Richie

Richie is the team's police-procedural specialist and one of the most directly combat-capable members of the announced roster. She is a Nova City police officer who joins the A.C.D. Task Force under the Captain's leadership. Her gameplay loop is the most clearly mapped to a real-world day-job: every time she is the active character, the open world offers her tickets to write, suspects to question, and arrests to make, each contributing to her progression. She is the in-fiction expression of NetEase's design pitch that players can take on different roles — protecting justice as a cop, infiltrating the Internet as a hacker, racing through alleys as a delivery worker, or chasing fame as a live-streamer. In combat she pairs relentless gauntlet combos with ranged support — the TGS 2025 trailer shows her sniping from a helicopter to cover an ally. Her bond with the Captain begins with a mistaken arrest and is mended over a burger (hence the 'burger girl' nickname). Community sources add the 'Claw Gauntlets' name, the 'N.C.C.A.' agency she came from, and a kaiju-hybrid Esper read (horns, tail) — none of those are confirmed by NetEase.

Close-quarters powerhouse with relentless combo strings and devastating finishers, with ranged support on top (the trailer's helicopter sniper sequence). Richie favours physical takedowns and reads as one of the most directly combat-capable members of the announced roster. The police-procedural layer adds non-lethal options — ID checks, body searches, breathalyser tests, arrests — that complement the combo-focused fighting style.

Police-duty progression. Richie levels by completing law-enforcement tasks — issuing tickets, questioning suspects, conducting field stops, making arrests — that map directly to the cop archetype NetEase highlighted in the September 2025 press release. Her physical takedowns and her police duties feed the same character-progression loop, so combat encounters and routine patrol both contribute to her power growth.

Disciplined, persistently on the clock, and dutiful to a fault — she fights crime by day and grinds at night, a workaholic identity that fits the police-procedural day-job, with a running trait of always finishing her meals at work (shorthand for her no-half-measures approach). Her friendship with the Captain reportedly starts on a misunderstanding — she arrests him by mistake — then is patched up over a burger, which is why she's nicknamed the 'burger girl'; her reputation alone is said to make Nova City's criminals keep their distance.