Raze

Raze is an Agent in VALORANT and one of the first Duelists available to play since the Closed Beta.
==Profile==
===Biography===
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Biography =
Tayane Alves is an engineer coming from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, with a strong enthusiasm for explosives and paint - usually combined. Holding strong objections towards Kingdom Corporation's operations in Bahia, Alves was involved in driving the company out of her home state and forcing them to abandon their sites there, the marks of her tools staining the plots as a testament to her victories. Hired since then to work for the VALORANT Protocol as its twelfth agent, "Raze", Alves now sows her chaos against bigger threats to Alpha Earth. However, as the paint fades from Salvador's walls, Raze cannot afford to leave her home completely behind, lest Kingdom look to make its return there.
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Timeline of events =
====TAYANE ALVES: Early Life====
*Alves comes from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.Raze Salvador quote
*Alves is involved with driving Kingdom out of Bahia and forcing them to abandon their sites there.VALORANT Protocol#The Blackmailer's agent dossiers
*Alves meets and works with Erik Torsten.Breach-Raze duo quote
====RAZE: VALORANT agent====
*Recruited as its twelfth agent.
====The Omega Project====
*Raze is present during the Max Bot training exercise at VALORANT HQ.WARM UP
**Raze creates Max Bot along with Killjoy and is one of the agents to fight against him.
====The Blackmailer====
*Raze is reported to be freaking out over the strange happenings at VALORANT HQ including paranoia, flicking lights, cold door handles, etc.4.07 Phoenix voicemail
**This was related to the Protocol's interrogation of the blackmailer, who was being held at HQ after being apprehended in Istanbul.
====Continuing the Omega Project====
*Raze contacts Brimstone about his clashes with Breach, vouching for Breach and asking Brimstone to go easy on him.4.09 Raze Voicemail
====First ventures into Omega====
*Raze attends a concert in Berlin with Killjoy and Phoenix.
**She goes missing after the concert and finds herself stranded on Breeze.5.07 Raze Voicemail
***Raze herself does not remember how she arrived there.
***She rigs up a junk satellite dish to contact Brimstone and send a VLT/R to pick her up.
====Journey into the City of Flowers====
*Raze takes time away in Salvador, Brazil, with some of the other agents before the Protocol's main mission to the City of Flowers.Salvador Vacation Twitter posts
====Project Landfall====
*Raze complains about Omen's recent distrust of her due to the latter's claims that she may have something to do with the Max Bot's unusual activity.6.08 Raze Email
*Raze receives help from Killjoy with repairs on her Boom Bot.Execute R.V.N.G. Program Teaser
**Whilst Killjoy is distracted, Max Bot takes the opportunity to hack into her tablet and gain access to the Protocol's portal systems and data files in order to initiate his revenge program.
*Raze reacts to the possible addition of a new recruit with other agents.MYTHS Twitter Teasers
====Scions of Hourglass====
*Raze tries to get Killjoy to come back to base after Killjoy becomes obsessed with the Scions of Hourglass Elder Grotto's archives.9.01 Raze voicemail
*Raze is assigned to a strike team defending Los Angeles from the VALORANT Legion as part of a set of simultaneous incursions across Alpha.INCURSIONS
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===Personality===
The one-woman party from Bahia, Raze is always playful, impulsive, and spontaneous. She radiates chaotic energy and creates havoc on the battlefield, destroying every obstacle that is blocking her path. According to Sage, she can be impatient and won't stick to plans. She is notoriously cheeky, as seen when she earned Cypher's ire after constantly breaking his gadgets.
Fun-loving as she is, she refers to her fellow agents as family and always assures them that she'll be the one leading the fireworks display. 
===Appearance===
Raze is a woman with a brown skin tone, always sporting her orange cap worn backwards accompanied by her headphones. Her hair is arranged in multiple braids held together by gold-colored hair rollers. She wears a sleeveless, orange top that exposes her midriff and is covered by a chestplate with the word 'BOOM' spray-painted on the front. She wears dark colored pants with a splatter of paint by the left thigh, held by a strap wherein her paintshell grenades are attached.
==Abilities==
===Basic ===
===Signature ===
===Ultimate===
==Agent Cosmetics==
The following are cosmetics related to Raze from Agent Gear and from other sources (e.g. Battle Pass).
