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- Pronouns
- She/Her
No official portraits exist of Raven-1, and she does not wear a costume, making positive identification somewhat difficult. Her official army photos depict a woman who looks entirely unremarkable, and if anything a bit bookish.
Pronouns: She/Her
Age: 37
Starting Location: Chicago
Powers: Often considered a Batman, Raven-1 possesses two abilities of note, an intuitive understanding of superhuman powers and their limitations, and the ability to establish a telepathic "tactical net" for several hours at a time. She combines these abilities with a vast well of experience with high explosives, small arms, heavy weapons, leadership, small unit tactics, counterinsurgency doctrine, assassination, force-building, and anti-super techniques, alongside impressive physical fitness.
Faction: Popular Front
Bio: Leah Abrams never expected people to call her "The Super-Killer", nor does she particularly like the label. For one, plenty of people kill those with powers; it's not like it's hard to shoot a man who can control oobleck while he's taking a piss, and someone like Diebackeman has probably killed more supers than Leah ever has. Anyone could do what she does, they just need to have a little skill, some dedication, good work ethic, the right training, proper equipment, and a sprinkling of luck.
Raven-1 started her career as one of the first women to gain acceptance into the US Army Special Forces, colloquially known as the "Green Berets", and almost immediately thereafter became the first female member of the Green Berets to be empowered. Posted to the 5th Special Forces Group, she saw action in Iraq as an "advisor" to partner forces, before being reassigned to the recently (re)formed Blue Light in 2016 to counter increasing supervillain threats. One year later, Leah Abrams killed her commanding officer after her reports of his repeated and persistent sexual harassment and multiple assaults on fellow servicewomen were ignored, and deserted with her entire squad. Carving out a reputation as a super-killer for hire, the newly christened "Raven-1" carried out operations similar to those she had conducted while in government service, liquidating supers deemed troublesome and/or threatening to society while avoiding too much attention. It was during this period she met her future wife, Rebecca, and for the first time found a place where she could simply be. Leah was thinking she might just hang up her rifle and retire, but then came the Year of the Supervillains.
After spending the fight against Minuteman eliminating Minuteman's supporters around DC (her plan on how to defeat Minuteman were not well received by the gathered supers), Raven-1 realized her skills were needed more now than ever. Offering her services to Chicago-based community organizations which would eventually merge into the Popular Front, Raven-1 shifted her focus to protecting her loved ones the only way she knew how to, assisting state-building efforts and liquidating the warlords who might threaten them. Over the years, Leah Abrams has gotten married, adopted a daughter, been granted a house, expanded her squad into the feared "Raven Company", and killed an enormous number of people, whether powered or not. As the Popular Front's premiere assassin and liquidator of warlords, Raven-1 has killed and killed and killed and killed, the epitome of a military professional. Yet, Leah Abrams still goes home to her Chicago rowhouse, kisses her wife warmly, hugs her daughter, and is at peace. She may wade through blood, but it's so that people like them don't have to, so that her wife can read books, blush when teased, sleep peacefully, take their daughter to school, and have unimportant conversations with her neighbors.
Although she has recently taken a long vacation for the first time in a decade, citing "needing to spend time with her family" and "needing to do some housecleaning", Raven-1 has once again reported for duty and offered her services to the Popular Front's leadership. Her job may be hard, it may be thankless, and it may be dangerous, but someone has to do it, and it might as well be someone as good at it as Leah Abrams.
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