🦋 OOC Information

Name: Zan
Contact: zandroid / Zandroid @ Discord
Age: 21+
Other Characters: List your other characters here if applicable.
Invitation: Invitation
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🦋 IC Information

Character Name: Raven (aka, Mystique)
Age: 49
Canon: X-Men Apocalypse
Canon Point: A few months after the end of the movie.
Character History: Raven's history
Canon Abilities: She can change her form. Her natural form is blue with soft scaling and red hair. She has a 'normal' form that she usually shifts into. But she can also mimic another person's form and voice, down to their clothes and fingerprints.
Inventory: X-Suit

🦋 Personality

Option 2:
Dead
Death has always been a part of Raven's life. At first, preventing it was the thing that kept her motivated. As a child, she would break into houses for food, changing her form into someone from the household should she be caught. This was how she originally met Charles. Over the years with Charles, his insistence that people knowing what she could do was dangerous kept her from ever being honest with anyone. Because as a girl, she had seen that kind of danger.

Death followed her when she left with Erik. At first, she felt freer than she ever had. She was with mutants who knew what she was and liked her. Respected her. Made her feel as if she wasn't alone. But then Erik was arrested for 'assassinating' the President and everything started to collapse. Everyone went their own way and then they started to disappear. Following the trail of those disappearances led Raven to rescuing some mutants, but she couldn't rescue them all. Later, she would find that the missing mutants had been experimented on and killed.

The deaths weighed on her. Once Charles convinced her not to kill the man responsible, her perspective changed. She still didn't fully agree with how Charles viewed the world, but she also no longer agreed with Erik, either. Full-on war only brought casualties. She would spend the next ten years rescuing mutants who were being exploited and harmed, eventually joining Charles's school to do the same thing for the students there. To teach them to protect themselves and each other so that no more mutants had to die.


Friendly
Raven isn't exactly antisocial as much as she is unsocialed. For a very long time, her only real friend was Charles. She was friendly with some of her classmates, but every time they tried to get closer, she shied away for fear that she would reveal what she could do.

She thought that things might be able to change once they met Erik and they started finding other mutants. And for a little while, they did change, despite the mocking they received by the soldiers in the facility they stayed at. They left that place and moved to the mansion for training and things were good.

Until a fatal moment on a beach where allegiances were made and shifted. After that, it took only a year for Raven to be on her own for the first time in nearly twenty years. And so Raven doesn't always understand how to be friendly.

Which isn't to say that she doesn't care about people. Even when she pretends not to, she cares about mutants of all kinds. Her efforts to rescue the ones in need proves that. But it is a solitary pursuit and while she has a large network of acquaintances and, after DC, a large group of mutants who look up to her, she has no real friends except maybe Charles, Erik, and Hank. And even with them it's complicated.


Pride
Part of what kept her on her own for all of those years was fear. Fear of being recognized by mutants who looked up to her. Fear of being recognized by humans who would use her to blame for their own problems. But another part, the part that kept her away from both Erik on one side and Charles and Hank on the other was pride.

For Erik, that pride came in the form of changing her mind. She had left Charles for him and, even though she no longer completely believed in the way he did things, she still wanted Trask dead. And in attacking the President, he could accomplish that. In the aftermath, pride kept her from reconnecting with him, even though she'd missed him terribly in the years he'd been gone.

In a similar vein, pride kept her from staying with Charles and Hank, even though she'd ultimately sided with them. Because Charles was a bleeding heart. Because she'd betrayed Hank's trust. Because she'd purposefully left them both when she'd sided with Erik and now she felt stuck in her choice, a part of her knowing she was right and a part of her not wanting to consider that she might be able to change them as much as they could change her.

So while most of the mutants of a certain (young) age might think she took pride in her accomplishments, the pride she actually felt only stood in her way.


Child
Out of everything in Raven's life, children are probably the most important. Not her own, since she hasn't had any, but others. The children she would go out of her way to rescue from impossible situations of abuse or exploitation. And that's simply because she knows what it's like to be on that end of things. What seems like a sweet moment with Charles taking Raven into his family masks a deeper history of a child who had to grow up too fast and who knows better than most what being hated and abandoned can do to a person.

She learned early that people who knew what she could do were scared of her. Even people who only saw through her act of impersonation but didn't know quite how it had happened. She was seeminly discarded by her parents and so had to survive on her own. Couple this with having to learn quickly and early how to mimic how the adults spoke. She didn't always get everything right, such as not knowing that Charles's mother wasn't a 'make cocoa for her son' kind of mother, but when she spoke as his mother, she spoke as an adult and not a child.

While there's only a glimpse of what Raven's life was like, there's a good chance that it gets even darker than alone and hungry. After all, while Charles taught her to hide herself from humans, he never taught her to fear them. That was something that came from Raven's own past.

It is also the thing that she tries to protect the younger generation from feeling as much as she can. She can't protect everyone, but she can protect some. And that'll have to be good enough.


Door
Doors to Raven represent choices to be made. Door 1 or Door 2. She views her life as one where she hasn't made a lot of those choices. There was the choice to leave Charles and the choice to come back. Everything else, to her, is the natural result of the choices other people made.

Charles offered a child a place where she could get regular food. Of course she'd stay. Erik attacked her and then Charles appealed to her better nature. Of course she'd stop Erik from attacking the President and making things even worse for mutants than they already were. Erik was in trouble. Of course she'd try to help him.

From an outside perspective, each of these moments was a choice she made. But she's always viewed herself as more reactionary. She adapts to situations much like her body can to people, but she rarely has a choice in the situations she's put in.

In a way, it's absolving herself of the guilt of any of the bad choices she's made. If the choices aren't really hers to begin with, then how can anyone fault her for how she responds to that choice. It's a coping mechanism stemming from the time when she truly had no choices.

So while Raven views her life as a series of long hallways with only small sections where there are doors to the next area, it's more like the mansion she grew up in. Labyrinthine and full of doors she doesn't account for.

🦋 Fae Court

List your top three choices for your characters adoptive court. The mods will choose the one out of those three options that seems the most fitting based on your app.

• Spring


• Autumn


• Dawn

Ability: Do you want your character to gain the ability of their court? (Delete the other two options.)
3) Yes, but they either have no ability of their own, or they refuse to trade theirs away; they will buy their court's ability on credit.

🦋 RP Samples

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Raven wasn't sure where Charles' parents were. She wasn't sure whether she and Charles had been to run off or maybe the parents had run off before, but it didn't matter. She and Charles were alone and they had some pocket change for snacks and they were walking along the beach. She'd stared the first time she'd seen the water. It didn't seem to end and, even though she'd seen maps that said differently, she was convinced that the water just went on and on and never ended. She kept gently tugging Charles a little bit closer each time they took a step. She didn't just want to ask him to go to the water with her. She still wasn't sure enough of their relationship to do that. She just hoped that she could encourage him a little.

She also wasn't sure enough of their relationship to ask him to buy her one of those ice things they were coming up on. They were cold, which would be nice on a hot day like this, and they were colorful, and they looked delicious, but she wasn't sure that she wanted to just...ask.

She dropped her eyes immediately when she realized that she wouldn't need to ask. Charles would just know, wouldn't he? He was so nice to her. How could she ask him to get her something like that? Food, maybe, and clothes, but sweets? No. Definitely not. She was apologizing to him profusely in her thoughts almost before she'd had a chance to think them. Still, she couldn't help but look at them a little longingly.

Continued from here.

Run us off to someone, you mean. [But she pulls him closer. She can wait. For now.]