Raven

Rae-Rae (Nickname, by Beast Boy)

Mama (Nickname, by Beast Boy)

Laimar (Half-Sibling)

Aplis (Half-Sibling)

Lagneía (Half-Sibling)

Thymós (Half-Sibling)

Zilévo (Half-Sibling)

Nothrót (Half-Sibling)

Seven Deadly Sins (Former Member)

## **History**

### **Rachel Roth: 1995 - 2008**

Angela Roth was an abused foster kid. When she could no longer run away from her problems, she began using drugs and it was not long before she was twenty years old and already at rock-bottom. Wanting to retake control of her life, Angela turned to religion, looking for answers. Unfortunately, instead of religion, she found a cult.

The cult catered to Angela’s every need, intending for Angela to be their “vessel,” which Angela learned meant she was to be married to an extra-dimensional being as part of a ritual. Brainwashed and manipulated into participating in the ritual, Angela came to her senses in the middle of the ritual, but by then it was too late as the extra-dimensional being proved itself to be real, taking material form and then taking Angela to be his wife. The morning after, Angela fled the cult and returned to life on the streets, traumatized by what had happened to her.

Within a week, Angela was found by a group calling themselves the Followers of Azar. Realizing she was with child, Angela allowed them to offer aid. The Followers of Azar led Angela to a realm not of this Earth, through a magical portal, to the city of Azarath. It took some time for Angela to learn the language, but the people of Azarath were patient and helpful and as she learned their words and ways, she came to see that "Azarath" meant peace... and so it was.

Azarath existed in an interdimensional realm that existed on the outskirts of known reality, a place known as Limbo. The city itself was a veritable paradise with shining blue-green skies and crimson clouds. The streets were paved in solid marble and the buildings were accented with columns of pure gold.

Hundreds upon hundreds of years ago, a mysterious woman known as Azar convinced a group of Earth humans to abandon the ways of man and embrace a world of peace and prosperity. Leading her charges from Earth to Azarath, Azar guided and taught them the ways of peace for more than two centuries. These men and women established the Temple of Azarath and formed a mystic society.

Ages ago, they decided to purge their bodies of all evil. Using mystical incantations, they exorcised the darker passions from the souls and cast it out beyond the barriers of the city and into Limbo, the realm that existed outside of Azarath. These discarded dark emotions did not dissipate into the ether however. They coalesced and merged together, flowing between the endless dimensions beyond the Wall of Azarath.

These dark forces eventually took physical form for the first time and a being called Trigon came into existence and proved to be an incomprehensibly strong and powerful interdimensional demon of the highest order. Within a single generation, Trigon had conquered all the nations of Limbo, except the City of Peace whose barrier proved too strong for even him to breach. Which was fortunate as Azarath possessed the dimensional gateway to Earth and without the ability to conquer Azarath, Trigon was contained to Limbo, only able to assert his influence on Earthlings through powerful psionic means and only able to leave Limbo for brief periods of time through magical rituals. Under the rule of Trigon, Limbo became a wasteland, a hellish place, and one that would not look out of place on a heavy metal album cover.

Upon hearing the tales of his countenance, Angela knew that this Trigon was the father of her child. But Angela was not afraid, for she knew the Followers of Azar would protect her and her child. So, in the City of Peace, Angela gave birth to a healthy baby girl.

Though the Azarathian monks had called the child “the Raven” (a euphemism for “omen”), Angela gave her daughter the name Rachel. As Angela and Rachel lived in Azarath, Rachel learned of her father's identity and demonstrated that she was instinctively aware of why her father had sired her: she possessed the power to remove the seals on the barrier which protected the city, she had the power to let Trigon in.

As Rachel grew, her demonic powers increased and she was likewise taught Azarathian techniques of meditation and mystical rituals which, if used correctly, could counteract Trigon’s influence over her; but she would never be able to completely escape Trigon's influence. When she was thirteen, Rachel began having disturbing nightmares of Trigon escaping from the prison and laying waste to Azarath. The Elders of Azarath insisted she need not be concerned so long as she kept up her meditations, but on her fourteen birthday, her nightmares became all too real as Trigon breached the seal with the aid of six of Raven's half-siblings.

In the midst of the infernal invasion, Rachel was brought before the Elders, who managed to spirit Rachel back to Earth with a two-part mission: Place a seal on the passage between Earth and Azarath, locking the demon away from Earth; and go somewhere that Trigon could never find her. Though, Raven reluctantly completed the first with tears in her eyes as she thought about the things Trigon might be doing to the Followers of Azar and so Rachel strayed from her second task, instead deciding that she would find allies to help her destroy Trigon for good.

