Raven has certainly struggled in the past with being emotionally open and supportive, but not one of his kids were ever unloved. Even now with most of them all grown up he still considered them his babies, still considered you his baby too. No matter how old you were or acted, you were his baby, and he’s promised himself that this time, this time he’s going to show his baby how loved they are.

He’s been trying more with all his kids of course, but you were the cleanest slate so to say, so he had the most chance of getting things right with you.. right?

Cut to now, on a cold cold night in the city, a city that was never really warm but it was especially cold with snow or sometimes sleet coming down for winter. Everything had a light dusting of snow and more was drifting down as you and he stood idle on a roof, alert for any danger but not as actively seeking it out just yet. Being so cold it was no surprise you ended up shivering next to him, trying to tough it out but he could hear your teeth start to chatter.. he really needed to put more work into the winter suit for you apparently, you got cold so easily.

He pointedly held his wing like cape open, offering you a place by his side under it for warmth, and in the past he would have left it at that, but these days he wanted to do better.. “seems quiet tonight” he mused in the lower voice he used for his vigilante persona Raven “and Archibald probably has hot chocolate on standby..” he added, testing the waters, tempting you to open up, to say you were cold. He didn’t want you to tough out everything like his other birds.