Hi bbygirl! Was wondering if you could briefly describe the Team's personalities? I'm just getting into YJ and it's so interesting and I just wanna know more about these amazing characters
Of course cutie! Since your just starting out I’ll do season 1? I’m gonna try not to give too many spoilers. Alright here we go:
M'gann/Megan/Miss Martian is sunshine and cookies. She will do almost anything to fit in. She also has the most obvious blush ever™. But she really wants be accepted for who she REALLY is.
Wally/Kid Flash is like, the biggest flirt ever. He’ll do anything for a kiss. He also constantly flirts with M'gann. He and Artemis are usually bickering about something. Wally is also pretty oblivious to things, but he really puts his whole heart into being a hero
Kaldur/Aqualad is like… the patience of every mother in the world shoved into one person. He’s really calm and collected and pretty formal. He really wants to do the right thing, even going as far as to disobey his king to save people
Artemis is a spitfire. She can be uncertain about some things, but she really wants to be a hero. Sometimes personal things get into the way but she usually manages to do the right thing in the end.
Connor/Kon-El/Superboy is easily angered, and looks pissed most of the time, but otherwise is easily content. He craves approval from Superman and is very curious about things. He also has a huge ass dog so there’s that
Robin/Dick is a troll. He likes to show off and LOVES to mess with the English language. He can be sassy, but is also pretty secretive.
Zatanna is pretty cool headed, but can be impulsive. She is also a bit sassy, like Artemis.
I don’t need to fight
To prove I’m right
I don’t need to be forgiven
“Ms. Hayden?” A familiar voice roused me awake.
“My fellow blackbird, hello,” I said. I found my straps were undone but various body parts were in soft splints so I attempted to sit.
“Atom has been working on you with some new technology while you sleep to help you heal quicker. Otherwise, you’d be in that bed for months.”
“I don’t know how I feel knowing a man has been working inside me while I snooze.” The distasteful joke did not go well. Feeling Dinah grow cold, I muttered an apology.
“We are taking a very big step out of our way to take care of you. Once Queen Bee finds out you are here, she may just try to take you back by force. But that is why you chose to show up at the Hall of Justice, isn’t it? You knew you had friends here. Friends you knew that would keep you safe no matter your history.”
“Yes.” I had to agree. I may have changed sides but I’m no liar.
“In exchange for your safety, We want to get to the bottom of what happened. From our intel, you were a very big player on their side. Even being a part of the Light. For Queen Bee to feel comfortable enough to attack you, you must’ve been involved in something big to piss her off.”
My face betrayed me. My heart was broken as well as my bones and I was too exhausted to be my charming, controlled self.
“I understand if you aren’t ready to talk but we do need to know the threat and you have a while to heal. Was Lex Luthor involved?”
I laid back and began counting the tiles on the ceiling to fight back my emotions. This wasn’t their concern. They’d only meddle and most of this incident was a personal fight.
“Fine then,” she continued. “I want to get into what happened to you after the accident–”
“The accident.” I scoffed. “Is that what it is called here? Pretty sure it was a betrayal.”
“Who betrayed you?”
“The entire league. The team. All of you. Take your pick. What do you think made me quit? Not enough fringe benefits?”
“But didn’t you have good times here as well? Weren’t you friends with the those on the team?”
“Of course.” I looked back at the tiles. My face softened while I fell back in time. There were thousands of memories but only one stood out now. It was strange to see an old memory in a different light. I sighed, feeling my healing ribs ache. “We were a family. Closer than family, actually. I don’t think there’s a word for what we were.”
I first joined after Jason’s death. I just couldn’t be the partner Bruce needed or wanted. So Tim Drake took my spot. We both needed the space. I could tell Dick wasn’t comfortable with me being on the Team so we stayed away from each other on missions. Despite his best efforts to make me feel unneeded, I actually got along well with the Team. Although, I did feel a bit estranged from them all when it came to down time.
There was a night where it finally felt like I belonged. We had just returned from a good fight. Our mentors were proud of us and it was a high we didn’t want to lose. So we came home and had a little party. We blared music, played movie marathons, M'gann made all sorts of food and drinks.
