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C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: raven reyes
Canon: the 100
Original or Alternate Universe: original
Canon Point: end of season 1
Number: 101
Setting: the wiki!
History: Raven was born on a space station called the Ark, containing what was assumed to be the last survivors of the human race. Not a whole lot is known about her life on the Ark, but here's what we've gotten so far:
Her childhood was pretty ghetto. "Well, my mom was AWOL most of my life," she tells Clarke. "When she did show up, it was empty-handed. Pretty sure she had me just to trade in my rations for moonshine." She wasn't being dramatic - her mom literally traded her rations for booze. Lucky for her, the boy next door (Finn) shared his own rations. "Shared his rations, remembered my birthday... He saved my life," she says on the topic. Finn was basically her only family. And she's damn lucky she had him, because it's revealed early on that her mom often prostituted herself out to trade for contraband and other luxuries. Clearly not a model parent.
Fortunately, Finn's influence must have been enough to keep Raven from going down the same road. While she still had friends in shady places (she was the black market trader Nygel's "Little Bird"), Raven also became the youngest zero-G mechanic in 52 years. Don't say 50 - she'll correct you.
Then Finn blew a month or two's oxygen supply on an illegal spacewalk (which - let's be real here, I'm pretty sure Raven was involved in somehow, that seems like a stunt she'd pull) and got himself thrown into "Lock-Up", which is slang for the prison wing where they hold juvenile delinquents until they turn 18 and are executed. They maintained their relationship of course - they were going steady by then - and she visited him in Lock-Up whenever she could.
That is, until the 100 were sent to Earth.
Raven wasn't informed. They were trying to keep the civilian population in the dark, and to her face they claimed that there was a dangerous virus going around and that Lock-Up was on full quarantine. But Raven didn't accept it. She questioned the open air ducts, and they said it wasn't airborne. So she asked if Finn was at least okay, and they brushed her off. It was super fishy, all of it, so she called them on it - told them they were hiding something and that she would find out what it was.
And she made good on that promise, too - Abby Griffin (protag Clarke's mom), who was in charge of overseeing the 100's vitals etc. on their data displays in addition to her responsibilities as a doctor, caught Ravel spying from a maintenance shaft. Before they could boot her out, Raven solved their current dilemma for them, telling them that the feeds going dark weren't kids dying, just kids taking their wristbands off by choice. That, plus a couple of other bits of insight, got her off the hook for spying.
In fact, not long after that, she's called down to a restricted area for a mechanical job. Surprise, it's Abby, who has a secret task for Raven. She wants Raven to fix up this super broken-down old piece of shit shuttle so Abby can plunge down to Earth to prove Clarke and the others are alive. Raven agrees, but only if she can come too. Abby reluctantly agrees, and thus begins their illicit business partnership.
Raven works on that shuttle for almost a week, with Abby hovering close at hand. Unfortunately, they trade for a black-market pressure regulator and the person they trade with rats Abby out in hopes that it'll get her off the Counselor's shit list, so all of a sudden they no longer have days - they have 5 minutes. Raven flies into action, installing the pressure regulator only to find that it's faulty. They gave her a bad part. But Abby said to launch no matter what it takes - in fact, she went back to serve as a distraction to buy Raven the time to do so.
So Raven puts on a space-suit to hopefully counteract the lack of regulated pressure and launches the fuck into outer space! At which point she checks a few gauges, pulls a lever she's helpfully labeled KISS YOUR ASS GOODBYE, and burns through Earth's atmosphere.
And she lands! I mean, she hits her head pretty bad in the process, but she's alive. And even better - here comes Finn, the entire reason she took that suicide shuttle down to Earth in the first place! They reunite with hugs and kisses and something seems a little off but she's pretty sure she's just woozy from hitting her head.
Over the rest of the season, a couple of main things happen:
Firstly, Raven becomes a very respected member of the 100, despite not actually being sent down with them. Right after she shows up, she jury-rigs flares with rocket fuel in an attempt to get the Ark to see that they're alive, and throughout the rest of the season she comes up with all kinds of innovative mechanical shit, from making efficient ammo to building bombs to rewiring the 100's drop ship to leech usable power from the solar panels on the roof. These people aren't any younger than she is, but they listen to her because she knows her shit.
Secondly, Raven comes to the sharp realization that Finn, the person her entire life is centered around, the one she almost died dropping to Earth for, is actually in love with Clarke. It's not even that he doesn't care about Raven - they're family, he cares about her so much, it's just a different kind of love than how he loves Clarke. That's extremely hard for Raven to swallow. She feels like she's losing the only sure thing she's ever had in her entire life, and throughout a chunk of the season she's really fucked up over it. Eventually, she says they're square and she wants him to be happy - she kind of gets over it, even if it still stings. And she ends up being pretty good friends with Clarke, despite everything.
