Wally

(Also yay on more next gen teams, I love learning about other peoples takes on these kiddos)

This is going to get crazy

So between the leaders, Lian and Damian they absolutely loath each other, they can be friends at times but Lian is mostly pissed off that Damian took the leader role without any permission, he's good at it but Lian is the girl who keeps everyone in check but Damians feels like she has a bias towards Irey and Jai(Reminder the twins is Lian's original two best friends of course there's going to be bias)

But also Lian catched Damian and Nika making out which Damian refuses nonstop so now there's a endless cycle of accusations and sometimes when they go out to eat it eventually devoles into flinging food at each other until one admit to their wrong doings, but they can still be friends at the end of the day if not just with a very complicated relationship plus they have a bigger enemy to deal with and that's The cleaning robots someone just let inside (it was tefe)

Maxine and Rani hate each other, well HATED each other, there was a time during when Jai began his rogue hero career when he was single and they both had a crush on him and it led to a slapping fight in the middle of a Basketball court in Jai and Irey's school (Everyone was there because THEY BROKE IN for and somehow got involved in the basketball game) and everyone was playing around them and this was all started because something tefe said was misinterpreted, well it was more like Colin because Colin was talking 10,000 words per second(ITS A LONG STORY)

but after that whole mess was cleared up Maxine still had envy towards Rani and her family life since she doesn't have to deal with Paparazzi following her and because Rani had a more connected relationship to her Brother, the two can tolerate each other but seriously sometimes the tension is so thick the rest of the team literally choke on it but it ends when maxine eventually leaves the team

Damian is afraid of Irey because Irey said she wanted to cook dinner for the team since none of them had money for takeout, they allowed her... ... ... Damian and Colin were dead for approximately 32 seconds and they had to call in Captain Atom as it began to sing opera and summoned the King shrimp from the River in the Amazon rainforest...so yeah cooking privileges for irey are revoked until further notice. There's also the fact irey is unhinged at moments

Irey and Jai are inseparable, you can't separate them even if you try too and it's even worse with Lian, the original trio are always there for each other and if you mess with one of them it's all out war, but when they hang out together it is just bascailly friends hanging out even when Jai and Lian start dating it's really just strengthening the fact they are best friends, Jai and irey were there for Lian during her physical therapy and celebrated every milestone with her and Lian was so happy to see the two finally being able to take their hero names back as Impulse II and the surge

Rani is respectful of everyone in the group but there are times where she can snap and just go off, she's a team player and always reliable and with her acknowledge of the future she knows she has to be a team player to avoid- im getting ahead of Myself but yeah

Tefe saw Maxine eating Spinach once and now Tefe gives the meanest side eye known to mankind to her on the regular

Nika and Jai are friends, despite their tastes in media and the way they met after they think about it for like 5 seconds, they realize they basically both like comics so you could walk into eithers room and they have snacks, lamps, a couch (somehow) as they read comics/Manga or watch anime, when together they share a half a braincell

Ceridan is the little brother of the group and possibly the youngest, but Lian does take time out of her day to steal from him when possible which Ceridan then proceeds to steal, he also hangs out with Colin because Colin is the only one that can help him reach tall places

Hiro okamura and Colin are old buds because Colin always used to ask for weird stuff but after he met Damian they also became friends. But he makes stuff for everyone since he's the tech kid in the group, just always has an anime twist and there was also a point in time they actually thought he was a robot cause he used a droid to be in attendance for the first year so when he did finally show up physically they went "sorry who are you?"

Mara and Damian hate each other because Mara's father is the head of a clan that broke off from the league of assassins and the leader tried to kill ras Al ghul and failed so it's uh, it's very awkward

Okay lightning round

Colin, has a puppy crush on Irey because he finds her unhinged state cute but it doesn't go as far as that

Rani and Hiro are business partners, Hiro gets free future technology to work with to build a Gundam and Rani gets 10 bucks and a Snickers bars

Colin and Nika get along, they both know Damian so of course they would be

Ceridan threatens Jai to not hurt Lian or suffer his wrath, his tiny wrath but still wrath nonetheless, they get along quickly though

Despite their issues with him, everyone is still glad to see Damian being able to take the leader role, Lian may be glad too, dick especially is, his son is growing up so fast

Mara and Jai are two of the keystone rogues that eventually join the team, so they are already friends when they both join and so the same dynamic is there, Jai isn't scared just completely confused on why she wears the oni mask

Tefe and mara get along because they both can sympathize with not fully being human, Tefe being an avatar of both the red and green and Mara being a half demon which led to a fungal infection to mutate her face when she was 6 until she was 14

Lian and Mara get along with the fact they have sorta absent mothers even if they have issues of listening to each other but they can understand where those problems stem

Irey asks Hiro for a jetpack? She gets a jetpack, she wants a rocket launcher, she gets a rocket launcher, her unhinged personality allows Hiro go insane with the inventions

Damian apologizes to tefe alot if his diet offends her since she is apart of the green and tefe sometimes looks tired of it CAUSE SHE ISNT A PLANT

A bit of a fun fact, argent has a fiancé who the kids love a lot cause he is always so fun and takes them wherever they want like Amusement parks even if they are waiting for Stuff to happen, they love him...and if anything were to happen to him, they don't know how they react

Speaking about Argent and Grant they do show a bit of favoritism towards Lian and ceridan but they care a lot about all the kids that they are put to watch over, if even one gets hurt it's back to base and they will make whoever did it pay

