Post by Raven on Mar 6, 2007 21:45:13 GMT -5
Name:Raven
Alias: Teen Titans (main)
Age:16
Gender:female
Abilities:[edit] Soul-Self Metamorphosis (Animated)
When the animated Raven is highly upset, her soul-self can also transform her body's appearance to a variety of demonic forms and sizes. Worst of all, when she can't control her anger, she transforms into a demonic Raven, usually with four glowing, red eyes and sprouting black tentacles from under her cloak. The four eyes seem to symbolize her demon father, Trigon — when Cyborg was infected with a virus, she threatened Gizmo into helping by lifting and then pulling down her hood. The face was not shown, but it appeared to be a dragon's head with tentacles.
[edit] Telekinesis (Animated)
In addition to an affinity for magic and spell casting, the animated Raven possesses powerful telekinetic abilities which manifest in the form of Dark Energy/umbrakinesis (possibly an extension of her Soul-Self,) serving as her primary means of attack and defense. She can use her abilities to levitate objects (and also herself), project concussive blasts, and form simple shapes like grappling hands and razor sharp plates to use as barriers and/or restricting binds. Raven can use her Dark Energy to create portals to phase through solid barriers like floors and wall. In episode "Car Trouble", after Cyborg's newly built T-Car was stolen, and he's lamenting about how the loss hurts him emotionally as he had put his own circuits into it, Raven admits she sympathizes: "When I use my powers, I have to put a little of my soul into whatever I'm moving. I become a part of it, and it becomes a part of me".
[edit] Mantra (Animated)
The animated version of Raven often says the phrase "Azarath Metrion Zinthos" to help her focus her powers. She even uses this as her attack phrase as well. These words are her mantra. As previously mentioned, Azarath is the dimension in which she was born and raised, and where she learned her powers from the monks. The words "Metrion" and "Zinthos" were created by Glen Murakami for the spell, and have no assigned meaning yet.
One theory holds that since Azarath is a sanctuary, that it's inclusion in a mantra intended to focus her thoughts implies that the remaining words refer to a principle relating to the followers of Azar--much like a Buddhist mantra. A related theory suggests that the words have a "Subject Object Verb" grammatical order--the command-like and finalizing nature of "Zinthos" being the chief reason for this assumption (not to mention that the Japanese language has the same word order). From this, two theoretical possibilities are derived:
"Metrion" is a word referring to "calm", "peace", or some particular but unspecified order of thought or thinking; followed by a copula, "Zinthos".
"Metrion" refers to her own "state of mind" in the generic sense regardless of her present mood, with "Zinthos" being a commanding verb which with reference to "Azarath" sets her own mind to recollect her earlier teachings.
If this theory is true, or rather if it could be assumed (since Glen Murakami never made any defining statements or references), then this would be similar to the Litany Against Fear, depicted in Frank Herbert's Dune.
Raven sometimes uses the mantra to aid her in her daily meditations, which she performs to keep her emotions in check so they do not clash with her conscious self control.
Other Powers (Animated)
The animated version of Raven also possesses a large number of limited powers used only under special circumstances. These include teleportation (both of people and objects), time manipulation, precognition, rapid healing, extremely powerful magic spells and the (unwilling) creation of various monsters.
Personality:Because her emotions effect her powers, Raven is constantly "Mellow." But Raven has found a way to make up for that. By fare, she is the most sarcastic member of the group.
Description:
History: In "Nevermore", episode 6 of the first season, Raven is angered by the villainous Dr. Light. She then transforms into a demonic version of herself with four red eyes, grabs the villain with tentacles apparently made of her cloak's shadows and drags him under her cloak; he is seen to be dramatically traumatized when he reemerges.
Later, Beast Boy and Cyborg find a mirror in her room, which accidentally transports them into her subconscious. There, they encountered the personified aspects of Raven herself. Each aspect is represented as wearing a different colored robe: green (bravery), gray (timid), pink (happiness), red (hatred), orange (rudeness), yellow (intelligence),purple (kindness), brown (fear), and white (love).
When Raven went after them, she tells them that her dark side (the red-eyed tentacled transformation that traumatized Dr. Light) was let out by accident and had taken over her other sides. Red Raven (complete with four glowing red eyes) soon gathers herself and transforms into a huge hulking red beast, at which point Raven comments "Let's just say I have issues with my father", a hint in the animated series that the beast represents Trigon, her father.
Raven in Red and White, as seen in "Nevermore".Raven was again angered into undergoing a demonic transformation (with her four glowing red eyes visible through her cloak's shadow's) during Raven's battle with Terra (season 2, "Aftershock Part 1"). However, since enraging Raven was apparently Terra's plan all along, it is possible that Raven's anger made her lose the control of her powers needed for a fight against a skilled foe. Whatever the reason, Raven lost the fight (although she fared much better the next time the Titans faced Terra).
The white cloak, boots, and leotard from that episode are seen in at least one episode of the series' seasons. In "Nevermore", her cloak turns white after she absorbs her other aspects (except red) to defeat her mind's view of Trigon (Red Raven).
