Raptor is a cat Hybrid Hero working for SPOON with her boyfriend and little brother, respectively Haze and Stell. She used to try to catch Baekmorae on her own before she was enlisted to SPOON.
Appearance[]
Raptor is a lean girl with a long purple hair and cat ears on top of her head, which is the only and most apparent characteristic of her hybrid blood. In addition, she wears a combat outfit and goes around in a wheelchair. As Naga states, she looks a bit plain.
Personality[]
She mostly has a kind and pleasant personality, however, when she gets serious, she becomes cool-headed and merciless. An example of which is when she met face to face with Baekmorae. She can also be humorous and outgoing, and sometimes does not read the atmosphere, and sometimes oblivious, shown when she thought Guineung scratching his neck was due to an outbreak of mosquito bites. She is wary of Baekmorae and KNIFE. She appears to love kids, as she offers to buy Hyena cake just so she would stay on her lap.
Background[]
As a child she was sold off along with Stell to a Retired Assassin with three other Hybrid children. They grew up as soldiers together in a private secluded mountain. One day an escapee from the Immortality Research Center was found by Raptor. The escapee made a deal with Raptor's boss which resulted in the children destroying the lab and consequently Raptor stabbing The Teacher in front of Baekmorae, and stopping him from committing suicide, which caused Baekmorae to fall in love with her.
After the downfall of the IRC Baekmorae would show up at their camp every day to see Raptor, baring gifts and for her to play with a then child Orca. Raptor's friends and boss comment that this is creepy but in the end, none of them stopped him since Raptor did not seem uncomfortable. It is revealed that the Retired Assassin would abuse the children with the exemption of Stell since he was a infant, and the next day would give back food to the kids. Raptor thought he did that because he would get frustrated with his leg, which was injured during a mission prior to him retiring. Eventually, Baekmorae found out that Raptor was being abused by her boss and killed him on the same night Raptor planned to stab him in his sleep for hitting Stell.
At first she is extremely saddened by his death and regrets letting him die but slowly she got over it while spending time with Baekmorae. Baekmorae then set up, and blew up her camp with the leftover hired killers inside in order to make her solely dependent on him. However for unknown reasons, Stell was not killed but instead left in the forest where Haze found him. The bomb ended up detonating with her still at the camp and she loses the ability to walk, leaving her wheelchair bound. While recovering in the hospital Baekmorae visited often to comfort her about her loss. Stell is then returned by Haze while she is bound in the hospital with Baekmorae, and Baekmorae becomes jealous of him after he makes her laugh. She eventually becomes friends with Haze, despite his first impressions and he looks after Stell for her.
After the bombing, Baekmorae buried Raptor's friends, and later digs them back up to take off their fingers, to show to Raptor as evidence they died. Haze accidentally stumbles upon the bodies of her friends and tries to get her to run away with him without Baekmorae knowing. Raptor is unfortunately too shocked to do this and in denial so Haze shows her the corpses of her friends, seeing all of them has had a certain finger cut off.
Raptor becomes confused and decides to confront Baekmorae. When she does, he accept what he did but simply says that he loves her. Enraged Raptor grabs a shard of a broken vase to stab him but is stopped by Haze who called the police, Baekmorae is last seen being taken away by them while apologizing.
Haze stays in a hideout with Raptor, she refuses to go with the police as it is too dangerous for her because she is a Hybrid. Haze wants to leave her somewhere safe, but she refuses to go. Haze will only continue to help her if he gets something out of it so she gives him the mountain and her boss's money in exchange for his protection.
After this Raptor and Stell simply live with Haze and his family but it is unclear what happened after this until the events of the story.
Story[]
At the start of the series it is said that she, Haze, and Stell are in the countryside doing patrols.
She makes her first appearance in Chapter 51, where Naga sees her team getting scolded by Dune. She gets introduced to him by Guineung and greets an ecstatic Hyena with a big hug. She is very friendly upon meeting Naga. Along with Haze, teases Sasa for his lisp.
After he returns from his mission with Haze, Naga talks to her and decides that she is a very nice person who is easy to talk to. Having a personality heavily contrasting to Haze. She tells him about life in the countryside which sounds nice to Naga but Raptor disliked it because it was boring and there were no children.
She reappears not too long after when KNIFE causes fires around the city to create a distraction. She enters the building Orca, Medusa and Baekmorae are hiding in with Haze, and ends up confronting Baekmorae while Haze goes to deal with Orca. She insults and gets annoyed by his presence while trying to decide what to do with him. Baekmorae gets on his knees at her request and begs her to love him with tears in his eyes. Fed up Raptor tries to stab him but is stopped by Songha who tells her "to not get too excited", Songha tries to force her to leave with him and Baekmorae by starting a fire in the building.
