Aviva Raven

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## Biographical Information

### Turned

* By Ennis in 2004  (As a Rejected Werewolf)

### Species

* Untriggered Witch
* Rejected Werewolf

## Family Information

### Family Members

* The Hollow †  (Maternal Ancestor)
* Jezebel Raven †  (Maternal Distant Cousin)
* Athena Beaumont †  (Maternal Distant Cousin)
* Rebekah Beaumont  (Maternal Distant Cousin)
* Adella McCall  (Maternal Distant Cousin)
* Kratos Lahey  (Maternal Distant Cousin)
* Athena Lahey  (Maternal Distant Cousin)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Kills

* Herself  (Indirectly; as a willing sacrifice)

### Cause Of Death

* Broken spine after rejecting an Alpha Werewolf's bite

### Killed By

* Derek Hale  (as a untriggered witch) (with consent)
* Herself  (Indirectly; as a willing sacrifice)

## Appearance

### Played By

* Sofia Carson

**Aviva Nova Raven** is a minor character who appeared in Season 3 of *Teen Wolf*. Though she only appeared in the flashbacks in *Visionary*, her life and death has had a significant part in the history of Beacon Hills. She was a sophomore at Beacon Hills High School in the early 2000s when she first met Derek Hale, who was then fifteen and a star player on the basketball team. Though he was a popular jock and she was a quiet, shy cellist in the school orchestra, the two eventually fell in love with each other and developed a romantic relationship.

After being given the Bite without her consent by Ennis, an Alpha Werewolf, Aviva began to reject the transformation and was brought into the root cellar of the Nemeton, where she begged Derek to kill her and end her suffering. Derek was devastated, but complied with her wish, unknowingly performing a virgin sacrifice that gave the mystical tree a spark of power that it had not had in years. It can be said that Aviva's death was one of the catalysts for the events of Season 3A, as it was the power of her sacrifice that allowed Jennifer Blake to enact her plan to kill the Alpha Pack.

## Early Life

Almost nothing is known about Aviva's early life. However, she did mention that she had seen several things that no one could explain to her, indicating that she had been exposed to the supernatural even before meeting and beginning a relationship with Derek Hale.

## Throughout *Teen Wolf*

Aviva made her first and only physical appearance in the flashbacks in Season 3A's *Visionary*, which were told from Peter Hale's perspective in order to explain to Adella McCall, Hayley Hale, Cora Hale, and Stiles Stilinski how Derek Hale's eyes turned blue when he was still a Beta. In the episode, she was seen practicing playing her cello in Beacon Hills High School's art room. However, she was quickly interrupted and distracted by the sound of rowdy boys playing with a basketball in the hallway outside the room. When she went out to request that they leave, she ran into the then fifteen-year-old Derek with his friends and told them that, last time she checked, basketball was played in the gym. Derek smirked and told her that they could play basketball wherever they had a basketball, she rolled her eyes and went back into the art room.

Feeling bad about how he treated her, Derek approached her in the art room and apologized before asking for her name. Aviva retorted that she would only tell him her name if he could draw any part of the human body. Derek took a pencil and drew a ugly eye. Embarrassed, Aviva reluctantly told him her name, but when Derek tried to introduce himself, she cut him off and stated that she already knew his name. Despite their rocky first meeting, the two eventually fell in love and began a romantic relationship, with Derek visiting her daily in the art room. One day, he asked her if he was distracting her, but Aviva claimed to have laser-like focus, a claim that was eventually proven untrue when he began kissing her neck. Though Aviva jokingly said that she hated him, Derek insisted that she loved him, which she didn't deny.

They would also meet at the Abandoned Distillery outside of town to make out and be alone, where, one night, Aviva admitted that she was afraid that the only reason Derek liked her was because she didn't initially like him. Derek assured her that this wasn't the case, but after a moment, he caught a faint scent of blood nearby before hearing footsteps approaching them and insisted that they needed to leave, even despite Aviva's protests that she didn't hear anything. What Derek was sensing was the torture and death of one of the Beta werewolves in Ennis's pack the previous night, and the summit of four different werewolf packs—Ennis', Kali's, Deucalion's, and Derek's own pack, which was led by his mother Talia, assisted by his older sister Laura.

At school the next day, Derek was visited by a younger-version of his uncle Peter, who commented on how perfect Derek and Aviva were for each other before suggesting that their relationship would end badly whenever Aviva learned that Derek was a werewolf. Though Derek insisted that this wouldn't happen, Peter argued that it *always* happened before hinting that there was a way to prevent this—by turning Aviva into a werewolf. Over the next few days, Peter continued to make his case, reminding Derek that there were more Alphas currently in Beacon Hills than there had ever been before and that Talia wouldn't be willing to do it herself. He insisted that giving Aviva the Bite would ensure that she would stay young and beautiful and would also allow her to protect herself.

Derek eventually was convinced by Peter to go through with this plan, and allowed his uncle to enlist Ennis, who had recently lost a Beta and who needed to fill the hole in his ranks, to give her the Bite before luring Aviva to the school with a note. However, upon hearing Aviva's terrified screams for help, he lost his nerve and attempted to fight Ennis, despite only being a teenage Beta against a humongous and powerful Alpha. Derek's actions proved to be fruitless, because Ennis had already bitten Aviva when Derek intervened, and she was desperately trying to crawl away.

Derek, at a loss for what to do, brought Aviva to the root cellar of the Nemeton where he had hidden several days earlier after being confronted by Hunters in the Beacon Hills Preserve. When Peter arrived shortly afterward, he pointed out the fact that Aviva was expelling black fluid from her mouth and nose and asked him what was happening to her. It was eventually revealed that she was rejecting the Bite, and Derek, not knowing what else to do for her, stayed with her and periodically took her pain to try to help her. It was then that she revealed that she always knew that Derek was different due to his strange mannerisms and the multiple instances of witnessing supernatural events in town. Derek was shocked that Aviva knew all this and liked him anyway, but Aviva insisted that she loved him. Derek tried to take her pain again, but it ultimately flowed back into her of its own accord. Aviva, realizing that she was dying, begged Derek to end her life, and though it was obvious that Derek didn't want to go through with it, he snapped her spine on the roots of the Nemeton to end her suffering, not realizing the significance of this act. Because Derek took an innocent human life (despite it being for a good reason), his golden glowing Beta eyes turned bright blue.

In *The Overlooked*, Jennifer Blake informed Derek that the reason why she survived Kali's attack when the Alpha killed her pack to join Deucalion's Alpha Pack was because of the spark of power the Nemeton gained when Derek unknowingly sacrificed Aviva, a virgin, on the roots of the tree stump. This power allowed her to stay alive long enough to be found by the police and ultimately allowed her to return to Beacon Hills to finally end the Alpha Pack for good, making Aviva's death one of the catalysts that allowed their final battle to happen.