it’s headcanon time . it just is !
there is … a scale or spectrum of just how intensely … rick ricks can be . and cop rick is no saint by any means , he’s done plenty of the past things most ricks have done ; he fought against the federation alongside bp and squanchy , he traveled the multiverse and made a lot of enemies , he had toxic relationships , etc . a lot of illegal and amoral things . but he was always more predisposed towards sensitivity and compassion , and the main difference from most ricks ? he feels BAD about the things he did that hurt others ( the federation resistance being an exception , since the goal was the good of the people ) , and openly regrets them .
like almost all ricks , his marriage with diane grew sour ; he was too careless back then , they grew apart , and he eventually split at the same time as any other rick .
he always felt guilty for leaving beth ; he loved , and still loves her dearly .
the citadel was formed before morty was even born ; like rick says , for protection , which was needed more than ever before their grandsons came of the right age . cop rick’s lived in the citadel on and off for over a decade , and worked various jobs before joining the police academy in attempts to keep things interesting for himself .
he joined the academy when most other ricks went home ; by then he’d spent nearly a decade with other ricks as his most consistent company , and what he learned made him decide that as much as he wanted to see his beth again , it was better to wait and see . it was all intuition .
not too long after , when he saw how ricks treated their mortys through the effects it had on the city , he privately decided it had been the right decision . he knows from other ricks that his daughter’s out there somewhere missing him , and it pains him , but he’s afraid that if he went to see her he’d turn into just another rick , and end up causing his family , especially morty , the same pain as the others do .
he keeps tabs on his dimension , but not his family ; makes sure no disaster has struck the universe , or that another rick hasn’t taken over it , etc . but he’s never laid eyes on any member of his original family , even through the technology he uses .
he meets mortys all the time , of course , and has even met the occasional summer , and two jerrys .
owns tropical fish , in a tank . he takes very good care of them .
doesn’t eat simple rick’s wafers ; they make him too sad .
his sympathy for and caring nature he shows to all mortys and all children is just plainly due to his unusual amount of compassion for a rick , as well as the guilt he feels for leaving his own daughter and never contacting his own morty ( who he , for all he knows , could be a wonderful grandpa to ) , for never even giving him the chance .
he’s a little more hesitant to blindly trust mortys after the stabbing incident , but only a little . and it’s only towards mortys that are permanent residents of mortytown , not the ones just passing through the city .
he’s haunted by the death of his partner . even more so because he was never justly punished for it .
since tammy was never placed at hepson high to get close to summer and by extension , him or one of his associates , his birdperson is still alive , and squanchy’s fine . he meets up with them every once in a while , when he has the time .
he started presenting as his true , masculine self at 14 as best as he could . he’s been making his own testosterone / hrt concoction since his very early 20s , and hustled enough money for top surgery as soon as he’d been on it long enough to be able to get the procedure done . his own hrt is also what makes his hair permanently blue . he doesn’t mind at all , though .
absolutely could get bottom surgery , especially with the medical technology available at the citadel , but so far hasn’t . he’s had … relatively few issues with that part of himself through the years , and dysphoria in general . also , he’s really into the multiple orgasms .
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