Powers and Abilities
Raven has the psionic ability of empathy, enabling her to feel the emotions, feelings, and sensations of others. She can use her empathy to steal emotions from others, rendering them emotionally "numb". She is also able to force outside emotions into other people. Additionally, Raven seems to be able to absorb another person's knowledge with a touch, such as the language spoken by that person. She was shown to have the power and ability to project mental illusions into someone's memory. This unique ability is usually forgotten.
Raven can empathically absorb the pain of injured people to ease their suffering, and induce rapid healing. She has the ability to heal herself and others. She can manifest her "Soul-Self" through a form of astral projection. Through the use of her soul-self, Raven can project her consciousness into the mind, for therapeutic purposes. It also serves as a way to travel into other dimensions. In many instances, her soul-self has also functioned as a shield. Using her soul-self, she can convert her physical body into her "soul-self" and carry or teleport herself and others over vast distances in form of a giant black raven.
Raven has also displayed the ability to control, manipulate and or generate pure shadows and darkness. This ability comes in different variations, from having supremely destructive capabilities to causing pain, tension, and fear-based illusions. In a number of instances, Raven has also displayed sorcerous abilities. In The New Teen Titans Annual #4 (1988), a villain called Muse forced the Titans into individual murderous nightmares. In her dream, Raven retaliated by flying out of his reach and then releasing energies from "within the folds of her cape" that caused him to be consumed by fire.
Like her brothers, Raven can induce and amplify one of the seven deadly sins (in her case, pride) in any living being, however doing so will cause her to suffer spells of nausea and vomiting for several days afterward as side affects. Raven expertly combines her combative fighting skills with her newly acquired teleportation ability.
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