Raye

Raye

Names
Corresponding card	Sky Striker Ace - Raye
Nicknames	Sky Striker Ace
Japanese Japanese レイ Rōmaji Rei
Personal
Age	13 15
Gender	Female
Career
Organization	Karma
Appearances
Manga debut	Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Stories Sky Striker Ace arc chapter 1: "Sky Striker"
Appears in Manga Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Stories Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Structures Anime Yu-Gi-Oh! CARD GAME THE CHRONICLES
Raye

Raye (レイ Rei) is a character appearing in the Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Stories manga, and the main character of the "Sky Striker" story. She is based on the card "Sky Striker Ace - Raye".

Following the total war between her home country Karma and its enemy the Spectra Union, Raye is the last survivor of the human race. As Spectra drones are about destroy the last town of Karma after centuries of battles between AIs, she decides to wield the Sky Striker technology to protect her home and her family, the androids who raised her.

Design

Appearance

Raye's original concept art, showing her in her dress and battle suit.

Raye is a teenage girl with fair skin, green eyes, and waist-lenght pale-blonde hair.

Her usual attire consists of a long-sleeved white and brown dress with golden trims and the Karma crest on the left breast, a brown necktie with a pattern of golden and red stripes at the end, brown thigh-high socks, brown ballet shoes with golden soles, and a brown hairclip with a pink stripe tying up some her hair in a bun on her left side.

When using the Sky Striker tech, Raye instantly changes into a skin-tight, full-body black bodysuit with white stripes and several pieces of white armor with gray accents attached (on the neck, chest, shoulders, forearms, wrists, knuckles, waist, shins, and ankles — the forward waist piece having "000" etched on it), shoes, and two white antennae on her head (the left one taking the place of the hairclip). Additionally, a black sword with red stripes appears in her hands.

To move around faster, in Sky Striker mode Raye also sometimes carries a boxy white jetpack with extendable wings.

Personality

Initially, Raye is upbeat and cheerful, surrounded by a loving surrogate family. Raye is also a skilled warrior, using her creativity to outperform the AIs Aileron and Pylon in tests and practice battles, impressing her mentor, Akash. She displays a degree of recklessness, as she climbed up her house and leaped between rooftops to get to her room quicker, despite Aileron's and Pylon's warnings. Raye strives to do the right thing, a promise she made to Ciela, which led her to request Himmel to take the Sky Striker system, despite the risk it would pose to her. Though the androids in her life are supposedly replaceable and can be restored from backups, she feels strongly enough that she willingly risks her life as the only human left on Karma to protect them. She has a strong bond with Ciela in particular, and views her as her mother figure. As such, when Ciela is kidnapped by Spectra, Raye is devastated.

Two years later, Raye becomes less emotional and more stoic, rarely smiling, partly due to fighting Spectra nonstop in the hopes of freeing Ciela from them, and partly because the Sky Striker system is said to indelibly alter the user's personality after the user permanently bonds to it. Her obsessive behavior has gotten to the point that she refused to celebrate her 15th birthday until Ciela's return, and even forgot about it until Aileron reminded her. This change in personality concerns Himmel, as he questioned why he and the other androids raised Raye in the first place. Although Raye showed signs of fatigue from fighting Spectra for so long, she tried to brush it off, again demonstrating her recklessness, but relented when Himmel and Akash ordered her to take a break for the day. Despite these changes in demeanor, Raye reminisces of the life she led before Spectra's invasion, occasionally looking at the photo commemorating her 13th birthday.

Some of Raye's former traits resurfaces though when she encounters Roze, Spectra's own human Sky Striker set out against her. Due to being raised by androids who in response to that recklessness would often repeat her that humans are extremely fragile compared to machines and cannot be repaired easily, Raye displayed huge discomfort at the very idea of hurting Roze, a living person, to defend herself and her family, despite how Roze herself had just tried to kill her without any hesitation earlier. As such, throughout the story Raye attempts to bond with Roze and makes the choice to spare her in hopes to convince Roze to join her instead of mutual destruction. Going so far to risk her life when she feels Roze is in danger, which causes Roze to slowly gain a sense of self and trust in Raye's actions towards her.

Raye shows more joy when another human, Camellia, arrives and gains hope for the chance Ciela could be saved when the latter speaks of her. However, she becomes shocked and pained when she discovers that Camellia and her sister, Azalea, betray Karma and kill Himmel and Akash. Rays is also unable to comprehend Azalea's more heinous actions in her goal to kill Raye and Roze and even becomes briefly angry when Camellia arrives, momentarily glaring at her for her actions against Karma. Even so, Raye tries to reason with them and shows to be merciful when she spares the sisters lives after defeating them. This includes even Cyanos, whom Raye allows to stay with Karma despite having been a former enemy towards Karma. After the destruction of Spectra and saving Ciela, Raye decides to travel into the wider world with Roze together as friends to see it's wonders with hope that there may be human survivors. Believing that with Roze by her side, they can accomplish much in the future.

Other appearances

Raye in THE CHRONICLES and OCG Structures.

Raye makes short appearances in the final clip of Yu-Gi-Oh! CARD GAME THE CHRONICLES, where she fights Roze, and in Error rendering {{chapter}} 🛈, where Shiori Motokariya imagines talking with her and Roze about the cards made from the original characters of OCG Stories becoming their new companions.