Character Analysis: Raven
Along with the bountiful amounts of Bellarke in S4E03, it contained a crap ton of character development and/or interesting tidbits about the characters. Since I’m a complete nerd, I decided to do a quick(ha lol no) analysis of each character. Here’s the one for Raven! Hope y’all like it =)
Raven: my sweet angel baby Raven. To many viewers, she’s either a cold-hearted bitch or the only one thinking ahead for the long run. I can’t accept that she’s any of the two. This season is the first time Raven has had real leadership thrust on her, and it’s more difficult than it seems, like we saw in the last episode, Heavy Lies The Crown. She’s never had to make life or death decisions before, and she’s thinking in the long run, realistically thinking that the 28 doses will be more necessary for when the planet is radiated. Raven is a mechanic. She uses her logic and instinct first, emotions second, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have emotions. She cried over the girl dying, over being accused a murderer, she felt the grief. But I still think that she believes that she was right in the situation; after all, that is still one less dose of medicine. Keep up with me here - I get this feeling that she’s the only one who really and truly thinks they can survive this. Raven has gone through so much shit, through absolute hell: the guilt of knowing it was her who got Finn locked up, coming back down to the ground to find the guy she’d loved all her life screwing some chick she just met, that first surgery Abby had to give without sedatives to get the bullet out, dealing with the pain in her leg as well as not being able to use it, bone marrow extraction, the City of Light and back, the torture she was put through by ALIE, and that’s just a brief summary. She’s arguably one of the most persistent and persevering characters on the show, and because of her nature, she genuinely believes that they’ll get through the radiation, that doing anything to endanger that is wrong, as Abby did with the meds for the child. All the same, she’s coming into her own as a leader, not just the mechanic who’s useful. With that, we see her learning throughout the episode, that the matters of life and death aren’t so clean cut, that maybe Clarke isn’t the ruthless Wanheda that many mistake her for.
