Riley Ruckus

> "*SCOUT, I'LL RIP YOUR GUTS OUT!*"
>  - Riley during the Tea Party.
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## Bio

Riley Ruckus was a popular character of Mortimer's Handeemen, with her love of science and catchphrase, "More Data!" she was easily a fan favorite.

In the prequel game, ‘Hello Puppets Midnight Show’ Owen Gubberson, the puppet’s creator and show runner, describes Riley in personal log 1-2-83, while creating the show’s ensamble, “Then you have like a second in command, that’s Riley Ruckus, she’s a scientist, and she always wants “More Data!”

After being brought to life by Mortimer, however, she became a textbook definition of "Mad Scientist." She doesn't seem to even have empathy for her own kind, seeing as she tests, experiments and kills puppets quite frequently. Owen even described her as the worst and that she was a "Monster” in a tape found in the first game.

## Appearance

Riley is a white wooden ventriloquist dummy designed after a young woman with curly red hair, tied in a large bun. In the prequel, Hello Puppets: Midnight Show, She wears a light green lab coat, green safety gloves and black goggles on her forehead. She also has mismatched eyes.

In the first game, Hello Puppets! she had a slight change to her design, having a doctors mask with printed teeth around her mouth, suggesting some kind of deformity, as well as a white, blood stained surgical apron. One of her eyes also appears to be twitching, insinuating her insanity.

## Personality

As mentioned previously, Riley Ruckus is insane. It seems that her being brought to life gave her the personality of her in-show counterpart, a thirst for knowledge that would lead to madness. She gives no care for who or what she hurts, be it human or puppet. She is also a manipulator, as she is said by Scout to have said that humans want to be hosts to the puppets and that the human world is hell compared to theirs.

It has been stated that she takes great pleasure in mangling her victims, based on some audio logs, pictures of her stuffing human parts in Rosco, and her "love" of performing surgery on her fellow puppets. During the tea party, she tells the Host and Scout the painful details of how she will torture them if she were to capture them.

In "Midnight Show" she believes that puppets were evolved by an ancient being made of wood (even so far believing that the Ents from The Lord of the Rings are one of them), she had also tried to overthrow Mortimer as leader along with the other puppets, only for Mortimer to bribe her back under his control by introducing Rosco, whom he had just brought to life using Riley’s research notes, is under his command, and threatening her by destroying him as leverage. “If I ever hear of any funny business, if you so much as complain, I’ll activate the trigger device I’ve lodged in Rosco’s brain. And they’ll be nothing left of his body but a red and brown stain.” After she agrees to his terms, he lets her take care of him. However despite her behavior she shows compassion to some of the other puppets, including Daisy by helping her with her "danger mode" and mostly towards Rosco after Mortimer ordered her to burn him and finding out Rosco is under his control.

## Relationships

Riley loves her dog Rosco and hates humans. Like all the puppets, she greatly fears/respects Mortimer, as shown during the tea party when Mortimer ordered her to apologize to both Scout and The Host, which she begrudgingly does, and grows fearful when they both allude to Rosco during the final chase.

It is also stated within the game that Riley was always at odds with the artistic Nick Nack within their television show. It is difficult to pinpoint their current relationship, as Nick is not present in-game save for one moment. However, if their relationship did stay the same after coming to life, this could imply Riley did something bad to Nick. In Hello Puppets!: Midnight Show she says that she will "tear Nick Nack apart, and experiment on his worthless little heart!"

## Trivia

* Riley is left-handed.
* Her right eye twitches.
* She created both Rosco and the Sockpuppets with puppet parts, human or animal flesh and fabric.
* She is capable of actually speaking not in rhyme as evidence over her speaker announcement of threatening to kill the Sockpuppets if they fail to find the player and Scout (including using swears), which means the puppets rhyming is optional which Mortimer ordered to do all the time.
* Riley wears the mask around her mouth due to an incident that sustained damage to her jaw, as can be seen by looking closer at her model. It is unknown what this accident was or how it happened, but because of picture evidence in the game it can be speculated that it happened sometime after Anthony Pierson was apprehended by the puppets.
* Riley's catchphrase is "More Data!"
* A YouTube gamer pointed out during a playthrough of Hello Puppets!: Midnight Show that Riley's character is reminiscent of Ms. Frizzle from, The Magic School Bus franchise. No doubt due to her crazy, ginger hair, passion for science, and extreme means of teaching it to children.
	+ She is also reminiscent of Edward from the anime, Cowboy Bebop due to being a genius level female scientist, with crazy red hair, who owns a dog.
* Riley's despicable side is made more blunt in Midnight Show as she is very condescending to Owen after he answers her science trivia correctly.
* In Midnight Show, Riley reveals that while the other puppets see Owen as their father, she thinks that Mortimer is their father. Probably because Mortimer brought her and the rest of the main cast to life, while Owen only brought Mortimer to life.

## Gallery

#### Hello Puppets: Midnight Show

Riley inside her storage case.Bobble head collectable.Bust collectable.Outfit collectable.
#### Official Artwork

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