I like to think this exchange sums up gone_byebye rather nicely.

[camwyn]

Ray Stantz and Dean Winchester are talking in milliways_bar. Ray mentions that they've always been involved with the city, including the cops and the sanitation workers' union. Dean is not so hot on this idea for canonical reasons. . .

"Yeah, you and Agent K," Ray says. "He nearly blew a blood vessel when he found out about the Deep Ones."







"So I'm gonna ask a stupid question."

Or maybe it's not so stupid.

"How are you not insane?"

Because. Seriously.

Lovecraft?

Sammy's childhood monster in the closet has nothing on that shit.



"Something my father told me, when I was a boy and was terrified of the things under the bed."

Ray exhales a little and leans back in his seat, looking up into the rafters for a moment.

"'You may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may be half-blinded with terror of the things in the dark, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn!'."

He looks down again.

"And when that doesn't work I sleep with the night light on, a stuffed Mr. Stay-Puft under one arm, my lightsaber under the pillow, and footie pajamas."

Comments

[muji]

... =). That's...kind of spectacular.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

...D'aww!

*cuddles Ray* Dude, he is SO AWESOME. XD

[camwyn]

Peg the source of the quote and you win... well, if you give me your cellular number, a random phone call straight to your voice mail at a bizarre hour that will cause you to go 'wait, what?'!

[gypsyjr.livejournal.com]

... Yup. That sums him up, alright. :)

[batyatoon]

... Ray, you're my favorite.

*hugs him lots*

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Ray, Ray, Ray...you are *so* a Gryffindor. Don't ever change.

[camwyn]

Oddly enough I'd generally seen him as some variety of Hufflepuff, myself.

(Egon went to Durmstrang and that's all there is to say about that.)

[(Anonymous)]

th white once and future king

[camwyn]

Bingo. Although marginally altered because Ray's father saw nothing wrong with injecting a line about the things in the dark if it meant he didn't have to check under his kid's bed and in his kid's closet and behind the toilet every night.