Driving Guy

**Ryan Gosling**, alias **Driving Guy**, is a player character from Professor Proxy's Wild Ride, played by Kaiju. He is best known for having his mindscape merged with Billy Mitchell.

## Personality

Ryan is a badass, plain and simple. He is lethal and effective, and is very much an action movie hero archetype, which makes sense, as this version of Ryan was pulled from just after filming wrapped on the movie *Drive*.

## History

### Professor Proxy's Wild Ride

Ryan was first brought in right before the party's bounty on golden beetles began, with him attempting to commandeer the bus before Proxy forbade him. Once the party made it to Montana, Ryan stole a hat from one of the cowboys after seeing Kander Jr. steal the outfit of another. Ryan approached the two cowboys sitting silently in the saloon, donning a shoddy Western accent, and challenged the first to a duel, betting his new stolen cowboy had for the cowboy's entire worth, which the cowboy, now formally introduced as Jesse James, only accepted due to Nacho burning his hat to cinders. Ryan won effortlessly, being given a large quantity of nickels in return. This angered Jesse's brother Frank to an insane degree, prompting Frank to hold Ryan at gunpoint, requiring Kander Jr. to save his friend. Ryan took Frank's horse while Kander Jr. took Jesse's, and they proceeded to start the heist.

For the heist proper, Ryan bought some dynamite and let Nacho do the honors of lighting the fuse. While the train's guards were knocked out, Ryan stole the guards' shoes and woke one of the guards up, intimidating him into giving him the code to the train's safe, allowing the party to obtain the beetles.

Ryan went with the party to the 80s to collect Polybius, and he beat up Billy Mitchell to have a turn. Both of them ended up getting brain viruses from the game, and had their mindscapes merged together in the process. While in this corrupted video game mindscape, Ryan received a rifle themed after the video game *Galaga*. With the help of Gerard restoring Ryan's balance, Ryan was able to land the final blow on Donkey Kong, a clean shot to the nuts. Ryan aided the party in defeating Polybius himself before they were able to escape the mindscape.

Ryan went with the party to the Ishimura One, bagging a blonde bombshell in the process. During the Weezer show, Ryan and Kander Jr. hit the griddy, with Ryan doing it perfectly. When Ryan looks into the fountain of infinite mirror, he sees two family-based futures, one in a happy marriage and family, and one in a rough divorce and an upsetting family situation, as well as a future involving Brutus, and a future with Barbie Ken and Oppenheimer, whatever that was supposed to mean.

That night, Ryan took his new girlfriend into a bedroom, wherein they had sex again, and later that night, they were the first people found after the doppelganger invasion, being found by John "Skunk" Jones. Still naked, he was later given clothes by Alice. Ryan did not do much of note for the rest of their stay on the Ishimura One, but did assist in fighting the doppelgangers and their queen.

When the party was intercepted by the P.S.S., Ryan was detained by them, and later saved by the party.

## Notable Moments

* Dueling Jesse James
* Getting his mind infected by Polybius
* Landing the finishing shot on DK's nuts
* Flashing the entire party

## Trivia

* Driving Guy is the third of Kaiju's "Guy" characters, the first two being Random Guy and Fisherman Guy.
* Driving Guy, unlike his predecessor Random Guy, is actually the actor he is modelled after, instead of being a doppelganger.