Robert Ryunosuke

Inspector Robert Sherrinford Ryunosuke is one of the main antagonists of the Westminster Wakeman Series. He constantly struggles to complete his only task: capturing Westminster Wakeman.

Creation
Robert Ryunosuke was originally created as a grumpy, depressed detective for a whole other comic by the same creator. Malone Mysteries: The Deadly Locket. His name was Robbert Ryusounake. The comic was never finished, because the creator was working on many other comics at the same time.

Personality
Robert Ryunosuke is a very serious man. He never makes jokes and is stated to be the least funny man at the office. He is a very capable police officer. Having taken down several criminal masterminds, including James Moriarty III. He was put on the Westminster Wakeman case by Sharon Stanford, because he was the most likely to catch the famed assassin. This however is a task he can't complete, mostly because of his impulsive personality. For example, in Chapter 7: The St. Bern Redemption, he rushes into Wakeman's cell after not recieving an answer to a question, accidentally giving Wakeman a change to escape.

Relationships
Ryunosuke does not have many healthy relationships with anyone. He hates his archnemesis Westminster Wakeman, but also sees him as his only friend. He is afraid of his mother's judgement, thinking himself to be unworthy to be part of the Holmes family. This may be why he still uses his father's last name, whom he has never forgiven for abandoning his mother. He deeply respects his boss, Sharon Stanford. But he does not like being around her, since she often picks on him for not being able to catch Wakeman, looking Japanese and being very impulsive. He treats his assistant, Marcus Waterbee with respect, but does sometimes ask the impossible of him.

History
When Ryunosuke was young, his parents weren't around much. His mother was a detective, like her father had been before her. And his father was a criminal known under the alias Jezail. Neither he, nor his mother knew his criminal history. When his mother shot Jezail at DeDamme manor, who then fell into a pond filled with piranhas, his identity was never discovered. Robert and his mother thought Kazuhiko had abandoned them and they resented him for it. Robert even went so far as to develope a deep hatred of everything that had to with Japan.

Ryunosuke soon joined the police force, wanting to continue the family tradition but finding private and consulting detectives to be something of the past. When Ryunosuke was in his 30s, he married the ten years younger Jeanette St. Bern, an up and coming politician. They were happy together until his mother was killed by Moriarty III. He swore to capture the man and in his obsession over this, his wife lest him.

After capturing Moriarty, Ryunosuke solved over five hundred smaller cases in less than two years time. These all bored him though. That boredom and his wife leaving him made him long for a new life goal.

Eventually he found that goal in capturing Westminster Wakeman, the seventh generation of The Wakeman Killers. He was moved to the assassin-department of Scotland Yard, ran by Sharon Stanford and became the most important policeman on the Wakeman case, despite not actually being the man in charge internationally. That being Gianlucca Bizzati.

Trivia

 * He was originally called Robbert Ryusounake.
 * Ryunosuke is not a real Japanese family name. It's actually a given name.
 * He doesn't shower because he deems it inefficient.
 * He always wears a nightrobe and pajamas so he doesn't have to change in and out of his clothes every time he goes to sleep. He does wear a tie with it to look professional.
 * In The Duke of Etteren, he states that he only sleeps three hours per day.