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commanderforehead) wrote2030-05-18 09:42 am
commanderforehead) wrote2030-05-18 09:42 am
INFO
RYAN DALIAS
Head of Surgery - EOS 10
RANK:
Commander
AGE:
35
PRONOUNS:
He/Him
SPECIES:
Human
SEXUALITY:
Bisexual
CANON:
Eos 10 Podcast
CANON POINT:
Post S2+ The Holiday Special
APPEARANCE
A former competitive swimmer, Ryan still keeps in shape which lends to a fit and athletic build several characters comment on finding attractive. Especially his ass, which has to be seen to be believed. He doesn't think he has a large forehead but apparently he is the only one to think so, with a small scar just under the hairline on the left side. Dark hair kept short and neat with blue eyes, while Ryan's spine is prosthetic it's hard to tell from sight alone as it looks quite realistic and doesn't have any outward signs. He's usually wearing scrubs or whatever medical uniform that the situation dictates.
PERSONALITY
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loyal . patient . noble
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intelligent . curious . sincere
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stubborn . addict . self-righteous
SUMMARY
For all that Ryan went into medical rather than being any kind of starship captain, he inherited a lot of the 'damn big hero' personality after his own fall from grace. Well aware of the person he used to be - the person he is still fully capable of being - Ryan exemplifies some of the best and worst things about someone 15 years sober with a terrible history of addiction. While he can get flustered easily and tends to crass sarcasm among friends, when the chips are down Ryan is reliable and will do what he sees is the Right Thing no matter how much it hurts him to do so.He was raised with the whole nine yards of Alliance Ideals, that people are worth more than the sum of their parts and everyone is capable of being better than they are. This does not preclude the occasional bad habits of snap judgements on others who seem to be selfish or fine with hurting others, but at least Ryan's aware of that habit and tries to mitigate it?
BACKGROUND
FAMILY
Admiral Dalias. father.
While in a twist reveal, the Admiral is not Ryan's biological father, that information only came to light when Ryan was in his 30s. For all intents and purposes the admiral is his father in every way that matters including the mountains of daddy issues. Stern, authoritarian, egotistical, for better and for worse he's responsible for the man Ryan is today. Any reference to his father will mean the Admiral unless stated otherwise.
Elaine Dalias. mother.
Divorced Ryan's father when he was quite young leading to Ryan spending half his time in her home in Paris and the other half in whatever ship his father was serving on at the time. Had an affair with Horace Urvidian, Admiral Dalias' oldest friend, which lead to Ryan's birth. Described by Ryan to not be the most nurturing of mothers.
Horace Urvidian. biological father.
Head of Medical on Eos 10 and Ryan's direct supervisor. One of the most brilliant doctors in Alliance history. Terrible bedside manner and extreme substance abuse problems. Former friend of Ryan's father, though they haven't had any contact in basically 35 years after Urvidian had an affair with the Admiral's wife...Boy that reveal made all the gay chicken sexual come-ons really awkward in retrospect.
While in a twist reveal, the Admiral is not Ryan's biological father, that information only came to light when Ryan was in his 30s. For all intents and purposes the admiral is his father in every way that matters including the mountains of daddy issues. Stern, authoritarian, egotistical, for better and for worse he's responsible for the man Ryan is today. Any reference to his father will mean the Admiral unless stated otherwise.
Elaine Dalias. mother.
Divorced Ryan's father when he was quite young leading to Ryan spending half his time in her home in Paris and the other half in whatever ship his father was serving on at the time. Had an affair with Horace Urvidian, Admiral Dalias' oldest friend, which lead to Ryan's birth. Described by Ryan to not be the most nurturing of mothers.
Horace Urvidian. biological father.
Head of Medical on Eos 10 and Ryan's direct supervisor. One of the most brilliant doctors in Alliance history. Terrible bedside manner and extreme substance abuse problems. Former friend of Ryan's father, though they haven't had any contact in basically 35 years after Urvidian had an affair with the Admiral's wife...
PRE-CANON
Ryan was about twelve when his parents finally divorced. His father was a starship captain and his mother hated space travel. For a long time Ryan blamed their separation on his father's job. He split his childhood between his mother's home in Paris and the starship his father was stationed on. Ultimately Ryan applied for and was accepted to the Academy for the Alliance. He was on the swim team, doing well enough in the Academy, things weren't bad at all.
