Raven Rivera

## Personality

Raven... is a force of nature. In her own way. She's quick, seductive, and all around someone you'd want for a good time. If she'd even bother to give you that, sarcasm is strong, almost as strong as her need to name whoever crosses her path. While she seems like the wild card, she's laid back. The brunette would much rather enjoy a stay-at-home movie and takeout instead of a rager every night. Always one to speak her mind and the truth whenever it deems necessary, she goes by a code-- well, a moral one. Treat others as though you'd like to be treated. Pretty easy, isn't it? Most people don't see it that way, and Raven learned that the hard way.

An aspiring journalist and a fierce woman. Raven isn't the type to let anyone get in her way, but it's not as though she'd bother pushing past them instead of going around. She's not one for grudges or arguments, or relationships but that's for her own reasons.

Naturally, being let down most of her life, Raven subconsciously built a wall around herself over these few years. It's not easy for the brunette to let it down, you'd be lucky to see that side of her before she covers it up rather quickly. But if you just so happen to become friends with her, Raven's loyal to the end. When she loves, she loves hard. And that girl would do anything to keep you in her corner. Well, that is until you betray her.

## Backstory

Raven's life was never as easy as some might think it is. Anyone who attended an elite private school was automatically fortunate. Blessed if you will. But that wasn't her. It was far from it. Luck was never something that stuck with her, okay, maybe it did. But it wasn't good luck. Since she was born, Raven's life was never in the good direction. Mishaps, problems and toxicity followed her around wherever she went.

Her father wasn't really in the picture, she didn't even know who he was. All that Raven had was her mother and even that didn't last long enough. Her mother struggled with substance abuse for years on years. Drugs, alcohol. You name it. An addict would do anything to get their next high, and unfortunately, that meant Raven had to suffer for it. Countless times where she had to walk herself home from school, find a way to make her own meals-- or skip them from time to time because there was nothing in the cupboards, and she was never one to be embarrassed, but it was hard when the kids would make fun of you because you didn't have enough money for the cafeteria food.

Eventually, CPS noticed and she was placed into the care of her grandmother. Rose Rivera raised Raven into the woman she is today, and Raven's still growing but that woman taught her more things than her mother ever could. So while her life wasn't easy, it wasn't extremely terrible. She had someone in her corner. It only became harder when her grandma had gotten sick. Alzheimer's was a hard thing to watch a loved one go through, and Raven had a front seat.

She was old, and Raven knew she only had a few years left. All she had to do was wait and cherish whatever moments she had with her left. But she had gotten an opportunity to enter a journalism competition her counselor had suggested, and Raven didn't believe she'd actually win. Leaving to a whole different state for school? She couldn't possibly leave her grandmother, she was torn between two sides. Her grandmother was placed into a care institution, and Raven had to figure out if she was going to leave for her future, or stay for her family.

That was a year ago and she still regrets her choice until this day.