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Synopsis by International Heroes: Richard Mayhew was a Scottish man who had moved to London to work in the city. After three years there, he was beginning to feel at home; he had a fiance, Jessica, who had pushed him into practising law and into working his way up the corporate ladder; he had a career, and he had a nice apartment.

Everything changed the night he stopped to help what appeared to be an injured homeless girl; meant to be going to an important, career-related dinner with Jessica, he found himself dumped by his self-centred girlfriend. More importantly, the girl, whom he took back to his apartment, proved to be Door, a resident of London Below, a hidden world beneath the London most people knew. She was fleeing Croup and Vandemar, hired assassins who had recently slain her entire family, and the next morning they turned up on Richard's doorstep looking for their prey. When Richard aided Door in evading them, they took revenge by wiping out his life; nobody in London Above remembered him anymore. With his old life gone, and two ancient killers intending to soon end his new one, Richard insisted on accompanying Door as she sought to find out who was behind the massacre of her family, believing that solving this riddle was the only way to get back what had been taken from him. The journey through London Below taught Richard about his own hidden strengths, as he survived the ordeal of the Black Friars, and faced the legendary Great Beast of London in a battle to the death. Both his and Door's quests were eventually successful; she found out who had ordered the deaths of her family, and avenged their deaths, while Richard finally was able to return to London Above, his old life restored. However the adventures he had experienced had changed him, and Richard came to the realisation that London Above no longer held anything for him; he gave up his life above, this time willingly, and returned to his friends in London Below.

Physical Description: Richard is a man who appears to be somewhere in his mid-twenties, has dark hair, hazel eyes, pale skin, and is of average height and build. There are a few scars, but none that will commonly be seen. Here are the major ones: A large purple one running around his left ankle and up his calf, a slash and stitching scars running behind his right ear, small white scars on his hands where his smallest fingers were broken. Also, he has a very thick Scottish Accent.

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Richard Mayhew is from the novel and miniseries Neverwhere, and belongs to Neil Gaiman. I play with him only for fun, never for profit.