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CW: THERE ARE MENTIONS OF DRUG/ALCOHOL ABUSE, DEPRESSION, SUICIDE, AND SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THIS APPLICATION. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.
IN CHARACTER
Name: Rick Sanchez
Canon: Rick and Morty
Canon Point: Post season two finale.
Age: 57 (He's in the late 50's - early 80's range. It's been mentioned by a character offhand that he was 80 but not confirmed, so I'm gonna just go with my HC age until it has been confirmed by someone who writes on the show.)
History: Rick on the wiki, episode list with the order of them them and the episode directory! Unfortunately, they have the episodes fully written out on their own separate pages rather than on one single page -- hopefully it's not too much of an inconvenience for you!
Personality: Rick Sanchez, an intergalactic criminal who's intelligence has gained the attention of many beings throughout the universe. Though his brain is impressive, his personality is... not so much. He's crude, uncaring, and to some -- psychotic. And he's not afraid to let his ugly sides show.
One of the things you'll notice upon first meeting Rick is that he is a borderline sociopath, with the way he treats others and views the world. He has very little regard for the feelings of anyone around him, which is most notably shown with his young grandson Morty, whom he drags with him on adventures across galaxies mostly to collect resources for his research. Morty is a kid who has morals and is almost always against his grandpa's way of doing things, and is very vocal about it as well but Rick shrugs off his concerns because he'd rather accomplish what he set out to do than care about what his grandson has to say. This has resulted in Morty being mentally scarred over the series - he's been forced to kill clones of his family members and bury his own dead body before despite how traumatizing both events were, and Rick didn't bat an eyelash. Rick has also taken Morty to a planet where they held an event once a year to get out their aggression, which Rick fondly calls a Purge, just so he could sit and watch them murder each other for a while. That's.. not exactly the kind of event you should be taking your fourteen year old grandson to.
He also gets bored quite easily and could care less about anything or anyone besides himself and a few choice others. An example of this would be when he had opened a competing store to one his granddaughter worked at, but it wasn't open very long before he got tired of it and decided to close it down. Though rather than a simple desist, he ended up dousing the counters and floors with gasoline and burning the building with people still inside. He's desensitized to a degree to crazy and fucked up situations as well, to the point where it's disturbing how much he doesn't care. Such as when he accidentally mutated all of humankind besides him and his family members, and while his grandson was freaking out and wondering how they were going to save everyone and themselves, Rick merely shrugged it off as if it wasn't a big deal and eventually dragged Morty to another dimension where the aforementioned mutation of humankind had been fixed, where they now currently reside because he didn't know how to save their original reality. He was also strangely calm about his planet being forced to take place in an intergalactic music show, where if he and Morty fucked up on making a hit song their planet would have been blown to bits. Morty wanted to use a portal and get out of there with their family but Rick didn't see the danger and instead fucked around until the last minute.
Another example of his sociopathic tendencies is that he has created an entire universe with planets and societies, just so he could use the energy from it to power his car battery. He's given the people residing within the small universe a way to create enough energy to power their planet and thus his car. He's enslaved an entire planet. For his car.
Being a sociopath kind of comes with being the smartest guy in all the galaxies. He's seen the millions of different ways his life could have gone if he did something differently, he's watched himself die time and time again, he's killed millions of people both on purpose and on accident from successful and unsuccessful experiments.. it just comes with the territory of being such a genius. And when I say genius, I mean it.
He's made a working spaceship with voice recognition, an incredibly smart A.I, a working mini-universe to charge it's battery, guns and other weapons, and reclining chairs out of trash. He made it out of junk lying around in his garage! And on top of that, he's made a gun that shoots portals to other dimensions and realities and locations around the world and other worlds, a pair of goggles that can see out of the eyes of other Ricks in other realities, a suit of impenetrable robot armor.. the list goes on! If he can think it, he can make it.
In fact, he's actually so smart that he's got a distinct set of brain waves, so to speak, that can be tracked down easily by anyone with the right equipment. The only way he can hide from other criminals or the Intergalactic Government is by standing next to someone with complimentary brainwaves - someone so dumb that they cancel his smart out. Which is a reason why he's so keen on dragging Morty with him everywhere, because his lovable grandson meets those standards perfectly.
He's also hacked into the cable box purely so he could watch inter-dimensional T.V, and it took him thirty seconds to do so. His smarts know no bounds and he'll use it for just about anything.
Which brings me to my next point: Rick's life motto most of the time is "party as hard as you can, because we're all going to die anyway". Going with the fact that he's used his brain for anything, that includes partying and enjoying life as well as he can. He's thrown a huge house party before with his granddaughter which included guests from all over the galaxy, and even though said party escalated to a borderline dangerous situation he opted to continue to party and not give a shit, despite his grandson constantly bothering him and vocalizing his worries about it getting out of hand. He's shown partying at least twice more in the series, and he's danced a lot throughout the episodes, to get across his party loving attitude. He's just a general carefree guy who likes to enjoy life when he can.
