#honestly this verse and 7dtd im like .......... just let this boy Rest .
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general meta on little roosters of ryan + his state of mind ( plus some post - 11lr stuff i accidentally rambled about )
ten little roosters ( contains heavy spoilers ! )
here’s the thing . . . ryan is literally an ordinary guy. he’s a big nerd who plays video games for a living and likes his job and then suddenly all his coworkers are dying around him. and for a while , HE REALLY THINKS ITS HIM KILLING THEM.
i’ve spoken about it in this post but ryan struggles to differentiate between real + imaginary sometimes. he is VERY susceptible to suggestion , as in if you say ‘ ryan , you did x ’ he struggles to know whether that is true or not. even if there’s no WAY he could’ve done it.
so barb’s lil clues she leaves around for ryan that HE’S the killer . . . really work. when miles finds him in the sound booth , he’s locked himself in there in fear. to see what’ll happen —— whether someone else will die. he is TERRIFIED that some dark side of him has made its way into reality and he has killed michael + the gavins while dissociating.
only during all that time he’s trapped in the prop room does he sort of . . . calm down. start to believe it’s NOT actually him ( because why would he be in this damn hole if he was the killer ?? ). still when barbara catches him and admits she’s the killer + was manipulating him . . . it’s quite a big relief for him to KNOW that.
he sees michael , lindsay , miles and barbara die.
he sees gavin(s) and adam dead when still in the building. he sees EVERYONE ELSE’S BODIES at the crime scene the next day.
ryan does not consider himself to have murdered barbara. he has intrusive thoughts and nightmares that say the OPPOSITE , but rationally he does not blame himself for her death. she was trying to kill him ; she would have killed him ; it was entirely self defence.
similarly , RYAN DOES NOT CONSIDER HIMSELF TO HAVE EVER TAKEN ANOTHER PERSON’S LIFE. he knows , in reality , that he did kill barb , but he doesn’t fully believe it. CAN’T bring himself to fully accept that and i'm not sure he ever will.
between series
the next morning when he gets out , the police are there. obvs the rest of rt has been trying to get into work and found it all locked from the inside , so when ryan emerges HE has to tell everyone what’s happened. both the police and to his devastated coworkers.
the remaining achievement hunters mourn together and then disband ( i would imagine rt carries on but ah doesn’t ). ryan doesn’t really hear anything from them after that.
his mental health in this time . . . isn’t great. he sort of retreats into hiding for a little while ( a mixture of paranoia form intrusive thoughts + nightmares , and because he doesn’t really know what to DO now ). he’s really pretty isolated for a couple of years.
i’m not sure what changes for him to come back out again. but SOMETHING about his state of mind rejects his fear and decides he doesn’t want more people to die. so he offers services as a sort of detective to very select clients.
eleven little roosters ( also , obviously contains spoilers )
for example , rooster corps ! well , he less offer his services —— more he wakes up in a darkened room with the the big cock saying he’s the only man that can help and . . . not really giving ryan a choice otherwise. BUT when he’s handed a stack of files and sees that two of his old coworkers ( geoff and griffon ) are at risk , HE’S ALL IN.
his mental state is actually a lot better in 11lr. he’s had time to prepare and brace himself —— and he can stay HIDDEN with the germans while working on the case. something about it feels redeeming to him ( maybe he couldn’t save them before , but he can try now ).
the only person he actually sees die is adam ( ryan goes to the tetris match without telling anyone // following moose’s lead ). he sees gavin dead after the finale and sees files + photos of ALL OTHER AGENTS’ DEATHS ( luckily there’s no photos of geoff and griffon ).
post - series ( and hypothetical ministry of moose involvement )
again , the fact that he couldn’t solve it quick enough to save all the agents haunts him. but his guilt is nowhere near as bad as it was at rooster teeth. SOME OF THEM SURVIVED , and that’s better than last time. and he helped —— that makes him feel good.
at the end of 11lr he says he’s gonna retire ( not feeling USEFUL enough ). he probably goes back to georgia for a while and chills on a farm. and when i say ‘ a while ’ , i mean like a month. NORMAL . . . doesn’t feel normal any more to ryan. he’s grown used to the feel of danger ( and , weirdly , he’s sort of attached to the remainders of rooster corps ).
my theoretical arc for ryan post - 11lr ( that i haven’t written up and i’m sure will change if / when 12lr ever comes out ) is that he goes back to the ministry of moose.
he probably doesn’t train FULLY like a cia agent would , but he definitely gets SOME professional spy - esque training ( and a gun !!! finally ).
the idea of going out in the field is a very exciting one and he bugs the other agents to let him out quite often but honestly . . . he’s pretty scared by the idea of having to kill someone. so he’s the ministry’s tech guy ! he doesn’t make gadgets but he does their computer stuff and helps run the corps and dabbles in hacking a lil bit ( he’s still learning tho ).
he’s the guy in the earpiece when agents go on missions , so he can help out and be part of the action without actually BEING THERE. again , he’s new to it and can get overenthusiastic / too invested , but he likes it ! he feels like he’s helping.
his mental health is ok ! he’s ok ! his ocd is no worse than normal ( and , weirdly , being in a dangerous environment where death and violence is sort of normalised makes him feel sort of BETTER about having intrusive thoughts like that ?? idk man ) and now he feels like he’s on the general side of good / saving lives.
he has bad NIGHTMARES about what he’s been thru ( there’s a few faces that still haunt him ) and it fucks w his sleep schedule a lot. he has bad days , but he’s got a few friends ! my boy is damaged , but he’s a lil healed too and he’s doing ok.
#HOO this got long but !!!#my damaged boy :(#honestly this verse and 7dtd im like .......... just let this boy Rest .#@ ryan its not normal to feel comfortable in a dangerous environment !!!!!#plS like go live on a farm have some cows be Happy and Safe !!!!!!!! my boy :(#RYAN.#* & → AND THEN THERE WAS ONE >> RYAN HAYWOOD VERSES ☠☠ LITTLE ROOSTERS .#* & → YOU CAN BE IN HERE. BUT YOU’LL NEVER BE THIS >> RYAN HAYWOOD ☠☠ ABOUT .#death mention //#dissociation mention //#mental health //#gaslighting //#long post //
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