Richard Conway

Player

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Age: 26
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Contact: #NomenNescio8512 on Discord
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Character

Name: Richard Conway
Age: Mid 20's.
Gender: Male
Canon: Gunpoint
Canon Point: After the events of the game, after having had gone through both of Rooke's paths.
History: https://gunpointwiki.net/wiki/Gunpoint_Wiki

TW: Violence, suicide, drug use, and depression.

It all started the same way all good stories do: jumping out the window.

Richard Conway, a novice freelance spy, had just recently bought a brand new pair of Bullfrog hypertrousers. To celebrate, he had decided to try it out, and had accidentally flung himself out of his third story window down through a skylight and into the lobby of a subsidiary of Rooke Firearms. The manager of this subsidiary, Selena Delgado, saw this, and called Richard wondering what the hell just happened, and had asked him to come up and explain himself. However, an assassin named Hightower, clad in gear very similar to Richard, had killed her before he could come up and talk. Richard was caught on camera while heading up. He was placed at the scene of the crime.

Cue a message from Melanie Rooke herself, who knew he wasn't the killer, but knew the police would ask her for the evidence from the camera. She hired him to go and clear out the footage from the backup sites and clear his name. Which he did. Which got an innocent girl named Katie Collins arrested in his stead.

In the midst of a war of espionage between Fritz Gessler of the Intex Corporation and Melanie Rooke, Katie was simply wanting to get out of a terrifying situation. She was a sweet girl, innocent, sometimes even a bit clever, but never wanting to trouble anyone. She was described as being meek enough that she'd have to apologize profusely whenever someone so much as brought her a cup of coffee. Richard got personally invested in trying to get her off the hook for what amounted to his involvement in this twisted web, and found out that the reason that she was put in jail was because Mark Jackson, Melanie Rooke's husband, was covering up the fact that he was cheating on her with Selena Delgado, the victim, which Intex had bug footage of and hired Hightower to carry out the hit.

Richard had managed to get in well enough with the police chief (of the actual police), ironically by investigating his own involvement and was set to get Katie Collins off the hook. However, by the time the pieces were together, Katie Collins had committed suicide in her cell. The note she had left had only said, “I didn't want to be a burden.”

Rooke was furious after having lost someone she had been close to, and Conway had a choice to make. He could gather and freely distribute the bug footage, which would allow Mark Jackson to walk away a free man. Or he could give the footage to Rooke to doctor unfavorably against Jackson, Rooke having had a grudge with Mark after having been the direct cause of Katie's death and having cheating on her, and she also had the means to get Hightower and Gessler within Richard's grasp. Richard decided to side with the latter.

The story ends like all good stories do: by jumping out a window.

After having barged in and punched out every security guard, after every door had been torn off of it's hinges and windows broken, after the security of this building had been left in knots, after Hightower had been effectively driven into the pavement (after having tackled him out of the seventh story in the building), Richard Conway chucked Fritz Gessler out of the top story of his own building, shot Hightower once, and shot the corpse of Gessler five times after having pounded it into the ground until his head was a fine red paste.

He went home, realizing that he couldn't stay at East Point for much longer, decided to take some Ketamine and watch some Columbo to pass the time, published a post in his blog about the situation, and woke up... Here.

Personality:

"The last week echoed in my mind like a gunshot in an empty street...

Richard Conway is a man with an aesthetic to live up to, and almost, by sheer circumstance of his job and the events of his game, pulls it off. In his trench coat and fedora, he dresses and looks like a man who comes out of Casablanca, Chinatown, The Big Sleep. In the last words of the game, after he's posted his experiences to his super secret blog, he wants to spend the time he should be using to get out of the city to instead takes some ketamine for the wounds he's taken in the last week and zone out to Peter Falk catching crooks in Columbo. He's quick to banter, and resistant to the comeback that he no doubt gets from the most powerful people in East Point. Given the sarcastic behavior and simmering return serves of the different people he's talked to, this seems to be a proud East Point tradition. The dialogue options are not a simple matter of morality, and while the player is given agency on what he's doing, dialogue options taken as his thoughts, Richard Conway is a very snarky man. When the police chief had hired him to get something from his headquarters, Richard, who was no doubt giggling his fedora off, replied, “So, wait. You, the police chief of the actual police, want me to get this police thing from the police”. Which he said, regardless of the fact that he knew he was a suspect in the case he himself was sent to investigate.

He doesn't always manage to pull it off. Especially when interacting with someone who has something on him, and he shows himself to be a man who desperately wants to live up to that ideal of the noir hero, but has bouts of being too awkward or too sarcastic to really pull it off. The very first line of the game can start with him saying, "I didn't kill her!" when called up by one of his clients. He's quick with a joke, but given that you can immediately respond with his brand of snark immediately after the more traumatizing events of the game happens, you can tell that he's using it as a crutch, undermining the gravitas of a situation a noir hero would embrace in order to escape it.

On the other hand, we get another picture from Richard when he interacts with Katie. He sticks up for her, going on (some of the most difficult and mind-snagging) missions to make sure that she gets off the hook. He tells her jokes in a show of self-deprecation, making himself out to be the kind of person that doesn't even think about how a sentence is going to end, to keep her spirits up. He shakes down his own clients to make sure that she doesn't end up staying in that place she even describes as a terrifying, scary place filled with sex workers and violent criminals any longer than she has to, even if it might put his own freedom at risk.

And then she commits suicide. The signs were there, she openly said that she was giving him the last of her money. Her texting style had gone from an alert, almost manic exclamation point suffused lowercase mess to having no exclamation points and having little in the way of typos. On a mission, he even gets informed from a leftover e-mail that she's the type of person who gets to feeling incredibly guilty whenever Rooke gets her a cup of coffee. Richard must pride himself as being a person that thinks fast, who's clever enough to walk into a building with loads of armed guards and walk out with whatever he needs. But there was something obvious, something that a clever man could have seen coming a mile away, and he didn't. He should have. He could have. He would have.

But he didn't. That would not sit well with him, that would haunt him to the end of his days.

Given the events on how this particular Richard Conway acted in the last mission, he is very vindictive. While admittedly not very violent as a whole, having gone through the events of the game with only two intentional kills (he's not 100% sure whether or not the first use of his Gatecrashers constituted as a kill), the two kills that are under his belt were gruesomely overdone.

RP Samples:

RP Samples 1,2,3: Test Drive Meme
RP Sample 4: Test Drive Meme

Vaikuntha

Moogle Name: Mogcho
Moogle Gender: Man

First Job: Ninja
Second Job: Dragoon
Melody: Achievement Unlocked!

Richard Conway pounces on an opponent at great speed, knocks them down, and begins to pummel them with over one hundred punches, dealing medium/heavy/severe/extreme damage to one target and stunning them.

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