#titans comics

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They will never hesitate to square up again anyone who says anything bad about their team mates (and best friends (and lovers)), consistently checking in with each other even (and especially) when they are not meant/ supposed to.

I want them so fucking codependent but also completely unaware bc what do you mean you don’t constantly update your friend group everytime anything happens. What do you mean you don’t just break into your best friends house and sleep in their bed with them when you feel sad. What do you mean you keep secrets from your friends. What do you mean you don’t join your friends when they shower so you can continue your conversation. What do you mean you don’t know where every single scare on your best friend comes from. What do you mean you don’t call their dad a stupid motherfucker to his face. What do you mean you don’t know everything about your best friends.

I want them to have so many inside jokes that they are basically speaking a different language. I want them to share clothes and makeup and accessories to the point where nobody really remembers who owned what first. ( I want everyone to wear the other people’s merch always)

I want them to speak about their siblings like they are shared between the five of them. I want Tim to ask Donna a question when he is too embarrassed to ask Dick, and Cassie to ask Dick when she doesn’t want Donna to know, etc.

I want the mentors to be the other people’s aunt and uncles. ( I want the mentors and adults in their life to have a group chat where they try and help each other keep track of what their kids are doing bc gods know they won’t just tell them, so whenever they have a sleepover or a mission in one persons city, they let’s the rest of the mentors know. I also want the mentors to constantly send ‘baby’ photos and videos of their ‘kids’ in the group chat)

I want the dating history within the group to be so fucking confusing that you need a collage level lecture to understand it from the outside.

I want all of them to be married to other titans, but nobody really remembers who is married to who, especially since most of them are married to multiple people. ( a mix of Vegas weddings, undercover missions that took a turn, space rituals and traditions they got court up in, bets that were won and lost, and very intense dnd campaigns)

I want their private group chat to have more encryptions and protections than pentagon and the batcomputer put together. I want the GC to be filled with Drunken voice notes, homemade memes, pictures that should never see the light of day, secrets and jokes that would get them into soooo much trouble.

I want them to bring one or two titans along to family and work events. I want people to bet on which of the friends will go with Roy vs who will go as Dicks date to the fancy Galas, bc you can bet your ass they will be there as arm candy on their arms. (Having your friends at the Gala is the only thing that makes going to these Galas bearable). I want them to sneak out every time and go to a random fast food restaurant.

I want their fighting styles to be so engrained in each other that it is impossible to figure out who thought who what, and which of them was the first person to introduce this move into the equation.

Roy Harper’s addiction does not originate in the Teen Titans, and it is not caused or shaped by the Fab Five’s treatment of him.

Roy’s heroin addiction is introduced in Snowbirds Dont Fly (A GREEN LANTERN/GREEN ARROW COMIC!!!!). At that point:

Roy is no longer an active Titan (Teen Titans was in hiatus at the time of its publishing)

He is living largely on his own

The people most directly implicated are Oliver Queen, Hal, and Dinah not any of the Titans

The story explicitly frames Roy’s addiction as the result of isolation, instability, trauma, and feelings of abandonment, not because his friends failed to support him “correctly.”

When the Titans later learn about Roy’s addiction (when the team gets back together in the 1976 revival) their response is not rejection or cruelty. He is welcomed back, treated with compassion, and not framed as a burden or moral failure. The Fab Five are not positioned as emotional antagonists in his life. THEY ARE FAMILY!! They work things out together!! and support each other, sure they'll fight they get into arguments but they care about each other.

At no point in original continuity are the Titans meant to symbolize people who “don’t know how to support an addict.” That interpretation is wrong, innacurate and imposed by fandom, not something the original 70s, 80s and 90s comics support. Outside retcons in 2010

The idea that the Titans had to be imperfect or harmful to be “realistic” also misses the point. Roy’s addiction arc was never about his peers failing him. It was about:

The long term effects of abandonment

The consequences of adult failure

Roy’s own internal struggle

You don’t need to turn the Titans into a cautionary tale about bad friendship to make Roy’s story meaningful. Doing so actually flattens his arc and shifts blame away from where the narrative intentionally placed it.

You don’t have to like the Titans.

But turning the Fab Five into bad friends and "responsible for Roys addiction" is innacurate THEY ARE A FAMILY!

Anyway I have a Titans reading order on my page you should check it out

I tried emphasising Starfire's pretty hair from the original comics but I don't know how to do it 😭

(one of my a favourite subtle themes)