#ngl i didn't realise i never did his intro :/

[ashton-ryder]

ASHTON RYDER | 32 | PhD STUDENT, EX-MARINE

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Ashton, 32, is a astrophysics PhD student at NYU, often teaching bachelor lectures as part of his post-graduate program alongside his research. He's been in New York for the last 4 years, renting in the Wexley in #306 ever since. Before that, he had spent a bulk of his time with the military, fresh out of high school, following his father's footsteps, taking his Physics bachelors and masters while serving. A mishap of a mission left him the only survivor of his team, suffered a bad injury and he stepped away from being a marine raider for good. His father was a military pilot though he died in combat and Ashton was mostly raised by his mother, an elementary school teacher, growing up in a small town in Minnesota. Moving to New York was hard but he needed to find something else to do with his life, to prove that he isn't completely useless yet.

Useful Skills Military Combat, Gun Marksmanship, Reconnaissance, Extreme Conditions, Good Swimmer, Jet Piloting, Basic Medical Aid and Trauma Care, Theoretical and Practical Physics, Can debate for hours on the theories of Dark Matter .

Additionals.

Full Name: Ashton Finley Ryder Nicknames: Ash, Ryder, Fin (ice hockey days) Birthday: November 3, 1991 Birthplace: Taylors Falls, Minnesota Current Home: The Wexley, #306, 4th year resident pre-outbreak Religion: Loosely raised Catholic / Currently Freethinker Orientation: Asexual, Biromantic MBTI: ISFJ, The Defender Enneagram: Type5 Wing6, The Troubleshooter Alignment: Lawful Neutral Zodiac: Scorpio Face Claim: Luke Mitchell . Voice Claim: Luke Mitchell (i) | (ii) *ii - tw mentions of abuse .

Physical Attributes.

Height: 6'1" Build: Muscular, Athletic Exercise Regime: Alternate days USMC conditioning training Allergies: people that walk slowly in NYC, people beating around the bush, & lilies. Hair Colour: Dirty Blonde Eye Colour: Deep Blue, that turns deeper when he cries Glass/Contacts: none, but sometimes if his eyes are strained he has reading glasses Dominant Hand: Right, but mildly Ambidextrous Tattoos: only one, solar system running across the inside of his left forearm Scars: Too many to count, the most prominent, ugly one that never healed right is the one on his left shoulder, operated on by Dr Tobias Piercings: Earlobes and Helix on both ears Outfit Clothing Style: Sweaters, idk what else to tell you, whatever Charlie and Ria styles him with

Background Information.

Hometown: Taylors Falls, Minnesota Current Residence: Manhattan, New York Spoken Languages: English / Russian / Spanish Driver's License: yes + military license Occupation: Ex-marine. PhD student and lecturer at NYU

Familial Information. Relationship Status: Single Mother: Amelia Kayley Ryder, Elementary School Teacher, Taylors Falls, MN / status unknown (possible open connection) Father: Ben Colin Ryder, U.S Army Officer, Captain / deceased, KIA Siblings: None Other: Rose Siblings, as close as family. Pets: A german shepherd called Dawn, that Ash trained as a military dog beside him during his service, she listened to no one but him and so when he left the force, Dawn couldn't work with any other soldier and retired for Ashton to adopt her back home, currently living with his mother in Minnesota.

Headcanons

Starting with the military, Ashton applied to the marines very early on before getting accepted into the Special Ops as a CSO and Marine Raider. Was in service for about a decade before leaving it all behind.

Ashton is always in this serious mode, small smiles come by only ever so often and fun is a hard concept to grasp. Few can bring that side of him back.

Despite a few years in, he finds it hard to decide on the mundane things in life. He has no preferences for anything really. If you ask him what his favorite food is, he probably wouldn’t know how to respond. He can’t even decide his favorite food, let alone everything else in his life. He has one constant in his life and that’s enough for him.

Being young and dumbly spontaneous, he had a tattoo on his left forearm of the solar system at 18 to just be able to look at something and feel. Remember that there are things so much bigger than themselves.

