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Name: Ryan King

Nickname: Ry, Blondie Bear (by Victoria)

Age: 37

Birthday: December 27, 1970

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual

Status: Married to Victoria King

Religion: Anglican

Chronic diseases/Other Illness: None

Allergies: Some moisturizers and lotions, shellfish, insect bites, aspartame

Drinks: Yes

Smokes: Yes, but he hides it from his family

Illegal Drugs: None now, used to smoke marijuana

College: Certificate in Public Safety Communications

Handedness: Left

Favourite Feature: His eyes

Least Favourite Feature: His eyebrows

Greatest Strength: His ability to remain calm in stressful situations

Biggest Weakness: How easily he is annoyed by stupidity

Biggest Fear: That he'll end up like his biological mother

Most Common Misconception: That he has no sympathy for others

Name Meaning

Ryan: 'Little king'

King: 'Head' or 'Leader'

Appearance

Height: 5'9

Build: Skinny but toned

Hair: Naturally brown, usually bleached blond

Eyes: Blue

Complexion: Pale

Glasses: No

Scars and Tattoos:

Left eyebrow	Left upper arm

Never Wears: Suits and ties

Ryan has a long narrow face with prominent cheekbones which, combined with his skinny build, causes him to look like he requires filling out. His eyes are a piercing shade of blue, accented even more by his usually pale skin. Ryan almost always goes clean shaven and his head is adjourned by a mop of curly hair. Naturally dark brown Ryan bleaches it blond once a month and uses large quantities of hair products to control it.

Ryan’s body is naturally skinny, to the point that it’s a bit scrawny. To prevent himself from looking like he’s nothing more than just skin and bones Ryan works out often, maintaining a toned body and six-pack abs. While he believes that he looks good in just about anything, he is usually found wearing darker, comfortable clothes. He has an extensive collection of t-shirts and wife beaters and his definition of dressing up usually consists of putting on a dress shirt, usually unbuttoned, and a pair of nice jeans.

Outfit

Pajamas	Dress

Personality

Because of his dark sense of humour and sarcastic nature, people tend to view Ryan as a somewhat heartless man, completely void of sympathy. Ryan is rather opinionated and has no problems with sharing his thoughts on just about any subject, even if doing so is likely to get him into trouble. He tries his best to see the world as it is, even if that can be rather depressing at times, and described things as he sees it. One of his biggest pet peeves is when people sugar coat life and live behind rose tinted glasses; as a result Ryan tried to always be straight forward, even when dealing with his children.

While Ryan can be a very serious person, he enjoys joking around a bit, especially when it comes to his job. While he is empathetic, and at times sympathetic, with his callers, when off the air Ryan tries to joke about various calls. To some it’s rude and inappropriate but to him his dark humour is simply a defence he uses to prevent himself from burning out. Ryan takes his job seriously but realizes that if he isn’t careful, dealing with people in the situations that he deals with them in will eventually seriously affect him.

When he isn’t working, Ryan tries to completely put behind him the drama that can be his job. The most important part of his life is his family; as far as Ryan is concerned the best days are spent doing nothing but spending time with his wife and daughters. Even though his family lives almost entirely in Vancouver Ryan still maintains close contact with most of them and is close with his in-laws.

Personal History

His Timeline

One cold December afternoon sixteen-year-old Chelsey Gaiman gave birth to a baby boy. Chelsey was at the start of what would be a lengthy downward spiral; already addicted to drugs she had begun prostituting herself shortly before the conception of her son. As a result, she made the decision to put the baby, who was underweight and slightly premature but otherwise healthy, up for adoption.

The baby was adopted at birth by Terry and Minnie King, a couple who had been married for five years and had failed to conceive. Naming their new son Ryan the two made the decision to not tell him about the circumstances of his birth until he was older, feeling that the truth would be too much for the boy to handle growing up.

Two years later the small family grew with the birth of the Kings biological son, Shawn. Despite the slight age difference and some sibling rivalry (during which Ryan claimed that their mom always favoured Shawn, while Shawn claimed that their dad always favoured Ryan) the two were very close growing up and over time became best friends.

Ryan didn’t learn of his adoption until early on in 1984. He’d been assigned a project for school on himself and while rummaging through a stack of old baby photos he came across his adoption papers. Instantly perplexed, he went to his parents who told him, albeit reluctantly, about his adoption. This confused the thirteen-year-old boy even further. Suddenly knowing that he was adopted and that his real parents had chosen to give him up, Ryan worried about who that made him. His confidence in himself, already rather fragile just as the result of his age, was completely shot, causing what would become a lengthy search for a way to define who he is. After some hesitation in August of the same year Ryan was attempted to contact his birth mother, hoping that maybe she could answer some of his questions. The attempt was for naught, though, and Chelsey didn’t respond to her son’s attempts at contacting her until nearly a year later.