The cloak was next seen in the first episode of season two, "How Long is Forever?", where Raven's future self dons the white cloak after losing control of her powers and sanity due to the loss of her friend, Starfire.
In season three's episode "Spellbound", Raven dons her white attire as a result of her being attracted to the dragon Malchior, disguised as the handsome wizard Rorek that originally sealed him in his book.
In season four's episode "Birthmark", it was revealed that Slade had made allegiance with Trigon, who spared him from being destroyed after being tossed into lava by Terra ("Aftershock Part 2"). The demon also empowered Slade in order to accomplish his task.
In a scene of Raven's birthday "Birthmark", Slade comes to deliver her the "news" that she is going to bring her father to Earth and end the world and in "The Prophecy" that Raven was going to bring Trigon to the Earth. In "The End Part 2", she gets regressed back to her childhood form by her father, so that he may succeed in his plans of world domination.
In her final confrontation with Trigon, Raven's robes changed to white. She overcame Trigon's spell and reverted back to her former teen self. She then continually attacked Trigon while renouncing him as her father. Then, by reclaiming the energies that she had left behind in her friends, Raven transformed into her soul self, which took on the form of a gigantic white raven, banishing Trigon from the world. Though her uniform and power were white when this happened and her hair long, by the end of the episode, Raven had once again donned her standard black and blue outfit and cut her hair to its usual length.
In season 5, Raven baby-sits three heroes called Melvin, Timmy, and Teether so the Brotherhood of Evil will not get to them. Raven is not happy about this and soon discovers that the other Titans are on other missions. They end up being chased by Monsieur Mallah , a member of the Brotherhood of Evil. She delivers them to safety but soon discovers that they are being captured by Mallah. She goes back and tries to save them. Bobby , Melvin's imaginary friend, ends up saving all of them. After Monseuir Mallah leaves, Raven gives the four heroes a communicator so if they were in trouble, they can contact her. They later appear in the episode, "Titans Together", with her fighting the Brotherhood of Evil and their allies.
Sample Post:Raven floated into her bedroom. Well I guess you could call it floating. But it was really considered, levitation. The difference between the two, is that levitation is using you mind to lift yourself into flight. Well, now geared with that knowledge we can continue.Floating Levitating into her room, she used her mind to levitate the book that she was in the middle of, into her opened hand. Sitting on her bed, she unfurled the book and delved into it's wonder.
Peace and silence had just settled in, when a red light flassed and an anoying alarm sounded. "Well, it was good while it lasted." said Raven sarcastically. Pulling her hood up, a portal opened wide below her and the next thing she knew, she was in the briefing room.
Alias: Teen Titans (main)
Age:16
Gender:female
Abilities:[edit] Soul-Self Metamorphosis (Animated)
When the animated Raven is highly upset, her soul-self can also transform her body's appearance to a variety of demonic forms and sizes. Worst of all, when she can't control her anger, she transforms into a demonic Raven, usually with four glowing, red eyes and sprouting black tentacles from under her cloak. The four eyes seem to symbolize her demon father, Trigon — when Cyborg was infected with a virus, she threatened Gizmo into helping by lifting and then pulling down her hood. The face was not shown, but it appeared to be a dragon's head with tentacles.
[edit] Telekinesis (Animated)
In addition to an affinity for magic and spell casting, the animated Raven possesses powerful telekinetic abilities which manifest in the form of Dark Energy/umbrakinesis (possibly an extension of her Soul-Self,) serving as her primary means of attack and defense. She can use her abilities to levitate objects (and also herself), project concussive blasts, and form simple shapes like grappling hands and razor sharp plates to use as barriers and/or restricting binds. Raven can use her Dark Energy to create portals to phase through solid barriers like floors and wall. In episode "Car Trouble", after Cyborg's newly built T-Car was stolen, and he's lamenting about how the loss hurts him emotionally as he had put his own circuits into it, Raven admits she sympathizes: "When I use my powers, I have to put a little of my soul into whatever I'm moving. I become a part of it, and it becomes a part of me".
[edit] Mantra (Animated)
The animated version of Raven often says the phrase "Azarath Metrion Zinthos" to help her focus her powers. She even uses this as her attack phrase as well. These words are her mantra. As previously mentioned, Azarath is the dimension in which she was born and raised, and where she learned her powers from the monks. The words "Metrion" and "Zinthos" were created by Glen Murakami for the spell, and have no assigned meaning yet.
One theory holds that since Azarath is a sanctuary, that it's inclusion in a mantra intended to focus her thoughts implies that the remaining words refer to a principle relating to the followers of Azar--much like a Buddhist mantra. A related theory suggests that the words have a "Subject Object Verb" grammatical order--the command-like and finalizing nature of "Zinthos" being the chief reason for this assumption (not to mention that the Japanese language has the same word order). From this, two theoretical possibilities are derived:
"Metrion" is a word referring to "calm", "peace", or some particular but unspecified order of thought or thinking; followed by a copula, "Zinthos".
"Metrion" refers to her own "state of mind" in the generic sense regardless of her present mood, with "Zinthos" being a commanding verb which with reference to "Azarath" sets her own mind to recollect her earlier teachings.
If this theory is true, or rather if it could be assumed (since Glen Murakami never made any defining statements or references), then this would be similar to the Litany Against Fear, depicted in Frank Herbert's Dune.
Raven sometimes uses the mantra to aid her in her daily meditations, which she performs to keep her emotions in check so they do not clash with her conscious self control.
Other Powers (Animated)
The animated version of Raven also possesses a large number of limited powers used only under special circumstances. These include teleportation (both of people and objects), time manipulation, precognition, rapid healing, extremely powerful magic spells and the (unwilling) creation of various monsters.
Personality:Because her emotions effect her powers, Raven is constantly "Mellow." But Raven has found a way to make up for that. By fare, she is the most sarcastic member of the group.
Description:
History: In "Nevermore", episode 6 of the first season, Raven is angered by the villainous Dr. Light. She then transforms into a demonic version of herself with four red eyes, grabs the villain with tentacles apparently made of her cloak's shadows and drags him under her cloak; he is seen to be dramatically traumatized when he reemerges.
Later, Beast Boy and Cyborg find a mirror in her room, which accidentally transports them into her subconscious. There, they encountered the personified aspects of Raven herself. Each aspect is represented as wearing a different colored robe: green (bravery), gray (timid), pink (happiness), red (hatred), orange (rudeness), yellow (intelligence),purple (kindness), brown (fear), and white (love).
When Raven went after them, she tells them that her dark side (the red-eyed tentacled transformation that traumatized Dr. Light) was let out by accident and had taken over her other sides. Red Raven (complete with four glowing red eyes) soon gathers herself and transforms into a huge hulking red beast, at which point Raven comments "Let's just say I have issues with my father", a hint in the animated series that the beast represents Trigon, her father.
Raven in Red and White, as seen in "Nevermore".Raven was again angered into undergoing a demonic transformation (with her four glowing red eyes visible through her cloak's shadow's) during Raven's battle with Terra (season 2, "Aftershock Part 1"). However, since enraging Raven was apparently Terra's plan all along, it is possible that Raven's anger made her lose the control of her powers needed for a fight against a skilled foe. Whatever the reason, Raven lost the fight (although she fared much better the next time the Titans faced Terra).
The white cloak, boots, and leotard from that episode are seen in at least one episode of the series' seasons. In "Nevermore", her cloak turns white after she absorbs her other aspects (except red) to defeat her mind's view of Trigon (Red Raven).
The cloak was next seen in the first episode of season two, "How Long is Forever?", where Raven's future self dons the white cloak after losing control of her powers and sanity due to the loss of her friend, Starfire.
In season three's episode "Spellbound", Raven dons her white attire as a result of her being attracted to the dragon Malchior, disguised as the handsome wizard Rorek that originally sealed him in his book.
In season four's episode "Birthmark", it was revealed that Slade had made allegiance with Trigon, who spared him from being destroyed after being tossed into lava by Terra ("Aftershock Part 2"). The demon also empowered Slade in order to accomplish his task.
In a scene of Raven's birthday "Birthmark", Slade comes to deliver her the "news" that she is going to bring her father to Earth and end the world and in "The Prophecy" that Raven was going to bring Trigon to the Earth. In "The End Part 2", she gets regressed back to her childhood form by her father, so that he may succeed in his plans of world domination.
In her final confrontation with Trigon, Raven's robes changed to white. She overcame Trigon's spell and reverted back to her former teen self. She then continually attacked Trigon while renouncing him as her father. Then, by reclaiming the energies that she had left behind in her friends, Raven transformed into her soul self, which took on the form of a gigantic white raven, banishing Trigon from the world. Though her uniform and power were white when this happened and her hair long, by the end of the episode, Raven had once again donned her standard black and blue outfit and cut her hair to its usual length.
In season 5, Raven baby-sits three heroes called Melvin, Timmy, and Teether so the Brotherhood of Evil will not get to them. Raven is not happy about this and soon discovers that the other Titans are on other missions. They end up being chased by Monsieur Mallah , a member of the Brotherhood of Evil. She delivers them to safety but soon discovers that they are being captured by Mallah. She goes back and tries to save them. Bobby , Melvin's imaginary friend, ends up saving all of them. After Monseuir Mallah leaves, Raven gives the four heroes a communicator so if they were in trouble, they can contact her. They later appear in the episode, "Titans Together", with her fighting the Brotherhood of Evil and their allies.
Sample Post:Raven floated into her bedroom. Well I guess you could call it floating. But it was really considered, levitation. The difference between the two, is that levitation is using you mind to lift yourself into flight. Well, now geared with that knowledge we can continue.
Peace and silence had just settled in, when a red light flassed and an anoying alarm sounded. "Well, it was good while it lasted." said Raven sarcastically. Pulling her hood up, a portal opened wide below her and the next thing she knew, she was in the briefing room.
