Happy Storyteller Saturday! Who kidnapped Ryan for a decade and why?
okay so this is a heavy, heavy WIP, so i don't have like, names nor well-defined plot because i don't really know how to write it and make it good hahah
so. Ryan Drake. he moves to fictional US, tries to become a lawyer, fails miserably, gets disilusioned with the system and decides to do something about it. he finds a patron and starts "fixing" things in the background: he investigates politicians and uses coercion and blackmailing to force them to do their jobs properly
of course, this creates a lot of enemies as his plan crescendos, and eventually the bigger fish get bothered enough for them to put aside their differences and deal with their common enemy before he dethrones everyone. so they craft a plan to kill him, but the thing is that they don't know what kind of plans he might've created behind their backs; they're convinced that Ryan must've developed some kind of failsave in the events of him disappearing, so instead of killing him, they keep him alive and try to pry all the information about his organization out of him so they can uproot all his plans without having to worry about consequences
so they try to force him to talk. and they fail again and again. he feeds them wrong information, he manipulates them to fight amongst themselves, he's basically dancing around them, or at least he does during the first months of his capture. as time passes, he loses steam and energy to oppose them, and the people who captured him slowly lose interest and forget about him too. isolation ends up breaking him after years in captivity, and even after he escapes, there's only a husk left of his former self. he spends some years hiding and healing in Mexico before he contacts Agnes and they reunite. at that point, it's been almost a decade since he disappeared, and everything he had built up in his organization is long gone, so there's no hope of returning to that plan anytime soon. that won't stop him from wanting to exact blind revenge on the people who captured him, though. he tries to kill the person in charge of dealing with him but Agnes stops him, convincing him to give up and forget about everything before he ends up dead. and that would be the end of his story
hopefully that clarifies a bit about what happens in Todo Lo Que Sube!
thanks a lot for the ask mwah