Raysen

Origin

Raysen is an emote that was created back in September of 2021, when a couple of officers from the club decided to go on a trip to Santa Maria with some of the new freshmen that year to visit the Mall, and more notably, World 1-1 Games, a local video game store. While at the mall, former president Kellen Dobson and former vice president Jonathan Skelly found a odd Raisin piggy-bank at an antique store. Of course, this figure was part of the Claymation series made for the California Raisins commericals. Finding the figure hilarious, the duo decided to take a picture of the figure and would request that it would be made into a emote. Eventually, the picture became an emote on the server. Eventually, the emote was called "Raysen," because of the large sunglasses the raisin is wearing.

2021 White Elephant Gift Exchange

At Minna's gift exchange for the year, the then current president Wesley Deffenbaugh decided to track down a copy of Raysen to be exchanged at the gift exchange. At the gift exchange, Andrew Harris was the soul who first picked Raysen, although he had a puzzled look on his face because of the clinking noise it made (which was Wesley's spare pocket change). As soon as the box was opened up, Kellen Dobson exclaimed "That's the original Raysen?!?,"" and regretted his previous pick of bootleg DVDs. Throughout the night, Raysen would switch hands to Kellen, who then lost it to Michael Hendricks, who promptly gave it back to Andrew at the dismay of Kellen. However, Kellen would have the last laugh, and he would steal Raysen back from Andrew and take it to his apartment, where it would stay for a while.

30th Anniversary Party

An anonymous person was able to steal back Raysen from Kellen's apartment, and it was put for sale at the 30th's Silent Auction. Almost immediately, Tomas Ludin would put down $25 for the figure, rising the tensions. After that, Justin Rosescu would bid $26 dollars, where Raysen would stay for the majority of the anniversary party. On the final day of the party, the outstanding bids were finished in a live auction format, as to speed up the process. A bidding war between Tomas and Justin ensued, with the prices reaching nearly threefold. However, Alexander Fung would make a bold move after hearing that Justin would leave Raysen in the Mojave Desert, placing a new bid that outdid Justin's.

Soon after that, a flurry of people either went to Justin or Alex, offering them monetary support. The bids skyrocketed and eventually plateaued at $260, ten times the original bid. Alex's faction ended up winning, and it was decided that Raysen would stay in his home in San Luis Obispo, much to the approval of Kellen Dobson, who had initially exclaimed "The Raysen Stays in SLO!" Reportedly, Zoey spent a good amount of their funds on Raysen so they couldn't do laundry that week. Considering the original cost of Raysen was $5.39 according to Wesley, this chronicle goes to show how much Minna no Anime's members care about the club.

Events as Described by Club Members

• "I bid nice amount of dollars. Justin bid $70. I said, 'Fine, you’re willing to beat 69 then you take it.' Isaiah said, 'NO, I’LL GIVE YOU A DOLLAR!!' I thought it was funny so I said $71. Justin said $72 and I was ready to let him have it then everyone started picking sides. I don’t know who started the rush but just that it happened." -Alex

• "The first person to form a team dynamic was Isaiah when he offered his dollar to Alex. Following that, Tomas also joined Alex's side while handing him his credit card. I had not heard nor seen Isaiah offer the dollar, but seeing that Tomas had jumped in, it had confirmed that it was not against the rules to pool money. Noticing that Justin was about to stop, I jumped out of my seat and told him quietly (So the other side wouldn't know our limits) that I would give him $10 to win Raysen. Seeing that there were now teams on both sides, the crowd split into two factions. While Alex's side formed a larger and larger group standing behind Alex, Justin's side began forming a swarm behind him as well, taking out their wallets and handing Justin whatever cash they could afford. I don't know how much Justin was holding in the end, but it was easily over 200$ considering the number of $20 bills. During this time, Alex shouted 'What do you guys even call yourselves?' To which Michael responded 'Team Aero!' poking fun at the Aero-based insults Alex was saying to Justin earlier in the bidding war. When Justin bid $250, he decided to let it stop. I asked him 'Do you really want to see the Astros win?' to which he responded 'We win either way.' Right after that, Alex bid $260, sealing Raysen's fate." -Conrad

Members of the Order of the Great Raysen as of February 21, 2022

Pictured from top left to top right then down: Julio Serrano, Natalie Lusk, Kellen Dobson, Matthew Maas, Zoey Wall, Tomas Ludin, Isaiah Chavez, Jonathan Skelly (holding Alex's receipt), Tyler Weipert, Alexander Fung

Enemies of the Order of the Great Raysen as of February 21, 2022

Justin Rosescu (OotGR public enemy #1), James Shannon, Michael Beath, Brenan Balbido, Emma Reulbach, Shawn Budwal (OotGR public enemy #2), Jeremy Billote (spiritually)