Richard Stein

**Richard Stein** is the fan-made main protagonist of The New Generation. He is Henry's son, an ex-"animator" that worked for the studio around the early 40's. In-game, Richard recieves an letter from Mr. Drew, which invites him and his friends to the old abandoned studio. Richard, Sheila, Donald, Dean and Stanley then decide to visit the studio, and discover what was left behind on the past 35 years.

## Appearance

Richard Stein is an adult on his mid 20's, he has black hair and blue eyes and uses grey glasses. He wears a red jacket and brown pants, he is also around 1,78 meters hight and weighs around 50, to 60 kilograms.

## Personality

Richard appears to be an very curious man, and caring for his friends (as seen in Sheila's dissapearing). He also seems very stubborn, as not listening to Henry on not going to the studio.

## Appearances

### *Chapter 1: Aspiring Sin*

Richard wakes up on his bed, and gets called by Henry to come downstairs. After Richard arrives, Henry then starts talking about the events of Chapter 1 to 5, and says to Richard never go back into the studio, as the place is cursed. Richard then pretends to hear Henry's advice, and leaves the house to call his friends to check the abandoned studio.

After that, Richard and his friends aproach the abandoned studio and start to try to break the door down, but fails, Dean then manages to break it down, and they enter the abandoned studio. After the first cutscene, Richard is already controllable. After exploring the old studio, they find the boarded Ink Machine room. Richard approaches it and suddenly Triggered Bendy appears and tries to grab Richard.

He and his friends run away to the door, Stanley then affirms that they are safe but suddenly the floor breaks.

Richard and his friends then hit the ground, but with no bruises, except Richard's glasses, that were broken in the fall. Sheila then decides to look around if there's something to help, but after she exits the room, a scream is heard out on the staircase.

When entering the staircase Triggered Bendy drags Sheila through the wall, which the same dissapears along with Sheila.

Richard and his friends decide to rescue Sheila, but while walking on the way there, Richard finds a room called Cartoon Chamber, where he enters and says to Dean, Donald and Stanley to go an alternative path. He finds a desk where the Ultimate Axe is, and after grabbing it he says this line: "Huh, i guess i just found protection." (Note: If looking at the projector light on the wall it will be possible to see Forgotten Bendy, approaching it will make Richard say: "Poor Bendy, I feel bad for him being abandoned here.") After taking the axe, Richard can unblock the door on the end of the room, and see Donald, Dean and Stanley waiting for him.

After that, they reach a locked gate, which has a sign above that says: "Management Department", where there are many Triggered Searchers, the group enter a hole in the wall, and go past a gate, which closes after passing through it, Stanley then notices that the lever is gone, and they have to find it.

They enter an agglomerated of rooms, where Bendy Clone is running around, if the Richard catches Bendy Clone, he dissappears, dropping a lever, placing it and unlocking the gate, and continuing

After the fight with some Triggered Searchers, Richard, Dean, Donald and Stanley reach the Merchandising Department, as they enter two Stalkers appear, and Stanley, Richard, Dean and Donald have to fight them,

After the fight, they can pass to the next room.

The chapter ends with Richard and the rest of his friends finding Triggered Bendy's lair, with Richard's last voice line: "It's here, She was taken here, wait...There...are...more...people here." The screen goes black while Richard says the line.

## Trivia

* On a shelf in Richard's room, there's a Bendy Plushie, suggesting that Richard likes Bendy.