Raven - PL 10
Strength 0, Stamina 2, Agility 2, Dexterity 4, Fighting 8, Intellect 3, Awareness 5, Presence 3
Advantages
Fearless, Luck, Ranged Attack 2, Ritualist, Taunt, Trance
Skills
Deception 6 (+9), Insight 8 (+13), Investigation 6 (+9), Perception 8 (+13), Persuasion 4 (+7), Ranged Combat: Soul Self 4 (+8), Sleight of Hand 4 (+8), Stealth 6 (+8), Treatment 4 (+7)
Powers
Darkness Girl: Senses 1 (Low-light Vision)
Empathy
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Empathic Healing: Healing 10 (Increased Range 2: perception, Restorative; Empathic)
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Hands-on Healing: Healing 10 (Restorative, Resurrection)
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Induce Emotions: Progressive Affliction 10 (1st degree: Entranced, 2nd degree: Compelled, 3rd degree: Controlled, Resisted by: Will, DC 20; Increased Range 2: perception, Progressive; Limited: to emotions)
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Perceive Emotions: Cumulative Mind Reading 10 (DC 20; Cumulative, Reaction 3: reaction; Limited to Emotions, Side Effect: on failure - experiences emotion)
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Soothe Emotions: Nullify 10 (Counters: Emotion effects, DC 20; Effortless, Increased Range: perception, Simultaneous)
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Terrifying Apparition: Cumulative Perception Area Affliction 10 (1st degree: Dazed, Entranced, 2nd degree: Stunned, Compelled, Resisted by: Will, DC 20; Perception Area: DC 20 - Sight, Cumulative, Extra Condition, Selective; Limited Degree)
Immunity: Immunity 2 (Aging, Disease)
Poison Talons
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Death: Progressive Weaken 4 (Linked; Affects: Stamina, Resisted by: Fortitude, DC 14; Progressive; Resistible: Toughness)
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Paralysis: Progressive Affliction 4 (Linked; 1st degree: Fatigued, 2nd degree: Exhausted, 3rd degree: Paralyzed, Resisted by: Fortitude, DC 14; Progressive; Resistible: Toughness)
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Slashing: Strength-based Damage 1 (Linked; slashing, DC 16)
Raven Cloak: Protection 10 (+10 Toughness; Impervious, Sustained)
Raven Flight: Flight 6 (Speed: 120 miles/hour, 1800 feet/round)
Soul Self
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Accompanied Close Soul Jump: Burst Area Teleport 9 (2 miles in a move action, carrying 100 lbs.; Burst Area: 30 feet radius sphere, DC 19, Change Direction, Change Velocity, Increased Mass, Selective, Turnabout)
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Accompanied Far Soul Jump: Burst Area Teleport 6 (Carry 200 lbs.; Accurate, Burst Area: 30 feet radius sphere, DC 16, Dimensional 2: group - any magical, Easy, Extended: 60 miles in 2 move actions, Increased Mass 2, Selective; Limited to Extended)
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Close Soul Jump: Teleport 12 (16 miles in a move action, carrying 100 lbs.; Accurate, Change Direction, Change Velocity, Increased Mass, Turnabout)
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Far Soul Jump: Teleport 10 (Carry 50 lbs.; Accurate, Easy, Extended: 1000 miles in 2 move actions; Limited to Extended)
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Nightmare Soulscape: Damage 10 (DC 25; Alternate Resistance: Will, Reaction 3: reaction; Check Required 10: DC 19 - Will)
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Soul Darts: Damage 10 (DC 25; Alternate Resistance: Will, Increased Range: ranged, Multiattack)
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Soul Dream: Illusion 10 (Affects: All Sense Types, Area: 1000 cft., DC 20; Uncontrolled)
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Soul Raven: Cone Area Damage 10 (DC 25; Alternate Resistance: Will, Cone Area: 60 feet cone, DC 20, Increased Range: ranged)
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Soul Sending: Mental Area Communication 4 (Sense Type: Mental; Area, Subtle 2: undetectable)