“You were amazing out there, Jet!” Artemis slugged my shoulder while we sat in the kitchen eating some of M'gann’s delicious cookies.
“Thanks. It was nothing. DJ Turret did most of the hard work.” I patted my latest robot as it floated nearby. It chirped in acknowledgement while playing some Top 40 music.
“And most of the partying! Who knew one needed some BEATS to properly BEAT up some bad guys?” Wally joked while shoving a turkey sandwich in his gob.
“Boo!!!” the team yelled. Artemis smacked his arm.
“You did do well,” Kaldur said quietly beside me as the group moved on to razz Wally and relive some of their moves from the night.
“Thanks,” I blushed as I cleared the kitchen of dirty dishes. I was never one to bask in the post-battle glow so I awkwardly avoided Kaldur and started down the hall to change into my regular clothes. Suddenly, I felt Nightwing shadowing behind me.
“What.” I stated, annoyed and ready for the coming argument. I kept walking down the hall knowing this talk needed to get further from the group.
“You nearly blew the whole operation.” He loudly whispered. It was one of the many things I loathed about him.
“I saved your asses.”
“You did what you want to do. Like always.”
“Like always?” I flipped around quickly to meet his eyes. “All I do is follow Kaldur’s orders and then I have to follow yours!”
“What are you talking about?” Our voices got louder.
“Don’t act like you don’t try to control my every move. ‘Over there, Jet. You’re letting them get away, Jet. Pick up the slack, Jet!’” My arms waved sarcastically in the air.
“Control?! No one here would even know how to control you! You are one slip up from getting someone hurt.”
“Listen up, jerkwad,” I began walking back down the hall. “I do my job well! Just because you can’t see other options through your mini-Batman goggles doesn’t mean I can’t.”
“Enough with the mini-Batman shit!” He grabbed my arm and turned me to him. Another thing I hated. “I’m so sick of you comparing me to him!”
“Look at you.” I pointed. “You’re a pointy cowl away from being him. You’ve got the grumpiness, the scowl, the ridiculous adherence to the rules. You want me to be your Alfred? Is that it? Okay! How do you like your self-righteousness served, Master Grayson? Dissolved in your drink? Or taken as a suppository?”
“ENOUGH!” He quickly pinned me to the wall with his forearm and held my other arm down. I clenched my jaw in anger but also because of something else.
It had been so long since we were this close to each other and even though I didn’t want to admit it, I missed him. We used to train together and that’s where most of our tension, sexual or otherwise started.
Adrenaline was pumping and our breathing became heavy. I could smell his sweet musk again and saw his eyes dilate. I couldn’t decide if I wanted to kiss him… or fight him. So I stayed angry.
“You even sound like him now,” I growled. “We used to be friends, Dick. Why do you keep trying to fight me?” I said quietly. His glare faltered and he relaxed but stayed close. He let up on his arm and placed his hand on the wall by my head and held my hand down tight with his other hand.
“You said the reason. I just want my friend back. I want you. I miss you, Reggie.” His hand left the wall and trailed down my left arm, lacing his fingers in mine. It was warm and familiar and I wanted more. He brought his face closer to mine and paused for a tense-filled couple of seconds, waiting for me to meet him halfway. Sighing, i slightly turned away and tensed up again. He lowered his head in defeat.
“Stop fighting me, Reg. I’m not your enemy.” I looked back at his face, seeing the pain etched in his face. He looked so much older than he was. My guilt made my heart thaw and he sighed in relief as I squeezed his hand, signaling him that I missed him as well. I wanted to say anything. Everything. I wanted to relax and give in seeing as his lips were mere inches away from mine. My body ached for him.
“I–”
“I think they walked over here!” Wally yelled and our hands ripped apart. Taking a few steps back, Nightwing gulped hard and clenched his jaw which only made me want to throw him in one of the adjacent rooms right then and there. But all I could do was sigh and rub my flushed cheeks to calm my hormones.
“Hey, guys! We’re having a vote. LOTR, Star Wars, or Harry Potter? We’re having a marathon in the T.V. room.
