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Things About Ray:
1. Ray has a spotty dating history at best. He's been fairly shy most of his life and he's still rather thrown by forward or aggressive women turning their interest on him. Not that he isn't flattered by the attention, but too much of it spooks him. He's had enough serious girlfriends prior to Romana that he can count them on the fingers of one hand and still have something left over to feed any passing lobstrosities.
2. His biggest fear, which comes and goes, is that he's not good enough. We're talking a generalized fear here. His scientific accomplishments back home rarely get recognized by anyone beyond the US Patent Office- he worries that this is because they're just not enough, rather than because people consider them weird or can't understand them. He moved slowly with Romana because he was afraid she'd think less of him otherwise.
3. Tied into that fear is his private worry that if he tells any Force users other than Tahiri and Master Qui-Gon about having made Jedi, they're going to take one look at him and laugh very, very hard. Then they're going to tell him to go back to playing with his action figures. Tahiri helped with that some but he still worries- not that he doesn't qualify for the position, but that other people who hold it as well won't accept that he does.
4. The lightsabre handle? He made that from a bicycle seat-post. It's got more visible welds than most because of this. Also, he still has the original crystal he synthesized for the blade, even though Master Qui-Gon gave him a proper green one. It's not that he needs it as a spare, but he thinks it represents an accomplishment he doesn't want to forget.
5. His grandfathers both passed away some time ago, but both were named Maximilian. Fortunately, one went by Max and one by Maxim. Maxim was his father's father, who was a Marine in the Pacific theater during World War II. Russian ancestry. Max was Polish and a teenager at the time of the Second World War, and was orphaned in the process. He came to the States a few years after that. Died when Ray was quite young.
6. He believes that when Gozer's blast threw him off the Shandor building, it caused some kind of fundamental disconnect or injury or something, possibly on a philotic level. Privately he wonders if he's ever genuinely been back to his own dimension at all, or if there's some subtle difference somewhere that he hasn't seen. (This is not the case. He does return to his own universe regularly- but he still worries.)
7. Kid Flash once told him that he was still coming to Milliways years in his personal future, and that his (Kid Flash's) kids loved the toys 'Uncle Ray' made for them. This has eased his mind a little before big battle scenes and whatnot, but since KF never said what condition Uncle Ray was in, he occasionally wonders whether bionic parts might figure into the picture by then.
8. His favorite restaurants are both in Chinatown (he's a bit lazy when it comes to going out for food). For dishes with meat he favors Wo Lop's Noodle House, on Mott Street, and for vegetarian fare he's got a dim sum house called Veggie Heaven that does the trick.
9. The reason he has a favorite vegetarian restaurant is because even the strongest stomach occasionally rebels when asked to deal with beef after ordering takeout at the same meal as Egon. Egon and Ray inevitably wind up playing the game Does This Look Endocrine To You? with dinner.
10. Ray believes that Shandor's damage to the wall between worlds was permanent, or effectively so. He thinks that the spiritual energy drawn in was not solely discharged to summon Gozer, but instead burned a hole between the worlds- or at least wore the wall sufficiently thin- and Gozer was called through that. His NYC never got the hiatus from ghosts that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
doc_venkman's did. As a result he thinks the temple atop the building is gone, but the hole or worn patch or whatever remains. Either the end of the world is still coming, which he doubts, or the world's been changed forever- at least until he or someone else fixes it.
11. He's greatly saddened by his sister's belief that he's not a good influence on her boys, but he's making an effort to stay in touch with them and convince her that he's not nearly as irresponsible, immature, and weird as she thinks. (Two out of three ain't bad.)
12. Part of the reason for number eleven is because he's noticed that Alex absolutely adores the Star Wars movies, and that the boy has a turn of thought and personality similar to his own. If he ever reaches the point where he feels he can genuinely take an apprentice, he's hoping that it'll be his nephew Alex. Maybe Alex's little brother Joey, too, but Joey is three and his mother won't let him watch movies like Star Wars yet.
