Walter R. Riccio
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Walter Riccio is a multilingual Monarch Mythographer and the main antagonist of the 2017 Legendary Comics miniseries Skull Island: The Birth of Kong.
History
Skull Island: The Birth of Kong
"The People Who Came from the Sky"
In the year 1995, Aaron Brooks supposedly gathered the team of Evenij Medov, Evelyn Matamavi, Helen Karsten, Riccio, and their pilot Cejudo in order to investigate a M.U.T.O. fossil bed in Antarctica, but instead planned to investigate Skull Island. They took a prototype V-22 Osprey, for their trip, but just as they passed through the storm system, and Walter remarked that Skull Island was a real mythical island, as opposed to Atlantis or Lemuria. However, they were immediately shot down by Psychovultures. Cejudo went down with the Osprey, while the rest of the party parachuted to the ground. Riccio suggested that they make contact with the locals, but the party instead resolves to search for Cejudo and the Osprey, which had all of their supplies. However, when they turned to begin, they were attacked by Death Jackals, and Karsten was killed. Medov was horribly wounded, but Kong crushed all of the beasts with his hand and foot. Riccio then noticed the approaching Iwi tribesmen, lead by a boy named Ato, who claimed that they had been anticipating hteir arrival.
"The Mountain who Thunders Death"
Ato brought the party to the Iwi village, where they were treated for their wounds. Riccio took a liking to their medicine, and brought the rest of his party to the temple in the wreck of the Wanderer where he told them of a prophet that formed the Iwi before falling under the medicine's influence and explaining the origin of the Kong species. He then claimed that they were to go to the Prophet's footsteps for communion with Kong himself. The rest of the team, Aaron included, were suspicious of Riccio's ravings, but agreed to go on his pilgrimage. While in the wilds, they came upon a ship from the East India Trading company with another mural depicting the Iwi arriving on the island to discover the last two Kongs in existence. As they left the ship to continue, a Sirenjaw burst up from the water, forcing the entire party to retreat. Luckily, Aaron happened upon a weapon crate from his father's expedition in 1973, and extracted a rocket launcher. Ato proclaimed that weapons would not save them just before Kong's roar was heard, and the group set out to meet him.
"Valley of the Fallen Gods"
By the time they reached the Sirenjaw, Kong had torn its jaw off, and was nowhere to be seen. Ato then hurried them along, as whenever Kong left a kill, the rest of the island would emerge to feed on it. When they finally found shelter from the monsters, Ato informed them that because of the feeding, it would be at least a week before it was safe enough to return to the village. Aaron had little time to be outraged by this, as Cejudo came calling over the radio. He had survived the crash, and the lander was just barely operational. Ato informed the group that they could get to a safe place for the "metal bird" to land, but it would take them through the Boneyard: the territory of the Skullcrawlers. When the beasts came out of hiding, they entered a cave, which triggered a reaction from Riccio, who saw the birth of Kong before the way was clear. Riccio decided to stay, however, as Cejudo brought down the lander, he fired a rocket into its wing, destroying it. When Matamavi retaliated, he shot her too, and declared that the party would experience Kong.
"Over the Rainbow"
At gunpoint, Riccio exclaimed that the group would experience his test when he blew up the Iwi wall with one of the Seismic Charges left by a previous Monarch expedition in order to determine if humans were worthy of Kong's protection. He planned to do this to determine if Kong was a kind and benevolent god, or a god of destruction who killed for his own protection. However, when the wall burst, and a group of Mother Longlegs came through the wall, Kong smashed them all and him as well.
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