Richard Strickler

Richard Strickler, a character in the Rising Tides book, is the principal of Cedarport High. He makes his first appearance in Chapter 1.

Appearance
Principal Strickler has blue eyes, brown hair, and tan skin. He wears a white dress shirt and gray blazer.

Personality
Like a lot of his fellow Cedarport citizens, Principal Strickler doesn't like outsiders. He is also narrow-minded and believes he can run the high school as he sees fit. You call him "Cedarport's resident bully" and Robin calls him a "mini dictator". However, after your house and boat are vandalized, he apologizes for his treatment of you and brings the community together to help clean up your property.

Rising Tides

 * Chapter 1: High and Dry
 * Chapter 2: Fish Out Of Water
 * Chapter 3: Rock The Boat
 * Chapter 4: Head Above Water (Off-Screen)
 * Chapter 5: Making Waves
 * Chapter 6: Drop In The Ocean (Off-Screen)
 * Chapter 7: Sink Or Swim (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 10: In Deep
 * Chapter 11: Hell or High Water (Determinant)
 * Chapter 12: Turn The Tide

Your Character
When you were in high school, you were a straight-A student and a member of the school's newspaper. You didn't think of yourself as a "troublemaker" back then but when you published an opinion piece about his school dress code enforcements being sexist, he had you removed from the writing staff for your "slanderous and partial coverage". He thinks you are disrespectful and flippant, and influenced your sister's bad habits.

In Chapter 3, if you decide to help your sister buy more time by causing a distraction, you two visit his office where you find items that he confiscated from students. To you, the items don't appear dangerous or wrong, but Charlie tells you what he said about them. If you point out the Mardi Gras beads, she says he took them from Kelsie who grew up in New Orleans and wanted to celebrate Mardi Gras. Principal Strickler said the beads "encouraged debauchery". If you point out the book, she says it belongs to Emil. His dad gave it to him as a gift before their big camping trip, but Strickler confiscated it because he said it was a recipe book for making drugs and poison. If you point out the ukelele, Charlie tells you that it belongs to Neena and she brought it to school for the talent show audition. When she played some songs at lunch time, Strickler confiscated it because it was "disruptive".

When you look at the bag containing super glue and a receipt, Charlie explains that Hector had broken his shoe and went to the corner store during his lunch break to get glue to fix it. Principal Strickler took his glue and the receipt as proof of Hector being a "truant" and Hector didn't even get to fix his shoe nor go home to change. Before you can return the glue to his desk drawer though, it spreads on his seat and Principal Strickler and the superintendent walk in. Strickler sits on the glue unknowingly and when he tries to get up, he struggles and then rips his pants, revealing his boxers. You and Charlie have to fight from laughing outloud from your hiding places, and leave his office after the superintendent leaves and Strickler rushes home to change.

After your house is vandalized by Monteverde, Strickler realizes the error of his ways and tries to make it up to you by bringing the community together to clean up your property. You have the option of accepting or rejecting Strickler's apology.

Charlie
He prevented Charlie from submitting a paper to the student honors program because he felt it was "too political". When she wants to protest with other students at City Hall, he takes away their cell phones and locks them in the school. After Charlie successfully leads a walkout, he suspends her.

In Chapter 5, it comes as no surprise to you and Charlie that he is opposed to Charlie's proposed initiative. When she speaks at the meeting with Cedarport's leaders, he openly objects to the notion of government dictating businesses' practices, citing that it is the "free market".

After your house is vandalized by Monteverde, Strickler apologizes for his treatment of you and of Charlie and strikes Charlie's black marks and suspension from school records.

Trivia

 * His character model resembles a critic from Red Carpet Diaries, Book 1 and Devon Grusk from The Heist: Monaco.
 * His first name is revealed in Chapter 11.
 * He shares the same name as Richard Sutcliffe from It Lives Beneath and Richard Roberts from Ms. Match.