#Raven anon it is

[exculpateinteractivefiction]

"Greatest achievement: Befriending MC" STOP IM GONNA CRYBF-

I cannot WAIT for the angst train when you release the IF I'm already in love with Mav hfhdsuhfibfs

My question for the ROs (so long as it's not a spoiler): What do they want to hear, need to hear, and/or fear hearing from the MC?

-- Maverick lover anon (can I go by. Idk. Raven anon?)

Mav

Wants: “We never stopped being friends.”

Needs: “You could be the weakest person in existence and I’d still love you.”

Fears: “Why can’t you fix it/save them? Aren’t you supposed to be the strongest?”

Carmen

Wants: “I admire your dedication to the job.”

Needs: “You’re worth more than this.”

Fears: “You’re such a suck up. I don’t even know why I bothered…”

Juno

Wants: “I’m sorry I left. I know how hard all of this is on you.”

Needs: “You’re more than your ability.”

Fears: “You can’t save everyone - there’s no point in trying.”

Silas

Wants: “I love you.”

Needs: “You’re allowed to be upset. Who wouldn’t be?”

Fears: “What’s wrong with you?”

Payton

Wants: “I’m impressed at how much you’ve improved *insert time consuming skill*!”

Needs: “You’re parents would be proud of you.”

Fears: “You’re so selfish.”

Amari

Wants: “You’re a good person.”

Needs: “Of course I love you. Why wouldn’t I?”

Fears: “I don’t regret any of it.”

#Raven anon it is #even if mav obsessed anon has a ring to it (/j) #answered #answered ask #ask #exculpate #exculpate if #all ros #amari #carmen #if: exculpate #if:exculpate #mav #Silas #Payton #Juno

[hexadonis]

special art i made for the first buyers of my trc sketchbook zine! the book is still available in my bio link if anyone wants to check it out:)

#ty anon for reminding me to post #my art #trc #the raven cycle #blue sargent #gansey #adam parrish #ronan lynch #trc fanart #pynch #bluesey

[mysterycitrus]

i love your art sm!! have you ever drawn raven?

the 80s girlfriends of all time

#every time i draw kory she gets more saturated #starfire #raven #teen titans #koriand'r #rachel roth #starrae #ig? #dc comics #4 u sweet anon #mart #the ask and the answer #nerd x jock core

[adamprrishcycle]

adam had so much potencial as a villain like he is smart, powerful and has every reason to revolt against the humanity

Oh adam parrish’s potential to be BAD is my favourite topic everrrr and his villain arc would’ve been so justified. It reminds me of the horror movie twins scene when they give greenmantle the envelope and greenmantle ~the villain~ is completely unnerved by adam and his dead eye expression. I think if adam hadn’t found gansey and by extension ronan, noah and blue things would’ve gone v differently for him (and the worst thing that could happen is they stop being friends I know I know but were we robbed??)

#adam parrish #trc #anon #ask #the raven cycle

[androgynealienfemme]

transmisogyny = intersection of transphobia and misogyny.

transphobia towards trans men assuming they're women = transphobia. the misogyny is due to transphobia. it is just transphobia. you want to be oppressed so bad

This makes absolutely no sense lmao. If transphobia towards trans men is also the intersection of transphobia and misogyny than transphobia towards trans men would be transmisogyny but it’s not, because transmisogyny refers to transphobia and misogyny aimed at trans women. Hence why transphobia + misogyny towards trans men is called Transandrophobia. The misogyny isn’t “due to transphobia”, the misogyny is entwined with the transphobia. They are tied together.

“You want to be oppressed so bad”…. Anon… do you think transmasc people are not oppressed? Do you think trans men are not oppressed? What??????

#this is an insane anon #anon #the ravens have arrived #Transandrophobia #so do trans men face transphobia or are they not even oppressed? which is it?

