Ray

Ray is a member of Team GRPE.

Biography
Ray was born in Koroyuri, the same place as Ren and presumably, Nora. He made friends with them when the three were children, however he had to leave about 2 years after they first met, and to date, they are 2 of only 3 he can ever consider as his best friends. It was during this time he moved to Mistral, meeting Phlox and Echo, making friends with them as well. Echo is the third person he can consider as his best friend. His witnessing of the attack that killed Ren's parents made him a pessimist. Eventually, the 3 made it to Beacon, with Ray having negative views of Beacon because of the attack on Koroyuri and that he didn't want Beacon to suffer Koroyuri's fate. He then met Firefly, and started his initiation. He paired up with Echo, and retrieved their relic. He became the second-in-command of Team GRPE, but quickly volunteered to step down from his role in favor of Echo taking his place, as he didn't want their downfall to be quick.

Ray was killed in 2021, on the day of his 20th birthday.

Other Things
The closest character to Ray in RWBY would be Ren, whom inspiration was drawn from. However, characters also inspired him from Kamen Rider and Super Sentai. His Kamen Rider inspirations are Takumi Inui / Kamen Rider Faiz and Souji Tendou / Kamen Rider Kabuto, respectively. His Super Sentai inspirations are Yamato Tribe Knight Burai / Dragonranger, Naoto Takizawa / TimeFire, and Mikoto Nadakai / AbareKiller from Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger (Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers), Mirai Sentai Timeranger (Power Rangers Time Force), and Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger (Power Rangers Dino Thunder) respectively. He shares one thing from his Rider inspirations. Takumi's shared trait is that they both (at least initially) try to not make friends or close relationship with others. Souji's shared trait is that they both act quite mercilessly against their respective monsters (Worms for Souji, Grimm for Ray), saying that as long as they are Worms/Grimm, they will be destroyed.

Ray's weapons are known as the Sansai Kenbikyou MicroKenHou (Three Power Microscope MicroSwordGun), although this name isn't used in the RP. It is infused with three different types of Dust each, which can all be combined to use the other 2 Dust types. The one he wields in his left hand has Wind, Fire, and Water Dust. The one he wields in his right hand has Ice, Lightning, and Steam. With combination, the left one can use Gravity Dust and the right one can use Earth Dust. The weapon design is https://goo.gl/tUjhmM. His weapons were based on Myrtenaster, Weiss's weapon in RWBY.

Ray's Semblance allows him to summon Grimm, which fight at his and his allies' side. His Semblance was unlocked when Ray accepted that Koroyuri will never be at its former glory some time before Beacon.