===Gear===
===Other cosmetics===
Player Cards
Image	Name 	Source
 	9 Lives 	Battle Pass:EP 06 Act 1
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Part of collection:
 	Champions Squad 	Event Pass:Champions 2023
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Part of collection:
 	Doodle Buds // Agents 	Store:
 	Duo's Day: Game Night 	Store:
 	Enter the Duelists 	Battle Pass:EP 05 Act 1
 	EP 1 // IGNITION 	Login Bonus
 	Epilogue: Mementos Pt. 1 	Battle Pass:EP 02 Act 3
 	Epilogue: No Hands 	Battle Pass:EP 07 Act 2
 	Eyes Up 	Unobtainable
 	Friendly Fire 	Event Pass:Crossover
 	Knife Fight 	Battle Pass:EP 02 Act 3
 	Late Night Snack 	Battle Pass:EP 06 Act 1
 	Mementos Pt. 1 	Battle Pass:EP 02 Act 3
 	Nanobomb 	Battle Pass:EP 07 Act 2
 	No Hands 	Battle Pass:EP 07 Act 2
 	Operation Vacation 	Battle Pass:EP 05 Act 1
 	Raze Days 	Battle Pass:EP 07 Act 1
 	Rooftop Revelry 	Battle Pass:EP 07 Act 3
 	Rotating 	Battle Pass:EP 09 Act 2
 	Scare Tactics 	Prime Gaming Drops
 	Team Ace // Raze 	Store:
 	Up in Arms 	Prime Gaming Drops
 	VALORANT GO! Vol. 2 Raze 	Store:
 	VERSUS // Breach + Raze Card 	Battle Pass:EP 07 Act 3
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Part of collection:
 	VERSUS // Raze + Killjoy Card	Battle Pass:EP 01 Act 3
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Part of collection:
 	Warm Up // Maxbot 	Battle Pass:EP 04 Act 3
Sprays
Image	Name 	Source
 	#SAVEWIDEJOY 	Battle Pass:EP 04 Act 2
 	9 Lives 	Battle Pass:EP 06 Act 1
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Part of collection:
 	Boomtastic 	Battle Pass:EP 08 Act 3
 	Clutch Or Kick 	Battle Pass:EP 03 Act 1
 	Dap Team 	Battle Pass:EP 01 Act 2
 	Doodle Buds // Agents 	Store:
 	Epilogue: #SAVEWIDEJOY 	Battle Pass:EP 04 Act 2
 	Hang Loose 	Battle Pass:EP 04 Act 2
 	Heaven or Hell 	Battle Pass:EP 04 Act 3
 	Last Person Standing 	Battle Pass:EP 06 Act 1
 	Not Your Healer 	Battle Pass:EP 06 Act 3
 	Party's Here 	Prime Gaming Drops
 	Power of Five 	Battle Pass:EP 09 Act 1
 	Pretty Pretty Please 	Battle Pass:EP 04 Act 3
 	Raze has Range 	Battle Pass:EP 05 Act 2
 	Team Ace // Raze 	Store:
 	The Big Bet 	Battle Pass:EP 07 Act 3
 	This Is Also Also Fine 	Battle Pass:EP 02 Act 3
 	VALORANT GO! Vol. 2 Raze	Store:
 	VCT LOCK//IN Vamos! 	Store:
 	We Did It Team 	Battle Pass:EP 09 Act 1
 	Wide Swing 	Battle Pass:EP 06 Act 2
Weapon Skins
Image	Edition	Skin	Weapon 	Variant	Source
 	 	 	Classic 	Raze 	Battle Pass:EP 06 Act 1
 	 	 	Guardian	Raze 	Battle Pass:EP 06 Act 1
 	 	 	Phantom 	Raze 	Battle Pass:EP 06 Act 1
 	 	 	Ares 	Raze 	Battle Pass:EP 06 Act 1
 	 	 	Bucky 	— 	Store
 	 	 	Shorty 	Base 	Store
 	 	 	Stinger 	Base 	Store
 	 	 	Phantom 	Base 	Store
 	 	 	Ares 	Base 	Store
 	 	 	Judge 	— 	Store
 	 	 	Ares 	— 	Store
Buddies
Image	Name 	Source
 	VALORANT GO! Vol. 2 Raze	Store:
==Quotes==
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==Update History==
==Spotify Playlist==
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== Trivia ==
* Raze created her Boom Bot by stealing and modifying one of Killjoy's Alarmbots.Killjoy Reveal article (in German)
* She did major upgrades on Breach's mechanical arms.VALORANT Lore Discord Narrative AMA: Breach's arms
* She and Killjoy developed a training robot known as Max Bot, who was designed to imitate and replicate the powers and skills of his opponent.
*She loves to breakdance and was part of a B-Girl crew in Salvador.VALORANT Lore Discord Narrative AMA: Raze breakdances
===Relations===
*It is hinted that she worked with Breach before joining the VALORANT Protocol.
**The nature of their shared past was one that operated outside the law.
*** "Raze! Huh, together again and we're not even breaking the law!"
**Raze has close relations with Breach to the point of referring to him as "Breachy."
***"You know, Breachy, in all this chaos it would be terrible if some equipment just...got lost...you know?"
*Raze and Killjoy have a friendly rivalry.
**This rivalry will then develop them into a romantic relationship. This was confirmed by Riot via a Twitter post, being the first pair of characters in the game to have a canonical relationship.
=== Development ===
*Through early game datamine, Raze's call sign may be implied to be "Bombshell" via certain agent interactions
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*** "You and me Bombshell. Let's knock 'em out."
*** "Bombshell! Together again and we're not even breaking the law. Who would've guessed?"
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*** "Ignite this place, Bombshell."
*Raze was the first additional character to be added in the Closed Beta.
*Cypher called Raze "Izzy" in one of his early quotes, implying that this was supposed to be her real name. However, the voiceline was removed from the game and her real name was eventually revealed to be Tayane.
==Gallery==
Early_clay.png|Early Concept
Team Ace Raze Portrait.png|Team Ace Portrait
VALORANT GO! Vol. 2.jpg|VALORANT GO! Vol. 2 Full ArtworkVALORANT GO! Vol. 2 Full Artwork
Warm Up Raze Killjoy.png|WARM UP
Salvador Vacation Restaurant.jpg|Salvador Vacation
Salvador Vacation Raze Workshop.jpg|Salvador Vacation
Salvador Vacation Live Music.jpg|Salvador Vacation
Salvador Vacation Raze Killjoy Kiss.jpg|Salvador Vacation
Salvador Vacation Conclusion.jpg|Salvador Vacation
Revelation Poster 2.jpeg|REVELATION poster (Ω-counterpart)REVELATION Poster
Pride 2023.jpeg|Pride 2023Pride 2023
Incursions Raze.png|INCURSIONS
==References==
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