Ray Mond/History

== Prior to the Economic Collapse ==
On March 25th, 2021, Ray Mond moved to Los Santos in order to find her long lost twin brother, Yuno Sykk, after years of being separated at birth. Not knowing what to do, she talked to strangers near the apartment and accidentally met Yuno's boss at the time, Claire Seducer. Ray asked Claire to help arrange a meetup for the two, she agreed, and the two meet. After Yuno proclaimed himself as one of the best criminals in Los Santos (having been caught zero times +1) Ray believed that the crime gene was genetic and she too will become a great criminal. Yuno then invited Ray to the life of crime in the city of Los Santos, teaching her how to rob stores. Her first day of criminal training went horribly wrong, as the two got into a terrible car accident and had to receive emergency surgery to trade legs in order to walk again.
Shortly after meeting her twin brother and interested in learning more about a life of crime, Ray found herself meeting members of the most known and powerful organized crime syndicate, Chang Gang. The gang took her under their wing, mentoring her through the life of crime. They quickly became some of the only people Ray could trust in the city. Although seen as a full member of the gang, she still felt like she hadn't earned her place, and feeling as if she had nothing to offer, since she was technically an unofficial member. She finally was inducted into Chang Gang as a full member and was gifted a Chang Gang Chain. However, without a word to her close friends or gang, Ray soon after vanished from Los Santos. The city had become a battleground for her, and feeling overwhelmed by the trauma and conflicts she had to deal with since moving in, Ray decided she needed a step away.
== Moving Back to Los Santos ==
On December 23, 2023, Ray returned to the city after moving away for several years. Ray now had a freshly clean record and a drive to find a new purpose. Ray's journey from years ago wasn't just about making money; it was a transformation of character. She learned to blend into the crowd, to read the pulse of the city, and to trust her instincts without her former gang's guidance. The elements that once defined her connection to the city—her mentor, family, and lifestyle—were now absent. The shadows that once sheltered her now became both her ally and her challenge.
To this end, she intentionally sought out new friends to help her distance herself from her past, like Giavanna Costello and Kitty Dream. However, her past always found a way of catching up to her.
===The Cubby Talk with April===
The conversation with April Fooze took place at their old hangout spot in Little Seoul, where their former gang, Chang Gang, used to gather. It had been long overdue, with multiple reschedules, as both characters were hesitant to broach the subject in case things went south. Ray had seemed to replace her as a best friend, attempted to court her sugar daddy, and orchestrated situations to embarrass her, all while claiming their friendship was solely due to their gang affiliation, insinuating that April had abandoned her. What was originally supposed to be a casual chat evolved into a deep conversation about the nature of their friendship.
During the meeting, April confronted Ray about her behavior, pointing out that it was actually Ray who had abandoned April and their old gang. Despite April's repeated attempts to reach out via text, calls, and even vlogs after leaving the city, Ray had not reciprocated any contact. Upon realizing the truth, Ray sincerely apologized to April. Their friendship, now freed from the confines of gang affiliation, grew stronger than ever before. They realized they could pursue their own paths without being tied down by the expectations or dynamics of a gang.
This became the start of the The Gworls, Ray and April's friend group and housemates.
=== Ray and Gigi's Rocky Relationship ===
Ray and Gigi's relationship took a rocky turn when Gigi began to grow closer to another group of people, The Manor, triggering Ray's abandonment issues. The tension escalated, with their arguments becoming increasingly volatile and personal. Matters worsened significantly when it became obvious to Ray that Gigi was into SK, despite Ray and Gigi's possible romantic feelings for each other.
Their disputes progressed from mere jests and insults to outright physical altercations. The most severe incident saw Gigi threatening to harm Ray, intending to burn her eyebrows and apply makeup resembling a clown over her face for a makeshift fire pit.
Recognizing the need for intervention, they agreed to take a break from each other, much to the dismay of their friend Kitty Dream, who urged them to attend a therapy session with Tessa Lamb.
Following the therapy session, Ray vowed never to engage in physical or verbal confrontations with Gigi again. However, despite this commitment, their relationship grew increasingly distant and fraught with tension. They found themselves tip-toeing around each other, wary of reigniting past conflicts.
== The Birth of Hiccups Arc ==
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When 2024 began, Ray, like most citizens of Los Santos, replaced her ID with a 2023 expiration date with a new one from City Hall. Ray discarded the expired ID in a Snr. Buns trash can. Unbeknownst to her, Scruffy Doodle found the ID and together with other clowns, used her identity in mischief around the city. When Ray found out, she arranged for Benji Ramos to stab Chatterbox, the clown Ray believed was responsible. Ray would become highly paranoid about her safety as clowns (Chatterbox, Bozo, Scruffy, and Twinkles) incessantly prank-called, messaged, and hunted her around Los Santos, publicly accusing her of being a "clowncist" and vowing vengeance for the stabbing. Ray attempted to negotiate peace with BonBon who, after being kidnapped by one of Ray’s friends and speaking with her and Tessa, tried and failed to stop the other clowns.