A carefree guy who enjoys his freedom, and doesn't like to be told what to do. I've mentioned it before, the fact that he's an intergalactic criminal. That's mostly due to the fact that Rick isn't someone so easily held down - he's not someone who likes to follow someone else's rules and thus, has broken a multitude of laws spanning over galaxies and dimensions. He plays by his own rules and disagrees with how governments are run, he hates being restricted in any way and doesn't respect signs of authority. He's called bureaucrats robots before and he'll do practically anything in his power to get out of jurisdiction and not go through customs if he can help it. Hell, a group of other dimension's Ricks formed a society together to keep themselves safe from the Intergalactic Government, and they actually wound up making a council so to speak, of head Rick's who ran the place. Our Rick is so against customs and rules that he even went against the alternate versions of himself, claiming that they created their own government and that he wasn't going to listen to them. He's a loose canon, so to speak, and he really could care less about other people's rules or opinions on his lifestyle and choices.
Which... is a good segue into my next paragraph. Rick Sanchez is... well, Rick. He's obscene, gross, rude, and absolutely could care less about hurting the feelings of other people. He constantly swears like a sailor, even around small children and to the point where it's starting to rub off on his grandson. And due to the fact that he's almost always got a drink in hand, he's quite gaseous and burps in the middle of sentences and words without so much of an "excuse me". He'll also fart on purpose to upset others or for a joke, and he's quite rude. He insults people, even family members so often it's practically a warm greeting for him at this point, but he's most notably rude to his son-in-law Jerry. He'll pick on Jerry's beliefs, his unemployment, the fact that somehow his daughter decided to marry a loser like him... everything. He's talked about how he can't help but give Jerry shit and it actually stopped a bunch of alternate dimension Rick's from chasing him down for a little while, because they were incapable of leaving Jerry alone.
Rick's also very arrogant because of his intelligence. He's under the impression that he always knows what's right, and he isn't afraid to be honest and up front even if it'll upset others. An example of this would be during Close Encounters of the Rick Kind - an episode where Rick had been framed for the deaths of other Ricks and the Council of Ricks had tried to punish him for it. He and his Morty escape their reality and eventually lose the other Ricks, and while they were taking a break to regroup themselves Rick explains to Morty offhandedly that Morty was a cloaking device, so to speak. That he was so stupid it hid Rick's intelligence very well and that was the reason why Rick hung around him so often. He mentioned it with absolutely no tact, and didn't care when his grandson brought it up later with tears in his eyes. When Morty confronted him about it he merely told him that he was a "perfect, impenetrable suit of human armor" because he was dumb as much as Rick himself was smart. That was Rick's attempt at getting Morty to shut up -- it was the truth and he didn't sugar coat it in the slightest to cheer his grandson up. Another example of Rick being honest despite it upsetting others is during the season finale. The family is escaping from the Galactic Federation and while they're driving through space away from the planet that they were spot, Rick's daughter brings up going back home and sleeping on what happened, and having a family discussion in the morning. To which Rick immediately tells her that it was impossible to go home because it'd be swarming with intergalactic policemen, and he was so harsh about it that he made his granddaughter cry. To quote what he said "Look, anyone who wants to go back to Earth is free to go back to Earth, but here's what's gonna happen. Alien bureaucrats are gonna arrest you. They're gonna put the intergalactic equivalent of jumper-cables onto your nuts and or labia, and hook 'em up to an alien car battery until you tell them where I am. Which I guarantee you you're not gonna know, which I guarantee they won't believe. So who's homesick? By applause."
Another thing about Rick is that though he's very rude and off putting towards others -- it's more or less a result of the depression that he severely suffers from. Rick is constantly drinking, he's got a flask that he carries on him at all times and he's never actually been shown sober on the show. People tend to look at his alcoholism with disgust but it's not because he just wants to party all the time and be drunk -- he drinks so he can suffer a little less. It's notable that when things get stressful or upsetting for him, that's when he tends to pull his flask out and take a drink. And when he's not drunk, he's finding something else to help like dousing a handful of pills he found at a hospital, for example. He also used to have a catchphrase, "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub" which to everyone was just gibberish... but it actually had a deeper meaning. In his alien friend's language, it actually meant "I'm in great pain, please help me" and Rick wasn't using it ironically. He only ever really yelled it when things got to be upsetting - much like how he drank more the more upset he should be. He's also got a very clear understanding that nothing lasts forever, that everyone is going to just die in the end and it's something he low-key worries about greatly, shown in episode "Tiny Rick". He created clones of himself so he could transfer his consciousness into their bodies and thus, in a sense never die. And in the episode, he transferred his consciousness into a teenage clone to help his granddaughter out with a problem at her school, and while his mind was in a teenager body, his deeper and more depressing thoughts came out clearer through the "angst" that came with being a teen. The episode ended with him attempting to kill his old body so he could prolong the inevitable, and his granddaughter subduing him by getting his thoughts about death out in the open because those thoughts were what made Rick, him. She played Elliot Smith's "Between the Bars", a song about using alcoholism to cope for him which resulted in Rick bursting into tears while he contemplated living and the fact that everyone was just going to die alone.
On that subject, though Rick is obviously scared at the idea of death, he is also very suicidal. Most noticeably, Rick doesn't seem to care if he's about to die and he's even welcomed the idea of death. Some examples from episodes includes but are not limited to: an alternate version of Rick was about to be beaten to death by a bunch of Morties and he exclaimed "Kill me, you motherfuckers! Do it!" and didn't so much as fight back. He gave his existence up with only one comment: "I'm okay with this." And at some point Morty had him at gunpoint and he only yelled at him, telling him to pull the trigger over and over. Another thing of note, when a fan asked creator of the show Justin Roiland why Rick never wears his seat belt when he's in his ship, Justin replied "Death: Bring it".
