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[beastboi]

〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Caity
AGE: 22
JOURNAL: faityfairy
IM / EMAIL: skype: caityrin
PLURK: sekritsauce
RETURNING: n/a

〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Garfield Logan | Beast Boy
CHARACTER AGE: 15ish
SERIES: Teen Titans (2003 animated series)
CHRONOLOGY: Post 'