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[Player information]
Player Name: Marie
Age: 20
E-mail: hollowwithyou at gmail dot com
Other characters played at Cape Kore: Anna Milton & Laura Hawley

[Character information]
Name: Raven Darkholme
Canon: X-Men: First Class
Canon Point: After arriving at Xavier Mansion
Age: Complicated. Appears late teens/early twenties.

Appearance:

Raven is a shape shifter. That is, she can change her form at will to reflect any outward appearance at all. If she wants to walk around looking like Paris Hilton, she can. If she wants longer hair, consider it done. She has complete control over her appearance due to decades of fine tuning her abilities. Her natural appearance is very different from her favoured choice of disguise. With blue reptilian skin and red slicked back hair, Raven is covered in small scales across her face, arms, legs and most of her torso. Her eyes are naturally yellow.

Typically, Raven takes the appearance of a young woman in her late teens to early twenties. She usually has long blonde hair, and her eyes are a light grey-blue colour. She has quite pale skin and, while relatively tall, is still quite slender for a girl of her height. She is usually seen in short skirts and dark colours, and the slightly insecure yet starkly self-obsessed side of her personality adores dressing up for an occasion if one arises.

Inventory: Nothing but the clothes she's wearing.

Abilities: Raven is a shapeshifter, and can literally make her outward appearance change to her every whim and desire. Typically she uses this to hide as a young blonde woman, but when used practically is almost as limitless as her imagination. There are some weaknesses to this, when she's tired or stressed, her emotions are heightened or she's under the influence she tends to lose control of this ability, and her true form will usually start to appear - whether it be the yellowed eyes, blue skin or red hair. It is stated in the film that her cells age at half the rate of a normal human

She cannot however mimic abilities, i.e. if she changes into Charles that doesn't mean she can read minds. Outward appearance is her limit, she can replicate Wolverine's claws but not the adamantium strength that they possess.

With her ability also comes a very slow ageing process. As her cells are constantly regenerating, repairing and changing, Raven's outward appearance of a nineteen to twenty year old rather accurately reflects the state of her body. It has appeared that the older she gets, the slower she ages. Raven's ability also gives her minor healing abilities, though these are usually slow to kick in and would not prevent any mortal or fatal wounds.

History: Here. Also more generally here.

Personality:

Raven's personality has been irrevocably shaped by the circumstances of her birth and upbringing. Even she is beginning to realize that the girl she might have been may have been very different had she never left home or had she never met Charles or a dozen other 'had shes'. Her stark identity crisis has formed the crux of who she is for years now and only growing worse as she ages. There is something very much broken in Miss Darkholme that she chooses to hide and block away from everyone - herself included. Raven grew up having to be a very careful person, from exercising caution during the years she spent homeless to vigilantly maintaining her 'normal' appearance. The strain of doing so shaped her into a very self contained and aloof girl. Keeping a distance between herself and others became a reflexive habit and she avoided getting close to anyone deeper that a surface level. For a few moments she dared to express her individuality, and was all but crushed for doing so. Pity the fragile insect whose wings are torn off at the moment of birth.

The introduction of Charles into her life was the only thing that saved her; a safe environment, a family (one that wouldn't think twice of drowning her in a bathtub, at least) and at last the one thing she craved more than anything - acceptance. With Charles brought on a new Raven. Alternately expressive and outspoken while simultaneously shy and awkward, Raven was allowed to play younger sister with Xavier and she lived up to her role fiercely. She is at heart a painfully over-sensitive girl, and it was not long before Charles was surpassing her - not only in appearance but also in emotional maturity. Raven's decades of life experience mean little when it comes to her perceived age. Although she tries her best to convey herself, failure to do so or meeting with opposition causes her to falter heavily and rapidly close back up into that girl she was for so long around anyone but Charles. Her feelings are easy to wound and though she seems to bounce back quickly enough, the injury is nonetheless something that will fester and be worried over mentally until it's expressed by some other outlet. Altogether Raven is an intense person, full of extremes who is strongly programmed by her own feelings and opinions, she has trouble finding the middle ground and instead tends to stray towards one polarity or the other. She's capable of a great deal of compassion, but limited with her forgiveness and lacking in large amounts of patience.

While Raven is heavily self-victimized by her own rampant persecution complex, among a host of other things, and has her moments of self destructive behavior and amplified teen angst, she is not depressive or macabre. She's a cynic to be sure, with an acerbic sense of humor. But she has the capability to take pleasure in small things and can be extremely up beat, spontaneous, and energetic when in an environment she's able to relax in. She's a clever girl--indeed far more clever than most people give her credit for, adaptive and resourceful.

[Samples] (Linking or copying posts from another game or PSL is completely fine.)
First Person: 1, 2


Third Person: 1, 2.

When Raven arrives, she's disorientated. The sudden location change leaves her feeling a little dizzy, and it's hard to adjust to at first. After all, seconds ago she had been walking around her childhood home, and now she's sitting on the edge of a fountain. The information given by the device on her wrist isn't exactly helpful in calming her at all, and it doesn't take long for her to start to panic. Her immediate assumption is Azazel, see, or one of Shaw's other minions come to separate her from the crowd and get her when she's vulnerable. His offer had been tempting, but she'd never admit it. To walk around in the open, not to hide? It sounds too good to be true, which has to mean that it is.

There's no one around her though, no one comes forward and there's certainly no sign of Shaw, Angel or Azazel so she gets up. It takes a moment but she gets there eventually, takes a deep breath and starts to walk through the town. No way is she sitting there like a helpless little kid, waiting for someone to come and rescue her. No, if she's going to figure out what's going on here, she's got to do it for herself. It's not like she has a brother to hide behind here, only Raven, so with a purposeful determination she starts to walk through the town.

Whatever is going on here, she's going to figure it out. And if she can maybe find some people along the way to help her out with that? Well, that would be pretty useful, considering there's not exactly an information booth.



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