And more notably, Rick actually had an in canon suicide attempt. It was during Auto Erotic Assimilation, at the very end of the episode. Rick spent the episode getting together with a previous ex-lover whom he still had strong feelings for, and by the end of it his ex broke up with him again because he was a bad influence, and he couldn't change. Heartbroken and feeling god-awful about it, Rick quietly retreated to the garage after a small confrontation with his family about what happened and there he attempted to kill himself. He started up a laser that turned things to ashes upon contact, and first used it one a screaming, suffering alien he had kept in his care beforehand. He poured some kind of chemical on it to wake it up from dormancy, then chugged the chemicals himself before holding it up within the lasers and effectively killing it. Then, he set it up and put the beam to his head but the effects of the chemicals he chugged knocked him out, which caused him to fall face first on his desk and dodge the laser just before it would have killed him.
Which brings me to my last, and final point. He may act like he doesn't care, he may be the biggest asshole the world has had the misfortune to know but deep down -- there are people he does care about and he would actually willingly let himself get in trouble for or even go as far as sacrifice himself for. Like his ex lover, whom he almost killed himself over. He also currently cares about his family immensely, the most obvious being his grandson, Morty. An example of this would be episode Meeseeks and Destroy. Morty had voiced his dissatisfaction with being drug around on dangerous adventures and placed a bet with Rick: if he could run an adventure better than Rick could then he could run every tenth one, which was good enough for the boy. They went on a good old fashioned adventure, with a Jack-and-the-Beanstalk type scenario and eventually they wound up at an old tavern. The entire time through the adventure Rick had been in a terrible mood, he constantly picked on Morty's leading skills and talked about how boring and lame the time they were having was ending up to be but he changed tune pretty quickly at that tavern, because Morty had a very unfortunate run in with a Mr. Jellybean, which resulted in the boy being sexually assaulted and trying to usher Rick to bring them back home. Rick easily put two and two together after seeing Morty looking scruffy and Mr. Jellybean looking very beat up (because Morty thankfully got out of that situation before it escalated by beating the crap out of the guy) and instead of taking Morty home immediately, Rick gave the boy a warm smile and offered to finish up their adventure the way that Morty had originally wanted. They ended it by giving money to a poor village, and on their way into a portal to their universe, Rick quietly shot Mr. Jellybean and murdered him for what he did to his grandson - without letting Morty know because it probably would have upset him.
He's also spared himself for his grandson before. I mentioned briefly about Rick giving his existence up before, it was in fact for Morty's sake. They had split their timeline into 64 different ones through a series of quite unfortunate events, and the only way they could fix their time was by wearing these collars that merged it all together into one, steady timeline. Well, they had broken their collars and Rick thought he had fixed them again, but in one of the timelines he actually hadn't fixed Morty's. With their time growing unsteady, the world around them was beginning to break and Morty wound up falling into an empty void below. Rick jumped in after him and caught him, he asked Morty to hand over his collar so he could fix it for him but Morty had actually dropped it. And after just a moment of hesitation, Rick wordlessly slipped his own collar around Morty's neck and thus saved his grandson from being erased from existence, while his own existence was at risk. The only thing he had to say about it was "I'm okay with this. Be good, Morty. Be better than me."
It's a smaller instance, but another example of Rick caring for others was during a time where him and his granddaughter Summer were both about to be killed, and he apologized for being such a shitty grandfather to her and also complimented her cute top in the same sentence.
And finally, the big whammy. During the most recent season finale, Rick and his family find themselves in a tricky situation. They attended the wedding of Rick's best friend where the bride was a member of the Galactic Federation in disguise, and she had them surrounded. A fight broke out and Rick managed to get his family in a ship and out of there, but they couldn't go back to Earth because the Intergalactic Government knew that's where they lived now. So they wound up on one of three planets that were unreachable by the government -- which was an incredibly small planet that was almost impossible to live on. Rick stepped out to go discover the south pole (which wasn't very far away since it was so small) and while he was out, his family had a meeting. Jerry suggested that they turn Rick in to the Galactic Federation so they could all return to their lives on Earth, and their kids could have a future again but much to his displeasure the other three strongly disagreed. While this was going on, Rick found himself back at the house and eavesdropped on their conversation, and while the grand-kids explained that they loved Rick and his daughter told Jerry that she didn't want to lose him even though he was basically ruining their lives, Rick felt so guilty about what he was doing to his family and it was enough for him to make a decision. He turned himself in to the Galactic Federation, after making sure his family could have a normal life on Earth again and he now resides chained up to a wall for.. what is presumably the rest of his life. This sacrifice is such a big thing for Rick, whom has been running from this Federation for decades so he could have the freedom to be him and live how he wants to live. It's something he would have never done before and yet, he did it so his family could have a future again. Rick really does care, deep down. Even if he doesn't always show it.
