raina rivera raina rivera • aka rae • november 26, 1994 • 25 • sagittariusslytherinentp-achaotic neutral8w7 • born in: austin, tx • current residence: san francisco • relationship status: loved • kinsey 5 • employment status: burlesque performer at malkia, cam girl quick factscomicverse + tie insincentivescontact

RAINA RIVERA WAS BORN IN AUSTIN, TEXAS TO LUCAS AND SARAH RIVERA AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF INFERTILITY TREATMENTS AND FAILED IMPLANTATIONS. LUCAS RIVERA WAS THE WELL-RESPECTED MINISTER IN A LOCAL EVANGELICAL CATHOLIC CHURCH, WHILE SARAH, A FORMER ACCOUNTANT, PUT HER CAREER ON HOLD TO RAISE HER DAUGHTER. THE RIVERAS WERE DEVOUT IN THEIR FAITH AND LIVED THEIR LIVES ACCORDING TO THE GOOD BOOK, LEAVING LITTLE ROOM FOR INTERPRETATION. TO HIS CONGREGATION, LUCAS WAS PASSIONATE AND KIND -- THE DOTING FATHER AND LOVING HUSBAND WHO LIVED HIS LIFE BY HIS FAITH. AT HOME, HE WAS OFTEN COLD AND UNFORGIVING; A CHAUVINISTIC EGOIST WHO RULED WITH A BIBLICAL IRON FIST.

LUCAS’S PASSIONATE SERMONS BEGAN TO GAIN STATE-WIDE NOTORIETY, AND SOON HE HAD MOVED FROM HIS SMALL LOCAL CONGREGATION TO A BOOMING CATHOLIC CHURCH IN DALLAS. IT WAS HERE THAT HE BEGAN WORKING THE TELEVISED CIRCUIT, PERFORMING ON LOCAL AND STATEWIDE PUBLIC ACCESS CHANNELS TO CHURCH-GOERS ACROSS TEXAS. SOON, HE WAS A LOCAL CELEBRITY. BELIEVERS BEGAN PULLING HIM ASIDE AT DINERS AND MOVIE THEATERS FOR BLESSINGS AND PRAYERS, ALL OF WHICH ONLY SERVED TO EXACERBATE HIS ALREADY MASSIVE EGO.

RAINA WAS THE APPLE OF HER FATHER’S EYE. AS A CHILD, SHE THRIVED UNDER HIS RIGID SET OF RULES AND HIGH EXPECTATIONS. ONCE SHE REACHED HIGH SCHOOL, LUCAS ENROLLED HER AT URSULINE ACADEMY -- A PRESTIGIOUS (AND EXPENSIVE) ALL GIRL’S SCHOOL IN AUSTIN -- WITH HOPES OF KEEPING HER AWAY FROM THE TEMPTATION OF THE OPPOSITE SEX. SCHOLASTICALLY, SHE DID WELL. SHE WAS BY NO MEANS CLASSICALLY BOOKSMART AND OFTEN KEPT LATE NIGHTS STUDYING WITH HER ROOMMATE, A ROUTINE THAT SERVED HER WELL UNTIL THE TWO OF THEM WERE CAUGHT INTERTWINED IN ONE SET OF SHEETS BY THEIR ENGLISH PROFESSOR AFTER MISSING AN EXAM.

THE CONSEQUENCES OF HER ACTIONS WERE NOT SUBTLE. LUCAS, IN THE MIDDLE OF SIGNING A LUCRATIVE, NATIONWIDE BROADCASTING DEAL BASED OUT OF CALIFORNIA, IMMEDIATELY WITHDREW HER FROM THE ACADEMY, KICKSTARTING THE PROCESS OF RELOCATING THE TWO OF THEM TO LOS ANGELES. RAINA’S TIES WITH HER ROOMMATE WERE SUDDENLY AND IRREVOCABLY SEVERED, LEAVING HER WITH A MASS OF COMPLICATED FEELINGS AND NO OUTLET UNDER HER FATHER'S OPPRESSIVE CONTROL AND NEWLY WATCHFUL EYE IN WHICH TO VENT THEM.

MOVING TO LIBERAL AND FREE LOS ANGELES DIDN’T HELP. LUCAS SIGNED A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR DEAL WITH A CABLE BROADCASTING COMPANY, BECOMING ONE OF THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE EVANGELICAL PREACHERS IN THE COUNTRY WHILE RAINA, FRUSTRATED AND ANGRY WITH HER FATHER AND HIS UNBENDING RULE SET, BEGAN TO PUSH BACK. THEY WERE SMALL DALLIANCES AT FIRST; STAYING OUT THIRTY MINUTES PAST CURFEW, DRINKING A WINE COOLER AFTER CHEERLEADING PRACTICE, KISSING A BOY BEHIND THE BLEACHERS. THE RESENTMENT THAT SHE FELT TOWARD HER FATHER GREW UNTIL SHE HAD BUILT A METAPHORICAL WALL BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM, CUTTING HIM OFF FROM ANY AND ALL KNOWLEDGE OF HER PERSONAL LIFE.

