Ravan

RavanRavan of Thicket Tumble
Ravan's alumni portrait in The Ever Never Handbook
Biological information
Species	Human
Status	Alive
Gender	Male
Hair color	Black
General information
Place of origin	Thicket Tumble
Alignment	Evil
Affiliation	School for Evil (formerly) School for Boy (formerly) School for New Evil (formerly)

Ravan is a Neverboy student at the School for Evil in the School for Good and Evil series.

History

School For Good and Evil

In the beginning of The School for Good and Evil. He shared a room with Hort, but was later moved to a four-person dorm when Hort was attacked by a skunk and quarantined due to the smell. His three unnamed bunkmates are musically gifted, and provided the music for his turn in the Circus of Talents and for the 1st annual villain's "No Ball." He danced with Hester at the No Ball, though Hester later asserts that she would rather die than touch a boy.

A World without Princes

In A World Without Princes , he makes it onto the Boy's trial team alongside Sophie (disguised as Filip), Tedros, and several adult Princes from outside the school. However, he and a mix of Neverboys and Never Girls quickly forfeit when they stumble into a trap set by the faculty and are attacked by monsters, which Evil students are trained to command rather than fight.

The Last Ever After

Ravan was tracked as a Leader at the School for New Evil. During the war against the School Master, he fights on the side of Good alongside the rest of the students of the School for New Evil. He is knocked off his Stymph, but continues to fight the undead villains with his bare hands, resulting in him being badly injured. Luckily, Merlin tends to his wounds on the battlefield before he succumbs to them, and he makes it out of the war alive.

The Ever Never Handbook

It is revealed Ravan was tracked as a Leader, with his quest being to plunder the iron village of Akgul.

Quests for Glory

Ravan was kidnapped by the Snake, had his head shaved and was set to be hanged at the Four Point.

In Nottingham, he and Vex searched the hill around the jail for the Snake.

A Crystal of Time

He leaves Gnomeland.

Personality

Ravan is described throughout the series as being one of Evil's best students, often receiving ranks in the top 5 during challenges. He is aggressive, blunt, and sarcastic, often snapping at his fellow students or jabbing at Sophie's princess-like appearance and life choices in general. His aggressiveness and exceptional performance in class causes the other Nevers to see him as somewhat of a leader--several villains readily follow his orders when he attempts to spy on Sophie and Coven 66, and when he urges the Nevers to join in on Tedros and Tristan's fight. Despite this, he is often the first to vocalize support for Agatha in her efforts to fix her fairy tale and restore the Woods to balance. He is even seen walking with Reena, an Evergirl, while wearing a pin that reads "Bring Good Back!" in The Last Ever After, suggesting that he may have befriended Good students over their mutual hatred of the School for New Evil. He was trained to use weapons in the School for Boy , but he seems to prefer hand-to-hand combat and is "well-trained in poor sportsmanship," as he bests a full-grown prince by kneeing him in the groin during training and later fights an undead troll with his bare hands in the war against the School Master.

Appearance

Ravan has brown skin, an oily black mane of hair and large, black eyes, which turn red when he uses his villain talent. In The Last Ever After, the faculty of the School for New Evil force him to scrub his face clean and cut his hair short (the latter he became unhappy about) After being tracked as a Leader, he gains a golden swan pin and a green beret. After being captured by the Snake, his hair was forcibly shaved yet again.

Abilities

• Smoke burping: Ravan can burp out smoke without being physically burnt at all and without having to swallow fire.
• Head growth: Ravan can grow multiple different heads on his body, up to ten, and while he uses this power, the eyes on his original head turn red.

Trivia

• He was added to the series as a younger version of Ravana, an antagonist in a traditional Indian legend and the series' author Soman Chainani's favorite villain.
• Ravan tells a group of Nevers on their way to spy on Sophie that when he was younger, he told his father he had a crush on a girl and his father slathered him with honey and sealed him in a bear den for a night as punishment. He apparently hasn't been interested in girls since, and suggests Sophie's parents should have punished her in a similar fashion for her fixation on boys.
• During the mass ball proposal at the end of the Circus of Talents, he becomes dejected at the sight of the happy couples along with Hort, Dot, and Hester, and briefly wishes he could feel as happy and wanted as the Evers. This suggests he could be one of the Nevers who shifts his focus to finding a Never After once that path opens, along with Sophie, Hort, and Dot. 
• Dot flirts with Ravan while fantasizing about the possibility of Never After and "Evil Valentine's Day." He visibly gags. Whether it is due to her seemingly unshakable loyalty to "Queen Sophie" or the idea of being Dot's "Evil Valentine" is unclear.
• His finger glow color is still not yet unconfirmed, but people have speculated it is either red or orange to match his control over fire.
• When the Nevers temporarily became beautiful at the end of book one, his oily skin clears, but nothing else happens, implying there wasn't much wrong with him in the looks department otherwise.