However Haze and Naga appear making his threat naught as Naga can fly. Naga pushes them both to the ground at Haze's and Raptor's request and puts out the fire. Unfortunately, Songha throws a knife which enters Naga's hand while he is distracted and escapes with Baekmorae.
Raptor sees Naga the next day and asks about his hand and whether he had seen Dana as she wants to ask her a question. Naga explains Number 1. healed it and Raptor is impressed. She and Stell watch him practice with Dune because Haze is working and she was bored. Dana later asks her if she knows if Number 1. has any relation to Baekmorae, Raptor claims to not know and asks when the office party will be. Dana gets annoyed at how carefree she is.
She returns in the Pet Shop arc with Haze and Stell in order to rescue Sasa. However they run into a problem when Haze allows Stell to drive and Stell crashes the car and explodes the roof. Raptor asks Haze to get her wheelchair but he is too busy crying, Raptor gets annoyed and tells him to stop but he just ignores her and partially blames her for the incident. The two begin arguing to the confusion of the human traffickers. It is implied Haze does not let her out of the car seat until after he defeats the traffickers.
She appears again later on when a receptionist at SPOON calls her to congratulate her on Sewol's fake report, Raptor denies having found a wallet and becomes concerned so she and Haze drive back to SPOON.
She also appears briefly in the rescue Baekmorae arc, as She refuses to let Haze leave and help the rest of SPOON because she is worried about his safety. It is most likely because the situation reminded her of her past when Baekmorae killed almost all her loved ones but Haze only takes it as nagging and tries to leave anyway. Afterwards, she is asked to ask a report on Baekmorae so they can compare the information to Number 2.'s testimony however the very memory enrages her and she is unable to. She is asked to interview Number 2., but the interrogation goes sour as Raptor becomes overly aggressive and tries to pressure Number 2. into promising to kill Baekmorae, she is stopped by Youngjeong who deems her behavior as unethical.
She does not have another major appearance until after Youngjeong's death where her backstory is shown.
Her next major appearance is in the capturing KNIFE arc. She along with the other members of SPOON on the KNIFE investigation intercept them mid-escape and try to capture them. She fights Orca but has difficulty due to his perception distorting power he has from his Perfection. She is still able to grab a hold of him which renders this power useless. She is able to injure him a little as he goes easy on her or he is distracted by Guineung.
She appears during Naga's probation arc, she warns him he should not use his powers so carelessly or he will attract unwanted attention. She is also seen taking care of Haze who is sick.
At the end of the series she and Haze states after being asked if they will have kids, that they already have Stell.
Powers & Abilities[]
Heightened senses[]
Because she is part cat, she has heightened smell and hearing, she used her hearing to listen to Haze's conversation with his parents about their relationship. Along with her cat instincts, her swordplay is skilled enough for her to survive in a bullet filled battlefield, but because of her legs she cannot utilize her skills to their maximum potential.
Relationships[]
Haze[]
She came to like him as a child because he reminded her of one of her friends. He took care of Stell for her while she was in the hospital. Ever since, they have been together and they started dating. Raptor truly loves him despite not being as openly affectionate. In the Valentines Day Special he is given something by a member of SPOON, which he is okay with. A moment later Raptor gives him flowers which he gushes over.
Stell[]
They are brother and sister, Raptor raised him for all his life and they are very close.
Baekmorae[]
She liked Baekmorae when she was a child. Upon discovering he killed her friends and Stell she absolutely despised him. Currently, she abhors him and wants him dead. Baekmorae is deeply in love with her, and will do anything to make her happy. In Chapter 55 she repeatedly insults and mocks him, and orders him to stop looking down at her, he complies and gets on the floor, while asking her to love him.
Orca[]
In the Children's Day special she is seen playing with him when she was young, but they don't interact later on.
Trivia[]
- In an old official art from 2010 Raptor's left ear was pierced with an earring.
- As a child, she hated roses due to their sharp thorns.
- It seems Raptor was originally going to be a man and a murdering maniac but this was back when the nature of the comic was different. At this time her relationship with Haze was going to be a friendship instead of a romance. Her old design resembles Number 2. when he was working in the IRC.
- Despite dating an exorcist ironically she hates ghosts. They seem to unnerve her.
- In 2014, Samchon was given real life birthday gifts for Raptor.
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