sorry i'm hella slow and if this gets really long, but let's! i'm down for anything but it's babs, so [insert eyebrow waggle]. richard comes from a wealthy family and was basically forced to follow after his mother's footsteps of becoming a model, but he quit that when their household was ransacked by some crazy, perverted stalker. the perp was never caught and it made him feel some type of way — thinking the system had failed to bring justice to his family, he took it upon himself to investigate further and it was a driving force to him becoming a cop. a few months later, it was revealed that his mom had set up the whole thing herself. his parents eventually divorced and his dad remarried but richard acted as the paternal figure to his younger brother. he tries to let on like he's serious but he's honestly a big kid at heart, and it's one of the reasons he fails so hard at dating. he's pretty laid back and easy going, and gets a lot of flak for being so optimistic and selfless.