The finale involves her crawling in the mechanic crawlspace of the drop ship to manually open the door blocking anyone from helping Bellamy, whom Murphy (the village asshat and exile) had hostage. Murphy finds out she's down there and starts aiming shots through the floor, and nothing happens so you're at first led to believe that he missed, but later she stumbles out from underneath the ship bleeding hardcore from her gut. That's not the worst of it, though. Halfway through helping Clarke prepare the drop-ship to ignite and barbecue the attacking grounders (which only Raven knew how to do, making her their literal only hope to survive that fight), she loses feeling in her legs, and it's discovered that the bullet's in her spine.
She passes out not long after that.
I read somewhere that Ax heals fatal injuries on your way in, at least enough that you aren't dying as soon as you come out of the pod. Correct me if I'm wrong. In that case, I'm bringing her in with that wound healed... But the bullet's still in her spine, which is going to cause trouble for her within a couple of weeks when she twists wrong or something and all of a sudden gets pins and needles in her legs. Gonna talk technicalities with Medical of course. c:
Personality:
Raven Reyes is both one of the strongest and one of the weakest people you know. She's brave and confident and incredibly skilled, yet on the most fundamental level, she literally has no idea how to be alone.
See, from the very start, Finn was always there. I'm not gonna go through that spiel again, see: History section, but suffice to say that no matter what happened to her or how bad it was, she always had Finn to fall back on. And now that she doesn't have him, she has no idea who she even really is, anymore. What she's capable of. Like a girl on crutches for years who has to learn to walk on her own legs again, Raven's learning much later than most how to deal with life when all you have to fall back on is your own personal strength. It's a process, and not a painless one.
That being said, a loooot of her personality traits etc. are in relation to Finn in some way or another. I'll be sure to translate how they work independent of Finn, but it's just a fact of her life that he's pretty much everything she's ever had.
Needless to say, Raven's driven largely by love. The majority of the time this was aimed at Finn, but a lot of it applies to pretty much anyone she really grows to care about. But when she truly loves someone, whether romantically or even just as a new member of the family she never really had, she'll die for them. In a heartbeat, no hesitation. She was 100% ready to plunge to Earth in a death-trap shuttle just to see her boyfriend/only family again, for example - and later on, she plants the bomb on the bridge single-handedly despite being sick and aims to shoot it close-range, which absolutely would've killed her, so that Finn and the rest of the 100 wouldn't get attacked by Grounders before they could defend themselves. She's also willing to do some seriously shitty things to other human beings if it means the people she loves are gonna be okay, like when Finn was poisoned by Lincoln's blade and the others said Linc wouldn't tell them which antidote would cure it. "Wanna bet?" she says, pulling two electrical wires out of the wall. They ask what she's doing. "Showing him something new." and immediately she begins to electrocute Linc, shouting "Which one!?" and then, desperately/furiously, "Finn is all I have!" It's not something she enjoys, but she also doesn't regret it for even a second.
In a milder sense, a lot of her sense of personal well-being is directly dependent on those she loves. An example occurs in the very first scene she's in, when she's coming in from making repairs outside the Ark and they want to check her vitals. "I'll save you the trouble," she says, looking at and then putting on the necklace Finn made her. "I'm just fine." It's clearly implied that she's 'just fine' because she's visiting Finn later that day. Without Finn, she's still kind of lost on quite what to base her sense of well-being around, but I doubt the apple will fall far from the tree - she'll probably end up with a certain number of close CR whose well-being directly influences her own sense of well-being, just because that's what she knows, with or without Finn. More on her dependency from early on in canon, she also seems to fall back on the relationship with Finn even when he isn't there: When a super stressful deal goes down and Raven's legit anxious for the first time in the show so far, her hand lifts to wrap around Finn's necklace to reassure herself.
Even when she figured out that Finn loved Clarke, she willingly blinded herself to the fact in hopes that he'd change his mind. Because when it came down to it, she really was just scared shitless trying to fathom a life where they didn't have each other to lean on - like it's always been, since they were both kids. And like, she was trying to wrap her head around Finn loving Clarke, after all he and Raven had been through together - trying to figure out why he did, what they had between them, so she asked Clarke (after a brief argument on the topic) if she loved Finn. Clarke said, "I hardly know him." And that just killed Raven, because she was willing to do absolutely anything for him and here he was head-over-heels this other girl who hardly even knows him. But ultimately, when it's clear that Finn and Clarke are in love, Raven finds it in her to be happy for them. She just wants Finn to be happy, really.
Soooo that's that particular clusterfuck. Moving on.
Raven also has a super soft spot for good 'mom' figures. She gets extremely attached to Abby when they're working together on the Ark, for example. By the end, when Abby says to launch no matter what, Raven says, "I'm not leaving without you." Abby insists, and quietly with teary eyes, Raven says, "Abby... They'll float you." It's the first time she cries in the season, as well as being one of the few times, not to mention the only time she cries that isn't directly related to Finn. Later, when Clarke's pissed at her mom for getting her dad killed, Raven's arguing Abby's case. "I know your mom will be watching... I've never seen anyone love someone like she loves you. You know that, right?" She literally can't imagine how Clarke can walk away from someone who loves her that much, someone who'd get floated (executed) for her, someone who fought so hard to see her again. Raven's own mom was scum, so it really gets to her when people take amazing moms for granted.
