Ryan Anderson

Ryan sets fire to his sister's room because her cup of hot chocolate had more marshmallows than his.

“Do you know what the most frightening thing in the world is? Nothing. That's what I found in the boy. No conscience, no fear, no humanity. Just a black void. [...] I just sat there and watched as he destroyed everything around him. Not from a belief in evil, not for any reason at all. That boy's mind was the blackest hell I've ever known.”

―An unnamed Ethros Demon

Ryan Anderson was a young boy born without a soul. He was portrayed by Jesse James.

He was possessed by an Ethros Demon which was exorcised by Wesley and Angel. The disturbances, animal deaths and a missing person were accredited to his possession until they tracked down the demon, which revealed that Ryan was the actual monster, his mind representing a terrifying blackness that scared the Ethros demon to the extent that it tried to prompt Ryan to 'sleepwalk' into danger, willing to end its own life to escape Ryan.

It wasn't until after Ryan was exorcised that he tried to kill his sister in a fire simply because she had more marshmallows in her cup of hot chocolate than he had, Stephanie only just being saved by Angel as her room burned. He was later taken to Social Services for evaluation.

Appearances

• I've Got You Under My Skin