Post by ANDREW RYAN on Aug 19, 2010 0:43:19 GMT -5
ANDREW RYAN
* I am the almighty, the founder, the leader to you all. .
HEY THERE. THE NAME IS MIKE, AND I AM EIGHTEEN.
I'VE BEEN ROLEPLAYING FOR ABOUT ONE YEAR, EIGHT MONTHS
AND MY OTHER CHARACTERSWOULD BE MICHAEL TATE. OH, BY THE WAY, I READ THE RULES. WANT PROOF? THE CODE WORD IS -REMOVED BY DAVE-
- - - - nicknames, Ruler, Leader, the all knowing
- - - - gender, Male
- - - - sexuality, Heterosexual
- - - - occupation, Rapture Leader
- - - - wealth class, Upper
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- - - - eyes, light blue
- - - - hair, very short and dark
- - - - built, regular built.
- - - - weight, 150 lbs.
- - - - height, Six feet exactly
- - - - fashion sense, Usually dressed nicely, always makes sure to look his best.
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[li]His success
[/li][li]Rapture
[/li][li]Being a leader
[/li][li]Having control
[/li][li]Coffee[
- - - - loathes,
[/li][li]Traitors
[/li][li]Frank Fontaine
[/li][li]Loosing control
[/li][li]Not being listened too
[/li][li]The surface
- - - - strenghts,
[/li][li]He is a leader
[/li][li]He helped create Rapture
[/li][li]He has power over all
[/li][li]Plasmids galore
[/li][li]People listen to him
- - - - weaknesses,
[/li][li]Not all people listen to him
[/li][li]He can’t always be there
[/li][li]He is physically slow
[/li][li]He requires a lot of sleep
[/li][li]Too much free time
- - - - dreams,
[/li][li]Everyone will follow his order
[/li][li]Rapture will live forever
[/li][li]He will be known forever
- - - - fears,
[/li][li]Rapture will fall
[/li][li]His followers will betray him
[/li][li]Jasmine will leave him
- - - - overall personality, Andrew Ryan is the leader of Rapture, he is responsible, a great leader, a good listener, and most impotently, he’s the voice of the people, well most of the people. He is one of the founders of Rapture, so he needs to take charge, but sometimes he gets in over his head. Andrew is always getting carried away and trying to take control. Being a founder, he can get very full of himself and he thinks he is more superb then everyone else that lives in Rapture, especially his enemy Frank Fontaine. Andrew is a perfectionist, everything must be perfect, which is pretty much how he managed to create Rapture with a lot of help and him taking charge. He is also a control freak, everything must go his way the way he likes it, or he won’t be too happy. Did I mention that Andrew also has a bit of a temper? When things go out of control, Andrew’s temper takes charge, and he can be very scary when aggravated.
Andrew has a tough outer shell, protecting himself from any pain, or showing it for that matter. He appears to be tough and in command, but under that rough exterior of his personality he is scared inside. He is scared that all the work he’s done will be for nothing and come to and end, he is also paranoid that the people will turn his back on him. Andrew is also very intelligent, he always thinks before he does something and he is just naturally smart. He is also quite bossy, always ordering for his followers to do something for him and telling people what to do. Not to mention he is very wise, probably because of his older age and all his past experience with creating Rapture and being so successful.