Abilities/Skills: - Can invent/make anything from spaceships out of trash in the garage to guns that shoot portals to other dimensions. Things he has created in series consists of: bombs of various kinds, a device that gave a dog sentience and the intelligence to enslave mankind, a device that puts you into people's dreams, a small working theme park inside of a man that didn't cause harm to his body by being there, a shrink ray, dark matter that could make ships fly far faster than anything else in the galaxy, a device that captures demon souls, a box which creates a Meeseeks -- a being that can complete almost any task given to it, a potion that causes anyone to fall in love with you when they come in contact with it, a pair of goggles that can see through the eyes of other you's in other dimensions, he's a gun salesmen and can make any kind of gun you want - even ones that destroy beings of non-physical matter, he rigged a normal household cable box to get the cable from infinite dimensions and realities even ones where his family members were famous actors, a device that can measure evil and curses, and ways to counteract said curses so objects cursed could be turned into normal objects again, a device that can teleport an entire house to another dimension, something that can freeze time for any amount of time (they froze it for 6 months), his computer can tell when the timeline has been split into multiple timelines or not, he can merge timelines with the same device that froze time, he can use a time crystal to interact with multiple timelines at once (used it with a gun to try and kill the other timeline's Rick), he made an intergalactic daycare for Jerries, made a ray that could turn things to ashes upon contact, created an entire universe just to power his car, made clones of himself so he could transfer his consciousness into them when his body got too old so he could in theory never die, created robotic power-suits that could shoot rockets - flame - bullets and were also pretty much invincible, has a device that is the Intergalactic equivalent of Siri, and he's mentioned that he could turn a sun into a black hole before. Those are only the things we've seen through the series, and there's thousands of other inventions he's bound to create! The only things we've seen that he can't do is make a working time machine and bring people back from death.
- He's very well rounded in fights, and has the knowledge to use any kind of weapon. He can fight with fists and feet fairly well, he can use any kind of gun from laser to shotgun. He's used a crossbow, axes, knives, bombs, almost used a guitar and has killed someone with a single spoon. Very good at fighting and killing.
- He's smart! He can figure puzzles out in a very short amount of time, very good at equations, can invent anything... I already went into this in the personality section but just don't fuck with Rick. Just don't.
- An incredible alcohol tolerance?
- Very spry for an old man.
- He's musically inclined! Can play the bass guitar, the normal guitar both acoustic and electric, the keyboard/piano, he can sing to an extent and create lyrics. He was actually in a band before, too!
- Ambidextrous!
- Can also dance very well for a grandpa.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ I don't know how many times I'll say this in this app but HE SMART AS FUCK
+ Can invent anything. The sky's the limit.
+ Can defend himself very easily - he was in a 12 hour long shoot out when it was just him versus cops in the comic book series.
+ Quick to react, quick on his feet.
+ Thinks fast as well.
+ He's usually pretty good at guessing what someone's plans or ideas are, which have helped him out of sticky situations before.
+ Tries to look out for himself more than anyone else, so he's rarely gotten himself in actual dangerous situations because he gets the fuck out of dodge before anything serious can happen.
+ He's also good at getting himself out of these situations when they do happen.
+ He's caring to a small, tiny degree so you might have an angry drunk sticking out for you if he likes you enough. Maybe.
+ He doesn't give a shit about much so it's pretty damn hard to get to him. He's been through so much fucked up shit that nothing even phases him anymore.
- He's so smart his brain waves can be tracked by the government and thus, he can be found easily.
- He's reckless.
- He's arrogant because he's "the smartest guy in the universe."
- He talks big shit and gets in trouble for it a lot with a lot of different people.
- He doesn't like being bossed around and disregards rules and laws in favour of having his freedom, which has resulted in him becoming one of the top wanted criminals in... well, every universe.
- He's caring to a small degree, but he hardly ever shows it. He comes across as a huge dickwad even to those who he cares for and it results in bad relationships with his family members and such.
- He also cares more about people's safety than their feelings. He's seriously scarred his grandson mentally through their adventures and he absolutely doesn't care about the mental damage he's done, as long as Morty is alive and healthy.
- Because he doesn't care much for people's feelings, it's hard for him to keep relationships whether they be friends, family, or romantic.
- He's afraid of commitment and truly falling in love, because he has in the past and got burned. He's very vocal about how marriage is a funeral, which hasn't helped Morty's parents any, who were on the brink of divorce before he moved in with them.
- He ultimately does care about a few choice people which goes against his "me over everyone else" mentality. He's gotten himself in trouble for Morty and has almost died a few times because of it.
Items: He was wearing a prison uniform at the time, otherwise no items. You don't exactly get to keep your stuff in prison.
SAMPLES
Network Sample: [The video starts, entirely too close to the old man's face for a few seconds before he retracts his arm a little so it's further away. He looks to be lying on his back on his bed, and he takes a biiiiiig sip out of a bottle in his other hand before actually addressing the network.]
Th-this --[He belches loudly, but continues on as if it was nothing.]-- thi-this is a load of bullshit. A fucking outrage if I ever saw one.
[Taking another drink, before shoving the bottle into the screen for everyone to see.]
Y'see that? Grapefruit. Vodka. [The bottle is retracted to show his extremely not pleased expression.]
One of you little shits decided it was time for a drunk.... d-drink - aaaaaall of the hard alcohol party, and only leave this pathetic excuse of a alcoholic beverage for Grandpa Rick to enjoy. Fucking assholes... y-y'all are-- I mean haven't you heard of the term "respect your elders"? [Rick takes one last discontented sip, his sour expression absolutely unchanging.]
....f-f-fucking disrespectful piece of shit Grapefuit motherfuckers. [Aaaand he'll leave it there.]
Prose/Action Sample: A couple of test drive threads!
