Richard "Rick" Hertz

## Employment Information

### Occupation

Co-Chairman and Co-CEO of Hertz EnterprisesCo-Founder and President of Rodney and Elizabeth Hertz Foundation

## Role-player Information

### Played By

Rhodey2225

***Richard "Rick" Hertz** is a civilian character played by **Rhodey**, he occasionally streams on **Twitch**.*

## Description and Personality

**Richard Rodney Hertz** (born June 28, 2000) is a business man and philanthropist. He is a Co-Chairman and Co-CEO at Hertz Enterprises as well as a Co-Founder and President at the Rodney and Elizabeth Hertz Foundation.

Rick was born to an American father and Australian mother, and raised in Seattle, USA. He had an estimated net worth of around US$12.5 billion prior to declaring bankruptcy in February 2022.

Rick has been criticised for his anger, unpredictability, anti-social behaviour and occasional violent outburst, but he is much better known for being considerably kind, thoughtful, caring and protective of those he cares about. He is also known to be cynical and untrusting of people, especially strangers and those with great power and wealth.

## Backstory

### Early life and family

Richard Rodney Hertz was born on June 28, 2000, in Seattle, USA. His father is Rodney Hertz, a billionaire, entrepreneur, robotics engineer, property developer and pilot born in Philadelphia, USA. His mother is Elizabeth Hertz, a teacher turned philanthropist born in Sydney, Australia. Rick has a younger sister, Jodie (born 2002). Rick has a great-great-grandfather...*to be continued...*

When Rick was only five years old, he was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) which is a serious developmental disorder that impairs the ability to communicate and interact with others and the world around him. Rick's parents were devastated to hear the diagnosis and constantly abused and belittled him because of it, trying to force him to be "normal" which is something he was never going to be and they always compared him to his seemingly flawless Sister. After coming to terms with the fact that he was indeed different from everyone else and rightfully concluding that his family despised him, Rick started to feel like a social reject and like he didn't belong or fit in anywhere.

Rick discovered early on that he had an obsession with cars, an obsession that, as it so happened, Rodney also shared. Rick would eventually use this shared obsession to finally create somewhat of a decent relationship with his Father. The pair would often be found in the garage, both working together on some of the older cars in Rodney's expensive and vast collection. The two even restored a vintage 1934 Vapid Hustler together.

### The Growing Darkness

In middle school, after years of relentless bullying, Rick gave in to his pent up anger, resentment and frustration, deciding enough was enough, he was who he was and nothing was going to change that, so he started standing up for himself and fighting back against the bullies. After years of not being able to get Rick to stop fighting his fellow students, Rodney decided to ship him off to a boarding school in Switzerland. Rick felt abandoned and once again despised by his Father, their relationship was irreversibly destroyed in Rick's mind. Rick would eventually be expelled as punishment for his anti-social, unpredictable and often times, violent behaviour.

After being expelled, Rick was hired on as an unpaid intern at his Father's company; Hertz Enterprises. While working at Hertz, Rick was tasked with assisting the Chairman, President and COO; Obadiah Silco. Rick would grow rather fond of Silco, with him becoming somewhat of a mentor and father figure to Rick. After spending a year at Hertz, Rodney insisted that Rick go to College so that he can eventually take over the company, this infuriates Rick and pushes him further away from his Father. Silco convinces Rick not to be too mad at his father and that he'd likely prefer College to the office anyway. Thanks to Silco's advice, Rick decides not to fight his Father and instead to go to College.

Rick attends the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, getting accepted into a business and economics course only because his influential Father pulled some strings behind the scenes. Rick would only last five months at College, getting expelled shortly before the Christmas holidays after getting caught partaking in an illegal street race.

### The Unfixable Mistake

Rick returned to Seattle on Christmas Eve, getting into an aggressive fight with his Father about getting expelled. This fight results in Rick storming out of the mansion in the middle of the night, despite it being blisteringly cold and snowing. Rick steals some of his Father's liquor and the Vapid Hustler they had built together and goes out for a joy ride to try and calm down, Rick promptly gets very drunk while behind the wheel and cruises the streets at dangerous speeds, inadvertently initiating a Police chase. Not long into the chase, while not paying attention to the road as Rick was flipping off the pursuing cops, he would crash into another car entering an intersection. After managing to painfully pull himself from the wreck, Rick quickly realised that the other car was another of his Father's. Rick, despite being in considerable pain with a broken leg, crawled over to find his Father, covered in blood, and hanging upside down, trapped and unable to move. Rodney tried to communicate with Rick but was unable to get out anything more than a haunting gargling sound before passing away, leaving Rick traumatised by the sight of his mangled body and the blood curdling sound. Rick stares at his Father's body, unable to stop himself from wishing that he had died too. Rick quickly passes out from the intense pain.

