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[pajarita]

OUT OF CHARACTER

Name: Cella
Personal Journal: shortitude
Age: 25
Contact: PM / anonymousdeathgod [at] gmail [dot] com
Characters Played: None so far

IN CHARACTER

Name: Raven Reyes
Canon: The 100
Age: 19
Timeline: s2e08 (Spacewalker); while on the way to the dropship to meet up with Bellamy/Clarke/Finn/Murphy and discuss what they're going to do about the Grounder Situation (wait or is that e07? might be e07)

Age Up?: Nope

Background: wiki.

Personality:

(the ace) Grew up on Mecha Station surrounded by mechanics, so of course it ended up being her passion; youngest Zero-G mechanic on the Ark in the last 52 years. She passes the test with the best score since they'd started giving it, but ends up being rejected due to a minor heart problem. Sinclair waves it away and she goes on to be badass as fuck. Bellamy at one point wonders 'what else is up in that brain of hers', after she makes bullets for him, alchemizes a bomb out of rocket fuel and blows up a bridge that outlasted nuclear wars, comes up with nuke-the-Grounder plans. Maybe more than an ace, she's a jack of all trades. As far as destruction goes, Raven's good at it and mostly game.

(broken ace) Following the events of the first season finale, Raven ends up with a bullet in her spine and a whole lot of pain, but still forces herself into awareness long enough to listen to Bellamy give a peptalk like he's Mel Gibson guide Clarke and Jasper through the process of barbecueing Grounders attacking them. After the most painful, lacking-anasthesia surgery ever, she recovers but all sensation to her left leg is lost. Raven hates hates hates that she's fallen into this role. So:

(don't you dare pity me!) Her first reaction after surgery is to pretend like she needs absolutely nobody's help. And this makes sense, because she used to be picked first for everything, and she used to be fierce and independent and once flew to Earth in a space bucket; she needs a while to realize that she still is fierce and awesome at what she does, and she learns to accept help when it's given. But she probably still punches her left leg for not cooperating when nobody's watching.

(green-eyed monster) A big fucking deal in Raven's character development is her relationship re: Finn & Clarke and the ensuing love triangle. Finn is Raven's only family, she owes him her life in more ways that one and she'd do anything for him (torture a guy to get an antidote out of him because Finn's poisoned? yes. trade another guy with the grounders so they can kill him and not Finn? you fucking bet), because she loves him. But just as she is Finn's biggest ally, she can just as easily become his downfall (he takes the fall for her re: spacewalking, for example). When she follows him down to Earth ten days later, and slowly comes to realize that the object of his affection has changed dramatically, she breaks up with him because she wants to be loved and Finn doesn't do it like she deserves. Nevertheless, love triangle adverted, they continue to be close (as future events show).

(teeth-clenched teamwork) As far as Clarke goes, they find a budding friendship, with Raven being genuinely glad to see Clarke come back, and hair touching and a bunch of other stuff like 'I'd pick you first' 'course you would, I'm awesome'. If Bellamy and Clarke are the leaders of the 100, Raven would be the hand that executes whatever plan they need. Bombs, bullets, escape plans, stealing guns for them? They've got it. This trope is pointless by season 2, because the teeth-clenching has stopped and turned into actual good cooperation, proof that Raven doesn't do petty when there's work to be done. (Unless your name's Murphy.)

(the engineer) One thing that's solid about Raven is that she knows where she stands as far as her skills go. She knows what she can do and get done, and when it comes to protecting people that are family (Finn; later on, 'their people' of the 100 left) she can break the rules without blinking. It's not to say she doesn't have a heart, because maybe she has one that's too human -- she can be jealous, petty, angry at everyone and lashing out, the type of person who uses someone to get over someone else even if it doesn't work, the type of person who considers leaving the whole group just because her feelings have been squashed -- but that's the beauty of her. [insert lyrics to elastic heart here]

Powers: Raven has no powers, she just has skills.
Do you want a power wipe? Unnecessary.
Humanization: Are we humans or are we dancers? (We're not grounders I'll tell you that.)

Suitcase:
(1) metallic brace for her leg
(1) red bomber jacket
(1) dirty sleeveless undertop
(1) pair of jeans
(1) pair of boots
(1) switchblade (the one she gives Clarke later one/the one she threatened Bellamy with)
(1) compact toolkit: wrench, screwdriver, tweezers, pliers
(1) raven pendant

Surprise? YES!
Other Notables:

SAMPLES

Network Sample:

whoever designed this hotel should be given the award of worst architect ever for failing to include a fucking functioning door. or any door that leads to anywhere that's not here. i'm just saying.

but you know what, if there's a way in there's bound to be a way out. if they want us solving puzzles, fine. i'll solve your puzzles or i'll bring this whole place down.

my name is raven reyes, and i don't have time to be here, and i don't want to be here, and i do not TRUST being here. and i'm hoping i'm not the only one.

[private messages sent out to bellamy blake, clarke griffin, finn collins]

i'm hoping you're here. because if you're here it means i'm not being kept locked up in a hotel while grounders are crying for blood. if you're here, it means i'm not out of the game, it means i won't get to find out later again how everything just

if you're here, let me know.

if you're not here, do not let him die. do not let him get caught or i swear to god i will come back and i will burn the whole grounder camp to the ground if i have to.

and finn -- don't you dare do anything stupid.

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( optional ) Third Person Sample:

[3 minutes and 45 seconds. that's how long she lets the panic stiffle her other senses, how long she allows the bile to rise up to her throat and keep her still like a statue on the floor. 3 minutes and 45 seconds during which she thinks somehow, somehow, she's been taken by the mountain men.

clarke hasn't told them a lot about the inside of mount weather yet, but what raven does remember is why every sky crew member in it is in danger, what they do to them and what they do to grounders. and that's enough reason to stir panic. but beyond that, it's the not knowing that keeps her locked into position where she lies. she doesn't know what's happened to get her here; she doesn't know what's happening to finn right now, she doesn't know whether anyone else has been taken, whether they're dead or not, she just knows she's in a room.

there's no time to enjoy that. 3 minutes and 45 seconds later, she decides that if she's on mount weather she's just going to have to plan the quickest escape ever planned, drag the 47 locked in here with her, and go back to camp jaha to stop grounders from killing finn. (it's the longest shot, but she's going to blindly believe it.) and she'll do it without her brace, if necessary. so she wobbles her way to the door, discomfort flaring up from her hip, and almost trips over the suitcase.
and she finds the note, the tablet, her brace. and none of that -- none of the discovery that she's not in mount weather at all -- helps one bit.]