+ false memories (pines)

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█ RAVEN + FALSE MEMORIES.

raven is a veteran of the times when residents were pressured to believe their false memories and discount their real ones as 'fake' or 'side effects of cryogenic stasis', and as a result, she has a knee-jerk rejection response to most false-memory-related things.

that being said, she still has false memories, and will grudgingly respond positively to people she had positive false memory cr with, regardless of how she feels about the presence of memories in general.

█ FALSE MEMORIES SO FAR.

• her life growing up kind of parallels her life in canon - raven had a single mom who only really looked out for herself, who never stocked the fridge or turned on the heat in the house but always had plenty of alcohol on hand. just like in canon, one of the neighbor kids was a few years older than her and had plenty to eat and a warm place to crash, and basically took raven under her wing. ironic, considering her name was crowe.
  
  
• crowe altius is her family. it's the only actual family she can remember having, since her mom obviously didn't count. by now, about a decade after they effectively adopted one another, raven now lives with crowe and has developed some definite feelings in her general direction. not that she intends to act on it, or expects anything to come of it.
  
  
• raven has a bit of a reputation around wayward pines. she's a mechanic with entirely too much pride than she can afford, and there have been any number of occasions when she's hijacked repair jobs in order to do them quicker/better/more affordably than the alternative - maybe she was shopping for parts and heard a professional mechanic quoting a price, or maybe she heard a vehicle pull into the parking lot nearby and informed the driver that their ball joints were about to quit on them, or any number of other scenarios, all culminating in her basically taking the project over for herself for baseline prices. the more challenging the project, the better. she has also built a couple of bikes from the ground up.
  
  it would be hilariously easy to say she did a repair job or fixed a bike for your character at some point in the past. on the flip side, if your character is a mechanic she undercut and/or someone who would've been offended by her tactlessness, that could be a source of negative CR!
  
  
• the garage of her house with crowe (house 5108) is pretty conspicuous, almost always open during the daytime and filled with parts and tools and loud noises and various other neighborhood-disrupting things. this one's relevant to neighbors and/or anyone who may have driven by and stopped to chat (or maybe someone was a former neighbor and moved because of the noise? idek).
  
  
• i have yet to figure out why her leg is paralyzed (in canon, she got shot next to the spine and that was the after-effect once they surgically removed the bullet with no anesthetic to speak of). i'll probably go with 'some sort of mechanical incident' but i'm also open to alternatives if you have an idea.

█ WISH LIST.

i'm not really going ham on the hella in-depth false memories with her aside from maybe one or two key ones, but i'm down for any number of simple, easy-to-remember touchpoints!

• neighbors
  
• former/current mechanic-work clients and/or people who bought bikes off of her
  
• people (probably older folks) who knew her mom and thus are aware of the past she Doesn't Talk About
  
• people who work at the hospital and were there when shit went down re: her paralyzed leg
  
• more ideas tba