Raze

"Yes, I'm pumped!"

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Raze is an Agent in VALORANT.

Biography
Tayane Alves is an engineer who comes from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Holding strong objections towards Kingdom Corporation's operations in Bahia, Alves was involved in driving the company out of her home state and forcing them to abandon their sites there.

Having worked in the past with Breach as a criminal duo, she was later recruited by the VALORANT Protocol like him to become its twelfth agent, "Raze".

Personality
"I promise I'll get 'em. Might take down a city block along the way but...hey. A win's a win"

- Raze (Match Start) The one-woman party from Bahia, Raze is always playful, impulsive, and spontaneous. She radiates chaotic energy and creates havoc on the battlefield, destroying every obstacle that is blocking her path. According to Sage, she can be impatient and won't stick to plans. She is notoriously cheeky, as seen when she earned Cypher's ire after constantly breaking his gadgets.

Fun-loving as she is, she refers to her fellow agents as family and always assures them that she'll be the one leading the fireworks display.

Appearance
Raze is a woman with a brown skin tone, always sporting her orange cap worn backwards accompanied by her headphones. Her hair is arranged in multiple braids held together by gold-colored hair rollers. She wears a sleeveless, orange top that exposes her midriff and is covered by a chestplate with the word 'BOOM' spray-painted on the front. She wears dark colored pants with a splatter of paint by the left thigh, held by a strap wherein her paintshell grenades are attached.

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Trivia

 * Raze created her Boom Bot by stealing and modifying one of Killjoy's Alarmbots.
 * She did major upgrades on Breach's mechanical arms.
 * She and Killjoy developed a training robot known as "Max Bot," which is designed to imitate and replicate the powers and skills of its opponent.
 * She loves to breakdance and was part of a B-Girl crew in Salvador.

Development

 * An unused voice line by Sage might imply that Raze's call sign was originally going to be Bombshell.
 * Raze was the first additional character to be added in the Closed Beta.
 * Cypher called Raze "Izzy" in one of his early quotes, however the voiceline was removed from the game and her real name was eventually revealed to be Tayane.

Relations

 * It is hinted that she worked with Breach before joining the VALORANT Protocol.
 * The nature of their shared past was one that operated outside the law.
 * Breach icon.png "Raze! Huh, together again and we're not even breaking the law!"
 * Raze has close relations with Breach to the point of referring to him as "Breachy."
 * "You know, Breachy, in all this chaos it would be terrible if some equipment just...got lost...you know?"
 * Raze and Killjoy have a friendly rivalry.

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