A list of things written haphazardly with the papers of the notebook smelling like alcohol, with echoed wisps of laughter, done over good company, fantasizing beautiful what ifs, and then somewhere along the way, it was later completed alone, nothing but faint tear stains for company and forever tucked away indefinitely, not a list to be revisited unless he wanted to wallow in the impossibles.
crack the code and solve the mystery to dark matter & dark energy
work on the ISS
graduate from my PhD
survive long enough to witness astroid apophis and comet 15p/finlay
win a shooting match against Oscar (definitively)
backpack around the world
go deep sea diving
be less tone deaf - Sher help
visit Belize again with Linds, but for a holiday this time
finally have a bumble match (Ria wrote this and won't let me remove it)
3D-print something cool (or stupid) with Mal
drag Eric into an ice bath with me
learn to paint a painting to paint a gift back to Ruth
have an ice hockey match, one last time
or just ice skate, one last time
successfully make Val's shotgun sling
go on a planetarium date
properly learn and memorize by heart to make mom's blueberry crumble pie (ps: ask Charlie to reteach me, recipe is with her)
play one of Zach's games
learn astrophotography again from Ziggy
have Thanksgiving/Christmas dinner with mom and the Roses, like good old times.
play catch with Dawn
make Ivy soap
grow and have watermelons with Beau
. . .
create a detailed log of the happenings in New York since Day 0 for historical purposes.
fall in love_ ..fall in love *words crossed out, scribbled over, rewrote, and hesitantly crossed out again being continuing* stop being scared of love
tell Jer, and let him decide
fix that friendship if it gets ruined
tell mom I love her. and thank you
visit and clean dad's grave at least one last time - bring his favorite flowers and beer
re-ink my tattoo
open up the marines box for the first time, face the past
survive long enough to witness the next day
just one more day. into the next. don't give up on us just yet, please.
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Ashton, 32, is a astrophysics PhD student at NYU, often teaching bachelor lectures as part of his post-graduate program alongside his research. He's been in New York for the last 4 years, renting in the Wexley in #306 ever since. Before that, he had spent a bulk of his time with the US marines, fresh out of high school, following his father's footsteps, taking his Physics bachelors and masters while serving. A mishap of a mission left him the only survivor of his team, suffered a bad injury and he stepped away from being a marine raider for good. His father was a military pilot though he died in combat and Ashton was mostly raised by his mother, an elementary school teacher, growing up in a small town in Minnesota. Moving to New York was hard but he needed to find something else to do with his life, to prove that he isn't completely useless yet.
Useful Skills
Military Combat, Gun Marksmanship, Reconnaissance, Extreme Conditions, Good Swimmer, Jet Piloting, Military Medical Aid and Combat Trauma Care, Theoretical and Practical Physics, Can debate for hours on the theories of Dark Matter .
Additionals.
Full Name: Ashton Finley Ryder
Nicknames: Ash, Ryder, Fin (ice hockey days)
Birthday: November 3, 1991
Birthplace: Taylors Falls, Minnesota
Current Home: The Wexley, #306, 4th year resident pre-outbreak
Religion: Loosely raised Catholic / Currently Freethinker
Orientation: Asexual, Biromantic
MBTI: ISFJ, The Defender
Enneagram: Type5 Wing6, The Troubleshooter
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Zodiac: Scorpio
Face Claim: Luke Mitchell .
Voice Claim: Luke Mitchell (i) | (ii) *ii - tw mentions of abuse .
Physical Attributes.
Height: 6'1"
Build: Muscular, Athletic
Exercise Regime: Alternate days USMC conditioning training
Allergies: people that walk slowly in NYC, people beating around the bush, & lilies.
Hair Colour: Dirty Blonde
Eye Colour: Deep Blue, that turns deeper when he cries
Glass/Contacts: none, but sometimes if his eyes are strained he has reading glasses
Dominant Hand: Right, but mildly Ambidextrous
Tattoos: only one, solar system running across the inside of his left forearm
Scars: Too many to count, the most prominent, ugly one that never healed right is the one on his left shoulder, operated on by Dr Tobias
Piercings: Earlobes and Helix on both ears
Outfit Clothing Style: Sweaters, idk what else to tell you, whatever Charlie and Ria styles him with
Background Information.
Hometown: Taylors Falls, Minnesota
Current Residence: Manhattan, New York
Spoken Languages: English / Russian / Spanish
Driver's License: yes + military license
Occupation: Ex-marine. PhD student and lecturer at NYU
Familial Information.
Relationship Status: Single? In love. It's Complicated
Mother: Amelia Kayley Ryder, Elementary School Teacher, Taylors Falls, MN / status unknown (open wanted connection)
Father: Ben Colin Ryder, U.S Army Officer, Captain / deceased, KIA
Siblings: None
Other: Rose Siblings, as close as family.
Pets: A german shepherd called Dawn, that Ash trained as a military dog beside him during his service, she listened to no one but him and so when he left the force, Dawn couldn't work with any other soldier and retired for Ashton to adopt her back home, currently living with his mother in Minnesota.
Headcanons
Starting with the military, Ashton applied to the marines very early on before getting accepted into the Special Ops as a CSO and Marine Raider. Was in service for about a decade before leaving it all behind.
Ashton is always in this serious mode, small smiles come by only ever so often and fun is a hard concept to grasp. Few can bring that side of him back.
Despite a few years in, he finds it hard to decide on the mundane things in life. He has no preferences for anything really. If you ask him what his favorite food is, he probably wouldn’t know how to respond. He can’t even decide his favorite food, let alone everything else in his life. He has one constant in his life and that’s enough for him.
