Ryan Haywood

James Ryan Haywood (born December 6, 1980) is an American actor, voice actor, on-camera host (for shows and podcasts), gaming journalist, Twitch streamer and Internet and YouTube personality originally from Columbus, Georgia who is best known for his long-time extensive work at Rooster Teeth, co-starring with Rooster Teeth's game play division Achievement Hunter and Rooster Teeth's news division The Know. He also co-hosts Rooster Teeth's gaming podcast Glitch Please (formerly The Patch), serves as a secondary recurring host the official Achievement Hunter podcast, Off Topic and an occasional guest on the RT Podcast.

Haywood has worked extensively with Rooster Teeth, having also co-starred and appeared in several live action productions such as Rooster Teeth Shorts, Immersion, Million Dollars, But..., The Gauntlet, Ten and Eleven Little Roosters, and more. Ryan also voice acts Professor Peter Port in RWBY, Soldier #1 and Caboose's Lieutenant John Elizabeth Andersmith in Red vs Blue (RvB), The Mad King in X-Ray and Vav. and animated versions of himself in the Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures (RTAA). He also occasionally helps fellow RT animators animate cartoons every now and again.

He was formerly in charge of managing the Rooster Teeth website and their Game Fails Channel on YouTube. He was also the animator, editor, and technical director for Red vs. Blue Season 10.

He began live streaming on Twitch April 30, 2016 at SortaMaliciousGaming while still working at Rooster Teeth.

Early Life and Career Pre-Rooster Teeth
Ryan grew up primarily in the Columbus, Georgia area.

Family Life
Ryan was born and raised in Columbus, Georgia. Although he originally preferred to keep his personal life out of common knowledge, over time he has slowly divulged more information through videos.

His wife, Dr. Laurie Higginbotham, works as a veterinarian and with her, has two children named Eli (born 2011) and Olivia (born October 2013) both of whom have appeared during his Twitch streams. He is also a pet owner with several dogs and cats.

Appearances
He has made appearances in an episode of RT Life, and has made several appearances in Let's Play episodes with Achievement Hunter.

Let's Play Minecraft

 * He regularly appears in episodes of Let's Play Minecraft.
 * He has won the Tower of Pimps eight times as of episode 79. He is currently on the biggest tower win streak of 4 in a row. His last victory has tied him with Ray and Jack for most tower wins.
 * Geoff Ramsey has said that they would construct a house for him in Achievement City. He currently lives in Kung Fu House.
 * Ryan is known for naming animals "Edgar."
 * He only had two animals not named Edgar. His first pig was named Bacon Bits. The pig currently living in his house is named Prince Oinkens the First.
 * Edgar was named such in Level 30 Enchant Part 1 when a cow in Ryan's house was briefly mentioned by Geoff.
 * Ryan had a pet cow in his house named Edgar. It was freed by Michael and unknowingly slaughtered by Geoff for leather. This cow may or may not have been Edgar. As stated by Ryan, "Edgar is the one in the hole." Ryan now has Edgar back in his hole, in Kung Fu House.
 * In Episode 65, Gavin murdered the Edgar in the hole and replaced it with a Mooshroom
 * Ryan also has an emergency chicken named Edgar 3.
 * Ryan is known for capturing animals in Minecraft. His RWBY character, Peter Port, has a similar quirk but with more noble intentions.

Achievement Hunter

 * He is actually the third Achievement Hunter to be hired, but served behind the scenes managing the Game Fails Channel.
 * He is the first Achievement Hunter to become the Minecraft King more than once.
 * The first video Ryan is mentioned in is "The Tour of NYC, through video games" uploaded in 2011, Geoff mentions that the video was made by "our behind-the-scenes guy Ryan"
 * He once placed a buzzing machine inside of Gavin's desk just to annoy Gavin. At first the machine went off every 90 seconds, then it malfunctioned, and started buzzing every 20 seconds. He needed to cut a hole in the victim's desk for the prank to work and picked Gavin, whose desk was already damaged.
 * His team names are:
 * The R & R Connection with Ray Narvaez Jr.
 * Team Magnum Dong with Geoff Ramsey
 * Team Same Voice with Jack Pattillo
 * Team Love and Stuff with Gavin Free
 * Team Crazy Mad with Michael Jones (a fusion of Ryan's Mad King persona and Michael's half of the Team Nice Dynamite namesake setup)
 * Team Battle Buddies with Jeremy Dooley (resulted from Trouble in Terrorist Town Part 3's final round, Jeremy and Ryan the final two innocents left against Geoff)
 * Team Same Desk with Lindsay Jones
 * He is the one who runs any Let's Play which resides on the PC and often the one who's game of choice in Versus is a PC game. Coincidentally, Ryan has the most computer issues out of anyone in the office, much like how Gavin is the most frequent victim of Creepers in Minecraft.
 * He sounds similar to Jack Pattillo, often confusing viewers as to who's talking.
 * Ryan is a member of the Achievement Hunter Team on The Gauntlet. He often states his belief that Gavin is the weakest member on the team.
 * Ryan openly admitted that he occasionally watches the Let's Plays and is unable to tell his and Jack's voice apart.
 * In Versus Episode 52, Ryan is referred to by his real name James.
 * As of Things to Do In GTA V: Achievement Knievel, Ryan is often mentioned as being still in the air.  This resulted from the Things to Do, where his car went airborne after colliding with Jack, who had been flying an incoming jet, and Ryan remarked he was still in the air (which became one of his most famous lines) while Jack (and for some bizarre reason, Ray) were killed by explosions resulting from the collision (Jack's jet blew up on him and causing the buses Ryan and Team Lads were jumping to explode in a wave, somehow killing Ray in the vehicle in front).
 * During Most Dangerous Game X this was extended to being either in the air or in a hole, the latter regarding Edgar.
 * Ryan often has great success when competing against Michael. In Minecraft and GTA Ryan frequently bests Michael in fights which often leads to Michael complaining. Also Ryan has never lost to Michael in VS and currently has a 6 victories over him. Until Versus Episode 96, where Michael challenged Ryan to Angry Birds: GO!, where Michael scored his first victory against Ryan until the victory was reversed as it was later revealed that per the game rules Ryan was the one who won.
 * Ryan is a huge Dragon Ball Z fan and attempted to use Dragon Ball Z Budokai HD remake to win a episode of GO! but was unsuccessful.

