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This meme looks like fun.

And god knows I can expound on inter-character relationships for hours.

So. Have at!

Name either a character or a relationship between characters (not necessarily romantic) from canons I know and/or Milliways and I will a.) give my rambling opinion of him/her/it and b.) tell you one thing I really like about him/her/it.

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Okay! This one took a while! Because HOMG RAVEN. *g*

Raven in-bar is bags full of crazy, which comes out a little in his speech patterns, and also the ways he reacts in moments of extreme stress. HI MAD LAUGHTER. What I wanted to do with him was imagine what happens to a mythic creature when they world they inhabited is gone, and how they cope. Which, I think, explains where I was starting off with right there, and may go some lengths to explaining how all the bar-stuff actually went, and why.

Anyway, I digress.

Raven is a very difficult thing to get close to, in large part because he DOES love everybody--it's just not an immediately personal love, except for a rare few people. Ace, for one. Moiraine for another. Coyote too. And Adam (and kind of Alanna by proxy, they're working on it). He is not safe, not really, though there are ways in which he is utterly trustworthy. Like I say in the one part of backstory I have in his LJ, early on--Raven always helps. It's just usually in the long-term, or in demonstrating by BAD EXAMPLE what it is stupid to do.

He speaks in weird English because he has traveled so much that he gets languages confused, and so the grammatical structure bears no resemblence to any actual grammar structure that I know of. I hope no one wants to kill me for that. It's also a side-effect of his buckets o'crazy, in some ways.

He's very empathetic, he just hides it very well behind the jokey careless exterior, though he does, indeed, often think misfortune is funny. Because people get so ridiculous in how they cope with it, a lot of the time.

Raven can be ruthless, especially when it comes to teaching. He is not a 'soft' teacher, and hands on rubbing your face in it lessons are something he's very good at. Mostly because that is how HE learns, himself. He has absolutely no shame. None. He also has no sexuality whatsoever, in large part because he is made of clay and biology is annoying. That and he tends to get possessive, so not getting attached to someone in that regard is probably safer for a whole boatload of people, not least being him.

He's sort of adopted Milliways as 'home' by default, in large part because the people he likes/loves are there a lot, and in part because he is . . . from the end of the world himself. That's how he got there, and that's why his door opens on to what is really outside Milliways.

It's also why Raven's timeline is non-linear, because he still has a lot to do and a lot of people to meet/help/terrify/annoy. But that's why he is tired a lot of the time, and why he has a deathwish, and why he is so fond of Death herself.

Also--re: Nyarla plot. Dream has the keeping of all the memories Raven does not remember having. And he relives them in dreams when he does sleep, which he does not need to do all that often. But he does it because he likes it, he likes reliving those things he does not remember on awakening. And that is why Nyarla had the memory-pearl thing, and why Bad Things happened after. Not for Raven so much, as for the people that love him as Raven and not as the spirit that he was way back in the early days.

For that one I went off the Raven creation story that has his 'mother' swallow a red hot stone, and give birth to Raven nine months later. Thing.

And I think I have rambled enough on Raven's origins and sort of the stuff I put into making up his personality! Whee?