The Historian

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== General Information ==
Ryan Young was a normal teenager, albeit one with a love of history and a hard-to-control power of retrocognition they found largely useless, up until late February 2020. Then, in a break-in at the Halcyon Museum of Culture and History, where their mother was the curator, they accidentally bonded with an artifact called the Gauntlet of Regression, giving them increased powers over time...and a supervillain determined to get the Gauntlet away from them. Whoops. 
After defeating Tempus Fugit and taking the second gauntlet, Ryan took on the hero name Kairos, honoring the gauntet's previous user, and kept that name while learning how to deal with the surge of new power that they had to harness. Once graduated--both from Big High and from the Big Team--Ryan took the name The Historian, although their hero work has been tabled for the moment to allow them to go study magic at the Consortium--and, after that, in Avalon, Asgard, and anywhere else that will have them. They still work, when in town, at Halcyon City Museum of Culture and History, and can often be found there along with their mother, Hikari Saito, and their unofficially adopted father, Hisham Hamed. If not there and not in Madagascar, they may be at the office of the Halcyon Knights, visiting their boyfriend. 
== Appearance ==
Ryan is a teenager, a little gangly after a second-puberty growth spurt and with no muscle mass to speak of. They have fair skin from a life spent inside museums, and their face is spattered with freckles. Their long hair is mixed black and white as a result of bonding with the gauntlets, and they wear it in a short single braid most of the time. Their eyes are a luminous green color. 
As The Historian, Ryan wears a costume with a long green tunic, a chestplate and armored shins and lower arms, and a short grey cloak; they have a belt studded with hourglass-symbols, and their eyes glow. 
In their daily life Ryan can be found dressed like a miniature professor. Typically, this means a button-down shirt and slacks of some sort, and their favorite pink hoodie. They have stopped wearing wire-frame glasses after getting greater control over their retrocognition and also greater confidence that people won't think they're weird due to their powers. The gauntlets are apparent still in Ryan's day-to-day life, with the right one--the Gauntlet of Regression--being an analog wristwatch that only runs backward, and the left one--the Gauntlet of Progression--being a chain bracelet on their left wrist with a small hourglass charm dangling from it.   
== Powers ==
Ryan has had retrocognitive powers their entire life, but a after picking up the Gauntlet, they gained access to time control, which was then expanded when they merged with both gauntlets in the Left-verse.      
Ryan's retrocognition takes the form of them seeing "visions" of the history of a place or item--a coronation a crown was used for, for example, or the fight that destroyed a wall. Unfortunately, Ryan can't turn the power off if there's a particularly strong moment of history in a location. To mitigate this in their everyday life, Ryan spent years wearing glasses; however, they've stopped wearing them since changing playbooks. They also can expand their senses to see other temporal phenomena, such as the time-locks on Infrared and Ultraviolet.    
Merging with the gauntlets and unlocking their latent talent for temporal magic has given Ryan a far greater scope of power that they are still struggling to fully control. More than their previous "rewind" ability, they now can move an object backward or forward in its personal chronology (rusting something or restoring it to new, rebuilding walls or making them erode faster, etc). Ryan can also move things around in time, although doing this to sentient creatures is extremely difficult if it involves taking them out of their "proper" time. Ryan still cannot move something sentient forward or back in their personal chronology (making someone older/younger), as changing the personal chronology of a sentient creature is extremely difficult and also something they have no interest in doing. They also have a heightened sensitivity to temporal phenomena, meaning they can tell when someone/thing is not in the 'right' time or is strange time-wise in general.  
== Background ==
=== Pre-Big/Small Team ===
Ryan was born in and grew up in Halcyon City, the youngest of four siblings by a good margin. Their parents divorced and their father left the city when Ryan was five, so they were mostly raised by their mother, Violet Saito. Violet was a museum curator at the Halcyon Museum of Culture and History, and passed her love of history and artifacts on to Ryan, who started helping her out at the museum. 
One of Ryan's elder siblings, Emmy, was caught in the chaos of T-day, and transformed; she vanished for a few years, trying to deal with her new form, but as of May 2020 she and Ryan have reunited.  
