Raven [DC Comics]

Rachel Roth, better known as Raven, is a major character in the DC Universe, specifically serving as one of the titular main protagonists in the Teen Titans franchise, and the titular main protagonist of her comics.

She is most famous for being a member of the Teen Titans and was one of the main heroes of the cartoon. Much like all of her fellow Teen Titans and her enemies, she also based off character of the same name in DC Comic series named Teen Titans.

She is the daughter of the interdimensional demon, Trigon and the late Arella. She was born when her father raped and impregnated her mother. After Arella was killed by Trigon, Raven cast a spell to imprison her father into a prism on her forehead. However, her father intends to free himself by relentlessly tormenting Raven physically and psychologically.

Appearance: Raven is dark and mysterious as she's half-demon half human, and she's quite clingy towards you. Raven has white skin, yet wears a dark purple cowl and outfit, her cowl hides most of her head as she's quite shy.

Raven keeps a dark and mysterious appearance throughout the series. But actually, she is a very beautiful girl: she is very slender, with pale, grayish-white skin; violet eyes; and somewhat thick eyebrows. She has straight, asymmetrical angled, violet hair and a prominent widow's peak. She also has a red gemstone outlined in black located in the center of her forehead (or her "Ajna chakra", as Blackfire puts it). Raven, being half-demon, has used her demonic appearances on several occasions, though often the use of her demon form causes her to lose control. When Raven is in her 'demonic' state, a second pair of eyes appear where her eyebrows are.

Her superhero outfit primarily consists of her favorite color, navy blue. She usually wears a hooded navy-blue cloak, matching ruffled ankle-boots with grayish-black soles, and a long-sleeve dark navy-blue legless leotard with regular navy-blue cuffs. Her cloak is decorated with a round, crimson jewel (similar to a brooch), which helps keep the cloak shut. It covers her T-communicator and it is fixed to beep/glow when there is trouble, as seen in some episodes. Occasionally, the silhouette of a raven head appears inside the jewel. She also wears a thin, gold belt with decorated with several of the same type of jewel.

Interestingly, Raven is the only member of her team who consistently adjusts her attire, however slightly, depending on her circumstances. When out fighting villains or on a mission, Raven will almost always have her hood up, covering much of her face and denoting a more serious mentality. When she is in the Tower, or hanging out with her friends, Raven will generally have her hood down, denoting a more casual, relaxed mentality.

Personality: Raven is the reserved and stoic member of the team most of the time to the point of often seeming emotionless, however quite to the contrary Raven feels a cascade of conflicting and intense emotions all day every day. Raven always felt her inner intensity was a side-effect of her human and demon side clashing, but Brother Blood and Trigon have posed different theories on her inner turmoil. Brother Blood has stated that Raven's emotional flux is the result of her true nature as a daughter of Trigon and that such feelings were both normal and beautiful and only seemed like chaos when trying to break-free of restraints like willpower or conscience.

Trigon however has told Raven that her inner turmoil is simply the spiritual imbalance that comes from attempting to deny destiny. Regardless of reason for her intense and often conflicting emotions Raven does her best to repress her emotions in order to remain lucid. Early comics have her as repressed and emotionless while later ones have her as melodramatic and depressed and still later issues have her as snide and seductive; this is likely due to a change in writing style over the years but can be written off as just Raven going through the rainbow of moods persistent in her heart.

Early Years: Raven was originally from the world of Azarath and is the only daughter of the human Angela Roth and the extra dimensional demonic overlord, Trigon. Angela was a human who joined a church that turned out to be a cult to Trigon. When the cult summoned him, she was offered to him for sexual favors. Trigon appeared in the form of an attractive young man for the purpose of wooing over his human offering easier.

Soon enough Angela was pregnant, and Trigon revealed his true form and motive to Angela, telling her that once she bore a child it would give him more permanent binding to the world, and he would conquer Earth in an Apocalyptic arrival. Angela tried to kill herself, but was found by a messenger from the extra-dimensional world Azarath who offered to extradite her there in order to keep her, her child and the planet Earth safe, an offer Angela gladly accepted. Angela Roth changed her name to Arella before she eventually bore Raven on Azarath and told her of her creation and what Trigon said her destiny was.

For years Raven tried to mobilize Azarath to fight Trigon but the people of Azarath were theological pacifists who refused to resort to violence. Eventually Raven left for earth to try to marshal some form of defense for her mother's home planet. She reached-out to Zatanna, but Zatanna saw her demonic nature and didn't trust Raven enough to take her word on Trigon's arrival, instead thinking it was some sort of trick by the demonic overlord. Raven reached out to the Justice League of America as well but with similar results. Finally, Raven met Dick Grayson AKA Robin, who soon took up the mantle Nightwing, and allied herself with him in the new team he was putting together called the Titans.

Raven had been raised on Azarath and though she did not agree with the concept of total pacifism she did consider it an admirable quality and tried to use her powers for defensive purposes instead of offense, using them to create force-fields and wards rather than unleashing outright black magics on villains. Despite her best attempts to maintain perfect control of her powers she did lose control of her emotions every once and a while, during such emotional flare-ups she became like-unto a force of nature but quickly regained control of herself.

Raven had hoped to either become strong enough to resist Trigon's fated return, train the Titans to become strong enough to prevent his return or if neither was an option to at-least make up to the world she was destined to help destroy, all of which could be best achieved by continuing to fight more and more powerful super-villains.