On screwed over movies, smexy music videos, and potential romance

[cyber_titan]

Mun, what th' hell is wrong with you? First, you take me to that pretty fun movie (and in total agreement with you: that movie got scewed over by Disney) and have an overall good night, but then when you think of this video after hearin' the song last night you gotta keep puttin' in Kory in place of the normal woman?

That's cruel, Mun. I mean, you know I don't wanna think of her like that. She's always been Someone Elses Girl and with the whole Blackest Night crap I was savin' her life. And now you think I may be developing feelin's for her? The worst thing to do is to put her in *that* video.

Damn it, Mun. Just...damn it.

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[shut_up_beastboy]

Cyborg? ...That's a new look.

[cyber_titan]

Rae? You look really different, too. You're...smaller. By a lot.

[shut_up_beastboy]

[It just shows the kind of place Raven's spent a year trapped in that her immediate reaction is to glance down at her chest, then cross her arms and glare.]

Not that small. [Oh god is that a Robin complex showing?]

[cyber_titan]

[Oh, Vic is going to notice that.]

Okay, you definitely ain't the Raven I know. I just meant you look a lot younger than the one I know.

[shut_up_beastboy]

[Facepalm for maximum embarrassedness]

I don't normally respond that way.

And I'm eighteen. [Now.]

[cyber_titan]

...you know, this is gonna sound weird, but where I am we're...we're a good bit older. We've aged. I mean...I'm two years shy of the big 3-0. Where I am, folks aged and grew. There were weddings and some of them had kids. Kory included.

[shut_up_beastboy]

I'm not ... locked away in some institution, am I? [Starfire's description of the future was ... unnerving, to understate it.]

[cyber_titan]

[That's going to get her a Look.]

No. What...what th' hell made you think that?

Sorry, off the point. Nah, it's mostly good. Until the Lanterns, I mean. We fought your dad, but he wasn't like your dad. He was...he was dead. For years. And we did what we could and got shunted through Hypertime. I'm thinkin' we all survived, but we gotta get back home.

[shut_up_beastboy]

You fought Trigon, but he was dead? Cyborg, what are you talking about?

And I think I might know why I seem different to you.

[cyber_titan]

It's a really long story, Rae. As far as I know, the Black lanterns brought back everyone tied to the Titans...good and bad. And in our 'verse, your Dad was dead. So when these Lanterns brought folks back to fight us, he was brought back. And in the fight...well, his magic ripped a hole in time and space.

[shut_up_beastboy]

That's odd. I don't think sending him back to his dimension killed him where I'm from.

It's probably bad that I kind of hope it did.

[cyber_titan]

It...well, Trigon was bad news. While I wouldn't say I celebrated when I found out, but I wasn't exactly mournin' him.

And as for the "why you seem different" thing...I figured when you did that little look down.

[There may be the slightest of smirks there]

[shut_up_beastboy]

...Yeah. My powers are probably different from the Raven you know, too.

[She blames Travis Touchdown for the direction her mind went in at Cyborg's comment earlier in the thread.]

[cyber_titan]

Probably. Kory and I met a Titan from another universe I didn't even recognize. So different versions o' us makes a lot of sense.

[shut_up_beastboy]

What Titan?

[cyber_titan]

He's named Gnarrk. He's a caveman...teenager who has had some negative history with Vandal Savage. Strong and tough, too.

[shut_up_beastboy]

I remember him. He and Kole helped us stop Doctor Light.

[cyber_titan]

...

He didn't mention anything about a Kole. He said something about a Lillith, though.

[shut_up_beastboy]

...Oh. I guess I don't know him, then. [That's oddly depressing.]

[cyber_titan]

Don't worry about it, Rae. It's gonna happen in a place like this. Sometimes the people we know are here, but there are some...strange little differences. Like how I ain't like your Cyborg.

[shut_up_beastboy]

I've noticed. There was a Starfire where I was, but she left before I got there. She was different too, by all descriptions.