[kvrlsefni]

Hello *Kicks the door down* I SEE YOU'RE SEARCHING FOR REQUESTS. You know how snezhnaya is kinda based on Russia? Imagine the the harbingers teaching darling Russian. Reading stories for columbina, pantalone pressing his chest to your back while holding your hand to teach you how to write a letter you had problem with, sitting on Pietro's laps and read him his reports,.. yeah just that. Feel free to ignore this ofc! Have a nice day :] ~Raven anon

the harbingers’ little darling ♡

♤ OMG HELLO !! JAISJWJEJ okAY I AM ABT TO SLEEP BUT I CANNOT STOP THINKING OF THIS AKDNWJSK THAT’S FR SO CUTE??? also i hope u don’t mind but i branched it out a little more and made the language more general like hinting at several if that’s alright ! ;0 it’s ,,, also this is part one (maybe), since i was getting tired and i wanted to post this alr😭

♤ unedited because it’s 4:40am

you’d be unofficially known as the harbingers’ darling. they all kinda almost don’t trust each other and don’t really agree on anything with each other outside of work, but they really start to get along when it concerns you! i’d imagine like they all have a meeting, and sadly, because you aren’t a harbinger, you can’t take part in it. but that’s okay! you fr have your own little waiting room they made for you. it has comfy seats and a nice view of the outside, and it’s got bookshelves and a small fireplace. it’s really near their meeting room too!

after their meeting (of course, this being a given that it’s not like they have an immediate mission they have to go to at once), the doors immediately open, and this was your sign that you could now enter since their business was now finished.

of course, this isn’t limited only to spending time with all of them at once! each and every one of them at one point, depending on their schedules, love to spent time with you one and one or with a few others as well (though they really would prefer if it was just you two…).

columbina, i like to think, is the one who actively searches for you the most. she loves to hold your hand as you two walk around either at the palace of anywhere for that fact! she also loves it when you two are just in her office or in the garden, sitting around while you two chatter with each other. sometimes, when you two are in her room, she makes you sit down and fixes your hair while she sings for you or you read her a story! after which, she’ll dress you up in clothes she bought the day before or so because they reminded her of you! she also sometimes teaches you new songs to sing in new languages.

if not columbina, then it’s dottore who also actively searches for you as well! he’s always excited to bring you with him when he’s doing his little experiments (though maybe the less extreme ones), and he loves it when you ask him all sorts of questions! it ranges from asking what he’s doing to who’s he doing it to to why he’s doing it. sometimes he doesn’t give you a proper answer on why, or it’s a really plain answer like he felt like it or something, but you liked how excited and fired up he got from doing them, so you liked it when he did them!

whenever you bump into childe, he always asks you how you are! he asks who you were with before you two bumped into each other, and he asks you if you want to hang out with him. he likes to sometimes asks you if you want to practice sparring with him, or he asks if you want him to teach you some new tricks and moves he learned. capitano usually is who opposes this. capitano likes to spoil you and he treats you the gentlest out of all the harbingers, handling you like you were a doll that might break if handled too recklessly. that’s why he’s so against it whenever he’s walking around and he sees you sparring with childe and the 11th is getting a little too worked up. immediately, capitano will pull you aside and say it’s his turn to be with you.

a lot of the time, you find yourself wandering the palace whenever the other harbingers are out. you love it here! it’s so pretty and big and you love to explore! however, sometimes when you do, you find yourself in the presence of the ninth, who for whatever reason, is one of the few who stay here the most.

truth be told, you just love listening to pantalone! you always found his voice so soothing and relaxing, and he always greets you with a smile even when he’s busy with the finances in his office. he’s one of the busiest, having been tasked with dealing with all the finances and so of the fatui, but the few times he’s free for you, he loves to spend spoiling you! pantalone also has a habit of asking you to help him out a little bit in terms of getting him certain books and whatnot. this sometimes leads to him asking if you can understand the language it’s in, and if you can, he praises you and if not, he’ll smile and pat your head, saying it’s okay, and if you’d ever like to learn in the future, he’ll teach you.

of course you go with learning-

learning how to read in those new languages proved to be useful whenever you were with pierro! whenever he’s busy with paperwork or so but you just insist on spending time with him (which, he can has a hard time refusing sometimes), they prove to be useful when you’re reading some reports to him while he’s signing or checking other works! he doesn’t like having any other chair in his office (except for the couch he placed inside for you), so often times, he lets you sit on his lap while you read to him, and he strokes your hair!!

