| “ | Pfff, I'm not beating that mutt up because it's FUN. I'm beating it up because it's POOR!!
— Ritz to Stephen regarding the lost dog (Chapter 6, Page 9
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Ritz Price-Lee is a Mayview Academy high school student[3], and a newly turned vampire and spectral. She acts as the first major antagonist of Chapter 6, where she is confronted by Stephen over kicking a lost dog.
Appearance[]
Ritz has multiple black piercings jutting from her right eyebrow, earlobes, and chin. Her face is smattered with a line of small freckles in a line around her nose. In Chapters 6 and 8, she wears two gold necklaces, two matching bracelets on her right wrist, and multiple rings across both hands. She wears what appears to be a version of the Mayview Academy uniform, which consists of a white button-up under a teal blazer, slacks, and brown dress shoes.
In one of Richard Spender's flashbacks in Chapter 7, a younger version of Ritz is seen lacking her facial piercings and yellow dye in her hair, although she has gold earrings. The younger Ritz wears a gold necklace, a ruffled pink dress, and two gold bracelets.
Personality[]
Ritz is an arrogant, conceited, and prejudiced person, as seen in the way she kicks a dog and taunts a middle-school student for being in lower socioeconomic classes. She wears and owns status symbols including gold jewelry, multiple smartphones, and a gold fold-out comb.
Paranatural[]
Chapter 6[]
While walking around Mayview after escaping his house, Stephen comes across Ritz kicking a dog and confronts her. As he attempts to fight her, Ritz is joined by Paige, Gage, and Youth Culture, whom Stephen threatens to take on all at once. As this amuses Paige, she decides to "let" Ritz fight Stephen alone and see who comes out the winner so that she can "root for [him] instead"[4].
Though she initially protests, Paige dispassionately responds that "there is no '[them]' yet", intimidating Ritz into agreeing. During the ensuing fight, Stephen ultimately gains the upper hand with the help of the dog, who trips Ritz into a nearby riverbank in the end. As Stephen runs away with the dog, Ritz is seen worriedly checking her primary smartphone while sitting in the stream.
Ritz stays under the bridge all day with the delinquents, eventually complaining about this and mentioning her hunger. Gage responds by calling her food, and she kicks him in the face. As Paige reluctantly gives the OK for Gage and Youth Culture to do as they please, the two advance on the truant heiress.
Chapter 7[]
In one of Richard Spender's flashbacks, a younger Ritz is seen attending Bill Spender's election gala. Ritz asks a younger Penny Spender where the dog from the cutout is, and is baffled when Penny tells her that the dog had been photoshopped in.
Chapter 8[]
Ritz arrives at the Mayview Clinic seeking assistance for her symptoms, which arose from recently being turned into a vampire due to Gage's blood getting into her wound. She had attempted to get back into her house only to find it closed and abandoned by her mother, and felt compelled to stay out of the place. After realizing that all of her credit cards were cut off, gaining the ability to see spirits and spurts of yellow spectral energy coming off of her, and worrying about catching "some poor people disease", she had headed to the clinic. Her experience with the vampires had also turned her into a spectral via near-death experience. After failing to get through to the oblivious doctor about her symptoms, Ritz is vampirically compelled to follow Paige, who had entered the room posing as a nurse.
Relationships[]
Family[]
- DJ Mothman - While there hasn't been any direct interaction shown between Ritz and her father, a family portrait shows the radio host with a goofy expression and an arm over Ritz's shoulder, while Ritz looks exasperated. Whether she despises her father to the extent her mother does or is simply exhausted from his antics is yet to be seen.
Enemies[]
- Stephen - Ritz looks down on Stephen because he's younger than her, he doesn't have a lot of money like she does and he goes to a public school on the opposing hill. While Stephen tries to fight her directly when she kicks a dog into a pillar, she opts for dodging and taunting. Ritz also refuses to trade blows with Stephen, saying that she's too old for him[3] and asking if her group is "above that"[4], until she's intimated by others; despite this, she doesn't take an issue with him being ambushed by three other high-school delinquents.
Other[]
- Paige - Ritz seeks approval from Paige and acceptance into her group of delinquents, hanging out with them and choosing to physically fight Stephen after Paige intimidates her. Despite this, Ritz does question Paige's decisions at times, such as when she asks if the group was above fighting a middle schooler after Paige declares that Ritz and Stephen should fight one-on-one for her amusement. Paige is significantly less concerned with her, however, allowing Gage and Youth Culture to feed on her with only a weak protest, although she does refuse to feed on Ritz herself.
Quotes[]
- "...And then I said, "That's not a bank, that's my wallet!" Ha ha ha, OK gorgeous, I'll ttyl ❤ Servi, end recording."
- — Ritz Price-Lee to her smartphone (Chapter 6, Page 8
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- "Pfff, I'm not beating that mut up because it's FUN. I'm beating it up because it's POOR!! LOOK at that thing! No money, no clothes, no coding skills... PAH!! Animals have been freeloading on our planet for WAY too long. SOMEone needs to teach them a lesson. Maybe then they'll stop eating berries in the woods or whatever and get a real job."
- — Ritz to Stephen regarding the lost dog (Chapter 6, Page 9)
- Ritz: "W-wait, you g-guys are vampires?"
- Gage: "You’re a vampire."
- Ritz: "Nuh-uh"
- Paige: "Yes, you are. You’re a vampire."
- Ritz: "...Okay."
- — Ritz's net worth proves insufficient to win an argument with the Delinquent Trio. (Chapter 8, Page 13)
Trivia[]
- Ritz takes expensive martial arts lessons.[4]
- The subtitles above her name during her first appearance refer to her as a "Truant Heiress".
- Ritz has a tendency to include drawn hearts in her speech, typically when referring to herself[5], a trait she shares with her mom, Lavish Price[6]. She also has the same taste in jewelry as her mother.
- Ritz is one of the five characters to have explicitly become a spectral through a near-death experience, the others being Valerie Day, Dimitri Danger, Coach Oop and Dave Jones.
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- ↑ "the cachet of infallible pickup lines [Ritz]’d paid a consultant to teach her in anticipation of Mayview Academy’s senior prom" (Chapter 8, Page 14)
- ↑ Chapter 6, Page 33
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 6, Page 11
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Chapter 6, Page 13
- ↑ Chapter 6, Page 8
- ↑ Chapter 6, Page 30