Raleigh Carrera

Raleigh Carrera, a character in the Platinum series, is a professional R&B singer and one of the judges for the One In A Million finals. He/she is one of Your Character's love interests. He/she is first seen in Chapter 2.

Appearance
Raleigh's appearance and gender are the determined by the player.

Personality
Raleigh has the reputation as a known heartbreaker and he/she has been paired publicly with sweet ingenues in the past. Despite this public persona, Raleigh appears more honest and truthful with you. He/she hates being forced to play nice for lazy, stupid-rich, fraud activists who raise millions of dollars every year but only spend 5% on actual charity work. Raleigh would also like to win awards for actually doing something (rather than be given an award just because he/she is a celebrity).

Series/Book: Platinum

 * Chapter 2: Headlines
 * Chapter 3: Lift Me Up
 * Chapter 4: On Fire
 * Chapter 5: Pack Your Bags
 * Chapter 6: Knockout
 * Chapter 7: Can't Stop
 * Chapter 8: Down To The Wire
 * Chapter 9: Famous
 * Chapter 10: Hurricane
 * Chapter 11: Why Do I
 * Chapter 12: Crossfire
 * Chapter 13: How To Start Again
 * Chapter 14: On The Horizon
 * Chapter 15: Fly Higher
 * Chapter 16: Who I'll Be

Your Character
Raleigh meets Your Character while she is waiting to audition on the One In a Million program. When Your Character's guitar is damaged, Raleigh offers her his/her guitar. In Chapter 4, he/she hides backstage while the audience chants his/her name. Raleigh tells you that in this line of work, it pays to be fashionably late. You have the (premium) option to warm up with Raleigh backstage, where he/she teaches you other vocal drills. If you tell Raleigh that the audience loves him/her, Raleigh points out that it isn't love, that it's infatuation. He/she grew up in the limelight. If you decide to kiss Raleigh, he/she teases you that you're in love with him/her.

In Chapter 6, Fiona Syed tells you and Raleigh that you two will be entering a fake relationship for the public, to boost your popularity as well as calm down Raleigh's wild public persona. You can choose to play up the relationship and in Chapter 7, you two attend a charity function together. In Chapter 11, after your fake relationship has run its course, you and Raleigh perform a "fake break-up" in front of curious onlookers. If you romantically pursue Raleigh, you two can become closer in Chapter 11.

After you disastrous performance at the Vinyls, Raleigh is among your true friends that tries to help you through it. You can also help him/her with his/her feelings regarding Sunset Skatepark and encourage Raleigh to perform with them at the Indio Music Festival in a premium scene of Chapter 15.

Other Looks

 * -|Male=

Trivia

 * Raleigh is the tenth love interest you can customize. However, Raleigh is the fourth love interest that the player can pick their gender.
 * The male version of Raleigh is shown on the cover of Platinum.
 * The name Raleigh is of English origin and means: Meadow of deer, roe deer's meadow, red wood, red clearing, rye field.
 * Raleigh is also the capital of North Carolina, a southeastern state in the USA.
 * The surname Carrera is of Spanish origin and means "career". That word also means "race" in Spanish (not the ethnicity definition of "race"). In the Spanish language, "carrera" is the way or path that a person takes to arrive to any destination.
 * Raleigh got his/her guitar from Prince  as a birthday present, and will give it to the player in a premium choice.
 * In Chapter 2, she/he reveals she/he once crashed a yacht and had to do community service.
 * He/she also mentions there is a group/movement named "MARC" (Mothers Against Raleigh Carrera) that includes everyone who has ever demanded to speak to a manager.
 * Raleigh's songs include:
 * Famous (Produced by Micah)
 * Love Grind (mentioned in a premium scene in Chapter 3)
 * Be My Eternity (as part of 'Sunset Skatepark')
 * In Chapter 5, Raleigh says that he/she was discovered at fifteen.
 * In Chapter 6, Fiona tells you that Raleigh's relationship with McKenna Addams was a publicity stunt. The fake relationship boosted McKenna's career and she went from acting as an extra in soap operas to the female lead in a Chris Winters film in two weeks.
 * Raleigh used to be a part of the band 'Sunset Skatepark' in the early 2010s. The group was bigger than One Direction.