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Tara & Brion: We have two whole issues of sibling affection between these two cutie pies. Specifically, the New Teen Titans/Batman and the Outsiders crossover: NTT #37 and BatO #5.

Tara is visibly happy when she sees Brion, she literally jumps into his arms. And even if we insists she’s "just pretending", the intensity of that reaction goes well beyond what would be strictly necessary for maintaining a cover. The simplest explanation is often the correct one: she was happy to see him.

The rest of the NTT issue? They’re basically glued to each other in every shared panel.

Then, in the BatO issue, we have:

Tara not wanting to let Brion down (and, notably, not wanting him to drown).

Tara being unusually gentle around Brion, and only with him (she's bringing a cookie tray! TARA!?).

Tara explicitly not wanting to kill Brion.

And then in BatO Annual #1, we see the photo Brion keeps of them hugging.

Brion’s love for Tara is never in question. But most crucially, canon gives us multiple reasons to believe the feeling was not one-sided.

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Tara & Gregor: She never mentions him. He only brings her up to insult her.

Not exactly a warm and fuzzy family dynamic, and definetly not enough to build a solid conclusion.

But I do have this headcanon that he's the brother she says she buried at the beach and that's how the animosity between them started.

Then again… Markovia is a landlocked country. What beach are you talking about, Tara?!

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Then, in TTT #55 we have Slade saying she saw her brothers as villains in her life.

Interesting take. Also deeply questionable. Remember: Slade is not a neutral source. He has every reason to reshape the narrative, both to preserve his own image and to redirect blame onto Tara. But let’s entertain the idea for a moment. So… she allegedly saw her brothers as villains in her life.

Let's analyze that. What does it mean to see someone as a villain in your personal story? It implies emotional investment. It implies conflict, feeling wronged. It implies that the relationship mattered enough to hurt. You don’t cast someone as the antagonist of your life unless they mean something to you. So even taking Slade at face value, the conclusion isn’t "she didn’t care". It’s closer to: the supposedly "incapable of loving anyone" Tara Markov did care, she felt wronged, and she resented.

And I think it's only logical to say she likely suffered because of her status as illegitimate. So, based on Slade's line and her interactions with Brion, we can infer she loved and resented her brother(s) at the same time, maybe envying what they had and she could only see from outside looking in: family, love, acceptance… and wealth too.

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But Black Lantern Terra said… Umh, no. Black Lanterns are narrative tools designed to weaponize emotional bonds and devour the hearts of our dear heroes.

Tara’s behavior as a Black Lantern is entirely consistent with every other resurrected character: they target emotional weak points and twist them.

They are not reliable reflections of the deceased: they are distortions, built to provoke, manipulate, and devastate the living. We see that clearly with Terry and Bobby Long, Lilith Clay, Garth, Tula, Pantha, Hawk, Maseo, Reiko and Yuki Yamashiro.

So, yeah. I'm not gonna take Black Lantern Terra's actions or words as proof Tara didn't care for Brion. Sorry.

Conclusion?

No—canon doesn’t support the idea that Tara hated her brothers. At most, it supports something far more complex.

(Let's put on our couch therapist glasses)

With Brion, the text consistently shows genuine affection. Whether or not one wants to argue that Tara was performing in some panels, the sheer frequency and intensity of their interactions (her physical closeness, her emotional responses, her reluctance to harm him) make it difficult to reduce everything to manipulation alone. There is something real there, even if it’s unstable, even if it’s compromised.

With Gregor, there is simply not enough material to draw a meaningful conclusion. The absence of interaction can't be treated as proof of hatred or care, only as a gap in the narrative.

Slade’s claim that Tara saw her brothers as villains is… questionable at best. Even if we believe what he said, it implies emotional investment rather than indifference.

And that, ultimately, is the key point. Despite what Wolfman tried to do, Tara is not written as someone incapable of attachment. She is written as someone whose attachments are fractured, distorted, and deeply conflicted. Love and resentment are not mutually exclusive—especially in a context shaped by illegitimacy, exclusion, and power imbalance.

So no, Tara didn’t hate her brothers. If anything, the text suggests the opposite: She cared. And that’s precisely what made everything else so destructive.