The years of drug addiction and prostitution had taken their toll on Chelsey. She had been heavily addicted to drugs for over half of her life, although at the time of the meeting she had been sober for three months. The meeting shook Ryan; he hadn’t expected his mother to be living the lifestyle that she had. For every question that meeting her had answered dozen more popped up. While before he had wondered who he was because of his adoption, following meeting Chelsey, Ryan worried that he might be destined for the same life.

In an attempt to deal with this, or rather to avoid dealing with it, Ryan began attending more and more parties. His grades dropped drastically and he began experimenting with drugs and alcohol, although never divulging into anything too hard. As if to add to his confusion, in January of 1987 Ryan met and was shunned by Keiron Meltzer, the man who Chelsey believed was Ryan’s father. The man was considerably older than Chelsey and had been married for nearly thirty years and denied having had any part in Ryan’s conception.

Ryan’s downwards progression was cut short in his grade twelve year. At a parent-teacher conference part way through the school year it was revealed that Ryan’s chances of graduating on time were slim. The conference resulted in a huge fight between Ryan and his dad; afterwards the two refused to talk for the better part of a month. However, despite the fact that he claimed to not care about his education, afterwards Ryan did make more of an effort towards school. By the end of the year he had managed to pull things together, graduating with a C- average. To celebrate he and two friends, Peter Lawson and Kurt Snyder, decided to go on a coast-to-coast road trip over the summer. After spending the better part of a month driving across Canada the trio was faced with plotting the return trip home. Not wanting to backtrack or go through Northern Canada the boys decided to return to Vancouver via the States. On August 3 they pulled into Pleasant Port where the car that had driven them across the continent promptly died.

They took the car to the local auto repair shop, where Ryan met Victoria Law, who was working as a secretary there over the summer, for the first time. Two weeks later, when Peter and Kurt decided to just fly back to Vancouver rather than continue waiting for the car to be fixed, Ryan chose to stay behind. He and Victoria began dating, although both knew that it wouldn’t last long. Sure enough, come September Victoria had returned to school and Ryan returned to Vancouver. The two agreed to remain in contact.

When he was nineteen Ryan finally worked up the nerve to take a paternity test, proving once and for all that Keiron was responsible for his conception. While it would still take the man awhile to accept Ryan as his son, Keiron’s wife, Diana, and elder son, Neil, were both much more willing to accept him into their lives.

Later in 1990, with the encouragement of his family, Ryan began Kwantlen University College’s Public Safety Communications program, where he trained to work as a call taker and dispatcher for various emergency services. Through the practical work experience that the program offered he managed to secure a job working with the Vancouver Police Department by the time he completed the program. Ryan enjoyed the job for awhile; however following a riot after a hockey game in 1994 he felt himself becoming jaded and unsatisfied with the life that he was living.

Taking his two week’s vacation, Ryan returned to Pleasant Port where he resumes the relationship that he had had with Victoria five years previously. Rather than ending things once again when Ryan’s vacation ended the two decided to maintain a long distance relationship and he returned to Vancouver with the sole purpose of making the arrangements necessary to move to Pleasant Port permanently. While he loved his hometown the calmer nature of the small town appealed to him. By April of the next year he had moved and began working as a call taker and dispatcher for Pleasant Port’s emergency services.

In August of that year, on the anniversary of the day he first met her, Ryan proposed to Victoria. They were married in June the following year, and had two daughters, Alexis and Caitlin.

Through the Ages

Living Situation

Address: 7 Jefferson Street

Lives With: Victoria King, Alexis King, and Caitlin King

Lives in town since: 1995

Transportation

2001 Volvo V70 T5

Job

Ryan is a call taker and dispatcher for the Pleasant Port's Police, Fire, and Ambulance services. While he works with all three services, the office that he works in is located within the Police Station.

Schedule:

Ryan works four days on and four days off. His shifts are twelve hours in length, and after working two day shifts (7 am to 7pm) he works two night shifts (7pm to 7am).

Schedule

You Can Find Him

All About Kids	Cafe Atlantique	Smart Fitness
Police Station	Cinema	Get Reel Videos
Mirage Beauty Salon	Pizzeria	Arcade

Ryan Smells Like...