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- - - - family, Son named Jack
- - - - pets, N/A
- - - - overall history, Andrew Ryan was born Andrei Rianofski in Russia during the time when the Czar still held autocratic rule over the country. In 1917 he witnessed the Russian Revolution which established the Soviet Union and put the Bolsheviks in power. Ryan's experiences under Soviet rule led him to his personal philosophy: the modern world was created by great men who strove to make their own way. Anytime "parasites" gained control of such a world, they destroyed it (as the Soviets did "trading one lie for another," the autocratic rule of the Czar to the "insanity" of Communism). In 1919 Ryan fled the economic hardships in Russia and came to America, believing it to be a place where a great man could prosper
For a time, he was devoted to his adopted country, grateful for the wealth and fame it awarded his intellect and determination. However, the social programs adopted in the 30s increasingly tested that devotion. His experiences in the "worker's paradise" made Ryan despise the ideals of Socialism, believing that those who benefited from others were parasites (e.g. he considered Roosevelt and his "New Dealers" to be the ones "spoon-feeding" Americans on the "Bolsevik Poison"). In his mind, one could only own what one earned. For instance, he once owned a large forest as a personal retreat, one that many groups envied (one group told him that it "belonged to God," demanding that he establish a public park there). When the government attempted to nationalize it as. Parkland, Ryan's response was to burn it to the ground so no one could have it. The final straw for Ryan was the destruction of Hiroshima with the atomic bomb. In his eyes, the bomb was the ultimate corruption of his ideals — science and determination harnessed for destruction, creating a weapon that gave the parasites the ability to destroy anything that they could not seize.
Ryan's response was to use his entire fortune to build Rapture; a community where "the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, where the great would not be constrained by the small," in the only place he felt the parasites could not touch — the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. He created a shield company on the surface named Warden Yarn (an anagram of his name), and through it he conducted business with suppliers, such as Orrin Lutwidge's Scarlet Sovereign Import and Export, to receive materials necessary to build his city. When Rapture was completed, Ryan filled it with several thousand of the world's best and brightest, and for a time, it was everything he dreamed it would be, a paradise of freedom and wealth. From 1946 to 1958, Rapture experienced tremendous economic prosperity, and solid political stability.
As Ryan predicted, citizens in Rapture created a culture of entrepreneurship that was unrivaled, with numerous businesses established and unprecedented scientific advancement, culminating in the discovery of ADAM by Brigid Tenenbaum. The full implications of which was not immediately appreciated by Ryan who dismissed the concerns of men like Rosenberg and Bill McDonagh. Ryan's failure to understand the ramifications of the burgeoning ADAM-based culture resulted in the rise of a little-known Fishery owner named Frank Fontaine. With Rapture at its apogee, Ryan hired a man named Carlson Fiddle to build Ryan Amusements a theme park that doubled as a propaganda tool for the children of Rapture. Ryan himself provided narration to many of the rides and animatronic set pieces which attempted to warn children of the evils of the surface. This theme park embraced the city's new ADAM-culture, exalting plasmid technologies like Incinerate! in the Hall of the Future section of the park.
However, by filling a city with ambitious experts, trained geniuses, and breakthrough artists, Ryan set up a top-heavy class system with most Rapture citizens feeling that essential jobs such as food processing, cleaning, simple maintenance, etc. were beneath them, and thus were often ignored (as Frank Fontaine put it: "Someone had to scrub the toilets."). This led to widespread dissatisfaction when these jobs were neglected and an eventual economic collapse throughout Rapture. The social conditions resulting from the economic collapse allowed Frank Fontaine to establish the influential but undermining Fontaine's Home for the Poor and also allowed Atlas to rise to political power and openly challenge Andrew Ryan's leadership. Furthermore, in order to keep Rapture safely hidden from the parasites, Ryan strictly forbade contact with the surface, inadvertently creating a market for smuggled goods, which in turn led to the rise of Frank Fontaine. At Rapture's outset, Ryan intended this law to be Rapture's only one, but in the end, it proved to lay the groundwork for Rapture's decline and then divisive civil war.
