Night Star Mari

This just randomly popped up in my brain today. It’s inspired by some world events. 

***This takes place in my universe. Jake and Mar’i are twins, and they were raised in Tamaran**

“Achoo!”

A burst of blue shot from Jake’s nose, violently flinging him back into his bedsheets. He let out a pitiful noise and rubbed his swollen nose. 

“Goodness!” Starfire said and rushed over to her ailing boy. She cradled him in her arms.

“Make it stop, Mama. Please,” he whimpered, nuzzling her neck. 

“My poor darling,” she cooed. She pushed back his sweaty bangs and kissed his forehead. “The physicians said the medicine should work soon.”

“How soon?” he asked miserably. His body was wrought with aches and shivers. “I’m dying, Mama.”

“You are not dying, Jaki. You just have a cold, that’s all.” She brought in the best doctors in Tamaran and made them run every test available. In the end, it turned out to be a simple cold, and the Prince should make a speedy recovery. “Just give it a day, my love.”

“A day? I wanna get better now!” he groaned. 

Starfire sighed and kissed him once more. “I know, bumgorf. I do not like seeing you so ill. You should be outside, playing with Mar'i. Not cooped up in here.”

“I miss Mar'i.” Starfire smiled tenderly. Her babies had been separated for exactly twenty-two hours, and it was killing them. They were not meant to be apart for this long. But the last they wanted was for Mar'i to get sick as well, so it had to be done. 

“She misses you, too. She never stops asking about you,” Starfire hummed. “Be strong, my love, and get better. I fear that if you do not, your sister will destroy the Palace.”

Jake nodded, features now determined. “Okay, Mama.”

She gave him a final squeeze. “You rest now. I will return later to check up on you.” She peppered his face with kisses. “I love you so much, Jaki.”

“I love you, too.”

-A couple of hours later-

A knock awoke Jake at his door. Groggy, he sat up and walked to the door. 

“Hello?” he asked. 

“Jaki?” his sister’s voice called from behind the door. “Thank X'hal! You are still alive!”

“Of course, I’m alive, woman!” he exclaimed. He could not help the massive smile on his face, though. He had missed his sister so much, and hearing her voice made him feel ten times better.

“I’m coming in!” she said suddenly. Jake saw the door handle move, but he firmly kept it in place.

“No, Mar'i! You’ll get sick!”

“I don’t care,” she said resolutely. “We can be sick together.”

He frowned and shook his head. “Nuh-uh. You stay healthy.”

“I don’t wanna stay healthy, Jaki!” she shouted. He heard her stomp her foot. “I just wanna see you again.”

He was almost tempted to let her in, but then he remembered how horrible he had felt these past few days. His mission was to protect Mar'i, and he would be a bad brother if he got her sick. 

“I’ll be better soon, Mar'i,” he assured her. “And when I am, we can play again! So you can’t get sick.”

“You promise?” she asked, her voice shaky.

“Mmmhmm,” he nodded. “I promise.”

“Okay,” she let out a defeated sigh. “If you die-”

“Woman, I’m not dying! It’s just a cold." 

"You better not, Jaki. You’re the only one who braids my hair the way I like it.”

Jake snorted and crossed his arms. “Nuh-uh, I’m your best friend, and you know it.”

Mar'i let out a giggle. “You are, Jaki. Okay, I won’t come in, but I’m leaving my dessert for you.”

Jake was surprised. “You didn’t eat your dessert?”

“Yep! It’s a zorkaberry tart.”

“But you love zorkaberry tarts!”

“I do, but you need it more.” He heard her place it on the ground. “It’s right here, Jaki. Please eat it and get better, okay?”

A big grin blossomed on the Prince’s features. “Okay, Mar'i. Goodnight. I love you.”

“I love you, too. Sweet schlorvaks!”

When he was sure she had left, he creaked his door open and grabbed the dessert. A pink napkin wrapped around it and a note with his sister’s script lay atop of it. 

“To Jaki- from Mar'i.”

**disclaimer: Jake and Mar’i are from my own universe where they’re twins and were raised on Tamaran. Oh and Mar’i can turn invisible**

These are some random hcs I have for my favorite space twins.

Mar’i is a hellion when she sleeps. She snores, drools, and splays her limbs out like a starfish. Her hair is an absolute wreck when she wakes up and her servants spend a good hour detangling it every morning.

That being said, Jake’s completely immune to her snoring and can fall asleep to it.

