[I've tried to do a quick "necessary background info" thing but there is too much. Let me sum up. Terra was a mole working for bad guy Slade. In the end she turned on him, killed him, and saved the day. Terra, a geokinetic, was turned to stone. Raven was a half demon whose destiny was to end the world by being a living portal for her bad demon father, Trigon. In the end she turned on him, killed him, and saved the day.]
[I've never actually seen the episodes with Terra in them. In fact, I've never seen the ones with Trigon either. Most of my knowledge is from secondary sources. To top it off, my extremely limited research for this has been text. All of this could be way off and the characters out of character and . . . stuff.]
“Still here, I see,” Raven said. Terra was petrified, same as ever. A perfect statue, like a monument carved in her honor. “I thought you might finally have come back.”
Raven floated to the pedestal they'd placed Terra on and sat there. “I destroyed all life on earth, you know?
“I never told you --I even didn't tell the others until I had no other choice and by then you were stone-- but I had a destiny. The entire reason I exist was that my father, demon lord, needed a living portal to come to earth. It was my destiny, and I didn't fight it when it came. I let him take over, and kill everything.
“Because I thought I didn't have a choice.
“Sound familiar? I was a pawn of someone far worse than Slade, and allowed worse things than you could possibly imagine, because I thought I didn't have a choice.
“I'm such a hypocrite for everything I said about you. For everything I thought. For how long it took me to let you in and how quick I was to push you out.
“When you thought you had no choice you ended up begging Beast Boy to kill you. When I thought I had no choice, I went through with what I thought my destiny was.
“It gets worse, Terra. You know who ended up saving me? Robin did much of the work, but he needed outside help. I'd managed to protect the team --they were the only human beings left alive-- but they couldn't do much on their own. With no one else alive, the help came from a dead person. Care to guess which one?
“Slade saved me, saved us, saved the world.
“Your dark master was so much less bad than my dark master that yours saved everyone and everything from mine. You did so much less evil than me, and I condemned you for it. You almost set off one volcano. The oceans burned after what I did.”
Raven floated off the pedestal and brought herself face to face with Terra. “Everything died, and --you'll love this-- it died in stone. Every person on earth was just like you, and I can only imagine what it was like for the fish, or the birds that had been in flight. But then it was all undone.
“Everyone and everything that had been turned to stone was turned back, everyone but you.”
Raven closed her eyes --for just a moment.
“I'm not giving up, Terra,” Raven said, “but I was already out of ideas. I already tried everything I could think to try, and if turning the entire world back didn't turn you back. . .”
Raven spun around in the air, her back to Terra's stone form. “Slade's back. He's not redeemed or anything. Everything he did was so he could be alive again. It's the opposite of sacrifice.
“He gets a resurrection. You're still stone. There's something wrong with this world.”
[I've never actually seen the episodes with Terra in them. In fact, I've never seen the ones with Trigon either. Most of my knowledge is from secondary sources. To top it off, my extremely limited research for this has been text. All of this could be way off and the characters out of character and . . . stuff.]
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“Still here, I see,” Raven said. Terra was petrified, same as ever. A perfect statue, like a monument carved in her honor. “I thought you might finally have come back.”
Raven floated to the pedestal they'd placed Terra on and sat there. “I destroyed all life on earth, you know?
“I never told you --I even didn't tell the others until I had no other choice and by then you were stone-- but I had a destiny. The entire reason I exist was that my father, demon lord, needed a living portal to come to earth. It was my destiny, and I didn't fight it when it came. I let him take over, and kill everything.
“Because I thought I didn't have a choice.
“Sound familiar? I was a pawn of someone far worse than Slade, and allowed worse things than you could possibly imagine, because I thought I didn't have a choice.
“I'm such a hypocrite for everything I said about you. For everything I thought. For how long it took me to let you in and how quick I was to push you out.
“When you thought you had no choice you ended up begging Beast Boy to kill you. When I thought I had no choice, I went through with what I thought my destiny was.
“It gets worse, Terra. You know who ended up saving me? Robin did much of the work, but he needed outside help. I'd managed to protect the team --they were the only human beings left alive-- but they couldn't do much on their own. With no one else alive, the help came from a dead person. Care to guess which one?
“Slade saved me, saved us, saved the world.
“Your dark master was so much less bad than my dark master that yours saved everyone and everything from mine. You did so much less evil than me, and I condemned you for it. You almost set off one volcano. The oceans burned after what I did.”
Raven floated off the pedestal and brought herself face to face with Terra. “Everything died, and --you'll love this-- it died in stone. Every person on earth was just like you, and I can only imagine what it was like for the fish, or the birds that had been in flight. But then it was all undone.
“Everyone and everything that had been turned to stone was turned back, everyone but you.”
Raven closed her eyes --for just a moment.
“I'm not giving up, Terra,” Raven said, “but I was already out of ideas. I already tried everything I could think to try, and if turning the entire world back didn't turn you back. . .”
Raven spun around in the air, her back to Terra's stone form. “Slade's back. He's not redeemed or anything. Everything he did was so he could be alive again. It's the opposite of sacrifice.
“He gets a resurrection. You're still stone. There's something wrong with this world.”
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