Richie

**Richie** is the main protagonist and a survivor of the C-Virus in Crossed: Dead or Alive.

## Personality

Richie is shown to be a selfish, callous individual who will not hesitate to betray a group at a moment's notice. He is very calculating, making plans to off the group one-by-one, obviously showing that he has very little care for human life. The earliest in his point of life that this is displayed is his lack of reaction to his father's death, and how he described his mother as a "twat".

Upon failing to kill Carl, Richie begs for forgiveness, not feeling sorry for his attempted murder on Carl, but rather afraid that he will be killed, revealing that he's not only remorseless, but a massive coward. When the group leaves him for dead, he foolishly shoots all the ammo in the gun left for him at some crossed.

At the end of his life, Richie died as he lived: An uncaring, selfish sociopath.

## Pre-Apocalypse

Prior to the apocalypse, Richie lived in London had lost his father due to unknown circumstances, and displayed a lack of emotion towards his death. At some point during his life, he met a woman named Kelly and became engaged to her, although he had doubts about the proposal. Eventually, they set the date for the wedding, and had been heading to San Diego to tell his folks when the outbreak struck.

## Post-Apocalypse

### Crossed: Dead or Alive

When the apocalypse first struck, Richie had been sitting with Kelly on the top deck when a man walked up to the top deck and attacked one of the cabin staff. Richie is nearly killed by the man when trying to run, but is saved when the plane shifts and one of the pilots shoots the attackers. Richie begs for the pilot to save them, and the pilot tells Richie to check the downstairs. Upon seeing that the downstairs is overrun, Richie returns in time to see Cassie kill the pilot with the gun and the other two pilots, causing the plane to crash. Richie manages to survive by getting his seat belt on, and rips off two of his fingernails in the process trying to get out. Kelly is revealed to have also survived the plane crash, but when she begs Richie to help her due to her arm being stuck, Richie knocks her out and leaves her to die. Upon getting out, he encounters a woman with her feet nearly missing, and ends up wetting himself as a crossed crawls towards him. Richie then declares himself a survivor as he looks upon the wreckage, and then walks away.

At one point, Richie ended up with Carl's group after being in a number of other groups that had perished at some point. Richie gained a dislike for them, especially Justin.

Richie makes his first appearance in Issue #1, where he is walking behind Carl and Joe, and mentally says that he thinks of betrayal.. Later in the night, he keeps watch with Carl, where the two of them spy on an overrun village. Richie says that the village had most likely been picked clean, and notes that the crossed have one of the resident's kids. Richie is then seen waiting around until Carl warns the group about some crossed,

Upon noticing the broken bridge, he mentally is enraged and wishes death upon the group. When Joe talks about the army blowing the bridge, Richie asks if it matters. Later, while remembering what happened in the plane, he is jarred out of it when Justin falls in a rabbit hole and injures his leg. Richie, Carl, and Luke keep watch for crossed, and Richie audibly says trying to help Justin is stupid, causing Carl telling Richie to shut up. After spotting some crossed and killing them, Carl decides to take Richie in order to see how far back the crossed far, which enrages Richie.

While walking, Richie is annoyed when Carl criticizes him for not paying attention. While noting that the group needs to make as much space from the crossed horde as possible, Richie takes the opportunity to smash Carl in the face with the butt of a rifle and leaves him to die. While running, Richie realizes he could've taken Carl's gun, and accidentally runs off a cliff. Richie ends up breaking his leg, and manages to push it back in, but not without screaming in pain. Upon hearing footsteps, Richie attempts to kill himself but stops when the group, along with an injured Carl, find him.

When the group begin looting him, Richie is in disbelief, and frantically tries to apologize to Carl, who rebuffs him. Richie tries to make an excuse that he was scared that Justin was going to get them killing due to him breaking his ankle, but Justin corrects him saying it wasn't broken and admits he knew about Richie's dislike towards him. Richie begs for another chance, but the group refuses, causing Richie to lash out at them. Joe leaves him a gun, and the group leave him behind.

Initially, Richie plans on killing himself, but when five crossed come, Richie decides to live and shoot them. However, when the horde catch up, Richie attempts to kill himself, but realizes he had only five bullets and spent them all. Richie yells in horror as the crossed proceed to surround and kill him.

## Death

**Killed By**

* Himself *(Caused)*
* Carl’s Group *(Caused)*
* Crossed

When Richie attempts to ditch the group after knocking out Carl, he accidentally runs off the cliff and breaks his leg. After screaming in pain after fixing his leg and attracting a nearby horde of crossed, Carl and his group arrives to loot Richie’s supplies, and leave him dead for attempting to kill Carl, but not before Joe gives him a loaded gun. When a few crossed arrives, Richie shoots them down. However, when the rest of the horde arrives, Richie attempts to kill himself until he realizes that he wasted the last bullets, leaving him to be brutally torn apart by crossed,

## Killed Victims

This list shows the victims Richie has killed:

* Kelly *(Caused)*
* Himself *(Caused)*
* Numerous counts of crossed
* Unknown groups of Survivors (*Speculated, Indirectly or Direct Caused*)

## Relationships

#### Kelly

Richie seemed to be very doubtful of his relationship with Kelly, and also seemed to be annoyed by her a bit. When Richie tries to escape, he doesn't even try to help Kelly and leaves her to die.

#### Lauren

Richie seems to dislike Lauren the least out of all the group members, as he says he wished to take her away from the group. However, when Lauren learns of Richie's attempt to leave Carl for dead, she doesn't hesitate to loot him and leave him to die.

#### Tabitha

Tabitha initially seemed indifferent to Richie, while Richie views her as weak due to her being old. When Tabitha learns of Richie's attempt to leave Carl for dead, she is furious and reveals that Richie always had a look about him. She also says before the group leaves that they're not him, showing that she detests him.

#### Joe

While not seen interacting much, it's clear that like the others, Richie disliked Joe. When Joe learns of Richie's attempt to leave Carl for dead, he doesn't hesitate to loot him and leave him for dead. However, he appears to take a bit of pity on Richie, and leaves him a revolver.

#### Justin

Justin and Richie have a poor relationship, with Richie viewing Justin as weak and a "pathetic bitch". Richie also believes that Justin is useless, and when Justin is injured, Richie doesn't hesitate to consider leaving him for dead. Justin later reveals that he was aware of Richie's hatred towards him, and is aware of Richie's plan to get rid of him. Justin doesn't hesitate to leave him for dead.

#### Carl

Initially, Carl seemed to trust Richie enough to scavenge with him. However, he was unaware of Richie's burning hatred towards him. After Carl gets the idea to take Richie to see how far back the crossed are, Richie snaps and later smashes him in the head with a rifle and leaves him for dead. This effectively destroys their relationship. Upon finding Richie, Carl is furious at him and ignores his frantic apologies while telling him he's weak and that he couldn't leave him for dead properly. He then leaves Richie to be killed by the crossed.

## Appearances

### Crossed: Dead or Alive

* ''Crossed: Dead or Alive Issue #1"
* ''Crossed: Dead or Alive Issue #2"
* ''Crossed: Dead or Alive Issue #3"
* ''Crossed: Dead or Alive Issue #4"
* ''Crossed: Dead or Alive Issue #5"
* ''Crossed: Dead or Alive Issue #6"
* ''Crossed: Dead or Alive Issue #7"
* ''Crossed: Dead or Alive Issue #8"
* ''Crossed: Dead or Alive Issue #9"
* "Crossed: Dead or Alive Issue #10"
* "Crossed: Dead or Alive Issue #11"
* "Crossed: Dead or Alive Issue #12"