Richard Ranashinha de Vulpian

Richard Ranasinghe de Vulpian (リチャード・ラナシンハ・ドヴルピアン) is the titular character and a protagonist of The Case Files of Jeweler Richard series.

He is the owner of Jewelry Étranger. His legal name is Richard Claremont.

Appearance
He is referenced (Directly or Indirectly) by most people to be a very conventionally attractive person.

The most famous and consistent one being Seigi himself. Other named people include Homura, and even Akashi herself. Even the customers at a coffee store also craned their necks at the same angle, like dominos falling, to follow Richard's form with their eyes.

According to Seigi, he has never laid eyes on such a beautiful person in his life before. Richard has high cheekbones, a straight nose, golden hair that has a habit of becoming loose, and smooth white skin. He has shades in his blue eyes, that the former felt like he could stare at them forever.

He is a creature who seemed to have gathered all of their parts from the world's most beautiful people. They harmonized together with a miraculous balance. Even time, air, and dust particles flowed around him in a different rhythm. He is beautiful not in his appearance, but also mannerisms. He also compared Richard to a model, and also still finds Richard "amazingly handsome" even when the former frowns.

Seigi struggled to find the right phrase to describe Richard, stating that words like "hunk, handsome, pretty boy, Adonis" don't fit the latter. Richard gives off a feeling of "Just being there is enough", that he was perfect no matter what angle you looked at him from. Seigi settles on calling him a "Living Jewel", like a clear jewel lying at the bottom of a lake.

He tends to wear formal clothing including a light pastel lavender-colored suit over a blueish collared shirt underneath with a purple tie. Also according to Seigi, Richard looks about 30 when he is silent. However, he looks a little younger when he smiles.

Personality
Richard is a fairly open minded person. He did not mind Mami and Akashi's relationship. He also made Seigi promise him to "not hold prejudices based on Race, Religion, Sexual Preferences, Nationality, and everything else". Also to not make discriminatory remarks.

He also reminds Seigi not to make careless praises. That no matter how innocent and beautiful the words may be, it may not be taken as intended. If one repeats such careless insensitive words and deeds, one will end up in a situation where they will have to pay a large sum of money.

Richard never makes any persistent sales promotions. He always just smiled and bowed with perfect manners, saying that he looks forward to seeing his customers again.

According to Seigi, he has a little bit of a narcissistic and snide side to him. He is also a really empathetic person. He cares more about his customers than immediate profits. Something like a "Sometimes the best gain is to lose" kind of thing.

According to Mami, he looks quite "cool", but he is quite passionate. She hopes to become a rich person like him as well.

Occupation
He brings out a black velvet box from the back room of Jewelry Étranger. The contents are the gemstones that are packed into his suitcase when he enters the store. There are no price tags on them, he has them all memorized. There are Aquamarines, Sapphires, Garnets, Jades, Corals, and Ambers. There are even 5000 yen stones, 50 000 yen stones, 500 000 yen stones, sometimes even more expensive ones. The "gemstone only" items that Richard calls "loose" are the most expensive. However, there will be accessories like rings and pendants at times. If there is an order from the customer in advance, the assortment of gems was changed accordingly.

During the weekdays when Seigi is off-work; Richard goes around customers' houses, shows them gems, and sells them off.

Abilities

 * Multilingual: Richard is able to fluently converse in multiple languages, including Japanese.

Trivia

 * Richard is a quarter of Sri Lankan from his grandmother. undefined
 * Based on the novel, Richard's paternal grandma, Leah, was a white woman who was born in Sri Lanka.
 * Richard has an English father and a French mother. De Vulpian is Richard's mom's last name.
 * According to the novels, Richard can speak English, Japanese, French, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tamil, Hindi, Thai, Tagalog, Italian, An Unnamed African Language, Sinhala, German, Arabic and probably others. undefined
 * Richard loves eating sweets, especially pudding.
 * He’s a big fan of a special black tea called Royal Milk Tea.
 * The 'Ranasinghe' in Richard's name is the surname of his master, Shaul Ranasinghe Ali.
 * His family calls him 'Ricky'.