Richie Lopez

"'Neg-three,' Jamie grumbled, and was immediately parroted by Richie. But when she slugged him in the arm, he rolled his eyes. 'Or maybe neg-four. I took a lucky hit yesterday by the sanitation plant.' "Richie Lopez is one of the Fire Lake sophomores. He is described as being tall and thin with the build of a distance runner and yellow eyes.

In the Program
Richie joins the Ski Lodge team when the Program begins, one of Noah Livingston's fighters. He once leads an unsanctioned mission at the sanitation plant. At some point, he begins dating Jamie Cruz. When the lodge burns down, he and Kyle Homling find their way to the Life-Trading Team. Richie survives the rest of the Program and is resurrected with the rest of his classmates.

Chrysalis
Richie lives in Home Town after the Program. In an attempt to get him active again after Jamie's death, Noah and Ethan Fletcher bring him on an expedition to the Outpost. After they are brought aboard Chrysalis, he passes his initial tests but is then selected for repurposement.