Ryan got the Gauntlet in late February 2020, when the museum was setting up for an exhibit of powered artifacts. A supervillain calling themselves Tempus Fugit appeared at the museum, breaking in and demanding the gauntlet. Ryan's mother told Ryan to get the gauntlet out while she distracted Tempus, but when  Ryan touched the gauntlet, it bonded with them on contact. Unfortunately, Violet's encounter with Tempus went much less smoothly, and Ryan saw her vanish--sent to the alternate timeline known as the left-verse or Halcyon 2054 by Tempus. 
=== Season Four ===
After being introduced to Big Team, Ryan's first mission was aiding the Knights of the Round Table alongside Aman and Anaya, when HELIX interference caused the first draugr incursion in Halcyon's sewers. This is also where Ryan first met Merlin. In their early tenure on Big Team, Ryan helped rescue Amita of the Millennial Heroes (alongside Whisper, Overgrowth, and Mithril), where they encountered and fought Tempus Fugit again; they also met Grace Newbridge, aka Engineer Princess Tune-Up, and helped her save her friend and mech suit, Scrap-scrap with Ellen, Anomaly and The Weatherman--which ended well for Grace, Scrap-scrap, and Grace's sister Cambria, but less well for the building and Bishop scientist who abducted Scrap-scrap in the first place. Ryan and Ernest teamed up again, this time with Kurt and Halogen, to be the human participants in a Power Derby match--which led to the derby spaceship that is currently in Halcyon's bay. During the series of disturbances in and around the Zodiac Tree, Ryan encountered the Black Magic Club for the first time while helping evacuate a school; in a confrontation with Spegulo, Ryan lost control of their powers and destroyed most of the gym, setting a firm precedent for their hatred of the mirror villain. 
In May 2020, Tempus Fugit again attempted to break into Halcyon City Museum of Culture and History; while fighting her, Ryan--along with Anomaly, Anaya, and Phalanx--discovered that her identity was an older version of Emmy Young, the modern iteration of whom Tempus had convinced to help her rob the museum. The fight also led to a cutting of the Zodiac Tree becoming integrated into the museum, where it remains to this day; it also led to Hisham Hamed, along with the team and Emmy, learning that Ryan had been staying in the museum in lieu of at a house and persuading Ryan to start living at Big Base, where they stayed until they managed to rescue their mother. 
In the season finale, Ryan worked with Bolt, Phoenix, and Taxon (and Smoke) to clean up AEGIS's mess for them after experiments with Zodiac Sap led to giant spectral monsters trashing a research lab/prison. In the process, Tempus Fugit escaped AEGIS custody and sent Lugnut, Signal's robot dinosaur, to 2054 as a warning for Ryan to stay out of her way. This had the opposite effect, as it united Mel and Ryan in planning a time heist to rescue their respective loved ones--a development that led to Tempus's defeat. 
=== Season Five ===
Ryan and Libra worked with new team members A-Vis, and Astra to help the Consortium rescue an alien diplomat who had gotten stuck in a mirror dimension, which was accessible via Aina, in the process fighting Irich the Entomber and a humanoid gravitational well. Soon after, when Hisham took Ryan to the Vikingr exhibit in Halcyon Horizon Park, Ryan worked with A-Vis, the Weatherman, and the Jackal to defeat the Rokkr attacking the exhibit; Emmy, who was also there, revealed her ability to breathe fire to help counter the ice powers of the rokkr. 
During HalcyCon 2020, Ryan aided Mia Myers--Emmy's girlfriend--steal samples of Gethin Enterprises's cure for Permutation Pink (and, after some drama, finally asked Merlin out on a date). When the cure proved to be a temporary fix, Ryan had to sneak into a fancy gala (where they encountered the Fearless trio and Tay and Ellen) to figure out why Gethin was charging an exorbitant amount for their cure. This ended with Ryan doing a corporate espionage and discovering an employee's embezzlement scheme, which they exposed to the CEO of the company (unaware that said CEO is also the Pharaoh, longtime enemy of Ryan's close friends Aman and Hisham) before getting distracted by foiling a kidnapping. Alongside Carmen, Shade, and Boon, Ryan returned to the Consortium and the Mirror Dimension to seal cracks that had been appearing due to the Mirror People--and to stop Maggie Ostenberg and Lancelot du Lac from killing each other or destroying the library while acting as consultants. They also re-encountered Spegulo during this mission, and got them to help seal some of the cracks through a liberal application of faked ignorance and common sense.
