Prior to filming Panic, Ray had a discussion with author Lauren Oliver about his character's story arc. "As we were getting each episode, it was like, 'What's going on? What's going to happen?' But certainly with Ray, just knowing where the character was going — Lauren Oliver made a joke that Ray was originally the character that didn't have an arc, he was just the d*ck through and through all the way," Ray said in an interview with Comic Book. "She gave me an opportunity to do something different with that, which was really fun."