#garth curry

[greenlanternnerd]

HEAR ME OUTTTT

Garth-centric Fab Five fanfic where it’s an AU where Garth hasn’t really learned English yet. He still only speaks Atlantean and they’re kinda just left alone to figure it out. They try telling the older heroes but Aquaman is on a mission in Atlantis and the others don’t know how to help much. Except Batman obviously, but the most help he can provide is saying that Aquaman assured him that even if Garth doesn’t know any human languages there’s a quick instant way for any Atlantean to learn the knowledge of languages their companions know. So they’re left with that knowledge but don’t know what way Aquaman was talking about. The JL tries asking to see if a GL would be ok with baby sitting the kids and using their kid as translator until Aquaman comes back but all the lanterns are on Oa.

So the fab five are left completely alone with what they essentially think is a mermaid that they can’t communicate with and have no knowledge or context of.

It’s a little difficult at first but they find a way to get basic nonverbal communication through so they can function on missions, which is how they also find out that Garth doesn’t know what method Aquaman was talking about either because of his childhood being separated from society and not having knowledge on basic Atlantean things.

Anyways, Fab Five have trouble picking up ANYthing Garth says because most Atlantean words can’t even be pronounced by surface dwellers since they don’t have the vocal cords for it, and they can’t even hear some sounds in the Atlantean language because Atlanteans have a larger frequency range in their language and hearing than surface people. On the other hand, Garth quickly picked up some English words but he had no idea what they mean yet and just shouts random words he knows when he’s excited. The words include the other titans’ names, he hadn’t realized they’re their names yet, the words “Arrow!” “Batarang!” “Snack” “Warrior” and “mermaid.” (Arrow thanks to Roy, batarang thanks to Dick, snack from Wally, warrior from Donna, and mermaid thanks to Roy constantly calling Garth a mermaid)

Anyways, one day after a particularly difficult mission goes well and Garth gets really excited, he turns around and randomly kisses one of the Fab Five (haven’t decide who yet) because he’s really happy and that’s what he always sees Mera and Arthur doing when they’re happy, not realizing it’s a romantic thing because again, he grew up in isolation, he doesn’t have the best grasp on surface or underwater society.

Everyone’s shocked but they’re even more shocked when after the kiss, Garth is speaking perfect English. Garth himself is just as confused and they’re all wondering what the hell is going on. They have to explain to him that they don’t know about Atlantis but on the surface, kissing someone is a really intimate and romantic gesture and you can’t just do it because you’re excited/happy.

Shortly after one of GL’s conveniently comes back to Earth and uses to the ring to scan Garth to figure out how he randomly learned English out of nowhere just to burst out laughing and tell the kids that Atlanteans can instantly be transferred knowledge of foreign languages by kissing someone who knows the language.

Later on one of the Titans definitely offers to teach Garth all the other languages they know, to which Garth’s oblivious ass excitedly agreed and brings back a notebook and a pen, expecting an actual lesson.

Yes this is inspired by the Kory and Dick scene, although the main inspiration was @edi-storm’s RoyGarth comic (sorry for the tag)

[windybluebelles]

I can never decide wether I prefer the ‘Teen Titans’-Titans (BeastBoy, Starfire, Cyborg, Robin and Raven) or the more ‘OG’-Titans (Robin, Kidflash, WonderGirl, Speedy and AquaLad)

Occasionally I contemplate just mixing them together but I never manage to do it in a way that works. Kori and Vic are kinda easy to shove into the OG team, and Wally, Garth and Roy obviously work with being in the Teen Titans but Donna, Raven and BeastBoy are so hard to put together. It just doesn’t work when I try.

Thinking about it, Garth is also kinda difficult but like, I can still kinda force it. I can’t do that with the other three. Idk Whyy exactly, it just doesn’t work

Idk gang just yapping

[inverted-typo]

followed u at spaqua and now we got damirae i’m here for it

HOMESLICE!!! You’ve been hanging around for a HOT MINUTE! 😭♥️ I was just about to go to bed and was compelled to doodle them bc how could I not? An OG pair for real. Thanks so much for sticking around for all this time

[fire-fira]

Rewatching the atlantean episodes of season 4 of YJA, and while I get why the writers went with making Lori, Topo, Coral, Garth, Ronal, and Beluga representatives of various Atlantean city-states for the sake of convenience (and not having to introduce new characters), at the same time there's a part of me that's less than thrilled about it. :/

Like yes, I can buy them all winding up in official positions that could easily warrant them being included in some sort of council, but being representatives for entirely separate city-states... I dunno.

(Long story short: whenever I get my Atlantean World-Building series going, I'm definitely taking a different approach.)

[fishpunsarelife]

Things I am: mizah’ska, kisegra, green, smart, smartass, and a giant nerd.

Things I am not: straight, a ‘traitor’, a ‘troll’, boring, a history nerd, or a damned heathen who keeps making cracks about making a mother-glubbing SUNFISH his symbol.

(This random-as-the-deeps post brought to you courtesty of an ongoing conversation between me, Topo, and Garth. For the record, Garth is the one being a heathen. Again. In a move that surprises no one who knows him well.)