Though a lot of the above has painted Raven as all kinds of weak, she's actually extremely strong - at least outwardly, and even inwardly in quite a few ways. For example, aside from losing Finn, pretty much nothing scares her. In her very first scene, she takes off her helmet before the decontamination's complete despite it being dangerous. Later, when she first meets Bellamy, she immediately outs him as the one who shot Councilor Jaha, but she doesn't stop there - he storms off, and she follows him. "Hey, shooter!" She says, "Where the hell's my radio??" He tells her to get out of the way, but she insists. "Where is it?" He says he should've killed her when he had the chance, and both quieter and more defiant, she says, "Really? Well, I'm right here." So he grabs her and shoves her against a tree, but she's already got a knife drawn on him, her eyes daring him to try it. "Where's my radio?" she repeats, low and warning. No fear, even though Bellamy's an attempted murderer and theoretically would kill her in a heartbeat.
She's also got no real regard for authority. She calls bullshit to Council members right to their face, and multiple times she spies on restricted areas with no hesitation. Raven's also not at all intimidated by people who are bigger or stronger than she is, talking shit at Nygel's burly doorman(?) until he lets her see Nygel to try and trade for the pressure regulator. Overall, this headstrong lack of any real hesitation of fear makes her the go-to when Clarke needs people to listen. She tells Raven to clear the room when Finn's hurt, for example, and Raven just has to start shouting and everyone clears right out.
Raven's also extremely driven. Even apart from Finn, she'll stop at nothing to get a job done. Like when she first lands on Earth - even though she's bleeding from the head and reuniting with the love of her life, as soon as she's reminded of Abby she hurries back to the shuttle to try and make contact with the Ark. In a more personal sense, she'll always get the job done despite whatever emotions she's feeling. She made a communications device that could talk to the Ark directly in the aftermath of putting two and two together about Finn and Clarke, as a prime example. In fact, in stressful situations, she throws herself into her work just for something to do with her hands. Raven's a problem-solver, and even if the problem isn't hers to solve, if it gets her upset or worked-up enough she'll charge in to solve it anyway. Like when Bellamy and Clarke are trying to get the answers re: Finn's antidote out of Lincoln, she charges in to see what's taking so long. They say Linc's not talking and she electro-shock tortures him. In general, Raven has a strong sense of realistic optimism. She can be 100% aware of a low chance of success and still approach something like a sure deal.
She's also sassy as fuck and tells it like it is. She often has a dry-snark or sass retort ready for other people, and it doesn't much matter who they are or what kind of power they think they have. On top of that, when she's getting something accomplished, she absolutely doesn't beat around the bush. Nygel tries to talk around her when she goes in for the pressure regulator, but Raven says a plain, "What do you want for it?" Nygel tries to say she doesn't deal in machine parts anymore, and Raven says, "Save the act for someone who doesn't know better. Just tell me what it's gonna take." If she weren't as competent as she is, I feel like she'd come off as a lot more abrasive than she actually does.
But she is, in fact, extremely competent. She knows it, ready to correct everyone if they so much as say she's the youngest zero-G mechanic in 50 years instead of 52, but she's not just blowing hot air here. You can see it even in just how people treat her - Abby talks to her all of twice before she decides Raven's pretty much her only hope of seeing Clarke again and makes her privy to all of the Council secrets, not to mention how often the 100 on the ground turn to her for a solution to a million and one crucial technical issues. Part of her competency lies in her flexibility - she's willing to work with whatever supplies she can get in whatever time frame she has. She says she needs a week but Abby shortens it to five days and Raven says she'll do it. She says she can have the pressure regualator installed in a few hours, Abby says they don't have that long, she says she's on it. She says she can be ready to launch in 20 minutes, Abby says they have 5... And, you guessed it, she's on it. She doesn't say 'but that's impossible' - she gets it done. Raven also tends to think outside the box, finding a solution that nobody else thought of because it was outside of the end-goal they were imagining. Like when everyone's fighting over the wet radio and how the hell they're gonna communicate with the Ark, and she says, "Hold up - we don't have to talk to the Ark, right? We just have to let them know we're down here." She does need the right environment for that kind of work, though, and she's not afraid to boot people out if they're hindering her process. "Abby," she scolds at one point, patient but aggravated, "How about I pace in the operating room next time you're working?" Raven can also take the lead when she needs to, but the only time she ever does so is when mechanical shit's concerned. Like when they're building something big and a bunch of people are involved in the process, or later, when Octavia's told to go up and get wires from the top level and Raven barks, "Stay away from the blue wires, they run through the ceiling - I hooked them up to the solar cells on the roof. That means they're hot, you got that?"
