Rad Ray Sunshine

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"Rad" Raymond Sunshine is an important Technomancer operating in Ontario.

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.”

“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?”

“I’ve had four apprentices. You’re the only one of the three remaining who isn’t exhausting to be around.”

“You’re so asocial.”

“I spent myself of most of my ‘social’ in my younger days.”

“Peace, love, beauty, honesty, and fun? Flower power?”

“I’m not quite that old, Zed.” - 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.

The question was implied, not asked.

“I’ve gotten attached to her.”

“Too attached? You’ve assumed responsibility for her. She’s aware but not awakened. Now, I haven’t seen much of her…”

Raymond trailed off.

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. - 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?

‘Helping hands to pull her up from the depths.’

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.

Stubbornness ran in that family. - Excerpt from Out on a Limb 3.z</ref><ref name=":2">Zed floundered for a way of putting the idea to words.
The son? That felt like a slap in the face to Hector, and Zed had always liked Hector.

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.

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. - 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.

Reputation

Is respected by the wider community,<ref>[...]Verona looked back, then around.

She couldn’t shake the feeling that even the sourest faces among the adults and kids seemed to change a bit when it came to Raymond.  Softening, or focusing more.

Mrs. Durocher seemed to scare the pants off of people.  With those dark eyes with chewed up meaty things swimming in them, she scared Verona a bit.

But they seemed to respect Raymond. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.5</ref> though the position he's taken has meant he faces stiff competition on taking any more.<ref>To draw on Pale stuff, the guy that set up magic Ebay and an online library for practitioners has five different metaphorical guns held to his head at all times by international powers. Seeing 6/10 of the subreddit's posts be about this magical forum seems like it would impact a lot of perceptions of someone who then goes into the Pactverse or Otherverse. [Edited to add] It's a setting where information is literal power and suspected diabolism is a 'kill them now just to be safe' case, and OMO people are sharing their magic diagrams and joking about demons like it's a punchline. - Wildbow on Reddit.</ref> He is famous for creating the Atheneum Arrangement, the Black Box, and Gold Garden.<ref>Mr. Raymond Sunshine, creator of the Atheneum Arrangement, the Black Box, and Gold Garden.”- Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.5</ref>

Appearance

Tall, thin, with his long hair greying a little at the temples. His hair is wavy but generally slicked back.<ref name=":1">The man was tall, with a long head, and he wore crimson-tinted visor sunglasses that were all one piece, with just the notch cut out for the nose, even though it was late evening. It was maybe the last wholly intact vestige of his ‘rad’ former self. His long hair was slicked back close to his scalp, only really getting wavy and ‘free’ at the point where it was past his chin. It was graying at the temples. He had a full beard, a black turtleneck, and a black business coat, all styled to frame a very slim build. His jeans were a modern, slim-fit style, and his shoes appeared to be laceless.

Zed looked over at Brie, who glanced back at him, smiling.

Zed had dipped into the darker aesthetic as well, like Ray had. Black tee, black leather jacket, jeans, hair slicked back in a very different way than Ray had. - Excerpt from Out on a Limb 3.z</ref><ref name=":3">A man with longer, wavy hair he’d partially straightened, with red sunglasses, was sitting on the stairs, talking to a younger girl with a stuffed elephant that was moving its head around.
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“If we must,” the man who had to be Raymond Sunshine said, sighing heavily.  He was holding a laser between his hands for a kid to play with.  The kid looked too young to be attending the school.  Closer to Kerry’s age.  A bunch of other kids of similar age were hanging back, like they were too afraid to approach the scary old guy in black, with the long hair and crimson sunglasses.  Even if the lasers were neat.
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“They are,” Ray said, adjusting his sunglasses.  He shook off the light show, then straightened, standing by Alexander.  Unsmiling, even a bit grim, he gave the kid he’d been playing with a small wave. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.4 </ref> His eyes (when visible) are a striking green.<ref name=":4">Mr. Sunshine was clean-shaven, and took off his sunglasses to hang them on the front pocket of his shirt, a black button-up.  His hair was slicked back, but long, and the part that wasn’t touching his head broke up into wavy zig-zags.  His belt was the most colorful part of his outfit, next to his sunglasses, and it was gray.

It made his eyes stand out.  Very green. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.6</ref>

When he fought the Hungry Choir he had a full beard,<ref name=":1" /> but by the time the BHI term started he'd shaved it off.<ref name=":4" />

Although he used to dress in a distinctively "rad" style, he now favours more modern businesslike attire, with a preference for black. He does however still tend to wear red, old-fashioned wraparound shades.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" />

Abilities

He created his demesne as a virtual reality space, it ended up being twice the size of the entire world<ref name=":5" />, whilst it's large on the inside elsewhere it only the size of a small room<ref>“I’ve spent more time on my demesne than most,” Ray observed.  “As big as it is in here, it’s only a large room in a building elsewhere.  The scale and versatility of this building are a product of time and power invested.” - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.7</ref>. He made it as a tool to help him with his work, it contains an analogue of everything in existence.<ref name=":5">Other things lit up.  Buildings without windows or doors, as rough three-dimensional creations.  Advertisements played.  Roads as black as anything, with markers and lines in neon yellow.

The world kept expanding, buildings appearing.  The landscape at the horizon turned upward, then kept going.

“My Demesne.  I created it as a tool.  It became a place with twice the surface area of Earth.  Less populated, but all the same.  Every website, tool, and device has its analogue here.  Locations both mundane and, for example, like the Abyss, have loose analogues here.  Here, if I wish to do my programming, I can do it in five different ways, shaping the corresponding buildings and machinery, using consoles, among other things.”- Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.7</ref>

He owns an electric car.<ref>Ray behind them in his own car, some fancy electric car.- Excerpt from False Moves 12.7</ref>

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