Deodorant	Body Wash	Shampoo	Hair Gel

Stuff He Uses Daily

Headset	Razor	Coffee	PP Post
Digital Province	Magazines	Movies	Sudoku

Facts

Ryan has a massive movie collection and is extremely OCD about the arrangement and organization of them. They're all organized by genre, series, release date, then alphabetically, and he keeps a list of them all on his computer.
Even though he knows he'll probably never move back to Vancouver, Ryan refuses to outright admit that he'll live in the USA for the rest of his life. He still has his Canadian citizenship and is adamant about not getting an American one.
Ryan gets Molson Canadian beer imported just so he doesn't have to drink the American equivalent.
Ryan knows all the lyrics to Stompin Tom Connors' "The Hockey Song" and has the chorus as the ring tone for his cell phone.
Not being an American citizen, Ryan has never voted in an American election. When he lived in Canada though he always voted NDP.
Ryan knows it's weird, but he absolutely loves everything about smoking. To him a cigarette is more than just the feeling he gets; he loves the taste, the smell, even the texture of the smoke.
Ryan's always wanted to have a son.  It's not that he thinks he would love a son more than he loves his daughters, but because he really wants to play with the different toys that are aimed for boys.  With two daughters, both who are rather girly, he has no reason to justify buying remote control cars, Lego, or action figures.  As a result of this, he spoils his nephews, especially Rodney, a lot.
Even though the girls aren't particularly interested in Lego, Ryan absolutely loves them and will buy at least one set for every birthday and Christmas, which he usually ends up playing with.  He currently has a sizeable collection, including all of the Star Wars sets.
Ryan is a huge closet anime fan.  His favourite is Death Note, which he regularly tries to get his wife into.
Ryan has a dark sense of humour. With some friends, Martin especially, he can spend hours sitting around exchanging the worst jokes that he can think of.  His favourite are dead baby jokes, although he's refrained from them since his wife got pregnant again.

Ryan's Teams

Hockey - NHL	Vancouver Canucks		Hockey - WHL	Vancouver Giants
Hockey - AHL	Hartford Wolf Pack		Soccer - USL	Vancouver Whitecaps
Football - CFL	BC Lions		Football - NFL	New England Patriots
NCAA - America East	Hartford Hawks		International	Team Canada

Family

Pets

	Lady has lived with the Kings since 2003. Ryan insisted on buying her and hasn't regretted it since.
	Toby has lived with the Kings since 2007. While the dog is rather mischievous, Ryan absolutely adores him, even if he does have a habit of getting into the shoes.

Friends

Acquaintances

Work

Enemies

Character	Relationship

NPCs and Inactive Characters

Other Characters Talk

Life

Activities: Cinema Club, Climbing Club, working out, watching movies and television, doing Sudokus, playing with his kids, playing guitar and singing

Likes: Movies, action packed television shows, listening to music, timbits, the beach, his dogs, being able to help his kids with their homework, the way his wife looks at him when he’s done something right, Molson Canadian, when his wife tries to say ‘eh’, indie films, Rick Mercer, Corner Gas, curling, hockey, lacrosse, snow, mountains, sushi, rain

Dislikes: Being away from his family, American spelling, the attitude of cops, his job after a long day, American beer, reality television, Krispy Kreme donuts, Starbucks, Due South, football, baseball, basketball, American politics, prairies, Toronto

Favourite Song: "Hate Me" by Blue October

Favourite Christmas Song: "Dominick the Donkey (The Italian Christmas Donkey)" by Lou Monte

Favourite Quote: “It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she’s something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.” – Emily Carr

Favourite Food: West Coast Salmon

Favourite Non-Alcoholic Drink: Tim Horton's Coffee, Double-double

Favourite Alcoholic Drink: Molson Canadian

Favourite Colour: Grey

Favourite Book: Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

Favourite Film: Men with Brooms

Favourite Actor/Actress: Paul Gross

Least Favourite Food: Re-Fried Beans

Least Favourite Colour: Beige

Love Life

Status: Married to Victoria King

Crush: None

First Kiss: Age 9, to the girl that lived next door

Longest Relationship: His marriage

Ever Had a Broken Heart: No

If You Want to Win His Heart, You Have to Be: Sweet, innocent, and willing to put up with him

3 Things He Can’t Stand in Girls: Greed, self centered attitudes, narcissism

Does He Believe in Love At First Sight: Yes

Virgin: No

When Did He Loose His Virginity? Age 16, to the girl that lived next door

For Him, Love Is? The best emotion in the world

For Him, Sex Is?: Really good if it's done right. Not so much if it's not

Questionnaires

What Makes You...

...Joyfully Smile?: Time with my kids

...Laugh Out Loud?: Listening to my kids speak

...Get on the Dance Floor?: Good music

...Cry Your Eyes Out?: Dealing with my family

...Really Sad?: My job

...Smirk?: When Canadian hockey teams play against American ones

...Hide in a Corner?: A bad day at work

What is...

...Something About You That No One Knows?: I lied on my security clearance; when they asked if I had ever done drugs I said no.

...Your Most Prized and Important Material Possession: My signed Trevor Linden Canucks Jersey

...Favourite Board Game: Monopoly

His Secret

Awards

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The Porties

The Player's Choice Awards

Celebrity Used

James Marsters