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Richard "Ricky" Dobbs was a character in Stranger Things: Hawkins Horrors who appeared in Nancy Wheeler's story "A Little Voice". He was an inmate at Pennhurst Asylum and was admitted due to schizophrenia.
He died in the asylum in 1969 at the age of nineteen in front of Christina after being forced by Harland Buck to commit acts of violence.[1]
History[]
Ricky was born around 1949-1950, during his youth, he began to hear voices and at some point prior to turning nineteen, he was admitted to Pennhurst Asylum for schizophrenia.
1969[]
Considered by Christina to be an innocent young man, Ricky resided in the asylum where he eventually began talking to someone. One night, he was visited by Christina who entered his room upon not being able to find him though he was restrained by orderlies when Dr. Sears entered the room.
Over the course of Christina's shifts, Ricky was administered sleeping drugs to ease him. One night, he killed an orderly named Michael "Mick" Hogan by using his weakened bed frame though Christina believed that he was still innocent under the belief that Ricky would do no such harm. After the incident, he was kept at the asylum only so the Hawkins Police Department could start their investigation.
Ricky was then placed in another room, his old room was taped off and guarded by an officer. He was then given his sleeping drugs by Christina after Sophia, an elderly nurse, requested the former do it as her ankles were hurting her. When questioned on what was happening, Ricky eventually confessed to speaking to someone named Buck though fell asleep after being drugged.
During a storm, Christina requested to give Ricky his dosage again though Sophia explained that as Sears was still in the building, he would be the one administering the dosages to all patients.
Oh another night, he attempted a second murder on Spears by trying to strangle him though he was eventually overpowered. Once on the ground, he was beaten and kicked by Sears, an incident Christina became angered over as the abuse to Ricky was going against the Hippocratic Oath.
The same night, Christina returned to Ricky's new room to question him again, she asked if he was hurting before Ricky denied it stating that his time had come before dying in front of Christine. When the latter then heard voices, she assumed that they were coming from Ricky though discovered it was coming from a wall where she came face to face with a man named Harland Buck where she then realized that he was the same man who had supposedly escape but had been the one to influence Ricky's actions.