4. Central relationships
Finn Collins: Finn is her great early love, the person who was home to her even on the Ark. This is a relationship that explains a lot of her emotional intensity in the early seasons. It also explains her deep wound of betrayal, loss, and loyalty she doesn't know how to give at half-power. [1][2]
Clarke Griffin: The show and the wiki emphasize that Abby actually sees a resemblance between Raven and Clarke. Both are smart, strong, dominant, and bearing responsibility. So their relationship is always loaded — there's respect between them, friction, moral jealousy, and a deep understanding of the cost of leadership. [1]
Abby Griffin: Abby is a mother-not-mother figure for Raven — an adult who is also a mentor, also a treating figure, and sometimes also a source of disappointment. These relationships work very well when you remember they are full of both love and anger.
Murphy: Raven and Murphy are a classic example of functional-rivalry that develops into layers of poisoned respect, mockery, and even emotional connection. They don't suddenly become soft with each other, but between them there is a deep recognition of how much each of them has survived.
Bellamy: With Bellamy, Raven has strong survival partnership. Sometimes friction, sometimes sisterhood, but always a sense that both understand what it is to carry group weight without getting a medal for it.
Shaw, Wick: The later romantic figures in her life are important because they show that Raven is not defined only through Finn, but there too a clear pattern remains with her: it's hard for her to open her heart without first checking whether the ground is stable.