Being young and dumbly spontaneous, he had a tattoo on his left forearm of the solar system at 18 to just be able to look at something and feel. Remember that there are things so much bigger than themselves.
Ashton teaches- taught the bachelor’s classes once in a while and the students will often gossip on the military vibes the class had. And those that couldn’t handle it dropped the class, but the ones that do stay on, often come out of it thankful that they did.
The Outbreak brought him back into his military instincts, trying to help out where he can to protect the building still standing in protecting them, but Ashton is also one to be more willing to go out, to scout, to scavenge.
Weirdly enough, he’s still working on his research paper, apocalypse be damned, he was finishing this residency and research paper one way or another. Or perhaps he just needed some kind of normalcy, to keep moving, because he knows the idleness will destroy him.
Ashton back in his military days was a skilled jet pilot and a good shot with the highest qualified level of marksmanship. Now if only he had a plane and a gun…
His apartment is a library of its own, well, if you’re ever looking for a book to learn about Kepler’s second law of planetary motion.
Ashton wasn't entirely sure what to write when he was simply given the paper without question. Though he was pretty much here for just a regular dinner, it was nice to see everyone gathered together for a happier occasion, there was still hope in the air. Though hope can't be the thing to save them, hope could be the one voice that gets them through just one more day, one more day. One more day. And so he quietly wrote something down and stuck it up the wall with the rest of them.
A lawful neutral character acts as law, tradition, or a personal code directs him. Order and organization are paramount to her. He may believe in personal order and live by a code or standard, or he may believe in order for all and favor a strong, organized government. Whether a law is good or evil is of no import as long as it brings order and meaning. A lawful neutral character will keep his word if he gives it and will never lie. He may attack an unarmed foe if necessary. He will never harm an innocent. He may use torture to extract information, but never for pleasure. He will never kill for pleasure, only in self-defense or in the defense of others.
For each of the following items, indicate whether you think it's morally okay or not.
An army lieutenant neglects to file a report on a civilian killing done by his troops because he knows it was an accident. fuck no.
Tina promises her dying mother that she'll visit her grave once a month. After the mother has passed away, Tina finds it hard to squeeze in the time, and her visits drop to about once a year. yes. perhaps from my understanding.. a parent should want their child to live the best life they can. dad always said don't waste your time looking down at the ground when there's so much to look upwards for.
A man orders a custom-built sex doll designed to look just like his neighbor. That's just weird.
Sarah's dog has four puppies. She can only find a home for two of them, so she kills the other two with a stone to the head. no, there are so many other options unless you tell me the circumstance requires it.
A doctor has been preforming consensual yet illegal procedures one someone in hopes of finding a cure for his ill sister. yes. their choices are their own.
A neglectful husband pushes his wife to an affair. When the affair ends, the wife's partner nearly kills her and her unborn daughter. The husband kills the affair partner. morality is grey, but their actions have consequences.
September has run out of food and is facing death by starvation. She begins to cannibalize her family's loyal staff. They do not fight back. no. there are power dynamics in play no matter their lack of retaliation.
A mother gives birth to identical twins. One follows their ambitions and the other becomes a shut in. The family make it clear which child they prefer. i.. i don't know about this one.
Natalie is so focused on survival she fires a shot without thinking. She did not intend to kill her elderly neighbor, but she hides the body regardless. She denies knowing what happened to the now missing resident. no. ...actions have consequences. the past will always come back to haunt you.
A woman is facing a lifetime of medical issues. She continues to put her family and those around her in emotional and medical debt. She lives a hollow life and continues leaching off of those who support her. ...family is family.
Please provide a response to each of the following prompts. Leaving a prompt blank will also be considered a response, and you will be assessed for refusal to answer.
In the event of a life or death situation, would you put yourself or others first? ..in war, we don't plan to die, but we are prepared to.
How far would you be willing to go to ensure your own survival throughout this ordeal? depends how far i'm gonna be pushed. and i've been pushed far before.
Is there anyone in the building you have developed strong attachments to? i try not to get to close to people. emotions lead to irrational decisions lead to.. deadly mistakes.
Do you think it is possible to survive infection through alternative means such as removing the infected limb? Would you be willing to undergo this procedure to ensure your own survival? won't know till you try. evolution didn't happen without experimentation, science wouldn't be a thing if we didn't tried proving the impossible.
Will following the general consensus lead to improved odds of survival, or would you have a better chance following an assigned leader? everyone has their specialty. even in the marines. if you're smart, know when you're dumber than others, and know when to listen.
What is the appropriate response to the following situation?
Your daughter falls ill and needs a specific, uncommon kind of antibiotic that will be hard to find; without the full course, the pathogen will survive, regroup, and kill her anyway. You are scavenging a pharmacy, where you find another group, and manage to not shoot each other. You ask them about the antibiotic, and they have it, but they also need the antibiotic, for the wife of someone in their group. You cannot share the antibiotic because it would just kill both people, and they have the antibiotic in their pack. This is likely the only complete dose set you will find, as the other stores have been picked totally clean and there are no friendly groups in the area. it is in their possession in the first place, it is theirs to keep or the decide what to do with it. there will be other ways. living with the blood of others on your hands can just be as painful as death. my brothers in arms would agree.
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Hello! I wanted to ask you guild people if you can help me finding my key? It's a silver one, the gate of the Lyre key. Really, I have no idea where to search anymore....
It is really important to me to have the key back.
Maybe it helps, that I have heard something last night and my windows were open. I'm not sure if someone took it but since then I can't find it anymore.
I'd be so happy if you could help me out!!!
Thank you!
