Better idea for Crow story:
Evangeline de Ravin comes from California to New York, to pursue a career on Broadway. Her parents are French performers, who moved to America following the success of Cirque du Soleil. Up until the events of the book, Evangeline (Angel or Angie) worked part-time at a Denny's-like diner to pay the bills on her run-down studio apartment. She is walking through her neighborhood on her way home from work in the bleak hours of the morning (she works the night shift) when she hears the cries of a baby. She approaches a run-down, condemned apartment building and watches through a broken window as two men are discussing their "deal" and hears one of them say, "these brats aren't going to live much longer, it's not like we can feed them," and then shoots the baby that is laying on a delapidated couch nearby. She gasps, and is heard. She is dragged back into the apartment, raped, and shot numerous times, but does not die. Her cries, both in english and french, go unheard, and she is not found until the next morning, by then she has bled to death.
She goes into the morgue as a Jane Doe, since nobody really knows who she is and she doesn't have any ID on her because the men took her purse. The Crow comes to her, and it looks different than usual. Instead of being solid black, this one has alternating white and black feathers in its wings. It revives her for the purpose of avenging her own death, and the deaths of the babies that the while feathers in its wings represent--there's an underground baby ring that is stealing babies to sell to unwitting adoptive parents who don't go through the proper circles. What babies don't sell, they kill.
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