A few things make her lose her cool, whether in anger or in tears. When someone implies that she's anything like her mom, like when Nygel asked her to prostitute herself out for the pressure regulator, she gets really offended and basically tells them to fuck off. ("Go float yourself.") But then, she also flies into an actual punching rage when Nygel blatantly implied that her mom was a hooker, and even when Nygel's bodyguard dude pulls Raven off, she's dragged out kicking and screaming "FUCK YOU, NYGEL" and hitting the dude who has ahold of her. Another thing that upsets her in a big way is when people die in a way that Raven could've prevented. Like when the flares fail and 300 people are killed who could've survived if the radio weren't soaked, she turns on Bellamy. "This was all because of you." Finn and Clarke hold her back. Bellamy says they found the radio, as if that absolved him. "Yeah, after you jacked it from my pod and trashed it!" Finally, she really can't handle being in out of her depth. It's an extremely rare feeling, to be in enough of a crisis that she can't at least pretend she can handle it, but she basically has to fight not to just shut down. Like when Finn's poisoned and starts seizing, and Raven's panicking quietly because she has no idea what to do. "Please don't let him die," she begs Clarke, definitely crying. She kind of freezes up even when Clarke asks for help flipping Finn, because this is just beyond what she's ready to handle.
As a couple of other quick things: She's generally unconcerned with personal injury, even apart from Finn. Like when she first lands and she's bleeding, when she says, "Crap. That's not good." In a way casual tone. In the finale, even when she loses feeling in her legs, she's still talking casually and cracking dry comments. And finally, I feel like her mother might've introduced her early on to the concept of alcohol as a coping tool, because it's canon that her mom traded her rations for moonshine and later when Raven's handed moonshine to sterilize her hands to help Finn, she takes a long drink first.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
A B I L I T I E S
- extremely good mechanic, both on solid ground and in zero gravity. the youngest in fifty-two years, in fact - and she's shown multiple times to be well-respected by people much older for her skills. she's good enough to rebuild a 100-year-old shuttle out of scrap parts.
- also skilled in building and using multiple kinds of makeshift communications devices.
- very resourceful, able to do a lot with very little/unconventional supplies.
- very familiar with working in zero-g.
- can fly a shuttle decently well, though it wasn't her official job.
- can shoot a rifle with decent accuracy.
- can also take someone down with a knife pretty skillfully, not to mention fistfight.
- can build multiple sorts of bomb with a number of different types of supplies. (canon examples include a rifle-shot bomb, land mines, and grenades.)
- can apparently electro-shock torture someone for answers, though I doubt she's had to do so before she did so with Lincoln.
- can cut hair with a knife with decent skill.
W E A K N E S S E S
- regular human - no powers.
- bullet in spine, which is gonna bite her in the ass sometime soon and send her on the short path to Medical.
- despite being able to fight, she'd be easily overpowered by someone bigger than her. she's no kung-fu master or anything.
- kind of an emotional wreck right now without Finn, but she's getting better.
- i'm sure her problems with authority will bite her in the ass soon too.
(no powers to limit)
Inventory: her clothes, her knife, and a metal crane on a necklace (her necklace from Finn)
Appearance: right here
Age: 17
S A M P L E S
Log Sample:
There's nothing quite so cathartic as building a bomb. It sounds really counter-intuitive, and maybe it would be for most people... but right now, with the cans and the salt and the gunpowder and everything else spread out in front of her, Raven's more centered than she's been in a hell of a long time. Weeks, at least. Weeks on Earth as well as weeks here on the TQ, spent flip-flopping between wishing to hell that Finn were here and being almost inexplicably liberated that he's not.
Her gaze drifts to her bedside table, empty but for the metal crane and the worn chain pooling around its feet. She gave it back to him, she remembers it without a shadow of a doubt, yet it showed up in her locker anyway - like some sick joke. It's why she's putting together the bomb, when it comes down to it. Because Raven's settled on 'inexplicably liberated' and the necklace is the only thing standing in her way. I mean, theoretically, there are a half-dozen other equally-destructive ways to get rid of the fucking thing, but it's the principle of it. And besides - Jasper's in on it, too. That's his homework, she sent him off to find some kind of Octavia stand-in that they can blow up right alongside the crane, which does double-duty for keeping him out of her hair while she works. Not that he's actually that bad or anything, she's just in her element and not entirely ready to give that up quite yet.
"So you put the-..." She mumbles to herself, grabbing a small tin of something white, "-in the can, then you fill it with-..."
Raven could put together a decent bomb in her sleep, but with the ingredients she's got available to her her on the TQ, it's testing her a little more than she expected.
Comms Sample:
[ raven's face appears on the comm before she sets it down on the table and scoots back a little to put more of her in view. ]
This is Raven Reyes, I was a zero-G mech back in Mecha Station on the Ark - not that that actually means anything to you. [ that last part's tacked on a little dryly. but that's all the introduction she's giving. now, she gets right to the point. ] I'm so bored, I'm ready to beat my head on the wall. I'm not just good - I'm the best. So somebody give me a job before I start opening panels and improving whatever the hell's inside. [ is she serious? she very well could be. ]
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C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: raven reyes
Canon: the 100
Original or Alternate Universe: original
Canon Point: end of season 1
Number: 101
Setting: the wiki!
