Richard Ramirez

"Satan will have his vengeance, he'll claim your soul and make it burn!".- Richard Ramirez to Mary Jane Fitzgerald

Richard Ramirez, also infamously known as The Night Stalker, is a Satanist serial killer who is out for blood and carnage in the American West Coast. He is a leading character in Don't Let the Darkness Consume You, where is one of the main antagonists. With his evil within unmatched, Ramirez started a rampage in 1984 with his killings. After one of his victims broke his ego, Ramirez sought revenge and will not stop until he gets his debt.

Background
Richard Ramirez was the last of his siblings born to Mexican immigrants, Julian and Mercedes Ramirez. Richard grew up in an physically abusive environment due to his father's anger outbursts. Richard also suffered from seizures after sustaining head injuries as a child.

When he was a kid, Ramirez was considered as shy, withdrawn, and lonely, who could not interact with his schoolmates as he wanted due to suffering epileptic episodes. He also considered that one episode became the focal point of his fear to death.

Richard, who had begun smoking marijuana at the age of 10, bonded with Miguel over joints and gory war stories. Miguel showed photos of women he had murdered and raped to Richard when he was a young boy, driving Richard to what he could be during his life. Richard also ended up witnessing Miguel shoot his wife after a heated argument between them.

Appearance
Ramirez is a mexican immigrant-descendant who has black hair, dark brown eyes, and a slim body. He is known for using dark and black fashion, like a black-buttoned shirt, a leather jacket, black pants, and black shoes. His weapon of choice is a sharp tactical knife, although he has other weapons that include handguns, a machete, a tire iron, and a hammer.

Personality
Richard Ramirez is an extremely callous, merciless, and psychopathic person. Driven by Reactive Satanism and having an anti-social and rebelling attitude, Ramirez has never expressed any remorse for his crimes. Ramirez is also a sadist, who enjoys killing, to see his victims suffer, or take advantage of other's vulnerabilities. Ramirez isn't a man that shares his work or has allies by his side. This is because of his devotion to Satan. However, Ramirez doesn't waste the oportunity to corrupt people and drive them into the darkness.

Unlike what has been said about him, Ramirez is fearless and doesn't back down from a fight, and shows no mercy to anyone that messes with his plans. Despite his deranged and horrific nature, Ramirez seems to appreciate musical art, listening to the radio very often. But not everything was totally evil from the beginning, as when Ramirez was a kid, it was considered as shy, lonely, but also kind and innocent, who could not interact with his schoolmates as he wanted due to suffering epileptic episodes. This could mean that Ramirez tried to be a good person in the beginning, but due to his seizures resulted in his quest for good to become a total failure, before accepting pure evil as his way of life.

Medical Profile
Part of what was revealed in the story, Richard Ramirez is a "made" psychopath as opposed to a "born" psychopath, unlike the case of Randy Cavanaugh. This can explain why he has Schizoid personality disorder as the dominant disorder of his mental health, which contributed to his indifference to the suffering of his victims and his untreatability. Ramirez was knocked unconscious and almost died on multiple occasions before he was six years old and as a result, he later developed temporal lobe epilepsy, aggressivity, and hypersexuality.

Modus Operandi
Richard Ramirez's modus operandi made him extremely dangerous among the society. Ramirez preferred to burglarize homes during the night, entering his victims' homes that have their windows open. According to several reports, Ramirez dressed in black fashion, presumably using it as a camouflage. He is not methodical, orderly, or even intelligent, and doesn't have a preference for his victims, not even race, age, or condition. He is impulsive and inhuman, and this made him as unpredictable as lethal. His victims were killed or attacked in a variety of ways, including shooting them with a handgun, stabbing, slashing with a machete or a tactical knife, and bludgeoning with a hammer or a tire iron. Ramirez sometimes raped his female victims, usually after killing the male victims if they were present. After finishing the job, Ramirez leaves satanic pentagrams as a signature of his dark presence.

Story
In the summer of 1984, Richard Ramirez committed a series of heinous crimes that earned him the moniker of "The Night Stalker" by the press. It was mentioned by the Liars Club that on June 28th, Ramirez killed a 79-years-old woman in her apartment in Glassell Park, Los Angeles.

Quotes

 * To Mary Jane Fitzgerald: "If I want to hear you cry, I will. If I want to take your virginity, I will. And if I want to take your life, I will".
 * To Mary Jane Fitzgerald: "I only needed to open the door, let him in, and mark you for life".
 * To Edward Sexton Church: "Your legend, the blood, and the sorrow of your prey lies in these grounds, I like that".
 * To Mary Jane Fitzgerald: "I'll toy with your suffering until you give up your life to me!".
 * To Ashley Murray: "There won't be nothing to fear soon. Until then, fear me".
 * To Mary Jane Fitzgerald about his early life: "Being good didn't got me nowhere, so I became the incarnation of the dark side. And it feels damn good".
 * To Edward Sexton Church: "No matter the tries you attempt to become a good person, they will all see you for what you are. A bloody monster".

Trivia

 * The character is based on the real-life american serial killer, rapist and burglar Richard Ramirez.
 * When Ramirez is stalking his victims, a faint whisper or evil laughter can be heard. This is a reference to the infamous "KiKiKi MaMaMa" echo/whisper heard in the Friday the 13th films, whenever Jason or Pamela Voorhees are out killing.
 * The whispers say either of these lines:
 * "Vengeance will be served!".
 * "Satan will take your soul!".
 * "You can't escape Satan's wrath!".
 * "I will tear your soul apart!".
 * "No one is safe!".
 * Differentiating from how American Horror Story portrayed the character, the ParaVerse's version of Ramirez is considered to be much sly, evil, and surprisingly fearless. He takes advantage of Mary Jane Fitzgerald's depression to make her suffer emotionally, disrespectively slaps her without any remorse, and doesn't back down from a fight against Edward Sexton Church.
 * This eventually led Church realize that there are far more evil people than him and start his path to absolution.
 * Despite his evil attitude, Ramirez sees Randy Cavanaugh as a shame of a human being, due to his brutal, prideful, and petty tendencies.