[greenlanternnerd]

Ik it’s absolutely not canon and makes no sense but I think it’d be really funny if there was a universe where Orm really fucking hates Arthur but adores Garth. Tries killing his brother one minute but the second Garth comes home it’s all smiles and rainbows and he’s absolutely spoiling the shit out of Garth and being the coolest uncle ever.

It’s to the point that Orm plans his invasions of/attacks on Atlantis around when Garth is on the surface with the titans so the kid doesn’t have to see

Garth still doesn’t realize why everyone seems to not really like Uncle Orm when he’s so nice and always gets him gifts

No one has the heart to tell Garth that his favorite uncle is actually a super villain.

[greenlanternnerd]

Sigh. Just remembered Death of a Prince exists. I’m gonna go sob my eyes out then impale whoever decided Arthur was gonna try to kill Garth.

[fire-fira]

Some further thoughts in regards to [this post] just in terms of what I personally think would make sense for all of them.

Coral: yes, keep her as the emissary for Neptunos in Poseidonis, though with both of her partners being so thoroughly tied to Poseidonis I'd include at least some hints that it doesn't come without challenges or some doubts about where her loyalties lay. She's a politician, she can handle it, but it'd be a little more intriguing to have her have to occasionally fend off criticism from people in Neptunos who might think she's getting a little 'too fond' of Poseidonis.

Topo: Historian and restorationist, full stop. He doesn't seem to me to be the type to really be comfortable being an outright politician, but as an adviser whose knowledge of history makes him an invaluable asset, he would shine. Atlantis has a looooooong history, and if you go with the headcanon that magic extends the lives of those who use it (and that the more skilled a person is, the longer they can live-- which could easily result in at least a few being hundreds of years old), then that would make his knowledge even more valuable because that history would be much more blatantly present than might otherwise be expected.

Lori: While arguments could be made for keeping Lori as a General for Tritonis, I will admit I have a fondness for the idea of Lori having thrown herself wholeheartedly into the study of healing magic while at the Conservatory of Sorcery. (Also, having a General as Tritonis's emissary to Poseidonis seems a bit counter-effective to me. Why send a General from their military when it would make more sense to send someone who should ideally have better negotiating skills than what would likely be presumed of a General?) But as a healer? A magic user whose emphasis is in healing and who might have gained the knowledge of how to track and contain things like pandemics and other public health crises in Atlantis? She could easily have all the authority of a General, but on a broader scale than just Tritonis or Poseidonis, she could be a key public health advisor for all of Atlantis, and she has the connections to pave her way to that position. (Plus, Lori getting to have moments of being the quintessential snarly 'white mage' amuses me to no end.)

Garth: He can stay as the Atlantean Minister of Diplomacy and the UN Ambassador for Atlantis. Neither of those ties him explicitly to only one city-state of Atlantis, and he has the personal and political ties for it to make sense for how he eventually wound up in the position. Though with his being the protégé/apprentice to Arthur/Orin, I'm sure he would occasionally get met with accusations of prioritizing Poseidonis over the other city-states, but that just adds another layer (like Coral) that makes him having the position interesting. Plus, his experience from being on the surface gives him an edge of familiarity that would serve him well as the UN Ambassador. (And with my own headcanons and fics, he's got plenty of practice in diplomatically talking around things he'd rather avoid getting into, which is a skill I'm sure he'd use if he has it at his disposal.)

Beluga: I'm not opposed to Beluga having become the equivalent of a bishop or cleric, but the episodes he was in had him come across as a joke-- a bottom-of-the-barrel pick for a representative for Xebel. And while yeah, having a bottom-of-the-barrel pick was an easy way to show Mera's father snubbing Orin and that whole council and has its own narrative merits, at the same time it's just... SIGH. It also doesn't help that there's barely anything to his character shown in the series. And that's not even getting into the conflicting implication that in season 1 (his first appearance) Xebel was either largely unknown of in Atlantis proper, or that it wasn't technically considered part of Atlantis for a while (up until at least the end of season 1 at the earliest)-- which would mean that if he was originally from Xebel that his chances of attending the Conservatory would probably have been really limited. On the other hand, Beluga as a privileged son of some official who went into the Conservatory and eventually became a cleric and decided to take his practice to Xebel? That I can buy. (And in that context, Nereus pushing Beluga into the position of a politician when he's uncomfortable with it because it's seriously out of his wheelhouse while also leaning on his background as the son of some official for why he's the 'appropriate choice', sounds like an appropriately dick-ish move for Nereus without making Beluga an outright joke.)

Ronal: I'll admit, I do not like the idea of him being a 'lord' of Crastinus. Yes, he practically screams 'I am the son of someone with a LOT of political power', but putting him on the same level of royal families like Orin, Mera, Nereus, and Sha'ark just feels off-base and loads of 'ick' to me. (I personally headcanon him as the son of the Consul Magistrate of Poseidonis, putting his mother as one of the most politically powerful people in Atlantis right below the various royal families, but that's me.) I can buy him getting a political position due to the precedent set by his parent(s), however, due to his past history as a known purist I suspect his position would be precarious as hell. Making him an emissary would be a political landmine that I think most of the Atlantean city-states wouldn't want to risk. Taking up a position as a consul or a praetor though (since I doubt he'd be accepted as a consul magistrate due to being a political landmine)? That I can easily see happening. He'd have a political position due to his family background and training, but having been a known purist should have cost him access to higher levels of political power.