#[ ii. juno’s works ] #[ mail: raven anon ] #genshin impact #genshin #genshin impact x reader #genshin x reader #fatui harbingers x reader #pantalone x reader #childe x reader #dottore x reader #capitano x reader #pierro x reader #columbina x reader #fatui harbingers

[inqua]

baby Lucius with the little hat..... so cute....... my own has the fake taguel ears uvu. him bnunny

HIM BNUNNY!!! i like to put the spring bunny ears on him sometimes too it's SO BABY 🥺🌼🐰

#lucius #raven #fire emblem #fe7 #feh #fe #doodle #inquart #anon #ask #inquask

[sinful-lanterns]

Ahem... Now that's Valentine's Day pray for Reader because their schedule for the day is packed.

The whole club organized soooo many activities or gift for them (and they fought at least 30 minutes for people's order)

Here's someone I thought about:

Breakfast prepared lovingly by our Cinnabae (Imagine a heart shaped pancakes something or like that)

Cuddles or a romantic dance with Hamel either in our dorm or hers

Afternoon with Bai Yi and karaoke (only for you two so she can show off her skills failing)

Lunch with Eirene and Dinner with Chelsea that rent a WHOLE restaurant for us (bonus point if they put some piano music on the background)

Spending the night with Stargazer looking and admiring her the starry sky

-🐾

HELP. POOR READER’S SCHEDULE IS SO JAM PACKED 😨

As an introvert, this is super intimidating but ykw, ILL DO IT FOR THE PTN WOMEN. I’m gushing over Cinnabar making Reader heart shaped pancakes tbh 🥺 I think she’d even drizzle some of the syrup/honey across the stack like a love arrow through the heart…

Also Eirene and Chelsea renting out a whole restaurant just for them and Reader is so extra, but they’d definitely do it. Same with Cabernet and the other rich women, though I can see Cabernet just skipping past dinner and devouring Reader instead for Valentine’s Day.

Besides that however, KARAOKE WITH BAI YI. Imagine her drunkenly singing you love songs while looking at you with that dumb, yet smitten look in her eyes. All the PTN women are just so…in love with you. You truly make them happy and they want to spend as much time with you as they can. (Before the other women get to you first)

#⛓️ interrogation complete #🐾 anon #university au #adding on #imagine coquelic making the garden girls get her the biggest and prettiest bouquet for you #poor sumire and garofano are spent arranging this giant ass bouquet for you #but luckily it’s from coquelic AND them #also imagine raven sending you so many love letters to cram into your backpack #not only raven tho #all the ptn women send you letters #but raven takes up the majority LMAO

[squash1]

An essay on what makes Gansey, Gansey.

Go.

okay. strap in.

in this essay i will examine how, ultimately, what makes gansey, gansey is his experience with death at an early age and how that is fundamentally about a loss of childhood.

to understand what makes gansey, gansey you have to look at gansey’s two lives. gansey was born into a wealthy family — the kind of family that passes down names father to son and has buildings then built in that name. until gansey was 10, we can assume he fit into this affluent world without issue. little gansey was most likely a spoiled little rich kid — not a bad person but inherently out of touch because of the reality he was born into. when gansey dies the first time, it changes his perception of reality — he has an understanding of time and mortality that most adults don’t have never mind ten year olds. this first death is a representation of an early end to gansey’s childhood. he no longer easily fits into the wealthy, laid back world he was born into. we have to assume that until gansey went to stay with mallory, he was in DC with his parents trying to fit into their world but instead feeling intensely isolated and lonely. because even though gansey changed, his parents didn’t.

mallory is an important figure because of the time he represents in gansey’s life. we know from mallory that at 14 gansey struggled intensely with anxiety, that he hadn’t yet learned to present only his shiny gansey mask to the world. but instead of being dismissive, mallory showed gansey kindness and empathy — he was perhaps gansey’s first friend because sometimes delightfully weird old british men are exactly what a teenager needs. mallory helped gansey in his quest, but he also helped him to discover this new version of himself by making him feel not only safe but like there were other people beyond his parent’s world that would understand this pull and fascination he had.

