Richard Sawyer (South Park)

Richard Sawyer is a fictional character from South Park.

Biography
Richard was born at Asile Saint-Joseph pour les aliénés criminels a psychiatric hospital/prison located on an island in Pheasant Island near French Basque Country. He is the son of Angela Marsh, a wealthy philantropist and pharmacist, and Nikolai Sawyer (born Nikolai Braslawsky). His father, who was of Russian Jewish ancestry tracing his origins to Saint Petersburg, joined a revolutionary militant group who opposed the French government (albeit unknowingly). Nikolai came across a falsely advertised military group that supposedly supported the French government, so he signed up. When he joined the group he had realized it was not a group fighting for justice at all, instead it was a conspiracist group. Nikolai was forced to do multiple minor crimes that he did not want to commit. One night they captured a woman named Angela Marsh, where Nikolai was told by his colleagues to rape her once they returned to their prison. Nikolai reluctantly did so. After this, Nikolai became so disgusted with himself, that he had threatened to leave the group. Not wanting to risk him spreading any crucial information, the revolutionist put a bomb on the Nikolai's escape plane, and when it exploded it seemingly killed Nikolai. Unbeknownst to everyone, Nikolai had anticipated that his former group would attempt to do something like this, so he came prepared. When the bomb blew up, Nikolai jumped out of a window and opened a parachute and landed somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic. As aforementioned, Nikolai came prepared, as he had created a small boat for him to float on. Nikolai used the boat to head to America, and after three days of sailing he finally made it to New York City. After a few years, Nikolai became an American citizen, and changed his last name back to Braslawsky. However, he later anglicized it to Broflovski.

The corrupt government decreed that Nikolai's young son would serve out the man's life sentence, and thus Richard spent his childhood and early adult life in prison. Richard spent much of his time Botanical Gardens located on the east side of asylum, which provided fresh greenery as possible rehabilitation for the institution's inmates. He also spent a considerable amount of time body building in the prison's gym, developed his own form of meditation, and learned to fight in the merciless school of prison life. Richard is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Latin due to the books he read and the cultural incorporation of the asylum. Due to residing at a Catholic penitentiary, Richard had several teachers come and go, and was given Jesuit teachings. Richard was also baptized at a local Catholic Church. He also spent a few summers in Vatican City where he received his communion and confirmation. When Richard was 19, he was released from the prison for good behavior. He moved to the United States and became an American citizen.

When Richard was eleven, he was accidentally pushed off a railing of one of the prison halls during two of inmates' fight, and he hit his head on the concreate floor. While he was in a coma, he claimed that he had visions of Jesus. Richard is ethnically Jewish on account of his parents' ethnicity, but was raised Catholic, but would later identify as secular and non-religious. When Richard was 21, he decided that he wanted to get a proper education, and enrolled at the United States Naval Academy, now that he was an eligible American citizen. He graduated with a double-major degree in Aerospace Engineering and Ocean Engineering. Richard was commissioned an esign and became a naval aviator.