RAE SPENT A LOT OF TIME CHANNELING HER ENERGY INTO SONG AND PLAYING COFFEE HOUSES AND SMALL GIGS WHILE CONVINCING HERSELF THAT SHE COULD MAKE A LIVING AS A RECORDING ARTIST. TRUTHFULLY, SHE SPENT MORE OF HER TIME AT INDUSTRY PARTIES THAN SHE DID AUDITIONING FOR SHOWS, AND IT TOOK A SHOCKINGLY SMALL AMOUNT OF FAILURE FOR HER TO RELEGATE HER PASSION FOR MUSIC AS NOTHING MORE THAN A HOBBY. WHEN SHE WAS 19, SHE THREW A MIDDLE FINGER TO THE WIND AND MOVED TO SAN FRANCISCO WITH HER GIRLFRIEND. THINGS UNRAVELED, AS THEY OFTEN DO, BUT RATHER THAN ADMIT DEFEAT, RAINA CHOSE TO STAY IN THE BAY AREA AND MAKE HER OWN WAY.

SAN FRANCISCO WAS EXACTLY THE CHANGE OF PACE AND SCENERY THAT SHE NEEDED. WITH THE YEARS LIVING UNDER HER FATHER'S DOMINEERING EYE FIRMLY BEHIND HER, SHE FINALLY FELT LIKE SHE WAS ABLE TO COME INTO HER OWN. TO BE HERSELF. ACCESS TO HER TRUST FUND PAYS HER RENT WITH MORE THAN ENOUGH LEFT OVER TO SPOIL HERSELF, BUT SHE EARNS MONEY ON THE SIDE BY BARTENDING A FEW NIGHTS A WEEK. THE JOB IS LESS ABOUT CAREER MOTIVATION AND MORE ABOUT THE SOCIAL INTERACTION THAT COMES WITH IT, AND MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, SHE CAN BE FOUND CHATTING UP (SEE ALSO: FLIRTING WITH) THE CLIENTELE INSTEAD OF POURING PINTS. HER SPOT BEHIND THE BAR TIPPED HER OFF TO AN OPEN SLOT IN A LOCAL BAND, ALLOWING HER TO FINALLY EMBRACE HER MUSICAL SIDE AGAIN WITHOUT THE PRESSURE OF TRYING TO MAKE IT IN LOS ANGELES. SHE'S ALSO TAKEN CHARGE OF HER SEXUALITY BY WORKING ANONYMOUSLY AS A CAM GIRL WITH A WELL-KNOWN ONLYFANS ACCOUNT, WEARING MASKS AND WIGS IN ORDER TO HIDE HER IDENTITY.

THOUGH IT'S BEEN A LONG ROAD, SHE DOESN'T FEEL QUITE AS STAGNANT AND RUDDERLESS AS SHE DID BEFORE. SHE'S ABLE TO LIVE COMFORTABLY WHILE DOING WHAT SHE LOVES TO DO -- AND ISN'T THAT THE ULTIMATE GOAL?

tidbits
• fluent in english and portuguese. her father imigrated to the US from brazil when he was 5 and raina was raised multilingual.

• hasn't spoken with her father in over a year. no texts, no birthday cards, nothing. he still funnels money into her trust fund, which she is able to live comfortably off of.

• married her girlfriend, arwen isley, impulsively at age 18. the marriage was annulled quickly afterward, and she doesn't ever bring it up. still has the ring, though. 10/10.

• suffers from a major case of resting bitch face and often comes off cold and distant because of it. fiercely loyal to her friends (sometimes to a fault).

• obsessively organized in her living space, a complete dumpster fire of chaos in her day-to-day life. while her closet is color coded and sorted by season, she doesn't keep any kind of agenda, and is notorious for missing dates and engagements.

• plays guitar in a local band.
family

storylines
Raven (Rachel Roth)

Raven was born the half-breed daughter of a human mother named Angela Roth and the demon overlord Emperor Trigon. She was conceived when her mother ran away from home and joined a cult, which then summoned the demon lord Trigon, who raped her.

Angela Roth, going by Arella, retreated to an alternate dimension where Raven was born and raised in the pacifistic reality called Azarath. Growing up, Raven was taught to "control her emotions" by the Azar and the Azarathian monks in order to suppress and control her inherited demonic powers.

Eventually she learned that Trigon was planning to come to her dimension and vowed to stop him. She 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 was eventually able to defeat Trigon and seal him in an inter-dimensional prison. However, Raven still had to fight her father's influence, as he was not completely destroyed. More than once, Raven nearly lost control in various high stress situations in her adventures and barely regained it before Trigon could reassert himself. Compounding the problem was the death of Azar, who had by now passed away from old age and Raven was left bereft of her support. [read more]


TIE-INS
• initials (RR) are the same as raven's alias (rachel roth)

• has an absent mother whom she does not share a relationship with.

• has major daddy issues. has lived her life as a constant source of disappointment to her father.

• both are skilled martial artists, with raina taking classes in different fighting styles as well as meditation.

• both have fathers who are.... extremists.

• share a common tattoo of a raven on their lower back.




POINT OF CANON Pulled from DC's New earth.
INCENTIVES (Locked)

ABILITIES ⦿ astral projection
     Soul-Self

⦿ dimensional travel
     ◦ teleportation

⦿ empathy
     emotion negation
     empathetic healing

⦿ Master Marial Artist
⦿ Flight
⦿ Telekinesis
⦿ Meditation

LOCATIONS ⦿ Titans Tower

MEMORIES (IN AU) ⦿ Raven
⦿ Teen Titans
⦿ Azarath
⦿ Trigon

INCENTIVES (Unlocked)
🔑 - unlocked in cv     - unlocked in cv and au
ABILITIES
LOCATIONS
MEMORIES (IN AU)