Ryan Easteron
| No. 34 – Free Agent | |
|---|---|
| Position | Forward |
| Species | North American River Otter ( Mustelidae ) |
| Gender | Male |
| Nickname(s) | |
| The Main Character | |
| Personal information | |
| Phonetic | Easter On. |
| Born |
November 27, 2000 Gig Harbor, WA |
| Listed height | 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) |
| Listed weight | 272 lb (123 kg) |
| Shoots | Right-handed |
| Career information | |
| School | Claiborne University |
| FBA draft | 2023 / Round: 2 / Pick: 42nd overall |
| Selected by the Dakota Bikers | |
| Pro playing career | 2023–present |
| Career history | |
| 2023 - present | Dakota Bikers |
| Contract information | |
| Contract year | 2025 |
| Player Contacts | |
| (IC) Agent | Derek Waterson |
| (OOC) Creator | Derek Waterson (Up for Adoption) |
| (OOC) Actor | Unknown |
| (OOC) Usage | Ask me before any use |
Biography
"Lead me, Zeus, and you too, Destiny, to wherever your decrees have assigned me. I follow readily, but if I choose not, wretched though I am, I must follow still. Fate guides the willing, but drags the reluctant." — Cleanthes, A Hymn to Zeus.
Ryan Easteron may be the major FBA Draft equivalent to “falling up.” Born into a middle-class family in a middle-class town in maritime Washington, the relatively-tall otter was willing and able to resign himself into a typical life of suburban office-work just as his parents had. Unbeknownst to him, the hands of fate would be against this, and would drag him, kicking and screaming, to a life on top of the world. Ryan started playing basketball at a young age to cut down his weight, and he would soon become an absolute icon in Gig Harbor, as quite possibly the best player to come out of that area in recent history. He would rip through every other kid in the area in pickup games, hitting buckets like crazy. Ironically, his weight would never really go down from there.
Ryan would join his middle-school team and absolutely demolish, earning himself lots of MVP Awards, but acting as if none of this was planned. In fact, he had tried to give up a while ago. But the lovely hands of fate kept pushing, inexorably, towards his pedestal as the Main Character.
He would be given a full-ride scholarship to the Harbor Academy, one of the top high schools in the state for basketball. He joined the school (and the team), and would soon become a starter, much to his dismay. The hands of fate act in mysterious ways, but as he saw his potential laid out in front of him, he’d choose to start practicing harder (aka, actually practice at all.)
Meanwhile, poor Ryan just wanted to have a normal life, finding a deep interest in economics in high school and wanting to go into a wealth management career. Basketball was just a thorn in his side. But as irony would have it, he would learn to stop worrying and love the bomb, and he would, in time, learn to recognize his place as the Main Character of his own story. His senior year would see him win an WIAA Championship and sign to Claiborne on a full-ride basketball scholarship, thorn thoroughly removed from his side and weaponized.
Claiborne would be the drastic change he needed to cement his shift. He was no longer a normal dad-bodded ott, he was now a basketball player. And a damned good one at that. Louisiana acted as a crucible, burning away the normalcy and turning him into a machine designed to drive, slash, shoot, and overall master the art of the basket. He would win an FCAA Championship with the help of Claiborne’s players and staff, and he would join the FBA Draft immediately after graduating with a degree in economics, willing entirely to never use it and instead devote his life to following the fate he had fought for so long.