OOC: Info Post

[trigons_child]

Raven gets her own post because I have found it's impossible for me to not go on and on and on about my girl. And she has a wee bit of OCD that I never bothered to do before. Also, it makes more work for Tracy, so bonus! ;)

Raven/Rachel Roth/trigons_child (The New Teen Titans)

• Original info post is here.
  
• Originally went by the name of Rachel Roth at Fandom; before the Wishverse/Vampverse BDE, a few people knew her true name, and afterward, it became common knowledge. She still answers to both, just to confuse you.
  
• Is half-human, half-demon, but this is not common knowledge. I think right now the only people who know are: Anakin, Joan, Karla, Dinah, Sam, Illyria, Phoebe, Castiel, Max, Andy, 'Dite, Jono, Kennedy, and Tara, but I could be forgetting someone. It's likely to become more common knowledge at GodCon. NO REASON.
  
• Her father, loinclothofevil, has destroyed and conquered thousands of worlds. In his true form Trigon's got red skin, two sets of eyes, gold antlers, and is over 100 feet tall. And wears nothing but a loincloth. It's vaguely terrifying, especially when he's looming over you and you can see right up his...nevermind. He sired children across the galaxy, but only one survived childhood: Raven. He fully intends to claim her and use her to help him destroy Earth.
  
• Raven's "sole surviving child" badge became invalid when her six brothers were retconned into existence, which she'll find out about some day. She and her six siblings are the embodiments of the Seven Deadly Sins -- Raven is Pride. All this means right now is someone being proud unconsciously attracts her attention, and she likes to take a lot of pride in herself. She doesn't take being embarrassed well.
  
• She's primarily an empath -- she can feel the emotions of others and absorb them into herself, easing sorrow or anger or even physical pain. The emotions/injuries briefly affect Raven as she takes them into herself (so she wouldn't, for example, be able to do a massive battlefield healing without draining herself), but eventually she can expel them, unless something is very wrong.
  
• Was raised in Azarath, a place that exists between dimensions, and was trained to keep her emotions in check so that the evil side of her nature would not be unleashed. When she came to Fandom she wasn't used to all the emotions and started to become overwhelmed, but Anakin taught her how to shield herself. Strong emotion can still make her kind of wonky, though, and she's since been convinced that allowing herself to feel her own emotions isn't a bad thing.
  
• Lives to heal people. Really. YOUR PAIN, GIVE IT TO ME. If you say you're injured in the narrative, she'll be all over you to offer to heal you, and I apologize if your character gets annoyed. :)
  
• Generally, unless I know the person is shielding, I'll have her pick up on emotions in the narrative. If this is a problem, please let me know! (See OCD below.) She can also sense emotions at a distance (not generally a big one unless it's magically enhanced, but say, behind a door or strong emotion on another floor or outside).
  
• Can also make other people feel emotions, both positive and negative. She can make someone believe they are in love with her or another, or she can overwhelm them with sadness or fear. She also has some small ability to project illusions into a person's mind. Of course, no emotional/mental power would be used on another player without his or her permission!
  
• Also has the powers of astral projection (via sending her "soul-self," which takes the form of a large shadowy black raven) and teleportation. She can take people with her when she teleports by wrapping her Soul-Self around them. It's very cold inside her, and pretty trippy, too -- like a vast cosmos filled with stepping stones (that's Tim Drake in there, btw, but that hasn't happened to him yet). Just go with it.
  
• Currently, there's a giant lizard inside her. Don't ask. She will insist she didn't eat it if you do.
  
• Can fly, but she doesn't know that yet. I'm waiting for her to get pushed off a cliff or something. ;)
  
• Is generally wearing a lot of black, though she's had some (dark) color injected into her wardrobe. Unless I say otherwise, assume she's wearing a black cloak as well. She's also always got on two big gold rings, one on each hand, and usually two glowing gold earrings.
  
• Was raised as a pacifist and to abhor violence, but she's learning to tolerate it better, though she's loathe to fight even in play.
  
• Also is a vegetarian, and she avoids alcohol because she doesn't want to get drunk and out of control. However, she frequently forgets to ask if a drink is alcoholic.
  
• Has a small red jewel crappily photoshopped in the center of her forehead that helps her control her dark side.
  
• The first sign that she's losing control of said dark side? Her eyes turn red. And then she'll get four of them. This happens sometimes when she gets angry or scared.
  
• Is a portal to purgatory, heaven, and the nine planes of hell. At least, that's what she's counted so far. No, really. If you have a demon or godly character who needs a portal to come to Fandom, Raven's your girl.
  
• Has big time vampire issues due to vampire!Max screwing with her in the vamp!verse, and later being bitten by Damon (though everyone thinks Sebastian did it).
  
• Sebastian? Her "living vampire" groom-to-be, well, if he has his way. She much prefers her boyfriend, Andy!
  
• Is totally addicted to Rumor Gal.
  
• Tooooooooooooooootally has a little crush on Anakin and thinks he's the coolest thing since sliced bread.

