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Full Name: Rachel Roth
Code Name: Raven
Age: 18
Date of Birth: 5th March
Sexual Orientation: Hetrosexual
Species: Half demon, half human
Alliance: Teen Titans
Citizenship: DC
Canon or Original?: Canon





Hair: Raven has black hair that is generally cut short although sometimes it is let to grow out. Her hair is straight when grown out.
Eyes: Indigo, they are normal in apperance. Although when Raven is Pride she has four glowing red demonic eyes.
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 110 lbs
Distinguishing Marks: Raven as a red gem (Chakra) on her forehead.

Appearance: Raven is average for her height, although according to BMI she is just in the underweight section. Her skin generally appears to be pale, especially when in contrast with her black hair. One of the most unusual features of Raven is the red gem, known as chakra, which is on her forehead. The chakra helps to control the dark pasions of her soul-self. Raven generally dresses is blues and blacks and has even stated that bright colours such as red 'hurt her eyes'.

Face Claim: -





Likes:
-Books
-Helping her team
-Personal, quite time for meditation
-Keeping her emotions under control
-Spending time with the Titans

Dislikes:
-Loosing control of her emotions
-Arguements/Emotional unrest
-People entering her room
-Unnecessary violence (especially in the early years of her life)
-Being called 'creepy'.

Personality: Raven is a complicated character, having to battle her inner evil. Her father is the demon, Trigon and he has possessed her (destryong Azarath in the proccess) before. Raven was raised on Azarath and taught to control her emotions as her powers her linked to them. Thus Raven can come across as rather unemotional and uncaring. However this is not true as she does care for her team mates and has had romantic feelings for others such as Beast Boy. Raven has been stated to be a caring character, offering to wash up dishes after meals or to teleport the team home after battles. During the early years of her life on the team Raven did not participate in the conflicts but instead helped to heal the team and teleport them back. This shows that she is a caring character, despite the control on her emotion.

Raven is a very scholarly character, she enjoys a good book, and will often retire to her room to read. Her main hobbey appears to be reading, she mainly enjoys fantasy adventure. Raven can also come across as rather gothic in character as she is interested in things that can be considered dark, or creepy. Meditation in another thing that is important in Raven's life. It helps her to control her emotions, which in turn controls her demonic side and helps to keep her father from attempting to take control over her. Raven can be classed as an introvert.




Powers:

Empathy: Raven is able to sense what others are feeling. She can even influence people to feel certain emotions.
-Empathetic Healing: Absorbing the pain of an injury which induces quicker healing as well as easing their suffering. When Raven heals she takes on the pain which sets a limit on what she can heal. She can not heal fatal wounds or dangerous diseases as this would kill her.
-Emotion Negation: Raven is able to use her powers of empathy to 'steal' emotions from others leaving them emotionally numb.

Soul-self: Raven is able to manifest herself as a giant raven or human shape.
-Astral projection: Using her soul-self, Raven is able to project her mind for meditation or offense.
-Teleportation: Again using her soul-self, Raven can transport herself (and others) over great distances including interdimensional.

Flight: Raven's new body (third) granted her the ability to fly.

Other Powers: Raven has used a wide range of other powers
Telekinesis: The ability to lift heavy objects with her mind. In the animated series this is shown more often (Usually as her primary defensive and offensive move) and is usually portrayed within a black beam of some sort.
Magic: Raven has been seen hurtiling fireballs and powerful electric blasts out of her cloak as well as causing young Tim Drake to go unconcious with a single touch.
Hand-to-hand Combat: Raven has been seen as hinted as a good hand-to-hand combatant, beeing seen to have taken out an army group of occults through teleportation and combat skills as well as seen using the same sort of style on he brother, Envy.

Weapons N/A


Strengths/Abilities:
- Able to keep a calm head in situations
- She is loyal to her friends and cares about them
- Raven is capable coping by herself for long period of time as she actually enjoys it.


