggressive/defensive thing he could think about doing. Then, he got injured and landed in the infirmary. Once he kind of healed, Ryan managed to persuade one of the Apollo kids to let him stay there to help with the healing instead of the fighting. Mt. Orthy shook Ryan up a bit and has led him to dislike fighting even more than before. He saw his share of horrors that night; they still haunt him. All he can do is hope that he'll never have to live though it again.[/blockquote]
Site Alias ;;[/color] Ellie
Reading;;[/color] All of PJO
Roleplaying Experience ;;[/color] 4 Years
Sample RP ;;[/color] Take a look at Eddie Boy ^_^
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