Ridley is actually in a band! It's called Spider's Delight! He knows how to play several instruments. He has played piano since he was six years old. He also knows how to play guitar, the drums, and a little bit of ukulele. He dabbles in any instrument he can get his hands on. For Spider's Delight, he plays guitar or piano and he sings. He writes a lot of the songs with his best friend and fellow bandmate Rebecca!

He also desperately loves enjoying other people's music. He is constantly listening to music! He loves going to shows, concerts, festivals. He lives, breathes, and eats music.

Yes! Plenty of my OCs have pets! Here in no particular order they are.

First, my OCs that don't have pets in the present time that I write most of their fics in, but want them:

• Ridley! This boy wants a dog so bad. He and Remy will probably end up adopting a dog.
• Juliette! She wants a cat and will end up married to someone who has a cat. She will most likely end up adopting another one with her husband.

The OCs that do have pets!

• Dove! She has a golden retriever named Brutus. He is the biggest himbo in dog form you'll ever meet. He would roll over and show his belly to an intruder.
• Elsie! She has an orange kitty called Clover who is a very sweet girl. Clover follows Elsie around her apartment.
• Clayton! A newer OC of mine Clayton has two pittbull mixes. Cash and Boone. Cash is a rescued fighting dog so he has some scars and a notch in one of his ears. Boone is the more cuddly, friendly of the pair. They are both fiercly loyal to Clayton.

I feel like I'm missing something but those are the ones I can think of now.

Ridley loves a sort of punk aesthetic! Lots of black, fishnet, studs, chains. He loves layering as a styling technique. He is most comfortable when all of his scars are covered by he gets to show off his tattoos. You'll see him wearing a lot of sleeveless tops because of this reason! His arms are absolutely covered in tattoos! He has a pretty severe scar on his hip from when he tried to gouge out the brand Grayson gave him. His thighs are also covered in scars.

This is a difficult questions because no matter the au music is usually a very big part of Ridley's life. One of his core personality traits is his belief that he was created to make music. I feel like I'm fundamentally changing who Ridley is as as a character if music isn't one of the most important things in his life.

He is a very creative person, so any sort of creative career is something likely. He enjoys creating visual art so I could see that being a career path. I've considered a few au's where Ridley is an actor. He is very passionate and that translates to him working very hard in the things he cares about and creative pursuits are the easiest way for him to use his passion.

Ridley meets Remy after running away from Grayson! He starts working at a restaurant as a dishwasher. Remy also works there! Remy is Ridley's first real friend.

Remy is actually who Ridley ends up with at the end of his canonical story. His favorite thing about Remy changes over the years but one thing is always consistent. Remy has always made Ridley feel very safe. He has always been a very kind, caring man, and he was the first person Ridley felt like gave him unconditional love. Remy helped Ridley unlearn a lot of unhealthy ideals about romantic relationships.

In a perfect situation yeah, Ridley would love the opportunity to inflict a fraction of the pain onto Grayson that he inflicted on Ridley. But, in reality Ridley would never do anything. He is genuinely terrified of the man, scared for his life.

When thinking of one of the other men who abused him Ridley often imagines lighting him on fire, but he really tries his hardest not to think of Grayson just because of the sheer amount of fear associated with him. Sometimes just the mere thought of Grayson can be triggering for Ridley. So, I like to think his revenge fantasy for Grayson would be similar to the other. Death by pyre.

Ridley: "Uh... No? I mean... I wouldn't say no to a big dick but an eldrict abomination sounds terrifying. And eyes freak me out real bad."

After running away from Grayson at fifteen Ridley lived with a man named Jack Wolfe for a year. (Jack is where Ridley got his surname from.) He manages a bar and employs Ridley part time. While working there as a bus boy Ridley meets Grayson, who is an occasional patron of the bar. After meeting Ridley Grayson begins coming to the bar more often, slowly beginning the process of grooming him. When Jack dies suddenly in a car crash Ridley is suddenly homeless again. Grayson offers Ridley a place to stay so he can get on his feet, but it's with the ulterior motive of continuing to groom him. Ridley lives with Grayson for just a little over two years and nearly dies during that time.

Not many! I want more! One day I will share a playlist of songs that are the vibe of Ridley's band, Spider's Delight. But I think my only voice claim so fair is for Grayson. Woodkid (Yoann Lemoine), is a French music producer. He has a thicker accent than Grayson would but the vocal tone is similar I think. Listen to Pale Yelllow by him or L'aérogramme de Los Angeles if you want to hear some French!

David Bowie movies. Any of 'em. He particularly enjoys Labyrinth! He's not really much of a movie guy though. He likes older films with action & blood. He loves the Kill Bill films.

Ridley spent four years being groomed by Alec Underwood (who belongs to @macthedke) and he lived with him for a year. He also lived with Grayson for a little over two years. I say that to explain that he most frequently has nightmares about them. His dreams are often abstract and that extends to his nightmares. He hallucinates Alec and Grayson had lightning and thunder, so his nightmares frequently include thunderstorms. He also frequently has nightmares of being chased.

He does not usually remember his nightmares. It’s not always to his advantage though, to answer the last two questions together. Sometimes, if his nightmares are bad enough, he may wake up not fully connected to reality. He may think he’s a different age than he actually is, he may not know where he is, he may not recognize his surroundings. This doesn’t happen often, usually a product of his mental health doing particularly badly. When he’s having better days he still probably won’t remember his nightmares but will feel tired and groggy all day.

Ridley experiences hallucinations so some of his fears have to do directly with the things he hallucinates. He more often auditorily hallucinates than visually hallucinates, but the latter still happens. He also has fears that have nothing to do with his hallucinations.

But, he has a fear of:

• Eyes (when they’re stand alone, like Halloween decor or googly eyes)
• Thunderstorms
• Losing the use of his hands (mostly for fear of never playing music again)
• His abusers finding & killing him
• Being alone

This probably isn’t a comprehensive list but these are the ones I could think of!

Ridley, Dove, and Juliette.

Ridley might be the character I draw the most inspiration from personally. He’s, as I often say, my favorite punching bag. He deals with a lot of psychosis and is often stupidly high. I really enjoy writing the way he interact with the world as it is often not very literally. When reading Ridley fic’s (which are coming!) be on the lookout for instances of him being an unreliable narrator and things that may not be real.

Dove is so, so fun to write. She is loud and bright and intense. She’s like a firework to me, or a firecracker. Something very bright and sparkly and big. She's also just so dramatic, I love me a dramatic bitch. When reading a fic from Dove’s POV always be on the lookout for big, dramatic sweeping statements that may not be strictly accurate.

Juliette is my sweet, sweet depressed baby girl. She carries so, so much sadness and it’s often super cathartic to write sadness expressed so openly.

Music, music, music. It's always music with Ridley. Writing songs for his band Spider's Delight, playing songs he's already written or playing songs written by other people that he loves. He likes to just jam with his friends and bandmates Becca, Remy, and Al. They will play music together, sometimes actual songs sometimes just vibing with their instruments. Ridley also listens to a lot of music.

Ridley also likes journaling! He writes kind of nonsensically in his journal but he pours himself onto the pages. He also draws! He draws mostly in his journal but there are doodles all over everything he owns, including his instruments.

He also goes thrifting! He has a very punk/grunge style and is also very poor. He's got a pretty okay sense of style but rarely is purchasing clothing new.

And if none of that helps after a hard day he smokes some weed and a cigarette or two.