#for voice references pls take note for ii link there's tw talks of abuse

[ashton-ryder]

ASHTON RYDER | 32 | PhD STUDENT, EX-MARINE

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Ashton, 32, is a astrophysics PhD student at NYU, often teaching bachelor lectures as part of his post-graduate program alongside his research. He's been in New York for the last 4 years, renting in the Wexley in #306 ever since. Before that, he had spent a bulk of his time with the US marines, fresh out of high school, following his father's footsteps, taking his Physics bachelors and masters while serving. A mishap of a mission left him the only survivor of his team, suffered a bad injury and he stepped away from being a marine raider for good. His father was a military pilot though he died in combat and Ashton was mostly raised by his mother, an elementary school teacher, growing up in a small town in Minnesota. Moving to New York was hard but he needed to find something else to do with his life, to prove that he isn't completely useless yet.

Useful Skills Military Combat, Gun Marksmanship, Reconnaissance, Extreme Conditions, Good Swimmer, Jet Piloting, Military Medical Aid and Combat Trauma Care, Theoretical and Practical Physics, Can debate for hours on the theories of Dark Matter .

Additionals.

Full Name: Ashton Finley Ryder Nicknames: Ash, Ryder, Fin (ice hockey days) Birthday: November 3, 1991 Birthplace: Taylors Falls, Minnesota Current Home: The Wexley, #306, 4th year resident pre-outbreak Religion: Loosely raised Catholic / Currently Freethinker Orientation: Asexual, Biromantic MBTI: ISFJ, The Defender Enneagram: Type5 Wing6, The Troubleshooter Alignment: Lawful Neutral Zodiac: Scorpio Face Claim: Luke Mitchell . Voice Claim: Luke Mitchell (i) | (ii) *ii - tw mentions of abuse .

Physical Attributes.

Height: 6'1" Build: Muscular, Athletic Exercise Regime: Alternate days USMC conditioning training Allergies: people that walk slowly in NYC, people beating around the bush, & lilies. Hair Colour: Dirty Blonde Eye Colour: Deep Blue, that turns deeper when he cries Glass/Contacts: none, but sometimes if his eyes are strained he has reading glasses Dominant Hand: Right, but mildly Ambidextrous Tattoos: only one, solar system running across the inside of his left forearm Scars: Too many to count, the most prominent, ugly one that never healed right is the one on his left shoulder, operated on by Dr Tobias Piercings: Earlobes and Helix on both ears Outfit Clothing Style: Sweaters, idk what else to tell you, whatever Charlie and Ria styles him with

Background Information.

Hometown: Taylors Falls, Minnesota Current Residence: Manhattan, New York Spoken Languages: English / Russian / Spanish Driver's License: yes + military license Occupation: Ex-marine. PhD student and lecturer at NYU

Familial Information. Relationship Status: Single? In love. It's Complicated Mother: Amelia Kayley Ryder, Elementary School Teacher, Taylors Falls, MN / status unknown (open wanted connection) Father: Ben Colin Ryder, U.S Army Officer, Captain / deceased, KIA Siblings: None Other: Rose Siblings, as close as family. Pets: A german shepherd called Dawn, that Ash trained as a military dog beside him during his service, she listened to no one but him and so when he left the force, Dawn couldn't work with any other soldier and retired for Ashton to adopt her back home, currently living with his mother in Minnesota.

Headcanons

Starting with the military, Ashton applied to the marines very early on before getting accepted into the Special Ops as a CSO and Marine Raider. Was in service for about a decade before leaving it all behind.

Ashton is always in this serious mode, small smiles come by only ever so often and fun is a hard concept to grasp. Few can bring that side of him back.

Despite a few years in, he finds it hard to decide on the mundane things in life. He has no preferences for anything really. If you ask him what his favorite food is, he probably wouldn’t know how to respond. He can’t even decide his favorite food, let alone everything else in his life. He has one constant in his life and that’s enough for him.

Being young and dumbly spontaneous, he had a tattoo on his left forearm of the solar system at 18 to just be able to look at something and feel. Remember that there are things so much bigger than themselves.

Ashton teaches- taught the bachelor’s classes once in a while and the students will often gossip on the military vibes the class had. And those that couldn’t handle it dropped the class, but the ones that do stay on, often come out of it thankful that they did.

The Outbreak brought him back into his military instincts, trying to help out where he can to protect the building still standing in protecting them, but Ashton is also one to be more willing to go out, to scout, to scavenge.

Weirdly enough, he’s still working on his research paper, apocalypse be damned, he was finishing this residency and research paper one way or another. Or perhaps he just needed some kind of normalcy, to keep moving, because he knows the idleness will destroy him.

Ashton back in his military days was a skilled jet pilot and a good shot with the highest qualified level of marksmanship. Now if only he had a plane and a gun…

His apartment is a library of its own, well, if you’re ever looking for a book to learn about Kepler’s second law of planetary motion.

Supplies (on Day 0):

library of astrophysics books

NYU staff and student pass

mid-range telescope

laser pointer

mini solar power generator

tactical flashlight

compass

M18 handgun & 9mm bullets

military combat knives

old dog tag

water bottle

bucket of realism