Ravana

Ravana is a nastika and the second strongest sura of the Asura clan.

Appearance

Human Form

Male Form

He has yellow eyes and long silver hair that he wears in a ponytail tied with a crown shaped ornament. His wings are blue and resemble those of an insect. Whenever he moves, the wings shine with five hues. He wars a long white robe that he keeps open, with a matching skirt and sandals.

Female Form

In female form, Ravana's face is good-looking, not matching her personality. She is covered with thin clothes and her wings are said to resemble the sky. In female form, she is the most beautiful of her clan. She wears a long white sleeveless dress that is held at her neck by an ornament. The dress is tied around her waist and is decorated with jewellery, she wears similar bracelets.

Sura Form

His sura form can be split up into various 'clones', appearing like similar looking bees that behave in a mind hive fashion. Or, Ravana can fully assemble them into one body.

Personality

His personality is altogether described as rotten. He is quickly to mock other people and taunt them, which proves a mistake of his when he tries this with Taksaka. Ravana is arrogant, since he considers himself to be above others due his strength and influence with Asura. In the finite, he even hosts a party from Asura's seat and leaves a mess behind after leaving. He is said not to lose his dirty smirk even in front of the leader of an enemy clan, and likes to surround himself with other nastikas who support his behavior and flatter him. Ravana is one of the nastikas who used to cause fiendish magic users to go berserk when using her spells, earning Ravana a terrible reputation.^[1]

He has a manipulative personality and often has Asura and other suras dancing in the palm of his hand by taking female form. With his foul mouth and reckless personality, he is often a source of troubles for his king, but a combination of his beauty and the fondness Asura himself has towards him serves the purpose of solving the troubles.^[2] The main reason for Asura's support is that in her female form, she is one of the most prolific nastikas, giving birth to many rakshasas, including Asura's children. However, Ravana does care for Asura, as he willingly put his own life at risk to protect him from white fire.^[3]

Skills and Abilities

As the second ranked nastika in the Asura clan, Ravana is incredibly powerful. Famous for her regeneration skills, she is categorized as the un-killable one along with Gandharva.^[4] Ravana's sura form takes the shape of a bee swarm, allowing her to regenerate as long as one of her 'clones' remains, making her incredibly hard to kill. In her full sura form, Ravana is capable of sustaining the damage caused by Ananta taking on his own sura form.^[5] Ravana is regarded as the strongest No.2 outside of the Kings when in full sura form.^[6]

Ravana's regeneration is so powerful that he can regenerate from being entirely ripped apart very quickly, needing to be evaporated entirely to gain some time.^[7] This makes Ravana pretty careless, as he enjoys to play dead and stab people in the back when they don't expect it.^[8]

Plot

Finite

Ravana first appears in a reunion with other nastikas from different clans. Among them is Vinata, who eventually tires and decides to leave. Ravana makes fun of her situation, causing Vinata to tell him that he will pay for his behavior one day. After she leaves, a discussion ensues regarding who's the strongest among the #2 of the clans. The main candidates are Ravana and Taksaka. In order to prove his superiority, Ravana decides to fight Tak and goes to look for him to the sura realm. Despite Vasuki's warning, he insists on fighting the dragon and, after finding him, provokes him by bad-mouthing Ian. Taksaka activates his unique transcendental (Destructive Breath) and easily deals with Ravana and his gang. Only Vasuki and Asura's intervention manages to prevent his death. As usual, he tries to get Asura to fight in his stead by taking female form, but is ignored. After offering Taksaka a reward for not killing Ravana, which he rejects, Asura and the remaining Asura nastikas take their leave.

Season 3

As the Taraka clan has been laying waste to the sura realm, the devastated Gandharva and Ananta clans have taken refuge with the Asura clan. The Asura clan still has nastikas, but it has suffered heavy casualties from the rakshasa level downwards.^[9]

Chapter 43: The Point of Your Sword

(5) Leez Haias speaks of the nastikas she encountered during her time in the sura realm, and claims that they are all beyond redemption, unable to change despite living for billions of years. The silhouette of Ravana is shown as an example.

Chapter 49: The Golden Knight 2

(8) The sura realm is presently divided into two camps, Asura's and Airavata's. Ravana can be seen standing behind Asura.

Special Episode 11 - Wish

(1) During Leez Haias's stay in the sura realm between N16 and N23, Ravana had killed Leez multiple times. But no matter how many times Ravana would kill her, Leez would come back each time. Ravana later told of this to Vayu.

Chapter 51: The Other Side of the Story

(1) During the early universe, Ravana, accompanied by Asura and Gandharva attacks a human planet where Yaksha, Ran, Airavata, and Ananta happen to be on.