When celebrating with a bunch of the swim team, the captain convinced them all to go cliff diving on Titan. Ryan, over-eager and over-excited, went first. And last. He woke up in the hospital weeks later, his spine was 'obliterated' in his own word. While he got an artificial replacement thanks to the wonders of sci-fi medical technology he was on a lot of drugs at the time. And just kind of ... never stopped taking them.
What happened after that was a couple years that Ryan is not proud of. A downward spiral of addiction, intervention by his father and friends, rehab, relapse, rehab again. It wasn't his proudest series of moments. He finally managed sobriety at around twenty, though that was in no small part due to the neural implant he received in his second time at rehab that literally prevents him from getting high.
He made it back to school, somehow. Likely thanks to his father's pull. Eventually he even became a doctor, and a damn good one. Fifteen years later he was assigned to the space station Eos 10, the Alliance's brilliant shining star in deep space, a hub of life and culture of worlds even not part of the Alliance. And while yes it was because he was a good doctor, he didn't become Head of Surgery thanks to his pretty face, the actual reason he was sent was because due to his history he was seen as the best hope to get the head doctor of Eos 10 under control. A very ill-tempered but gifted and prestigious doctor who was also an alcoholic.
When celebrating with a bunch of the swim team, the captain convinced them all to go cliff diving on Titan. Ryan, over-eager and over-excited, went first. And last. He woke up in the hospital weeks later, his spine was 'obliterated' in his own word. While he got an artificial replacement thanks to the wonders of sci-fi medical technology he was on a lot of drugs at the time. And just kind of ... never stopped taking them.
What happened after that was a couple years that Ryan is not proud of. A downward spiral of addiction, intervention by his father and friends, rehab, relapse, rehab again. It wasn't his proudest series of moments. He finally managed sobriety at around twenty, though that was in no small part due to the neural implant he received in his second time at rehab that literally prevents him from getting high.
He made it back to school, somehow. Likely thanks to his father's pull. Eventually he even became a doctor, and a damn good one. Fifteen years later he was assigned to the space station Eos 10, the Alliance's brilliant shining star in deep space, a hub of life and culture of worlds even not part of the Alliance. And while yes it was because he was a good doctor, he didn't become Head of Surgery thanks to his pretty face, the actual reason he was sent was because due to his history he was seen as the best hope to get the head doctor of Eos 10 under control. A very ill-tempered but gifted and prestigious doctor who was also an alcoholic.
Season 1
After coming to EOS 10, Ryan and Dr Urvidian didn't get off to a great start, though Ryan found a friend in the main charge nurse, Jane Johns (yes, really). After a rocky start him and Dr Urvidian fell into a rhythm of their own and he convinced the other man to join a Substance Abusers Anonymous group that he himself was part of. Along with this he had an encounter with an alien that lead to him getting unknowingly dosed with an alien ED substance which lead to him having a very painful situation that required black market medicine. Not the most glorious of first meetings between him and what turned out to be the station's black market guy - the supposed destroyer of a star system and wanted terrorist, Akmazian. Akmazian claimed he was innocent of the crimes, and urged Ryan to investigate the supposed destruction of the star system closer. Doing so, Ryan found that it was indeed a farce - the star system was never destroyed at all, Akmazian was being blamed for a crime that was never committed and it seemed to be part of a conspiracy within the alliance itself.
During this a generational ship full of antivaxxers came to EOS 10 for help since part of their ship was damaged and there were no replacements made anymore. They had an H7N2 outbreak on board, which had otherwise been completely eradicated from sentient worlds so there were no more vaccines made for it. Ryan managed to get one made with Dr Urvidian's help. As Dr Urvidian also had to be out of commission that made Ryan the acting head of Medical on the station and he pulled rank refusing to allow the people of the UAS Dauntless onboard EOS 10 unless they submitted to receiving an influenza vaccination, even knowing the other option was to die on their ship as it could not be fixed before it ran out of air. Ultimately only the captain of the Dauntless chose to go down with the ship, but Ryan still got flack for it and several protesters. Assassins for one of the ship's residents seeking political asylum snuck on in the meantime, and S1 ends with Ryan and Akmazian going to fetch the runaway Dr Urvidian who had another crisis of sobriety to save him, Akmazian using that time alone with Ryan to hit on him as well as make a case for his innocence.
