Gary Bankley (Light Ray)

 is a superhero in the Klaskyverse. After an accident during an experiment to turn matter into photons, Gary was turned into a nigh-invulnerable Hard Light being. He is best friends with Messiah.

Origin
During a lab experiment at his University, Gary and his professors were attempting to convert matter into photons of the same energy. When the safety protocols were accidentally disabled by an absent minded custodian, Gary was accidentally turned into a mass of photons. Able to sense Gary's fading presence, Messiah urged the scientists to attempt to regather Gary's photons and convert them into Hard Light. Succeeding, Gary was able to continue living life, but condemned to what would seem to be an eternity of living as a being of light. Gary soon learns to covert his energy back into massless photons, but he cannot do it for extended periods of time, for if he's stuck in a photon state for longer than a few seconds, his molecules will spread apart and Gary will essentially die, his consciousness lost forever.