History: Raven was born on a space station called the Ark, containing what was assumed to be the last survivors of the human race. Not a whole lot is known about her life on the Ark, but here's what we've gotten so far:
Her childhood was pretty ghetto. "Well, my mom was AWOL most of my life," she tells Clarke. "When she did show up, it was empty-handed. Pretty sure she had me just to trade in my rations for moonshine." She wasn't being dramatic - her mom literally traded her rations for booze. Lucky for her, the boy next door (Finn) shared his own rations. "Shared his rations, remembered my birthday... He saved my life," she says on the topic. Finn was basically her only family. And she's damn lucky she had him, because it's revealed early on that her mom often prostituted herself out to trade for contraband and other luxuries. Clearly not a model parent.
Fortunately, Finn's influence must have been enough to keep Raven from going down the same road. While she still had friends in shady places (she was the black market trader Nygel's "Little Bird"), Raven also became the youngest zero-G mechanic in 52 years. Don't say 50 - she'll correct you.
Then Finn blew a month or two's oxygen supply on an illegal spacewalk (which - let's be real here, I'm pretty sure Raven was involved in somehow, that seems like a stunt she'd pull) and got himself thrown into "Lock-Up", which is slang for the prison wing where they hold juvenile delinquents until they turn 18 and are executed. They maintained their relationship of course - they were going steady by then - and she visited him in Lock-Up whenever she could.
That is, until the 100 were sent to Earth.
Raven wasn't informed. They were trying to keep the civilian population in the dark, and to her face they claimed that there was a dangerous virus going around and that Lock-Up was on full quarantine. But Raven didn't accept it. She questioned the open air ducts, and they said it wasn't airborne. So she asked if Finn was at least okay, and they brushed her off. It was super fishy, all of it, so she called them on it - told them they were hiding something and that she would find out what it was.
And she made good on that promise, too - Abby Griffin (protag Clarke's mom), who was in charge of overseeing the 100's vitals etc. on their data displays in addition to her responsibilities as a doctor, caught Ravel spying from a maintenance shaft. Before they could boot her out, Raven solved their current dilemma for them, telling them that the feeds going dark weren't kids dying, just kids taking their wristbands off by choice. That, plus a couple of other bits of insight, got her off the hook for spying.
In fact, not long after that, she's called down to a restricted area for a mechanical job. Surprise, it's Abby, who has a secret task for Raven. She wants Raven to fix up this super broken-down old piece of shit shuttle so Abby can plunge down to Earth to prove Clarke and the others are alive. Raven agrees, but only if she can come too. Abby reluctantly agrees, and thus begins their illicit business partnership.
Raven works on that shuttle for almost a week, with Abby hovering close at hand. Unfortunately, they trade for a black-market pressure regulator and the person they trade with rats Abby out in hopes that it'll get her off the Counselor's shit list, so all of a sudden they no longer have days - they have 5 minutes. Raven flies into action, installing the pressure regulator only to find that it's faulty. They gave her a bad part. But Abby said to launch no matter what it takes - in fact, she went back to serve as a distraction to buy Raven the time to do so.
So Raven puts on a space-suit to hopefully counteract the lack of regulated pressure and launches the fuck into outer space! At which point she checks a few gauges, pulls a lever she's helpfully labeled KISS YOUR ASS GOODBYE, and burns through Earth's atmosphere.
And she lands! I mean, she hits her head pretty bad in the process, but she's alive. And even better - here comes Finn, the entire reason she took that suicide shuttle down to Earth in the first place! They reunite with hugs and kisses and something seems a little off but she's pretty sure she's just woozy from hitting her head.
Over the rest of the season, a couple of main things happen:
Firstly, Raven becomes a very respected member of the 100, despite not actually being sent down with them. Right after she shows up, she jury-rigs flares with rocket fuel in an attempt to get the Ark to see that they're alive, and throughout the rest of the season she comes up with all kinds of innovative mechanical shit, from making efficient ammo to building bombs to rewiring the 100's drop ship to leech usable power from the solar panels on the roof. These people aren't any younger than she is, but they listen to her because she knows her shit.
Secondly, Raven comes to the sharp realization that Finn, the person her entire life is centered around, the one she almost died dropping to Earth for, is actually in love with Clarke. It's not even that he doesn't care about Raven - they're family, he cares about her so much, it's just a different kind of love than how he loves Clarke. That's extremely hard for Raven to swallow. She feels like she's losing the only sure thing she's ever had in her entire life, and throughout a chunk of the season she's really fucked up over it. Eventually, she says they're square and she wants him to be happy - she kind of gets over it, even if it still stings. And she ends up being pretty good friends with Clarke, despite everything.
