Graham T Ryder aka T-Bird

Age 35
Hair Black
Height 1.77m
Weight 109kg
Eyes Grey
Hand Right
Siblings Unknown Parents Unknown
DOB July 1985

The Past

The actual date of T-Bird's birth is unknown however the church orphanage, St Merryn's, 11th Street, Columbus, records his abandonment at the church as July 1985, the orphanage doctor suggested he was a week at most old & therefore the church records officially show his DOB as the 21st July 1985, parents unknown. His early life was pretty ugly & harsh, the orphanage did its best for its interns however it was in poor repair & unpopular with the city governors.

By the time T-Bird was fourteen he had a reputation as a kid not to be messed with & also a lengthy record at Juvenile House with the Columbus PD, this cumulated in the death of an opposing gang member during a brawl in Fort Hayes Park, realising that he was in serious shit he split Columbus before he got fingered for murder.

Spending the next eighteen months or so living rough T-Bird cracked on a freezing December morning in 2002 & walked into a mobile Marine recruitment unit in Alabama, lied about his age & signed his soul away. After basic training at the Marine Corps depot in San Diego T-Bird was dispatched to the III Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp McTureous, Uruma, Japan where he remained until his court martial & dishonourable discharge in February 2015 for repeated engagement in conduct unbefitting an NCO of the Marine Corps.

During the early part of T-Bird's thirteen years in III MEF he spent considerable time seconded to America's new partner, China & the People's Red Army assisting in its conflict with Nepal, 2005 - 2006 & Burma, 2007 - 2009. Returning to Uruma towards the end of 2009 he was involved in the training of Japanese forces during the staged withdrawal of US defence forces from the Islands. T-Bird was part of the last remaining US contingent during the attempted invasion of Japan by South Korean forces in 2013, during the seven week conflict T-Bird was decorated for outstanding valour in the defence of the people of the Fukuoka Prefecture adding to honurs gained in both Burma & Nepal.

In September 2014 T-Bird was accused by a US naval officer of theft, whilst this was later disproved, it was the precursor for repeated conflict with Lt Ascarki which cumulated in a street brawl between the two during which the lieutenant was paralysed from the waste down by a knife wound to the spine.

The Present

Post court marshal & having escaped a prolonged bout of military incarceration due to his previous exemplary record T-Bird found himself drifting as he had not done since splitting Columbus in 2000. Arriving in Night City he gained employment as a door security agent at a couple of the more flamboyant down town clubs.

Soon pissed however at the monotony of it all he has spent more & more of his time drinking at the Forlorn Hope, once or twice he has required the assistance of the house ripperdoc one of whom he has taken to partying with on a regular basis & even calling a friend. When the Ripperdoc, Skinpin, suggests that T Bird tags along on a little road trip he happily agrees.