Ashton teaches- taught the bachelor’s classes once in a while and the students will often gossip on the military vibes the class had. And those that couldn’t handle it dropped the class, but the ones that do stay on, often come out of it thankful that they did.

The Outbreak brought him back into his military instincts, trying to help out where he can to protect the building still standing in protecting them, but Ashton is also one to be more willing to go out, to scout, to scavenge.

Weirdly enough, he’s still working on his research paper, apocalypse be damned, he was finishing this residency and research paper one way or another. Or perhaps he just needed some kind of normalcy, to keep moving, because he knows the idleness will destroy him.

Ashton back in his military days was a skilled jet pilot and a good shot with the highest qualified level of marksmanship. Now if only he had a plane and a gun…

His apartment is a library of its own, well, if you’re ever looking for a book to learn about Kepler’s second law of planetary motion.

Supplies (on Day 0):

library of astrophysics books

NYU staff and student pass

mid-range telescope

laser pointer

mini solar power generator

tactical flashlight

compass

M18 handgun & 9mm bullets

military combat knives

old dog tag

water bottle

bucket of realism

[inkstainedhandswithrings]

TBB S2 EP 11: Metamorphosis

right from the get go already looks like cliché horror film intro (this initially made me dislike the ep, mainly bc we have too many bad horror films playing at the cinema where I work rn, but dw I came around)

the music was actually chillingly different than usually and continued into the scene in which Dr. Hamlock was introduced. I liked that, but in a bad way

the closeup on his hand confirms that the Zillo Beast ate it, no this is not up for discussion, Zillo Beast had himself a treat

I'm kinda coming around on Nala Se, ngl

Also for as uneasy Dr. Hamlock makes me, I feel like we're finally getting a high-quality villain on TBB and I'm here for it

BAD BATCH TELLING CID OFF BAD BATCH TELLING CID OFF BAD BATCH TELLING CID OFF

HUNTER WANTING TO CUT CID OFF HUNTER WANTING TO CUT CID OFF HUNTER WANTING TO CUT CID OFF

Cid, being a huge dick:

Me:🤨🤨🖕🖕🖕

I like watching Wrecker show off how smart he is. He knows all the weapons and how to use 'em. Yes. :D.

"Whatever did this wasn't human." <- I find that an interesting sentence, considering this is Star Wars. If this was a show that took place on earth, somewhere where it was unlikely for an animal to be, that line would've been chilling. In Star Wars? Not so much. Humans are only one of many species in that galaxy and while I do believe that clones = humans, via star wars lore, that doesn't apply. Clones are classified as their own species, meaning technically they aren't human. I'm probably over thinking this but whatever, the line struck me as oddly placed

"By yourself?" "Your concern is not warranted. I will be fine." <- ok, Tech ik you got the whole cool, logical, I-know-what-I'm-doing-vibe going on, but I gotta tell you, the person who says that in horror films dies first.

OFC THE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT IS KAMINOAN FCK

everytime tech checked what's going on in the hallway I yelled "nO" at him. and then he did it anyway. rude.

The second we first saw it I realised it was the Zillo. I've been wondering when/if it would ever come up again, since the Chancellor did order for it to be cloned when the og episodes aired and then we never saw it again, so the arc felt incomplete.

BUT I LOVED THE ZILLO BEAST ARC SO THIS MADE ME V HAPPY AND V SCARED AND I KNOW IT'S NOT CANON BUT CAN THE ZILLO BEAST PLS GO EAT PALPATINE NOW??? IT DESERVES A TREAT!!!!

Hunter grabbing Omega to protect her from the beast 🥺

Tech's slow "Fascinating." followed by his "Take cover."???? sir u already had me, u didn't need to go harder

Wrecker grabbing Omega to protect her from the explosion🥺

Tech casually causing the explosion

"It ate the crew?" MY POOR BABY

"I can help. I know my way around Kaminoan tech." hmmm omega tryna stay out of the fight? she scared? hmmm Tech whatcha do???

