Hey there Everybody! Here's the second new character from my recent Heavy Weight story (sequel/continuation currently in the works). If you haven't seen it please check the links below.

Part 1 - http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15218084/
Part 2 - http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15221003/

Anyway say hello to the chipper, bouncy, happy, and seriously deluded/delusional grumpig know as Ray R. Roux!

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Name: Ray R. Roux
Gender: Male
Species: Grumpig
Age: 17
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 243 lbs
Ability: Thick Fat

Personality:
Ray is perpetually happy, cheerful, optimistic, high-spirited, affectionate, and eager… which should be your first tip off there is something really, REALLY wrong with the guy. What’s wrong though is incredibly difficult to describe. He seems about three steps out of touch with reality-as-everybody-else-sees-it. He seems incapable of grasping things about people and how they react to him. When interacting with someone with a similar positive, cheerful attitude (like Grace) he is able to function, or at least appear to function, normally… but attempts at interacting with anyone who ISN’T perpetually set to “Optimistic” show just how off Ray is.

To put it bluntly Ray seems incapable of recognizing negative reaction or intention from people barring outright cartoonish villainy, blatant cruelty, or things otherwise impossible to ignore and obvious. Any other forms of negative reaction, attitude, or other manners found in people are ignored or rationalized away to something more positive by the grumpig. Ray is literally incapable of seeing anything but the best in people in most cases and misses things like anger, manipulation, dislike, and rejection. Which when mixed with the grumpig’s overly affectionate and friendly demeanor results in his showing an alarming lack of social skills. He is unable to realize being perpetually happy, huggy, and friendly annoys some people and their attempts to let him know, subtle or directly, either go over his head or are rewritten as something else.

Beyond his obviously loose grasp of reality Ray has a few other glaring personality issues that can be summed up with him being undiagnosed with… something, though what is hard to say. ADD would explain some of it but not all. Ray seems to have an erratic issue with focusing ranging from obsessing with an idea (like his idea to create Team Heavy Weight) to being incredibly easily distracted in casual conversation with new people or new ideas. It’d be easier to explain if it wasn’t for the fact it doesn’t seem to impede his functional intelligence any for things like schoolwork… though his perpetually sunny and optimistic outlook can trip him up.

Ray is exuberant, has an inability to keep still, and a tendency towards physical affection. He rarely just walks anywhere, instead he skips, use a slightly bouncy stepped jog, or most often just uses his spring like tail to bounce wherever he wants to go. He rarely sits or stands still, opting to kick his legs idly while sitting or bounce/move back and forth while talking with someone. When he’s expressing affection no matter how big or small it’ll always be physical with hugs, shoulder pats, nose bumps, etc. The same goes for the rare, rare, rare cases where Ray finally loses his temper…

As stated before Ray’s delusional enough to interpret the world in his own, perpetually optimistic way… but he does have limits. When he sees something his mind can’t rationalize away such as obvious cruelty or bullying he tends to react badly and will, unless stopped, blunder into the situation without a second thought. He’ll stand up to whoever he sees as the person being cruel or bullying (though confusingly he’s surprisingly insightful as to who’s doing what to who in situations like this meaning he’s rarely wrong) and try to tell them to stop or demand they apologize. These bursts of temper are usually incredibly brief which, coupled with how rare they are, means they catch people off guard even if they’ve know the grumpig for a while.

You would assume Ray’s delusional mental state also makes him ripe to be used by anyone who has mastered, or is even half-way decent at, the art of subtle manipulation. Since he’s incapable of seeing malice, save for glaringly obvious shows, he believes anyone who acts nice or friendly to him and trust them letting them control him like a puppet… in theory. Ray’s utterly bizarre mental state makes him both vulnerable and immune to this at the same time. He’s easy to manipulate but he’s difficult to control or predict. Beyond his delusions he’s not stupid… which lets him be stupid enough to be brilliant.

If someone was trying to set him up and use him to do something bad or hurt somebody Ray is very likely to realize what would happen (aka he understands cause and effect to an extent). Since he refuses to believe people are bad the grumpig would immediately decide “Hmmm, this can’t be what they wanted me to do since it’ll cause trouble/hurt/problems for somebody” and then mentally REWRITE what the person sent him off to do into something different, ranging from slightly to incredibly different, and decide that is what they meant for him to do in the first place. His tendency to reinterpret reality concerning people and what they want makes him impossible to manipulate with any degree of success.