understanding this backstory is key to understanding what makes gansey, gansey, because an intimate knowledge of death is what has produced this gansey that we meet in the raven boys. the gansey we meet is silly and strange and charming. he uses phrases like “hey, tiger” and drinks organic apple juice from the bottle, he has a favorite yellow sweater and is vocal about his love for it. and that’s just gansey, those are ganseyisms as i like to say. gansey has chosen to live his life with childlike wonder and whimsy because he lost that at an early age but doesn’t want to loose it forever. he has decided to embrace the weird, unknown parts of life. he is essentially reclaiming his time. he’s saying yes i know that there is death and darkness in the world, yes i have seen it first hand, yes i still feel it sometimes but i am going to live my life hopefully. gansey has carved out a life for himself in henrietta — a town that in and of itself makes him feel known, but also contains a piece of his old world in aglionby — and has slowly found people who fit, who feel right, who are 1,000 years old just like him. gansey has been lonely for a lot of his life but he found people who were lonely like he was lonely, that were looking for the something more just like he was looking for the something more. he is a compelling leader not because of money or status, but because his hope and quest and belief are real and made real because of gansey’s relationship to mortality. he has made it his mission to build a life he wants, even if it’s short, even if he’s scared. what makes gansey, gansey is his ability to choose hope anyway, to choose to live anyway.

if you made it this far, i love u

#this is exactly the kind of ask i live for thank you anon <3 #I LOVE GANSEY SM GODDDDDD #richard campbell gansey iii #trc #the raven boys #the dream thieves #blue lily lily blue #the raven cycle #the raven king #the gangsey #gangsey #ronan lynch #adam parrish #blue sargent #pynch #adam and ronan #bluesey #mine #ask

[animatedglittergraphics-n-more]

crow/raven dividers

source▪️base: 1,2 / 3,4 / 5▪️f2u w cr

requested by anon - hi anon 😊 i wasn't able to find any blinkies

#my asks #anon #crow/raven dividers #page dividers #line dividers #dividers #separators #divider #transparent #bird dividers #f2u with credit

[celaenaeiln]

After Death in the Family and Bruce and Dick’s big fight, when was the next time they spoke to each other? Was it with Tim?

They were actually back on talking terms before Tim entered the picture.

Batman (1940) Issue #436

Dick comes back from the Titans because Alfred calls him about Bruce and he checks up on Bruce's life and is like "I gotta go fix this guy right now."

Batman (1940) Issue #436

So he basically tracks him down and ruminates about how Bruce has completely ignored every smart detectiv-ing he taught Dick and is wilding out-

Batman (1940) Issue #437

And then together they solve this massive case about Tony Zucco and some book and by the end of it, things are not entirely normal but much, much better. Almost close to the way it used to be.

Batman (1940) Issue #439

It's also why Bruce was so comfortable calling Dick for help in the "A Lonely Place of Dying" arc because he and Dick were already on good terms

The New Titans (1988) Issue #61

#bruce wayne #batman #dick grayson #nightwing #alfred pennyworth #raven #roy harper #donna troy #koriand'r #cyborg #titans as family #cl anon asks #cl asks #thanks for the ask!

[fallenclan]

curious about something... so for ravenstar's murder of cherrystar, did you sabotage ravenstar and cherrystar's relationship like you did with ravenstar and poppyfeather's, or did you manually kill off cherrystar and write in the lore that ravenstar did it? iirc I'm pretty sure RNG leader murders in clangen are one life at a time, so I'm curious :o

-🦝

i did it manually! i did seriously consider waiting until she lost all but her last life and Then letting the game do it but. i'm too impatient ahgkjah

#fallenasks #raccoon anon #for the people saying 'dont get mad at beetle get made at raven he was the one who did it' #your defense of me is incredibly sweet. however i did do that shit

[starryficsfinishwen]

Ok, I know this is weird but, Lee can  summons Lees from another worldline, right? I saw a fanart with 5 Lees fuck Commandant and it's hot. C-can you write a fanfic like that?

hey, anon, you have absolutely no right to send me this ask WITHOUT THE PIC AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

share your blessings pls, I'd like to see it (for research purposes)

NSFW DOWN BELOW. MINORS DO NOT INTERACT.

[banner by @/cafekitsune]

warnings - NSFW THEMES MENTIONED: multiple penetrations (5 vs. 1), overstimulation, intense seggs. all are consenting parties!!

