Young Justice AU: Roy Helps Found the Team
Roy doesn’t leave. He storms off but comes back to check on the others. They’re all upset.
Roy gets hurt in the opening two and is out for two weeks, leading to the first mission with Mister Twister being without Roy.
Roy and Kaldur dance around their feelings for one another and Kaldur doesn’t know if he’d rather have Tula or Roy. The opportunity presents itself to confess to Tula first.
Roy is there during Bereft. Wally and Dick, sans memory, assume Roy has changed his costume and gotten salt water bladders on his legs for Kaldur because they’re an item now. Couples usually have matching costumes and they can’t think of another reason the two would match except for that.
When M’gann restores Roy’s memories with the others, she learns (and only her) that he’s a clone.
When they return, she calls Batman, Black Canary, Green Arrow, and J’onn to tell them and Roy. She also wipes the programming from Roy’s mind. We learn, now, that Roy broke his programming by returning to found the team. And that he’s done it before, to protect Robin and Kaldur in mentor-student tag-team missions. There is reasonable belief that the OG Roy is probably dead.
Roy and Kaldur fight but end up together because Kaldur gets it though to Roy that his feelings aren’t part of Cadmus, that his feelings for Kaldur are part of the proof that he has become his own person, outside the cloning and the programming.
During Failsafe, Roy loses it hard when Kaldur sacrifices himself. Afteward, and during therapy, he becomes the official second-in-command of the team for being the only one who isn’t a selfless sacrificial nincompoop. Roy has proven he will fight tooth and nail to protect the tea, mission be damned, and Batman actually finds that useful because he doesn’t want them to die.
He adopts Zatanna and M’gann AND Artemis as his sisters, logistics be damned.
Sometime near the end of season one, Kaldur just straight up moves in with Roy in Star City.