Omega being better with Kaminoan tech than Tech and him just going with it and trusting her expertise. Yes. :D

idk where the "Zillo Beast feeds on energy" thing came from bc that wasn't part of the original arc and kinda threw me off, but alright, they needed a reason for it to grow real fast, I'll take it

they're already fighting the beast and then the empire shows up hhhhhhhh whyyyyyyy

omega just casually pulling the plug on tech's research, I love her

Tech grabbing Omega to protect her from the explosion 2.0 🥺

yes, hello, I'd like to inform you all again that I hate the empire, thank you

Tech allowing Hunter to keep flying even though he is the designated pilot and clearly very skilled. Just shows how much he trusts his leader and brother to keep them save. Love that :))

When the Commandos began rounding up the villagers I immediately knew what it meant and GAH HONSLTY WHY ARE THEY LIKE THIS

The Empire only destroyed Kamino to control cloning, not to end it, hm? surprise surprise (these fcking motherfckers i swear)

"Send the data to Echo and Rex. See what they can find out."

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YES HUNTER YES SEND THEM THE DATA YES GO WORK WITH ECHO AND REX AND SAVE THE GALAXY YES LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

end of the ep confirms yet again that Dr. Hamlock is a bag of dicks :)

Prime Minister said f you and I'm here for it

and then he brought up Omega and I was not here for it anymore

finally the music during the last shot makes me think that this facility is going to come up again and it will likely be very traumatic and horrible and terrible and um ya. sucks man.

gonna tag @jealous-sloth77 and @saturn-sends-hugs bc I'd love to see their thoughts too :))

[pitynostars]

ok so first things first, i loooove gatwa's doctor so much already. if nothing else, i love the masterclass in acting he's putting on, his expressiveness is so impressive. he brings a very fun energy to the role

the church on ruby road has me feeling a bit mixed as well. the plot was kind of meh, and i didn't like how in the alternate universe ruby's mum was just so mean without her. it didn't make sense. like what makes ruby so special, hm 🤨 what's this one white blond baby got that all the other babies in the world don't 🤨 i know the point was to show how much ruby meant to her mum, but like. there are other ways to do it than have a complete 180 in characterization.

i'm honestly not super interested in the mystery of ruby's parentage (which apparently seems like it will be a huge thing unless they're just making stuff up to fake us out, in which case, good on them). but i don't want it to be some big reveal i'm sorry 😩 especially not because if it is, people will bend over backwards to say how great storytelling it is when they'd never say that if moffat did a plot like this. i hadn't even considered the possibility really, when i'd first watched it, i thought it's just not that deep, but maybe i'm wrong. the people who are theorizing that ruby is rose and tentoo's daughter are sooo funny though like

ur only saying that because she's blond and we all know nobody on this show can be blond without being related to The Blond(tm) 🙄

that literally means they abandoned their kid. yes. such good parents 😫

i also feel like we didn't....really get to know ruby that well? i'll reserve judgement to give them more time obviously, and millie seems very green (not a judgement on her, and she and ncuti seem to have a lot of fun energy together) so there's still time and there's a lot of time in general for the stories to get going, and it had to do double duty as a christmas special and an intro episode for both new doctor and new companion so like, my feelings may also change with time. anyways those are my thots for now

yesss i was sold on gatwa very quickly i just hope he doesn't become 10th doctor rehash number 2345932853845 i am so tired. give him something new. also praying him and ruby don't have a romance angle there were a couple of moments in CORR i was like. GOD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT AGAIN.

