Jack Ryan [wip]

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JACK RYAN

(Bioshock fans: this is going to be extremely different than the actual story, to make this character work for La Campana)

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Name: Jack Ryan (no given middle name)
Gender: Male
Age: 24 years old
Hair Color: Chestnut brown
Eye Color: Green
Skin Tone: Light
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 178 lbs.
Wealth: Poor
Sexual Orientation: Bicurious--though this is only a recent discovery on his part. In fact, anything even remotely sexual is shocking to him. He tries to avoid it, as well as flirting, as much as he can
Why they are in La Campana: Job offer. It was the only job he could find that not only offered to pay for his plane ride over, but to offer him cheap and nice enough housing for him and his adopted daughters. He's planning on moving back to America when he has enough money, however. [/size]

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Nervous Habits:

Fears:
-Falling back into bad habits (that his mental conditioning is still in place)
-Seeing Atlas again
-Not being a good father/failing his daughters
-Society as a whole[/list]
Goals/Aspirations:

Appearance:
Jack Ryan, despite all of his personality quirks and horrible childhood, is best described as 'attractive, but nothing abnormal.' That is to say, while he may catch your eye as a handsome, well-built and symetrically sound man, he simply isn't anything 'special'. You would not stop on the street to admire his beauty, and you certainly can't expect to see his face on Entertainment Weekly's "Hottest Men in the World" article.

Like all people, Jack is not perfect in terms of appearance. His eyes almost always have bags beneath them (how tired he is directly affecting how prominent they are), he has a scar of his left hand, and his lips are almost always chapped. Some might say his face is too wide, his eyes too far apart--certainly there are many things that a close examination would show. Yet these are minor things wen compared to the bigger picture. And, when placed in contrast with his pleasant features, there is a nice balance. He has smooth, chestnut brown hair that is easily managed; olive-green eyes that stand out against his fair skin. A strong build without looking imposing, and two tattoos (of three chain links each) on his wrist. He wears modest clothing--never one to ry and flaunt his body like a piece of meat for others' to oggle. All in all, it might be easiest to simply say that Jack appears a well-rounded person. Intruiging but not dangerous, handsome but not extravagent, and generally a pleasant sort of man.

Very rarely does Kacl show strong emotion. When he is happy, you will see a very slight tilt of the corners of his lips; when he is angry, his eyebrows will furrow ever-so slighty together. Unless you take careful watch, it could be atogether possible to miss these expression change and simply assume that he is always stoic.
Personality:
-Warm-hearted
-A bit psychologically disturbed
-Subject to conditioning--effects still in place
-Mental control sabatoged--emotional still in place
-Abandonment & trust issues
-Fiercely protective of his daughets
-Prefers the simple life--no drama here
-Quite/meek, a shy, gentle man
-Nightmares, memories of experiments
-Incredibly smart, but hides it
-Good-natured
-Family man[/size][/font]

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&&--A glimpse of the past

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Father: Andrew Ryan, deceased (unknown until a year ago)
Mother: Jasmine Jolene, deceased (unknown until a year ago)
Sibling/s: None
Other important relatives:
Those who raised him:
-Atlas (Frank Fontaine): Adoptive-ish father
-Tenenbaum: Mother-ish figure
-Suchong: Father-ish figure

Daughters (click for picture)

-Rachel Ryan: adpted daughter, six

-Sarah Ryan: adopted daughter, seven years old

-Melody Ryan: adopted daughter, six years old

-Megan Ryan: adopted daughter, seven years old

-Lindsay Ryan: adopted daughter, six years old

Pets:Mr. Bubbles, six year old golden retriever
History:
Rapture: the town that was supposed to be Utopia. The town of dreams, where individuals need not succumb to the desires of the "parasite"--those who said a man is not entitled to the sweat on his brow. This is the dream a man named Andrew had when he created Rapture. A place where the individual need not be ruled by the capitalists, communists, or any other party. The artist need not worry about censor, the scientiest not worry over petty morals. It was a town he created, with his vast fortune, for the best and brightest of the world to work unhindered. He created Rapture with that dream, under the guise of a manufacturing plant.

This was where Jack was born--but it was also a place he would not see much of for his entire life. His earliest memory is of himself, clutching to his fathers' shirt as they fled, sirens wailing all around them. As his father, Atlas, would later tell him, they were escaping for their lives. Rapture had existed for a mere 20 years before its troubles began...


First, there was the issue of politics. Though Andrew created Rapture under a seemingly simple pretense--that every man was entitled to their own creations and work, and should not be subject to governments or those who mooched off of the governments that helped them (parasites, as Andrew stated). This philosophy, though revolutionary for its time, would later create troubles. It worked well in theory, but didn't take the human factor into consideration.

Second, was that with all of the 'best' and 'brightest', there were few to none willing to do the "grunt" work. He had collected a society of people who all filled high-class jobs; who was to work maintenance? Who was to do garbage control? Before long, things began to go awry--pipes busting left and right, and riots began. Along with the presence of a new drug, ADAM, created by the scientest Tenenbaum, Rapture's collapse into degredation was inevitable. For the addition of ADAM was a devestating one--a powerful drug, with an even more powerful addiction level, it changed people. It changed them mentally, and it changed them physically. Before long, the 'best' and the 'brightest' were the 'disfigured' and 'clinically insane'.