This doesn’t mean Ray CAN’T be manipulated, just that he’s so difficult for others to understand that people who want to manipulate him don’t figure out how. Anyone who is observant enough to try and grasp the few predictable parts of Ray’s thought process (namely that he goes “Off plan” when he thinks the plan will hurt or cause problems for somebody) can make the grumpig an utter sap. Moreover since Ray is absolutely trusting and optimistic an intelligent manipulator can keep him in their control easily barring doing something cartoonishly evil to tip the pig off. More-over the grumpig’s insight and foresight IS limited so more subtle manipulations can get him to do stuff that’d harm others or cause trouble in the long run simply because he doesn’t realize what’ll happen if he does it.

Lastly, as stated earlier, Ray isn’t “Stupid” in the traditional sense of the word. He is decently academically intelligent, understands cause-and-effect, and is very imaginative… his major failing is his utter inability to relate with anyone who isn’t as optimistic, cheerful, or straight-forward as he is. His thought processes tend to veer wildly away from what’s considered normal. He has no idea they AREN’T normal, when it concerns other people, their feelings, motivations, and reactions. Most folks soon assume he’s insane or disturbed. Unfortunately this MIGHT actually be true but barring some intensive psychological therapy we’ll never know…


History:
Ray is the only child of Robert R. Roux, a very eccentric vulpix business-mon whose family has a tradition of alliteration, and Charlotte Perles, a very serious grumpig stock broker. Despite the bizarre coupling of the two, what with Charlotte being sane and serious and Robert being rather goofy and weird, the two were a deeply loving couple and raised their only son Ray as best they could, making sure he never wanted for anything… trying their best to avoid spoiling their little spoink. Luckily they were decent parents despite both of them having difficulty juggling/balancing their working lives with their responsibilities towards their son.

Meanwhile Ray’s… oddness didn’t become readily apparent till first grade. At the private academy his parents had enrolled Ray into, teachers started reporting how odd the spoink acted with other kids. Ray, being the odd kid out among the students, got bullied quite often by the meaner ones… or at least they tried. The spoink hadn’t yet full learned or grasped what would eventually become one of the few things that could anger him and interpreted it as his “Friends” trying to play… which weirded the bullies out. Soon enough most of the other kids started trying to avoid the “Weird Pig”… not that this registered in Ray’s mind at all.

As Ray grew so did his chipper, cheerful, utterly-oblivious and deluded attitude. Beyond the oddities reported by his teachers and his inability to get the other kids to like him, not that he noticed, the spoink did fairly well in school receiving high B grades on average and did fairly well in physical education as well… though he was noted for a lack of endurance/stamina. Ray was also noted for his difficulty finding and sticking with any extracurricular activities since most groups and clubs weren’t quite willing to accept the school’s designated “Weird Kid”… even the other weird kids. The only friends Ray had weren’t really “Friends” so much as people who’d figured out how to use the pig and the decent funds he possessed.

The most notable among these was Ray’s first “girlfriend” who used the grumpig as her own personal piggy bank and mostly ignored his poorly done but earnest attempts at affection, finally dumping him when she’d milked as much as she could milk from him… with Ray none the wiser for the experience. By this point some of the less scrupulous girls in his grade school were lining up to use the piggy with the money themselves… unfortunately his parents put a stop to this (unintentionally) since they opted to send Ray off to the PCA for high school so he could get a good education, though even they were surprised when he opted for the battle major as opposed to something less physically strenuous.

This… oddly enough workout wonderfully for Ray since, through sheer accident, he managed to make a real friend. A Hariyama by the name of Grace who, aside from having Thick Fat as an ability like Ray, could actually relate with the grumpig due to a similar, optimistic personality while lacking Ray’s disconnection from reality. This let her serve as a mediator and moderator for him. Unfortunately his friendship with her sparked an idea in the rainbow and sunshine filled labyrinth of Ray’s mind… to form a team using their rotund build and large mass as a theme, Team Heavy Weight! While Grace wasn’t quite so sure this was a good idea, though she agreed to join, Ray fixated on it and was 100% sure that it’d be the best thing ever! All he needed was two more members to join…

He’s still working on that one.


Moveset:
Freshmen – Extrasensory, Charge Beam, Confuse Ray, Energy Ball
Sophomore – Rest, Sleep Talk, Power Gem, Psyshock
Junior – Signal Beam, Shadow Ball, Thunder Wave, Bounce
Senior – Snore*, Icy Wind*, Focus Blast*, Reflect*
*Still learning

Fighting Style:
Ray’s freshmen year was marked with several losses due to a string of bad match-ups against people with type and move advantages on the pig. After one of these matches his opponent decided to try and taunt Ray with the comment that he might as well just sleep through his matches with how well the grumpig fought… and Ray took this as a serious suggestion for a new strategy. Before this Ray’s style had been a very simple “Dodge & Shoot” tactic since he’d lack the endurance to make the match physical. He used Confuse Ray to keep the opponent off balance and just blasted at them wildly with his three ranged moves, usually with preference for whichever one had a type advantage or the least type disadvantage. His low stamina and difficulty focusing (at least at first) helped make the string of bad match-ups even worse leading to the defeat and comment that led to him changing his style.

