As a child, Ridley never got a proper education and wanted to go to college. Instead, he ended up in Mountain Viewtopia where there aren't any of those. Since our education system teaches PhD level concepts to children, we just stuck him in public school. Everybody seems pretty on board with it.

Ridley is kind of very weird and can be kind of enigmatic. He always seems to have somewhere else to be. He relentlessly has compassion for other people. He has the skillfulness and talent of a professional athlete.

Ridley is partial to taking action to care for the environment, enjoys a good dramatic film, and has taken an interest in playing video games while streaming a playlist of Latin music. Even so, he doesn't care for subjecting himself to war movies, watching action movies, or being subjected to R&B music. Reading passages from Bookless in Baghdad, listening to Samurai Jay, and scarfing down tangelos routinely contribute to Ridley's daily routine.

One notable thing about Ridley is that he basically never laughs. There's an ongoing contest at PS518 to tell Ridley a joke that'll get him to laugh. So far, only Max Donato has had any success and the farthest he's gotten is cracking what some would interpret as a split-second half smile.

Ridley loves the only episode of Color Wars where Beguiling Mauve handily trounced Laser Lemon after getting the only perfect score ever in the Vanessa Hudgens Conditioner Bonus Challenge.