During this a generational ship full of antivaxxers came to EOS 10 for help since part of their ship was damaged and there were no replacements made anymore. They had an H7N2 outbreak on board, which had otherwise been completely eradicated from sentient worlds so there were no more vaccines made for it. Ryan managed to get one made with Dr Urvidian's help. As Dr Urvidian also had to be out of commission that made Ryan the acting head of Medical on the station and he pulled rank refusing to allow the people of the UAS Dauntless onboard EOS 10 unless they submitted to receiving an influenza vaccination, even knowing the other option was to die on their ship as it could not be fixed before it ran out of air. Ultimately only the captain of the Dauntless chose to go down with the ship, but Ryan still got flack for it and several protesters. Assassins for one of the ship's residents seeking political asylum snuck on in the meantime, and S1 ends with Ryan and Akmazian going to fetch the runaway Dr Urvidian who had another crisis of sobriety to save him, Akmazian using that time alone with Ryan to hit on him as well as make a case for his innocence.
Season 2
Given he was caught with a known terrorist in his company at the end of S1, S2 opens with Ryan getting a court-martial for harboring Akmazian, who is in prison. Ryan makes a case to his father the Admiral to look into it, as Akmazian is likely an Alliance spy who is being made to take the fall for something else. During the trial there's an explosion in the archives and Ryan's dad is apparently killed, with Akmazian's cell being unlocked allowing him to escape though nobody knows who did it. Grappling with the death of his father, Ryan spends a lot of Season 2 depressed and at the end of his rope, becoming closer with Akmazian in the process as his other friends try and fail to cheer him up. Ultimately they realize he likes cats, and get Akmazian to smuggle a cute kitten to give to Ryan as a pet.
During a solar storm, the station's AI gains sentience and gets a fondness for Ryan who keeps her secret as she would likely be re-set of anyone in charge knew she had a personality and was thinking for herself.
An Alliance ship who's captain was close with Ryan's father comes to dock at EOS 10 and he finds the ship had passed through the apparently 'destroyed' star system, bringing back artifacts from one of the planets that was now being kept away from anyone but people with the highest clearance. One of them was something that allowed for mind-control, but thanks to Ryan's implant he was immune and was able to stop the captain from taking over several senior officers of EOS 10, cementing the certainty that the conspiracy went deep within the Alliance and they couldn't trust anyone.
During a solar storm, the station's AI gains sentience and gets a fondness for Ryan who keeps her secret as she would likely be re-set of anyone in charge knew she had a personality and was thinking for herself.
An Alliance ship who's captain was close with Ryan's father comes to dock at EOS 10 and he finds the ship had passed through the apparently 'destroyed' star system, bringing back artifacts from one of the planets that was now being kept away from anyone but people with the highest clearance. One of them was something that allowed for mind-control, but thanks to Ryan's implant he was immune and was able to stop the captain from taking over several senior officers of EOS 10, cementing the certainty that the conspiracy went deep within the Alliance and they couldn't trust anyone.
ABILITIES
DOCTOR
Ryan attended the Alliance Academy and graduated with top marks in spite of a few hiccups. He's a brilliant surgeon as well as general practitioner and trained in xenobiology for all Alliance species as well as those that are known to the Alliance but not part of it. He's got a calm head when he's working and does well in an ER setting.
IMPLANT
A neurological implant automatically balances Ryan's brain chemistry for him in a way that keeps him from getting any mind-altering affects from drugs or alcohol. He still suffers physiological effects in the sense that if he drinks too much his liver will suffer, but he can't get drunk. While not intended against psychic effects it's also proven to be able to adjust to keep Ryan from being susceptible to mind control or hypnosis of any kind as well. When facing new stimulus it does sometimes need an adjustment period before figuring out how to account for it. While it was forced on him by his dad, it has been Ryan's choice to keep it as long as he had, as it's rare to have the implant for longer than 5 years and Ryan's had it for 15.
TRIVIA
- Has a cat named Morpheus
- Allergic to chocolate.
- Speaks fluent French and English.
- Taken from the end of S2 as that's before things get REALLY weird.
- Knows a lot of old timey sea shanties.
- Still knows a lot about black market drugs.
- He has a carnivorous plant large enough to eat a small cat. Long story. He keeps it out of reach of Morpheus.
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