This article is about the character from Titans. For her animated counterpart, see Raven (Teen Titans). For her comic book counterpart, see Raven (DC)..
- “Sometimes, when I feel the darkness come out... it feels good.”
- ―Rachel to Dick Grayson
Rachel Roth (Born Raven Azarath) is one is the two deuteragonists of the television series Titans. She is the main protagonist of Season 1, one of the titular deuteragonists of Season 2 and 4 and a major character in Season 3.
She is a half-human, half-demon teenager who is the daughter of the evil demon Trigon and his follower Angela Azarath and the half-sister of Brother Blood who goes by the alias Raven among her team. After the murder of her adoptive mother, Rachel comes under the protection of Dick Grayson, Gar Logan and Koriand'r who team up to protect her from a group of fanatic followers of Trigon.
Throughout the series, she fights both her inner darkness and demonic powers, which she uses for good to be a superhero.
History
Early Life
Raven was born Rachel Roth on February 19, 2005 to Angela Azarath and Trigon
however, a woman, Melissa Roth, rescued the child when she learned Angela and Trigon's intent with their daughter. She took her to a convent to protect her from her biological father, adopted Raven and changed her name to Rachel Roth.
Personality
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Powers and abilities
Powers
Cambion Physiology: being the daughter of the most powerful demon, Trigon, Rachel herself has immeasurable strength in powers and abilities and an enhanced physiology stronger than any human. Despite her young age, Rachel is a powerful sorceress, due to her training under Dick Grayson and the Amazonians of Themyscira. It is predicted that one day she may be even more powerful than her father. At first afraid of her powers, Rachel learns to grow accustomed to them, because of her training on Themyscira, choosing to use her powers to help people rather than hurt them like her father. She is by far, the most powerful member of the Titans.
- Soul-Self: Its original form was a figure that resembled Rachel when her powers would originally manifest, with black eyes and grey skin. It used to terrorize and mock Rachel, usually feeding on her insecurities whenever she looked into a mirror or her reflection. It also perceives warnings, however, and later helps her overtime. After her rebirth, Rachel's soul-self manifests as black smoke with tints of purple energy. She also has more control of her powers.
- Super strength: She is far stronger than any human due to her half-Demonic side. She threw Rose Wilson into a table, breaking many of her bones.
- Illusion Inducement: Like her father, Rachel can create illusions, up to the point where she can sometimes cause herself to perceive the illusion as well. She created an illusion of Bruce Wayne, when he appeared before her, Donna, Kory and Dawn and urging them to reform the Titans.
- Umbrakinesis: the ability to control and generate darkness
- Telepathic linking: Rachel has the ability to connect her mind with another being. This can extend to other individual with her dark magic. Rachel used this ability when she linked Dick's and a brainwashed and incapacitated Conner’s minds together, with Rachel acting as the anchor. Via her powers, Dick was able to free the half-Kryptonian from Mercy Graves' control and restore him into the hero he once was
- Effigy animation: The ability to bring an inanimate object to life. She brought a gargoyle to life, but unfortunately had no control over it, as it killed the man who was trying to abuse Rachel's friend Dani
- Portal creation: Rachel can create portals, as she is able to bring her father out of his demonic dimension and into their world.
- Energy absorption: Rachel can absorb magic and energy from others forms. She absorbed the waters and dark, mystical properties of the Lazarus Pit. She turned it into rain to resurrect the fallen citizens of Gotham and induce Scarecrow into the waters’ effect.
- Telepathy: Rachel has the power to access minds of other people and communicate with people.
- Memory manipulation: She can access and control other people's memories. She can implant false memories into other people, up to the point people believe them to be the truth. However, she also has the power to alter or delete them.
- Empathy: Rachel has the power to feel other people’s emotions and have a better understanding of an individual. She could feel that her adoptive mother was afraid of her. She also touched Rita Farr and empathized with her when her elasticity was destabilizing. After Rachel and Garfield took Dick to the Lazarus Pit, she touched Gar’s hand and sensed the love Gar has for their mentor.
- Healing: Rachel can also heal any wounds or illnesses, leaving no visible indication that it was ever present. She used this power for the first time when she healed the gunshot wound of a deer recently killed by a hunter. By the time Rachel and Garfield walked away from the poor creature, the deer was immediately resurrected. However, Rachel can reverse the effects of a wound she healed. She demonstrated this ability when she healed Dr. Adamson's cut on his throat, only to return the wound to its original state, killing him instantly. Rachel, due to advanced training, could now heal people without side effects, as she easily healed Starfire and Beast Boy without them feeling fatigue or pain.
- Divination: she has the ability to use her powers for information. Rachel usually has prophetic dreams that warn her. Before she had complete control of her powers, Rachel often had night terrors ass result of these dreams. Before she met Dick Grayson, Rachel had nightmares of the night his parents died, as a terrible recurring dream and suffered from night terrors
- Sensing: Rachel has the power to sense dark magic or another person's energy. Rachel did this ability when she sensed for Dick's energy when she and Gar found him near to death. She was able to sense the dark magic of the Lazarus Pit and the energies of those who had been there.