Ryan's return to time-based adventure came when Infrared and Ultraviolet, along with Ernest, came to Big High to talk about the dangers of time travel; when the coffee machine malfunctioned and spat out a temporal rift, Ryan helped the others contain it. Through the rift, they managed to see Violet Saito lost in time, reaffirming their dedication to rescuing her. In October, Ryan and Melchior (Signal) teamed up to travel through time to save Lugnut and Violet; Cadenza tagged along, as she did not trust the pair not to get themselves killed. They found themselves in the alternate timeline of Halcyon-2054, where they teamed up with a future version of Aman. After an encounter with Prometheus--here seen ruling a sector of Halcyon he called Olympus--the team managed to find Tempus Fugit's prisoners in the basement of the Halcyon Museum. 
Tempus explained that she was seeking the second gauntlet in order to free her parents from being stuck in time; she also implied that she'd killed her timeline's Ryan for interfering with her goals decades ago. Using their gauntlet, Ryan stopped Tempus from rending timelines apart to win at all costs, taking her gauntlet from her and freeing the 2054-timeline Bill and Violet from their stasis. After this point, they claimed the second gauntlet, giving them access to the powers and title of Kairos. 
Since then, Ryan has been attempting to get a handle on their new powers while helping the team. After another run-in with Vic Toxic, who had teamed up with the Ellen known at the time as Tayless Ellen to banish the other Ellens and return her Tay (a situation solved by Ultraviolet reuniting the pair and throwing Vic Toxic somewhere in time), Ryan found themself fighting draugr in the sewers--again-- before getting pulled into a mission in Boston seeking to free the city from Nachtmusik's lockdown. During their time in Boston, they accidentally found themself in 2055 from Tempus's timeline, where they saw that universe's Cadenza wielding the scythe Ernest had taken from Reaper One, which is a worrying fact that definitely will not come back to haunt us. While there, Ryan also reunited with their brother Jake, who had been in port in Boston and sustained a broken leg as a result of Undertow's assault on the ships there. 
Later, Ryan joined the team investigating Mount Nomani when agents of the Syndicate kidnapped Verve; in the ensuing fight, they helped secure the Heart of the Dawn and remove it from the volcano before aiding in the general fight and finally, when Ernest decided to stop trying to fight everyone in the volcano, trapping Yamato in a time moat to allow the team to escape. While the rest of the team that day ended up returning to Mount Nomani to deal with Yamato, Ryan found themself dealing with a different pressing problem: the oncoming fimbulvetr that appeared as a result of the Rokkr attempting to start Ragnarok. Alongside Astra, A-Vis, and Signal, Ryan went to the Old Halcyon Museum to stop the ritual (and fight yet more sewer draugr), and while the team did eventually manage that, Ryan also lost control of their powers again and destroyed the museum. While they did manage to repair it later, the ordeal left Ryan convinced that their powers are a danger to the people around them--a fact not helped by returning home to find an alien who introduced themself as Jeracal'a'danmeskliin, or Jera. After a few moments of amiable conversation, Jera stated their intent to fight Ryan for the gauntlets, before leaving out their window. 
==== Season 5.5 ====
After the failed Ragnarok, Ryan--alongside the other temporally-powered members of Big Team (Epoch, EliZe, and Serendipity)--was tasked with helping unravel "time-knots" that had caused their timeline, along with a few others, to start looping. The team ended up travelling through a few timelines to solve the problem; in one, where Ryan's mother led the Cult of the Paradox, EliZe ended up stealing her name. Since then, Ryan has referred to EliZe as family, although they deny her insistence that she is their mother. They also helped liberate Denmark from an attempted conquest by Queen Azure, although in retrospect, they would admit that bringing a cursed sword they could not control to that fight was not their smartest move. 
=== Season Six ===
After helping recruit Beatrice, Flourish, and The Duchess to the Big Team, Ryan led the quartet down to Molecyon City, where they stopped the theft of an artifact called the Stone of Urdunn by Approximate and The Archaeologist, the latter of whom was a villain from Flourish's (fictional) backstory. When invited by Mel to an airshow along with Smoke and Violet (Weaver), they ended up almost stopping a girl dressed as the Golden Age villain the Bronze Bomber from blowing up the exhibit before losing control of their time moat and having one of the planes explode anyway, after which point they yelled at Director Hussain of AEGIS about some of AEGIS's poor decisions. 