“Star Wars,” we said at the same time, surprising each other. We both smiled, remembering our nights in Wayne Manor while Bruce was on solo missions. We would even catch Alfred mouthing along with the movies.
“Harry Potter it is!”
“Wait, then why did you ask us?” Dick said.
“The sexual tension was getting crazy,” Wally smirked and winked as he turned around to speed off.
I blushed even harder knowing Wally and gods know who else was watching. I knew and Dick knew that EVERYONE knew we had history. That just comes with the territory when you pair kids together but it was still embarrassing as hell.
“I’ll try to be more of a team player,” I said quickly and turned to leave the opposite way of the movie and from the awkward stares Wally would no doubtedly do the whole night. But those plans were stopped when Dick grabbed my arm. Hate.
“Wait. Where are you going?” He said in a low voice.
“Dick, don’t. The moment is gone.” I said, pleading to just bury the embarrassment in my room with some headphones.
“I can make another moment.” Again he pulled me to him. HATE.
“With Wally trying to listen in? No thanks.”
“Then let’s go to my room. We can Star Wars in there,” he joked.
“Oh my gods! Don’t turn it into a verb! Sacrilege!” He pulled me close and my smile faded while my stomach began to fill with butterflies. He sweetly reached up to my face and played with the tiny stray strands of my hair and smiled slightly. I melted a little because that was my smile. Dick always smiled and laughed but when we were alone and he’d look at me, his smile was for me. Only me and it had been a long time since I had seen it.
“It feels like a sacrilege sort of night.” His touch was gentle but his voice was rough and deep.
I really wanted to let go and be with him but hate is hardly ever instant. It builds and erupts in small spurts at inopportune times. So to make him hurt as much as I did, a bitter pill for him to swallow popped into my head. I tenderly held his chin causing his chest to swell and brought his face to mine. I could hear his breathing stop.
“What would Barbara say?” I said venomously. He held me out from him visibly seething. “That’s what I thought. Shame on you, Boy Wonder. What would Bruce think?”
He didn’t say another word. Just turned and walked away towards the rooms. Instead of going to my room, I instead found myself walking back to the kitchen. I kicked myself for being so horrid. I hated myself. Hatred was festering inside me and I couldn’t even be happy that the one person I could maybe be in love with wanted to be with me despite everything I had done to hurt him.
“Starling.” I jumped out of my self-loathing mind prison. There was only one person who called me that.
“Kaldur, you scared me.”
“My apologies. Can we talk?”
“Listen, I’m going to bed but I–” I sighed. Kaldur had this way of not letting me have my way. Which in most cases was a good thing so after the fifth or so time of being nicely declined my own way, it was just better to go along with what he said. “Sure.”
“How are you doing?”
“Really? Are you my therapist?” I sighed again. “Sorry. I’m okay.”
“Fitting in?” Surprised by his concern, I smiled and for the first time in a long time, I was proud to say I felt like I belonged.
“Yeah. I really am.”
“Even with Nightwing?” I winced. I was 100% positive everyone heard our spat.
“There’s a lot of history there. But it won’t affect our missions!” I added. “He kinda just gave me a heads up that I should be more disciplined when it comes to team missions.”
“Do not worry. You oppose me but that makes me think in ways I normally would not. I believe the term is ‘opposites attract’?” I blushed. Kaldur’s first language wasn’t American English so sometimes he got his sayings mixed.
“Ummm, no. But I get what you are saying. Listen, I really just want to lay down–”
“I know. But come watch the marathon with us. Take your mind off of the world for now.”
“But I really just– fine.”
Even though Dick wasn’t there, we all enjoyed the marathon and fell asleep in the tv room together. I forgot about our fight, the horrible things I said and even forgot about my slowly building hate. It was nice to be a regular kid again.
“You have friends here still. They miss you as much as you miss them.” I shook out of my memory lane walk.
“It definitely is different looking back on it.” I mused. “If I knew then what I knew now.”
“You still feel this animosity?”
I looked at her feeling my blood boil. She knew nothing. Even after knowing how I let my guard down with the Team. I was still in the wrong in her eyes. Dumb hero.
“They still let me burn.”
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