"Who says it's all a fantasy?"

STOP PUTTING YOURSELF INTO DANGER! // Accepting @fxllenwilson

Maybe one of these nights she'll admit she can't stand how quiet her safe house is. That it feels like perpetually waiting for something to happen. The trick. The trap. Just anything other than the stillness inside. The house before the Titans was always loud. Not because of Timmy and Teether. She always thought back then that she'd like quiet. Hindsight is always better and all that.

She swears she doesn't really mean to find trouble when out wandering. The city just has a habit of finding it for her. She still gets surprised when she gets picked up and teleported out. It always smells like chemical, but it doesn't make her nose wrinkle anymore. Just like how the robotic laced voice-modulator doesn't sound like wrongness anymore.

Still, she never quite expects the sudden weightless lurch of teleportation, or the way she ends up tucked against Red X’s chest like a sack of potatoes. The air always smells sharp and chemical, but her nose doesn’t wrinkle at it anymore. The robotic crackle of his voice modulator doesn’t feel wrong either—not when it’s laced with that familiar tired edge.

Next time you do this, I’m not coming back.

@fxllenwilson continues to catch strays

"Okay, here's the thing-" She needs to get serious for a second. Never mind that she's still wearing a tiara and a feather boa, she was having a tea party with Bobby before you interrupted.

"Technically... X has cool points." Shock, surprise she knows. As frustrating as it is to have Mr. Edgelord teleport her back to her safehouse or the Tower, she doesn't actually hate his stupid skull face. Plus, he was good for rooftop talks and sweets.

@billyandhismultiples

You know what? This is worth a cool point. Her mouth is still open in shock while processing that she has a literal ice cream truck. There's going to be consequences to this later. Likely in the form of a tummy ache. But that's a different grown-up's problem for later. Probably Raven's.

For now, she's about to see how many different flavors are in this bad boy.

Lack of Sleep starters // Accepting @chooseyourfxghter

This might be the most villain thing Jinx has ever done actually.

It's evil. And traitorous.

And it might work.

It looks so soft and cozy. Just piles of blankets and pillows and pink sheets held up with chairs to make a mini-cushioned castle. Melvin can see the edges of some new books on the outskirts of the nest of pillows. A temptation she's slowly inching closer to.

Lack of Sleep starters // Accepting @billyandhismultiples

Not her coolest moment. The first instinct is to say something about how the wall wasn't there a second ago, but that sounds so ridiculous even to her that she just groans, clutching the side of her face where impact had happened. Melvin peeled her fingers away, already feeling the faint throb of what would probably be a spectacular goose-egg by morning.

All kids hate their bedtime. Or at least, that's the convenient cover she relies on when people start asking how long it's been since she actually tried to sleep without fighting a grown-up about it. Slipping back into her best 'whoopsie' grin that usually made people back off, she gave Billy a thumbs up.

@rcliicta is also now a cool reporter. you didn't know that?

"Yeah, obviously." They didn't have as cool of a cape. And they don't tell funny bad stories. More importantly, they didn't even have Raven on the team so clearly their coolness judgement was lacking. But just to make sure, she takes the brush and holds it out to Bobby for commentary only she could hear. Nodding in agreement.

Truth meme // Accepting feat. everyone i guess

It's a mess. Clearly been scribbled on with crayon over and over. Making a cipher of scribbles and numbers with occasional notes that was pretty much only comprehensible to her.

"Raven has infinite points." Let's get that out of the way. She won't be taking questions or objections on that at this time.

"Jinx and Thad are around the middle tied. Deb just under that." Every other Titan has two cool points just for being on the team. And there's a green mark hovering around there that is definitely for Kid Loki.

Truth meme // Accepting @fxllenwilson

"That's a silly question. No one knows that. I don't think anyone even knows what he looks like." That's what made things so frustrating for everyone, wasn't it? How you can't catch a shadow in the funhouse mirrors. Just a story that Robin made up come to life. Like Bobby but with less of a happy ending.

And it's not like she's going to have the answers. A few personal snippets isn't enough to put together a puzzle when you don't know what it looks like.

"Red X is... someone who has the training to not immediately get his butt kicked from Robin..." That wasn't actually all that common. What else- "He was looking for someone in the Brotherhood." But they weren't there. So they were either too low on the villain tier, or too high for Brain.

Truth meme // Accepting @chooseyourfxghter

Sick meme // Accepting @rcliicta

"But it's borrrrring." And if it were literally anyone else saying it she wouldn't even be moving back to the bed. "It's not even that bad anymore! I felt better after I puked." Mostly. The boredom was outpacing the lingering tiredness and general 'ick.'

There's a few heartbeats of silence as she pulls the blanket back over herself. Debating if she's allowed to break it with a request so not as important as hero-ing off somewhere.

Because then they’d be bagels!

we always want bad puns here @celerem

She holds out for exactly three seconds before the laugh starts forcing the way out.