Hey! :) Well thank you! I miss writing new posts, and I really miss having more Richard in my life! It’s just hard without new inspiration/episodes since I’m not nearly imaginative enough to write stuff out of the blue, and I simply fail when it comes to anything creative like fic!

The last few Richard-related thoughts I’ve had in the past couple of weeks include stuff like this:

I was thinking about his conversation with Angela in the fourth episode of season two before she sketches him, and how he was talking about how he used to draw as a child, and I was suddenly really curious about what it was that he would draw, and I wonder why he stopped. I wonder if he stopped because of the war or if he stopped long before that. I just would love to see what kinds of ideas he’d had as a child. Now we’ve seen his scrapbooks, which are creative in a sense, but I’m sure that his creative endeavors were rather different before the war.

I still have hopes that Richard and Meyer will become friends, whether those hopes will be fruitless or not, haha. I’ve been thinking about Richard’s involvement in season three a lot lately, and I really, really hope that they’ll give him something to do. I have this huge fear that they’ll make him bumble around and that his storyline will be stale and meandering without a lot of development, and then he’ll just die. I guess that is the pessimist in me! I really hope that they won’t do this, though. It’s time for Richard to do something again. I can understand being depressed and lost after having lost your only friends, and it wouldn’t be unrealistic to have him bumble around only to die, honestly, but it also does not make for good storytelling. I really hope that he’ll use Jimmy and Angela’s deaths as a catalyst to go out and do something. It’d be nice if he chose a different path. There really isn’t much keeping him in Atlantic City, and it’d be neat if he maybe went back to Chicago or even tried a new city (New York, Philly…). There are so many directions he can go into, and I just hope that his potential won’t be wasted because he is just SUCH a unique character, and obviously I love him so much.

On that note, a fic with Richard and Meyer being friends or something would be really cool if you’re up for something like that. It’s really nice of you to want to write me something, so thanks a lot! You’re a great writer, so I’m sure that whatever you write will be lovely. :)