Jake loves geology and has an entire collection of rocks. He likes to collect them on his travels or dig up some in the garden w his sister

Mar’i doesn’t actually care about geology; she just pretends like she does so she can spend time with Jaki

Mar’i and Starfire call Jake “Jaki” and only they can call him that

The twins are fiercely protective of each other. They’d absolutely throw hands for the other any day

Jake is mischievous and loves using his sister’s invisibility to his advantage. Mar’i pretends to be against his schemes but she’s always goes along with whatever he says

Jake is super attentive and aware of Mar’i’s internal energy supply. He always makes sure she’s well fed and has enough solar energy. Hell ever sacrifice a bit of his own to make sure she stays comfortable and doesn’t get sick

Sometimes, Jake will think there’r a monster underneath his bed and gets really scared so Mar’i will check for him. She never makes fun of him for it

Mar’i thinks that Jake is the bravest, strongest person she knows (but she’ll never, ever tell him that)

Jake thinks that Mar’i is the smartest, funniest person he knows (but he’ll never, ever tell her that)

When they lock hands, the color of their starbolt changes to a vibrant purple color.

They have uber secret handshake that is reserved for hard times ONLY. It’s extremely convoluted because they are constantly updating it

koriand'r: Why?

[Cutaway to dick with mar'i putting up a trophy on display with several other trophies and gold medals and blue ribbons as jake watches.]

dick grayson: Very good, mar'i! We'll put it up here with the rest of your awards. I'm...still saving a place for your trophy, jake. You know, just in case.

[Cut back to jake and koriand'r.]

bruce wayne: I ordered him to stay inside.

Nightwing: I learned from the best.

Batman: Thank you.

Dick: I know.

Wally: No, but seriously like she's way too good for you.

Dick: I know, I know that.

Wally: Like, you should have never had a shot. It doesn't make any sense.

Dick: No, trust me. I've known this the whole time.

koriand'r: What’s that?

Like, I want all the backstory behind how she wound up with all these teenagers following her around.

Thus far, I have decided:

Dick and Kory were totally partners sometime before Son of Batman, possibly on a team together with other heroes, possibly not.

Dick had Batfamily drama to deal with and wound up relocating to Bludhaven as his major operating point, still keeping up his relationship with Kory, albeit more long-distance now.

Kory was feeling a little lonely without him around and just sort of started… adopting children.

Like, the first one is kind of an accident, they were just hungry and on the run and needed a place to crash for the night and Kory offers up her apartment but then the kid kinda lingers around because, shit, they have nowhere else to go.

(First one was totally Raven.)

And Kory feels sorry for her and just sort of takes her under her wing and is all, “There there small adorable demoness I will guide you and teach you.”

And she gets so excited when she learns Raven has powers too and is like, “I MUST MENTOR YOU IN THE WAYS OF SUPERHEROING!”

And because Raven’s an empath she’s like constantly drawn to the emotional resonance of other kids in trouble.

And so that’s how Kory wound up collecting young inexperienced teenage metahumans.

Like, she and Raven would just fly around, picking up kids in trouble, and bringing them back to the Tower.

Kory can’t resist she’s just like, “YOU ARE ADORABLE I MUST ADOPT YOU.”

And she will Mama Bear the hell up if you mess with any of them.

Seriously.

Do not even think about hurting one of Starfire’s babies.

Dick pops in to the Tower to see her one day and is like, “Kory what the hell, where did all these kids come from?”

And she’s like, “THESE ARE MY CHILDREN! :D”

Dick thinks it’s adorable and will occasionally send her runaways from Bludhaven.

He made sure to upgrade the Tower’s gym and training facilities.

Had Lucius install the very best security system possible.

No one’s getting in there to hurt his bae and her baes.

There’s always a palpable excitement around the Tower when Dick visits; the kids are all like, “Dad’s home! :D :D :D”

Dick and Kory are disgustingly affectionate in front of the Titans and it grosses them all out.

“Ew Mom, quit giving Dick the goo-goo eyes.”

Dick and Kory have actually trained and raised a couple teen heroes into adulthood like this already.

The team used to be bigger but several of the kids have already “flown the nest”, as it were, and now it’s just Raven, Beast Boy, and Blue Beetle.

Kory has been meaning to adopt another kid take on another Teen Titan for a while now and is absolutely delighted when Dick brings Damian up as a suggestion.

“YES I WOULD LOVE TO TAKE ON YOUR SMALL ANGRY LITTLE BROTHER, HE WILL BE PERFECT, I WILL LOVE HIM AND FEED HIM AND–”

I JUST REALLY REALLY WANT DICK AND KORY TO BE TEAM DAD AND TEAM MOM WITH THE TITANS OKAY?

I NEED THIS LIKE BURNING IN MY SOUL.

