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Raven (Rachel Roth) (Comic Book Character)

  • Raven aka Rachel Roth

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HISTORY


Raven is a veteran member of the New Teen Titans. A character with a morbid past and origin, Raven is the half-breed daughter of a human mother named Arella and the inter-dimensional demon called Trigon. She grew up in an alternate dimension called Azarath, where she was taught to "control her emotions" by the goddess Azar, a sworn pacifist, in order to suppress her inherited demonic powers. During this time, Raven rarely saw her mother and grew very detached from her. Upon Azar's death, Raven's demonic heritage was revealed, as she met her father face to face for the first time.

Shy and distant, she needed to control her emotions because if she didn't do it Trigon would control her body. This was her first life. She used to go to the college and wear Indian-style clothing. She was a total pacifist and refused to actively engage in fights, but provided transportation and healing to her teammates.

At the conclusion of the Titans Hunt, Raven's first body was destroyed by Arella and Danny Chase in an effort to stop her and the Trigon-maddened spirits of Azarath that had taken over her. Raven was not dead however and the evil within her soul set out and possessed a woman that looked like her, annihilating the woman's soul in in the process, creating what has been called Evil Raven. During this time, Evil Raven wore very skimpy and revealing clothing as the opposite of her usual self and had red skin. Her personality also changed, turning her usual quiet and reserved self into a sadistic murderer with little empathy for those around her. However as the Titans learned, this Raven wasnt their Raven, who had taken shelter inside Starfire's body, subtly manipulating her to complete a shamanistic rite she never completed back home, before she returned to Tamaran.

At the height of Evil Raven's rampage, Starfire and Kyle Rayner burnt her body to ashes, leaving Raven as a bodiless golden spirit, for the first time, truly free of Trigon. After a couple of years Raven was reborn in a body thanks to Sebastian Blood who needed her as a bride and to bring about Armageddon. She revived at a younger age for this purpose as Sebastian was only 14 at the time. With her new body she is just a sixteen year-old girl. She joined the Teen Titans and tried to go to the High School as she had not hand the chance to do so. When in civilian she has been seen to wear both Gothic, punk and skater style-clothes.

POWERS


Amongst flight, magic, telekinesis, and hand to hand combat, there are even more abilities that Raven has at her disposal.

Empathy
Her best known ability regarding her empathy is her ability to absorb the pains of others into herself, inducing rapid healing. However the cost is that she will feel the pain she absorbs, once this nearly killed her when called upon to save a gravely wounded child, also this sets a limit on the injuries she can heal in this fashion as she cannot heal fatal wounds. However Black Alice once channeled this particular power after one of her school mates was injured, citing Raven is one of the best healers around.

Soul-Self/Astral Projection
Raven's most visual ability, the power to separate her soul from her body, taking the shape of a huge bird, usually black, occationally white. One she was taught to master as a part of Azarath's grand scheme to destroy Trigon. With this Raven is able to walk between dimensions or over vast distances in the same dimension in a short span of time, if there are any limitations to her reach with this ability it has not been clearly defined. During the Crisis on Infinite Earth's both the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor considered her a suiterble herald, but neither could locate her.

Precognition
Raven has limited precognition which allows her to predict future events that are about to happen. She displays it when she was able to predict that Trigon was going to invade Earth-Two. However, she cannot control this ability and use it whenever she desires, which is why it is only limited, as it only happens randomly.
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