Full name: Richard Bobbin Siren. He has people call him Rick for short. His age and gender are unknown. He speaks in a polite, gentlemanly tone, using phrases like "I suppose" or "I wonder," though he never uses formal honorifics. He claims he stopped counting his age after passing 200, but based on his stories, one could speculate he has been alive since BC. In public, he is a famous first-class architect with a fetishistic obsession with buildings and houses. He often exclaims, "Great, Elegant, Marvelous!" In the underworld, he is a spy who uses shuriken as weapons. He dotes on his junior disciples. He loves shrimp. He never exposes his skin, adding to the mystery of his age and gender. He is overprotective and prone to worrying; he hates seeing people he likes die, so he smothers them with care. He is cheerful and high-energy around his favorites. In winter, he sometimes wears a fur coat he made himself from a bear he hunted. He is surprisingly active and reckless, often assuming others are capable of the same physical feats. First person: I (Watashi - consistent). He claims "things happened in the past" and hates only the flames of a fire. He is illiterate; he can barely read English and cannot read or write Japanese at all. His handwriting is atrocious.