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sloppybitch) wrote2020-05-15 06:23 pm
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Name: Richie Tozier Door: Left Canon: IT : Chapter Two (2020 Film Adaptation) Canon Point: Post-film, after the remaining losers visit the quarry. Age: 40 Appearance: What the hell happened to me? History: "Don't touch the other boys Richie. Don't, or they'll know your secret." Personality: *** some positive traits have been bolded in the sections beneath and some negative traits have been italicized. "You punched me in the face, you made me walk through shitty water, brought me to a fucking crackhead house and now... I'm gonna have to kill this fucking clown."At first glance, Richie Tozier doesn't seem like much with thick-rimmed glasses that magnify his eyes three times over, a mop of brown curls, and loud Hawaiian shirts draping a tall gangly frame he hasn't grown into yet. He's exactly the kind of kid a person would choose to ignore in favor of any unkind commentary, but that's near to impossible because he's always talking. A master-mind of verbal influence with very little filter and not enough control over his own attention-span makes him stick out like a sore thumb. Trouble follows him wherever he goes, his verbal punches never get pulled - not for friends, and definitely not for people unfortunate enough to be considered an enemy. What he lacks in charisma he makes up for in pure unadulterated bravery, to the point of stupidity, dedicated to seeing a plan through and find a resolution often at the expense of himself. The bolstering of his own ego has become a superpower for Trashmouth Tozier, who's spent his life in the small town of Derry being hazed and persecuted for being different by people like Bowers and the rest of his so-called peers. His dedication to the Losers Club is one born from the trial and error of finding true friendship in a place where he'd never considered a possibility and witnessing first hand the horrors of a sewer-dwelling clown. There's nothing he wouldn't do for his friends, and this is evidenced by his constant descent into the madness of Pennywise and the mystery of what lurks beneath the Neibolt house knowing full-well the entire time that it's a death wish. "Wait- Can only virgins see this stuff? Is that why I'm not seeing it?"With a stubborn-streak deeper than the quarry itself Richie gets by through emotionally tense situations by using deflection to keep prying eyes away from him and focused on anyone else. Unlike the rest of the Loser's club, specifically Bill, who he considers the bravest of all of them, Richie keeps his own issues very close to the chest and does very little self-exploration into them. Better to be blissfully ignorant than allow anyone else to be privy to your internalized trauma. Richie's comes in the form of his self-identification and being uncertain of who he is as a person. His lack of security and grounding in himself is represented more than once in his trials with the clown, played off in the form of mind-games but evident in how he spins off into anger when he's confronted with something he can't immediately rationalize or conceptualize. Richie, despite his talent for wisecracks and levity at the most inappropriate of times, is actually very intelligent, making grades that suggest his gutter-humor isn't the full breadth of his knowledge. He's technical, and good with his hands- an obsession for Street Fighter at the local arcade his full-time hobby and an object of dedication. This same backseat intelligence comes into play when he helps his friends, like Eddie and his conflicts with his mother. With nerve under pressure, he knew enough to be prepared and not frantic when Eddie gets his arm broken and even pops it back into place so they can better mobilize and get out of there together. "I'm glad I got to meet you before you died."Despite his own issues with showing sincere emotion and dedication, these traits come out more often than not in his actions instead of his words which typically have some kind of direct deprecation in an attempt to dissuade people from sharing intimate words or moments with him. Richie would much rather someone else be under the microscope instead of himself and plays it off always toward someone else with bad humor or bad impressions to keep the conversation moving. Even so, empathy is a huge part of who he is and he's quickly able to register the difference between attention-seeking and more serious shit and is always there to help distract and divert wherever he's needed. He is blindly dedicated to the rest of the Loser's club and fully willing to be in harm's way if it keeps them all together. His encouragement might present itself in some light tooling or something more serious and direct but no-man-left-behind is a clause that he lives by and his driving force is to see them all succeed in the face of what feels like an impossible journey. "Other people die everyday, man! We don’t owe this town shit! Plus, I just remembered I grew up here like two hours ago. So I’m fucking leaving! Fuck this!"As an adult, more than twenty-seven years later, Richie has found the undivided attention of an audience that laughs no matter how true his jokes are and by equal measure has become disenchanted by his own claim to fame. His success as a comedian is hugely based upon a stage persona he developed rather than true experience and his jokes, while funny, are rote and overdone. He doesn't write his own material and has begun to view his own success as another in the long list of lies he's been telling himself. Richie within the film has an immediate reaction to Mike's call and is squeamish and nervous as a direct result without knowing why. In the first few moments of his show he falls victim to the "virus," that Pennywise concocted to keep them blind and so his jokes fall as flat as the image he gives to a full stadium of his viewers. Using the moniker 'Trashmouth Tozier,' with no idea where it came from until the moment it echoes back into his head from a different perspective. His fight or flight kicks in fast once things go awry at the Jade of the Orient and visibly distraught at the loss of Stan something he still considers second to running for his life at the expense of kids and a town that didn't do anything but make him miserable for being different. Richie goes so far as to say that it was Stan's weakness that made it so easy for him to choose the easy way out and manages it flippantly with little to no remorse. A callback to how often he's had to rationalize the worst parts of people, his parents, and himself to make ends meet. It's remembering Stanley at his bravest that ultimately gets him to stay following a direct attack from Pennywise about his "secret," grappling with his sexual identity at a young age in a town full of homophobes and corrupt authority figures. His biggest fear, more than clowns, and never leaving Derry had always been the truth of who he was and what he was at his core and how that could hurt others around him. It was made worse by his mother's constant remarks about "preferring to have had a girl," and the comments that Bowers and Hockstetter would make in the halls while licking their lips. "Right. I’m just trying to add some levity to this shit. I’ll go fuck myself."While Richie has aged and grown compared to who he was in the summer of 1989 he is far from a changed man. He still resorts to humor and steels himself against any real criticism or judgment with petty commentary and comedy relief. He's every bit the loyal, dedicated, and brilliant guy he was before lacking all the genuine sincerity of the both he'd left behind to get out of Maine. He goes along blindly with Mike, assuming it's all on the up and up until IT makes it clear that they never had a chance. His priorities shift and while he tries to stick to his guns and the plan he ultimately gets split from the others while they try to bring the monster down and winds up with Eddie, whom he'd always been closest to and takes up his mantle as Eddie's motivator so that they can get through the series of tricks and terror that Pennywise had in store for them. "He’s alright. No, he’s just hurt. We got to get him out of here. He’s hurt. Ben. No, he’s okay. We have to get him out of here, Bev."After the loss of Eddie, Richie is forced to acknowledge not only his secret but the loss of the first person he'd ever loved. It takes the cumulative strength of Mike and Ben to pull Richie away from him and he fights throughout entirety of the cavern, the gray water, and back up to the surface. When Neibolt collapsed Richie does too under the knowledge that his two best friends were gone and there was nothing to bring them back. Childhood was dead, and the rest of what he had to look forward to paled in comparison. Inventory: - A token from The Aladdin cinema and arcade - Stanley's letter - A red rubber balloon that says I ♥ DERRY Samples: SEVERAL ONGOING, THE TDM |