Now for the OCD: can Raven read your emotions? Bear in mind that Raven can't usually tell the source of an emotion (that requires more intensive contact, wrapping you in her Soul-Self and tromping through your brain), she can just tell that you're in pain or sad or happy or angry or whatever, even if your body language isn't showing it. Any healing or emotional manipulation would be discussed IC/OOC first.

Comments

Raven can't read my emotions

[trigons_child]

You don't have any, you have them exceptionally controlled, you're shielded, whatevs.

Re: Raven can't read my emotions

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

Considering she's signed up for Loki's class, I'll say she probably can't pick up on Loki's emotions considering he's angelic and heavenly and immortal and all that jazz!

Re: Raven can't read my emotions

[momslilassassin]

*shoves my Jedi in here for the ease of your OCD*

Re: Raven can't read my emotions

[sith_happened]

And this one, though I think you are vaguely familiar with how he works :)

Re: Raven can't read my emotions

[hotmugofstfu.livejournal.com]

Nope! Black Bolt...

Made of the mystery.

Re: Raven can't read my emotions

[lovethenubbins.livejournal.com]

Ash goes here thanks to some spoilery canon reasons

Raven can read my emotions...sometimes

[trigons_child]

Sometimes you're shielding, sometimes you're not, the narrative will hopefully make it clear?

Re: Raven can read my emotions...sometimes

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

Raven can read Tim's emotions unless the narrative says otherwise. He will not be happy about it.

Re: Raven can read my emotions...sometimes

[glacial_queen]

Karla goes here! She can shield, usually won't bother around Raven, so the presence of a shield might be enough to trigger Raven's spidey-sense.

Re: Raven can read my emotions...sometimes

[likexmasmorning.livejournal.com]

Besides the fact Jane is a regular human, she is very, very very well trained on keeping her emotions on check.

Narrative should be more than obvious (if nothing is explicit, Jane is in total control). And of course, Jane can't really shield her emotions entirely, but what Raven would pick up would be quite vague.

Re: Raven can read my emotions...sometimes

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

Cassidy would go here. Sometimes she'll shield, sometimes not if she's where she feels comfortable.

Re: Raven can read my emotions...sometimes

[weetuskenraider]

And Tahiri will go here. I figure she trusts Raven enough not to always shield around her.

Re: Raven can read my emotions...sometimes

[angelo_wings]

Canon is delightfully vague, but I'm going to say that if Rinoa is ever in all-out Sorceress Mode, wings and all, then she's got some innate shields working, and if not, she's as open to read as anybody else. Does that work?

Re: Raven can read my emotions...sometimes

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

Guy, of course. Who will be sulky about it and possibly grumble about preferring J'onn.

Deadpool... to an extent, let's say. Since he's telepath immune do to crazy brain.

Merlin, yuuuus. Vimes, yuuuus.

Re: Raven can read my emotions...sometimes

[intraspective]

This is less of a 'sometimes' thing and more of an 'almost always' thing, but Raven can still get emotions from Ino all the time so--this seems like the best place?

Ino's emotions are going to be muted as compared to what she's physically expressing. She's got shielding up but it's not specific to emotions so I'm going with her shielding hasn't, well, shielded those so much as damped them down a bit.

The only time they wouldn't be damped down would be if Ino is seriously, royally pissed off or in shock so much that her shields aren't up the way they would normally be.

So if Ino is happy, she's going to feel happy but she might sound happier than she feels if that makes any sense at all?

Re: Raven can read my emotions...sometimes

[gorka-wolf.livejournal.com]

'Kita's an open book, right up until the moment she slams her shields into place and starts muttering nasty things about 'kasters that don't know when to mind their own business...

Re: Raven can read my emotions...sometimes

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah shields so Raven doesn't have to always deal with being overwhelmed... except when she's deliberately trying to be supportive/emphatic whatever. :>

Sophie has no abilities to shield, but keep in mind that she *is* a terrific actress in her Real Life, if not onstage. She may even believe herself when she's Acting something. *g*

Raven can read my emotions

[trigons_child]

Open book is open!

Re: Raven can read my emotions

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Every other one of my boys (Alex, Hannibal, Jonas, Bod, and Fraser) are totes open books with no ability to shield. Read away and TAKE THEIR PAIN, DAMMIT.

Re: Raven can read my emotions

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Miles, Chuck and Dan go here. Though Miles and Chuck will tell you to GTFO if you try to help them.

Re: Raven can read my emotions

[vanillajello]

Kate is an open book!

...Well, for empaths and the like. Otherwise, not so much.

Re: Raven can read my emotions

[notagoodslayer.livejournal.com]

It applies for Faith...but Raven might get headaches, and nightmares.

Re: Raven can read my emotions

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

As with Sookie: Kennedy, Gabrielle, Katchoo, Sara, and Lacey are all perfectly readable. Even if Kennedy's still not pleased by this idea.

Re: Raven can read my emotions

[awakestheghosts]

Chloe has no idea how to shield her emotions. :D

Annja and Gwynn are probably also open books about their emotions, as is Savannah.

Oh, and Phoebe, too, could probably be read by a fellow empath.

OOC

[trigons_child]

Any questions?

Re: OOC

[glacial_queen]

You totes forgot that Karla might become her step-mom some day. THAT HURTS.