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Ruver Ward
Ruver Ward
farms, it
eventually went out of business as larger corporations took over the farming process. In turn, his
parents took to running a grocery store and the family of four lived in the apartment area above
it.[2]
One day, some drugged up thugs broke in looking for cash and, when they didn't find any in the
store, went into the living quarters and demanded money from the father, who swore they didn't
have anything else. Not liking this response, one of the thugs killed River and Joss' father and
then put a gun in River's hand and had him point it at his own mother's head, demanding he shoot
and kill her. River stalled, terrified, to the point the thug gave up trying to bait the child and took
the gun and killed their mom himself before the thugs ran off, leaving River and Joss alive but
now parentless. The siblings were then sent off to an orphanage to be cared for but the NCPD
never caught the thugs who killed their parents. With this lack of justice, River saw this as
complete incompetency regarding the NCPD and made it his goal to become a detective to solve
cases like what happened to his family.
Adult Years
Sometime prior to 2077, River had become an NCPD detective and was first partnered with
Jamie Sheen, but Jamie later committed suicide over his frustration with how the top brass cared
more about bribes rather than upholding the law. River continued serving as a detective though
and sometime later was partnered with another detective, Harold Han, and even worked with
well-established people like Jefferson Peralez.
Meanwhile his sister, Joss, had married an Aldecaldo with whom she had three children with:
Randy, Dorian, and Monique. With his brother-in-law not being much of a father figure, River
would step in and help take care of the children, particularly when he once caught his brother-in-
law with one of his young sons, Dorian, at a dive bar in the middle of the night, so the detective
took his nephew home much to his brother-in-law's ire. When his brother-in-law later died, River
continued to try and help support Joss and her children like buying them a new trailer to live in,
which resulted in Randy taking over the old one as his own place. However, River and Joss
eventually had a falling out sometime before 2077 over River's driven desire to bring justice for
his victims' cases to the point it was all he could talk and think about, with little regard for his
own family issues.
At one point in 2077, he got a solid tip that Mayor Lucius Rhyne's life was in danger and had set
out to speak with the mayor's security when a cyberpscyho, Péter Horváth, attacked right after
River got there. River managed to incapacitate the would-be attacker before they could find and
kill the mayor and the deputy mayor, Weldon Holt, but Rhyne ended up dying anyways later that
day from a separate heart problem. This odd coincidence didn't go unnoticed to River, but he had
no way to really link the two incidents, especially as his superior ordered him to drop the case
and even his partner, Harold, warned him to not re-open it.