Roger Alfred Richards

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Henry Cavill

## History

### Early Life

He was smart and well-educated, and spent all his family's money to go to a prestigious college, but faced bullying due to his poverty, and was unable to find a job that fit his degree due to his lower class status. Having a fine degree but no money, he tried to start business ventures, which found success for a time and he secured a fine young wife of a slightly better-off family. He faced pressure by his family which relied on him solely for money, and was not getting along with his new wife, who was more spirited and troublesome than he was willing to put up with, and he considered divorce. She was determined to stick it out to do her family proud and not disappoint them, and her marriage gave them better financial prospects. His father was not pleased that he did not know his place, and that he looked down on the poor farm people he came from, that he was pretending to be something he was not and that he was ashamed of their family. Despite doing well in school and being competent, he did not have the connections or social grace he needed to grow a successful business, and back home, no one needed what he was selling. The temper he got from his father did not serve him well either, and it was far too easy for him to fall into gambling and addiction, and taking out his own self-hatred on his wife. His wife eventually left him, and he harshly raised his son to be a proper man, passing on his toxic traits, and feeling that their whole family was doomed to failure and that his son could never amount to anything if he himself could not.

## Involvement

He was eventually arrested for killing a man in a street fight outside a bar while drunk, and spent his remaining years wasting away in prison. His wife only visited him once at the beginning, but his son visited regularly.

## Physical Description

He is tall and imposing, broad with large muscles and rough hands. He has a mess of curly black hair that he tries to keep somewhat presentable, and prefers to be clean shaven. He has a strong brow and chin, stormy blue eyes, and a handsome smile. He looks like Hercules would look, well-sculpted and traditionally handsome in a very masculine way. His looks later fade under the the strain of stress and vices, and venereal diseases from his cheating. He stopped working out, gained weight, which only worsened when women no longer found him attractive. You could still see traces of his strong bone structure, and his strength.

## Personality

Strict and adept at brooding, Roger Alfred is a stern and commanding presence. He is generally dour and serious, having little humor, and generally not caring about the affairs of others. He is very determined, not willing to give up even on fools errands, determined to prove people wrong about him. He is self-absorbed, and never learned how to treat women well or be emotionally vulnerable, and wanted to be better than his good-for-nothing father, though in the end, he felt defeated by the world that he was ill-prepared to navigate, and that he could never be the type of man he went to school with and envied, and became very much like his own father in old age.

## Relationships

* Alain Volant
* John Richards
* Helen Verne
* Theodore Verne
* Hazel Robertson
* David Richards
* Isabel Samson
* Linette Volant

These two types contradict each other on many points and have a somewhat complementary nature.
2 is attracted to 5’s intelligence, self confidence and calm. 5’s emotional detachment also rather intrigues 2.
5 is attracted to 2’s optimism, kindness, goodness and social prosperity.
2 often initiates this relationship as he can see it as a challenge to be liked by 5, and as it can be complicated, this makes 2 even more determined.
Points where to be careful
2 can feel hurt, frustrated and neglected by 5 if he only pays attention to his mental world rather than paying any attention to 2.

2 needs closeness, while 5 needs a lot of personal space. This can cause them a lot of problems if they are not able to find a happy medium that works for the both of them. In the grips of his compulsion, 2 can become too obsessed with obtaining 5’s attention, which can scare 5 and lead him to flee.