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CW: THERE ARE MENTIONS OF DRUG/ALCOHOL ABUSE, DEPRESSION, SUICIDE, AND SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THIS APPLICATION. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.
IN CHARACTER
Name: Rick Sanchez
Canon: Rick and Morty
Canon Point: Post season two finale.
Age: 57 (He's in the late 50's - early 80's range. It's been mentioned by a character offhand that he was 80 but not confirmed, so I'm gonna just go with my HC age until it has been confirmed by someone who writes on the show.)
History: Rick on the wiki, episode list with the order of them them and the episode directory! Unfortunately, they have the episodes fully written out on their own separate pages rather than on one single page -- hopefully it's not too much of an inconvenience for you!
Personality: Rick Sanchez, an intergalactic criminal who's intelligence has gained the attention of many beings throughout the universe. Though his brain is impressive, his personality is... not so much. He's crude, uncaring, and to some -- psychotic. And he's not afraid to let his ugly sides show.
One of the things you'll notice upon first meeting Rick is that he is a borderline sociopath, with the way he treats others and views the world. He has very little regard for the feelings of anyone around him, which is most notably shown with his young grandson Morty, whom he drags with him on adventures across galaxies mostly to collect resources for his research. Morty is a kid who has morals and is almost always against his grandpa's way of doing things, and is very vocal about it as well but Rick shrugs off his concerns because he'd rather accomplish what he set out to do than care about what his grandson has to say. This has resulted in Morty being mentally scarred over the series - he's been forced to kill clones of his family members and bury his own dead body before despite how traumatizing both events were, and Rick didn't bat an eyelash. Rick has also taken Morty to a planet where they held an event once a year to get out their aggression, which Rick fondly calls a Purge, just so he could sit and watch them murder each other for a while. That's.. not exactly the kind of event you should be taking your fourteen year old grandson to.
He also gets bored quite easily and could care less about anything or anyone besides himself and a few choice others. An example of this would be when he had opened a competing store to one his granddaughter worked at, but it wasn't open very long before he got tired of it and decided to close it down. Though rather than a simple desist, he ended up dousing the counters and floors with gasoline and burning the building with people still inside. He's desensitized to a degree to crazy and fucked up situations as well, to the point where it's disturbing how much he doesn't care. Such as when he accidentally mutated all of humankind besides him and his family members, and while his grandson was freaking out and wondering how they were going to save everyone and themselves, Rick merely shrugged it off as if it wasn't a big deal and eventually dragged Morty to another dimension where the aforementioned mutation of humankind had been fixed, where they now currently reside because he didn't know how to save their original reality. He was also strangely calm about his planet being forced to take place in an intergalactic music show, where if he and Morty fucked up on making a hit song their planet would have been blown to bits. Morty wanted to use a portal and get out of there with their family but Rick didn't see the danger and instead fucked around until the last minute.
Another example of his sociopathic tendencies is that he has created an entire universe with planets and societies, just so he could use the energy from it to power his car battery. He's given the people residing within the small universe a way to create enough energy to power their planet and thus his car. He's enslaved an entire planet. For his car.
Being a sociopath kind of comes with being the smartest guy in all the galaxies. He's seen the millions of different ways his life could have gone if he did something differently, he's watched himself die time and time again, he's killed millions of people both on purpose and on accident from successful and unsuccessful experiments.. it just comes with the territory of being such a genius. And when I say genius, I mean it.
He's made a working spaceship with voice recognition, an incredibly smart A.I, a working mini-universe to charge it's battery, guns and other weapons, and reclining chairs out of trash. He made it out of junk lying around in his garage! And on top of that, he's made a gun that shoots portals to other dimensions and realities and locations around the world and other worlds, a pair of goggles that can see out of the eyes of other Ricks in other realities, a suit of impenetrable robot armor.. the list goes on! If he can think it, he can make it.
In fact, he's actually so smart that he's got a distinct set of brain waves, so to speak, that can be tracked down easily by anyone with the right equipment. The only way he can hide from other criminals or the Intergalactic Government is by standing next to someone with complimentary brainwaves - someone so dumb that they cancel his smart out. Which is a reason why he's so keen on dragging Morty with him everywhere, because his lovable grandson meets those standards perfectly.
He's also hacked into the cable box purely so he could watch inter-dimensional T.V, and it took him thirty seconds to do so. His smarts know no bounds and he'll use it for just about anything.
Which brings me to my next point: Rick's life motto most of the time is "party as hard as you can, because we're all going to die anyway". Going with the fact that he's used his brain for anything, that includes partying and enjoying life as well as he can. He's thrown a huge house party before with his granddaughter which included guests from all over the galaxy, and even though said party escalated to a borderline dangerous situation he opted to continue to party and not give a shit, despite his grandson constantly bothering him and vocalizing his worries about it getting out of hand. He's shown partying at least twice more in the series, and he's danced a lot throughout the episodes, to get across his party loving attitude. He's just a general carefree guy who likes to enjoy life when he can.