Rick wakes up in a private hospital where he receives some much needed medical care. Shortly after being released into Police custody and taken to court to receive charges, Rick gets some unwanted legal help from both his family and Hertz Enterprises, as a result, his prison sentence is reduced to only eighteen months. Rick entered prison at eighteen years old and after only a few days, was already picking fights with other inmates in an attempt to get himself killed. This behaviour often landed him in solitary confinement. Rick would only survive his time in prison because Silco was secretly paying off the guards to protect him from the others.

### The Unknown Enemy

With Rodney dead, Hertz Enterprises found itself needing new leadership. Hertz announced in a press conference, that Silco had been appointed the interim CEO until Jodie was old enough to take over the company for herself. During this time, Silco, now with full control of Hertz had been using the Pharmaceuticals division to cover up the secret but US Military funded production of very dangerous bioweapons. At the same time, Silco was attempting to groom Jodie to be his puppet for when she eventually replaced him.

### A New Life

Rick emerged from prison, now twenty years old and a drastically different person to the guy that first went in eighteen months prior. Rick's Mother and Sister where both waiting outside to take him home, he was almost unrecognizable at first but they quickly embraced him and tried to usher him towards the luxury car waiting for them. At first Rick was surprised to see either of them care so much about him, however he refused to go home with them, declaring that he needed and wanted to stay as far away from the family as possible. Elizabeth, now bursting into tears, attempted to argue with Rick and continued pushing him towards the car, Jodie however just stood there, seemingly unperturbed by Rick's announcement, only watching them both silently. Rick hugged his Mother and then his Sister, he said his final "goodbyes" to the both of them and then walked off alone, not knowing what he was going to do, or where he was going to go.

Now free of his family but not of his past, Rick decided to use his second chance to build a new life for himself. Rick set off on his journey, not knowing what he would find. Rick would eventually make his way to San Francisco, where he would purchase an old VW kombi bus, using this to continue his journey, exploring North America over the next several months, failing to find a place he could call home. Now twenty-one years old, Rick has been all over the US without success, only having Los Santos, a city located on the island state of San Andreas, left to visit. Deciding that this has to be the place he's been looking for, he drives back to the west-coast, sells the kombi bus and uses the money to buy a plane ticket to fly to LS, hoping to find a new home. Rick is however ignorant to the fact that his past will soon catch up with him.

## Hertz Enterprises

Hertz Enterprises was founded in 1988 by Rodney Hertz and his college best-friend; bio-tech engineer and venture capitalist, Obadiah Silco, with the initial goal of improving lives and making the world a better place through technology.

Silco's influence over Hertz Enterprises caused the company to slowly start transitioning away from the development of medical and clean energy technologies, switching to the manufacturing of weapons and defence technologies, much to Rodney's disgust.

Hertz Enterprises manufactures: body-armour, guns, missiles, armoured-vehicles, advanced aircraft, drones, robots and illegal bio-weapons. The company officially sells to the US military and it's allies, but also secretly sells to enemy nations and terrorist organisations.

In February 2022, Rick and his sister; Jodie Hertz, took over Hertz Enterprises after leaking sensitive information to the public, the pair would become Chairman and CEO together. Rick and Jodie would also go on to found the Rodney and Elizabeth Hertz Foundation, to make up for the crimes and sins of Hertz Enterprises.

## Relationships

***Rhodey** does not check the wiki often so feel free to add or remove your characters as necessary.*

### Friends

* Sean Tyne
* Cecelia "Cece" Concord
* Jason Langston
* Esmeralda "Esme" Lynn
* Bo Marque (RIP)
* Claira-Bell Moxley
* Amelia "Milly" Concord
* Gin Blossom
* Dirk Rockhard
* Darian Ambrosia
* Tim Horton
* Lilith Von Schwarzenberg
* Kai Sinchai

## Jobs

* Security at BRAHama Mamas | October 30, 2021 - February 5, 2022
* Security at Vanilla Unicorn | November 14, 2021 - February 5, 2022
* Security at Mirror Park Tavern | November 14, 2021 - February 5, 2022
* Server at Dragon's Rest | November 14, 2021 - December 4, 2021

## Vehicles

### Cars

* Pegassi Monroe
* Benefactor Glendale

## Gallery

Rick with his Monroe at the Observatory.Rick with pink hair!