The Starfire Archives

Sorry for the superlate reply lol. i’ll see if I can get through some of these old asks I’ve been neglecting!

1. I’m not much of a fashionista to be honest so I can’t give you specific answers regarding shops.

2. Kori is from another planet, and her job here is to be a model, so she’d be trying on all sorts of clothes for her job anyway, but from what we’ve seen in the comics I think you can definitely see a style trend. Broadly speaking she likes light, colourful clothing that often (but not always) shows a lot of skin. Generally what we’d consider “summery”, and her style is broadly traditionally feminine, to modern western eyes. She’s uses jewellery but isn’t heavy on it. She rarely ties her hair in any way.

It’s also worth noting that she generally doesn’t dress “revealingly” to be “sexy” but just comes from a world were nudity and covering-up is both normal and actually important to proper functioning (Tamaraneans need sunlight, specifically UV light remember). Not that she doesn’t ever consider trying to be sexy, she has expressed that she likes that people find her attractive, and given her relationship (namely with Dick) I’m sure she’s happy to take her partner into consideration too at times.

3. Although it obviously wasn’t a thing in the 80’s I’m sure a modern version of Starfire would be on social media. It’s just something that’s practically a necessity for a model nowadays. I can’t imagine her spending a lot of time interacting with other users (given the hero work etc) but I’m sure she’d generally be really nice when she did interact, and would largely ignore trolls, but wouldn’t be beyond saying something polite yet scathingly savage to them every now and them. Kori was a literal slave for many years, where verbal abuse was probably considered a “good day”, and raised as a monarch in a technologically advanced society before that. I’m sure Tamaran would have it’s equivalent of the internet, and Royalty on that planet would be raised to deal with what that means. She’d have very thick skin for that sort of thing, it’s generally only people she knows and is close to who can hurt her in that way really.

And yeah, and she’d definitely be instafamous. She’s a ALIEN FROM ANOTHER PLANET (that alone is super interesting seriously), an already fairly famous superhero, a model widely regarded as extremely attractive, and a really nice person. Then add in rumours that she’s dating Bruce Wayne’s ward? Those things would go very far in the internet.

I will say that I do think Cartoon Starfire would probably be much more susceptible to online abuse. It might have made an interesting story thread in a modern version of the cartoon.

4. Music is a tough one. I have far from read everything Starfire’s in but I’m not aware of descriptions of Tamaranean music to try and get a clue about her history regarding music. It’s possible she’d want to focus on something different though (depends what point in her story we’re talking about) or would gravitate to it if she’s feeling more homesick. But my general answer would be emotive music. Lot’s of lyrics about love and passion, but also sadness and struggle (I’m sure she would like lyricless music, so long as it’s expressive). Starfire has been show to dance several times and she seems to like it a lot, so things with a beat and energy too would be a solid pick for her. I think a lot of Latin American music would fit the bill, as passionate themes are generally more common there (form what I can tell) but I think she’d enjoy variety. I think she’d like a lot of analogue music and live music especially, since it has more of a grounded “real” feel and live music has those little quirks and variations from being technically perfect that I think she would delight in. And because she’s a very expressive and emotive person I find myself thinking she could also like more aggressive music like metal, though I don’t see it being her go-to. Honestly I can see her liking a lot. I know that’s not a very specific answer at all, but I think the broad strokes of what I said would be right.

San Diego Comic-Con Starfire poster and costume from Live-Action ‘Titans’