Soul Sight: Senses 6 (Accurate: Souls, Acute: Souls, Analytical: Souls, Detect: Souls 2: ranged)
Offense
Initiative +2
Death: Progressive Weaken 4, +8 (DC Fort/Tou )
Grab, +8 (DC Spec 10)
Induce Emotions: Progressive Affliction 10 (DC Will 20)
Nightmare Soulscape: Damage 10, +8 (DC Will 25)
Paralysis: Progressive Affliction 4, +8 (DC Fort/Tou )
Perceive Emotions: Cumulative Mind Reading 10 (DC Will 20)
Slashing: Strength-based Damage 1, +8 (DC 16)
Soothe Emotions: Nullify 10 (DC Will 20)
Soul Darts: Damage 10, +10 (DC Will 25)
Soul Raven: Cone Area Damage 10 (DC Will 25)
Terrifying Apparition: Cumulative Perception Area Affliction 10 (DC Will 20)
Throw, +6 (DC 15)
Unarmed, +8 (DC 15)
Languages
Native Language
Defense
Dodge 8, Parry 8, Fortitude 5, Toughness 12, Will 15
Power Points
Abilities 54 + Powers 151 + Advantages 7 + Skills 25 (50 ranks) + Defenses 19 = 256
Raven is the daughter of the extra-dimensional entity Trigon, one of the impossible entities from beyond reality that menace all of existence. Essentially she is the product of a union between a mortal woman and existential dread. Her father is the fear of the apocalypse, the nightmare end of the world in which all will perish screaming in blood and fire. Just think of the ghastly things described in the Book of Revelations. Her mother Arella ended up as the progenitor of the devil child that is Raven when she joined a religious cult, having been suffering from abandonment, poverty and depression. At first the members of the cult offered her assistance and company, but soon began making very creepy demands of her. She consented to doing things that made her feel violated out of desperation to retain their support. After one particularly vile orgy where she was repeatedly abused by figures in what she thought were masks she found that she was pregnant. She repeatedly tried to escape to get her coming child away but was too closely confined and guarded by armed cult members.
When her child was born she found that rather than being pink and cherubic it was pale and gaunt. It drained her milk ceaselessly while never seeming to get any fatter. Despite this it grew at an unnatural rate, assuming the form of a young girl in just a few months. This child was clearly not normal, it's skin and eyes were a violet-purple color and it had crimson claws that dripped noxious poison. A mother loves her child though no matter what and she tried to look after it even as it glared at her and muttered obscene prophecies. The child might have been used to usher in the apocalypse as the cult wanted but before it could finish its accelerated maturation the cult came under attack. The Knights of Azarath, a sacred order of warrior monks based on the ancient Zoroastrian faith broke into their compound and killed every cult member they could catch. They took Arella and her child with them as they withdrew as the cult members rallied and counterattacked. Arella went willingly, amazed that there were people who knew of the cult's evil and were prepared to strike against them. Her daughter though at first fought ferociously before being bound and stuffed in a sack.
The Knights of Azarath took Arella and her demonic offspring to their secret stronghold in the Caucasus mountains. Her they set about educating Arella and taming her daughter. The knights are an all-female order made up of a people related to the Amazons. Years of patient work turned the child into a person, who her mother named Rachel. While naturally inclined to cruelty they taught her to use her power over people's souls for good instead. Rachel is supposed to inspire people to hysterics, setting off wars between nations that are prophesied as part of the end of days, but they reformed that into understanding and soothing emotions. They turned her power to raise the dead to fight for her into a force for healing. Eventually they won her over to their way of thinking and she became thoughtful and empathetic instead of agitated and violent.
