Ray Valerio

Name: Ray Valerio
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Birthday: May 13
Sexuality: Straight
Special Characteristics: N/A

Personality:
    -Normal Life:  Ray is usually a pretty happy person.  He enjoys travelling and living his life, taking in all the world has to offer.  Youth is a blessing, a gift even, one that should be cherished and enjoyed.  Due to his beliefs, Ray thinks that the best way to live life is with a care free attitude.  He doesn't stress much over things that would warrant it, though at times small things can bother him a great deal.  To add to his personality, Ray is a young and aspiring author, in love with reading and writing.  He's a bit of a romantic, in both variances of the term.  Ray loves to dream, thinking of how things could go and how they should occur, of course these scenarios are like a book and can at times be ridiculous or unrealistic.  Because of his love for creating stories, and romances, he likes to think life could work in a similar fashion, and will at times portray himself and behave as if he were from a romance, spooning and trying to woo females unlucky ,or lucky, enough to be caught in his fantasy.  He can at times be slow to form relationships, and can be a bit harsh if he feels someone is undeserving of better treatment.  However, once he becomes intertwined with someone, he becomes fiercely loyal.  As an author who primarily has published trashy novels, his mind can often be found in the gutter.  Undressing people with his eyes and dreaming up stories of love, lust, and fantasy about or involving them, wouldn't be out of character for him.

    -In Battle:  Ray tries to remain as relaxed and calm as possible in battle.  He believes that getting worked up, excited, or flustered only causes harm and makes you more vulnerable.  Despite this, when a battle get serious enough to warrant his direct attention, he won't hesitate to put his life on the line.  His focus is more on survival than making rash decisions, though he doesn't fear death and is more than willing to lay his life on the line if he thinks its necessary.  Due to his nature as an author, Ray loves creating scenarios and stories in his mind.  That same trait carries over to battle, making him more efficient and tactical.  Because he spends so much time creating stories and scenarios, he is quite skilled at predicting, anticipating, or preparing for many different instances and outcomes.  He is calculating and intelligent, his mind shaper than any weapon he could wield.  Despite bing talented and skilled enough, Ray prefers strongly to follow, not particularly enjoying having to be in charge of teams and missions.  The team never failed, the leader of the team failed.  That was more pressure than he wanted to carry, being the care free guy that he was.  He isn't quick to volunteer, and usually would wait to be chosen for tasks, assignments, or teams.  Regardless, like most situations, if they warrant his attention he is more than a willing to do the best he can.  Ray isn't one for doing many things without his full effort.
Likes:
    - Reading:  Ray, being a lover of books and literature, adores reading.  Romance, Mystery, Action, the genre doesn't matter, if it has words he's willing to crack it open and read.
    -Writing:  As an author one of his strongest passions is scribbling words to paper and creating a new world, a new story.
    -Dreaming/Fantasizing:  Ray loves picturing and imagining how things "should" happen.  His creative mind allows him to dream up many scenarios on how things could go and how interesting it would be.
    -Fruits:  When he was younger, Ray didn't much care for vegetables.  Still, he needed something healthy to eat, thus his fondness of fruits was born.  He loves nearly all fruits and often snacks on them.
Dislikes:
    -Vegetables: There is no particular reason for his distaste of plants.  As a child he didn't like the taste of many vegetables and in turn decided he didn't like ANY vegetables.  He is willing to eat them if its all he has, but given the choice he would much prefer something different.
    -Mistreatment of literature: Ray loves books, as such, he also hates the destruction and mistreatment of them.  Mistreatment of books, scrolls, or other forms of writing is often more quickly noticed to him than that of people.
    -  Illiteracy:  Reading and writing are the greatest forms of art to Ray.  He also feels that everyone should learn to read and write and is a bit put off by those lacking the skills.
Motivations:
    -Knowledge:  Ray is a strong believer in the saying that knowledge is power.  He takes any opportunity he can to increase his own knowledge, though he is unwilling to share it at times and feels that others wouldn't know how to use it.
    -Written Collection:  One of his most prized possessions is one that he is currently growing still.  Ray possesses a large and extensive personal library on books, scrolls, and tomes of all types.  The collection holds ancient scrolls as well as texts on creatures, places, and history.  It even goes as far as to have a large section of his favorite books and authors.  Increasing his personal library is of great importance to him.
    -Money:  Though he is a man of knowledge and curiosity, even Ray holds a love for wealth, personal gain, and material objects.
Fears:
    -Ignorance:  One of his greatest fears and suspicions, is that one day the world will be thrown back into darkness, losing the literature and knowledge that humanity has gathered so far.
    -Embarrassment:  Despite his intelligence, Ray has a large sense of pride and it is quite sensitive.  Rejection and looking like a fool are things that he fears, seeing them as larger than they are.
    -Aging:  Youth is a beautiful thing, one that shouldn't be wasted due to it getting shorter each minute.  Getting old is not something Ray looks forward to, and even fears.

General Appearance


Height: 5'11 ft
Weight: 130 lbs
Hair: Black hair in a short buzzcut
Eyes: Light brown/golden mix
Skin Tone: Tan
Appearance:  Ray is roughly average height, not standing out at a particularly tall or short height. He is actually bordering under weight, almost his entire body weight made up of his muscle and very little body fat. He's thin but toned and muscular, not buff or bulky in any sense though.  His skin is tan and his hair is short and black, while his eyes shimmer a mixture of light brown and gold.  

Ray dresses nicely, but not too formally.  He wears black pants that cover his entire legs.  At the bottom of his pants legs are a pair of matching all black shoes.  He wears a long sleeved white button up shirt, the top couple of buttons undone to reveal his collar bone.  He wears no short beneath the button up.

Guild/Council

Guild:  Still searching for a guild that can support him and his love of literacy.
Tattoo: N/A
Rank: D