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Ryan Tailin was born into this world as Ryan Bennett. He never remembered his real parents because they passed away in a car accident. He had been in the car as well but he had been the only survivor. With no other immediate family, Ryan was put into foster care to be adopted. He was raised by strangers for the first two years of his life before a gentle old couple came forward and wanted to adopt him. The Tailin's could never have children of their own and adopting a precious boy was one of the things they'd really wanted. So, Ryan was taken in to the welcoming arms of his new mom and dad, given a new last name, and he was raised like any normal child would be.

Ryan was around 10 years old when he was told he was adopted but it never changed his love for his family. His father Harold was a bit of a handy man. As a retired carpenter, he liked to build things with his hands, always had a tool of some kind on his person at all times, even had a shed out back that he liked to tinker with anything and everything inside. He built most the furniture in the house, the cabinets, the railing for the stairs. He build Ryan's bedroom sets growing up as well! As Ryan grew, it wasn't uncommon for him to be along side his father, helping him with his many projects, learning how to build and enjoying the process of creation. Sadly, Harold passed away of old age when Ryan was around 13, leaving him in the care of just his mother, Marie. While his father liked to build, his mother loved to cook. Marie was the master of the kitchen. She was always cooking, baking, or even just loitering in the kitchen in general. More than often Ryan would assist her as well, growing up to love food and baking just as much as he did building things.

Even after his father passed, Ryan continued to build. He moved on from wood working, to electronics, to computer programming, to robotics. It became a passion for him, a good distraction away from the pain of losing his dad, as well as the knowledge that his mother was getting up there in age as well. He loved her dearly, he did, but with the idea of making her and her father proud, he focused hard on his studies. He put his heart and soul into his school work, excelling in math, science, creative thinking, and even joined the honor courses rather early in to his high school enlistment, becoming one of the top model students of his class.

With all his credits lined out for him, even taking heavy collage courses during high school, Ryan Tailin graduated early at age 17. After enlisting into the Air Force Engineering program, he was trained on ground for a little over a year before graduating that early as well, and was shipped off to a specialized space unit on the USAF Starship Chrisma. He literally became a bonified Astronaut at merely 18 years old. Onboard the USAF Starship Chrisma, Ryan worked closely with their robotics program, as well as off world exploration which was generally for testing their robotic breakthroughs. After he turned 21, his project had eventually "failed", and he returned home along with Michael and Serena, two of his program's organic robot prototypes.

Needing something to do other than sit around at home, Ryan quickly got a part time job at the cafe, but when his adopted mother passed away and Serena left Michael in Ryan's care, Ryan decided to move out of his home at age 22. In that time, he moved in to the apartments with an old friend, got fired from his cafe job, and met a beautiful girl named Brittni. For a while, Ryan suffered through depression and had trouble coping with the changes. It was really only a few months later when he got in a fight with his roommate's guardian figure and had to moved back to his parent's, now officially his, house. Fortunately, he was not alone, as soon Brittni and Ryan's relationship became more serious and she moved in, becoming his new roommate.

Shortly after things were getting serious with his and Brittni's relationship, Ryan was unexpectedly deployed back to USAF. He served another year for his country and eventually was noticed by a certain special forces team. After they approached him with their ideas, Ryan became a N.E.S.T. operative when he turned 24 and became a personalized advanced robotics engineer, but honestly it felt more like something like a.. mechanic, of sorts. N.E.S.T. certainly was something else, that was for sure. Learning that there were alien robots that lived alongside with the humans for years, unbeknownst to virtually everyone, was certainly an eye opener for the young inventor. With the agreement that he was able to return home here and there as long as he swore to secrecy, Ryan would always come back home to Brittni. One day, shortly after a promotion of earning a new partner, Ryan finally asked Brittni to marry him, and they have been happily married since August 16th, 2014.

At home, Ryan's family has grown. Michael the robot cat still lingers about, helping around the house some times, even helping Ryan with his work if he ever asks. Ryan and Brittni also now have a five year old daughter, soon to be six, named Lilith, and a three year old son named Elijah. It had been a surprise to both Ryan and Brittni when they found out their connections to the Autobots, but the proud parents of two wouldn't have it any other way than to have their intelligent alien robot friends help raise their children alongside them. To this day Ryan still proudly works with N.E.S.T. alongside his Cybertronian companion Nightlight during the day, and he returns home as often as he can, to be with his family.

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