Riff (Jared & Friends)

**Riff-Raff "Riff" "Music Man" Hadros** is an orange, green, and yellow hadrosaur and a major character in the *Jared & Friends* franchise.

## About Riff

### Physical Description

Riff is an adorable six-year-old orange hadrosaur with a sunshine yellow tummy with green spots and green spikes. Riff wears green low-top sneakers with yellow socks and violet purple laces. Riff is well known for his crest with bright stroke-shaped emerald green scales, which make music, when it lights up/glitters/sparkles, whenever he's happy, sad, excited, thinking, or just making music and having fun. His central forehead connected to his crest is yellow with a small fuzzy tuft of yellow and purple hair. His crest has three green waved shapes on top, one on the right side, two on the left side of his head, and one at the back of his head. He has green diamond spots all over him. He is the only dinosaur with spikes on his back and tail instead of spots. His signature colors are orange, green, and yellow.

### Personality/Role on the show

Riff is a bubbly, eccentric, caring, loving, jazz-talking, vivacious, upbeat, fun, fresh, kind, quirky, music-smart, street-smart, intelligent, shy, timid, emotional, caring, sweet, astute, imaginative, idealistic, bubbly, friendly, and cheerful hadrosaurus in the posse and middle member of the D3, as well as Baby Bop and BJ's cousin. He is known to be all about music, he hears it everywhere and anywhere, in his heart, even his every move. He loves music so much that his crest blinks whenever he is creating music, making a sound, or is excited or feeling any sort of strong emotion, to the point where sometimes the scales would change color or sound. He can play almost any kind of instrument you can think of, be it piano, guitar, ukulele, french horn, you name it. He can even make

music out of anything, bottles, cans, even a seashell! Not only he loves music and making it, he loves to invent and build a new gadget. Even though his inventions sometimes don't turn out as he planned, he always gets back up and figure things out. No matter what, you can count on Riff to make a new musical number, invent a new machine, just to have fun, and being a tippity-top friend! He can be shy and doubtful of himself sometimes, often needing encouragement from his friends, but like all the dinosaurs, he is very outgoing and amicable. He is able to make many different sounds and can copy the ones he hears around him verbatim!

He can also be quite romantic, whenever he with Chantel Bennett (of MCJ), whom he harbours a major crush on, most notably in Chantel Chip-Up and the Fall/Courtship of MCJ and they become an official steady bonded duo by the start of Season 3.

### Love Interest(s)

* Chantel Bennett (Best friend/on-off girlfriend and crush, Season 1-2, official girlfriend/bonded human, Season 3-present)

### Likes

* Music (whether listening to or making it)

* Riding his skateboard
* His friends and cousins
* Chantel
* Inventing
* Playing games
* Adventures
* Dancing
* Singing
* Making things
* Art
* Technology
* Dressing up
* Jared
* Surprises
* Hanging out with his friends and cousins
* Spending time with Chantel

### Dislikes

* Seeing his friends and family sad
* Seeing Chantel unhappy
* Rejection
* Heartbreak
* His inventions going awry
* No music
* Boredom
* Being made fun of
* Chantel being taken away from him

## Portrayal

### Costume Actors

* Adam Brown
* Jeff Ayers
* Jared Harris

### Voice Actors

* Michaela Dietz (main)
* Claudia Bramnsefette
* Raphael Ferreira
* Lisa Ortiz

## Trivia

* His favorite food/snack is Celery with Cheddar Cheese and Raisins (aka Ants on a Log)
* He is also one of the characters who appear in almost every episode, just so that he could have popularity in his character, especially his Chantel escapades. It's a popular fan theory that he appears in every episode so far, along with Jared and Barney

* Riff's costume is similar to Hi, I'm Riff & Season 10-11, but a tad bit shorter, almost between Adam Brown's height and Jerad Harris' height, making it easier for all the performers to fit in there (hopefully), and his head stripes have glitter on them whenever they light up, to give them a more appealing/magical feel
* If you look closely, whenever he is feeling a strong emotion, his head scales twinkle a certain pattern and can sometimes change color, but the usual sound is still intact, however altered to fit his mood
* It shows he loves his friends and family, especially Chantel, more than his music and inventing (obviously)
* He was originally going to named "Zack", according to Stephen White