Dick Hardly

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

### Dick Hardly: 1976 - 1987

Dick is the son of two free spirit nonconformists who made a life themselves on a commune. As a child, Dick never had a formal education until he was eleven when welfare services and police raided the commune due to evidence that the leaders of the commune had created an abusive cult that worshiped some Aboriginal trickster god and wreaked havoc upon the local area in an attempt to awaken their deity.

In the raid, Dick's parents were killed in a shootout with authorities. Rescued, Dick was placed in an orphanage specializing in traumatized children.

### Dick Hardly: 1987 - 1994

Due to complications in the Manhattaning flooding the welfare services with kids, Duck was shuffled around orphanages and foster homes. Somehow, he still managed to get an education and graduate with impressive grades.

### Dick Hardly: 1994 - 1996

Rather than enroll in university right away, Dick chose to take a couple gap years to see the world and undergo a journey of enlightenment. After backpacking through Europe, hitchhiking across America, and island-hopping across the Pacific; Dick finally returned home. Finding himself in Townsville and enjoying the area, Dick applied to university and accepted to CMU, where I met Dick when he was assigned as my roommate by the university's housing administrators.

### Dick Hardly: 1996 - 2005

Dick and I immediately hit it off. Seeing as he was older than myself and most of my university mates, I referred to him as "Old Dick". Though we were close, Dick and I had a lot of different priorities. I was highly motivated when it came to studying, but Dick was always looking for the easy solution. I often joked that he spent more time stoned or flirting than he ever did in class. A joke which Dick never disagreed with.

Still, somehow, Dick managed to get through several years of school. With classes that we took together, I don't know how Dick passed the classes with the grades he did. Perhaps he had a really good study group that he never told me about? He did sneak back in to the dorm after curfew quite often.

Eventually, after two years as roommates, Dick and I went our own ways to focus on our specific academic goals. I moved into a smaller dorm to avoid all the distractions that came with living with Dick. Through I did run into Dick here and there, we would just exchange a smile or a nod, then move on.

I later learned that Dick went on to earn a degree in psychiatry.

### Dick Hardly: 2005 - Present

When my girls made their debut as the Heroes of Townsville, Dick reached out to me by phone call. I suspected he was looking for a handout and I got off the phone as quick as I could. Still, I saved the number in my phone.

Flashforward to a couple of years later. Buttercup was still going through some issues following the fallout with her friend. I approached Agent Bellum about getting her into seeing a psychiatrist. There was no small amount of red tape to find someone with the necessary security clearance and while we waited, Buttercup was only getting worse. So, I put my foot down and demanded that ASIO give me a list and to my surprise, Old Dick's name was right there and on the top of the list, due to him being the psychiatrist of both Meg Keane and Sara Bellum.

So, I took Buttercup in. She wasn't all that impressed, but I was blown away. Dick seemed like a totally different person. Sure, he was all into the whale sounds, deep breathing exercises, and incense — but I did notice a change for the better in my girl. Well, that was that. Ever since, Dick's been the family shrink. He's ever been treating the girls' friends Michael and Robin after all their recent nastiness.

Dick's whole shtick might be as fake as they come. He might put on a façade of a wise, calm feminist guru, but I know he's probably still the lazy, cooked womanizer that he was in college — but at least he seems to get the job done.

## Threat Assessment

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Occult:** 1 — Paltry / Below Average
* **Weaponry:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Expertise:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Range:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Strategy:** 1 — Paltry / Below Average
	+ **TOTAL:** 21
	+ **RANKING:** Minimal Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* He has a Matcheroo app under the name Downward-Facing\_Doc.

### Notes

* Dick Hardly is a character from *Powerpuff Girls* animated series.
* In the show he was Professor Utonium's roommate who leeched off his work and he tried to make profit out of the Powerpuff Girls by cloning them.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Dick Hardly

1. ↑ Network Files: Dick Hardly
2. ↑ Matcheroo Princess