The finale involves her crawling in the mechanic crawlspace of the drop ship to manually open the door blocking anyone from helping Bellamy, whom Murphy (the village asshat and exile) had hostage. Murphy finds out she's down there and starts aiming shots through the floor, and nothing happens so you're at first led to believe that he missed, but later she stumbles out from underneath the ship bleeding hardcore from her gut. That's not the worst of it, though. Halfway through helping Clarke prepare the drop-ship to ignite and barbecue the attacking grounders (which only Raven knew how to do, making her their literal only hope to survive that fight), she loses feeling in her legs, and it's discovered that the bullet's in her spine.
She passes out not long after that.
I read somewhere that Ax heals fatal injuries on your way in, at least enough that you aren't dying as soon as you come out of the pod. Correct me if I'm wrong. In that case, I'm bringing her in with that wound healed... But the bullet's still in her spine, which is going to cause trouble for her within a couple of weeks when she twists wrong or something and all of a sudden gets pins and needles in her legs. Gonna talk technicalities with Medical of course. c:
Personality:
Raven Reyes is both one of the strongest and one of the weakest people you know. She's brave and confident and incredibly skilled, yet on the most fundamental level, she literally has no idea how to be alone.
See, from the very start, Finn was always there. I'm not gonna go through that spiel again, see: History section, but suffice to say that no matter what happened to her or how bad it was, she always had Finn to fall back on. And now that she doesn't have him, she has no idea who she even really is, anymore. What she's capable of. Like a girl on crutches for years who has to learn to walk on her own legs again, Raven's learning much later than most how to deal with life when all you have to fall back on is your own personal strength. It's a process, and not a painless one.
That being said, a loooot of her personality traits etc. are in relation to Finn in some way or another. I'll be sure to translate how they work independent of Finn, but it's just a fact of her life that he's pretty much everything she's ever had.
Needless to say, Raven's driven largely by love. The majority of the time this was aimed at Finn, but a lot of it applies to pretty much anyone she really grows to care about. But when she truly loves someone, whether romantically or even just as a new member of the family she never really had, she'll die for them. In a heartbeat, no hesitation. She was 100% ready to plunge to Earth in a death-trap shuttle just to see her boyfriend/only family again, for example - and later on, she plants the bomb on the bridge single-handedly despite being sick and aims to shoot it close-range, which absolutely would've killed her, so that Finn and the rest of the 100 wouldn't get attacked by Grounders before they could defend themselves. She's also willing to do some seriously shitty things to other human beings if it means the people she loves are gonna be okay, like when Finn was poisoned by Lincoln's blade and the others said Linc wouldn't tell them which antidote would cure it. "Wanna bet?" she says, pulling two electrical wires out of the wall. They ask what she's doing. "Showing him something new." and immediately she begins to electrocute Linc, shouting "Which one!?" and then, desperately/furiously, "Finn is all I have!" It's not something she enjoys, but she also doesn't regret it for even a second.
In a milder sense, a lot of her sense of personal well-being is directly dependent on those she loves. An example occurs in the very first scene she's in, when she's coming in from making repairs outside the Ark and they want to check her vitals. "I'll save you the trouble," she says, looking at and then putting on the necklace Finn made her. "I'm just fine." It's clearly implied that she's 'just fine' because she's visiting Finn later that day. Without Finn, she's still kind of lost on quite what to base her sense of well-being around, but I doubt the apple will fall far from the tree - she'll probably end up with a certain number of close CR whose well-being directly influences her own sense of well-being, just because that's what she knows, with or without Finn. More on her dependency from early on in canon, she also seems to fall back on the relationship with Finn even when he isn't there: When a super stressful deal goes down and Raven's legit anxious for the first time in the show so far, her hand lifts to wrap around Finn's necklace to reassure herself.
Even when she figured out that Finn loved Clarke, she willingly blinded herself to the fact in hopes that he'd change his mind. Because when it came down to it, she really was just scared shitless trying to fathom a life where they didn't have each other to lean on - like it's always been, since they were both kids. And like, she was trying to wrap her head around Finn loving Clarke, after all he and Raven had been through together - trying to figure out why he did, what they had between them, so she asked Clarke (after a brief argument on the topic) if she loved Finn. Clarke said, "I hardly know him." And that just killed Raven, because she was willing to do absolutely anything for him and here he was head-over-heels this other girl who hardly even knows him. But ultimately, when it's clear that Finn and Clarke are in love, Raven finds it in her to be happy for them. She just wants Finn to be happy, really.
Soooo that's that particular clusterfuck. Moving on.
Raven also has a super soft spot for good 'mom' figures. She gets extremely attached to Abby when they're working together on the Ark, for example. By the end, when Abby says to launch no matter what, Raven says, "I'm not leaving without you." Abby insists, and quietly with teary eyes, Raven says, "Abby... They'll float you." It's the first time she cries in the season, as well as being one of the few times, not to mention the only time she cries that isn't directly related to Finn. Later, when Clarke's pissed at her mom for getting her dad killed, Raven's arguing Abby's case. "I know your mom will be watching... I've never seen anyone love someone like she loves you. You know that, right?" She literally can't imagine how Clarke can walk away from someone who loves her that much, someone who'd get floated (executed) for her, someone who fought so hard to see her again. Raven's own mom was scum, so it really gets to her when people take amazing moms for granted.
