Ryder, Roxanne

[Roxanne Ryder]

Roxanne Elizabeth Ryder
Telepathy

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General »

Nickname: Ryder, Roxy, Rox
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Student/Professor: Student
Subject: N/A
Birth-date: March 17th
Birthplace: Fort Worth, TX
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Played by: Kristin Herrera

Appearance»

Eye color: Dark brown
Hair color: Caramel with dark brown undertones
Height: 5"10
Build: Slender with toned muscles
Scars: A few on her knees and elbows from playing sports.
Tattoos: one on her low back that reads "Heartless"
Piercings: one on each ear

Personality »

Likes:

• Talking
  
• Sports
  
• Animals
  
• Sarcasm
  
• Archery
  
• Playing the drums
  
• Making new friends
  
• Silas Academy
  

Dislikes:

• Bullies
  
• Seeing others hurt
  
• Dressing fancy (or anything else remotely "girly")
  
• Stereo-types
  
• Liars
  
• Being hurt
  
• Crying in public
  

Fears:

• Not being good enough
  
• Losing people she cares about
  
• Being weak
  
• Graduating Silas and having to leave
  
• Bugs (the one thing she IS girly about)
  

Brief Summary:

An extreme optimist, Ryder chooses to see the best in everyone she meets. She may know what they're thinking but she doesn't know everything about them, and that is something she constantly reminds herself of. Even if she doesn't like someone, she will make an effort to find at least one good thing about them. Ryder is incredibly stubborn and once she sets her mind on something there's no changing it. She likes to do things her way and often refuses to see the logic of what anyone else says. She'll go to the extent of ignoring her good friends if she truly believes she's right, which often leads to fight about whether she trusts them or not.

Ryder does struggle to trust people, she sees the good in them, knows it's there and while she doesn't think they themselves aren't bad, she doesn't want to let people too close. She'll laugh and talk with people, hang out with them and tell them all sorts of things, all true, as she hates lying, but she won't let them see what truly scares her and what things she wants the most. She's afraid of them laughing, of rejecting her. Despite the fact that she holds back, it never appears that way. She has a biting sense of humor, typically with the use of sarcasm. Unfortunately, sarcasm is often her first choice when engaging in conversation, so she doesn't always give the best first impression. With her comments she's sometimes considered rude, when all she meant to do was make a joke and start a conversation.

She has a strong sense of right and wrong and is not embarrassed to say something. With a sharp tongue and a quick mind, she catches underhanded comments and dishes them back just as fast. If someone is picking on her, she'll stand up and fight back, but never physically. However, if someone is making fun of someone else, she will physically fight them. She despises bullies with a passion and is willing to fight on the behalf of those being bullied, regardless of whether they ask for her help or not.

Extremely extroverted, she is never lacking in a topic for discussion. Conversation comes easily to her as does meeting new people. No matter who they are or the things she's heard about them, she'll go up and start talking. If they're shy, she'll ask them questions to get them talking to her. Awkward silences make her incredibly uncomfortable and she does anything to fill the void, even acting like a complete idiot to get a laugh. Unfortunately for the people around her, she's also a telepath, meaning she can hear peoples thoughts and can talk to them without speaking aloud. Meaning, she can talk across the room. So trying to avoid her is pointless. If she wants to talk, she's going to talk.

Primarily, Ryder is a tom-boy. She hates her name and thinks it's too girly, so she goes by Ryder or Roxy, though she prefers Ryder. She doesn't care if she gets dirty and usually prefers it. Getting messy is just her style. Dressing up to her is putting on a nice pair of jeans and a t-shirt. Big into sports and with a strong rebellious streak, she isn't one to be pushed around.

History »

Roxanne grew up home-schooled, with absolutely no clear view on what the outside world was like. She gathered all her knowledge from books, the internet and the shows that her parents allowed her to watch. Her parents loved her but in all truth, her father had always wanted a son. So, the things he had wanted to do with that awaited little boy, he did with Roxanne instead, taking to call her Roxy or his little Rockstar. She was incredibly opinionated in everything she did, with her father debating back and forth with her on several issues. He was a law man and always had something to talk about with her. Roxy's father was her best friend and she could never imagine what she would do without him. She loved her mother but they never had a good connection, Roxy always seeing her as far too intrusive. Her mother was a child's psychologist and Roxy was always feeling liking her mom was trying to analyze her, as if she was constantly watching for some unknown change.

She didn't have many friends and took to having conversations with anyone she came in contact with. Any contact with the outside world was a privilege and she didn't care who she was talking to. Naturally curious, she had a large amount of questions to ask and never tired of asking them. However, people did tire of answering. With her parents strict hand on the way she was raised and the things she learned, she knew what she believed in and knew that honesty was always the best policy. However, her little interaction with others left her with a lack of social eloquence, causing her honest nature to be used more bluntly.

Sometime in her 8th year, she came into something she wasn't sure how to explain. She was in the house and would hear arguing, her parents shouting, so she'd run outside, to find them in completely separate rooms, no words being exchanged. She was confused and with her confusion came a brooding silence. It seemed to be what her mother had been waiting for. From then on out they started talk sessions that Roxy grew to hate with a burning passion. Just before going into her 9th year, she woke up only to find her father gone and her mother quiet. Refusing to talk about it, her mother continued with the sessions but Roxy grew resistant, chafing under the constant supervision that she had once accepted. She wanted to go outside, to play in the dirt, but her mother wanted her to be a girl and to talk about her feelings. With her father as her role model, Roxy had never grown used to the idea of divulging her feelings and found it awkward to do so, no matter who it was to.

Unable to establish a connection with her daughter and running out of money, her mother enrolled her into the public high-school for freshman year. The students were less than accepting of her loud opinions and brutal honesty and for the majority of the ear she struggled with finding where she fit in. The onslaught of their thoughts plagued her day and night and she began to have migraines from it. She refused to show her weakness though, and remained her upbeat, talkative self with anyone who would listen to her. In her 10th year she began to feel accustomed and the culture shock she had was finally wearing off. She got friends, the misfits of the school, who she had stuck up for in various classes. Sophomore year almost over, she finally was invited to the infamous high-school party. She didn't like the idea of it, but she desperately wanted more friends, feeling lonely with the majority of her friends only hanging around because she would fight the bullies for them. So she went.

She doesn't remember that night, though she knows she didn't drink any spiked drinks. Her doctor told her that she'd been drugged, likely by someone looking for an easy target. She wasn't abused in anyway, but there was one change. A tattoo on her low back, the word "Heartless". What everyone at school called her, with her harsh honesty and bitting sarcasm. After the year ended, her family moved to a new town. She was enrolled in a new school and refused to let what had happened change her. Unfortunately, she can't stop it completely. She won't let people in all the way and with the conservative way she grew up, she has never even thought about dating, saying she'll put it off until she's older. She also made another change, deciding that the name Roxy was too girly for her and reminded her too much of her father, so she went by Ryder.

With the move, her mother sunk into debt and all Ryder wanted was to get out of her home, away from her mother. So the second she graduated high-school, she enrolled into a new school, one she had found in old files that her mother had hidden. Silas Academy. Maybe there was a reason her mother hadn't wanted her to know about the school, but Ryder didn't care.