### **Raven: 2008 - Present**

Upon arriving in Earth, Rachel was surprised to find it not so mundane a place as her mother had described. She found it to be a fantastical world with men and women who crossed the skies in capes and dark knights who fought for the ideals of justice. Surely such people would aid her, right? Wrong. Before Rachel could contact these heroes of Earth, a tentacled alien invaded Earth and these heroes were conscripted into the service of the United States government.

Afraid of governments, having heard stories of wars and fearing that the government would only be interested in Azarath in order to invade it themselves, Rachel chose not to plead her case to them and instead went looking for other heroes. She found the Titans, having shown up shortly after Titans Tower was completed.

Rachel was certainly an anomaly among the next generation Titans. Where the others had been recruited or had a hand in the creation of the Titans, Rachel just kind of showed up, demonstrated her powers, and we said “Why not?” Looking back at it, we probably should have asked “Is your dad literally Satan?” but they were young and foolish.

While Dick and Donna would return to Gotham regularly, Rachel would live at the Tower with Vic and Gar and I guess she mostly kept to herself, quietly practicing her abilities in secret, preparing herself for her confrontation with her father. It was not until Kori joined the team that Rachel began to open up more about her true purpose in showing up uninvited that day.

Once she informed the Titans about her dad and Azarath and all that, the team decided they were going to help her plead her case to the JLA and assured her that her trepidation about government involvement was misplaced. But the meeting did not go over very well. The JLA advised caution, wishing to investigate the matter themselves, but Raven thought there was already too much time wasted, and when Robin attempted to coerce the JLA on her behalf, he got a chewing out from Batman himself and… well… let's just say the media camped outside the Hall of Justice caught five rather disgruntled teens storming out of the meeting mumbling a solid twelve seconds of audio that had to be heavily censored. So, yeah, it didn’t go good.

Later that day, when the Titans were discussing the matter, they received reports of demonic monsters running rampant in cities all across the East Coast of the United States. From the comfort of their television, the Titans watched as the JLA went to investigate but in the process, had become possessed by the creatures, becoming vessels of Trigon’s servants.

At once, Rachel knew what this meant and explained that the seal she had put in place must had been weakened due to her emotional surge at the Hall of Justice, but before she could beat herself up about it, Robin rallied the Titans (he even convinced me to help out despite how pissed off I was with him at the time) and we went to exorcise the demons from the JLA. Having done that, we then defied the JLA's orders and followed Raven into the breach, going to Azarath where we joined the local resistance and helped fight Trigon back long enough for Raven to use her powers to repair the damage to the wall.

They were on the verge of being defeated when Rachel's own mother joined the fight, having been in hiding since the invasion. She begged for Trigon to spare us and in return she would give herself to him, but she miscalculated her use to Trigon and for it she was eviscerated before our very own eyes. That was actually the worst thing Trigon could have done as it didn't break Rachel, so much as it angered her, causing her to summon the rage she had worked so hard to contain and unleashed it all upon Trigon in one tremendous blast of eldritch energy that seemingly disintegrated him.

After regaining her composure, Raven finished repairing and strengthening the barrier and thus returned Azarath to the city of peace and prosperity it was once. But without her mother there, the city no longer held its luster and so she chose to return to Earth with the Titans as we were the only family she felt she still had.

Yeah, so not only did Rachel help us save the JLA and Earth, but also a whole other dimension. So, after that, not only did the Titans stand together as friends, but we were finally a team. With Trigon sent back to his infernal realm, contained behind the barrier once more, all was right with the world!

Rachel stayed with the Titans, joined the JLA, went back to the Titans, became a mentor in the Titans, dated Beast Boy, became an Outsider, and now works as Assistant Headmistress of the Titans, assisting Cyborg in overseeing the next generation of heroes.

Though her father Trigon was disintegrated, we learned he was not so easily killed and has returned to threaten Earth many times, but Rachel has demonstrated time and time again that she will be there to stop him and so far, she hasn't failed... and I pray she never does.

## **Personality**

Raven is kind of a Debbie Downer wherever she goes, a broody and tormented young woman who must stay constantly focused in order to maintain control over her darker emotions, thus letting no space for her demonic father’s influence to corrupt her. She also possesses a fraction of Trigon’s essence, and she becomes more and more powerful the more she lets her father corrupt her… but that means she also becomes increasingly evil. Torn between two dimensions and two loyalties, Raven is fighting a neverending battle for her own soul… as well as for the safety of every known dimension.

