Post by Carley on Oct 11, 2015 21:47:52 GMT -8
Ryan A. Malone
Born June 15, 1997 (18 years old)
Mother: Victoria Malone, living
Father: Hermes, immortal deity
Older half-brother: Christopher Malone, living
( Face: Alexander Gould
Screen name: quicksilver wit )
This town was meant for passing through, boy, it ain't nothing new. Now go and show 'em that the world stayed round.
Some people have painful or dramatic stories to tell about their upbringing, or about their discovery of what it meant to be different from those around them. Ryan Malone really doesn't. He was raised in Nashville, in upper-middle-class comfort, with his mother and his half-brother. His father was there sometimes too, though he did seem to travel an awful lot, and he never did marry Ryan's mother.
His father is a cunning man who likes to laugh. He's quick with a joke and quicker with a fact. He always has the latest and most high-tech phone or tablet or tech gadget of the now, and makes sure that his son does too. He likes to haggle at flea markets and does it with a panache that would make a scam artist envious. His father is also a god, so that makes Ryan half-divine. By now, Ryan is aware that he probably has a ton of half-siblings out there, but he's never met any of them on his father's side, and he's okay with that.
Ryan is good with technology. In fact, he has a knack for making gadgets work. Manipulating lines of code or even repairing hardware is as easy as a few keystrokes from blue-sparking digits. He ran a decent business throughout high school, repairing things for his classmates. When people would ask how he repaired things so efficiently, he discovered how good he was at lying. Well, it's not really lying. It's more like tiptoeing around the truth but never quite getting there. He's great with words. He's also great with music. If it has strings, he can make it his bitch.
His standardized test scores are high, but his academic motivation is low. He graduated high school with a mediocre GPA. It was enough to get him into college, but he's decided to take a semester off, maybe more. He'd rather learn from personal experiences than be stuffed into a classroom day in and day out. He's also got a nasty case of wanderlust, and he indulged it by moving to England. It was partially on a whim, and partially because his older brother bet him $100 that he couldn't survive a year in a foreign country. Ryan intends to cash in on that bet in October of 2016.
Right now, Ryan stands at a crossroads. He doesn't have a job. His father pays for everything, because hey, what's money to an actual god? In his spare time, he's learning to follow in his father's footsteps and become a thief. A criminal mastermind he is not, but he may have found somebody to help him improve.
On the other hand...he wouldn't want to upset his girlfriend, Jaycee Cooper. Would you want to upset this?
His father is a cunning man who likes to laugh. He's quick with a joke and quicker with a fact. He always has the latest and most high-tech phone or tablet or tech gadget of the now, and makes sure that his son does too. He likes to haggle at flea markets and does it with a panache that would make a scam artist envious. His father is also a god, so that makes Ryan half-divine. By now, Ryan is aware that he probably has a ton of half-siblings out there, but he's never met any of them on his father's side, and he's okay with that.
Ryan is good with technology. In fact, he has a knack for making gadgets work. Manipulating lines of code or even repairing hardware is as easy as a few keystrokes from blue-sparking digits. He ran a decent business throughout high school, repairing things for his classmates. When people would ask how he repaired things so efficiently, he discovered how good he was at lying. Well, it's not really lying. It's more like tiptoeing around the truth but never quite getting there. He's great with words. He's also great with music. If it has strings, he can make it his bitch.
His standardized test scores are high, but his academic motivation is low. He graduated high school with a mediocre GPA. It was enough to get him into college, but he's decided to take a semester off, maybe more. He'd rather learn from personal experiences than be stuffed into a classroom day in and day out. He's also got a nasty case of wanderlust, and he indulged it by moving to England. It was partially on a whim, and partially because his older brother bet him $100 that he couldn't survive a year in a foreign country. Ryan intends to cash in on that bet in October of 2016.
Right now, Ryan stands at a crossroads. He doesn't have a job. His father pays for everything, because hey, what's money to an actual god? In his spare time, he's learning to follow in his father's footsteps and become a thief. A criminal mastermind he is not, but he may have found somebody to help him improve.
On the other hand...he wouldn't want to upset his girlfriend, Jaycee Cooper. Would you want to upset this?
Of course not. So Ryan is looking into taking a second option. There's an acceptance letter from Shepherd University that he's had since last summer. He doesn't remember applying there, but he figures it was his father's doing, likely to appease his mother, who was never too thrilled that neither one of her sons attended college. He's deferred admission for a semester, but in the winter, he's going to start getting an education, shaping up, and flying right. Or at least pretending to.
He may not know exactly what he's doing with his life, or even with the next twenty-four hours, but Ryan figures he'll just make it up as he goes along. He's been doing it for eighteen years. Why stop now?
He may not know exactly what he's doing with his life, or even with the next twenty-four hours, but Ryan figures he'll just make it up as he goes along. He's been doing it for eighteen years. Why stop now?