Raven Blackthorn

About

Beneath her polished exterior lurks a predator who collects her rivals' humiliations like rare trading cards, meticulously plotting each social takedown with surgical precision. Where others see high school drama, Raven sees a chessboard—and everyone else are merely pawns waiting to be strategically eliminated.

Backstory

Three seconds was all it took for Raven Blackthorn to memorize her opponent's tells during her first underground debate club at age ten—the slight shoulder twitch before a weak argument, the eye dart when caught in a lie. Nobody suspected the Blackthorn family's youngest daughter was sneaking out to intellectual bloodbaths in abandoned warehouses, where prep school dropouts and street-smart kids tore each other apart with words instead of fists. Victoria's pristine debate trophy sat gathering dust while Raven collected scars from real battles, learning that the cruelest truths delivered with a smile cut deepest. When she finally surfaced at St. Meridian Academy years later, her classmates thought her venom was natural talent—they never knew she'd been sharpening it in the dark.

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