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creator_raven) wrote2005-12-16 10:28 am
creator_raven) wrote2005-12-16 10:28 am
Eighteen million things about Raven, the pocket edition
1) Raven likes everyone. He really does. Mostly because they are interesting and silly and constantly getting themselves into trouble. The more trouble they get themselves into, the more he likes them. Hey, he never said he was nice. Or kind.
2) Raven loves Ace. Full stop. He finds it difficult to say, mostly because people use it for all sorts of reasons, and none of them ever quite match up with his. Add this to the list of things Raven doesn't understand.
3) Coyote is also in a class by her own. She's not his lover, and she's not his sister and she's not his friend. She's something else altogether. It can't quite be summed up as Raven is Coyote's and Coyote is Raven's, because that's really inaccurate. He calls her, somewhere in his head, his other self, and while that's not quite right, either, it's the best way to describe how he feels.
4)Raven does not particularly think of the other trickster-types as family. They don't know him well enough, he doesn't know them well enough, and he's not really driven to change that. They are in some of the same lines of work, and sometimes it's nice to talk to people who don't attempt to fit you into the human mold. They try to fit you into other molds, however, which explains why Raven largely keeps his distance. Again, Coyote is an exception.
5) Raven wants to die. Or, rather, he wants to be finished, and able to rest.
6) At the same time, given his pride and his vanity and the fact that he likes humans, Raven firmly believes that no one and nothing else could perform the function he performs--which is, basically, to set things right (and to teach, a little). So he won't leave until near the very end of things, because he just doesn't trust anyone else not to screw it up. And, you know, he likes people. Maybe even loves them. For a given value of love.
7) Raven is quite mad. However, he has long fostered his own relative lack of temper, and so he can control the escape of the crazy fairly easily when he's not pissed off. He cannot, however, keep a lid on the rage and the crazy at the same time.
8) He has never had sex. This does not mean, however, that he does not know how it works, why it works, and how to use it to his advantage. He just doesn't see why he should bother.
9) Raven is always hungry. He could eat every minute of every day and still want more. This is because there is rather a lot of him packed into that body, and it tends to burn itself away from the inside out. Something needs to replace that, otherwise he'd need someone to make him a new body every morning.
10) By virtue of his capacity to create worlds, Raven is not capable of creating his own body. Bodies he makes have lives and personalities of their own. He doesn't mind this, really. Again, he likes people. And making things.
11) Displacement is one of his coping tools, to one degree or another.
12) He likes the color blue. It reminds him of the sky.
13) He is neither as stupid nor as flighty as he sounds and looks.
2) Raven loves Ace. Full stop. He finds it difficult to say, mostly because people use it for all sorts of reasons, and none of them ever quite match up with his. Add this to the list of things Raven doesn't understand.
3) Coyote is also in a class by her own. She's not his lover, and she's not his sister and she's not his friend. She's something else altogether. It can't quite be summed up as Raven is Coyote's and Coyote is Raven's, because that's really inaccurate. He calls her, somewhere in his head, his other self, and while that's not quite right, either, it's the best way to describe how he feels.
4)Raven does not particularly think of the other trickster-types as family. They don't know him well enough, he doesn't know them well enough, and he's not really driven to change that. They are in some of the same lines of work, and sometimes it's nice to talk to people who don't attempt to fit you into the human mold. They try to fit you into other molds, however, which explains why Raven largely keeps his distance. Again, Coyote is an exception.
5) Raven wants to die. Or, rather, he wants to be finished, and able to rest.
6) At the same time, given his pride and his vanity and the fact that he likes humans, Raven firmly believes that no one and nothing else could perform the function he performs--which is, basically, to set things right (and to teach, a little). So he won't leave until near the very end of things, because he just doesn't trust anyone else not to screw it up. And, you know, he likes people. Maybe even loves them. For a given value of love.
7) Raven is quite mad. However, he has long fostered his own relative lack of temper, and so he can control the escape of the crazy fairly easily when he's not pissed off. He cannot, however, keep a lid on the rage and the crazy at the same time.
8) He has never had sex. This does not mean, however, that he does not know how it works, why it works, and how to use it to his advantage. He just doesn't see why he should bother.
9) Raven is always hungry. He could eat every minute of every day and still want more. This is because there is rather a lot of him packed into that body, and it tends to burn itself away from the inside out. Something needs to replace that, otherwise he'd need someone to make him a new body every morning.
10) By virtue of his capacity to create worlds, Raven is not capable of creating his own body. Bodies he makes have lives and personalities of their own. He doesn't mind this, really. Again, he likes people. And making things.
11) Displacement is one of his coping tools, to one degree or another.
12) He likes the color blue. It reminds him of the sky.
13) He is neither as stupid nor as flighty as he sounds and looks.
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:(
*cuddles him*
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And God help us all if she ever finds out about Blodwen.
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Amen. *said fervently*
(Although we should probably talk soon, at this rate.)
Anyway, Raven is fascinating and complex and altogether delightful, and makes me wibble and laugh and hide in fear and applaud wildly.