Rachel was happy for years in Azarath, but as her powers developed she sensed the chaos and misery of the outside world. Attracted to those who were trying to improve things she observed superhero teams like the Justice League and the Teen Titans. The Titans especially interested her as they were youths like her. During Komand'r's invasion she came to sense the desperation and fear of Koriand'r and wanted to help this alien girl. She appeared to Dick Grayson and encouraged him to take action and form a new Titans team to take on the invaders and rescue the girl. In the aftermath of the invasion it was agreed by the knights that she should join the Titans. Her spirit could not be kept locked away forever, she needed to experience the world and gain allies for the struggle ahead.
On the Titans Rachel took the codename Raven, as that bird is a harbinger of doom just like her. Her nature and powers always remained mysterious to her teammates, not because she concealed them but because they could never comprehend them. On the team they tended to treat her as an unknowable force that would help them in idiosyncratic ways. She strived to be worthy of being a Titan, battling against her dreams of blood and destruction. As a person Rachel is deeply weird, she is not human and her concerns and priorities are quite different. Much of the time when not out on a mission she spends secluded in her assigned rooms in the Titans base. Her once sterile quarters are now filled with incense burners and racks of bones and skulls. Raven finds the company of the dead restful, living people with their vibrant emotions are so loud and blinding. Dry skulls just have a faint echo of the mind they had in life left psychically imprinted on the bone. She carefully works away polishing and inscribing the bones of deceased Azarath knights and magicians.
Being around the rest of the Teen Titans was exhausting, they were just so worked up all the time. It was even worse when they were all together and the sexual tension crackled between them. The mutual lust between Dick and Kory was so intense that it was all Rachel could do to restrain herself in their presence. As soon as she was out of their presence she had to head to her quarters for some alone time, or if he was available she would grab Beast Boy and use him until she was relieved (or he was exhausted). Rachel's empathetic powers are on all the time, she can never turn them off. The most she can do is temporarily redirect them to some other function, but that can only be done for so long. It is for her like holding your breath, it can be done for a while but then you have to release it and when you do you pant for a while. The vibes coming off the rest of her teenage cohorts were hardly any better, everyone knows Beast Boy has a dirty mind but he is just vocal about it. Donna does not say so much but if anything she is worse, magnified by some of it being directed straight at Rachel (she is an Amazon after all). It is said a teenage boy thinks of sex every seven seconds so you can imagine what the hyper-accelerated Kid Flash/Impulse was like. Meditation and special incenses kept it suppressed mostly, the rest of the team just thought she was a weird shut-in who spent all her time sitting amid skulls wreathed in scented smoke. The only one she let know of her internal turmoil was Beast Boy. He was such a naive innocent that she could tell him everything and he would just accept it, and he didn't know enough about relationships to be aware of the abuse she was subjecting him to. The one who is different is Victor. His cybernetic mind is very strange to her, it fogs her brain with static as she cannot properly perceive or understand his emotions. Much of what goes through Cyborg's brain is totally unemotional computer code and this is incomprehensible to her emotion senses.
When not at the Titan's base Rachel lives with her mother's relatives. They are a devout and good Christian family who are not really sure who this strange child is, but she is kin so they offer her sanctuary. While they at first tried to include her in their church life they soon learned that she practices her own religious rites based on older and darker faiths than modern American Christianity. The only thing they forbade her from doing was uttering the names of her deities at the table while saying grace before dinner. They do respect her faith but hearing her pray causes nausea and bleeding from the nose and ears in regular people. She keeps her room in their house in perfect order and cleanliness, she avoids freaking them out with the skulls and incense and the sigils on the walls written in her own blood that she has back at the Titans base. Beast Boy would really like to meet them but she has forbade him to come anywhere near the place. She does not trust him to behave himself, and even less does she trust herself. They are a very loving and forgiving family but she thinks it might be pushing it if she loses control and has her sort-of boyfriend right there on the dining room table in front of everyone. The rest of the Titans are by now used to her occasional weird antics, and in any case most of them give her a run for her money in the socially inappropriate behavior stakes.