## **Powers, Abilities, Equipment, and Weaknesses**

### **Powers**

**Cambion Physiology:** Being the daughter of Trigon who happens to be a Demon of godly power, Raven is an amazingly powerful Cambion in the field of Dark Magic and a various reservoir of demonic abilities, and she can rival her own father into besting him, as well as putting an end to his conquests against mortal life from time to time.

* **Astral Manipulation:** Rachael has a varying capacity for the manipulation of psionic energy she can project her astral form from her body onto the Dreaming or the physical plane. She can tap into the enormous psychic resources of the astral plane in order to manipulate matter and energy. In the physical plane, she can travel in astral form over vast distances. In The Dreaming, she can mentally create psionic objects and manipulate the aspects of her environment. She can communicate with others astrally through her own will, or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others.
	+ **Empathic Precognition:** She can receive flashes of extreme clarity which often helps her predict the future when exposed to extreme emotion. Raven could mentally scan the probability spectrum of alternate futures and mentally perceive the sounds and sights of events that distinguished them. By concentrating she could focus on only the most probable alternate futures. The accuracy of Raven's ability to foresee future events decreased in direct proportion to the number of alternate futures to scan. She could comfortably scan the alternate futures that existed from one second away up until those that existed fifteen minutes away.
	+ **Spiritual Empathy:** Raven has the psionic ability to sense the emotions of others, allowing her to gain insight into their thoughts and intentions, and even experience their own feelings. This also enables her to sense the mental state of others, as she has stated that she would know if someone's mind had been tampered with. By using her empathy to guide her, she can track others with her soul-self. At one point, she had used this ability to empathically enter Nightwing's subconscious mind; therefore giving the two an unusually strong physic link afterwards.
	+ **Spiritual Telekinesis:** Raven can merge a small part of her soul-self into objects in order to take control of them, with the object essentially becoming an extension of her soul-self ; this may be the reason why she prefers to take control of inanimate objects rather than people. The limit to how much matter she is able to control is unknown, though it ranges well into hundreds of tons, allowing her to hurl city buses, mounds of rubble or even uprooting whole slabs of pavement. Whenever she takes control of something, it is covered in the same dark energy that composes her soul-self.
	+ **Spiritual Telepathy:** Raven is able to project her soul-self into the minds of others to communicate, facilitate calm or to force people into submission with a devastating mental attack. Able to see far off places or events as well as present events and her surroundings use her sight abilities to its higher potential, the ability to look over somewhere/someone with transportation only by the use of telepathic abilities. Though normally composed of energy that is colored black, Raven's soul-self can change color depending on her emotional state, usually manifesting as red or white.
	+ **Spiritual Teleportation:** In conjunction with her telekinesis, Raven's soul-self is able to envelop her (along with at least four other people) and travel to a personal pocket dimension and then 'sidestep' our own reality to reappear elsewhere. She can use this technique to travel vast distances on Earth or to teleport by momentarily displacing herself and then re-appearing in another location. She can pass through walls and obstacles by simply teleporting past them, giving the illusion of intangibility. At times, Raven has been shown creating portals with her dark energy in order to travel, rather than utilizing her soul-self.
	+ **Wound Transferal:** Raven can absorb injuries, while removing it from the source, into her body. This allows her to take the wounds of others away. healing them, but causes her to be inflicted with those wounds. She can restore biotic organisms to their optimal health, curing damaged or withered organisms, wounds, broken bones, low vitality, and diseases/poisoning. Rachael can place pain on others by inflicting damage upon her own body. This ability allows her to maintain an offensive advantage at the behest of her health as with every attack the opponent deals she, the damage is also reflected on the opponent.
* **Magic:** Rachael is able to utilize magic due to her years of training by the Azrathians allowing her to perform all forms of magic with ease as she has displayed when inducing unconsciousness on a young Tim Drake with a touch, firing balls of fire from the folds of her cloak, hurling electric blasts strong enough to take down all of her brothers, and can force herself through the time-stream even bring passengers. Recently having been shown to completely annihilate the demon army of Rankor numbering more than three thousand individuals and which contained powerful individual demons that had taken the Titans down in ambushes previously.
	+ **Dark Arts:**
	+ **Magical Flight:**
	+ **Shadow Magic:**
	+ **Reality Magic:**
* **Demon Mode:**

### **Weaknesses**

**Anger Management:** Raven's main weakness is letting go of her emotions, especially rage. Even though giving in to her rage seems to make her much more powerful, it could potentially corrupt her, leaving her very vulnerable to attacks which affect demons adversely. Also, while her powers can become more powerful during times of emotional outburst, it can be more difficult to rein her powers in as her demonic nature becomes more pronounced and may take control. Also, during such moments, she tends to have little regard for self-preservation and puts little emphasis on defense.

**Holy Tools/Weapons:**