“Open your mouth wider, Commandant.”

If you had a lot of power right now, you would have asked your construct to stand down. But how, despite your title, despite your power as a commandant—

Your whining made you curl. You were on your knees, in between your thighs, your essence was trickling down and staining the ground. Eyes riddled with tears, you became compliant with the request of the construct standing before you, and graciously opened your mouth.

“Good girl,” Lee praised you, gently patting your head, “Let me reward you.”

Lee wastes no time as he placed his heavy leaking tip of his cock on your awaiting tongue, shaft dragging along your tongue. His pre tasted salty, yet it only spurred you on.

“Tch, you are taking so long,” a familiar voice spoke behind you, “She deserves to be fucked already.”

Peering through your tearful eyes, you watched as clones of Lee walked and slotted themselves beside him— Lee's other dimension selves. Like the one that was in front of you, they all mirrored the same lustful eyes, which made the arousal drop even more down there.

Lee lazily shoves his cock into your mouth, your tears now escaping your eyes as you tried to accommodate the size of him in your mouth. Struggling, you whined more to try and breathe through your nostrils. But Lee is kind enough to put his hand on your head as if guiding you.

“Don't degrade her like that,” your Lee spoke, “she deserves none of that.”

“Oh yeah?” The Lee who spoke first kneeled down, raising your skirt, “You should see this, then.”

Your Lee groans, feeling the tightness of your throat as he shallowly fucks your mouth, “Gently-”

You moaned out of surprise as the other Lee rubbed your bare pussy, “Fuck, you weren't lying; she's so compliant.”

“What a compliant little Commandant.” All the other Lees started to approach you, touching you wherever they could reach.

On your breasts, on your throbbing clit, on your eager hole— you should be saying the safe word by now. You should, not when the other Lees were holding you down, your real Lee still fucking your throat. They were still kind enough to value your release first. Unfamiliar yet honest fingers groping and teasing your sensitive nipples. You felt his mouth on your vibrating clit, two fingers already curling right against a soft spot. They're all the same, sensual touches simultaneously rubbing you in every possible erogenous zone—

You crumbled around Lee's cock, choking out a moan as the other Lee drove you to your first orgasm of the night. As you trekked cloud 9, you heard a chorus of laughter.

“What a good girl you are,” purred one Lee, “you'll give us more, right?”

Oh, you were hungry. Far too hungry for more cock as the first Lee sat you up in his lap, his hard cock rubbing deliciously on your now-overstimulated, quivering pussy.

“L-Lee,” you cried out, weakly holding his shoulders, recovering from your high as you felt more hands on you, “Y-you didn't cum-”

“Is it too much?” You recognize it as your Lee, the familiar, comforting worried tone in his voice, his hand on your cheek, “We can stop if it's too much.”

Immediately, you felt other hands stop, as if obeying to the original Lee. Drunkenly blinking, you only whined a moan as you dragged your pussy on his cock.

“I'm okay,” you breathed, catching your insatiable hunger, briefly remembering that it was your idea in the first place, and you weren't about to back out.

“Just wan' your co-ock,” you slurred, hiccuping when the tip of his cock catches your clit, “in my pussy, in my mouth, wherever you can, I can take it.”

Lee eases you slowly on his hard cock, both of you moaning as he bottoms out inside of you. The familiar foreign touches are back on your body again, letting you lean to your Lee, a cold, lubed finger teasing your asshole. When you looked up from Lee's shoulder, an equally fat cock was presented in front of you, to which you compliantly take it in your mouth. You and your Lee moaned when your hips stuttered as you felt a finger now penetrating your asshole.

“Such a greedy girl,” you heard one of the Lees pipped, as your Lee starts to bounce you on his cock, the same rhythm on your mouth and asshole.

You crumbled once more as you felt another Lee's cock replaced his fingers. You wanted to take a break, but the way all the other Lees, including the one on your pussy, were chasing their own high, you sure were fucked. Literally.

Moaning out Lee's name, you felt him come into your mouth and pussy, a relentless thrusting still on your ass. You cried out, yet you only craved for more. As you felt your eyes clothes, an irregular jerk to your pussy made you clench around him.

