Bradley Ray

Mugshot

Unnamed grandmother

Pretty Blood

* Operative

> *"It'd be a pity if I accidentally slit your throat wide open, wouldn't it?"*
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**Bradley Ray** is a character in "Pretty Blood Unofficials: Crisis Management". He is part of Pretty Blood and works for them as a guard, being lasty stationed at "Broken Neck Home", one of PB's secret outposts in Bluelu's remote locations.

## Biography

Bradley and his older sister Penelope were born and raised in Fingzelin, a fairly remote, smaller and run down region, in the northeast of Hunliny, and had both gone through a a rough childhood; Their father worked in an underpaid field of work, and their mother was unemployed, therefore the Ray family was constantly living on a shoestring. To make matters more complicated, both parents were severe alcoholics, and often physically and verbally abused Bradley and his sister, with the two children facing beat downs on a daily base. The daily abuse managed to taint both Bradley's and his sister's personalities, with the two of them starting to show sociopathic tendencies upon reaching their teens, often capturing and cutting up little critters such as rats and mice. This however was nothing compared to what Bradley would do on his 17th birthday. On that day, he lured a 13 year old child into a nearby forest and gruesomely murdered them. This of course had landed him into prison, where he would spend the next six years inside, before getting out by not-so-legal means.

During his time in prison, he would often get letters from his sister Penelope, glorifying his actions, and promising him that she'll get him out one day, one way or another. In prison, Bradley had also met many other criminals, picking up many contacts from the underground crime world.

After six years doing his time in the Fingzelin High Security Penitentiary, his sister Penelope single-handedly arranged and performed a full-blown breakout operation, in order to get her brother out. While it may seem unbelievable that a single woman managed to overpower an entire High Security Penitentiary, she still managed to pull it off. Her main strategy was to cause utter Chaos within the walls of the Prison, before then busting in via air with a fully armed attack helicopter, which she had managed to gather thanks to connections she made. This incident left many people, both inmates and guards, dead. However, Bradley himself, was able to break out successfully.

Immediately after the breakout, Bradley's sister Penelope introduced her little brother to "Pretty Blood", of which she had become a member of during the last six years he had been behind bars. She also revealed to him, that in order to join this underground crime organization, a member must either vouch for the rookie, or said rookie must murder both of their parents and provide their heads as proof. Penelope had chose the second option.

With all the hell their parents had made them go through, Bradley was more than happy to hear those news. Shortly after, Penelope vouched for him during a meeting, allowing Bradley himself to become a member too, finally able to make use of his homicidal tendencies.

### Events of Crisis Management: Chapter 1

During the events of Chapter 1, Bradley was stationed in the capital of Hunliny, Bluelu, working as the intel and radio operator at a PB outpost named "Broken Neck Home". He and a few other members were tasked to guard the place, and to take any passersbys as prisoners to send over to Pretty Blood's main base of operations.

On Day 1, Pretty Blood took interest in a girl named Federica Stellar Lunare, due to her being the daughter of a defected associate of them. With the intention of using her to blackmail said defector, Pretty Blood tasked their secret partner Velocity HS, a very large PMC, to kidnap the girl and bring them to the outpost where Jock was stationed at. Velocity's Minor Underground Operations Department (MUOD) therefore sent a group of undercover agents, with the group's leader being George Walters, to capture her in the early morning. However, things didn't go quite as planned, as Federica wasn't quite alone, due having been with her best friend Gabriele Girasole Stellare. This led to the agents being forced to capture and deliver the both of them to the target outpost.

At the outpost, located somewhere in Bluelu's Doorcreek Forest, Federica was soon picked up and deported by PB operatives, with the destination being unknown. Gabriele however remained unconscious while all that happened. Unsure with what to do with the additional victim, Velocity's higher ups made the call to deliver Gabriele to him, so that their secret weapon research project may use him as test subject. For that, VC dispatched a pick-up team of their own, while Bradley kept tabs on their captive whom they've locked up in the basement of the outpost's building.

However, before said team could arrive, Gabriele soon woke up and snuck his way out of captivity, calling the police. When first respone units arrived, and exchanged fire with the PB members, Bradley noticed Gabriele's escape, and quickly caught up on him, retaking him back into captivity, this time however, locking him in the radio room on the upper floors.

Now with police on their way, Bradley and his partners geared up for the incoming fight, and although they were able to hold them off at first, things went completely downhill when the Crisis Management Team got deployed, resulting in a fierce shootout within the outpost's building. With his colleagues Mick Milton and Grimp Wheel getting downed one by one, Bradley eventually made a run for it, leaving his last standing partner Jock Pock all by himself, who would soon be put down too.
Bradley escaped by climbing down from a window located in the upper floor's radio room. He then then proceeded to linger around in the surrounding woods, until some time later, he noticed a lone officer, Lucky Pales, watching over a road. Bradley then proceeded to quietly stalk the policeman, and when after a little while, he overheard the police's radio chatter commanding the officer to withdraw as the situation was cleared, Bradley got out of hiding and shot the officer dead. After that, he hijacked his police car and drove into the city, in order to report back to Velocity.

Said police car was later transported to a remote area by VC mercenaries, who then burnt it down to get rid of evidence.

## Trivia

* When the Fingzelin High Security Penitentiary took Bradley's mugshots, it is to note that he kept on smiling, despite the staff's best efforts. Policies demanded a more or less neutral facial expression, which Bradley clearly kept violating. After numerous unsucessful methods, the staff eventually gave up, resulting in Bradley wearing a smile on his mugshot.