Tahcawin Ryder

:"Hey, don't worry. He's more scared of you than you are of him, y'see?" - Ryder, referring to a 12ft tall possum monster.
Tahcawin Ryder is an agent of the UNWD, most commonly being referred to as Agent Ryder. She uses a menagerie of genetically-modified monsters to assist in all sorts of transportation.
==Character==
===Appearance===
Ryder is tall and lithe with broad shoulders and a narrow waist. She has dark skin and black hair, tied into a long plait. A scar rests over her right eye, with the iris itself being a pale misty blue, while the other eye is a dark, dark brown.
Her usual agent attire consists of a purple sleeveless top, purple and white trousers, and a cropped purple sleeveless jacket with gold lapels. Accessorising with a black belt and thigh holster, as well as a purple cowboy hat, she wears a white and purple fingerless glove on one hand and a bicep-length black glove on the other.
She wears heeled shoes and a wrist-mounted communication device. She is often seen carrying a metal leash or reins.
===Personality===
Ryder is calm and takes things in stride, with a confident collected attitude that almost borders on cockiness. She is deeply empathetic and has no time for selfish or mean individuals. Aware of her talent and hard to impress, she has a great deal of respect for those who can earn it.
===Skills & Abilities===
Along with being in peak physical condition - as is common for most non-powered individuals in the UNWD - she is extremely adept in animal and beast handling, capable of understanding and commanding the most ferocious or inexplicable of creatures.
She's also mentally sharp, with a keenness for making split-second decisions.
==History==
Tahcawin Ryder was born to Mika and Moreau Ryder in Tuscon, Arizona, USA. Living on her parents' ranch, she was often tasked with assisting in the rounding up of cattle, the tending-to of dogs or birds, and other outdoorsy actions.
Beneath the home, Moreau Ryder was performing unethical experiments on various animals, creating hybridised monster-creatures that he regularly neglected in favour of more experiments. After inquiring into the noise in the basement at a young age, Tahcawin was recruited in training the creatures, but Mika was unaware due to being deaf.
Later, Tahcawin would realise that the living conditions in the basement were growing alarmingly unpleasant. Assuming that the animal control department would help the creatures, Tahcawin called them in, thinking falsely that these were just sick animals as she'd been raised alongside them. Once Moreau was arrested for his unethical experiments (and attempts to kill various authority figures with a three-headed falcon), Tahcawin was told that most of the creatures would have to be destroyed.
Incensed, she fled with the remaining creations, promising them a better life with her as their owner. However, with every authority demanding that the illegal, unethical and dangerous monsters had to be either put down or surrendered to invasive scientific testing, she was forced to turn to the UNWD, with Gordonson promising sanctuary for her and the 'pets' in her charge.
Though she resents being stuck on-site at most times, she is regularly sent on missions to either escort, rescue or evacuate important citizens using her roster of monsters as unconventional transport. Her creatures reside in a sprawling enclosure that has been specially created to simulate an approximate 'home environment' for them based on Ryder's requests.
==Trivia==
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