A carefree guy who enjoys his freedom, and doesn't like to be told what to do. I've mentioned it before, the fact that he's an intergalactic criminal. That's mostly due to the fact that Rick isn't someone so easily held down - he's not someone who likes to follow someone else's rules and thus, has broken a multitude of laws spanning over galaxies and dimensions. He plays by his own rules and disagrees with how governments are run, he hates being restricted in any way and doesn't respect signs of authority. He's called bureaucrats robots before and he'll do practically anything in his power to get out of jurisdiction and not go through customs if he can help it. Hell, a group of other dimension's Ricks formed a society together to keep themselves safe from the Intergalactic Government, and they actually wound up making a council so to speak, of head Rick's who ran the place. Our Rick is so against customs and rules that he even went against the alternate versions of himself, claiming that they created their own government and that he wasn't going to listen to them. He's a loose canon, so to speak, and he really could care less about other people's rules or opinions on his lifestyle and choices.
Which... is a good segue into my next paragraph. Rick Sanchez is... well, Rick. He's obscene, gross, rude, and absolutely could care less about hurting the feelings of other people. He constantly swears like a sailor, even around small children and to the point where it's starting to rub off on his grandson. And due to the fact that he's almost always got a drink in hand, he's quite gaseous and burps in the middle of sentences and words without so much of an "excuse me". He'll also fart on purpose to upset others or for a joke, and he's quite rude. He insults people, even family members so often it's practically a warm greeting for him at this point, but he's most notably rude to his son-in-law Jerry. He'll pick on Jerry's beliefs, his unemployment, the fact that somehow his daughter decided to marry a loser like him... everything. He's talked about how he can't help but give Jerry shit and it actually stopped a bunch of alternate dimension Rick's from chasing him down for a little while, because they were incapable of leaving Jerry alone.
Rick's also very arrogant because of his intelligence. He's under the impression that he always knows what's right, and he isn't afraid to be honest and up front even if it'll upset others. An example of this would be during Close Encounters of the Rick Kind - an episode where Rick had been framed for the deaths of other Ricks and the Council of Ricks had tried to punish him for it. He and his Morty escape their reality and eventually lose the other Ricks, and while they were taking a break to regroup themselves Rick explains to Morty offhandedly that Morty was a cloaking device, so to speak. That he was so stupid it hid Rick's intelligence very well and that was the reason why Rick hung around him so often. He mentioned it with absolutely no tact, and didn't care when his grandson brought it up later with tears in his eyes. When Morty confronted him about it he merely told him that he was a "perfect, impenetrable suit of human armor" because he was dumb as much as Rick himself was smart. That was Rick's attempt at getting Morty to shut up -- it was the truth and he didn't sugar coat it in the slightest to cheer his grandson up. Another example of Rick being honest despite it upsetting others is during the season finale. The family is escaping from the Galactic Federation and while they're driving through space away from the planet that they were spot, Rick's daughter brings up going back home and sleeping on what happened, and having a family discussion in the morning. To which Rick immediately tells her that it was impossible to go home because it'd be swarming with intergalactic policemen, and he was so harsh about it that he made his granddaughter cry. To quote what he said "Look, anyone who wants to go back to Earth is free to go back to Earth, but here's what's gonna happen. Alien bureaucrats are gonna arrest you. They're gonna put the intergalactic equivalent of jumper-cables onto your nuts and or labia, and hook 'em up to an alien car battery until you tell them where I am. Which I guarantee you you're not gonna know, which I guarantee they won't believe. So who's homesick? By applause."
Another thing about Rick is that though he's very rude and off putting towards others -- it's more or less a result of the depression that he severely suffers from. Rick is constantly drinking, he's got a flask that he carries on him at all times and he's never actually been shown sober on the show. People tend to look at his alcoholism with disgust but it's not because he just wants to party all the time and be drunk -- he drinks so he can suffer a little less. It's notable that when things get stressful or upsetting for him, that's when he tends to pull his flask out and take a drink. And when he's not drunk, he's finding something else to help like dousing a handful of pills he found at a hospital, for example. He also used to have a catchphrase, "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub" which to everyone was just gibberish... but it actually had a deeper meaning. In his alien friend's language, it actually meant "I'm in great pain, please help me" and Rick wasn't using it ironically. He only ever really yelled it when things got to be upsetting - much like how he drank more the more upset he should be. He's also got a very clear understanding that nothing lasts forever, that everyone is going to just die in the end and it's something he low-key worries about greatly, shown in episode "Tiny Rick". He created clones of himself so he could transfer his consciousness into their bodies and thus, in a sense never die. And in the episode, he transferred his consciousness into a teenage clone to help his granddaughter out with a problem at her school, and while his mind was in a teenager body, his deeper and more depressing thoughts came out clearer through the "angst" that came with being a teen. The episode ended with him attempting to kill his old body so he could prolong the inevitable, and his granddaughter subduing him by getting his thoughts about death out in the open because those thoughts were what made Rick, him. She played Elliot Smith's "Between the Bars", a song about using alcoholism to cope for him which resulted in Rick bursting into tears while he contemplated living and the fact that everyone was just going to die alone.
On that subject, though Rick is obviously scared at the idea of death, he is also very suicidal. Most noticeably, Rick doesn't seem to care if he's about to die and he's even welcomed the idea of death. Some examples from episodes includes but are not limited to: an alternate version of Rick was about to be beaten to death by a bunch of Morties and he exclaimed "Kill me, you motherfuckers! Do it!" and didn't so much as fight back. He gave his existence up with only one comment: "I'm okay with this." And at some point Morty had him at gunpoint and he only yelled at him, telling him to pull the trigger over and over. Another thing of note, when a fan asked creator of the show Justin Roiland why Rick never wears his seat belt when he's in his ship, Justin replied "Death: Bring it".
