MICKI FOSTER & RYAN
DAILLION
Real Names: Michelle "Micki" Foster and Ryan Daillion
Occupations: Owners of "Curious Goods," Antique Buyers,
Known Relatives:
(Michelle Foster)
William (father), Kathryn (mother), Denise (sister), Jason Daniel ("J. D") (nephew),
(Ryan Daillion)
Ray (father, deceased), Elizabeth (mother), Gayle (step-mother), Jimmy (brother, deceased)
Base of Operations: Curious Goods Antique Store in Chicago, Illinois
First Appearance: Friday The 13th: The Series (1987-1990)
History: Michelle Foster and Ryan Daillion are cousins and relatives of Lewis Vendredi, founder and owner of the Vendredi Antiques antique store in on the east side of Chicago, Illinois. Before his death, Vendredi was a practicing warlock in a demonic coven, and his antique store was a reputed haunted location before he acquired it. Shunned by his family, his store and everything in it fell by default to Micki and Ryan after much of their relatives refused it.
Raised under opulent means, Micki was initially dismayed by Ryan's juvenile personality and strong-armed him into selling off the store's contents to be rid of them. Although exasperated by her strong-willed personality, Ryan was both intrigued and fascinated by the store, but eventually gave in to her wishes. However, when Jack Marshak, Lewis's old magic act partner, learned of Lewis's death, he raced back to acquire the store if but to find much of it's contents sold off. Convincing Micki and Ryan of Lewis's fascination of the occult, he believed the items were potentially "cursed" by the rituals Vendredi performed and capable of negative hauntings. Much of this was proven when a antique doll Micki had sold was causing poltergeist activity in the home of an affluent Chicago couple. Driven by responsibility, Micki and Ryan strove to buy back all the objects they had carelessly sold. The toll even had an effect on Micki's personality and made her more responsible, stronger and independent though it caused a dissolution of her engagement to her longtime boyfriend, Lloyd Burfield. In return, Ryan developed a small infatuation with Micki and came to regard her as his closest confidant.
Guided by Jack as their Odin-like mentor into the paranormal and Jack's friend, Rashid Habsurab, an Egyptologist, Micki and Ryan commenced with re-acquiring the objects and storing them in hiding deep in the store's basement and sub-basement. They renamed the store, Curious Goods, and went forth with diminishing their uncle's sinister presence in the neighborhood by running a straight antique store from the location. Several murders and strange deaths were connected to the objects they retrieved over time, and through their adventures, Ryan developed an unspoken crush on Micki. He was greatly affected when his girlfriend was murdered as a result of a serial killer during his pursuit of an object. Micki was also briefly reported dead when Vendredi's cult used her in a sacrifice, but she woke up and made her way home. Jack also suffered through the death of a woman he loved.
During a trip to Europe to retrieve a reported "Book of the Dead," Ryan tired of the store and decided to break ties with the store out of stress and exhaustion; he opted to stay behind in France to start a new life than return home. His best friend, Johnny Ventura, meanwhile, replaced him in the store. Jack acquired Ryan's share of the shop as a result, and Johnny's fascination of the occult made him a worthy ally in their employ. On a few occasions, Johnny broke the trust of Micki and Jack by failing to take account for his actions, but he always went to extra efforts to atone for his mistakes. He also fell in love with Micki and saved her life in Missouri after two brothers tried to hold her hostage, but a romance between the two never developed. In this course of his adventures, Jack encountered the ghost of his father in Oklahoma and made peace with his past as a soldier in World War Two.
About a year and a half after leaving the store, Ryan returned to help out Micki and Jack once more. There was a report he was briefly in Crystal Lake, Connecticut dealing with a local serial killer with a supernatural motif, but this is unconfirmed. Although a majority of the objects in Vendredi's original manifest have been retrieved, there are several objects which remain lost. A number of the objects in the store's vault are not originally from the store, having been stored there by paranormal researchers who linked to them to malicious spirit activity in haunted houses.
Case Files: Simms House (9-28-87), Monastery of Eternal Brotherhood (10-05-87), Mondelein College (10-12-87, 02-20-89), Longmaker Farm (02-01-88), Simmons House/Bay Street House (02-15-88) Lincoln High School (02-29-88), Museum of Science and Natural History (04-25-88), Penittite Community (05-22-88), Whaler's Point Lighthouse (06-27-88), Vendredi House (09-26-88 ), Masseo Mental Hospital (10-10-88), Abraham Stark Mortuary (10-26-89), Harper House (04-17-89), Dale State Penitentiary (06-05-89), Glenview Mortuary (01-22-90), Old Oklahoma Cemetery (01-29-90), Hegley Farm (02-12-90), Camp Crystal Lake (10-13-90)
Comments: Micki and Ryan were played by Louise Robey and John D. LeMay. Jack was played by Chris Wiggins, Lewis Vendredi was played by R. G. Armstrong, Rashid by Elias Zarou and Johnny Ventura by Stephen Monarque.
Originally, the series was to be titled "The 13th Hour," but producer Frank Mancuso Jr. thought this would turn away viewers and instead took the name "Friday the 13th" to utilize its connection with bad luck and superstition to deliberately draw in audiences. Despite this title, the series has no story connections to the film series of the same name. (It should be noted that the movie series does not own or have copyright infringement on the term, "Friday The 13th," so assuming a connection to the two franchises is minimal at best.) After the success of the series, the creators wanted to tie-in Jason's trademark hockey mask to the series, but the idea was discarded by Mancuso Jr. so that the show could have a chance to exist on its own.
This bio was in part based on the haunted collection of John Zaffis, TV Series "Haunted Collector" (SyFy Network), rather than a direct bio of the TV series mythos.