Ray Husbando

Ray is one of the deuteragonists of The Promised Neverland alongside with Norman. Ray is a model student at Grace Field House Plant 3, who consistently gets perfect scores during the daily exams. He is also known for being an avid reader with high intellectual abilities, blunt skepticism, and cunning. Despite his distant disposition, Ray is able to interact well with the orphans and is fiercely loyal and caring to particularly Emma and Norman. Being one of the smartest children living in Grace Field House Plant 3, Ray is considered to be one of the House's three "Premium quality goods" next to Norman and Emma. After successfully escaping Grace Field alongside Emma and thirteen other orphans, Ray now seeks William Minerva, whom he believes can grant him and his family liberty and help them find a safe and peaceful life away from the demons. Ray is a slim boy of average height with somewhat messy short black hair, parted to the right so that the longer, chin-length clumps on his left obscure much of his face. Around the sides, it appears to spike upwards, following the shape of his head, and he also has triangular forest-green eyes with noticeably small black irises. He wears the standard Grace Field uniform- a plain white long sleeved button-up shirt and white pants along with brown boots. His identification number, "81194", is tattooed across the left side of his neck. In 2047, Ray stopped wearing the standard Grace Field uniform, instead adopting long black pants and a long sleeved white shirt with the same brown boots he wore at Grace Field House. Now at the age of thirteen, Ray's hair has gotten slightly longer and messier and he has also grown much taller and is now around the same height as his mother, Isabella, whose height is 170 cm. Upon arriving at the Paradise Hideout, he begins wearing an untucked white dress shirt, black pants, and a matching black scarf; when Ray and Emma go searching for Him, Ray wears a white coat and backpack over his usual outfit. After entering the Human World, Ray, now fifteen years old, has longer hair on the side of his face and is slightly taller. He wears a light scarf, a black jacket and a backpack slung over his shoulders. Ray appears to be aloof, introverted and snarky; often excluding himself from playing with the other orphans and prefers to read load of books instead. However, he is able to interact well with his fellow siblings, loves them all deeply and occasionally will take part in a game tag or hide-and-seek with them. Even if there are times when they do not get along, he still deeply cares about their well-being and would go to great lengths to keep them safe. An outspoken person with little patience for inconvenience and silliness (like Emma's), he frequently loses his temper or is often left dumbfounded when people such as Emma display reckless behavior and intentions, noticeably when he considered Emma as an "airhead" when she intended to rescue every orphan from Grace Field. Furthermore, he is very blunt and honest, as when Norman is trying to figure out a way to break it to Emma that Ray was the spy all along, Ray abruptly comes out with it before Norman has the chance. In some cases, he considers it a kindness to be blunt, rather than alleviate the truth or give people false hope. He was also motivated by cold logic and reason, and he figures the best plan for success is to take the smallest group possible, even if that group doesn't include himself. While he worked extremely hard for six years to make sure that Norman and Emma could escape safely, he had to sacrifice a great price, possibly his other siblings that were shipped out. Ray's strengths are his cunning, sharp wits, and his manipulative nature. He is also rational, logical, and cynical. He is an academically inclined young boy who excels in the orphanage's daily tests, also using his intelligence to decipher problems and to come out with solutions. According to Emma, he's always the best at anything he tries. According to Norman, he is level-headed and precise in everything he does. He also always thinks ahead and finds the most optimal solutions to things. According to the data Krone obtained, Ray is a person who makes plans too fast and gives up on them just as fast. This was specifically proven when after the plan of saving Norman got foiled, Ray lost hope and excluded himself from helping the others to devise another plan to escape. Ray is also noted to be extremely self-sacrificing and audacious. He was driven to suicide via self-immolation and willingly did so to help aid in the escape. However, he also reveals to Emma that he wasn't going to go down like cattle and he would die as a selfish human. His little hesitation in throwing his life away stems from his past. Because he has known about the truth about the farms, the outside world, and his very own mother from a young age, Ray began deeming his life as "cursed" and therefore planned to die inside the orphanage. Additionally, after years of watching his siblings walk to their death without doing anything about it, Ray developed extreme guilt and felt like the only way he could atone was by dying himself. However, after the escape succeeds, Ray comes around to see that even a dream-like future can be achieved. This culminates in his change of mindset, and he admits to Emma that he's glad to see their siblings safe when he had previously thought bringing them would be a burden. He swears to keep on living, atone for his mistakes, and protect his family and becomes fiercely protective and loyal to them. As opposed to his relatively pessimistic mindset prior to the escape, Ray became more optimistic and is now not scared to hope for a dream-like future where no one dies. Being surrounded by his family, no longer having to keep secrets from them, and being accepted by them, is the first time Ray is starting to heal, and he also resolves not to do things on his own anymore. Although Ray retains his sarcastic and cunning personality, he emphasizes the importance of what other people think regarding different situations, especially what Emma thinks, because he goes to Emma herself in order to find it. After reuniting with Norman who has become much more distant from him and Emma, he now believes that the best way to solve things is to talk things out as friends, and despite everything Ray still feels the connection of the family between the three of them. Even after he became softer and kinder to everyone around him, he's still one of the few kids who has no qualms about killing human threats. Furthermore, when Gillian wants to go back to save Yugo and Lucas on the off-chance they're still alive, he refuses, knowing that if they did die, then doing so would only make their sacrifice in vain. Throughout most of his childhood, Ray was almost always seen studying or reading a book alone rather than playing with his siblings. After discovering the secret of the "orphanage", Ray set out to read every book in Grace Field House's library before his 12th birthday. On the eve of his 12th birthday just after he finishes the last book he had not read, Ray reveals to Emma that he never actually had any interest in reading or studying and only endured it to increase his test score so that when he became a "Premium quality good" he could light himself on fire and thus deprive the demons of a "Premium quality meal" in an act of vengeance. Ray's real interests and hobbies include learning the mechanism of things, cooking, art, and photography.