jaime. reyes.
jaimeeeee
jaime thinks about and catastrophizes over the little things just as much as he does over the big things. it's not that he thinks the stakes of his mom finding out he skipped school are the same of the world ending, he genuinely has a very good perspective that, but on an emotional level, he feels emotional pain very strongly regardless of the situation. he also--i think somewhat intentionally--holds pretty much all life in very high regard, and therefore responds to a threat to a villain's life the same way he would respond to a threat to a hero's, or a civilian's, and so on. there is no battle too small for jaime reyes to fight. maybe not as the blue beetle, but in life.
jaime's backstory needs to stay solid in order for him to be the same character. not his character backstory--finding khaji can happen however you want, infinite crisis doesn't need to be involved, the reach can be doing whatever or not--but his personal background. if jaime is not trying to make his family proud (whether they're alive or not, whether they will ever know what he's doing or not, whether it's just his parents or them and milagro or a found family or whatever as long as there is someone he loves deeply) you're just writing a different guy.
jaime can have angst about khaji da and the scarab's presence both on his body and in his life. he has to grapple with what that means and he does initially want khaji da to be removed. they can have conflict over khaji's methods or jaime's desire to be normal. but khaji da will always forgive jaime for everything. jaime doesn't necessarily have to forgive the scarab if you're, idk, writing something about the reach killing the reyes family, but jaime does have to know khaji da thinks of him as a friend if this is set post-endgame.
