#desi raven

[vioislit]

desi raven for AAPI heritage month!!

#raven #dc comics #dc fanart #my art #rachel roth #raven redesign #desi raven #aapi heritage month

[quieroguero]

desi raven

Desi raven just because, design inspo from my mutual @/beeje_i (twitter)

#fanart #comicart #illustration #art #comic art #dc comics #dceu #procreate #sketch #teen titans #raven #rachel roth #dc titans #dc fanart #dc #desi fashion

[majo-yyy]

coming back after a long time with totally unexpected content

#this was a warming up but i like it #desi!raven #ravena #teen titans #raven roth #raven dc comics #raven teen titans #dc comics #the new teen titans

[raycani]

ooh, girl Shock me like an electric eel

A casual fashionable Raven to go with Starfire

#DESI RAVEN NATION HIIIII #rachel roth #raven #teen titans #dc comics #young justice #raven dc #teen titans go #dc universe #digital art #Digital Illustration #comic book art #artist on tumblr

[sporkberries]

been seeing a lot of amazing raven art lately and it got me thinking about her again so here's some doodles

#desi raven... the beloved #raven #rachel roth #teen titans #new teen titans #dc #spork art

[strawberrytalia]

here are some dc characters i imagine being south asian, except the list gets worse and worse

1. Raven ofc, she’s based on Miss India 1965, she basically should be canonically Indian atp. I like to think that she’s South Indian, and that her mother Arella’s side of the family is Christian since that’s a pretty common thing irl for South Indians.

2. Sue Dibny, mainly because I think her name Sue could easily be a nickname for Suhani and I think that’s adorable lmao. Also she’s a character I very much love, despite her cruel and unfortunate history. She IS one of the best detectives and I stand by that.

3. Zatanna. This one I’m not 100% serious about at all tbh, but in some panels she looks so very Desi that I’m just like??? Woah. Also can’t explain it but her personality/vibe also really matches. And it would be cool to have an Italian-Bengali or Italian-Pakistani girly.

4. Jason Todd. Controversial, I know, but his look in the Death in the Family movie was soooo…like you can’t tell me that’s not a Nepali man. Also it would make sense considering that he thought Shiva was his mom…there’d have to be a slight indicator of similarity somewhere. Also I deserve to see myself in a brown character who grew up poor in the streets and is unhinged.

Honorable mention:

I used to imagine Lois Lane as South Asian, but since her recent Korean depiction in the new superman show, I kinda dropped that idea lol. And I’ll never forget when I told one of my old mutuals about my Lois headcanon, and they were like “No, I think she’s Latina. I don’t agree with you at all” 🥲❤️‍🩹 anyways maybe she can be Korean-Bengali…

#dc comics #not gonna tag them lmao i’m scared #dc #nvm i will tag maybe some other desi fan will appreciate this #raven roth #sue dibny #jason todd #lois lane #zatanna zatara #AND I KNOW SUE’S PREBOOT FATE IS 10X BAD IF SHES A BROWN WOMAN 😭 #BUT i’ve sorta erased identity crisis from my brain #bc thinking about it makes me sad #so instead let sue be a brown woman who is adored by her husband and is a brilliant detective

[thatchaoticdesigirl]

"What if...?" episodes

Bookstagram edition ~

Kaz never went to the menagerie and never met Inej.

Wylan had a happy childhood where he was loved by his father.

Matthias did not dream of her.

Leigh Bardugo decided to pursue some other career except writing.

Neil's mother never went to rescue Neil

Aaron Minyard was a single child

Kevin day was the King and Riko Moriyama was the queen

The Foxes lost the finals

Adeline did not make a deal with Luc

Addie never went into the book store

Henry was happy with his life

Dreamers did not exist

Richard Gansey III was not obsessed with a Welsh King

Adam Parrish never cared about Cabeswater (or Ronan)

Blue Sargent never went to the cemetry

Maggie Stiefvater decided to stop writing books after The Raven King (aka Call down the Hawk never existed)

Toby Hawthorne II never discovered the secret.

Avery's name was not an anagram.

Sky Hawthorne never wanted his father's love and was happy with just one child

Jameson Winchester Hawthorne was canonically gay (not fanonically bi)

Alexander Hawthorne was not obsessed with robots and scones

Grayson and Jameson never thought everything as a game

Avery was very bad at chess

Jennifer Lynn Barnes did not like riddles

Simon and Schuster rejected the draft of "It ends with Us".

