Ryan Atwood

Ryan Atwood is the protagonist of the American series The OC, played by Benjamin McKenzie.

History

Ryan Atwood is a teenager who lives in Chino, California with his brother and mother. One night he accompanies his brother, who steals a vehicle and the police catch them both inside. Because of this, he meets Sandy Cohen, the public defender assigned to him. Before long, Ryan is kicked out of the house by his mother, and is temporarily adopted into Sandy's family, with some initial objection from Sandy's wife, Kirsten Cohen. Since then, Ryan has settled in the pool house of his Newport Beach mansion in Orange County. He befriends the Cohens' son Seth and begins to establish social relationships with the young people of Newport who are very different from him., he will have to get used to life in Orange County. He is the protagonist of the series and a character who enjoys great popularity, especially among the female audience.

First season

During the first season he maintains an affair with Marissa Cooper, the next-door neighbor, although Ryan's relationship with Marissa is interrupted by the appearance of Oliver Trask, a disturbed man who meets her at the therapy they are both following, and who falls in love with her. Despite being a Psycho, he managed to effortlessly separate Marissa from Ryan and turn the school and the Cohens (even Seth) against him. Oliver's lies are eventually exposed and everyone apologizes to Ryan. After that, Ryan meets Theresa, an old friend of Chino's, who had also been his girlfriend. When things are mended between Marissa and Ryan, Theresa tells Marissa that she is pregnant and that Ryan may be her father. He then decides to return to Chino to be able to take care of his son, and give him the childhood that he did not have.

Second season

It seemed like the end of Ryan in the series, but in the second season he returns to Newport Beach along with Seth, who had gone to Portland on his sailboat after Ryan left with Teresa. Nothing was like before when I got to Portland. Seth went to live with Luke, Marissa's ex-boyfriend. His father traveled to Chino to ask Ryan to help him convince Seth to return to Newport. While Ryan dates Lindsay, who is later found out to be Caleb's daughter and Kirsten Cohen's sister. Seth is conflicted because one of his new friends, Zack, is dating the girl he likes, Summer Roberts, and he is in a dilemma because although he dies for Summer, he doesn't believe he can betray his friend, especially since he is a member of her group. Comic Club at school, although in the end he gets the girl and Zack realizes that Summer wants Seth too. Lindsay finds out from a paternity test that Caleb, Seth's grandfather, is Seth's father, but she decides to go to Chicago with her mother, since she tells Ryan that she can't leave her alone. Later he and Marissa reconcile, until Ryan's brother, Trey, now out of jail tries to rape her. When Ryan realizes what his brother wanted to do to his girlfriend, there was a fight in which Trey almost killed Ryan. During the fight, Marissa shoots Trey, who is severely wounded. Kirsten's father, Caleb, also dies of a heart attack when he had already married Marissa's mother. Kirsten is devastated and ends up becoming an alcoholic.

Third season

After three months in a coma, Ryan's brother wakes up and leaves town. Between Ryan, Marissa, Seth and Summer, the theme of the university will exist in the background. They will need to decide which university to apply to. Marissa is expelled from Harbor School for having shot her and Trey, later at the start of the carnival the dean takes Marrisa out by force and Ryan hits him and for that reason they expel him for that reason they will have to attend a public school. But then Ryan and Marissa will be admitted to Berkeley, where Sandy also studied. At the new school, Marissa will meet Johnny, a boy who falls in love with her and that's why he also dies. She goes into crisis and will break up with Ryan. Ryan will meet Johnny's cousin, who comes to help her aunt, and will go out with her for a while. Later he discovers that Marissa is close to Volchok, a rebel who was a friend and then an enemy of Johnny, and that will lead Marissa to take drugs and fight with Summer and her mother. Johnny's cousin is leaving Newport leaving Ryan single again, however Theresa reappears. But she won't get anywhere with Ryan but they will get together as good friends. Ryan will find out that Theresa's child is not his, as Kirsten presumed seeing her. At prom, Marissa sees Volchok with another girl and breaks up with him, being comforted by Ryan. then Volchok will involve him in a carjacking, and then pressure him to give him money and leave town. Ryan, with the help of Marissa, gives Volchok money. Volchok will try to talk to Marissa one last time, but she refuses. Ryan stops him and they both leave, leaving Volchok unable to say anything to him. In the last episode the boys graduate (Marissa gets into Harbor for the final days). Her mother will travel and she will attend her graduation. She will gift Ryan a van that she worked hard to buy, leaving him very happy. Marissa tells her friends that she will be leaving Newport but she will not be going to Berkeley but she will be going with her father. So among all of them they decide to send her off in her own way, for which they go to the Casa Modelo and spend the afternoon at the pool. Then he takes her to the airport in her new van. But on the way out, Volchok (drunk) and Heather (an enemy of Marissa's from Newport Union High School) are waiting for them in another van and start chasing them. On the way to the airport Volchok begins to ram Ryan's truck from behind and then from the side, telling him to stop and saying that he wanted to talk to Marissa. Ryan ignores Marissa when she tells him to stop and Volchok continues to charge at them until he manages to knock them out of the lane. Ryan's truck veers off the road and rolls off a small cliff, ending up upside down on a road below. Volchok's wheels can be heard speeding up and away. Ryan manages to get out of the van. He sees that there is a part on fire and that there is a leak of fuel so he rushes to get Marissa outside. Walking with her in her arms, the van explodes. He later deposits her on the street, taking her head and seeing that he was bleeding in the area of his right temple. Ryan pretends to go and ask for help, but Marissa tells him to stay. Finally, after a few seconds of agony, Marissa closes her eyes and dies.

Season Four

In the final season of the series, the death of Marissa greatly affects all the characters. The season begins a few months after Marissa's death. Ryan has moved out of the Cohens' house and is making a living in a seedy bar, earning more extra money by participating in underground fights. Julie, Marissa's mother, continues unable to forget her daughter, completely neglecting her sister, who suppresses her sadness by doing pranks. Summer has become a radical hippie, intent on changing the world with progressive ideas, and Seth remains the same as ever. The fourth season is mostly about how the characters come back to their lives, slowly and each in their own way overcoming Marissa's death. Finally the series ends with each one with their lives, and fulfilling their dreams and expectations. During their stay at the bar Ryan falls into denial, arguing that he doesn't care about Marissa's death but after a talk with the Cohens and Summner, Ryan decides to face his pain and get over it. So Julie takes advantage of that and gives her information about Volchock's whereabouts, then they find him in Ensenada and reflect on what happened with Marissa, Ryan does not take revenge on Volchock by killing him as he had in mind so that this would end everything and tells him that he will have to to live with what he did. They end up arresting Volchok. Ryan will start his normal life very little by little and although it will cost him, thanks to the Cohens, especially Sandy, he will take a mature character and face things as they come. Seth and Summer will face situations where couples must be truly united, showing that they are made for each other. Throughout the season Ryan falls in love again, and maintains a relationship with Taylor Townsend, one of his classmates at Harbor with whom he never imagined having any kind of relationship, but little by little he understands that he has to let Marissa go. and go on with your life.