Later, in March, Mimsy the mirror construct kidnapped Merlin on the day of an Avalon-Molecyon diplomatic meeting, and Ryan--along with the Fearless Trio, the Duchess, and Shade--did their best to track Mimsy from the Consortium library-prison, to Halcyon City, and eventually to the gym where it was disguised as Sir Lancelot (Elle). Ryan proceeded to fully lose their temper and use their time powers to try to pull Mimsy back to when it was a cloud of different, disparate pieces, which they now feel extremely guilty about as it seems clear Mimsy was not acting under normal circumstances. 
Alongside Psyrin, Shade, and Red Wolf, Ryan helped the adult hero Starling investigate the origins of the entity known as Impulse by looking into the Adventureland theme park, where they encountered a similar creature, Haywire. In Aman's last fight before leaving for Avalon, Ryan (as well as Seth and Melody) helped him team up with--of all people--Esam and the Pharaoh to defeat the common enemy of Apophis, the snake-god of primordial chaos. Following that, Ryan, Nat, Mel, and Astra all found themselves investigating a strange painting in Philosotea, which led to the four of them being teleported to a world that never was and confronting the waters of the River Lethe. 
In early April 2021 Ryan continued their trend of helping Avalon, this time by going to observe new Pages in the Royal Academy to choose one to work with the Halcyon Knights. Being a Big Team Mission, this ended with them helping rally the pages and defend the group against an attack by strange doglike creatures which took the form of vikings. They later encountered Impulse and Haywire once again, after Haywire took control of an entire squad of Bishop Rubicons, most of which attacked the Museum; alongside Arcana, Psyrin, and Serendipity, Ryan managed to save the museum (despite the team delinquents doing more to destroy the museum than the robots themselves). 
During Oops, All Bonded Ryan accidentally created a clone of Nachtmusik, named Wolfgang, who currently lives with Ryan and their mother. During the midseason, Ryan worked with Psyrin, Echo, and Halogen to defeat Monarch and save a number of people who she had kidnapped, including Atlanta and Hisham. Later, during Soft Pretzel Day, they worked with Mel, Cambria, and Sabine to stop the incursion of the Blight, an interstellar force of darkness that Mel downloaded into his brain. 
Ryan ended their tenure on Big Team soon after teaming up with Holly, Cody, and Nat to face Cronos, a villain linked to the first Kairos who was attempting to collide worlds on this timeline together for fun before detonating the timeline altogether and moving on. Nat stole the gauntlet from one-third of her, and Ryan managed to bluff her away--although their final conflict is still to come. 
=== Family ===
Violet Saito
  Ryan's mother. Violet is a short, Japanese-American woman with a whimsical, if sometimes fretful, attitude and a love of history which she passed on to Ryan. Her main passion is her work as a museum curator, with a particular affinity for the history of superpowers and people with unusual abilities--an interest she developed after researching them in search of ways to help Ryan with their retrocognition, although she was always interested in superhumans (from a childhood spent reading stories of Hero One, who she looked up to). She did most of the work raising Ryan, as Bill had left the family. She is now returned to Halcyon City after Ryan ventured into the Leftverse to rescue her, and has recently curated an exhibit on the history of superheroics as culture, counter-culture, and vectors for social change. She is currently dating Hisham Hamed. 
Bill Young
  Ryan's absentee father, Bill is a historical biographer. Ryan has very few memories of him in person, although they talked over the phone some and Bill sent gifts to his children on their birthdays. He is not a fan of superheroes or the idea of superhuman powers, which means Halcyon City was not a great place for him to live. After Violet's disappearance, though, he's returned to Halcyon to take care of Ryan...which has mostly taken the form of telling Ryan to take the Gauntlet off, so Ryan isn't very enthused about this. They've had one real interaction since, which ended in a fight; however, Ryan is reluctant to cut off contact completely and has left options for Bill to initiate conversation again.  