CoHo went into a permanent writers' block

Rick Riordan did not write mythological fantasies

Marissa Meyer never published the last book of "The Lunar Chronicles"

Alice Oseman could not draw

Casey McQuiston never wrote queer books

#bookstagram #desiblr #desi academia #book academia #bookblr #what if #six of crows #leigh bardugo #all for the game #nora sakavic #the raven cycle #maggie stiefvater #the inheritance games #jennifer lynn barnes #the invisible life of addie larue #it ends with us #colleen hoover #rick riordan #casey mcquiston #the lunar chronicles #marissa meyer

[introspectivememories]

damian and raven really only work in the animated movies but they’re so cute together!!!!! that’s my arab and desi couple right there baby!!!!!

#raven is desi to me #she told me personally #she speaks malayalam #they celebrate eid together #and then they celebrate onam #he sees her in a sari and his brain stops working #damirae #damian wayne #raven roth #they're everything to me #dc

[lagggggomorph]

Raven being Desi

Hello, hello again, I'm back with another tirade! This whole thing started with seeing a fanartist post a drawing of Raven (a DC Teen Titans character created by George Perez) as dark skinned with a Desi associated hooked nose. One commentor began to complain saying 'Raven isn't a dark skinned Indian, she isn't Indian at all'. When the artist pointed out that they were referring to the fact that Raven's original design was based of an Indian model, the astute commentor acknowledged that Ravens 'style' was Indian but was influenced by other models of other nationalities as well, so lets break it down.

Raven's style

I assume you're talking about the red dot on her forehead. It's called a Bindi and it's not a part of Indian culture, it's a part of Hindu culture. Traditionally, the west has not cared about the difference, assuming any part of Hinduism is just spiritual hokum and using it in art and pop culture without consideration. But no, the Bindi is worn by Hindu women and yes, it is cultural appropriation for the Bindi to be worn by non-Hindus for aesthetic. More of Raven's character involves Hinduism too. Meditation, and chakras also frequently appear in Raven's magic and were also Hindu practices. Then there is the topic of Ravens model.

Her name was Persis Khambatta. She won Miss India and is the model that George Perez named as the original influence for Raven's character design. But that isn't definitive, I hear you cry. White people can be Hindu too! And the same quote that lists Persis as an influence also lists a Fran MacGregor as a later influence! And that is true, but also like...

That, dear reader, is Raven in New Teen Titans wearing a Sari, which is one of the traditional styles of clothing for Indian women. All of this combined methinks makes Raven being Desi a pretty decent possibility, right? Well, apparently not, according to some people on Reddit, since there is still the issue of

Raven's Ancestry

Raven's mom is white. She Elizabeth Roth, by both her Germanic last name and her blonde haired character design, is definitely one white lady. And Raven's father is Trigon, aka the devil from the bible. And like, there is no way that there is a historical precedent of Christianity associating Hindu culture with evil (just ignore Indiana Jones the Temple of Doom and the demonisation of Kali and Lord Sheev from Star Trek and Lady fucking Shiva and that time Tim Drake fought an actual Indian god for some fucking reason). I mean there is no way that the bible says anything negative about 'Idol worship' (cough cough Romans 1:21–23, Exodus 20:3–6, 1 Corinthians 10:14 cough). Is it really that much of a stretch to say that the devil, as far as DC is concerned, may have some Indian traits. Or that Raven's home of Azarath, steeped in spiritualism and mysticism and definitely-not-Hinduism, may have had some Indian culture there too? But I feel like all this pedantic behavior is kind of missing the point.

What is the point of representation anyway?

Why does Raven being Indian coded matter?

Well, it matters because if we include her in the Indian coded bucket, there is a total of 4 desi coded characters in DC, three of those 4 being the Al Ghul family. The sum total of all actual canonical Desi characters in both DC and Marvel combined, is one. Just one. Kamala Khan from the Marvel universe.

Representation, specifically changing the ethnicity of pre-existing characters in later adaptations is done to better reflect the audience diaspora, so that the audience can see themselves in those character. Little Desi girls want to believe that they can be superheroes, just like anybody else. And if we don't have that in cannon, we will make it in fannon.

Accuracy be damned.