“Don't pass out on me yet, Commandant,” Your Lee purred, steady hands holding your hips so tight, “I'm...we're still not done yet.”

You were sure you couldn't walk for a week

— starry

#pgr #punishing gray raven reader #punishing gray raven #punishing gray raven imagines #pgr lee #pgr lee hyperreal #pgr hyperreal #pgr global #ANON DONT FORGET TO SHARE THE PIC #I mean it's possible for 5 lees to fuck us #right?? right????

[fatimajpeg]

Your art is so beautiful!! The illustration of kori in her cute little outfit is so amazing! I was wondering if you had or had considered drawing new teen titans raven? I hope when/if you see this you have a great day!

tysm <3 and yes i have drawn raven <3

#raven #teen titans #ntt #new teen titans #dc #my art #art #fanart #ask #anon #artists on tumblr

[l3viat8an]

i like to think that if any of the demons were to have kids (biologically, not emotionally), the kids' symbolic animal would be similar to their dads. ex, fly papa beel and his butterfly kid or peacock dad lucifer with his hummingbird child

Wait this so cute omg-

Tho Asmo’s child could have spider, which is a little less cute but just as fitting!! (if I remember right spiders are closely related to scorpions because they’re in the arachnid family-)

and imagine Satan’s child is the only one who doesn’t have an animal similar to their dads. They don’t have a regular horse or anything like that. They have a cat- lolol

#really this idea is so cute! #Mammon’s kiddo having a ravens or magpie!- #obey me! #anon! #obey me #om! #obmswd #obey me headcanons #om! hcs #om! headcanons #ro rambles

[actualbird]

What are your headcanons with Raven other than his behavior from other asks :0. for me I think he loses that "Luke" spark/light in his eyes like whenever he goes into work mode like Childe loses his in the abyss.

OHHH what a lovely ask!! thinking abt my hcs for this was rlly fun, so thank you for sending this in, i adore thinking abt raven!luke MWEHEHEHEHE

so here are my General HCs on Raven!Luke (which i realize only after writing everything center a bit on his outwards expression/presentation and aura)

1 ) I AGREE WITH U ON THE LIFELESS LIGHTLESS EYES WHEN LUKE GOES RAVEN!!!

and just to add onto it, this is probably what people around luke also notice first and notice most when he gets like this. after all, luke's demeanor when hes Not in raven mode is just always full of so much energy and vibrance, whether hes exhibiting positive emotions (his happiness is like a sunrise!) or negative ones (his anger is like FIRE FIRE FIRE U CAN SEE IT BURNING IN HIS GAZE) but raven....the light is Gone. people around him know suddenly and horribly—with a mounting sense of dread dripping into their mind like a leaky faucet—that theyre dealing with Something Different

2 ) i think his voice goes cold, deep, and chillingly calm—and stays that way, no matter what

this is where i start to deviate from canon a tad.

i play alternating between both s-cn and jp dub, and between those two i ADORE how the VAs make their voice Different when they make the shift from luke to Raven. jp dub tends to take the deep voice route, while s-cn goes for that coldness that always delights me to hear. i love that, i love being able to hear the shift. though where i deviate from the canon voice acting is that there are moments where Raven gets aggressive or is aiming to intimidate, and that aggression/dominant posturing shows in the voice acting (usually either in a growl kinda element to the voice or in raising one's voice) and....i dont want that to happen as much in my ideal raven hcs jHVHFKJSD.

dont get me wrong i think it is so juicy when it does happen, but the raven i envision stays calm, almost aloof and uncaring, no matter what. you will not be able to get a rise from this guy and you will be able to Hear It. raven's voice stays cold and that temperature, so to speak, doesnt rise

(and i'll explain why in my 5th point, bear with me ok HAHA)

3 ) his movements/actions take on an eerie kind of perfection and confidence

where regular luke brings an endearing personality in everything he does, raven!luke brings a kind of flawlessness that you'd expect not from a person but from a well fashioned weapon.

i feel like the best way to explain this is through comparison so......

