Ray the Flying Squirrel

Ray the Flying Squirrel is an anthropomorphic flying squirrel and Mighty the Armadillo's best friend and fellow adventurer.

Appearance
Ray is a yellow-furred flying squirrel with a tan muzzle and circular patch on his chest, similar to Sonic. He has a bushy yellow tail and patagium, or flight flaps, that he can extend from his chest to his arms. His wardrobe consists of a light blue scarf, flight goggles, white gloves with blue cuffs, and blue shoes with white cuffs/socks.

Personality
Ray is friendly, eager and very energetic. What he lacks in raw strength, he makes up for with pure enthusiasm and excitement. Ray loves adventure, and often glides to high places to get a view of the land below. Ray is also shown to be highly curious.

Powers and abilities
Ray is capable of running at decent speeds, and is also rather agile. Being a flying squirrel, he also has prehensile tail that he is seen capitalizing as a third hand.

Ray can also perform the Spin Attack, Spin Jump, and the Spin Dash, which are techniques where he curls into a concussive ball or cutting disk and directs himself at his targets. With them, Ray can shred or burrow through just about any substance given enough speed. Being a flying squirrel, he is also able to glide on the wind using his skin flaps.

Mighty the Armadillo
Mighty the Armadillo is Ray's best friend, they've known each other for quite a long time.

Sonic the Hedgehog
Ray is mutual friends with Sonic.

Cassia the Pronghorn
When Ray heard about Cassia the Pronghorn falling into a coma after she and her older sister, Clove had defected from the Eggman Empire to become Freedom Fighters, Ray felt really sorry about Cassia and he wanted to see her. Coming to the medical room, Ray sees Sky the Wolf reassuring Clove next to Cassia in her medical bed, the two noticed Ray peeking from outside the room, and Ray being nervous wished Cassia to get well soon.

Eventually Cassia recovered from her coma and was told by Clove about Ray wanting to see her, to which Cassia thought that was very sweet of him. Not long afterwards, Cassia became Ray's girlfriend.

Trivia

 * Ray doesn't have an official age in the video games, although his age varried in the Archie Sonic comics, he was 10 in the Pre-SGW continuity, while in the Post-SGW continuity, although never given an actual age but he is at least confirmed to be younger than Mighty the Armadillo, meaning he is younger than 16. Cassia being 13 herself makes sense to make SFF Ray the same age as her.