Ryker

Ryker Played by Zee

## Overview

*While appearing as intimidating or hardy from a first glance, Ryker is typically a lax and modest individual with a peculiar softness towards those he forms bonds with. He poses as a sort of ‘gentle giant’ who proves honest towards his allies while maintaining a serious demeanor against those who intend to do harm.*

## Mental Strengths

* **Optimist:** *Even in the face of certain trouble, a level head and morality boost is all one might need to rise back to their feet.*
* **Bold:** *Risks are meant to be taken no matter the difficulty and he lets that be known through confidence and fearlessness.*
* **Perseverant:** *One does not have to maintain an athletic physique to be considered strong. While he may have such benefits, his refusal to give up easily comes in handy.*

## Mental Weaknesses

* **Prideful:** *Growing up, his father often boasted about how all of their kind were born to be strong. It seems some of that has rubbed off on him.*
* **Meek:** *Meeting new people is not something everyone can accomplish easily. His case is no different and usually only speaks when spoken to or gives short responses.*
* **Impatient:** *Should something take too long, he will opt to find methods of killing time as sitting around will only make him grumpy.*

## History

*Folklore speaks of werewolves as a terrifying union between man and beast that could transform under the light of a full moon and bring out death and despair in its path. These tales are believed to be nothing more than mere fiction meant to scare children or entertain those curious of such literary concepts. That widespread ideology could not be any further from the truth, however, as centuries ago there existed an affliction amongst select individuals said to bring these forms to reality under similar conditions. When the piercing light of a full moon shined down upon these ill-fortuned, they would rapidly lose all sense of reasoning and go through an alteration in figure. Limbs contorted and made way for lengthy amounts of hair, hands and feet grew large wicked claws, the face warped outwards to shape like that of a canine snout; it was nightmarish to see how quickly something once thought strong in mind and body could turn into a horrific entity. Sightings of such beasts were few and far between, enough to where those claiming to have spotted them were ridiculed and written off as delusional. Those plagued by the affliction, later to be referred to as lycanthropy, sought solitude from the populace and opted to hide themselves within vast forests far from civilization’s reach. Two of these who chose self exile, their identities lost to time, conceived under the light of a full moon and gave birth to a most unusual lineage of werewolves whose forms remained permanent. Any resemblance of man was gone from these souls and they grew just like pups under care of those willing to keep them until their forms mutated and took knowledge from their bipedal predecessors as their own.  Skip to the modern day and we see that this unprecedented existence of anthropomorphic canidae has managed to survive time and time again from various dangers, the biggest of which being the very race who created them. It was they who presented the toughest challenges for these werewolves with the main priority remaining the same all this time: stay away from civilization. However, their unbroken and unspoken rule to remain concealed from the tells of history can only do so much when brute force is applied against them. This had been the case with one of the latest generation of their kind, a gray male werewolf bearing blue and black markings, who found himself defeated at the hands of a government organization seeking nothing more than to rid those of ‘impure and supernatural origin’. Their tactic of strength in numbers proved fruitful versus a sole opponent who was exceptional in raw strength and fighting spirit but could only battle against the inevitable for so long. Taken out from his habitat to a faraway facility as an experimental specimen, Ryker came to learn the Iniquitous Task Force’s intentions as he became subject to various tests in which they aimed to restrain his will to fight back and ‘reprogram’ him to be another amongst their ranks. Months of research was sunk into this project and after various counts of aggressive behavior, attempted escapes and harming of staff from the subject, a breakthrough occurred in which the ITF managed to suppress most of the creature’s thoughts to be replaced with an obedience protocol resembling that of his personality. Even with this brainwashing having taken over mind and body, his true self still seeks to break free from within this new cage.*