Christopher G. Ryder

Christopher Gyles Ryder
Seventeen - Male - Heterosexual - Unresolved

Nickname(s): Chris
Height: 5 feet and 7 inches
Weight: 136 pounds
Date of Birth: June 14^th
Place of Birth: Netherlands
Western Horoscope: Gemini _{(The Twins)}
Eastern Zodiac: The Horse

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Skills and Talents

➳ Multilingual: He is capable of speaking several different languages due to his upbringing and parent’s company. These languages include, but are not limited to; Spanish, Russian, English, Italian, Dutch and Japanese. He has a very distinct Dutch accent, to boot.
➳ Great Memory: As it says, he is good at the memorizing things. Said things include picking up information through reading, locations from maps or given directions, and strategy analyses. He can pick up quickly on intentions due to this, so it is not the wisest thing to use the same thing on him twice in a row.
➳ Rookie Strategist: When his intelligence shows, for his age Chris can become quite the strategist. He can plan things or lead people into things that he’s set up as part of an elaborate plan. But, the scary part is, he doesn’t show it.

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Personality

POSITIVE:

Christopher is a lucid person, allowing his thoughts to be understood easily, especially when they are translated into words. Unfortunately, those are only words and expressions as his actual emotions are not as clear as one might think, he is just able to express himself clearer. A "side effect" as one may call it his nature, is that if he is dreaming; he will most certainly know it. This all comes hand in hand with being outspoken as he can speak his opinions and thoughts clearly and honestly, even if sometimes they are not the best thing to come out with at a specific time. These can sometimes lead him into huge debates, even if he has no clue what he's talking about and/or saying. Similarly, Christopher is also a very determined individual. Not only does he plan on going through to the end with what he decides and/or what's on his mind, but he is also capable of resolving things that go out of hand; or being able to process a certain resolve. Plus, although he hardly shows that he is, he is and can be an intelligent person. It can be said that Christopher actually never shows this trait and, that's only half true as he does show it; just not so much in broad daylight as people would believe of a person who's smart. If he's outwitting a person, he's not going to show it, and if he does; it's after everything is said, done and over with. This goes to show even deeper with his feasible behavior, applying intelligence to a realistic and real situation, with him being a practical person. He likes people, and being around them, which is the reason why he was sent to japan. Being around people is an interaction he's use to, and he tries his best to act half decent despite his negatives.

NEGATIVE:

Unfortunately, the downside of everything is the doozy of negatives to play along. Christopher has an ego, and that is made obvious by how arrogant his behavior is. When he says something, there's a large chance that he's going to say the wrong thing at the wrong time and get himself into deep doggy dodo by saying it or doing it. Not only in the way he talks, but the way he acts; which comes down to the fact that Chris has a very reckless personality. He has a "speak first, think about it later" type of mindset most, if not all of the time and it's sometimes pretty darn obvious that he doesn't think before he talks. That being said, he does listen to what another person is telling him; whether he actually cares is another story. Fortunately for the person, not so much for him though, nine times out of ten he will end up regretting the wrong choice later; and then try and find a way to fix the wrong that he just did. One thing he doesn't show often, but is surprisingly easy to appeal to, is that he is pretty greedy. Selfishness, although would naturally fall into that category, does not; and it's more of a thing where he is easily appealed by things such as; gaining things that interest him, or even respect or power; but it hasn't actually crossed his mind about doing it at the expense of another person even if he wouldn't mind acting a certain way to get and keep it. Machiavellian, a trait of his that is the negative side of his intelligence and practical behavior. He's sly and cunning, making it quite easy for him to trick someone if push came to shove even if he has to go beyond moral principals to go through with what he has planned in his mind. Such an attitude can become a doozy, especially with being headstrong making him have an aggressive form of defiance, and a very steady and strong opinion.

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Appearance

Bodily Structure
Chris has an, oddly enough, well toned build underneath the baggy clothing he often wears; making him look thinner than he really is. Standing at 5 feet and 7 inches, his weight is only 136 pounds; heading into a "medium build" structure for his height. To boot, he has a well rounded face with ears that go into a bit of a point; although not enough to be called "elf ears".
Coloration/Styles
His eyes and hair are quit an odd combination as his eyes are a striking emerald green while his hair is a deep chocolate brown. His hair is worn short and slightly messy, with his bangs parted and some of hair sticking out in a spiked look. It’s easy to tell that the trimming makes his hair longer in the front, and shorter in the back. Christopher’s skin tone is a dark peach color, showing that his frequent time out in the sun has given him a tan.
Clothing Style
Chris has two main sets of clothing, one for warm weather and one for cooler weather. In warmer weather, he is seen wearing a variety of different t-shirt colors, but his favorite one is the one shown in the picture above. This shirt is green and white, with a horizontal orange hourglass symbol over top the chest. The shoulders down to the ends of the sleeves are green. In colder weather the t-shirts are covered by either a simple white hoodie (shown in picture 2) or he wears long sleeve shirts covered over top by a royal blue vest. Either way he dresses, he has a habit of wearing a lot of different styled blue-jeans.
Accessories
As a keepsake, 90% of the time Chris is shown with a golden pendant hung loosely around his neck. It is kept on by a thick piece of string, and is in a circular shape with a swirl in the center; clearly looking like one of those pendants used by hypnotists. On occasion, Chris is also seen wearing jet-black shades, which he keeps around in one of his pant pockets while not in use.

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Personal History

The boy had grown up traveling, his parents going from place to place because of their work and business. It wasn't something that was stationary, obviously. However, for most of his time until he was the same age to start school; his family had stayed for a while within the Netherlands and that was the place that Christopher was born, similarly grew up in the longest. After being able to be home schooled, that was how he got his education at the time because of his family's constant travels. That being said, nothing much interesting other than that really happened in his life. Christopher got use to the current routine of hanging around others as much as he could, before having to leave those people behind due to them moving again. Something that Christopher certainly disliked, despite getting use to it. His family was not the closest, as most of the stuff he got as recognition that he was even there were things like toys, gadgets, things he could play with. With that, he had also been taught to speak several languages to help him get around in the areas they stopped at; giving him a talent to speak in multiple languages pretty fluently. Now as much as it was his parent's fault, it wasn't their fault either; because they did love their son they just wished they had more time to actually spend with him.

So after a few discussions, Christopher had reluctantly been sent off to live with his godparents who lived in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Since Christopher obviously needed human contact, his parents knew he would get that there and he wouldn't have to deal with them running around everywhere constantly. It was certainly something that wasn't good for his childhood. Sometime after getting settled in, Christopher started attending an actual school within Shibuya to help him finish education. Being home schooled most of the time, it had been something new and for him to get use to. Unfortunately, he didn't manage to get all that close to the kids in the school but technically being a transfer student, it was something one would have to expect. As such, Christopher's grades started steadily declining due to the sudden environment shift and - although it's clear he can do it, he's smart, that is proven by his grades starting to go back up again slowly as the years went by. Though now he's 17 and reaching the end of his high school years, it's obvious he's started smartening up about school more. But with what's been going on with his personal life, what's going to happen when things he'd least expect come up?

Inventory	Digivce Functions
➳ Sunglasses/Shades ➳ Pair of House Keys ➳ Small Black Wallet ➳ Cellphone ➳ iPod + Ear Buds ➳ D-Tector Digivice	➳ Basic Evolution ➳ Totem Locator/Identifier ➳ Armor Spirit Evolution ➳ Current area Map (outlined)

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[b]XIAOLIN SHOWDOWN[/b]  • [i]raimundo pedrosa[/i]  • Christopher Ryder