Editing Rad Ray Sunshine (section)

==Personality==
Ray is self-admittedly quite antisocial; he claims he "spent" himself of social tendencies in his youth.<ref name=":0">He gave Zed a tight smile.  “You’re my favorite apprentice.”<br><br>“I’m touched.  Is this the moment where you tell me your other students are only students and family, and I’m your only true apprentice?”<br><br>“I’ve had four apprentices.  You’re the only one of the three remaining who isn’t exhausting to be around.”<br><br>“You’re so asocial.”<br><br>“I spent myself of most of my ‘social’ in my younger days.”<br><br>“Peace, love, beauty, honesty, and fun?  Flower power?”<br><br>“I’m not quite that old, Zed.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/15 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.z]]</ref>

He has a habit of trailing off mid-sentence, on the assumption that anyone worth talking to can finish the thought themselves.<ref>“While we’re on the topic of love…” Raymond said, raising one eyebrow above the red sunglasses.  He turned his head slightly toward Brie.<br><br>The question was implied, not asked.<br><br>“I’ve gotten attached to her.”<br><br>“Too attached?  You’ve assumed responsibility for her.  She’s aware but not awakened.  Now, I haven’t seen much of her…”<br><br>Raymond trailed off.<br><br>He did that a lot.  Zed was used to it, but he knew it drove some people crazy, as they waited for the man to finish his thoughts.  He didn’t do that, though.  He expected anyone keeping up with him to finish his thoughts for him and prove they were paying attention. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/15 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.z]]</ref>

===Relationships===
====[[Zed]]====
He's closest with the young man, who Ray's stated is his favourite of the four apprentices he's had.<ref name=":0"/><ref name=":2" /> Zed has admitted, in the privacy of his own thoughts, that Ray is stubborn, borderline abusive, and "a mess". He was traumatized by the death of his son, Hector, who rejected his help.<ref>Raymond aborting a conversation wasn’t unusual, especially in recent years.  But Zed had to puzzle out why, and in the here and now, he found himself reaching, going over the conversation.  What had triggered Raymond shutting down like that?<br><br>‘Helping hands to pull her up from the depths.’<br><br>Raymond was thinking of darker times.  When he’d reached down to pull his son Hector up.  His hand had been slapped away.  Raymond had never forgiven Hector for that, lending a kind of sadness to his earlier comment about favorite apprentices.  Hector, for his part, hadn’t forgiven Raymond, either.<br><br>Stubbornness ran in that family. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/15 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.z]]</ref><ref name=":2">Zed floundered for a way of putting the idea to words.<br>The son?  That felt like a slap in the face to Hector, and Zed had always liked Hector.<br><br>In any event, He wanted to do right by Raymond.  The guy was a mess, and there were times he was borderline abusive, but he was also the first person who had really backed Zed up when he needed it.  If tonight went badly, if Zed didn’t come out the other end okay… Raymond would lose it, probably.  It would probably even go the way it had with Hector.  A decline so slow that people who were in contact with Raymond on a near-daily basis, like Alexander, wouldn’t notice the incremental changes.  So subtle that the people who were distant, like his other two apprentices, wouldn’t be able to put it to words.<br><br>Before Hector, Rad Ray Sunshine had been bright, effusive, happy, unflappable.  But the parent had buried his child and buried a good-sized part of himself with him. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/15 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.z]]</ref>

===Hector===
Had a loving if distant relationship. Metaphorically moved heaven and earth to find a cure for his son's sickness and was deeply hurt when Hector refused to take the cure.

===Faculty===
He helps run the [[Blue Heron Institute]], is something of the level head for the group.

Alexander recomended [[Basil Winter]] as an apprentice but fired him after it was revealed that he was trying to steal Ray's data.<ref>A few years back, Alexander had recommended Basil as an apprentice for Raymond Sunshine.  A single miscommunication had soiled things, burning not only the bridge back to Raymond Sunshine, but to many others.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/26/fall-out-14-z/ Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.z]]</ref><ref>He’d really hoped this would be his shot at Ray’s information.  Easily several millions were available in that.  He’d slipped up years ago, trying for much the same thing, with a bad turn of phrase tipping Raymond off that the entity in his systems was something Basil knew a little bit about.  The man had dogged that little detail relentlessly, not taking anything vague as an answer until Basil had been forced to confess.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/26/fall-out-14-z/ Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.z]]</ref>