Raven

Raven is one of the longest serving members of the Teen Titans, in various incarnations of the team.

Raven is the half-breed daughter of a human mother named Arella and the interdimensional demon Trigon.

She grew up in an alternate dimension called Azarath, with pacifistic inhabitants whose spiritual leader was the mystic Azar.

She was taught to "control her emotions" by Azar, in order to suppress her inherited demonic powers.

During this time, Raven rarely saw her mother and grew detached from her.

Upon Azar's death, Arella began the task of raising and teaching Raven.

Around this same time, she met her father face to face for the first time. Soon after her 16th birthday, Raven learned that Trigon planned to come to her dimension; she vowed to stop him.

Raven initially approached the Justice League, but they refused her on the advice of Zatanna, who sensed her demonic parentage.

In desperation, she reformed the Titans as the New Teen Titans to fight her father.

The team consisted of Robin, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, Starfire, Cyborg, and Beast Boy.

Raven and her new friends later came to think of one another as family.

Trigon soon kidnapped Raven to his home dimension.

The team defeated Trigon and sealed him in an interdimensional prison with the help of Arella, who stayed at the interdimensional door as Trigon's Guardian.

However, Raven continued to fight her father's influence, as he was not completely destroyed.

For a period of time, Raven lost control several times in stressful situations, but managed to regain control before Trigon could assert himself.

Eventually, Trigon escaped his prison, came to Earth, and took control of Raven, destroying Azarath in the process.

The Titans were manipulated to kill Raven, thereby allowing the souls of Azarath contained inside the ring of Azar to possess her and use her as a channel to kill Trigon.

After this battle, Raven rose from the ashes, purged of Trigon's evil, and vanished.

After Raven's disappearance, Arella went around the world in search of Raven. She tracked her down but both of them were kidnapped by Brother Blood.

The minions of Brother Blood used Raven to control Nightwing (the former Robin) as part of Blood's plans.

The Titans rescued them both and prevented Brother Blood from returning to power.

Free to experience emotions herself, Raven found she was able to not only sense, but control others' emotions.

She learned to handle this power only after unintentionally making Nightwing believe that he loved her when she thought that she was in love with him.

Raven also fostered a relationship with technopath Eric Forrester, who was using the life force of women he seduced to regain some of his lost humanity.

Forrester knew that Raven's soul-self could help him to permanently retain his humanity.

This attempt was cut short by the intervention of Joseph Wilson (Jericho), who helped Raven overcome her love for Forrester by destroying him and saving herself.

Raven was later kidnapped by the Wildebeest Society during the "Titans Hunt" storyline.

The Wildbeest, led by the Trigon-possessed souls of Azarath, were going to use several Titans to bring about the return of Trigon.

During a massive battle, Raven was possessed by the evil souls and once again became the evil doppelgänger of her father.

Arella, along with Danny Chase, used the power of Azar's soul to cleanse Raven; in the result, her body was destroyed, and Arella and Danny sacrificed themselves and joined the cleansed souls of Azarath to become Phantasm.

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