After several days, in the spirit of the "New Year, New Leaf" friendship between himself and Ray, Mickey Sinclaire struck a deal with Chatterbox: a 4v4 game of Clown Risk to end the hunt. On January 12th, Ray and Gigi Costello (the remaining members of Ray's team after Benji and Mickey fell off the bridge) won the game of Clown Risk against Chatterbox, BonBon, Checkers, and Sooty Gamwich. The clowns honored their agreement, bowed down to Ray, and considered their beef with her settled.
=== The Clown Date ===
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On January 16, Ray asked Chatterbox, amongst many others, to bid on her for a date auction, emphasizing the fun she had while playing Clown Risk. To everyone’s surprise, Twinkles placed the highest bid of the entire auction ($23,000) for the date with Ray.
Fearing for her life because of her past experiences with the clowns and Chatterbox’s threats of making her "do terrorism" while dressed as a clown, Ray decided to act like a "crazy girlfriend" to make the clowns (mainly Chatterbox and Twinkles) believe she was in love with them. Ray told her friends that she planned to infiltrate and cause chaos from within. She maintained the act so effectively that the people around Ray, Chatterbox, and Twinkles, including her friends and other clowns, would begin to question whether Ray really was crazy in love, despite her insistence that it was all a part of a plan to protect herself from being killed or arrested.
Before the clown date, Ray would go on to win another game of Clown Risk as the last one standing amongst many participants across several rounds of Clown Games. After the Clown Games, Ray and the Gworls saved Chatterbox and Twinkles from getting arrested, further establishing trust between Ray and the clowns.
In preparation for the date, Ray created a clownsona for herself, Hiccups (originally Hiccup). The original Hiccups outfit incorporated the parachute from Ray’s crime ensemble and a clown mask. Occasionally, Hiccups does not wear a mask.
On January 22, directly before the clown date with Chatterbox and Twinkles, an argument Ray had with the Gworls left her distraught. Chatterbox and Twinkles would attempt to prove that her friends still cared about her by using Ray as bait to lure the Gworls in for a kidnapping. Meanwhile, Ray sent a warning message to Gigi to prepare for the clowns’ tricks. In the chaos of the plan, Ray as Hiccups stabbed two of her friends after Chatterbox wrenched the other two. She would then go on to stab Twinkles and Chatterbox, leaving herself surrounded by bodies. After several minutes of confusion and helping her load the bodies into the cars, SK stabbed Hiccups (for which she and Chatterbox would openly hold a grudge against him for), claiming that Lottie pointed at her as the one responsible for the massacre.
The date would continue with a game devised by Twinkles called "Clown Bingo." The chaos of the day included rocks being thrown at cops, Ray’s first police chase, a number of hospital visits, a rescue attempt by Chang Gang, additional clowns joining in (BonBon and Kirk Jerkems), and Twinkles showing Carmella Corset's Burn Book to Hiccups.
A Clown Games event for The Company's interns cut the date short, ending in another hospitalization. Later that day, in both a call with an unknown person (who revealed himself to be Chatterbox), and in her journal updates to April, Ray would admit she had a great time with the clowns, marking a turning point in her opinion of them. "Chatty" and Ray agreed to spend two more "clown days" together to make up for the date being cut short.
On January 29, Bozo, Sooty, BonBon, and Ember Quinn approached Ray about pranking Chatterbox, claiming he was acting strangely and may have had real feelings for her; Ray claimed to have feelings for Twinkles instead, to the clowns’ delight. For the prank, they needed Chatterbox to tell her "the truth" about his past relationship. After confronting him, Ray empathized with Chatty’s trauma and would go on to defend his behavior to the Gworls while claiming to be able to "fix him," which would later be clarified between Chatty and Ray as a misunderstanding.
The clowns also brought Ray (dressed as Hiccups) to the Grand Banks Steel Foundry to help her scout for a torture location. There, she witnessed BonBon drop Ember into the smelter. BonBon would vehemently protest being brought to Clown Court for the "accident." Ray began shunning BonBon, believing that he dropped Ember into the fire on purpose and was not as innocent as he first seemed. From this point forward, Ray and BonBon's friendship would deteriorate.
