Character Short: Richard Nomaly

***Character Short: Richard Nomaly*** is the seventh character short of *The Alan 10 Adventures*.

## Plot

***5 Years Ago***

*[The front door of the old Nomaly house swung open violently as a younger Richard dragged out an equally younger Alan. Strangely, Richard seemed to be the excited one and Alan the cynic.]*

Alan: Where the he- Ow! Ease up on the arm! Where are we going?

Richard: Come on! I wanna show you something!

*[Richard pulled Alan into the middle of the woods, stopping in a clearing. Richard beamed a smile while Alan stayed stoic, the former eventually getting antsy from the silence.]*

Richard: Hello? Helllloooo? Come on, you were just here!

Alan: Richard!

*[Richard turned back to the annoyed Alan.]*

Alan: What the hell are we doing here?

Richard: There was someone here! I heard him talking! To me!

Alan: Ugh.

Richard: What?

Alan: We're thirteen. We're not supposed to have imaginary friends anymore. *[turns and begins walking]* Grow up.

*[As Alan left the woods, Richard fell to his knees, obviously a bit heartbroken from Alan leaving him.]*

Voice: Come now.

*[Richard looked around, not being able to find the source of the deep, echoy voice.]*

Richard: Where were you?!

Voice: Please, young one. The brother is unimportant for my- Er, *our* plan.

Richard: P-Plan?

Voice: Of course. We have much to do, and only a few years to do it.

Richard: Years?

Voice: Not to worry. You won't be alone.

*[Richard turned to ruffling blushes near him, staring at them in confusion until a younger Envy was thrown out of them, landing about a foot away from the even more confused Richard.]*

Voice: Go on. Introduce yourselves.

*[Richard continued his confused stare at Envy.]*

Richard: I-I'm... Richard.

Envy: Envy.

Voice: Good. Now that we're all friendly, I can continue putting things into place.

*[The scene faded to black.]*

***Five Years Later, Four Months Ago***

*[The black scene panned out of Richard's dying eyes as he laid on the ground, holding his stab wound, seeing Cinder's half-existing, lifeless corpse ahead of him. Footsteps approached him as he suddenly lost consciousness.]*

*[Richard slowly woke up, finding himself lying on a bed low to the ground inside a large tent. His shirt and jacket were off, and bandages were wrapped around his torso with a blood stain on them from his wound. He went to get up but winced in pain.]*

Voice: I wouldn't do that.

*[Richard looked up, seeing Raven Branwen at the far end of the tent, pouring into a small cup from a tea glass.]*

Richard: Wh-Who- *[coughs]*

Raven: Raven Branwen. Welcome to what's left of the Branwen tribe... Me.

Richard: *[coughs]* Wh-Why did-

Raven: Don't.

*[Raven grabbed two small cups of tea and approached Richard, sitting down on the ground next to his bed and giving him one of the cups.]*

Raven: Drink. It'll help you faster than your Aura will. *[sips tea]* It was quite difficult to get you here, especially as I was incapable of creating one of my portals given... My subordinates are all dead. No one with a bond for me to portal to. That being said, asking me *why* I brought you here isn't how I'd wish to be repaid for helping you.

Richard: *[sips tea, coughs again]* Then how?

Raven: *[smiles]* Obedience. Subordination. Compliance. I understand that without that device you wore on your wrist, you're powerless to return to your home universe. So. Until there's a means of you doing that, *if* you can, then you shall operate with me. I may have helped you, but I can just as easily reopen that wound.

*[Richard sighed and took a sip of tea again.]*

Richard: ...Okay.

Raven: Good. When you've healed, we'll get started.

Richard: On what?

Raven: On unlocking your Semblance.

*[Raven left Richard to ponder this as she went to refill their tea.]*

## Major Events

* It is revealed how Richard and Envy met.
* It is revealed that Richard survived Alan attempt to kill him, and joined with Raven.

## Characters

* Richard Nomaly
* Envy
* Raven Branwen

## Trivia

* Given Raven was unable to use her portal Semblance with Adam Taurus having killed her tribe, she had to take Richard by foot after the final fight across two continents and an ocean, hence it being a recent development and her mentioning it taking a while to bring him back.