Donald Rykard's Questionnaire

Describe my ho- what kind of a sick joke is that. You things of all people should know I haven’t had a steady roof over my head in years. Before all this home was in a small town in British Columbia. Now home is a word I use as a delusion that I’m okay with my situation. It isn’t a healthy mindset I know. 

Somethings I do on my travels have made a place feel like home, like reading a book or having an actual meal. I don’t see much hope in finding a new home after all that’s happened, how could things be normal again.

Here’s a tip: any motel in a high crime zone tend to be a lot more cheaper.

I haven’t told anyone this in a long time…

5 years ago I lived in a little town in Alberta Canada, it was a nice town that I moved to after high school. I worked a massive dam that powered most of the town, I was a safety manager. The job paid well, eventually I married and had a son…

I lost it all one day, my wife, my son, my town, I was the only survivor. The dam exploded, it was never fully stated why, but I know it was intentional. During the event I was at work, my family visited me to drop off lunch. The whole place shook and things began to fall apart… then this man, took me away.

Can we move on to the next question?

I ain't the biggest fan of how personal these questions are getting…

That's a difficult question for me, I suppose it depends on what you define as “Life”. I haven't really had anyone in my life for a bit.

I had a best friend named Jeremy Jenkins. He didn't like to be called JJ because it was “too easy” of a nickname, he felt a good nickname needed to be earned. He called me “Pylon”. I was a bit of a cautiously paranoid guy back then, which I suppose was handy, with that being my job and all.

Mandy Wright is my Ma, she passed during high school. I had a good relationship with my folks, but I was always a “momma's boy”. She has a talent for talking really fast, like those guys at auctions. 

My wife, Samantha Rykard. We meet shortly after I moved out when I graduated, a few hundred dates later we married. She was one of the town's veterinarians, though we never had any pets.

Will that do?

Childhood was nice, normal even. I spent the entirety of it in one house, a little ways outside my hometown. The house has a big forest on the property that was fun to explore. I was an only child, but I grew up with two best friends, Richter and Jeremy, they were like brothers to me. We moved to the same town after high school too. 

My parents were Mandy Wright and Stanley Rykard, they never married, only got engaged. Ma and Pa both worked after I started school, my Pa was a mailman, Ma was a receptionist. They weren't home a lot, so I had a sitter, when they were home they made every second count with me and each other. We were a lower-middle class Canadian family, I wouldn't have had it any other way. 

I went to a public school, it was decent. I had some trouble with bullying, but my method was to not feed their egos by ignoring them, I later made them my friends.