He spoked of a great chain--and though he envisioned it as everyone heping to pull their own chains and lead the city forwrd, a chain is a double-edged sword. While it can be used to help liberate, it is also the means by which people can be constrained. And Andrew's philosophies soon turned to control. His citizens became unruly and demanded explanations. By this point, a prominent figure working in the sciences came to spotlight--Frank Fontaine. He owned a number of succesful business in Fontaine's fisheries and understood how to make them all work in harmony. For a boy of merely 18 years old, many considered him a prodigy--the rightful ruler of Rapture. Andrew saw to it tha Frank was killed. In his stead, however, came a new figure--Atlas. It seemed that Andrew could not gain his citizens back, for they all pooled to this mysterious figure with adoring eyes. Even more than Frank, Atlas was someone they felt they could all trust. In a rage, and realizing that he was soon to lose control, Andrew released a set of pheremones into the air of his city. The majority of the drugged-out citizens were drastically affected by it--turned animalistic with it.

This is the fate that Atlas saved Jack from. He read the warning signs of Andrew's desperation and fled the city with the infant and a small group of scientists. Jack learned this in stories from his father. After all, he didn't have any connections to the outside world--Jack was raised almost exclusively in an underground lab. But as a young child, he didn't feel himself deprived of any freedoms. It was the only world he knew, and he felt himself happy. At least, this is the way he remembers it. He remembers being happy with Atlas and his two assistants, Suchong and Tenenbaum. He can remember them being a sort of happy family. Yet there was never any pretense of true blood between them. It was made very clear from a young age that Jack had no relations to any of him; that he ought to be grateful that three complete strangers would take enough pity on a stranded child to save him.

Of the three, Atlas was always the most important. A distinguished genius and a handsome young man at that, he was quick to become Jack's role model. All throughout his young life, Atlas was Jack's hero. When he could, he would spend as much time with the older man. He would beg for stories of his bravery and listen with awe. Jack learned of Atlas' true family this way. His wife Mirna and son Patrick who were still stuck in Rapture--held hostage by Andrew. He can still recall the look Atlas would get when he spoke of them. His beautiful wife and son--and he would always tell Jack that as soon as they could get back into Rapture, they together would save Mirna and Patrick and become a happy family. Atlas explained a ranch he owned, a beautiful and serene place where they would live off the land. For Jack, it sounded perfect. And Atlas would always tell him--when he was old enough, they would save them. Together, as father and son. Much of the time is a blur to Jack--he can remember Atlas teaching him how to handle a gun, and the pleasant times they shared together. Laughter and hugs; he remembers a happy childhood.

...he can still hardly believe that it was all a lie.


Just before his twenty-third birthday, Atlas informed him that the time had come--Andrew was finally weak enough, and the city easy enough to infiltrate. Jack went in with little more than a wrench, a few guns, and a radio-transmitter. At first, he wondered why he was being sent in so over-prepared. He would soon come to find that he was, in truth, completely unprepared for what lay in store.

While he had Atlas' constant advice through the radio, he was virtually alone in the city. Not in a physical sense either--no, were that the case, perhaps it would've been more tolerable. Rapture was still perfectly inhabited. Hundreds of people could be found were one to look. But as Atlas explained, and Jack soon came to see, they were hardly people at all. Years over excessive drug use and life within an oppressive dystopia had changed the citizens psychologically. There was a certain hunger within them that couldn't be fathomed. A hunger for the drugs they craved, a hunger for reason, but most of all, a hunger for the life that had been stolen from them. Vicious, most of them were. They would attack any being the saw almost on sight, hoping to find something they could steal on their dead bodies. For Jack...this was especially true. For as he entered the city, Andrew was all too aware of his presence. He announced to his delusional citizens that a strange mad had entered the town, and that the person to take him down would be rewarded.

-Psychologically disturbed citizens; little sisters
-Atlas' family 'killed' before his eyes. Atlas furious, 'would you kindly go kill Andrew?'
-Goes to kill Andrew. "A man chooses; a slave obeys". Andrew reveals truth; Jack is his son, Atlas stole him, experimented on him, and forced him to obey his every whim. Atlas was only interested in using him to destroy Andrew; raised him, brain-washed him, only to take over rapture. Jack could use gene-scans that Andrew set to only work for his genes.
-Andrew uses the programmed trigger 'would you kindly' to force Jack to kill him.
-Atlas reveals himself as Frank Fontaine; as Jack tries to run, he falls down a shaft
-Awakes to Tenenbaum's underground home in rapture, where all of the little sisters he rescued are. She explains that she has undone much of his mental conditioning, and that now that Andrew is dead, Frank Fontaine is taking over
-Frank orders Jack to kill himself, Jack manages to refuse, goes off the try and find Frank to kill him
-Finally finds Frank/Atlas--the two fight, but the little sisters help turn the tide. Jack leaves Atlas, and the little sisters offer him the key to the city. Refuses, adopts the girls and goes back to the real world
-Despite experiments, Jack is an incredibly smart individual. Begins to provide for his dauther doing random jobs for a year, deigns to give them a better life than he had.
-Finds work at La Campana, decides to go work as the head of the science department
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