Personality: Ray is like if a giant puppy managed to get a PhD and got really into the idea of researching ghosts. Dubbed “The Heart of the Ghostbusters”, he is incredibly childlike, finding joy in seemingly everything. Despite being an adult, he’s known for loving very childish things, like toys, cartoons, and comic books. It’s to the point where he is seen as a living charm against negative energies given off by powerful ghosts, as pointed out in the comic series Ghostbusters Crossing Over.
Ray is absolutely fascinated by the strange and paranormal. When other people are screaming in terror at a horrifying ghost or demon, Ray is acting like a child on christmas morning. He’s one of the first people to befriend Slimer and is the one that’s openly close to him. His excitement of the supernatural, however, does come at a price. He struggles to take serious situations seriously, instead of being excited when in life threatening situations with ghosts.
However he’s isn’t stupid, and behind Egon is easily the smartest member of the ghostbusters by far with a PhD in parapsychology and an MS in Mechanical Engineering. Mainly he specializes in the engineering side of the business. He created all of the ghostbusting equipment with the help of Egon, and he is the one who single handedly fixed up a new proton pack and trapper in one night with limited resources (it exploded after one use but it still worked!).
Ray is incredibly supportive of all the people he cares about, and is generally the ghostbusters the others like the most. He has his own ways of bonding with each of them, whether it’s having special shows they watch together, work on experiments with each other, or just telling jokes. Ray just loves bonding with people in however way he can.
Despite that he isn’t soft to the point of being a pushover. If something irks him he will freely voice it, whether because he sees something unjust or if he’s just annoyed by someone. He openly teases people who are mean to him (including Venkman) and makes snide comments to rude people who take advantage of others. He sometimes teams up with Venkman to tell off other people like threatening to send ghosts to a guy’s house or telling Venkman to blast Slimer after annoying him one too many times.
Also he canonically called Walter Peck “dickless” in this universe. I don’t care if The Real Ghostbusters and the movie canonically take place in different universes he still said that.
Also, while this is a point that’s just barely touched upon in the cartoon, Ray is not against performing illegal activities. The proton packs are quite basically unlicensed nuclear weapons that could literally kill people if they weren’t careful. He seems to have zero objections to building and his only ever concern of it is in the first movie when he’s worried that it might blow up upon their first usage.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Breeder Starter: Pumpkaboo Password: Atomic Fireball
[The feed opens with Ray, looking incredibly sheepish. It’s dark, wherever he is, but if you look hard enough he seems to be in the sewers.]
Uh hey everyone! Good news and bad news.
Bad news first, I guess: So I guess it’s really illegal to make proton packs in this universe.
I tried to explain to the police what was going on! Even how I’ve made them plenty times before and that the odds of it exploding was incredibly low! But she wasn’t hearing any of that and put the handcuffs on me before I could even tell her that I was only ever going to use them to blast ghosts.
It was almost kinda impressive how fast she got here, actually. I barely even got started on building the thing.
[He’s silent for a moment, rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly, before perking up.]
Oh right, good news! I learned today that Jackie is really good at defending me from attackers! [He deflated slightly.] She… was trying to attack that dino-kangaroo the police woman had with her… but if she’s willing to protect me from the police, I bet she’s willing to protect me from most other things! Not that I want her to fight all my battles for me, but since I won’t have any of my equipment now I have to get creative.
She’s a pretty skilled fighter too! Even without my proton pack I think I’ll be pretty safe around her.
[Distantly, someone calls his name.]
Anyway, my point of this post is that you guys probably won’t see much of me next week. See everyone later!
Ray Stantz | The Real Ghostbusters | Reserved
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Character
Name: Dr. Raymond "Ray" Stantz
Series: The Real Ghostbusters
Timeline: post-Night Game
Canon Resource Links: Ghostbuster’s lore quit your job, move in with your partners, illegally build nuclear reactors, and run around the city in weird outfits fighting monsters
Personality: Ray is like if a giant puppy managed to get a PhD and got really into the idea of researching ghosts. Dubbed “The Heart of the Ghostbusters”, he is incredibly childlike, finding joy in seemingly everything. Despite being an adult, he’s known for loving very childish things, like toys, cartoons, and comic books. It’s to the point where he is seen as a living charm against negative energies given off by powerful ghosts, as pointed out in the comic series Ghostbusters Crossing Over.
Ray is absolutely fascinated by the strange and paranormal. When other people are screaming in terror at a horrifying ghost or demon, Ray is acting like a child on christmas morning. He’s one of the first people to befriend Slimer and is the one that’s openly close to him. His excitement of the supernatural, however, does come at a price. He struggles to take serious situations seriously, instead of being excited when in life threatening situations with ghosts.
However he’s isn’t stupid, and behind Egon is easily the smartest member of the ghostbusters by far with a PhD in parapsychology and an MS in Mechanical Engineering. Mainly he specializes in the engineering side of the business. He created all of the ghostbusting equipment with the help of Egon, and he is the one who single handedly fixed up a new proton pack and trapper in one night with limited resources (it exploded after one use but it still worked!).
Ray is incredibly supportive of all the people he cares about, and is generally the ghostbusters the others like the most. He has his own ways of bonding with each of them, whether it’s having special shows they watch together, work on experiments with each other, or just telling jokes. Ray just loves bonding with people in however way he can.
Despite that he isn’t soft to the point of being a pushover. If something irks him he will freely voice it, whether because he sees something unjust or if he’s just annoyed by someone. He openly teases people who are mean to him (including Venkman) and makes snide comments to rude people who take advantage of others. He sometimes teams up with Venkman to tell off other people like threatening to send ghosts to a guy’s house or telling Venkman to blast Slimer after annoying him one too many times.
Also he canonically called Walter Peck “dickless” in this universe. I don’t care if The Real Ghostbusters and the movie canonically take place in different universes he still said that.
Also, while this is a point that’s just barely touched upon in the cartoon, Ray is not against performing illegal activities. The proton packs are quite basically unlicensed nuclear weapons that could literally kill people if they weren’t careful. He seems to have zero objections to building and his only ever concern of it is in the first movie when he’s worried that it might blow up upon their first usage.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder
Starter: Pumpkaboo
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: VR TDM
Victory Road Sample: [Video]
[The feed opens with Ray, looking incredibly sheepish. It’s dark, wherever he is, but if you look hard enough he seems to be in the sewers.]
Uh hey everyone! Good news and bad news.
Bad news first, I guess: So I guess it’s really illegal to make proton packs in this universe.
I tried to explain to the police what was going on! Even how I’ve made them plenty times before and that the odds of it exploding was incredibly low! But she wasn’t hearing any of that and put the handcuffs on me before I could even tell her that I was only ever going to use them to blast ghosts.
It was almost kinda impressive how fast she got here, actually. I barely even got started on building the thing.
[He’s silent for a moment, rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly, before perking up.]
Oh right, good news! I learned today that Jackie is really good at defending me from attackers! [He deflated slightly.] She… was trying to attack that dino-kangaroo the police woman had with her… but if she’s willing to protect me from the police, I bet she’s willing to protect me from most other things! Not that I want her to fight all my battles for me, but since I won’t have any of my equipment now I have to get creative.
She’s a pretty skilled fighter too! Even without my proton pack I think I’ll be pretty safe around her.
[Distantly, someone calls his name.]
Anyway, my point of this post is that you guys probably won’t see much of me next week. See everyone later!
[Ray hurriedly goes to shut off the feed.]