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Riley Oh-RR Not Part of Riordanverse

The following article/section is from the Gifted Clans continuity under Rick Riordan Presents and not the Riordanverse canon.

James Oh is the father of Hattie Oh and the adoptive father of Riley Oh.

History[]

At one point, James married a fellow witch named Euhna and had a daughter with her, Hattie. Soon after they adopted a girl from the excommunicated Horangi clan and told her her birthday parents were teenage saram, non-magical, people and named her Riley. they persuaded the elders to have her elemental affiliations looked at and all four were fire, with elements only repeating once it was unheard of, and Riley was forbidden from practicing magic.

The Gifted Clans series[]

The Last Fallen Star[]

Riley Oh-RR

Riley Oh, his adoptive daughter.

One Saturday, about a month before his daughter Hattie is to try to receive her Gi bracelet, he meets a new commer to Los Angeles named Robert Choi and reassures Riley that she is his daughter and treats his injured ankle. Later during services at temple, which they are late to, they watch as one of the elder's granddaughter has her elemental affiliation revealed, and are warned about an exiled clan trying to get back into the congregation.

Two days later on Hattie's thirteenth birthday, she watches with her husband and Riley as Hattie completes her initiation. She and her husband then watch in shock as their daughters perform a power sharing ritual. After the truth of Riley being a Horangi gets out, he and his family are given a choice, either all of them are stripped of their power and excommunicated or just Riley is banished. After James and his wife discover a letter their daughter's note about summoning Mago Hamli, they try desperately to contact Hattie and Riley to no avail.

A couple of days later, he, his wife, and Okja have a Samjogo track her down and they go to the Horangi hideout and Emmett fills them in when he sees them. He and his wife hug Riley and accuse the Horangi of kidnapping and brainwashing her. When Riley accuses Okja of a coverup, she reveals her suspicions of the Samjogo elder, Bongjoon Pyo, framing the Horangi due to recent erratic behavior and the group form an uneasy alliance and head for Los Angeles. They arrive at Mr. Pyo's place of work and, after Taeyo hacks into his calendar to make an appointment for his relatives, they walk right in. They find him in a meeting and, when he sees them, runs as they give chase. They corner him in his car as Sora, Austin, and Taeyo subdue him. Riley asks why he framed the Horangi. Mr.Pyo tells them Sookhee Harrison was behind everything before he comes to the realization that she was possessed by the Cave Bear Goddess as part of a plan for her and her sisters to destroy the artifacts, which are actually pieces of the dark moon and dark sun, to erase their sin so that they can enter the Mortalrealm and do what they please with humanity. After realizing the Cave Bear Goddess can possess members of the Gom, Riley asks if they can sever the clan's ties to her. Although hesitant at first, Okja reveals a spell exists and the he and his wife agree to it. Just then Areum arrives and says the Dokkaebi know where the artifact is. As they question where to even find a dokkaebi, Mr. Pyo says one lives in the forty-fourth room on the forty-forth floor of the temple. They leave the elder behind and, after stopping at the Tokki elder's house for a sleeping potion, they reach the temple and argue over who is going to make a deal with the dokkaebi. When they reach the room, the decide on the Ohs going in. As her mother drinks the potion, she falls asleep as he and Riley watch over her. Ten minutes later, his wakes up crying saying the goblin would get the star in exchange for the life of one of her daughters, something she couldn’t do as he comforts her.

The others enter the room and, as Riley had their memories of her erased to find the last fallen star, they do not recognize her and are surprised that she knows about their plan to sever the Gom from the Cave Bear Goddess. After she returns Emmett's ring and takes out Taeyo's compass, she believes it is the last fallen star and they head to the Gi Sanctuary. The Cave Bear Goddess arrives and asks Riley for the star. She then requests Hattie and the goddess obliges. James, Eunha, and Riley hug Hattie, who is incredibly thin with a gray hue to her skin. Suddenly Hattie starts to spasm before speaking in the voice of Sookhee Harrison. After she explains to her son what she did and how she regained her sense of self, she turns into a jaguar and goes to the afterlife. Riley berates the goddess for not returning Hattie, the goddess responds that, as she and the other goddesses are the daughters of Mago Halmi, all others are beneath them. Okra then starts the spell to sever the goddess from a Gom, binding the two with thread. Riley goes to cut off threads, but fails to do so as she realizes to late that the compass is not the star. As the Cave Bear Goddess berates Riley, for betraying her, Riley says she is powerless in the Mortalrealm without a host. Just then the goddess tries to possess Okja. He and the others try and fail to stop the goddess.  The goddess sends him flying into the Gom pews as his wife rushes over to him to heal him. The two heal Areum when she uses herself as a shield to protect Riley. He and the others are shocked when Riley reveals she is the last fallen star and watch as his forgotten daughter destroys the statue of his clan's patron goddess, expelling her from Okja and the Mortalrealm.

As things calm down, he and Eunha thank Riley for returning their daughter to them. As they continue to mourn, Riley is given a wish by the Haetae to undo anything from her past and she decides to resurrect Hattie. He does so and, after a delay, Hattie is resurrected. They all cheer and promise to find a way to restore their memories of Riley as they fill Hattie in.

