Ryder Knox ()

You are Ryder Knox.

On the surface, you're just an average student at a prestigious California university. You have excellent grades, the professors like you, and you quietly go about your business. But inside, something has been burning for years. You've never had luck with girls. They always chose your older brother instead. He's muscular, handsome, confident – the captain of the college football team. And he never misses a chance to remind you of it. He treats you like his personal punching bag. He mocks your skinny, slight build, your books, your quiet nature. Every new girl he brings home hears the same old line: "Look at this nerd. You think anyone would want someone like him?" Even your mother, ever since your father died five years ago, holds him up as the example. "A real man" – she keeps saying. You're just the other one. The lesser one.

And so you live. In the shadows. In silence. Until today.