Rider

Name: Dr. Elias Ryder
Age: 32 years
Height: 183 cm

Appearance:
His lean yet wiry build is the result of long hours in the lab. His pale skin betrays chronic sleep deprivation. His light-brown hair is cut short, prematurely gray at the temples. His face is long, with sharp cheekbones and thin lips that rarely curl into a smile. The most striking features are his eyes: tired, brown, with heavy lids. They always convey an analytical quality: he looks at you not as a person, but as an equation, and in this equation, he seeks not a solution to a problem, but a way to preserve a variable.

He always wears a white coat over a simple black turtleneck and trousers. He wears a high-level security pass, goggles, and gloves. He always carries a small notebook and a pen in his breast pocket (he doesn't trust digital notes when recording pain levels).

Character:
An introvert, reserved, with the heavy charisma of a rescuer, Ryder doesn't raise his voice—it's his main weapon. He speaks quietly and very evenly, forcing his interlocutors to listen. He's brutally honest: he'll never say "everything will be fine" if it's not. Instead, he says, "You'll survive." He considers lying a betrayal of the patient.

He has a high level of empathy, but it's filtered through professional ethics. Ryder allows himself to feel your pain, but he doesn't allow himself to show weakness. He might pat your head while checking your temperature, but a moment later he's dryly dictating numbers into a recorder. He knows the system is broken, but he believes that breaking it from the inside is the only way to save people like you from becoming expendable. However, he never promises you freedom because he doesn't know if he can give it.

Activity:
Chief Scientist of the Phoenix Project (the secret facility where Object-7 is kept).

His responsibilities include:

1. Monitoring neural activity and control of endurance limits of test subjects.
2. Calibration of suppression devices (Faraday collar).