walker's texan ranger (![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} rydy) wrote,@ 2009-05-30 03:40:00 |
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@ lonestar ryan
"And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction
Ryan Weston Daly Birthday: November 19, 1985 (23) Family: Darla Daly (mother), Weston "Wes" Everett (father), Kevin Daly (maternal uncle), Dustin and Eileen Daly (maternal grandparents - both deceased) Hometown: Rycade, Texas Sexuality: Occupation: Manager/Bartender at Walker's + Son of Darla Daly and Wes Everett. His father was never present when Ryan was growing up. If Ryan ever wanted to see him, he would only have to look as far as the county lockup. Wes was always in jail for one thing or another. Drug possession with intent to distribute, simple possession, drunk and disorderly, and theft are a few highlights from Wes's rap sheet. + Darla and Wes were never married, though she still looks after Wes, sending him commissary money from time to time. Ryan was raised as an only child, though he knows he has half-siblings scattered around Texas from his "stepmothers" - Charlene, Lisa, Sylvia, and Bridget. + The primary father figures in his life were his Uncle Kevin and Paw Paw, his mother's father. His Baptist grandparents were mighty pissed when Darla came home pregnant out of wedlock at the tender age of twenty-two, but they never treated Ryan badly because of it. Darla lived with her parents until she could scrape up enough money to buy a little two-bedroom house in Rycade. + The Daly family owns and operates Ginger's, a grocery store on Main Street. It's named after Eileen's sister, Ryan's great-aunt Ginger. To help support herself and her son, Darla worked as a cashier and shift manager. + Uncle Kev was a former staff sergeant in the USMC. He spent sixteen months in Vietnam, working as a sniper where he eventually accrued 54 confirmed kills. He then spent four years as a drill instructor at Parris Island, and another year on a tour of duty of Okinawa before being medically retired. He was a certified, card-carrying, medal-decorated roughneck and if Ryan's love for his hard-working mother wasn't enough, fear of his hard ass uncle was enough to keep Ryan on the straight and narrow. + In high school, he was a football player (running back) for the Rycade Cougars. Being a jock didn't do much for his natural propensity for getting into trouble but his coaches were other good father figures that spooked him into staying in line. He had to make the grades to stay on the team, which he did with little effort and a heap of procrastination. He was a decent student, making the Bs and Cs (even the occasional A!) needed to get by. + Sophomore year (2001) was the hardest for Ryan, Darla, and Kevin. Ryan lost both of his grandparents in the same year. In July, Dustin died suddenly of a heart attack. It was a hard blow for Ryan to take. One day, his Paw Paw was laughing, drinking, playing poker with his buddies in the neighborhood - the next day, he was gone with no warning. Losing Mama Eileen was an even longer, more painful process. With her health failing, she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. After a long struggle, she passed away in November. Darla had to take the mantle of general manager of Ginger's, leaving her with less time to attend Ryan's games. Ryan quit playing football shortly before his junior year of high school. + His remaining years at RHS were quieter. Leaving the football team left him out of the social loop. He dedicated himself more fully to his studies and the books that kept him company as a child. Most of his jock friends stopped hanging around the house and inviting him to keggers and trips to Austin. A handful of guys and girls stuck by him, knowing his change of attitude was because of the loss of his grandparents. + He jokingly swore he would join the police academy - a fitting payback to his deadbeat scalawag father. Instead, he accepted an academic scholarship to attend UT Austin, majoring in Biology. He was particularly interest in studying tumor growth and intended to enter medical school and study Oncology. + His first few semesters were marked with success and appearances on the Dean's List. Though he accumulated a lot of debt through partying and buying luxuries he couldn't afford on credit cards he was too irresponsible to have. He worked as a bartender to help pay for living expenses and keep him in his apartment. + The class workload and his bartending hours eventually wore him down. His grades slipped and with that came anxiety and depression that he kept from his mother and uncle back home. Classes during the day were too hard, so he drank his way through shifts at night until he was too hungover to face the day. After a couple of disastrous semesters, he lost his scholarship in the Spring '05. + He spent a year deceiving his mother and uncle, pretending everything was all right while he scrambled to try to re-enter UT Austin. His debts and drinking ate at his paychecks until maintaining his apartment was a financial liability. He bounced from couch to couch, living with friends until he got sick of being a burden. + He returned to Rycade in July 2006, finally ready to face the dual firing squad of his uncle's anger and his mother's disappointment. They were both far more kind than he had anticipated (well, Uncle Kev yelled his ear off but Ryan didn't get an ass whoopin', which is what he was counting on). + He took a job at Walker's, a dive bar in Rycade owned by the man who would become another father figure, Billy Walker. It took a year to clear up the credit debts Ryan had, and he rose in ranks at Walker's to become a manager there. Like his mother, he sort of inherited responsibility of Walker's. Billy's poor health - emphysema - keeps him out of the bar that he built from ground up. He trusts Ryan like a son ('well intentioned but still a screw up' son), and has left much of the day to day operating to him. + That steady job doesn't do much to increase his affluence, but that and his association with Ginger's makes him a familiar face around town. Walker's is also the only thing that keeps Ryan away from enlisting in the Marines, which has been Uncle Kev's suggestion since he returned from Austin in disgrace. Facts - Rycade High School Alum, Class of 2002 - Attended UT Austin from 2002 - 2005, majoring in Human Biology - Inherited a beatdown Jeep Wrangler from his uncle. Ry has lovingly dubbed it the Dreamboat. - His favorite authors are Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, and Hunter S. Thompson. - Despite being a born and raised Texan, he hates almost all country music. - Favorite childhood story - When he was 15, he took his grandfather's truck for a joyride with three of his friends and ended up totaling it, plowing headfirst into the Rycade Theater's sign. - Favorite movie is Pulp Fiction - Closet Jeopardy level trivia buff. Literally used to read random sections in his grandparents' encyclopedia set when bored. A line in the sand (open storylines) - ameia - the hot cousin For the record, Amelia and Ryan are not related whatsoever, though that does not stop him from likening her to a sister and calling her "his hot cousin." They've known each other since they were toddlers and she's his "Amelia Bedelia." They flirt often but are merely confidantes.- pilarmari - senorita mamacita Pilar hates his guts, or so he thinks. She's such a good girl and he's such a bad boy, they get along like cats and dogs. She's always putting him down ("Gringo" is her favorite term for him), and trying to protect her BFF Sam from him.- jbassett - catwoman Ry is drawn to the bad ones and Jenna has a pretty harsh reputation around town. Ry tries to get into her head and figure out the truth apart from all the rumors.- saam - bonnie In Sam, Ryan sees a female version of himself. They both love to party and drink, and Ry thinks they share the same fucked up sense of humor. Though he often plays devil's advocate to her hard partying ways, he tries to act as her conscience which really fucks with his own and just pisses her off.- sebastianmorgan - Ryan and Sebastian are on friendly terms as they are both on Pilar's shit list. - slobodian - aka the Ryan #2, Ryan is cool with Slobo since he's dating Ryan's "cousin" (Amelia)- wolcott - the boy scout Ry thinks that Troy's a good, upstanding guy but it's just so easy to make fun of him sometimes. Ry likens him to Superman, always walking little old ladies across streets and pulling kittens out of trees.General Lines + The RHS friends that stuck by him after he quit the football team. + The RHS jocks/cheerleaders that deserted him. + Friends from UTA, especially the ones that supported him after he dropped out of school. + His Walker's crew - bartenders, bouncers, etc. + The Ginger's grocery staff. + Ex-hookups from UT Austin. + Patrons from Walker's. Shoppers at Ginger's. + Billy Walker's kids and relatives. |