(2) As Yaksha charges at them, Ravana exclaims that this is good timing, as they can ensure the old man will never bother Asura again since they have Gandharva on their side this time. Ravana attempts to convince Gandharva to face Yaksha as none of Asura's strongest skills work on the Yaksha king. Gandharva calls her insane, as he has no reason to take orders from her. As Asura and Yaksha begin to clash, they teleport away to battle in sura form. Ravana calls out to her king in panic and sends some of her swarm to go along while leaving a few behind to support Gandharva who can't fly. Gandharva jumps towards to sea and before Ravana can react, Ananta arrives and kills one of her bees explaining he was chosen to face her here.

(4) Ravana, with a missing arm, arrives to a damaged planet calling out Asura's name. A perfectly healthy Asura approaches Ravana, which surprises her as all her clones in the area were killed, leading her to assume Asura was heavily injured. She explains that she faced Ananta, who managed to kill her entire swarm in one punch. She explains that she hid some of her swarm behind an asteroid, which saved her. Asura warns her to turn back against Ananta, and comforts her as she begins to cry. Asura explains that in this era of corrections, appearing too strong is a mistake as it will only result in being corrected like the Vritras' female forms. Ravana realizes that Asura had planned their encounter with Yaksha to appear weak, as she gets angry he reassures her that if she trusts him he'll ensure she's the one left smiling in the distant future.

(5) Ravana is mentioned by Makara, as he mentions her as a regeneration specialist similar to Gandharva who was forced to retreat against the new human defenses that are particularly fatal to them.

(11) About 10 years later, male Ravana goes along with Chandra to the Kinnara clan stronghold. Ravana arrives and states that the Rakshasas were annoying him and he almost killed them. A Kinnara nastika responds that if he did so, Ravana would be putting his own safety at risks. Ravana sneers at this, as they would then have to face Asura's revenge afterwards. Ravana states that they're here to convince Kinnara to break her clan's alliance with the Ancient Humans. As she responds she will wait for Airavata to return, Chandra and Ravana intimidate Kinnara by telling her that with her current power she is a mistake in the universe and at risk of suffering a fate similar to Taraka.

(12) Petupan informs Yaksha and his companions of information she gathered from spending time with Ravana; Visnu and Shiva are both occupied at the moment leaving only Brahma to rule the universe.

Chapter 52: Enemy

(4) In this timeline, Brahma is planning to seal the sura realm away in order to trap Yuta there and ensure he can't harm the rest of the universe. This gives her the power to select what suras she considers important enough to rescue. However, a lot of suras have kin they are unwilling to abandon, pushing them to support Sagara's plan instead, Ravana being one of them.

Chapter 53: Enemy

(18) Around D0, Ravana attends a gathering between the Ananta and Asura clans. Hearing nastikas complain about fiendish magic, Ravana brags about her approach; cause summoners to go berserk, no one will make requests due to your bad reputation. The nastikas around her shame her, to her discontent as Ravana felt she was sharing useful advice. As Asura explains his plan, Ravana catches on that the best nastika to cause the greatest damage to the reputation of fiendish magic is Ananta. Sagara defends Ananta, stating he's not the one behind the attack on the 11 planets. Ravana takes on male form to threaten her, asking who else it could have been. Adding that Ananta not remembering only made the situation worse.

(25) As part of their plan. Ananta has to take on full sura form and cause damage to the universe to kill as many planetary gods as possible. During this meeting, Ravana is used as a stool in her full sura form.

Chapter 55: Kubera and Kubera

(21) In N23, Ravana works alongside his clan and the gods in order to kill Yuta. In his male form, Ravana runs into Marut and is surprised to see her at this exit of the abyss. He questions if the plans of the gods have changed since she had brought Kubera Leez with her.

(22) During a flashback between N16 and N23, Ravana can be seen killing Leez again, comparing her regeneration to his children. Asura calls him out for his behavior as others have reported that Ravana had started the disagreement. Ravana explains she wanted to test Leez's strength as Indra had called her a great human, but Asura maintains that there's no reason to antagonize her. Later, Indra explains to Vayu that he had trash talked Ravana in front of Leez by revealing some of the Ravana's past massacres.

Back to N23, Ravana questions Marut and the deviation from the plan. Leaning in to do so, which Marut uses as an opportunity to rip him apart with a transcendental. Angry, Ravana begins to regenerate and transform, telling Marut she must have a death wish. Suddenly, Ravana is forced back into human form, as Sona has brought Taraka suras along. Ravana attempts to go after those who escaped, but Marut grabs on to him with her cloak to prevent him from doing so. Ravana questions her actions, wondering if this was part of the plans made by the god realm. Ravana manages to make his way out, but runs into Maruna who uses his Crimson Sunshine of Dawn to disintegrate him. Vritra arrives soon after, evaporating Ravana's remains entirely to gain some time.