Though a lot of the above has painted Raven as all kinds of weak, she's actually extremely strong - at least outwardly, and even inwardly in quite a few ways. For example, aside from losing Finn, pretty much nothing scares her. In her very first scene, she takes off her helmet before the decontamination's complete despite it being dangerous. Later, when she first meets Bellamy, she immediately outs him as the one who shot Councilor Jaha, but she doesn't stop there - he storms off, and she follows him. "Hey, shooter!" She says, "Where the hell's my radio??" He tells her to get out of the way, but she insists. "Where is it?" He says he should've killed her when he had the chance, and both quieter and more defiant, she says, "Really? Well, I'm right here." So he grabs her and shoves her against a tree, but she's already got a knife drawn on him, her eyes daring him to try it. "Where's my radio?" she repeats, low and warning. No fear, even though Bellamy's an attempted murderer and theoretically would kill her in a heartbeat.
She's also got no real regard for authority. She calls bullshit to Council members right to their face, and multiple times she spies on restricted areas with no hesitation. Raven's also not at all intimidated by people who are bigger or stronger than she is, talking shit at Nygel's burly doorman(?) until he lets her see Nygel to try and trade for the pressure regulator. Overall, this headstrong lack of any real hesitation of fear makes her the go-to when Clarke needs people to listen. She tells Raven to clear the room when Finn's hurt, for example, and Raven just has to start shouting and everyone clears right out.
Raven's also extremely driven. Even apart from Finn, she'll stop at nothing to get a job done. Like when she first lands on Earth - even though she's bleeding from the head and reuniting with the love of her life, as soon as she's reminded of Abby she hurries back to the shuttle to try and make contact with the Ark. In a more personal sense, she'll always get the job done despite whatever emotions she's feeling. She made a communications device that could talk to the Ark directly in the aftermath of putting two and two together about Finn and Clarke, as a prime example. In fact, in stressful situations, she throws herself into her work just for something to do with her hands. Raven's a problem-solver, and even if the problem isn't hers to solve, if it gets her upset or worked-up enough she'll charge in to solve it anyway. Like when Bellamy and Clarke are trying to get the answers re: Finn's antidote out of Lincoln, she charges in to see what's taking so long. They say Linc's not talking and she electro-shock tortures him. In general, Raven has a strong sense of realistic optimism. She can be 100% aware of a low chance of success and still approach something like a sure deal.
She's also sassy as fuck and tells it like it is. She often has a dry-snark or sass retort ready for other people, and it doesn't much matter who they are or what kind of power they think they have. On top of that, when she's getting something accomplished, she absolutely doesn't beat around the bush. Nygel tries to talk around her when she goes in for the pressure regulator, but Raven says a plain, "What do you want for it?" Nygel tries to say she doesn't deal in machine parts anymore, and Raven says, "Save the act for someone who doesn't know better. Just tell me what it's gonna take." If she weren't as competent as she is, I feel like she'd come off as a lot more abrasive than she actually does.
But she is, in fact, extremely competent. She knows it, ready to correct everyone if they so much as say she's the youngest zero-G mechanic in 50 years instead of 52, but she's not just blowing hot air here. You can see it even in just how people treat her - Abby talks to her all of twice before she decides Raven's pretty much her only hope of seeing Clarke again and makes her privy to all of the Council secrets, not to mention how often the 100 on the ground turn to her for a solution to a million and one crucial technical issues. Part of her competency lies in her flexibility - she's willing to work with whatever supplies she can get in whatever time frame she has. She says she needs a week but Abby shortens it to five days and Raven says she'll do it. She says she can have the pressure regualator installed in a few hours, Abby says they don't have that long, she says she's on it. She says she can be ready to launch in 20 minutes, Abby says they have 5... And, you guessed it, she's on it. She doesn't say 'but that's impossible' - she gets it done. Raven also tends to think outside the box, finding a solution that nobody else thought of because it was outside of the end-goal they were imagining. Like when everyone's fighting over the wet radio and how the hell they're gonna communicate with the Ark, and she says, "Hold up - we don't have to talk to the Ark, right? We just have to let them know we're down here." She does need the right environment for that kind of work, though, and she's not afraid to boot people out if they're hindering her process. "Abby," she scolds at one point, patient but aggravated, "How about I pace in the operating room next time you're working?" Raven can also take the lead when she needs to, but the only time she ever does so is when mechanical shit's concerned. Like when they're building something big and a bunch of people are involved in the process, or later, when Octavia's told to go up and get wires from the top level and Raven barks, "Stay away from the blue wires, they run through the ceiling - I hooked them up to the solar cells on the roof. That means they're hot, you got that?"