#raven dc #rachel roth #teen titans #titans #george perez #desi raven dc #dc

[majo-yyy]

uh,,, hello It's been a while since I posted anything here, right, nothing more fair than me coming back with a post about my hyperfixation i guess so IT’S DESI!RAVEN TIME! (long post sorry) After all, for Raven have Indian descent it is necessary for at least one of her parents to be, and as her father is a literal four-eyed red intergalactic demon, this role is left for our dear Arella! Congratulations honey!  💘 I've been picturing Arella with a darker skin tone, like people from southern India. Black hair, of course, but much curlier than her daughter's. and blue eyes, like the character has in the comics. I liked this composition that I got here. I tried to give mother and daughter the same gaze. I won't go further that part too much now, but in my HC, Azarath is also a dimension initially formed by a group of desi culture that changed over time, but the bases remain the same (that's why Raven is so familiar with the culture even without having been on earth before meeting the titans), thinking about it, i decided to find a middle ground between arella's headpiece and a matha patti, but in the end it was just a poorly made matha patti because by then i was tired of drawing. I swear that when I make an "official" drawing I'll work on it more

As for Raven, I wanted to make her skin lighter and paler than her mother's. Lighter cause technically Raven is mixed, the human form Trigon used during her conception was that of a white caucasian male, so it makes sense for her to have lighter skin (or am I making this up?) 

ugly ass bitch And paler because this girl has never seen a ray of sunshine in her life, she stays all day locked in her room meditating. So I put a grayish pallor in a light brown tone (but none of that horrible gray skin from the current cartoon and comics, please, I have good taste) I was going to make her eyes blue like Arella's, but I'm very attached to the lilac-eyed Raven, it suits her so much! Two things the post-TNTT comics gave her that I can't let go of: her eyes and those little horns on her eyebrows. Ok, I think that's all I had to say, this drawing I did just to test the skin tones, so it's not that pretty, but I liked the final result and I enjoyed doing it, I discovered a cool way to paint skin! :) Thoughts? opinions? Claims? You can send! I love reading your comments, I keep going to each blog to see the tags you put in  🤭🤭🤭 And I was very happy to see that some real desi people liked the drawing! Means a lot to me! If I am ever disrespectful, please correct me. I'm just an admirer of the culture and I try to research as much as possible before posting anything, but if I happen to offend someone, let me know. Byee, see y’all in the next six months probaly lol 

#I'm going to die without knowing how to draw Raven's earrings #desi!raven #long post #VERY long post #ravena #raven roth #raven dc comics #arella roth #Trigon #The New Teen Titans #tntt #fanart #DC comics #Majoy #Raven #ntt #character design #color test

[vampzyke]

should i write dc x south asian! reader imagines? like ONLY imagines.

i'll take requests but the only characters i'd do are;

dick grayson, talia al ghul, cassandra cain, duke thomas, selina kyle, kory, raven, harley quinn, huntress, hal jordan + mayb some others

lmk what yall think !! <3

#dc #desi #imagines #dc x south asian!reader #fem reader #gender neutral reader #harley quinn #dick grayson #cassandra cain #duke thomas #kory #raven #huntress #hal jordan #batfam #dc x desi!reader

[starfiretruther]

It makes me so sad that the Titans cast is so good but they're wasted on such on a poorly written/directed show. SIGH

yeah i can tell it’s not good and i’m not gonna waste my time on it but kudos to the casting director they really nailed it

#ask #wish raven was desi but the white girls claimed her <\3 #would’ve also liked roma dick but hey at least he has brown eyes

[ravensvirginity]

More about Ravens appearance, Are the lines on the ends of her eyes connecting to her eyebrows supposed to be makeup? And would her design be considered offensive today because of the bindi?

there's no canon answer for the lines connecting her eyebrows. George Perez is the only artist who really drew her with them, other artists gave her ordinary eyebrows. Closeup shots of her face tend to show her eyebrows and eyelashes not quite connected, sort of like a very long eyeliner wing reaching up to curved brows.

Personally, I hc that she just has funky eyebrows and it's not makeup, but just like her earrings, there's no canon answer. Eduardo Barreto, the artist who took over full time after George Perez left, drew her eyebrows completely differently.

He drew her face as a whole pretty differently, though. I love Barreto's art, but in my opinion he's got a bit of a case of same face syndrome, especially with the female titans. I prefer Perez's Raven.

As for her bindi, I'm white, so I don't really feel qualified to answer on that. A lot of people into NTT Raven nowadays hc her as Desi, me included.

#raven ask #i don't think raven would care about her appearance enough to do makeup but that's just my hc #it's not canon #if anyone who is desi wants to answer the second question please feel free to add onto this post

[xsaturna]

I can't help but think of Raven every time i hear Maar Daala, i mean -

THIS PART RIGHT HERE ! IT SCREAMS RAVEN TO ME my poor n suffering little devil....... aLSO THE CHORUS "My happiness has killed me" yeah girl, your happines, your sorrow, your every damn emotion, it just suits so well.......... anyways desi!raven cannot stop being canon (let me be delused ok)

#very nicheposting #this post is just a long way to say that im 1) always listen to devdas soundtrack and 2) always thinking about raven #desi!raven #does that even count as hc? #raven dc #devdas #maar daala #dc comics