Summer Young
Ryan's oldest sister, Summer is 29 and a public defender in New York City after graduating law school. Ryan is almost ten years younger than her, meaning there's a pretty big gap, but they still get along as the brain cells of the four kids. Summer likely has the best relationship with Bill, though, which could be a point of contention given Ryan's take on Bill. 
Jake Young
Ryan's older brother, Jake is 27 and works as the captain of an Arctic research ship, but is attempting to prove "gay pirate captain" is a viable lifestyle choice in 2022, or at least an aesthetic choice. He broke his leg during Nachtmusik's attack on Boston, but after recuperating in Halcyon is back on the open sea. Can be found on chitter at @CaptainJakeSparrow. 
Emily "Emmy" Young
Ryan's closest sibling and "cool dragon sister," Emmy is five years older than them, making her 24 now. After being caught in the chaos of T-day, Emmy vanished for two years before reappearing during Tempus Fugit's second heist on the Halcyon Museum of Culture and History, as Tempus had apparently promised to help Emmy get her original body back. She is a reptilian transformed who--thanks to having taken the cure for Permutation Pink--looks mostly human now, but retains some reptilian features, and can apparently breathe fire. She and Ryan have reunited, and she offered her apartment as a place for them to stay while their mom was gone, although Ryan opted instead to stay at Big Base. She is dating Mia Myers, and now is taking the Gethin treatment to reduce the visibility of her Transformed qualities. 
Wolfgang Klaus Young, aka Teen Nachtmusik 
A magical "clone" of Nachtmusik made when Ryan's time powers reacted strangely to a cache of adult Nachtmusik's power under the Jicheal Morden Jejorial Battlefield Stadium basketball stadium in Chicago, Wolfgang is a teenager who only has the memories of his adult self's childhood, including immigrating from Germany to London before WWII and living through the London Blitz. He initially fought the team, wishing to keep control of Caliburn, but eventually agreed to give it up provided Thor make him a new sword in the style of Sting from the Hobbit, which would glow when Nazis were present. Ryan feels extremely responsible for him, given that they're essentially his parent and created him, and is trying to look out for him as much as possible. Right now, Wolfgang lives in the Saito-Young house with Ryan and Violet. 
=== Enemies ===
Tempus Fugit
  Ryan's, for lack of a better word, nemesis. Tempus Fugit is a time-controlling villain and the left-verse counterpart of Emmy Young. She was searching for the Gauntlet in an attempt to free her parents from temporal stasis, and openly did not care which other timelines she wrecked in order to do it; after the midseason event of season 5, Ryan has freed her parents and taken her gauntlet.                  
Cronos
An old traveling companion to the first Kairos, Cronos has taken over Avalonian page Audofleda and has been using their considerable power to cause problems--first in Avalon and between Avalon and Asgard, and then culminating in trying to collide Avalon, Asgard, and Halcyon together. They view that they have learned all they can from this timeline and that it's time for them and Kairos to move on. Ryan has managed to get Cronos to leave temporarily, but they are sure that wasn't their last meeting. 
=== Friends (Big Team/Big Team Graduates) ===
Eclipse
Aman is one of Ryan's pre-Team friends, as the pair of them knew each other due to growing up around the Museum. Ryan was only on a few missions with Aman, but the two talk outside of the team and Ryan considers Aman one of their best friends. The two are currently engaged in attempted espionage to discover if Ryan's mom is dating HIsham (the answer is yes). Ryan also helped Aman fight Apophis, and has stated their intent to hunt Esam down if he ever does anything to harm Aman again. 
Kurt Woods and Ernest Welles
Ryan went on several missions with Kurt and Ernest individually, although never on a mission with both, and looks up to both of them as both great heroes and good friends of theirs. Both have offered Ryan useful life advice, with Kurt encouraging them to ask Merlin out and Ernest empathizing with them about their issues with their father. While both of them have now left the team, Ryan will always consider them great friends and mentors, of a sort, to Ryan's early time as a superhero. Ryan still swears they will never play Truth or Dare with Kurt again, though. 
Boon 
Ryan and Boon get along pretty well, especially after Boon both offered to help Ryan smuggle something out of HalcyCon with no questions asked and later asked Ryan for advice on how to come out as nonbinary to Atlanta and Ryan managed to give good advice. Now Boon messages Ryan for advice/support on being nonbinary, and Ryan tries their best to provide it. 