A few things make her lose her cool, whether in anger or in tears. When someone implies that she's anything like her mom, like when Nygel asked her to prostitute herself out for the pressure regulator, she gets really offended and basically tells them to fuck off. ("Go float yourself.") But then, she also flies into an actual punching rage when Nygel blatantly implied that her mom was a hooker, and even when Nygel's bodyguard dude pulls Raven off, she's dragged out kicking and screaming "FUCK YOU, NYGEL" and hitting the dude who has ahold of her. Another thing that upsets her in a big way is when people die in a way that Raven could've prevented. Like when the flares fail and 300 people are killed who could've survived if the radio weren't soaked, she turns on Bellamy. "This was all because of you." Finn and Clarke hold her back. Bellamy says they found the radio, as if that absolved him. "Yeah, after you jacked it from my pod and trashed it!" Finally, she really can't handle being in out of her depth. It's an extremely rare feeling, to be in enough of a crisis that she can't at least pretend she can handle it, but she basically has to fight not to just shut down. Like when Finn's poisoned and starts seizing, and Raven's panicking quietly because she has no idea what to do. "Please don't let him die," she begs Clarke, definitely crying. She kind of freezes up even when Clarke asks for help flipping Finn, because this is just beyond what she's ready to handle.
As a couple of other quick things: She's generally unconcerned with personal injury, even apart from Finn. Like when she first lands and she's bleeding, when she says, "Crap. That's not good." In a way casual tone. In the finale, even when she loses feeling in her legs, she's still talking casually and cracking dry comments. And finally, I feel like her mother might've introduced her early on to the concept of alcohol as a coping tool, because it's canon that her mom traded her rations for moonshine and later when Raven's handed moonshine to sterilize her hands to help Finn, she takes a long drink first.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
A B I L I T I E S
- extremely good mechanic, both on solid ground and in zero gravity. the youngest in fifty-two years, in fact - and she's shown multiple times to be well-respected by people much older for her skills. she's good enough to rebuild a 100-year-old shuttle out of scrap parts.
- also skilled in building and using multiple kinds of makeshift communications devices.
- very resourceful, able to do a lot with very little/unconventional supplies.
- very familiar with working in zero-g.
- can fly a shuttle decently well, though it wasn't her official job.
- can shoot a rifle with decent accuracy.
- can also take someone down with a knife pretty skillfully, not to mention fistfight.
- can build multiple sorts of bomb with a number of different types of supplies. (canon examples include a rifle-shot bomb, land mines, and grenades.)
- can apparently electro-shock torture someone for answers, though I doubt she's had to do so before she did so with Lincoln.
- can cut hair with a knife with decent skill.
W E A K N E S S E S
- regular human - no powers.
- bullet in spine, which is gonna bite her in the ass sometime soon and send her on the short path to Medical.
- despite being able to fight, she'd be easily overpowered by someone bigger than her. she's no kung-fu master or anything.
- kind of an emotional wreck right now without Finn, but she's getting better.
- i'm sure her problems with authority will bite her in the ass soon too.
(no powers to limit)
Inventory: her clothes, her knife, and a metal crane on a necklace (her necklace from Finn)
Appearance: right here
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Age: 17
S A M P L E S
Log Sample:
There's nothing quite so cathartic as building a bomb. It sounds really counter-intuitive, and maybe it would be for most people... but right now, with the cans and the salt and the gunpowder and everything else spread out in front of her, Raven's more centered than she's been in a hell of a long time. Weeks, at least. Weeks on Earth as well as weeks here on the TQ, spent flip-flopping between wishing to hell that Finn were here and being almost inexplicably liberated that he's not.
Her gaze drifts to her bedside table, empty but for the metal crane and the worn chain pooling around its feet. She gave it back to him, she remembers it without a shadow of a doubt, yet it showed up in her locker anyway - like some sick joke. It's why she's putting together the bomb, when it comes down to it. Because Raven's settled on 'inexplicably liberated' and the necklace is the only thing standing in her way. I mean, theoretically, there are a half-dozen other equally-destructive ways to get rid of the fucking thing, but it's the principle of it. And besides - Jasper's in on it, too. That's his homework, she sent him off to find some kind of Octavia stand-in that they can blow up right alongside the crane, which does double-duty for keeping him out of her hair while she works. Not that he's actually that bad or anything, she's just in her element and not entirely ready to give that up quite yet.
"So you put the-..." She mumbles to herself, grabbing a small tin of something white, "-in the can, then you fill it with-..."
Raven could put together a decent bomb in her sleep, but with the ingredients she's got available to her her on the TQ, it's testing her a little more than she expected.
Comms Sample:
[ raven's face appears on the comm before she sets it down on the table and scoots back a little to put more of her in view. ]
This is Raven Reyes, I was a zero-G mech back in Mecha Station on the Ark - not that that actually means anything to you. [ that last part's tacked on a little dryly. but that's all the introduction she's giving. now, she gets right to the point. ] I'm so bored, I'm ready to beat my head on the wall. I'm not just good - I'm the best. So somebody give me a job before I start opening panels and improving whatever the hell's inside. [ is she serious? she very well could be. ]