The Last Fallen Moon[]

Due to he and his wife losing their magic, they had to close down to clinic and became dishwashers at Seoulful Tacos. Two months later he and the rest of the his family and friends celebrate a belated thirteenth birthday for Riley, however he and his wife mask their unease at celebrating the birthday of someone, as the moment, they do not know well. Soon angry Gom vandalize the house with hateful graffiti for Riley. Riley starts to blame herself for the incident as he and the others volunteer to coverup the graffiti and comfort her. When they return to the kitchen for cake, everything in the kitchen starts to attack them. Austin holds off the knives as everyone flees to the hall. The hallway then attacks them and Sora pries the door open and everyone escapes. Riley's family becomes distraught when they realize their house is cursed and Sora offers to house them at their compound. Riley starts to tear up as her mother says she is not to blame. How Riley screams that it is her fault and she is not hero. Emmett and the Ohs leave with the Horangi while the others go home. During the ride Hattie falls asleep, everyone hoping she wakes up in under two days. She mentions it will rain and it pours when they arrive.

After learning what Riley did, he, Eunha, Sora, Austin, and Riley's friends gather in the Gi Sanctuary at the temple. They are overjoyed when she wakes up and are shocked to learn Dahl is her twin. After he and his wife express their desire for their healing magic, they rub their wrists to find that their marks have returned while the other clans lost their gifts. He and the others are surprised when Dahl inadvertently summons the Haetae, who warns them the goddesses are preparing for war. When the Haetae leaves, Riley restores his memories of her, as well as the other Gom and Horangi present, and they all embrace.

The Last Fallen Realm[]

James and his family gather in Las Vegas to prepare for war with the rest the American Gifted Community. When they sky vanishes, he and Eunha meet up with Riley and Dahl to discuss current events. As they theorize this is the goddesses first move until Hattie calls with Yeomra the Great to inform them the mayor thinks that Riley’s traveling between realms is the cause of it. As Riley blames herself and the others reassure her she is not responsible, the mayor says that the Godrealm has started seeping into the Mortalrealm and will soon seep into the Spiritrealm. Hattie reveals she has been having a dream about a dragon emerging from the Trevi Fountain and thinks it is Yongwang, the leader of the underwater borough of the Spiritrealm who has been missing from centuries. After Hattie mentions she rises from the water, he and his wife interpret this as a sigh that her body will wake up. Dahl finds a replica of the fountain at Caesar’s Palace and suggests they go there. Upon arriving, the group is greeted by Taeyo and he and Eunha enter a trance and hear something, but forget what it is upon snapping out of it. The teenagers move them to a bench to rest. Soon a man in a weeding cake costume hands them a flyer for two horses getting married named Charles and Maru. After looking at the flyer, Riley realizes that Charles is the Cheollima who guarded the temple library. After seeing a thumbprint, they realize it is a scale after comparing it to Boris. They realize the wedding has started and that is is inside the palace. They grab him and his wife and head inside. During the ceremony, he and Eunha watching a daze before wandering off. They join other adults in a trance and wander into a wax museum before filling up against a wall. Riley inspects them to find them cold but alive.

After the goddesses start to merge the realms, he and his wife are brought forth to subdue Riley, but they are given gummies and freed from their mind control. After the goddesses lure Riley into a trap in a theater, Namjoon, Boris, Hattie, Emmett, James, Eunha, Taeyo, Cosette, Noah, Jennie, Sahm, Charles, Maru, Okja, Sora, Austin, Emmett, the Haetae- with the mayor in its jaws, Phoebe, and two other members of RilOh arrive. As the goddesses are distracted, Riley destroys the key and gives a piece of Mago's Fire to everyone, including the goddesses, who revert to infant animals. As everyone takes in their victory, Emmett suggests the Yeomra be made a janitor as the mayor pleads for death instead. As everyone thinks of ways to separate the realms, Riley knows the only way is for her to become the new sun. The others try to talk Riley out of it, but she insists it is the only way. They say their goodbyes and Riley uses Emmett’s bracelet to link herself into her loved ones and the goddesses. The Haetae takes Riley to the stratosphere and she becomes the new sun, giving magic to everyone.

Appearance[]

James is a man of Korean descent with dark hair and eyes.

Personality[]

James is a caring father to both his daughters and open to certain saram, non-magical people, knowing about the non-magical community like his daughter Riley.

Abilities[]

  • Mystiokinesis: As a witch, James can use magic.
    • Vitakinesis: As a member of the Gom clan, he can utilize Healing Magic. James uses this to operate his family's clinic. He and the rest of the Gom Clan lost this ability upon the death of the Cave Bear Goddess, but it was restored when Heo Jun becomes the clan's new patron.

Etymology[]

  • James is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter" or "one who follows".
  • Oh is a surname of Korean origin.

Trivia[]

  • James is ticklish.
The Gifted Clans series
Books: The Last Fallen Star | The Last Fallen Moon | The Last Fallen Realm
Main Characters: Riley Oh | Hattie Oh | Boris | Emmett Harrison | Dahl Oh | Areum
Secondary Characters: James Oh | Eunha Oh | Cosette Chung | Noah Noh | David Kim | Jennie Byun | Taeyo | Okja | Sora Kwon | Austin | Yeomra the Great | Bob | Heo Jun
Minor Characters: Bongjoon Pyo | Sookhee Harrison | Mrs. Kim | Mrs. Lee | Mr. Hong | Mong | Charles | Cheol | Yeowu | Sahm
Korean Gods: Cave Bear Goddess | Three-Legged Crow Goddess | Water Dragon Goddess | Moon Rabbit Goddess | Nine-Tailed Fox Goddess | Mountain Tiger Goddess | Mago Halmi
Mythical Creatures: Dragon Scooter | Cheollima | Haetae | Inmyeonjo | Dokkaebi | Gwisin | Ineo | Imugi | Salmosa | Bulgae | Bonghwang | Moon Rabbit
Related Content: Graci Kim | Rick Riordan Presents | My Night at the Gifted Carnival
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