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I know it sounds like I'm making this up, but Ray the dragon has been an OC of mine since before Sunset Shimmer's pet gecko was ever revealed. He was always yellow and he always had that name.
Since the universe clearly meant for this to happen, I decided to just roll with it and make his design match that of the gecko. I didn't have to change very much at all.

Ray is the father of Caldera, making him the biological grandfather of Smolder and Garble. He commanded the Ridgelands as its Alpha (of the first rank) until the region merged with the Green Valley region. He has also been Torch's best friend and most trusted ally basically since Torch became the Dragon Lord, for better or worse; Ray doesn't always have the best advice but he means well.

Torch was a wildly unpopular leader at the beginning of his reign. He had revolutionary ideas that didn't sit well with many of his subjects, especially those who were older and in positions of power. Ray took a liking to the young visionary, though, and it's thanks to him that Torch survived his first couple of centuries as Dragon Lord. He continues to call Torch "little brother" despite the former being much larger than he is now.
Ray himself was rather disliked by many of the same dragons who couldn't stand Torch and they often referred to him as "the banana".

In general Ray's heart is the right place, even when his methods can be questionable at times. He has a very laid-back personality. He doesn't take himself too seriously and loves to make terrible jokes, much to his best friend's chagrin. He can be fairly slow to figure things out and is very impressed by how smart Torch is, taking his word for just about everything. Non-verbal cues or things that are implied but not directly stated often go over his head, so he appreciates his little brother from another mother's uncharacteristic patience with him very much.
Everyone thinks he's insane and they're not entirely wrong about that.

In spite of his small stature and feeble appearance, Ray is quite strong and athletic. He is still one of dragonkind's fiercest warriors despite his age. He is also blessed with incredibly good luck, which rubs off on the dragons he surrounds himself with. He likes ponies and doesn't see why the other dragons despise them so much. The only time he had an issue with them was when they put Caldera in harm's way as a baby dragon, but he never held it against ponykind as a whole.

Description
I know it sounds like I'm making this up, but Ray the dragon has been an OC of mine since before Sunset Shimmer's pet gecko was ever revealed. He was always yellow and he always had that name.
Since the universe clearly meant for this to happen, I decided to just roll with it and make his design match that of the gecko. I didn't have to change very much at all.

Ray is the father of Caldera, making him the biological grandfather of Smolder and Garble. He commanded the Ridgelands as its Alpha (of the first rank) until the region merged with the Green Valley region. He has also been Torch's best friend and most trusted ally basically since Torch became the Dragon Lord, for better or worse; Ray doesn't always have the best advice but he means well.

Torch was a wildly unpopular leader at the beginning of his reign. He had revolutionary ideas that didn't sit well with many of his subjects, especially those who were older and in positions of power. Ray took a liking to the young visionary, though, and it's thanks to him that Torch survived his first couple of centuries as Dragon Lord. He continues to call Torch "little brother" despite the former being much larger than he is now.
Ray himself was rather disliked by many of the same dragons who couldn't stand Torch and they often referred to him as "the banana".

In general Ray's heart is the right place, even when his methods can be questionable at times. He has a very laid-back personality. He doesn't take himself too seriously and loves to make terrible jokes, much to his best friend's chagrin. He can be fairly slow to figure things out and is very impressed by how smart Torch is, taking his word for just about everything. Non-verbal cues or things that are implied but not directly stated often go over his head, so he appreciates his little brother from another mother's uncharacteristic patience with him very much.
Everyone thinks he's insane and they're not entirely wrong about that.

In spite of his small stature and feeble appearance, Ray is quite strong and athletic. He is still one of dragonkind's fiercest warriors despite his age. He is also blessed with incredibly good luck, which rubs off on the dragons he surrounds himself with. He likes ponies and doesn't see why the other dragons despise them so much. The only time he had an issue with them was when they put Caldera in harm's way as a baby dragon, but he never held it against ponykind as a whole.