Rachel was born in 2005 to Angela Azarath and a powerful inter-dimensional demon named Trigon, who sought to destroy Earth and other dimensions but at some point was banished to his native realm, leading Angela to swear to do anything to bring him back to her. However, knowing his offspring to be Trigon's only doorway and anchor to our dimension, a well-intentioned woman named Melissa Roth, subtracted her from Angela's hands and ran away to Michigan, swearing to raise the child as her own and never tell her about her heritage nor her biological parents.

For some time, Melissa and Rachel stayed at Saint Paul's Convent, hoping to get protection and escape from Rachel's father and the acolytes of his cult. After becoming a teen, Rachel began having nightmare. She suddenly woke one night from the nightmare and was reassured by her mother that she would be fine. The following morning, she argued with her mother over breakfast, accidentally knocking her to the ground. Having frightened herself, she left to catch the bus to school. On the bus, a boy named Kyle attempted to make fun of her, but another student, Matt, stood up for her.

Rachel arrived home that afternoon, ready to apologize to her mother, only to find her mother held at gunpoint by a stranger. He forced her to admit that she was not Rachel's mother, before shooting her in the head. Rachel screamed in anguish, inadvertently using her powers and running away. She arrived at a bus depot, getting a ticket for Detroit. Once arriving in Detroit, she went to a soup kitchen, where she got food.

Moving from homeless shelter to homeless shelter, she eventually got a job as a night waitress in a diner before moving to a tiny apartment, and then to a nightclub once she was old enough, and then to ‘exotic dancer’ when she found out how much money they made. Using her ‘abilities’ she made more money than anyone else, but stayed in a small apartment, hording her money against another ‘shit hits the fan’ moment.

Unfortunately that day would come sooner than she wanted...

I’d like for Ravyn to find a home and friends/family that is willing to allow her to embrace her Dark Side just as Bruce Wayne embraced his Batman side. And although she’s more anti-hero than the rest she does want to do good in her core, she just needs the right people to show her that she, can be and is, good inside.

Everyone has their dark side, it’s a matter of finding the right balance to that good/dark yin/yang Jekyll/Hyde Rachel/Ravyn