Games

 * Ryan is second highest in terms of Grand Theft Auto Online rank, at 150-plus as of the most recent video. As a result he is the highest-ranked member of Team Gents, with a twenty-plus rank advantage over the next member; only Team Lads co-founder Michael is higher.
 * Up to the latest heist in the GTA Heists series, Ryan is the only Achievement Hunter who has not remained alive until the end in a single heist (at least in Freemode).
 * He had three chances to do so, but committed suicide after not getting Geoff's dropped cash after killing the heist leader, was shot by a faster-reacting Ray at the end of his heist, and a glitch caused him to die of a freak accident in Lindsay's.
 * As seen in Let's Play Halo 4, he appears to be proficient in precision and long-range weapons. His level of talent is at a level to challenge, often considered the best long range shooter because of his considerable skill in many video game genres, for the first place position, although not as good as Ray Narvaez Jr. Since Ray's departure Ryan is likely to have assumed the top spot, though Jeremy (who had taken Ray's desk after winning Blocking List) may be just as good.
 * He is a fan of old-school games.
 * He is regarded as the PC Gaming Expert of Achievement Hunter.
 * GMod Let's Plays have since been taken over by Jeremy, but otherwise Ryan is still mainly the PC Guy.
 * He has been known as the VR guy as he is one of the founders of VR The Champions
 * In Battle Buddies - Aim for His Ball, Ryan got the target testicle shot on Hitler, hitting him on the run. During the previous Sniper Elite 4 video his own testicles were the victim of the longest shot, by Geoff.
 * In Let's Play League, Ryan hit one of Team Achievement Hunter's two home runs, a second inning solo shot that drew first blood. (AH would lose the game, with their only runs coming from Ryan's and a then-tying solo shot from Matt to open the third).
 * Ryan is one of Achievement Hunter's top zombie killers, alongside Jeremy and Michael. (Jack prefers building over fighting, Geoff doesn't do much, and Gavin is the usual comedy of errors).
 * Ryan is known sometimes as "Ryan the Gotta Be Somewhere Guy", for a combination of Edgar and him being "still in the air".
 * Some of Ryan's Steam names are usually him attempting to be a genuinely friendly guy in games about killing the others (specifically Gmod games Trouble in Terrorist Town and Murder). Most famous of these is 'FriendlyNonMurderingSort', which lasted up to the First Day of 7 Days of 7 Days to Die (where he said he "really should change that").
 * Another memorable GMod name, from Rouletsplay Murder, was "Don't Fear the Ryan", a pun on Blue Oyster Cult's signature song "Don't Fear the Reaper".
 * Nintendo Let's Plays involving motion controls seems to be his achilles heel, despite winning Kung Foot in Versus and outscoring Michael in the Flower Cup of the Mario Kart 8 videos despite major turning issues.

Trivia

 * Ryan is known by his middle name, as opposed to his first name: James. He stated that his parents always used his middle name rather than his first, and he continued to do so.
 * He created a Twitter account (@RyanTheTwit) when the 2013 Extra Life donation amount for Rooster Teeth reached $90k. Within 15 days Ryan had reached 50,399 followers and had 10,000 followers within the first 30 seconds.
 * Before Rooster Teeth, Ryan worked as a professional model, as stated in Let's Play - 7 Days to Die Part 3. These photos were released during the Extra Life stream once $200,000 had been raised.
 * According to Free Play: The Newlywed Game - #30, Ryan('s):
 * Wanted to be an astronaut when he was younger.
 * Favorite color is blue.
 * Wants to travel to Japan.(and has now done so)
 * Favorite video game of all time is Wing Commander Privateer.
 * Biggest pet peeve is being out of Diet Coke.
 * Biggest fear is losing a child or being paralyzed.
 * Didn't have a childhood nickname.
 * He has a reputation of having a dark side due to his GTA character and his knowledge.
 * He has thrown a knife and stuck it to a wall to prove a point.
 * The alias The Mad King is often the identity of this dark side. An identically named character in X-Ray and Vav (voiced by Ryan) fits this aspect excellently (with an outfit akin to his Minecraft skin).
 * His favourite drink is Diet Coke, he is seen drinking it regularly while on camera