=== Clown Court ===
As tensions increased between the Gworls and the clowns (with Chatterbox's instigation), Ray used the Carmella vs. The Clowns Clown Court case to prove her loyalty to the clowns, as she viewed them as valuable assets and allies. To that end, she questioned Mr. K on the stand and testified in favor of Twinkles.
During the trial, Carmella’s stated that, if she had written the Burn Book, she would have written: “Ray Mond is the biggest clown of them all,” was met with cheers and applause by the clowns present. 
=== Triple-Date at the Smelter: Hiccups Returns ===
While Ray was out of town, Tessa clown court-ordered a triple date between Gigi, Chatty, and Ray, where Gigi and Chatty would have to dress up as each other. With a marked enthusiasm for using the smelter to punish bad people, Ray took the triple date as a chance to balance out BonBon’s earlier "accident" of throwing Ember into the smelter. The plan doubled as a test of BonBon’s newfound friendship with Carmella, who had a long-standing feud with Chatterbox and the clowns and had, in Ray's opinion, unjustly won in Clown Court having admitted to writing the Burn Book after-the-fact.
On the date, BonBon was dropped by Ember (who also claimed to have done it accidentally) into the smelter and suffered severe injuries. Unexpectedly facing the depth of Carmella and Chatterbox’s feud and sensing Chatterbox’s pain and resentment, Hiccups, with Twinkles’ help, stopped Chatterbox from throwing Carmella into the smelter. However, when Carmella attempted to run, Hiccups chanted “Throw her in!” complicating Carmella and Ray ’s relationship in the future. Carmella ended up being dropped next to the smelter by Tommy DeVito, Twinkles’ friend.
Despite the triple date smelter incident, Carmella and Ray would try to repair their bond over being part of Chang Gang and having similar personalities and interests. Ray explained that she did not intend for Carmella to get hurt at the smelter and had not previously understood the extent to which Carmella and Chatterbox hated one another. She was also willing to hear out Carmella’s side of the story regarding the feud between her and Chatterbox. After deciding not to fight (for the sake of Chang Gang), Carmella and Ray would begin to build a precarious friendship, creating plans together to settle the beef between CG and the clowns.
=== The Mine Talk ===
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On February 13, Chatterbox asked Ray to meet with him in a mineshaft by herself, where they would not be interrupted. Messages to Ray that Chatty would reference during their conversation were scrawled on the walls, guiding her through the dark.
Chatty would tell Ray he was wrong to ask her to set up Mr. K, and that he had forgotten about how close she was to CG. He confronted her about the nature of their friendship and her fear of him giving her “the Carmella treatment," as coined by Ray. Opening up to Chatty more than anyone else before, Ray explained how her insecurities, fear of abandonment, and trauma had led her to push people away.
Understanding her concerns, Chatty told Ray that she would not need to “choose between yuck” (in reference to the clowns and Ray’s other affiliations). He advised her not to take concerns about other clowns disliking her (such as BonBon, Ember, and Sooty) to heart. Chatty, having been through similar experiences as Ray, also suggested that she reevaluate her friendships and motivations. Finding a surprising amount in common with one another, Ray and Chatty would leave the mines together with a mutual understanding and promise to talk first whenever they were upset with each other, helping to solidify the trust between them.
On March 18, with the encouragement of Twinkles and Chatterbox, Ray Mond signed the Clown Code as Hiccup (writing "HICCP") and became a member of the New Clown Order. Signing the Code was meant to grant her protection from harm against other NCO members. Ember, another NCO clown, would later stab Ray, causing her to bleed out and sending her to the ICU. Before Ray went into the ICU, she had also stabbed Ember.
=== Clown Risk 3 ===
Ember proposed a 1v1 game of Clown Risk with Ray to resolve the "fight for Chatterbox's heart." Having won Clown Risk twice in a row already, Ray agreed to the deal. Before the confrontation, Ray would confide in Sooty about Ray's own feelings for Chatterbox after she and Chatty had been "fake-dating" to try and get Ember to leave Chatty alone. According to Sooty, the Clown Risk would help Hiccups avoid Clown Court over the recent stabbings.
Ray won the 1v1 Clown Risk, becoming an undefeated three-time Clown Risk champion. She would be told she may not be allowed to play again due to her winning streak, but could host Clown Games in the future.
