Lara Ravel (Pathologic)

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Name	Lara Ravel (Лара Равель)
Faction	Humbles
Age	25
Status	Alive*
Location	Shelter
Family	Captain Ravel (father) ^†
Miscellaneous
Color	White
Body Part	Chest
Animal	Cat
Voice
Russian Voice	Olga Krasko
English Voice	Jacqueline Vouga (Pathologic Classic HD)

Lara Ravel is a young woman who owns a shelter in the Knots District.

Description

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Appearance: Lara has a beautiful face with high cheekbones, like a french actress. She has big dewy eyes the color of prune, long thick eyelashes, soft lips, a small nose with a slightly turned-up tip. Her hair is long, black and wavy. Lara’s physique evokes the feeling of languish and tenderness. She has a beautiful purring voice. Her gestures are very fluent, she has a light step. Usually Lara wears white clothes, altogether she seems black and white: white skin, white clothes, dark lips, dark hair and dark eyes.

Pose: Looks through a glass of wine over the light.

Personality: A generous and kind girl who tends to give more than she takes. She emits some inner warmth and shares it with those she likes. There’s a mark of tragedy on her generosity, as if she is giving away presents she chose carefully for someone who never got use of it. Her house is reputed to be the coziest and happiest place in town. It’s an honor to become Lara’s friend. Maria Kaina respects her and Capella is fond of her. Lara is perceptive when it comes to giving gifts. It seems like some inner force helps her guess one’s dearest wish. However, once she finds a clue of that mystery, Lara stops and doesn’t move further, keeping that secret. She is very feminine. One wants to protect Lara, pay her back at least a bit of what she gives away with her neverending wasteful generosity.

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— From original Pathologic character concepts ^[1]

Lara took an active part in countering the Sand Plague, trying to make the fight with the Plague easier for others. When she found out about children looting caches with "shmowder", Lara made sure to stop them from getting their hands on the poison. She volunteered to test the old medicine along with Yulia Lyuricheva and Anna Angel.

While very widely liked, not everyone cares for Lara. Specifically, Aspity shows a great deal hatred towards Lara, calling her a liar. Yulia Lyuricheva expresses feelings of dislike towards Lara's philosophy and outlook on the world.

Background

“	She is a woman devastated by grief. All the gifts that she is so happy to give away are, fundamentally, offerings to a dead person. She favours the living with something the dead have no use for. [...] Her philanthropy is almost reprehensible. She pities everyone she comes across, for she knows they will all die just like her dearly departed. She sees a corpse in everyone she looks upon.	„
	— Yulia Lyuricheva

Lara's father was a military officer that once lived together with her in the Ravel home, which was built by the Olgimskys. Little is known about the circumstances of Captain Ravel's death — he was executed after the battle at the Karstov Fords, but the public reason for this remains unknown.

Appearance

Lara has short black hair and sad blue eyes. She wears a layered lilac dress with black-white ornate flowers and golden rope trim, woven around the layers of the dress and up the centre. It is belted across her chest and stomach with golden clasps and black straps, with a similar strap around her neck where a shoulder coat covers her. A final buttoned strap pins her gown together across her lower back. The second layer of her dress is a blue skirt which reaches her ankles. She wears brown boots, laced up.

Portrait Quotes

	"She's the kindest person I know. Lara has taught me how to give presents, which is an intricate art in and of itself. The first thing she cares about is other people; the last is Lara Ravel herself. She lives for her friends. I also was fond of her father. The year before last he volunteered as a Fourth Army captain. Yes, I mean the Fourth Army." - Capella's take on her.
	"After Captain Ravel was shot during the battle of Karstov Fords, newly-orphaned Lara turned her father's house into The Shelter. The house that's been built by Olgimsky in exchange for... a favor. She is both sensitive and sensible; a rare combination in our neck of the woods." - Stanislav Rubin's take on her.


"She's the kindest person I know. Lara has taught me how to give presents, which is an intricate art in and of itself. The first thing she cares about is other people; the last is Lara Ravel herself. She lives for her friends. I also was fond of her father. The year before last he volunteered as a Fourth Army captain. Yes, I mean the Fourth Army." - Capella's take on her.

"After Captain Ravel was shot during the battle of Karstov Fords, newly-orphaned Lara turned her father's house into The Shelter. The house that's been built by Olgimsky in exchange for... a favor. She is both sensitive and sensible; a rare combination in our neck of the woods." - Stanislav Rubin's take on her.

Plot

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Bachelor Route

Missing Expand.

Lara’s good intentions often would have consequences she didn’t foresee, such as in the failure of her House of the Living. On the second day of the epidemic, Lara wanted to create a 'House of the Living', an isolation ward. Lara found an empty house which she intended to make into a shelter. However, this plan didn’t succeed as the house she had chosen was already infected. After requesting the Bachelor investigate, he declares the house unsafe.

On the day the military forces with general Alexander Block in charge arrive, Lara attempted to assassinate Block. However, half the town already knew about her plan, as everyone was aware that Lara was searching for a small gun. The exact reason for Lara’s actions is unknown, but she reveals that she knew he had her father executed. Missing Bachelor quest detailing this event.

“	Perhaps she believes that he represents a kind of universal evil? An ultimate annihilator who has arrived with the only purpose of reducing the town to rubble. If only he was killed, Lara thinks, it would provide us with a much needed delay. After all, the medicine was already researched, she thinks... Was it, though?	„
	— Yulia Lyuricheva's speculation ^[2]

Haruspex Route

Missing information.

Changeling Route

Missing information.

“	I had to do it to protect the… privacy of certain information. The good name of a certain person… and most likely the life of another one depend on it. Surely that's reason enough? Forgive me, it's uncomfortable for me to talk about it.	„
	— Lara Ravel, regarding the House of the Living.

Lara decided to turn her mansion into a shelter for her friends and people who would help her with the arrangement. She wanted to make the House of The Living safe enough that one could survive a month living there without leaving the place, which would protect them from the Sand Plague. After her friend, the Harpist, told her that the Shelter is too small to hold everyone interested in staying there, Lara diverged from her rule of letting in everyone in need and decided to limit it to twelve people.

In the Humble Ending, she offers to sacrifice her life to the Changeling to save the town, along with the rest of the Humbles. Her crime of attempted murder places her under Clara's charge as one of the town's sinners, and Clara convinces her to join the sacrifice.

Lara asks how many people she can help with her blood. She finds strength in knowing that even the most active life would not have been able to save as many as would her death.