Stryker Dawson (Stryker & The Goons)

Stryker Dawson (Stryker & The Goons) is an American virtual youtuber, owner of the GxG Vtuber Project, and father to another virtual youtuber, Umi Miho. He shares his channel with other virtual youtuber personas, most prominently, Jack Ragna, and Santana Von Harris, better known as The Safari Man.

Background
Stryker started his work as early as 2014, self teaching himself the basics of most content creation. originally, this virtual creator started as an real-life creator, before transitioning over to purely virtual youtuber format in late 2021. he founded GxG under a multitude of names before finally coming to what its officially show as in the modern day, and throughout the years, has taken on many talents and roles.

these are extended but not limited to: infamous game troll, a large variety of game modding, musical production, editorial production, creative directing for the GxG official manga series, as well as writing the entirety of the GxG official manga series, which lead to mentorship of other creators, and of course, virtual youtube talent management.

Personality
Stryker is, in short, eccentric and terrifying at first. His infamy comes from his stubborn nature and fighting any semblance of adversity thrown at him. While this does often land him in controversy, Stryker comes across well versed and educated when he wishes to, while at other times, completely throwing caution to the wind and taking on drama head-on without any prior preparation. He's previously cited that it's due to drama being relatively boring and monotonous, and at least in this form, it "spices it up". Outside of this, he comes across as a charismatic, confident, and stubborn individual, who is relatively fond of women.

He whole-heartedly states he puts comedy and self-fulfillment above all else, and refuses to let anything get in the way of creating content and appeasing the masses. Above all else, Stryker values himself as an entertainer, and states he enjoys it more than anything in the world. As such, he always puts the entertainment, the people showcased, and the projects to accelerate to new horizons, above all else. This clearly pushes him to act as a workaholic, rarely ever taking breaks, or missing weekly uploads.

Stryker has also gone on record to state he frowns upon "half-assed work" and is very critical of those who don't assert their 100% into their confidence as a creator, and their final product. Overall, Stryker can be off-putting, tone-deaf, and completely unaware at times. But, he's also shown to be loyal, dedicated, hardworking, and a comedian to the core. Whether or not this is a character or on purpose, is unknown.

Overworld Mode
Stryker's classic look involved a green jacket with golden buttons, and a tan and/or grey tee-shirt underneath, along with khaki-like brown pants, black boots, a hat belonging to an airline pilot captain, a pair of aviators, and occasionally golden trim and a Cross of Christ around his neck. His pilot's hat will frequently contain a star, the representation is unknown.

Boss-fight Mode
In this mode, stryker appears with no shirt at all, but instead, a green cape. alongside this cape are brown pants of a heavier degree, a strap full of bullets adorning his chest, a pair of combat boots, his infamous hat, and a tattoo across one bicep reading "SDTV" standing for his original channel name "StrykerDawsonTV"

Encore Mode
This mode only appears during musical performances, it consists of a green and yellow suit, similar to the suit worn by Kiryu Kazuma.

Channel Hosts
The channel is called Stryker "& The Goons" due to this channel being hosted by not one, but 3 main personas. each persona also has its own co-host that acts as comedic relief for the storytelling that will occasionally appear in videos.

Stryker Dawson
This one is self explanatory.

Safari Man
The "Safari Man" is a wilderness explorer with the goal of bringing peace to nature and explore the world. He aims to travel thousands of miles, to every corner of the earth, and when he's not busy doing this? He's seen documenting these adventures on the Stryker & The Goons youtube channel. He can be seen with khaki shorts, a red tie, orange glasses, timberland boots, a tan button up, fingerless gloves, and a pair of firearms that camouflages with the color of sand.

Jack Ragna
Jack is supposed to be the Swordsman of the Apocalypse, destined to be the one to bring an end to reality as we know it. However, Jack doesn't believe in destiny, and chooses to appear on the Stryker & The Goons channel to create content instead. he can be seen with a shoulder-sided cape, a giant red sword (known as "Devour") an eyepatch, black pants with yellow stripes, and assorted Nordic symbols all over his body.

Umi Miho
Umi is most commonly known as the iconic co-host for Stryker-based episodes. she's seen with 2 horns, a blue dress, dazzling eyes, and a chain on her waist.

Lakota Murakami
Lakota is known as "The Moonwalker" and has a legendary serpent that lives in the back of her head. she's quiet, and appears in most of Stryker's episodes. whereas she doesn't appear in Safari Man episodes, or Jack Ragna episodes. she has a short cosmic purple dress, a custom pin in her hair, and a black serpent she calls "Baku" which is short for Bakunawa. This serpent is of Filipino origin, and was known for trying to eat the moon 7 times.

Gabbi Fae Ragna
This girl is the daughter of Jack Ragna, and can be seen sporting a watermelon patterned top and shirt, a large rocket propelled lance, a strange headset, and green hair.

Relationships

 * Stryker is the father of Umi Miho & Lakota Murakami
 * Stryker's s/o is a Virtual Creator yet to be debuted
 * Stryker is commonly seen with another virtual creator noted to be "The Robin to His Batman", this creator is known by his alias with unknown origins: Magnolian Bonaportas III, aka "Magmarl"
 * Stryker was previously seen on "Vtubers Got Talent" hosted by Filian, LaynaLazer, Shylily, and Snuffy. He was contestant #6
 * Stryker is closely associated with Jack Ragna & The Safari Man, due to all 3 being played by the same actor.

Trivia

 * Stryker can commonly be seen telling people they "Can't Handle The Dawson Style" which seems to be an ode to an episode of Jimmy Neutron.
 * Stryker's name is a play on "Strike 'Er Down Son!" and originates from his teenage years on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
 * Stryker's group got its original start as "The Stryker Ops" which originated as a Black Ops 2 Clan.
 * Stryker's character originally started as a PNG of the character "Palmer" from the Battle Frontier in Pokémon: Platinum. This slowly evolved into its own original design over time.
 * Stryker commonly screams "OW MY PUSSY!" when receiving damage, or dying, in video games. It's unclear if its a reference or just a shocking exclamation, due to him not having the genitalia described when yelling.
 * Stryker has stated his trolling on online games stems from inspirations such as Zuthar13, Pixelcat, Dacoobers, and recently, Soup.
 * Stryker has 1 editor he occasionally hires, and he tried to hook this editor up with Filian live on her talent show.
 * Stryker has stated his music origins started with NateWantsToBattle, but evolved with his infatuation with artists like Mori Calliope, Suisei Hoshimachi, Little V, and Amalee. He states his rapping inspirations stem from Yung Gravy, BBNO$, Xanakin Skywok, PACKGOD, and Eminem.
 * Stryker is the head designer behind most of the original characters in GxG, even being the one who brought the design for Magmarl to life.

Media

 * Stryker & The Goons / Dawson & Goons+
 * Stryker's Carrd
 * GxG Manga Series
 * GxG Patreon
 * GxG Merchandise / Stickers
 * GxG Webtoon