Richard Dark

Richard Dark-Rhodes is a character role-played by Sock22.
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==General Information==
Richard Dark-Rhodes (né Dark) is a Dispatch Shift Leader for the San Andreas Central Dispatch, Badge #D-1.
== Background Information==
When Richard was a teenager, his mother went missing; later found dead. Unfortunately in the small town, the police nor detectives never followed through in solving the case of her death.
Following her death, Richard joined the Army but was never deployed. It was at this point in his life that he decided to join the police force, and ended up moving to Los Santos.  
Years later, Richard would discover the reason his mother's murder was never solved was because a cop had killed her and the police had covered it up.
==Before 4.0==
Richard formerly served as the Assistant Chief of Police for the Los Santos Police Department. The past couple of years had been difficult on Richard and his family; multiple ICU trips, suffering amnesia from when Kyle Pred pushed him and cracked his skull on the ground at Bolingbroke Prison, his encounters with Norman Bones, and the loss of his son, Cody Sharp.
Just before the economic collapse, Richard and his husband, Matt Rhodes, moved to England in order to settle into a quieter life after everything that they went through in the past few years. During their time there, Richard reconnected with his father, Charlie, and finally introduced Matt to him. He also spent some time guest lecturing at Oxford University on "Corruption and the Ethics of Policing."
While in England, Richard had a few major surgeries: he got a new left eye and an advanced prosthetic for his left hand, and had multiple organ transplants, and is now mostly back to full health.
==Momentous Dates within the Government==
===San Andreas Central Dispatch===
Rank 	Insignia	Note 	Date
Dispatch 	 	Hired as Dispatch; Badge #D-88 	March 8th, 2024
Dispatch Lead	 	Appointed Shift 3 Dispatch Lead	March 15th, 2024
Dispatch Lead	 	Changed Badge Number to #D-1 	March 23rd, 2024
==Trivia== 
*Went to therapy and spent a long time healing. He no longer holds grudges (except against terrorists). He hasn't forgiven Brian Knight for killing Cody, but has at least managed to move on.
*His father used to leave him outside in his pram when it was snowing so that he would "grow stronger."
*Cares very much about his family. His main reason for joining dispatch was so that if anything were to happen to Matt, their son would still have a father.
==Gallery==
File:DISPATCHING.gif|Jaedlyn and Dark hard at work
File:DarkLH.png|An old memory
File:DarkNorman.png|Dark talks with an old friend
File:DRCity.png|Dark and Rhodes share a bittersweet moment
File:DarkFlop.png|Flop informs Dark that he was told the truth of his lost memories
File:DarkZiggy.png|Dark and Ziggy have a tense conversation
File:DarkFamily.png|The Dark-Rhodes family have a hard conversation
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