luke pearce would take apart a gadget in unrestrained glee. if there was someone to talk to, he'd babble to them about what he finds interesting about the gadget, a few unscrewed screws would roll off his desk and he wouldnt notice for a bit in his sheer focus on the gadget itself, he'd grab a notepad to messily scrawl notes and tuck the pencil behind his ear and then later forget where he put that pencil. luke pearce taking something apart is a scene of enthused discovery.

vs

raven would take apart a gadget with smooth, fluid, silent movements. there is no delight in his gaze, no surmiseable reaction from his expression. you wouldnt be able to tell what hes thinking at all as he goes through the motions, and his motions are clinically perfect. it doesnt feel right to watch a human being and see nothing betrayed in their actions. before you know it, raven's broken the entire device into its key components and taking whatever it is he needed from it. raven taking something apart is a scene of dissection and singleminded purpose.

does that make sense? like, discovery vs dissection, enthusiasm vs disinterest, enjoyment vs utility, and above all—human imperfection vs unnerving perfection.

luke is delightfully messy and bounding with personality in how he moves and acts, you can tell what he likes and enjoys and values in simply how he holds himself. in everything luke does or interacts with, he leaves a part of himself there on it, as he was affected by it and affected it in return. it's like leaving fingerprints of personality on everything he comes across.

raven is the opposite. hes not leaving fingerprints. because thats evidence to implicate and he wouldnt be caught dead making a rookie mistake like that.

4 ) luke is a battering ram but raven is a shadow looming over your shoulder

one of my favorite canon scenes of raven is actually the very first time we see him: in luke's route of Mysteries of the Lost Gold

im talking about the scene where luke first makes contact with joshua ott. so many fun raven things in that scene, but what i wanna highlight was how luke in raven mode intimidated him. first by calmly calmly dislocating one of joshua's fingers, and THEN!! MY FAVORITE FAVORITE BIT!!!!!: by threatening to paralyze him and leave him for someone who will surely kill him

(god thank u to the people over at tot wiki for transcribing this scene here)

this bit, to me, is Peak Raven

he couldve started beating joshua up, we knew by this point already that luke is a combat powerhouse and incredibly strong and was well within his capabilities to be administering much more pain. but he didnt. that, to me, is more the Luke way of going about things.

and thus to me, raven is all about evoking dread and horror in a calm and assured manner.

like, we didnt even know if luke was telling the truth about that syringe containing a muscle relaxant. he Could have been telling the truth, he already did have tranquilizers, but we didnt know. most of the intimidation came from the mere threat alone. something about raven makes you believe that he Will make your nightmares come true, even if he hasnt made them come true yet.

5 ) in general...the Raven in my mind strikes fear into people because people intuitively know theyre dealing with something thats got its heart shut down for a bit

i read an anecdote somewhere i cant remember, but it basically went along the lines of: when youre in the wilderness, if the environment's natural noise—crickets, bugs, distant sounds of mammals scurrying about, birds chirping—if all of that suddenly goes quiet; you are in danger. because it means a predator is nearby.

thats what i imagine Raven's entire aura and manner of presenting to be like

there is no obvious aggression, no anger, no heartbeats raised no adrenaline. these things, to me at least, are more markers of luke than of raven, and every time these things show in raven, thats actually raven breaking character and showing the luke under the cold mask. because luke is human and flawed, there are things that set him off into rage, things that trigger the fear in his heart into fight or flight, things he'll go down kicking and screaming trying to protect in utter desperation. these are emotive qualities, and no matter how volatile emotions can get, theyre also avenues for connection, communication, empathy, etc etc.

the Raven in my mind is devoid of that. and thats exactly what sets people off.

raven doesnt need aggression or excessive force, hes completely confident in his abilities and that the other person will fold. if they dont, he'll make them. he doesnt need anger because he has nothing to be angry about, nothing he values more than getting the job done and thus seemingly nothing to leverage against him. raven doesnt need adrenaline. he wont even have to run. the moment youve seen him—or rather, the moment he sees you—the world suddenly goes quiet in the worst way; you are in danger. a predator is here.

and he already knows hes got you.

#tears of themis #tears of themis headcanons #luke pearce #xia yan #tot luke #asks #anon #SORRY I HAVE A LOT OF THOUGHTS ABT RAVEN AND ALSO....A LOT OF METAPHORS LMAO