abandoned

The shenanigans he would get into. If his spirit-self could just roam around instead of immediately transferring into a body.

Following that idea if things were just Fucking Weird for him while he was in that limbo space between bodies and stuck as this weird little shadow

Whether that’s seeing people’s auras or maybe even just being able to hear what they’re thinking in that subliminal space. Experiencing their emotions in a very psychedelic out of body way has a lot of cool potential. 

Ex: the reason it’s harder for him to possess someone going through stronger emotions like fear or rage is because in that limbo space their emotions develop into Real Actual Things Joey has to get through like being overwhelmed translating into an actual sonic noise that Joey has to force himself through

100% would be frankly terrified and embarrassed of his ability to do this at first, soon learns that his friends don’t care and/or think it is cool, so he learns the potential of Eavesdropping with this

He also learns the consequences of Eavesdropping with this

Consider: no one can see him when he’s in this shadow-like form except for people who are in touch with magic or the limbo space Joey goes into (i.e. Raven, The Herald to some degree, Kyd Wykkyd, etc.)

Raven and Joey 100% bond over this. Raven tries to play it cool but low-key she’s ecstatic over the fact that there’s someone else who kind of understands her darker magic and doesn’t think she’s weird for it

Joey tries not to think about how this shadow form also doesn't have a mouth, and can’t speak. It causes some bad emotions to come up when he thinks about how his trauma is so imbued into his DNA that even his spiritual self carries it with him.

GREAT for Halloween. Tragic because Joey refuses to try to actively scare anyone and would rather watch The Craft with Raven.

People have varying reactions to seeing Joey’s weird little shadow form in person

Raven tends to just silently acknowledge his presence in her room and continue doing whatever she’s doing. Joey only ever tends to sneak in like that when he’s tried to escape a conversation or he’s having a bad day and doesn’t feel like himself in his own body. Raven’s room is her place to go to when she feels like that, so she’s glad Joey feels safe enough to take up space with her when he feels that way. He’ll usually just read whatever Raven is reading over her shoulder or play What Happens If I Touch This until Raven gives him The Eye

It’s about 30/70 whether Herald can see him or not. When he does he tends to not know what to do about it. Joey will give him a little wave and Herald will either pretend not to see him (he does NOT have time to make sense of what Joey’s doing right now. As long as it doesn’t involve him he does not care.) or he’ll awkwardly wave back and find a reason to pretend it never happened (this goes for 3 months before Joey tells him that no, he is not hallucinating)

See-More was fiddling with his specs once and ended up making a lens that allowed him to see into that limbo space Joey goes into, sufficiently scaring the mess out of him. Joey got TOO excited TOO quickly and See-More got so scared he fell out of his chair and ended up breaking the lens. It’s an inside joke with Joey and Kyd and that they both pretend they have no idea what See-More is talking about and that obviously he is crazy. See-More is a little more wary of Joey after that.

Kyd is very mellow about it compared to everyone else. He spends a lot of time in his own limbo with the teleporting- kind of like a pocket dimension. He thinks it’s cute how different it is for each of them, though. Kyd’s pocket dimension is more of something like a black hole- just endless space. Joey’s is more in tune to emotion and the spiritual world and frankly way more colorful. Sometimes Joey will sneak in to hang out with Kyd when Raven’s gotten too annoyed with him, and Kyd also tends to just silently acknowledge his presence and go about his day. The rest of the HIVE aren’t sure why, but Kyd seems Significantly more content when this happens. 

Ironically, Melvin of all people is able to see him the most. Everyone else sees him as a shadow on the wall or maybe a half formed being, but Melvin is able to see him clear as day and at any time he does this. Neither of them are sure why, but Joey doesn’t tend to question things. He likes just hanging out with Melvin out of body sometimes. It lets him play tea party with her without worrying what the other Titans will say, and sometimes he likes just living in Melvin’s world, where the worst thing she ever worries about is whether or not her bears are in order by height. The other Titans tend to think Melvin is playing with an imaginary friend.

I have A Lot To Say about how Joey sees himself in Melvin and would die for her if asked to but I will not say it here