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Origin - First Life

Raven is a veteran member of the New Teen Titans. A character with morbid past and origin, Raven is the half-breed daughter of a human mother named Arella and the inter-dimensional demon Trigon. She grew up in an alternate dimension called Azarath, where she was taught to "control her emotions" by the goddess Azar, a sworn pacifist, in order to suppress her inherited demonic powers. During this time, Raven rarely saw her mother and grew very detached from her. Upon Azar's death, Raven's demonic heritage was revealed, as she met her father face to face for the first time. Soon after her 16th birthday, Raven learned that Trigon planned to come to her dimension, and she vowed to stop him. Raven initially approached the Justice League, but they refused her on the advice of Zatanna, who sensed her demonic parentage. In desperation, she reformed the Titans as the New Teen Titans to fight her father. The team consisted of Robin, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, Starfire, Cyborg and Beast Boy. Kid Flash only agreed to be a member after Raven used her powers to coerce him into loving her. On another meeting with the Justice League, Zatanna revealed this information, which caused the other Titans to turn away and mistrust Raven. This separation didn't last long when Trigon kidnapped Raven to his home dimension.

The team defeated Trigon and sealed him in an inter-dimensional prison with the help of Arella, who stayed at the inter-dimensional door as Trigon's Guardian. Raven continued to fight her father's influence, as he was not completely destroyed. For a period of time, Raven lost control several times in high-stress situations, but managed to regain control before Trigon could assert himself. Popular storylines such as "The Judas Contract" took place during this period. Eventually, however, Trigon escaped his prison, came to Earth and took control of Raven, destroying Azarath in the process. The Titans came together and were forced to kill Raven, thereby allowing the souls of Azarath to possess her and guided by the spirit of Azar, who was acting through the body of the Titans' ally Lilith, used her as a channel to kill Trigon. After this battle, Raven rose again from the ashes, purged of Trigon's evil, and vanished. Even during Crisis on Infinite Earths, Raven was still absent to the point that Anti-Monitor could not detect her whereabouts. Raven was actually in a non-parallel dimension which is the reason Anti-Monitor could not detect her, because he can only see everything in all the parallel universes.

Second Life

Raven returned years later donning a white cloak. Some time later, after being free to feel, Raven found she was able to not only sense, but control others' emotions; a power she learned to handle only after unintentionally forcing Dick Grayson/Nightwing to love her for a brief time. It was during this incident Starfire and Raven became close friends. Raven also fostered a relationship with technopath Erik Forrester, who was using the life force of women he seduced to regain some of his lost humanity, a result of interfacing with computers. Forrester knew that Raven's soul-self could help him to permanently retain his humanity. This attempt was cut short by the intervention of Joseph Wilson (Jericho), who helped Raven overcome her love for Forrester by destroying him and saving herself.

Raven's life went on without change until she was kidnapped by the Wildebeest Society during the Titans Hunt storyline. The Wildebeest, lead by the Trigon-possessed souls of Azarath, were going to use several Titans to bring about the return of Trigon. During a massive battle in the remains of Azarath, Raven was possessed by the evil souls and once again became the evil doppelganger of her father. Arella, along with Danny Chase, used the power of Azar's soul to cleanse Raven; however, through the battle, her body was destroyed, and Arella and Danny joined the cleansed souls of Azarath to become Phantasm.

Now free of its bodily prison, the evil energy that was Trigon's in Raven's soul took on sentience and possessed a meta-human with a resemblance to Raven. Raven appeared possessed by her evil conscience, and attempted to implant Trigon's seed into new bodies. She arrived at Nightwing and Starfire's wedding, and implanted a seed into Starfire. Instead of corrupting her, she actually implanted the soul of the good Raven. This caused Starfire to leave Earth in order to escape from the evil Raven, who implanted seeds into several other superheroes. The Titans were able to defeat her with the help of Phantasm.

Raven returned later, still evil, in order to destroy the good version of herself implanted in Starfire. The Titans defeated her once again, for the last time. The good Raven became a being of golden energy without a physical body.

Third Life

While Raven was still wandering the Earth in her spirit form, a cult that worshipped her father Trigon found Raven’s spirit. They reincarnated Raven with a body of a teenage girl at the Church of Blood. The leader, Brother Blood was going to marry Raven, but the newest Teen Titans discovered that if Brother Blood married Raven, it would result in Armageddon. The Teen Titans would break up the wedding and Raven made everyone in the cult run away. Afterwards, the Titans would reunite with Raven in which she would join the new team if Teen Titans. Raven also started a normal life by enrolling in a high school under the name of Rachel Roth, which was the name of her biological mother. During her time with the Teen Titans, Raven began to fall in love with Beast Boy . The two of them connected romantically and began dating. Geoff Johns admitted that he planned this relationship before the animated series.

Infinite Crisis, 52, One Year Later

When the Spectre destroyed all magic in the Day of Vengeance storyline, it even weakened Raven’s magic powers and it started going out of control even for her. However, Raven continued to do good during Infinite Crisis by helping the people of Bludhaven out of the destructed city, and even helped the Teen Titans fight Superboy-Prime. Once the 52 weeks began, Raven appeared briefly to help Steel attack Lexcorp to rescue Natasha from Lex Luthor. One year after Infinite Crisis, Raven broke up with Beast Boy and has quit the Teen Titans because of it. It was later revealed during one of Cyborg’s recorded memories when Raven confessed to Cyborg that she is leaving the Teen Titans because of the new members Beast Boy allowed to join.
Later, Raven is seen running away from a group that is chasing after her. She admitted that she was extremely tired from teleporting all night. She then reveals that she had a computer disc with Jericho’s soul in it. Raven proceeds to cleansing it and then transferred him into a new body. Right afterwards, Raven returns to the Teen Titans as a full member again. Soon, Robin and Wonder Girl would ask Raven if she could resurrect Superboy just like how she resurrected Jericho. She tells them that she could not do it because Superboy’s soul has moved on to the afterlife, whereas Jericho’s was kept in a disc. Then all of a sudden the three of them were kidnapped.

Powers

Empathy

The Empathy ability is psionic which allows Raven to absorb emotions from other people. She can use this to attack of help a person, in the case of attacking she can steal their emotions and cause them to be emotionless. To help an ally, she can absorb their pain from an injury to help ease the pain and makes it heal faster.

Soul-Self

This ability allows Raven to project an astral version of her and it usually takes her shape and size, or can be as big as she wants. Raven usually uses this ability to help her in her meditations or to travel through other dimensions and teleport long distances, but it can be used to fight opponents. In which Raven would be able to render an opponent unconscious without harming them.

Precognition

Raven has limited precognition which allows her to predict future events that are about to happen. She displays it when she was able to predict that Trigon was going to invade Earth-Two. However, she cannot control this ability and use it whenever she desires, which is why it is only limited, as it only happens randomly.

Force Emotion (Second Life only)

When Raven began her second life, she discovered she had the ability to force emotions that did not belong to someone, on them. Such as how she made Kid Flash fall in love with her in order to reform the Teen Titans. She also used it again with Nightwing in which she was still confused about her own emotions, and accidentally forced Nightwing to fall in love with her.

Flight (Third Life)

Raven has the ability to fly in her third body.

Other Media

Raven appeared in the teen titans animated series as a member ot the team.

She is drawn with grey skin and is very distant to her teammates.

Some of Raven's most important stories like "Terror of Trigon", based on the Trigon plot from the orginal New Teen Titans series.

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