Ray’s new style compensated for his focusing issue and his difficulty enduring hits… by using Rest and Sleep Talk to fight most of his matches while completely and utterly asleep. The moment the grumpig takes any significant damage he’ll use Rest and fall asleep on his feet falling into a Sleep Talk powered sleep walking & fighting spell. Due to the moves used by Sleep Talk being random along with the fact Ray has special, beam or projectile based attack moves for no less than 8 different types this makes fighting the grumpig difficult due to sheer randomness since it’s impossible to predict exactly what he’ll be trying to blast you with. Moreover since almost all of his attacking moves have a chance of causing extra effects (ranging from flinching, to confusion, to lost speed or special defense, to Ray’s special attack going up) this adds another layer of annoyance to the sheer randomness of Sleep Talk.

Ray’s few remaining moves actually don’t benefit him all too much with Sleep Talk though they aren’t useless. He actually learned Thunder Wave to help Grace out since they’ve fought together in double battles before and the opponent being paralyzed is to her advantage. Bounce is powerful, particularly since Ray is a master with it and can easily use it to evade attacks, but with Sleep Talk’s random factor its usefulness is handicapped. Lastly he has Reflect… which he more or less picked at random since he was asked to try and be more tactical. His justifications being it’ll compensate for his poor defense… though thanks to his random style it rarely gets used well.

Ray has actually become quite adept at sleep fighting after having done it for so long, able to target opponent’s with better accuracy and focus then when awake most of the time. He’s also able to move and actively fight in a way akin to sleepwalking, though mostly just to keep his distance and blast at the opponent with his beams. Ray himself isn’t actually sure whether he’s tracking his opponent through sound, smell, psychic powers, or some combination of the three… though he finds that when he wakes up from Rest he is more-or-less aware of what’s been going on match-wise since the last time he was awake, though only in the broadest sense of the term. Thanks to this there’s no period of grogginess to give the opponent an opening in-between Ray waking up and going back to sleep

Unfortunately Ray’s own style is his biggest weakness and a reason most of the more serious battle teachers and fighting students dislike him in the ring. Above all it’s lazy, lazy, LAZY since he is more a passive influence in his own matches rather than bothering to make any conscious choices… something he has shown to be able to do when forced, which makes his teachers even more annoyed with his reliance on Rest & Sleep Talk. Also the randomness of the move can easily work against him since, while he’s hedged his bet by making the majority of his moves ones that’d be useful (aka attacking moves) if picked by Sleep Talk there is also a decent chance it’ll end up going with the worst move for the situation like using a stat move, Rest again, or an attacking move that won’t affect the opponent. The random factor also removes tactical input such as any ability to abuse type advantage or avoid type disadvantage.

Lastly while Ray’s random fighting style may be confusing and difficult to counter at first he’s more or less grown dependent on it and when up against someone who has enough experience to not be thrown by the random aspect of it or someone with an ability that prevents Ray from using Rest the grumpig is pretty much helpless. His grades for fighting are incredibly low due to this since, as many teachers have pointed out and he’s way too dense to really realize, Ray has developed and mastered this style INSTEAD of developing any actual conscious fighting skills. Though it is admittedly an entertaining spectacle for audiences to watch if they haven’t seen Ray fight before… but that hardly counts as a redeeming factor.


Miscellaneous Facts:
- Ray has a big soft spot and love for children, in part due to sharing a similar innocent outlook to the kind held by most little kids. He’s also fond of most playground games including Hide-&-Seek, Tag, Hopscotch, and others. Unfortunately in part due to being an only child and being… well… himself he’s not qualified to be anything but a playmate for kids and only if there’s a responsible adult around to keep him or the kids from getting in trouble or hurt.
- The grumpig has an amazing sense of smell, able to discern minute scents such as perfume types and ingredients in food. Unfortunately for most people this also makes him incredibly difficult to avoid since he can remember your scent and track you down like a bloodhound if he wants to be friends or talk.
- As cliché as it might sound Ray is actually quite the glutton, which along with Thick Fat is why he’s so round and jiggly (since he actually trains himself rather hard). He’s not picky about his indulgences either enjoying both well cooked meals and greasy fast food in equal measure… though he’s more than willing to share with others if asked.

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Whew, that was touch long... anyway hope you enjoyed reading that (those of you who were willing to anyway ^.^;) and as always Q & A for Ray and just general questions are open! Ask the pig or about the pig, within reason of course, and have your questions answered! =D

Anyway thanks for reading, please fav & comment, and have a great day! =D


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