(23) Shortly before, Ravana had visited Vritra to try to convince him not to protect Yuta. Ravana warns Vritra against falling out of favor with Brahma, as those who had in the past had often lost someone or something they cherish. Ravana also warns Vritra of Brahma's Divine Punishment, which could send him to the 0th dimension which he might never be able to return from. Ravana takes on female form and gets closer to him, stating it would be a waste for the current strongest being to die, with him falling asleep as she begins to get angry.

(29) Garuda possesses Kalavinka's body and uses her flame against Asura, with male form Ravana arriving to block the flames with her own body. Later Ravana is passed on to Varuna and Indra who are flying on an Asura sura.

(30) Ravana wakes up calling out for Asura, with Varuna telling him to calm down. The goddess explains that Ravana passed out after protecting Asura, as he ran out of vigor entirely. Indra calls out Ravana's behavior as pretentious for a nastika, with Ravana looking uncomfortable. Varuna explains that Asura fell down as the sura realm collapsed, leaving Ravana to be shocked at the news.

Chapter 57: N20

(9) In the sura realm in N20, Ravana arrives to the Kinnara clan's stronghold with some of her forces after hearing that they were harboring Yuta. Ravana claims to be dropping by, which Airavata doubts due to the 5th stage rakshasas Ravana is accompanied by. Ravana responds they're here as a precaution, as 5th stages are the best form of defense against the Taraka clan, stating they won't step in unless their negotiations break down. Ravana then takes on sura form to stand above Airavata, telling her to open the way to Yuta.

(10) Airavata agrees to let Ravana in, but not to show her the way as it would be the equivalent of giving a map of their stronghold to another clan. Due to the Kinnara clan's reputation of having collected items, Ravana choses not to step in herself, sending the 5th stage rakshasas she came with to go in first and find the way for her. She warns Airavata that these rakshasas are precious to her and Asura, and hopes there are no deadly traps waiting for them.

Later, the rakshasas run into Taksaka. One of them explains a twisted version of the events from the Finite, with Ravana defeating Taksaka but not killing him for political reasons. Ravana then begged this rakshasa to soothe her anger by killing the dragon if the opportunity ever came by.

(11) After Taksaka kills one of the 5th stages, Ravana arrives with Airavata, asking her to testify to Asura later of Taksaka's crime. Ravana questions who could have gone ahead of them and motivate this behavior from Vayu and Taksaka. Ravana begins to battle Taksaka with the support of his troops, trying to get to where Yuta is. Some of her swarm manages to breakthrough to where Leez and Yuta are.

(12) Leez fights some of Ravana's swarm, while Ravana's main body is still at the entrance. Seeing Vayu and Taksaka talking to each other, Ravana and his forces continue to approach, with Ravana asking them if they really have the luxury to chat so carelessly.

(13) At the entrance, Ravana and her forces face off against Taksaka and Vayu. The ceiling of the cave they're in begins to get damaged. Ravana remarks that they had all been controlling their power to not damage the Kinnara stronghold, prompting Ravana to ask if they will be the ones to cross that line first. The nastikas around Ravana realize that he is now just a shell, with the consciousness moving elsewhere.

Further in, Leez faces Kamadu and throws the sword of return at one of the bees located on the ground, which is revealed to be where Ravana's consciousness went. As Ravana taunts Leez for having no weapon to face Kamadu now, he turns around and attacks her with his partial sura form. Kamadu states that even to kill Yuta he won't work with Ravana, as he holds him responsible for the divide that started out between Kinnara and Airavata. Ravana realizes that Kamadu fed him information to trick him into this diplomatic dilemma so Ravana will have a hard time gathering troops in the future, ending with Kamadu crushing Ravana's bee.

(14) Enraged, Ravana wants to continue to break in and get revenge on Kamadu. The nastikas around him tell him to calm down, as they have to remember the diplomatic reasoning they used for their actions to justify their behavior to Asura later. Suddenly, Asura arrives and Ravana takes female form before rushing to Asura. Realizing that Asura is still in female form, Ravana returns to male form and steps back, before he can say anything Asura beats Ravana and kills the body in front of him. Some of Ravana's swarm is seen hiding in fear as Asura calls out to them in anger.

(18) After Asura regains his sense and takes on male form, him and Ravana hug and Ravana is back in female form crying in his arms. Due to Ravana's actions here, Asura agrees to help the Kinnara clan deal with a crisis.

Notes

• Ravana briefly appears in the finite, concretely in the epilogues.
• He is still alive in the timeline of the main webtoon.
• Ravana's nickname is "Queen Bee" due his sura form and his ability to get other Asura nastikas to do his bidding.
• Apparently, he is only weaker than the kings of the clans and Taksaka.
• Due to the fact that he can revive after receiving deathblows, it is very likely that Ravana has a Resurrection attribute.
• Currygom stated that Ravana had many many children in both male and female form, but personally prefers male form. Alas, we are now used to calling Ravana "she"...

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