== The Queen of Clowns Arc ==
=== The Feud with BonBon ===
After BonBon left the NCO, Twinkles and Chatty warned Ray to not trust him because he had recently tried to recruit the Clowns to prank her. BonBon would continue to try and recruit other people against Ray (including Gigi, Carmella, April, and Dundee). The rivalry between Ray and BonBon escalated when Ray told Kirk, Chatterbox, and Twinkles about BonBon’s hitlist, betraying BonBon after telling him she also wanted revenge on the same people, including Ember and Chatterbox. Full of resentment and embarrassed post-ICU, Ray and BonBon exchanged threats on March 20, declaring it was time to “let the games begin.” Ray, with the help of Ramee El-Rahman and Taco Prince, shot down BonBon that same day.
On March 26, Bobby, a mechanic in Dundee’s My Criminal Academia class, stalked Ray throughout the school day until he found her alone after class. Threatening her at knifepoint, Bobby revealed himself to be BonBon unmasked; Ray was surprised, and confused at his attractiveness, before he stabbed her. She had previously suspected Dundee's involvement in BonBon's schemes against her, since BonBon was a BBMC hangaround at the time. Notably, Ray and Dundee also had a feud that existed long before the rivalry with BonBon.
Ray would begin to spiral with paranoia and confusion, insist she fight her own battles, and attempt to keep the information about BonBon's recent attack close to her chest. Chatterbox, having known BonBon for a very long time, warned her that BonBon would not work alone. Respecting her wishes to get back at BonBon herself, Chatty asked other clowns to look out for Ray from afar. Ray would call upon Ursula, Kirk, and Twinkles to help guard her at school prom. Ray’s paranoia about when BonBon would strike next consumed her, triggering a trauma response to a class test in the prison.
=== Prom Night ===
Ray planned to infiltrate BonBon's inner circle by asking Dundee, who revealed that BonBon had officially become a BBMC member the day before, to be one of her prom dates. But on March 29, Dundee and BonBon used the Academia prom to swap places with one another and stab her again, despite Ray’s precautions. Since Dundee was a professor and Company contractor and aided BonBon in stalking and stabbing Ray at Company events where she was a student, contractor, and friend to the Company, the Company board members arranged a meeting spearheaded by Benji in the Legion Park tunnel to resolve their conflict. Furious and hungry for revenge, Ray would obtain a gun from Twinkles, and shoot Dundee and BonBon at the meeting without further discussion. She would then hide out in the The Funhouse (per her request) with Ursula, Kirk, and Twinkles.
Ray had also received a warning from Chatterbox about a mime coming for her blood, because she had signed the Clown Code. At prom, she had felt a pinprick while she was downed after being stabbed. After recovering from the hospital, Hiccups received a call from a mime. Recognizing the voice as Benji’s date, Ray realized that the mime had successfully taken her blood.
=== King and Queen ===
On April 5, Ray accepted the role of Queen of the Clowns as Hiccups alongside King Chatterbox, who had decided to take charge of the clowns and rule them under a clowntatorship (which in turn was inspired by Ray's desires to improve the Funhouse), after opening up about their shared feelings. Chatterbox introduced her as Queen of the Funhouse to the clowns that same day.
Overwhelmed by her sudden position of power, a new relationship, and the punishments doled out by Chatterbox and Kirk, Ray warned Chatterbox that his newfound "scary" attitude reminded her of BonBon and that if he continued to act that way, it would make her want to run away. She also warned him of potentially losing some clowns' support should he continue to be ruthless. Chatty and other clowns reassured her that their harshness was temporary, to weed out any disloyalty.
Ray would go on to make efforts to spend time with and get to know her fellow clowns, attending "Cladies' Night," a "Clown Ladies" slumber party, meeting the Clown moms (Tessa and Kiki Pendragon) as Chatterbox's queen. She also continued to pull pranks on the BBMC, and tending to her relationship with Chatty.
On April 17, Chatterbox asked Ray to meet him for a surprise date at Vespucci Beach, where two jetskis lockpicked by him awaited. Chatterbox knew that Ray had previously expressed interest in riding jetskis through the South Side canals. The two proceeded to ride through the canals and around the port, taking a break to jump off into the water, and continued to discuss their lives and relationship. Upon return to Vespucci Beach, Chatterbox asked Ray to officially become his girlfriend, to which she said yes.
Soon after, members of CG held up Ray, Chatterbox, Twinkles, and Kirk, after Chatterbox had been provoking Mr. K on the phone. Mr. K robbed his notebooks, and he and Ramee discovered Chatterbox's close relationship with Ray, with Taco confirming that Chatterbox and Ray were a couple, referring to them as "King and Queen". Mr. K, in response, temporarily removed her CG house keys, with the reason that the Clowns were CG's mortal enemies, and "love makes people do stupid things." After a few days away from the city, Ray returned, and spoke with Mr. K at length about the situation, ending it amicably, and Ray remaining a member. Mr. K even invited her to do a pawn job with the gang.
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