Weaknesses:
-When she looses control of her emotions it can go very badly.
- Raven struggles to make friends due to her withdrawn emotions






History: Raven was born to a human mother and raised on Azarath. It was there that she learned to control her emotions, which would allow her to suppress as well as control her demonic side which was inherited from her father. Later one, Raven found out that her father was planning on coming to take over her dimension so Raven approached the Justice League for help, but they denied her. Instead, Raven formed the Teen Titans to fight her father. The team did defeat Trigon and locked him away in an inter dimensional prison but Raven still had to fight her father's influence. However Trigon did escape and took control of Raven (destroying Azarath in the proccess) and the Titans were forced to kill Raven, but this allowed the souls of Azarath to possess her and thus kill Trigon. Raven rose from the ashes of the battle, purged of Trigon's evil and she vanished.

Then Raven was captured by Brother Blood to control Nightwing. They were both rescued by the Teen Titans and Raven donned a white cloak to represent her freedom from her father. Another version of Raven appeared at a later date, possessed by her dark conscious, attempting to plant the seeds of Trigon's children into new bodies. She crashed the wedding of Dick Grayson and Koriand'r and implanted one of the seeds into Koriand'r. However Raven implanted the seed of good Raven into Starfire and dark Raven was later defeated by the Titans and Phantasm. She later had another run in with Brother Blood but escaped and joined the Teen Titans.

As time went by Raven developed feelings for Beast Boy. Later she quite the Titans making it appear that it was because of her failed relationship with Beast Boy although it was really because she learned a secret about one of the new members. Then Raven traveled around the world looking for something that had been stolen from Titans Tower. Raven found a book that contained Jericho's (an old team mate) soul which she then put back into his resurrected body. Raven was later asked by Robin and Wonder Girl to resurrect Superboy but she was unable to as his soul had moved on. The Titans are then captured by Titans East and Raven escapes by offering Duella a place on the true Titans team.

Raven's half brothers then start to influence emotions within the Titans which causes trouble. They also attempt to use Raven and Beast Boy as a portal to Trigon's realm. Raven then uses her powers to make her brothers steal Trigon's power and the portal is closed. Later Raven worried about becoming evil. Her half brothers then provoke her demonic side and she leaves the Titans and joins her half-brothers. However the team track her down and convince her to return to their side.






Writing Sample:

Another day, another dawn. The cloaked Titan stared at the rising sun from her cross leged position on the floor. The city was mostly asleep, but a few households were rising; Raven could sense their emotions as they prepared for work, most of them unhappy about what they viewed as an early start. Although there were a few who did not mind, and one or two who enjoyed it. The Teen Titan took in a slow and deep breath, it was at this point in the morning that she generally started her morning meditation. It was important to control her emotions and Raven had been practicing like that for as long as she could remember.

Closing her eyes, Raven focused her attention on calming herself, letting all thoughts slip from her mind, focusing the calming feeling around her body. Astral projection was one of the main ways that the teenager meditated and she focused on her soul-self and manifesting herself as that form. Everything was calm and quite, keeping the emotions at bay. Although some might consider meditating twice or even once a day boring, Raven found it calming and useful. It settled her, grounded her and kept her prepared for the rest of the day. In the evening, it helped her to prepare for sleeping. It was no burden to her.

Fiften minutes later, Raven returned from her meditation, returning her astral projection to herself. Indigo eyes flickered open and she slowly stood up. The sun had futher risen and promised good weather. The sky was a light blue, pale clouds barely touched the surface. Maybe today would be a good day for the general populus, maybe there would be no villians attempting to take over and they could all relax with a good book. There was never enough time for reading.

Your name/alias:Raven
Timezone: Currently Greenwich Meantime.


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Note: Sources used
-Teen Titans Animated series
-About four or five Teen Titans comics (All apart from one including Raven, one of them partly centering around her.)
-Wiki entry
-DC Wiki entry
-An entry on Raven on another site