Like, I hope it becomes a running gag almost?  Just…

Dick and Kory talking to each other on the phone, constantly talking about how much they want to bang.

Loudly and pointedly remarking on the fact that they are not currently banging and haven’t banged in a while because SOME DOUCHENOZZLE can’t handle Gotham for like five minutes without ringing for backup, or forgot to pay a babysitter, or went off and got himself missing UGH WHAT A JERK.

Dick bringing up that he could totally be at the Tower or literally anywhere else with his smoking hot alien girlfriend right now, having hella sex, instead of dealing with yet more Batfamily drama for Gotham’s sake Bruce get ur shit together what is this like the third time this week you and Damian have come to blows over something petty.

Damian rolling his eyes about how tragic it is that Dick’s love life keeps getting cockblocked and how little he cares.

“Yes Grayson, your constant whining has made it VERY CLEAR that you’d rather not be playing babysitter again tonight.  As you have REPEATEDLY emphasized.  CONSTANTLY.”

Dick waits five seconds and then is like, “Have I mentioned how much sex I could be having right–”

“Yes Grayson, oh my god shut up we know EVERYONE KNOWS.”

Dick getting super pouty and twitchy about it.

Alfred comes in and is like, “Master Dick–”

“WHAT?” *scowls* *surly glare*

“…It can wait.”

“Good choice, Al.”

And he just skulks around the house or slinks into the batcave to wreck some training drones.

And Alfred has mini conniptions over the mess.

Calls Bruce up and is like, “For the love of all that is pure and holy let the boy have a night off to release his tensions!  He is making the Cave a junkyard!”

Bruce has no idea what to do about any of this.

“IT’S HARD TO DEPROGRAM AND RAISE YOUR PSYCHO MURDEROUS ASSASSIN BABY OKAY.”

“LIKE, WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?”

“I’M NOT EXACTLY MR. SENSITIVE YOU KNOW.”

“Dick’s good with kids, he can handle him, right?  Anyway I’ll be downtown totally not avoiding my problems by beating Joker’s face in, nope.”

Kory eventually getting so frustrated that she turns up at the manor all like, “ALL RIGHT THIS SHIT IS RIDICULOUS, YOU AND ME ARE GOING TO BANG.  NOW.”

Grabs Dick’s collar and pulls him into the nearest room while he’s red-faced and sputtering weakly about how Damian is in the house right now Kory oh god what no we can’t be doing this here Bruce will kill me but wait keep doing that thing with your tongue that was amazing holy shit I missed you babe.

“I know, Dick, I know.”

Damian catches them and is traumatized like, “GRAYSON WHAT THE HELL STOP FORNICATING ALL OVER THE HOUSE I’m telling Mom Alfred.”

Bruce wanders in, hears the moaning from all the way down in the cave, and nopes right back out again.  Spends the rest of the night bashing heads.

Jason and Babs getting drinks together in a bar somewhere commenting to each other on the mess like, “And this is why we don’t visit home anymore.”

Dick Grayson: Kori, are you here? This was the last place we saw each so I thought maybe…

[He trails off, then looks up at the night sky]

Dick Grayson(Singing softly): This one’s for you, warrior princess! Do you believe in destiny? Then close your eyes and leave the rest to me. Do you believe in fantasy? I have to when it’s right in front of me…

[He begins walking towards the building’s edge]

Dick Grayson(Louder): What are you doing here… in the real world? What are you doing here? So close I could touch you… what are you doing here?

Dick Grayson(Cupping his hands around his mouth and letting the words echo through the streets): AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME?

[There is a soft noise from behind him. Dick whips around and comes face to face with Kori, wearing a Nightwing shirt a size too large for her]

Dick Grayson: You’re wearing the… shirt…

Koriand'r(Bowing her head): Please go away.

[Dick looks hurt, but forces the expression away. He moves as if to touch Kori’s face,then stops himself]

DIck Grayson(Quietly): I… I’m sorry, did I-

[Kori shakes her head, cutting him off.]

Koriand'r(With a deep breath): You’re awfully cute. You’re cute, and funny, and kind to me, and above all else you’re just good- and more than anything, I really want to stay with you. But you’re human- you’re fragile, your life is short, and you have dreams. I won’t let you give up on everything you want.

Dick Grayson(Seriously): Well, that’s going to be a problem.

Koriand'r: Huh?

Dick Grayson: Hey baby.

Koriand'r: We hate Jason now. Get on board or the sexting stops.

Dick Grayson: Did you hear the one about the skeleton who couldn’t go to the party? He had no body to go with.

Koriand'r [laughing]: That’s really funny!