>>90772993Continuing my previous thought, I feel like this would be a good opportunity for a slow burn type fic.
After Spellbound, Raven is defensive and inherently suspicious of anything resembling a romantic overture, because she's afraid of being used again. Raven is likely to defend that vulnerability by being distant or prickly, but the narrative pay off is when she reaches the tipping point where her fear is outweighed by her desire for emotional intimacy and she takes the gamble. As long as she's not betrayed again, the result is a relationship of exploration. As a girl raised on Azarath as an emotional ascetic, Raven doesn't have much in the way of points of reference for love, except whatever pop-culture she has inadvertently absorbed. She's smart enough to be suspicious of that sort of thing, and if this an anon fic, its not like anon has definitive answers.
So a lot of careful (but hopefully loving) fumbling about.
