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Is Richard bing overreacting or does he have the right to be acting nuts?
He is everreacting.
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He is still dealing with new emotions! Don't blame him!
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I'm not sure...
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Livythia

PostPosted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:34 am


I keep seeing the word "broody" being thrown around and I completely agree. That's Richard in a nutshell. I started as a Richard fan and sorta still am but the guy's a whiner amongst other things. I guess you could say he's my favorite little drama king. It goes far beyond complaints though. If Richard doesn't pull it together soon he's going down and taking everyone with him. I too imagine the whole pregnancy issue throwing him off track. Any time he takes a step forward I wait for him to freak out in "new territory" and run three steps back.
PostPosted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 9:56 pm


I started out not being a fan of Richard. He was too sweetsy for my taste. I have always been a JC fan. But I really like the turn of events in ID. I hope to see more if Richard is really becoming more like Anita.

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Black_Widow87

PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:53 am


i never liked richard, i think he can't except what he is and never will be able to .....im a fan of jean claude and jason
PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:14 am


Me too. I am a huge JC & Jason fan.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 2:57 pm


I just finished the killing dance and I kinda felt sorry for Richard at first. But then looking back on it. It was kind of an a*****e thing for him to change and slap her in the face with his "beast"

Anita was fine accepting things a little at a time. But at the end it was like he punched her right in the face and said "here deal with it."

Besides who can resist temptation. If I were anita i would have screwed Jean-Claude a long time ago. But that's why i'm not her and i'm not a vampire slayer XD
PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:37 am


I agree, I would never have been able to resist JC and therefore he wouldn't have wanted me as badly as he wanted Anita.

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WolfWeaver

PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:55 am


I admit, i used to like Richard, and i respected it when he had to come to terms with being an Alpha, and being a werewolf, and sorting out his emotional baggage.

I lost all respect for him when he keeps throwing temper tantrums
PostPosted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:09 pm


Daraku Dakara
richard is unstable, and that is all there is to it. Even from the begining he was not comfortable in his own skin, and was prone to tantrums, and brooding moods. He only acts in the extreems, and even then only when forced. His recent evening out wasn't even his diong, but JC's.
He has to come to true (non violent, non sadistic) tearms with himself before he can truely become what he needs to be in order to function correctally in the trimverate, and as Ulfric to his clan.

But that is just my opinion. smile


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PostPosted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:29 pm


Daraku Dakara
tell me about it, even his mother got used to the idea, and fully accepts him for what he is.
Yeah, but I sometimes wonder if that's because she's seen the things that are ten times worse than what her son has become. What if she hadn't been 'enlightened' in the way that she was?
PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:38 am


I think from simply how richard is, His folks would have been cool with it, but would have been pissed if they had found out any later.

Granted it sounds like his family is the partrige family but they sound like a forgiving and lienient one.

I think Richard has put himself on a moral pedistal and found himself falling very quickly from it. He never asked for lycanthropy and i hardly doubt his true happy picket fenced life woudl have ever made him see the things being a lycanthrope forced him to see.

*shrugs* I have to say though. He needs anti-depressants. When Anita is at his back and he knows she's right about s**t. He's not such a bad guy.. but then he flies off the handle.

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Neko_Kitsuni

PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:52 pm


A. Drake
I just finished the killing dance and I kinda felt sorry for Richard at first. But then looking back on it. It was kind of an a*****e thing for him to change and slap her in the face with his "beast"

Anita was fine accepting things a little at a time. But at the end it was like he punched her right in the face and said "here deal with it."


And that's just it. He doesn't understand how they can all accept themselves being monsters, but not him. Anita came to terms with herself, and is still doing so, gradually. Richard was like "okay, we'll take baby steps, baby steps, oh shove it!"

A. Drake
Besides who can resist temptation. If I were anita i would have screwed Jean-Claude a long time ago. But that's why i'm not her and i'm not a vampire slayer XD


I'm in total agreement. JC would have gotten in my pants with one look.

Well, maybe two... but then maybe I'm giving myself too much credit...
PostPosted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:37 am


in the beginning i kinda got annoyed with his i won't harm anyone act but now he's strting to get annoyingbecause he's always so cruel and harsh domokun

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 8:10 pm


Adani Chinoumi
Well he acctually turned into an assholish sadist AFTER he met up with Anita. I truely beleive it was her influence that turned him into it. What was really making him erk about his werewolfism was because Anita freaked out when he shifted on top of him (which I dont blame her for doing) and she went to the vampire cause he seemed less monsterous. I think another thing that helped drive her away was watching Richard eat Marcus's body. gonk sweatdrop THAT really freaked and grossed her out. She knew that JC would never do something like that. He'd take blood yes but he'd never eat someone like Richard and his pack did.



Adani Chinoumi
But anyhoo, Richard then had a huge problem with Anita because after a while she became more comfortable with the monsters then most of the monsters were. That's cause she'd accepted that she had never really been human to start with. 3nodding



I agree wholeheartedly with you one this. I mean, think about it. Hearken back to CoD, when Richard and Anita first met. He seemed comfortable with himself, and kept trying to convince Anita that lycanthropy wasn't a bad thing. Then, all of a sudden, the next few books show his hesitance....because Anita thinks that he's a monster.

Anita's reluctance caused his own doubts to gain strength, thus creating most of the problems that come from Richard.

But what I'm not seeing with Richard-Haters is logic. Logically, would any one of you feel calm and cool about killing someone? -on a monthly basis? Wouldn't you kind of freak out if you found out that your significant other was a trigger-happy nonhuman? And you STILL weren't getting some? (just kidding)

My point is that most people, when faced with the unknown, panic. They b***h and they whine and they try to cling to normalacy, and then harp on other people when they seem to be adjusting better than they are, or begin to conform to actions that go against what they believe to be right. Human nature.

That being said, I do dislike Richard. But at least I empathize with him.
PostPosted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:36 am


How could he ruin such a great relationship?! I was reading Circus of the Damned and Lunatic Cafe again last week after reading a few of the later books and I was crying because it was a great relationship. He had some jealousy issues and he let it get to him. Personally, my favorite is Micah. I think he'll last the longest in a relationship with Anita.

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