Raven Eaton

**Raven Delgato** is the Generation Three heir to my Colours Of Life Challenge.

* Criminal
* Adult
* Lawyer
* University
* Teen
* Toddler

## Childhood

As a child, she experienced quite a lot of trauma that was inflicted upon her by her mother, as at a young age she found out that her mother had cheated on her father and that the two were getting a divorce. She was refused at first by the courts to see her father, Layton, as it was revealed that he was not her biological father, however, eventually Layton was able to overturn this and they received joint custody. Raven realised only later, as a teenager and when her mother and biological father married that she was not the real daughter of Layton, and this completely broke down her sense of belonging, as not only had her roots been shattered but she had been left to discover this for herself, and realise that she descended from such a cruel set of parents, who broke her father's self esteem after having cheated for over a decade. As a teenager, she grew more and more distant and rebellious, to both her father and her mother, as well as Layton, because she was angry at having been lied to by her biological parents and seeing Layton made her feel guilty and overwhelmingly sad. She started hanging out with the Rebel Rousers and fell in love with one of the members, Tiffany Delgato. She came out to her family one Christmas at her Grandma's farm, and was horrified by her mother's dismissal. Her mother's reaction was so horrible that despite her not having completely kicked her out, she decided to move in with Layton and her sister completely. Layton had met a man and fell in love with him by this point and although she was happy for him, she never felt fully accepted by him as his boyfriend's true daughter, and often shouted at her that she had ruined her Layton's life. Her sister was the only person who she felt truly accepted by, as they had experienced the divorce together and had bonded through it, however her sister had been getting very serious with her boyfriend and so often wasn't around as much anymore, doing work experience and A-Levels etc. In a spur of the moment act, she eloped with her girlfriend at 18, however this marriage soon broke down as both were immature and feisty individuals, and Raven had never experienced a healthy relationship, feeling that relationships that appeared stable would soon break down and so lived in a self-fulfilling prophecy. They got divorced shortly after.

## Adulthood

Upon becoming a young adult and leaving school, Raven and Ophelia went to the University of Britechester, and Raven studied History. She met a few potential love interests, however never got past the stage of casual hook ups and dating as she was scared to make a commitment as she had done before. In the last year of university, Ophelia fell pregnant by her boyfriend and so the too married and began renting a home, which Raven moved into. Raising the baby was almost a joint effort. Upon graduating, Raven became a lawyer and eventually met the man who she would marry again. Raven was sexually attracted to him, however there was never much of a romantic connection, and she felt as though he never really found her sexually attractive, more romantically attractive and so their desires were quite different and the relationship was quite distant, particularly after they experienced an ectopic pregnancy. This was one of the hardest things Raven had to go through, and she fell into a pit of depression, self-harming and barely eating. Eventually, she fell pregnant and she felt as though she had to go on for her baby that she had been longing for, and found the love she had been longing to feel and have back for years in her baby girl, who she named Verity. Tragically, the girl's father was killed by a criminal looking for revenge, as her husband had been a private investigator, and Raven found herself hating her work as a lawyer for she had to defend criminals just like the ones who had killed her husband, and her baby's father. She became a criminal herself, trying to seek revenge for her husband's death, and now is becoming a rather good criminal boss. Her depression had returned and a way she felt better in herself was when she was out on the streets. Her eating disorder grew much worse, starving herself and overexercising herself to make herself as fit as possible. She reconnected with her old flame, Tiffany, which brought some joy, however overall she was still depressed, and got tattoos etc to stop herself from self-harming. On her first Christmas without Layton in her life, due to his sudden death, she felt so down that she made a suicide attempt, not wanting to live to see what horrors the next year would bring. The pills she took, however, took a long time to work and Tiffany returned from taking Verity on a play date sooner than expected, and so Tiffany was able to call the ambulance and Raven survived. She recovered and on New Years Eve, Tiffany told her that she believed they were soulmates and that they had grown since they were teenagers and asked Raven to marry her because she loved her. Tiffany and her daughter moved in with Raven and Verity so that Tiffany could help Raven recover.