Ryan Beckwith

Ryan Beckwith
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Appeared In	Bobbins, Scary Go Round, Bad Machinery
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Occupation	Teacher
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Family	Amy Beckwith-Chilton (Wife) Riley Beckwith (Sister) Jim Beckwith (Father) Walt Beckwith (Son)
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Past Relationships	Natalie Durand (Deceased) Sarah Grote
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Ryan Beckwith is a former record shop employee, postman, council worker and current teacher, and a major character in Scary Go Round, with a recurring role in both Bobbins and Bad Machinery. In the interval between Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery, he marries Amy Beckwith-Chilton, with whom he has one son (Walt) so far. Riley Beckwith is his sister.

Early History

Ryan attended Griswald's Grammar School along with Tim Jones and Shelley Winters. When one of Tim's inventions (designed to help teach Ryan physics) accidentally injured Mr. Knott's eye, Ryan took the blame for it himself and dropped out of school (telling others that he was expelled, though he actually wasn't). He then went to work at a pea cannery, the first of a succession of jobs he would hold until eventually working as a teacher at the very school he dropped out of.

Scary Go Round & Later

For a few years, he kept a bat as a pet, first Friend Bat and later Comrade Bat (bought by Shelley for him at a pet store that Esther de Groot worked for, after Friend Bat died).

In an alternate timeline shown in "The Case of the Forked Road", Ryan never became a teacher and was a drunk who played in a local band; it was implied that his relationship with Amy is what saved him from this in the main timeline. Amy has exerted herself to changing Ryan's lifestyle in a number of ways, including getting him to shave a beard he previously grew. Shelley has also had some influence on him, at one point burning Ryan's favorite shirt (with a Captain America shield)[1] in an effort to get him to improve his hygiene and wardrobe, and also leading the effort to find him after he vanished (and turned up with amnesia and under the control of a sinister cult, the Little Sisters of Belial).