And more notably, Rick actually had an in canon suicide attempt. It was during Auto Erotic Assimilation, at the very end of the episode. Rick spent the episode getting together with a previous ex-lover whom he still had strong feelings for, and by the end of it his ex broke up with him again because he was a bad influence, and he couldn't change. Heartbroken and feeling god-awful about it, Rick quietly retreated to the garage after a small confrontation with his family about what happened and there he attempted to kill himself. He started up a laser that turned things to ashes upon contact, and first used it one a screaming, suffering alien he had kept in his care beforehand. He poured some kind of chemical on it to wake it up from dormancy, then chugged the chemicals himself before holding it up within the lasers and effectively killing it. Then, he set it up and put the beam to his head but the effects of the chemicals he chugged knocked him out, which caused him to fall face first on his desk and dodge the laser just before it would have killed him.
Which brings me to my last, and final point. He may act like he doesn't care, he may be the biggest asshole the world has had the misfortune to know but deep down -- there are people he does care about and he would actually willingly let himself get in trouble for or even go as far as sacrifice himself for. Like his ex lover, whom he almost killed himself over. He also currently cares about his family immensely, the most obvious being his grandson, Morty. An example of this would be episode Meeseeks and Destroy. Morty had voiced his dissatisfaction with being drug around on dangerous adventures and placed a bet with Rick: if he could run an adventure better than Rick could then he could run every tenth one, which was good enough for the boy. They went on a good old fashioned adventure, with a Jack-and-the-Beanstalk type scenario and eventually they wound up at an old tavern. The entire time through the adventure Rick had been in a terrible mood, he constantly picked on Morty's leading skills and talked about how boring and lame the time they were having was ending up to be but he changed tune pretty quickly at that tavern, because Morty had a very unfortunate run in with a Mr. Jellybean, which resulted in the boy being sexually assaulted and trying to usher Rick to bring them back home. Rick easily put two and two together after seeing Morty looking scruffy and Mr. Jellybean looking very beat up (because Morty thankfully got out of that situation before it escalated by beating the crap out of the guy) and instead of taking Morty home immediately, Rick gave the boy a warm smile and offered to finish up their adventure the way that Morty had originally wanted. They ended it by giving money to a poor village, and on their way into a portal to their universe, Rick quietly shot Mr. Jellybean and murdered him for what he did to his grandson - without letting Morty know because it probably would have upset him.
He's also spared himself for his grandson before. I mentioned briefly about Rick giving his existence up before, it was in fact for Morty's sake. They had split their timeline into 64 different ones through a series of quite unfortunate events, and the only way they could fix their time was by wearing these collars that merged it all together into one, steady timeline. Well, they had broken their collars and Rick thought he had fixed them again, but in one of the timelines he actually hadn't fixed Morty's. With their time growing unsteady, the world around them was beginning to break and Morty wound up falling into an empty void below. Rick jumped in after him and caught him, he asked Morty to hand over his collar so he could fix it for him but Morty had actually dropped it. And after just a moment of hesitation, Rick wordlessly slipped his own collar around Morty's neck and thus saved his grandson from being erased from existence, while his own existence was at risk. The only thing he had to say about it was "I'm okay with this. Be good, Morty. Be better than me."
It's a smaller instance, but another example of Rick caring for others was during a time where him and his granddaughter Summer were both about to be killed, and he apologized for being such a shitty grandfather to her and also complimented her cute top in the same sentence.
And finally, the big whammy. During the most recent season finale, Rick and his family find themselves in a tricky situation. They attended the wedding of Rick's best friend where the bride was a member of the Galactic Federation in disguise, and she had them surrounded. A fight broke out and Rick managed to get his family in a ship and out of there, but they couldn't go back to Earth because the Intergalactic Government knew that's where they lived now. So they wound up on one of three planets that were unreachable by the government -- which was an incredibly small planet that was almost impossible to live on. Rick stepped out to go discover the south pole (which wasn't very far away since it was so small) and while he was out, his family had a meeting. Jerry suggested that they turn Rick in to the Galactic Federation so they could all return to their lives on Earth, and their kids could have a future again but much to his displeasure the other three strongly disagreed. While this was going on, Rick found himself back at the house and eavesdropped on their conversation, and while the grand-kids explained that they loved Rick and his daughter told Jerry that she didn't want to lose him even though he was basically ruining their lives, Rick felt so guilty about what he was doing to his family and it was enough for him to make a decision. He turned himself in to the Galactic Federation, after making sure his family could have a normal life on Earth again and he now resides chained up to a wall for.. what is presumably the rest of his life. This sacrifice is such a big thing for Rick, whom has been running from this Federation for decades so he could have the freedom to be him and live how he wants to live. It's something he would have never done before and yet, he did it so his family could have a future again. Rick really does care, deep down. Even if he doesn't always show it.