Now despite all their problems, all their lapses in judgement and much more, they are a close knit family and friend group, no matter what that won't change, member or not and when the world is covered in darkness. They'll be the bright light that rekindles any lost hope and Dinah can't be happier

Yeah the first thing to note about this team is that it's a team second and a friend group first just like with young justice and the original teen titans, along with that it's apart of its whole Little continuity called the surge verse so there is a long history

The team first starts out as basic community service whenever Jai, Lian and Irey used to hang out and the twins had their powers, they talked about getting "The Demon from Gotham" aka Damian onto the Crew but that went nowhere but aside from that they went around keystone, Central or Star depending on who was visiting who, the three would usually just march around town doing small things they also tried to use the name teen titans but they eventually just had to change it to tiny titans because Cassie told them once it would confuse people

And then Jai lost his powers and they tried to Keep going...and then Lian got massively injured and had to go into physical therapy, the group disbanded and while the three were and forever were friends the prospect of ever doing something like that became nothing more of a dream even as Jai's depression lessened and he gained back his powers and Lian would eventually be able to run again and her even being trained by Catwoman whenever she visited Gotham (they got along because of the cat theme)

There was nothing they could do to bring back that dream...that was until they turned 15 and the JLU formed and replaced the justice league and alot of heroes that were once apart of the original league left it because of how it felt like it was straying away from what made the league itself in the first place and three of those heroes that left were Hal Jordan, Oliver queen and Dinah lance

Hal went off to retire and left coast city to his cousin Harold also known as Airwave so he could raise his son with Carol, Ollie Didn't retire but he's not as much in the public eye deciding to help The new movement that popped up also known as the rogue hero movement and give them supplies and support they would need, he's also very vocal in his disappointment in the league,

and Dinah? Dinah decided that she needed to make sure that the next generation didn't lose their way so with Lian's help and finally asking damian(who brings along Colin) if he was interested in leading a team and that led to The team known as

BRIGHTLIGHT being formed and how did they recruit members? Uhhh Colin and Damian sorta walked up to them waved a giant flyer in their faces and kept annoying them until A. They agreed and were given a ticket and told to get in line for an interview or B. they said yes in which Damian would knock them out and take them to the base which is just the Attic of the manor for the first few months

Or yk They just wait patiently until someone Walks in and asks to join and if they pass the vibe check they can sit at the TV with them until they get called to do, look they are still teenagers at this point and Dinah isn't available 24/7 and Lian was not told anything either cause Damian promised he and Colin had everything under control

So after all of that very chaotic recruitment aka begging aka asking friends of friends to convince people to join Dinah checked in and decided to get at least 2 chaperones oh and to make sure things were running smoothly when she wasn't available so that left us with up to the beginning of jai's fic with this line up

THE SURGE: ACT 1 (end)

Overseer: Dinah lance

Chaperones: Grant emerson/damage, Antonia monetti/Argent, dick Grayson would also eventually become a chaperone because of the fact his friends kids were there

Main Team

Damian Wayne (Leader)

Lian Harper (Co-leader but sorta also the actual real leader it gets really hilarious)

Colin wilkes

Irey west

Jai west

Nika/Flatline

Rani Carter

Maxine Baker

Hiro okamura

Ceridan

Mara ghoul(OC)

Tefe holland

ALLIES

The keystone rogues

Bowhunters: Heroes for hire

Hexagon Inc

The Titans

Justice operatives

JLI

JLU

Allentown strays

The Y Faction

Robert Long Troy

Enemies

The league of assassins*

Winston and Locke oddities

The diamond gang

Puppetweaver

DestroMechs

The Mysterious Traveler

The crystalline

Speed demon

Rainbow raider II

Blackout

ST LUCIFER

Note: Jai refused membership at first citing his need to understand what kind of hero he needs to be before he could fully commit to a team but would eventually join do to convincing from his twin sister irey and his soon to be girlfriend Lian but he only officially joined after 1 year , Maya ducard was also going to be asked to join but her current whereabouts are unknown, Ceridan's little sister Tula was also considered but in garths own words "nuh uh! Nope! Absolutely not! Nope!!"

If anyone has any questions about this team or this verse in general FEEL FREE TO ASK, please I need excuses to talk about them and how they change as the story progresses and you will also see more about it since I love talking about it

I just found a fun fact: international friends hear our language as sounding like a cat meowing =)).

It's a coincidence that Jade Nguyen's mascot is a cat, and I even built an AU where she sometimes "accidentally" swore in Vietnamese because it was so funny.🤔=))

So what would it be like if she said that in front of Roy? It would be so cute.🥺

Detective Comics Vol. 1 #526

it's really interesting the extent to which like batman and robin were directly responsible for the deaths of jason's parents. i haven't really seen that talked about. like that creates such an interesting dynamic. and also, like, pisses me off that people are saying pre crisis jason's backstory is Just copy paste dick grayson. like that's a part of it. but the similarities are acknowledged and that's why dick got close to them. and that's why trina and later jason ends up figuring out their identities and why jason's parents got involved and got killed. like that's so interesting.

I hate it because the Titans have always been more than just a team. and calling any new team of young superheroes titans, in my opinion, is disrespectful and speaks of creative impotence.

I will accept the new generation of teen titans only if SHE is in the team

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