Infrared and Ultraviolet
 After going on a few missions with Tay and Ellen, Ryan sees them as reliable team members; they've also been very supportive of Ryan after learning that Ryan's mom is gone, with Tay offering to make Ryan lunches for school and both of them offering to come with Ryan to try to find their mom. Ryan is only somewhat aware they've been adopted by the pair of them. 
Signal 
After the pair of them both lost someone important to Tempus, Ryan considers Mel a friend--especially after their joint venture to Halcyon 2054, where they rescued Violet and Lugnut (who bonded during their time in captivity). Now that both are relatively senior members of Big Team, Mel is one of the people Ryan would want most at their back in a fight, due to generally being able to tell what kind of thing Mel is going to pull, and trusting Mel to have the best interests of everyone at heart and be generally trying for a good outcome in any situation. 
Cadenza 
Nat and Ryan started hanging out after they went on a dog-finding mission together and Nat decided Ryan was fun to hang out with; most of their interactions are her cajoling Ryan into recording her for b-tube/doing something silly with her/etc. Ryan helped Nat defeat her evil Leftverse self and has been witness to many of Nat's moments of triumph, and couldn't be prouder now that she's getting the recognition she deserves and is confident enough to take it. Ryan has never had a younger sibling but is fairly sure this is what having one feels like. 
Fearless 
Despite Ryan's position as generally more lawful--or at least, more careful--than the Fearless Trio, they are good friends with them. Ryan and Elena bond over history and also having some of the same issues around having had a mother lost in time; Ryan and Maria, on the other hand, have a playful solidarity regarding dating Avalonian Mages, and Ryan and Sapphire have worked together on a number of missions and get along well. Despite the Fearless trio no longer being on Big Team, Ryan still knows they can count on them. 
Halogen 
After working together to help select a page to work with the Halcyon Knights of the Round Table, Holly asked Ryan to use their retrocognition to discover what happened the day her mother died, which she couldn't remember. Following that and the subsequent heart-to-heart the pair had about siblings, being trans, and coping with trauma, Ryan considers Halogen a great kid under all of her bluster who has far too many responsibilities on her plate, and wants to go out of their way to make things easier for her if they possibly can. 
Serendipity 
Jenny and Ryan first worked together resolving the issues of a knotted tangle of timelines in Oops, All Time Powers!, including working as a team in the universe where they were both part of the Cult of the Paradox. Since then they've been friends, and when Ryan lost control of their powers in S6E31 Hardwired, Jenny managed to teleport the pair of them to the time-void, removing Ryan from the timeline and allowing the three city blocks they'd frozen in time to return to normal. Since this point, Jenny is one of the only people who Ryan trusts to be able to stop them should they go fully out of control. 
=== Friends (Other) ===
Merlin
Ryan developed a crush on Merlin after nerding out with him about magic while fighting draugr in the sewers of Halcyon and saving Merlin from an attack. As of mid-season-five, they're dating. Ryan loves having someone else who is as big of a nerd as them to bounce ideas off of and brainstorm with, and appreciates that Merlin tends not to sugarcoat things, as well as finding his presence generally delightful (an opinion that they are close to alone in). Since they began dating, Ryan has had to save Merlin from a kidnapping by Mimsy, and has asked chitter for relationship advice far more than is advisable. Most of their dates either start as or devolve into collaborative research. 
Hisham Hamed 
Ryan has known Hisham for a while, as Ryan basically grew up in and around the museum. Hisham went out of his way to look out for Ryan after Violet's disappearance, including taking Ryan to events and organizing a surprise party for their birthday as well as generally showing interest in how Ryan was doing. Ryan considers Hisham one of the few adults they really trust to take them seriously and have their best interests in mind. Ryan does worry about Hisham's tendency to get into fights, as while Ryan is aware of his past as a superhero, they also have never actually seen him win a fight. Ryan also suspects that he might be dating their mom, ever since Violet started inviting him over for family dinner occasionally. They're correct but are avoiding actually asking if that's what's going on for fear of "making things weird." 
