Ryder Sloane

Description
Ryder Sloane is a female survivor played by Host of Proselyte. She was accepted on January 20th, 2017 and is currently alive and active on the server.

Appearance
Standing at 5’1”, Ryder is very short, even for her age. She takes after her mother in appearance mostly, with fair skin and dark, reddish-brown hair. Her eyes take after her father, grey and lacking any color to them, and she always seems to be wearing a perpetual frown on her face. Ryder never looks happy, even when she’s enjoying something. She seems to look like she cuts herself off from her emotions most of the time. As for her manner of speech, she’s often quiet unless you make her pissed off, which can happen very easily unless she’s around her father.

As for her attire, she doesn’t wear anything revealing, her entire wardrobe basically approved of by her father. Specifically, she wears a lot of feminine, modest clothing; nothing too slutty, nothing too lesbian-like, or boyish either. She has a specific set of clothing she has to wear, and boy, does she hate it.

Personality
Ryder is not a pleasant person to be around unless she’s out in public with her father. When it’s just her alone, she’s very unpleasant, rude, and brash. She’s quick to anger and seems tense and angry at things, even if it isn’t actually anyone’s fault. There are times when she’s in a neutral mood and you can actually hold a conversation with her, but even then she’s very quiet and reserved, usually withdrawing into her music by putting on her headphones and blaring video game soundtracks as loud as she can so she can’t hear whoever is trying to talk to her. She loves ignoring people with them, and even if her phone’s died, she still pretends like she’s listening to music to avoid social interaction.

When she’s around her father, she forgoes the music more often than not, and acts like the good, kind, obedient daughter, almost like a switch has turned off for her when this happens. She obeys her father because she knows what’ll happen otherwise. Ryder does have the moods where she gets defiant of him and any authority she can think of, and talks back to him, but those bouts of anger usually end in her upset with his intimidation.

Any form of friendship with Ryder has to be approved by her father, and relationships with boys? Forget those, and any relationship with a girl is even more off the table; her father won’t have a dyke for a daughter, after all.

Pre-Apocalypse History
Ryder was born on December 29th, 1998, to a Mary and Vincent Sloane. Mary, unfortunately died in childbirth, with Vincent left to care for the child on his own. With the love of his life dead, Ryder’s father turned to the drink, which lead him down the dark path that was alcoholism. Growing up, Ryder had to live with being reminded during her father’s drunken states that she was the cause of her mother dying, and that she’d be alive if it wasn’t for her. The poor kid’s mental state made her question everything about herself, and she was quite easily manipulated by the man who she called her father. She grew up isolating herself from other children, pushing them away with cruel words or even resorting to violence if they pissed her off enough. She got in trouble at school a lot, and would consistently be sent home to her dad whenever she hit someone.

Her punishments from her father would always start out with him grounding her, and intimidating her with his words and overall intimidating nature. If she continued to disobey him, or god forbid, talk back to him, he’d get more aggressive to the point of him hitting her. She’s hit that threshold often with how much of a temper she has, though with all of the conservative clothing she wears on top of her fear of her father, no one has ever actually found out about the physical part of the abuse. At one point, he actually broke her arm as a child with how much force he used on her

Their neighbors, and subsequently, the town, would know about how he yells at her into the evening from time to time, and the cops have been called on them. Her father is quite the friendly man on the outside, and has always managed to convince them it’s just him disciplining her for her nasty behavior. With how Ryder acts in school, it’s not hard at all for them to believe him, which makes Ryder even angrier, and making her have a lot of pent up aggression in her. As she’s gotten older, she’s not learned to vent her anger yet, just keeping it all bottled up until it explodes in the form of violence whether towards inanimate objects or towards other people. The school guidance counselor has tried to help Ryder with her anger by finding her healthy ways to vent it out, but the troubled teen refuses to listen to them.