CORR plot being meh i agreeee but also xmas specials plot is a lot of times like a wafer and as someone who watched it quite roasted ngl i kinda appreciated it 😂

YEAH omhg tho with ruby disappearing and her mum (i want to say carla??) completely changing as a person??? i get that the point was supposed to be like one little change can make such an impact etc etc as well. but also i was just like. .... ok but what about the other kids wasnt good enuf ???? maybe i'm a cynic lol. but fr have another MORE kids on the wall bc she's trying to fill a gap she doesn't know is from what !!!! IMAGINE.... especially with it being sort of set up as a doctor/companions parallel oh my god

nooo oh my god i know what you mean about rubys parents i like that theyre setting it up as a counter to 13s "it doesn't matter i'm good as i am my past doesnt define me" etc. but i really want it to not be interesting. i want her parents to just be like. normal people who had to make a hard choice lol. oh my god. i just realised. we're gonna go thru a fucking rey star wars arc with her im gonna lose it byee... imagine she ends the series like "im ruby doctor" :) i would quit watching.

but yeah 100% it's gonna be a big thing. atm i dont care but i guess we'll see and hope they do something interesting with it.... prayers she's an alien tbf

rose and tentoo would be terrible parents tbf i said what i said.

YEAH i know what you mean i feel like that about gatwa too i think its hard making the first intro for both an xmas special because it has to be kinda silly and rompy so you cant rlly get too into the grit of the characters?? still reserving judgement on them both, but its taken me a while to warm up to like. everyone in dr who since bill--- wait i take that back i loved bel in flux from like her first scene but she's not a doc or companion.

[wackpedion]

Im playing Class of 09 cuz i impulsively bought it 20 minutes before the summer sale was gonna end and I thought I'd liveblog it. below the cut

Ohh my god this is just the intro and im already having so much fun. this is so camp. this is gonna be a good time i think

Nicole's pretty

"god they're never funny, it's as if the girls laugh to avoid sexual assault" HELLO???

And then she laughs at some lame joke right after. Ofc

I just realised this guys name is Crispin what kind of name is that

We're gonna cut class babyyy!!!!

YEAHHH tell him off oh my god Nicole ily already

KYLAR. WHAT are these names. Raincode WISHES it was this

We're not taking drugs from this guy no way

Also I heard there's MSI references in this game. When will that happen. I'm excited

HAHAHA "well.... Not in a gay way.."

HI JECKA R U THE MSI FAN I HEARD OF.

I wish this dialogue didn't like. Autoplay. It's like a movie. I wish it'd be a "click to progress to next line" type of thing instead but alr

Benzosexual??? Lmao

"Hi I'm Nicole I just dodged a bullet" HAHA

Nicole I love Ur fashion sense

Fuck now I wanna go get junk food

DISCIPLINARY TATTOOS??? Oh my god

HAHAH I love u Jecka

Uhhh let's choose Photography

"why did I pick an art class these kids are annoyingly quirky" thanks Nicole

I wanna skip but a girl here has caught my eye I wanna see what's her deal. So we're staying in the class

MR WHITE MR SHOOTER??

Oh no. What is it. Is this going where I think it's going. I knew not to trust any men in this game

Fuck yeah I love free food sure

Ok I regret this already I don't like how he's talking

Wait. Wait.

OH NO HES A WHITE SUPREMACIST

THE WAY HE SAID RAP MUSIC.

"so, I think the photography teachers a white nationalist" "I just said 'the tuna is good today' and you replied with that." 💀

This game is so fast paced ngl, jumping from scene to scene

Ohh ok thx Nicole for that explanation. This game is so educational guys you should give this to your kids

Non-racist girls gotta stick together babyyy

I want to throw rocks at him

Oh my god shut upppp

"you really think im a quirky art girl?" Nicole is that really your take away here

HAHAH WHAT WAS THAT?

WHAT is the principal talking about. Hello???

COME ON . I mean I can't say I'm surpri- wait what was that.

"I guess racism wins" 😭😭

NICOLE????

Crying Nicole I love you

Pentagram? MSI reference?

Oh I've heard of Jeffery

Jecka you're sick I love you too

Oh this Crispin guy again

Were NOT throwing a party. Glad we're on the same page Nicole

Does her shirt say suicidal pregnancies

Oh so you're Emily.......

HAHAHD oh my god don't ask that!!!

So true Jecka. Sure let's kms

Okay now I feel bad.

SHE GOT PUT IN THE PSYCHE WARD?!?!?!

Annnd that's my first playthro. Wow