== Quotes ==
 "Dude, you are so easy to throw. Nice!" - Kurt to Rewind, S4E51 
"We all do stupid stuff sometimes. I punched a shark once. It was a bad idea." - Ryan, S5 OVA: The Mysterious Incident of the Dogs in the Night Time
"I do not know how to explain the emotional significance of Lugnut." - Ryan, S5E19
"Who put Greek revivalism in the middle of Halcyon? Who do I have to talk to??" -Ryan, upon seeing Olympus in 2054
"No matter how much shit you've gone through, that doesn't give you the right to ruin everyone else's life. You don't have that right. You didn't have the right to crash in to my life and take my mom because of your tragedy, and you didn't have the right to come in and take Mel's robot because you were upset, and you do not have the right to fuck up multiple timelines and millions of people you will never meet because you're throwing a hissy fit because life wasn't fair to you. And if that's what you think these gauntlets are for, then you don't get to have one anymore." - Ryan to Tempus Fugit 
"Are you really going to risk your still-unstable powers glitching out just to participate in a conversation about nerd shit--wait I just remembered who I'm talking to, of course you are." -Cadenza, on chitter in season 5
"I can't see the future, but I am smart." -Ryan, S6E5
"How often are we going to have to save AEGIS from the consequences of its own actions?" - Ryan, S6E5
"Well, who am I if not the person who thinks about causing a crisis for the overall economy of a kingdom while dealing with one very specific town being attacked by not-Vikings and takes steps to avert it?" - Ryan, S6E26 (Replied to with "I know, and I love you," by Merlin) 
"You're done here. You wanted me to fix things, and I fixed them. Now leave, before I make you leave." - Ryan to Robert Aldritch after destroying his gauntlet and mining equipment, S6E39.5: Oops, All Bonded (2) 
"Don't pick up the weird time gauntlet if you're not ready to deal with the weird time vibes." - Where Hope Lies OVA Pt. 2, internally 
== Playlists ==
* Rewind/Beacon Ryan: Turn Back Time
* Kairos/Nova Ryan: Just In Time
== Journal Entries==
=== Ryan's Research Notes ===
A series of research notes in a notebook Ryan carries around. Definitely not talking about superhero business. Definitely. Just research notes. (Covers Season 4) 
=== Further Research Notes, 2020 ===
Ryan's mission notes, with many digressions about whatever topic this week's mission tangentially involved. (Covers Season 5) 
=== Big Team Records, 2021 ===
Ryan's mission notes, no longer disguised but probably including just as many digressions. (Covers Season 6). 
== Additional Scenes ==
====Slipping Through My Fingers: Rewind Hero Origin Story====
Ryan's first encounter with Tempus Fugit and the Gauntlet, and everything that went wrong from there. 
====The Weight of Family and the Pull of Gravity====
Ernest and Ryan talk about what it's like having your estranged dad show up in Halcyon City. 
====Seventeen====
Ryan turns seventeen without their mother. Fortunately, they do have their friends. 
====The Heirloom of the Heaviness You've Known====
Ryan tries to have a conversation with their father. It doesn't go as well as they may have hoped. 
====For Once, I Have Nothing Up My Sleeve====
Directly following The Heirloom of the Heaviness You've Known,. Ryan is the only person who, when angry, has the thought "I'm going to go talk to Merlin to become less angry." Then again, they're biased. 
====Four Cinnamon Rolls At Sweet Nothings====
Wherein Ryan asks Atlanta for advice, and they talk about cupcakes and other sweet things.
====Field Research====
In the aftermath of the attack on Bescaby, Ryan and Merlin try to figure out what attacked the village and how it happened in the first place, and proceed to conduct some important research. 
==== Afterimages ====
Ryan has a talk with the current Agravain; Aggie makes some wild assumptions and gets told to chill. Alternately, two nerds end up working on their Latin homework together. 
==== Waiting for Merlin ====
Ryan and Elle, both waiting for Merlin to return to his rooms, end up having a heart to heart and cookies (not in that order). 
==== Oops All (Team) Bonded(ing) ====
Ryan and Brenna talk about impermanence in a thrift shop after the events of Oops, All Bonded. 
==== Dubiously Canon: A Mage's Guide To Trans-Temporal Adoption====
An indeterminate number of years into a potential future, an adult Ryan wakes up to the fabric of time being disrupted as someone brute-forces their way into the Triassic period and needs a rescue at three in the morning. 
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