#⁰⁰⁷ ✴ ◞ 𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 ◦ headcanon

[muutos]

how does richard feel about those who do good? does he even care about them, or is he unbothered and merely coexisting? does he ever think about doing better or does he view what he currently does as permanent? not even necessarily re: moral standing, i suppose i'm curious on whether he experiences envy towards people who do good and thus receive good things in return etc.

richard by default these days sees everyone as below him. he considers himself to be ... i guess not enlightened, but definitely generally correct about most everything. till is the only one he'll place above himself, to be frank. so already, we're not onto a great start. he doesn't tend to care about anyone's opinions on default, other than generally wanting people to think he looks good, or rich, when he's out and about, or meeting people. nothing deeper than that, off the bat. he demands respect and people who don't give it to him, he either writes off, kills or beats.

however i'd like to note that while richard does believe in god, he believes more-less that god gains pleasure by watching people suffer, so he does indeed think do-gooders are absolutely naive, and automatically people who have a penchant to do good things for the sake it are misguided. he doesn't believe in it. his mother used to tell him he was going to hell, so he stopped being scared of it (mostly), a long time ago.

he definitely is indifferent to most. unless it's someone he has interest in (selfishly), or someone he deals with regularly. i remember he's had dynamics with other criminals who have 'codes', and he's always just been a smug asshole about it, trying to egg them on. he's super rude condescending in general to people who who do good, and it gets worse if you're a woman. unfortunately.

nowadays he definitely is comfortable in his skin, and he sees this as his permanent state of being. when he gets older he gets a little tamer, and chubbier (in the verses where he lives past 38)... but that's just the passage of time, generally. he's pretty full of himself, so he doesn't feel the need to get any 'better' -- although in a sense he does feel a bit burned that till finds him to be a hindrance, at times, due to his erratic behavior and sadomasochistic tendencies. in his secondary main verse he is quite guarded and thinks all of his brothers think he's useless. but that's just something he'd work to curb while he is working, and engage more-so in those things on his personal time. he also just thinks they're wrong for criticizing him.

although, when he was a teenager (homeless) -- and even when he first started living with the boys, he certainly did try. he recognized certain things about his empathy and lack thereof, and it frightened him. he definitely tried to be better, but till never helped that. eventually he started to simply grow into his traits. being praised for them having made him think that he was rather untouchable.

richard sees 'do good and you get good' as a pure coincidence. he does enormous amounts of bad and he's only ever been rewarded, other than losing his hand. but he accredits the loss as the thing that really transitioned him from being unsure in his new confidence, to cementing it. he prided himself on self-learning how to live with his non-dominant hand, and it really proved that power he held in his mind was real, and he could do anything he set his mind to. it was kind of his metamorphoses.

i feel more-less like richard's transition from the worst time in his life to the best time of his life just doesn't allow for him to believe in good karma. when he was trying to meet social expectations he was really in the worst position he ever had been, and it didn't get better until he unleashed the inner beast.

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