Ryan received challenges from other sectors as well. A seemingly benign psychologist named Dr. Sofia Lamb, whom Ryan had invited to Rapture to help the citizens deal with psychological issues stemming from the isolated environment, began to speak out openly against the Ryanist philosophy. Lamb espoused a collectivist, altruist philosophy that could not be more different from Ryan's. Ryan engaged Lamb in debates about various topics in an attempt to win back public support, but the crowds were usually in Lamb's favor. Lamb's followers represented a legitimate challenge of their own, and Ryan eventually removed Lamb altogether by having her incarcerated at Persephone Penal Colony. Sensing that "the Great Chain was pulling away" from him, as he was to relate in one of his audio diaries, Ryan finally realized the threat that Fontaine posed and began to take steps to curb his influence. Trying to get to the heart of Fontaine's smuggling operation, he had some of his security forces, such as Sullivan, try to investigate Fontaine and his men. Although these efforts were largely successful in breaking the back of the smuggling operation as a whole, Fontaine himself remained elusive, always managing to be "where the evidence isn't." The frustration of this situation affected Ryan deeply, causing him to begin to turn away from his own beliefs. Despite considerable uproar, Ryan implemented a highly unpopular law, sentencing convicted smugglers to death.
Sometime in 1956, an Eve's Garden exotic dancer by the name of Jasmine Jolene became pregnant by Ryan. Once again showing his gift for foresight, Frank Fontaine made arrangements to purchase the embryo from Jolene, who claimed to "need the money." By that time, Ryan had much of Rapture's security and infrastructure coded to his own genetic frequency to combat the growing threat of the destabilized society. Fontaine realized that Jack, as the child was named, could be a powerful ally. Jack would share genetic code with Ryan, giving Jack access to secure areas that only Ryan and his relatives had access to. When Ryan learned what Jasmine Jolene did, he killed her in a fit of rage. With the smuggling operation in its death throes, Ryan sought a decisive conclusion to the Fontaine question. Ryan authorized putting an end to Fontaine and the remainder of his operation. An unrepentant Fontaine chose to, as Bill McDonagh put it, go down like "John Bloody Wayne" in one last stand. As the famous Rapture Standard headline proclaimed: "Ryan takes down smuggling operation ... Fontaine and thugs killed in fiery shootout!" on September 12th, 1958.
- - - - roleplay sample,
It was late, and Ollie just wasn’t sure how late it actually was, nor did he care. It was his life, and he could do what he wanted with it, right? He did have classes tomorrow, but Ollie hadn’t slept much lately anyways, with all the rustle and bustle of his life and what not. He had gotten all his assignments done after his classes earlier that day, because he wanted to get them all done and over with so he could relax for the rest of the day. Well, apparently that wasn’t going to happen after. One of his sisters friends Mike wanted to talk to him, so he went and found him, told him to stop his worrying because he was fine, then when he finally got away, he took off to Hogsmeade before anyone else could grab his attention away. He left the grounds and trekked to Hogsmeade, soaking up all the fresh air possible.
He spent the day there, planning on getting drunk off fire whiskey or something, but he ran into Collins instead and they just drank butterbeers, which really wasn’t as fun as firewhiskey. When she finally had to go, he watched her leave and then just hung around the Hog’s Head, waiting for it to almost be closing time. When everyone from school was leaving, he kept the owner company as he helped clean up, so he could get himself a free bottle of strong firewhiskey, which was definitely worth it. He took his alcoholic filled to the top, bottle of rums and he took the secret passage back to the castle with his bottle in hand. He got to the dungeons and snuck back into the common room where on Carlton was hanging around, trying to do his homework that he obviously procrastinated.
Ollie smirked and walked inside the common room, he sighed and walked over to his and took a seat on the couch “You really should think about getting that done earlier, then you could have relaxed like me.” He said as he but his bottle on the table and got up, running up to his dorm and taking the same assignment out of his trunk and ran it back down, tossing it in Carlton’s lap. “There ya go, just put it in your own words, would ya? Then maybe we can crack this fire whiskey open and drunk up!” He said as he tried to manually open it up, but that didn’t seem to work. He then pulled out his wand and chanted a charm that blew the top right off cleanly. He winked at Carl slightly as he brought the bottle to his lips and took a nice refreshing sip. “Oh yeah.. That is strong! Just the way I like it! Here, have some.” Oliver said, leaning the bottle toward Carl, knowing he couldn’t resist it.[/ul][/ul]
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