#malcolm ryder

And then the more you listen the more you realize that he is actually unhinged.

He keeps a bottle of alcohol in his studio booth. He claims it’s to keep some Supernatural creatures away but really he takes a swig after his show if he has to deal with difficult people.

Failing to help people makes him really anxious. He tries to keep it to himself but Amelia can always tell it’s in the way he carry’s himself. Every time he fails to save someone he slouches just a little more

He is neurodivergent but not diagnosed. He thinks other people have it worse. His special interest is the supernatural.

He feels like he’ll never live up to his grandfather or even Amelia. He’s just the awkward one who can’t do anything right.

He likes Indie music

Very much a business first type of guy

He has auburn hair with streaks of gray in it. The gray is from stress and not really his age.

People forget he’s in his late thirties.

Shoutout to Dr. Malcolm Ryder, parapsychologist (click for better quality!)—

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This is just a doodle but i plan on a rendered drawing soon :]

Malcolm Ryder - as envisioned by Midjourney AI

The Traveling Salesman standing before the wreckage of a small town.

Like when he was talking to our boy from Kansas and busted out the “from a logical standpoint” with the whole “spiders encased me in webs for hours and bled me repeatedly so they could eat some leeches and YOU DIDN’T TELL ME THAT WOULD HAPPEN.” And he responds with “um actually-“ I get it I do, i’m a logical person and yeah i’d probably let spiders do that if it meant wiping some spooky leeches of the face of the planet. But only if I knew that would happen???? You don’t just do that to people? Man had to sit alone in the dark unable to move, occasionally being refreshed for blood with zero knowledge that he was going to be saved and that’s so fucked up? And Malcolm had the nerve to be mad he was upset with him over it. Especially with the “for the greater good” vibes he was giving off in his speech. The man terrorized for months by leeches deserves the greater good as well!

Then the other guy who can see the numbers came in with the steel chair in the voicemails after he got the doom necklace and got right to the heart of the matter. I mean I would do ZERO trusting of the salesman but Malcolm straight up lied to him! Put him in incredible danger and told him to approach the one being he repeatedly tells everyone to NOT APPROACH under any circumstances. What, is his life not as special as Amanda’s? Like you CANNOT act like you have the moral high ground here when you are playing with these people just like the entities you claim to protect them from just because you’re on the good side. Even if everything you’re doing is to “help” you kinda suck at it so far.