- Telekinesis:
- Telekinetic blasts: During her fight with Trigon, Raven used this power when she kinetically threw her friends away to protect them from the damage of hers and Trigon’s duel.
- Teleportation: Rachel uses her soul-self to engulf herself and travel from one place to the next in the form of a gigantic raven.
- Disintegration: Rachel demonstrated this ability when she defeated her father in combat, instantly vaporizing him into dust.
- Levitation: When she lost control of her powers, Rachel lifted both and Jason during training.
- Magic: Most of Rachel’s powers are derived of dark magic but she uses the skills in magic to help people.
Abilities
- Indomitable Will: Raven is empowered with extreme willpower, being the only member of the Titans to break free from Trigon's control and face him during their final confrontation. Her true soul self hidden underneath the darkness is her White Raven persona, her inner light and purity.
- Skilled Combatant: During her training with Dick Grayson and Jason Todd, Raven learned how to defend herself whenever her powers are useless. She defended herself against Rose Wilson, a highly skilled combatant trained by the deadly assassin Deathstroke. She later evaded sword strikes from several Amazonians while blindfolded.
- Skilled Swordsman: Rachel has become an extremely skilled swords woman due to her studies on the island of the Amazons. She was able to fight with a sword when training with several amazonians, managing to incapacitate all of them while blindfolded.
Weaknesses
- Emotions: Raven has to keep her emotions in check in order to keep control of her powers
Relationships
Family
- Trigon † - Father and Victim
- Angela Azarath † - Mother
- Melissa Roth † - Adoptive Mother
Allies
- Titans - Teammates and Friends
- Dick Grayson/Robin/Nightwing - Leader, Mentor, Father Figure and Resurrectee
- Koriand'r/Starfire - Teammate, Savior, Friend and Mother Figure
- Gar Logan/Beast Boy - Best Friend and Love Interest
- Conner/Superboy - Close Friend
- Krypto - Friend
- Donna Troy/Wonder Girl - Former Teammate and Friend
- Bruce Wayne/Batman - Provider
- Dawn Granger/Dove - Former Teammate and Friend
- Hank Hall/Hawk † - Former Teammate and Friend
- Dani - Friend
- Rose Wilson / Ravager - Former Teammate and Friend
- Jericho - Former Teammate
- Amazons
- Lydia - Mentor
- Myrrha - Trainer
- Gotham City Police Department
Enemies
- Nuclear Family † - Former Captors and Attempted Killers
- The Acolyte † - Adoptive Mother's Killer and Victim
- Dr. Light
- Slade Wilson/Deathstroke
- Cadmus Laboratories
- Mercy Graves
- Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow - Enemy and Thrall
- Jason Todd/Robin/Red Hood - Former Teammate and Attempted Victim
- Sister Catherine - Former Caretaker and Indirect Attempted Victim
- Caleb † - Indirect Victim
- Doom Patrol
- Niles Caulder - Attempted Experimenter
- HIVE
- Sebastian Blood/Brother Blood
- Mother May-Eye
- Jinx
Trivia
- Rachel's mother Angela, is evil and actually had Rachel with Trigon with her consent when in the comics, they received a child together against Angela's will.
- Rachel is the youngest of the newly formed Titans. In the original series it was Gar instead.
- An arc of Rachel having to face trials in 400 consecutive days on Azarath to defeat Trigon was abandoned after the episode "Trigon" was changed from the Season 1 finale to the Season 2 premiere. Because of this, Rachel easily defeated her father by disintegrating him and struggling with control over her powers the rest of Season 2.
- Similar to Dick, Rachel dislikes pineapple, at least on pizza.
- Like Dawn, Rachel is a fan of Game of Thrones with the addition of Full House.
- While not wearing her traditional costume in the comics, Rachel does wear colors associated with it, such as black, violet and blue and her hoodie in season 1 resembles her cloak in the comics.
- Her short hair in Season 1 resembles her 2003 incarnation. Starting season 2, Rachel has a gem on her forehead, further giving her the appearance of her cartoon counterpart.
- In the first season, it is shown that Rachel is wearing a ruby pendant shaped like a diamond, highly resembling the gem on her forehead from the original comics.
- Like Kory and Gar, Rachel resembles her comic book counterpart and 2003 iteration whenever her powers are active, i.e. the grey skin and black eyes.
- During the events of Season 2, Rachel is sixteen years old. However, in real life, Rachel's acted, Teagan Croft was only thirteen when she began portraying Raven.
- Not counting Dick's teammates from before 2013, Raven was the first Titan and character to deduce that Dick was secretly Robin, followed by Tim Drake
- Titans marks the live-action debut of Raven, as all previous incarnations (Raven from Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go!DC Super Hero Girls, etc.) have only been in animation.
- Like her cartoon and comic book counterparts, Rachel takes the form of White Raven
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