[bodilesswarrior]

[...covers a chuckle with her mouth]

Pretty sure Koriand'r's her own woman, Cyborg.

[cyber_titan]

Don't you start this, Babs. I know where you live.

[This is in jest. Mostly.]

[fanboy_power]

What's wrong with having feelings for Starfire, Cyborg-sir? I think you two would make a nice couple.

[cyber_titan]

Ed, she'd always been with someone else. I mean...she ain't with anyone now, but she was with Dick and Hugo. It ain't that I can't have feelings so much as it don't feel right havin' feelings for her when she has been with friends. It just doesn't feel right.

[Never mind him going around in circles. His mind has been doing that since the incident]

[fanboy_power]

[Eddie just tilts his head to the side.]

Umm...I really don't know much at all about relationships but...if she's not with them and everyone still friends...it seems like Mr. Grayson would be happy for the both of you if you got together and were happy. [He shrugs a little.] Why doesn't it feel right?

[cyber_titan]

'Cause even though what you said makes sense...it just don't feel right. Like I'm betraying Dick. It's...it's kinda complicated.

[fanboy_power]

It sounds complicated. Why not talk to him and see what he thinks about it? He'll probably be more helpful than I am.

[cyber_titan]

...I would, what with the whole "blown across Time and Space" issue with the Titans, plus the fact we don't even know if Dick was one of the flks who came back. I'm stuck in some weird past/future thing.

[fanboy_power]

Oh...sorry I'm no help with that either. I'm sure he is one who came back and is out there somewhere with other Titans though. He's got to be. [There's that endless hope again.]

[cyber_titan]

[There will be a ruffling of hair.]

Heh. Don't worry. I'm sure of it, too. It's just now I'm stuck with her without a way to talk to Dick about it. An' Kory is...well, she's always been so quick to act on things.

[fanboy_power]

[And the ruffling gets a smile.]

Oh. Well, I'm sure you'll both figure something out for while you're there. You're Titans! Really great superheroes!

[cyber_titan]

Well, thanks for that, kiddo. I'm sure we'll figure somethin' out. It's just...somethin' that the Mun thought about because of that stupid song.

[fanboy_power]

You're welcome! You don't have to thank me though. Our muns can be mean like that, can't they.

[cyber_titan]

Oh yeah, they are.

[fanboy_power]

Hopefully neither odd ours is planning anything too horrible right now.

[green_menagerie]

You... and Kory?

...I can see it.

[cyber_titan]

[Get a glare, Salad Head]

You're bullshitting me. You gotta be.

Going with the MergeD version here.

[arach_nerd]

It's not as complicated as you're trying to make it Vic.

(Says the man who's two most well known significant others happened to both have dated at Harry Osborn.)

Re: Going with the MergeD version here.

[cyber_titan]

You say that Web-head, but she was always Someone Elses Girl. It'd be like me possibly hookin' up with MJ if the two of ya broke up.

[arach_nerd]

You realize Roy actually DID that once and I didn't kill him for it, right?

[cyber_titan]

Do *I* look like Roy?

[arach_nerd]

Like you could be his long lost twin.

Look, I get it. Really, I do. My guilt complex is legendary and both MJ and Gwen dated Harry before I started dating them. The thing I figured out is that it's a choice between taking a stab at happiness or forcing yourself to feel miserable because you think a friend will feel betrayed even though they won't even remotely care if you start going out with their ex.

I mean, this is Shortpants we're talking about. He's not going to hold a grudge,

[cyber_titan]

[Okay, webhead, the twin thing gives Vic a chuckle.]

Yup. Real family resemblance there.

And I get what you're sayin'. It's just that I wouldn't think there'd be much a anything, and now...

It's just weird t' me.

[arach_nerd]

I'm not saying jump in head-first or anything. Just let things flow as they will and don't feel like you have to punish yourself over it.