Captain Tyler Redstone   

Character Information
Name		Tyler Redstone
Rank		Captain
Position		Commanding Officer
Gender		Male
Species		Human - Hera
Age		35
Physical Appearance
Height		6’ 1”
Weight		185 lbs.
Eye Color		Green
Hair Color		Brown
Physical Description		Tye is tall and lean and well muscled. He has the kind of physique that comes from hard, physical labor combined with not quite enough to eat. He has a fast metabolism and a lot of energy. He's not particularly good looking and while once there was a kindness about his face and in his smile, that's all been burned away by the war. He doesn't own a lot of clothes, tends to wear the same few outfits over and over again and most are functional rather than flashy.

Personality & Traits
General Overview
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths: Intelligent. A born leader. Extremely good shot, pistols predominantly, and good in a fight, uses a combination of styles. Weaknesses: The war cost him everything He is trying to rebuild the shattered remains of his life. U-Day is always a bad day for him. His hatred of the Alliance makes him a bit reckless at times. He doesn't trust easily, if at all.
Ambitions
Fly free, stay one step ahead of the Alliance.
Hobbies & Interests
The business of living occupies much of his time. When he has spare time he likes to play sports (basketball and a variation he learned somewhere along the way that involves a ring suspended from the ceiling and few rules), read a bit, and linger over a good meal. He plays guitar, though its been sitting in his quarters for some time now, and has a fair singing voice.
Languages		English, Chinese
Family
Father		Matthew
Mother		Lilah
Brother(s)		None
Sister(s)		Patience (deceased), Savannah (deceased), Mei
Spouse		None
Children		None
Other Family		Zachary (grandfather).

Tyler, or Tye as he's usually called, grew up on a farm. Riding almost before he could walk. Doing chores. A bit wild when he could get away with it. Resistant to book learning, the enforced inactivity of school, but smart for all of that. Life wasn't easy but it was, for the most part, good. Matthew Redstone, his father, played fiddle on Saturday nights while his grandfather accompanied him on an old upright piano that had seen better days. And for all that Tye might itch to see what was out there, he loved his life. Then came the war and all of that changed. Both he and his father enlisted which left his mother and sisters to take care of the ranch.

Times got hard and then bad. Tye's father died six months before Serenity Valley in a heroic effort to secure a heavily fortified munitions dump. His mother and two of his sisters died when Alliance troops raided the ranch. Tye was one of those who stood in Serenity Valley and watched the leadership's betrayal. Once the Alliance let him go, he returned to the smoking ruins of the ranch, saw the graves of his mother and two of his sisters. Mei, the youngest, was missing. He still doesn't know what happened to her.

 

Volunteered and joined the 82nd, on the side of the Independents. He was present at Serenity Valley when the Independents' leadership surrendered and, like many others, made their way home to pick up the pieces of their lives.