Abilities/Skills: - Can invent/make anything from spaceships out of trash in the garage to guns that shoot portals to other dimensions. Things he has created in series consists of: bombs of various kinds, a device that gave a dog sentience and the intelligence to enslave mankind, a device that puts you into people's dreams, a small working theme park inside of a man that didn't cause harm to his body by being there, a shrink ray, dark matter that could make ships fly far faster than anything else in the galaxy, a device that captures demon souls, a box which creates a Meeseeks -- a being that can complete almost any task given to it, a potion that causes anyone to fall in love with you when they come in contact with it, a pair of goggles that can see through the eyes of other you's in other dimensions, he's a gun salesmen and can make any kind of gun you want - even ones that destroy beings of non-physical matter, he rigged a normal household cable box to get the cable from infinite dimensions and realities even ones where his family members were famous actors, a device that can measure evil and curses, and ways to counteract said curses so objects cursed could be turned into normal objects again, a device that can teleport an entire house to another dimension, something that can freeze time for any amount of time (they froze it for 6 months), his computer can tell when the timeline has been split into multiple timelines or not, he can merge timelines with the same device that froze time, he can use a time crystal to interact with multiple timelines at once (used it with a gun to try and kill the other timeline's Rick), he made an intergalactic daycare for Jerries, made a ray that could turn things to ashes upon contact, created an entire universe just to power his car, made clones of himself so he could transfer his consciousness into them when his body got too old so he could in theory never die, created robotic power-suits that could shoot rockets - flame - bullets and were also pretty much invincible, has a device that is the Intergalactic equivalent of Siri, and he's mentioned that he could turn a sun into a black hole before. Those are only the things we've seen through the series, and there's thousands of other inventions he's bound to create! The only things we've seen that he can't do is make a working time machine and bring people back from death.
- He's very well rounded in fights, and has the knowledge to use any kind of weapon. He can fight with fists and feet fairly well, he can use any kind of gun from laser to shotgun. He's used a crossbow, axes, knives, bombs, almost used a guitar and has killed someone with a single spoon. Very good at fighting and killing.
- He's smart! He can figure puzzles out in a very short amount of time, very good at equations, can invent anything... I already went into this in the personality section but just don't fuck with Rick. Just don't.
- An incredible alcohol tolerance?
- Very spry for an old man.
- He's musically inclined! Can play the bass guitar, the normal guitar both acoustic and electric, the keyboard/piano, he can sing to an extent and create lyrics. He was actually in a band before, too!
- Ambidextrous!
- Can also dance very well for a grandpa.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ I don't know how many times I'll say this in this app but HE SMART AS FUCK
+ Can invent anything. The sky's the limit.
+ Can defend himself very easily - he was in a 12 hour long shoot out when it was just him versus cops in the comic book series.
+ Quick to react, quick on his feet.
+ Thinks fast as well.
+ He's usually pretty good at guessing what someone's plans or ideas are, which have helped him out of sticky situations before.
+ Tries to look out for himself more than anyone else, so he's rarely gotten himself in actual dangerous situations because he gets the fuck out of dodge before anything serious can happen.
+ He's also good at getting himself out of these situations when they do happen.
+ He's caring to a small, tiny degree so you might have an angry drunk sticking out for you if he likes you enough. Maybe.
+ He doesn't give a shit about much so it's pretty damn hard to get to him. He's been through so much fucked up shit that nothing even phases him anymore.
- He's so smart his brain waves can be tracked by the government and thus, he can be found easily.
- He's reckless.
- He's arrogant because he's "the smartest guy in the universe."
- He talks big shit and gets in trouble for it a lot with a lot of different people.
- He doesn't like being bossed around and disregards rules and laws in favour of having his freedom, which has resulted in him becoming one of the top wanted criminals in... well, every universe.
- He's caring to a small degree, but he hardly ever shows it. He comes across as a huge dickwad even to those who he cares for and it results in bad relationships with his family members and such.
- He also cares more about people's safety than their feelings. He's seriously scarred his grandson mentally through their adventures and he absolutely doesn't care about the mental damage he's done, as long as Morty is alive and healthy.
- Because he doesn't care much for people's feelings, it's hard for him to keep relationships whether they be friends, family, or romantic.
- He's afraid of commitment and truly falling in love, because he has in the past and got burned. He's very vocal about how marriage is a funeral, which hasn't helped Morty's parents any, who were on the brink of divorce before he moved in with them.
- He ultimately does care about a few choice people which goes against his "me over everyone else" mentality. He's gotten himself in trouble for Morty and has almost died a few times because of it.
Items: He was wearing a prison uniform at the time, otherwise no items. You don't exactly get to keep your stuff in prison.
SAMPLES
Network Sample: [The video starts, entirely too close to the old man's face for a few seconds before he retracts his arm a little so it's further away. He looks to be lying on his back on his bed, and he takes a biiiiiig sip out of a bottle in his other hand before actually addressing the network.]
Th-this --[He belches loudly, but continues on as if it was nothing.]-- thi-this is a load of bullshit. A fucking outrage if I ever saw one.
[Taking another drink, before shoving the bottle into the screen for everyone to see.]
Y'see that? Grapefruit. Vodka. [The bottle is retracted to show his extremely not pleased expression.]
One of you little shits decided it was time for a drunk.... d-drink - aaaaaall of the hard alcohol party, and only leave this pathetic excuse of a alcoholic beverage for Grandpa Rick to enjoy. Fucking assholes... y-y'all are-- I mean haven't you heard of the term "respect your elders"? [Rick takes one last discontented sip, his sour expression absolutely unchanging.]
....f-f-fucking disrespectful piece of shit Grapefuit motherfuckers. [Aaaand he'll leave it there.]
Prose/Action Sample: A couple of test drive threads!