1. Ray has a spotty dating history at best. He's been fairly shy most of his life and he's still rather thrown by forward or aggressive women turning their interest on him. Not that he isn't flattered by the attention, but too much of it spooks him. He's had enough serious girlfriends prior to Romana that he can count them on the fingers of one hand and still have something left over to feed any passing lobstrosities.
2. His biggest fear, which comes and goes, is that he's not good enough. We're talking a generalized fear here. His scientific accomplishments back home rarely get recognized by anyone beyond the US Patent Office- he worries that this is because they're just not enough, rather than because people consider them weird or can't understand them. He moved slowly with Romana because he was afraid she'd think less of him otherwise.
3. Tied into that fear is his private worry that if he tells any Force users other than Tahiri and Master Qui-Gon about having made Jedi, they're going to take one look at him and laugh very, very hard. Then they're going to tell him to go back to playing with his action figures. Tahiri helped with that some but he still worries- not that he doesn't qualify for the position, but that other people who hold it as well won't accept that he does.
4. The lightsabre handle? He made that from a bicycle seat-post. It's got more visible welds than most because of this. Also, he still has the original crystal he synthesized for the blade, even though Master Qui-Gon gave him a proper green one. It's not that he needs it as a spare, but he thinks it represents an accomplishment he doesn't want to forget.
5. His grandfathers both passed away some time ago, but both were named Maximilian. Fortunately, one went by Max and one by Maxim. Maxim was his father's father, who was a Marine in the Pacific theater during World War II. Russian ancestry. Max was Polish and a teenager at the time of the Second World War, and was orphaned in the process. He came to the States a few years after that. Died when Ray was quite young.
6. He believes that when Gozer's blast threw him off the Shandor building, it caused some kind of fundamental disconnect or injury or something, possibly on a philotic level. Privately he wonders if he's ever genuinely been back to his own dimension at all, or if there's some subtle difference somewhere that he hasn't seen. (This is not the case. He does return to his own universe regularly- but he still worries.)
7. Kid Flash once told him that he was still coming to Milliways years in his personal future, and that his (Kid Flash's) kids loved the toys 'Uncle Ray' made for them. This has eased his mind a little before big battle scenes and whatnot, but since KF never said what condition Uncle Ray was in, he occasionally wonders whether bionic parts might figure into the picture by then.
8. His favorite restaurants are both in Chinatown (he's a bit lazy when it comes to going out for food). For dishes with meat he favors Wo Lop's Noodle House, on Mott Street, and for vegetarian fare he's got a dim sum house called Veggie Heaven that does the trick.
9. The reason he has a favorite vegetarian restaurant is because even the strongest stomach occasionally rebels when asked to deal with beef after ordering takeout at the same meal as Egon. Egon and Ray inevitably wind up playing the game Does This Look Endocrine To You? with dinner.
10. Ray believes that Shandor's damage to the wall between worlds was permanent, or effectively so. He thinks that the spiritual energy drawn in was not solely discharged to summon Gozer, but instead burned a hole between the worlds- or at least wore the wall sufficiently thin- and Gozer was called through that. His NYC never got the hiatus from ghosts that
doc_venkman's did. As a result he thinks the temple atop the building is gone, but the hole or worn patch or whatever remains. Either the end of the world is still coming, which he doubts, or the world's been changed forever- at least until he or someone else fixes it.11. He's greatly saddened by his sister's belief that he's not a good influence on her boys, but he's making an effort to stay in touch with them and convince her that he's not nearly as irresponsible, immature, and weird as she thinks. (Two out of three ain't bad.)
12. Part of the reason for number eleven is because he's noticed that Alex absolutely adores the Star Wars movies, and that the boy has a turn of thought and personality similar to his own. If he ever reaches the point where he feels he can genuinely take an apprentice, he's hoping that it'll be his nephew Alex. Maybe Alex's little brother Joey, too, but Joey is three and his mother won't let him watch movies like Star Wars yet.
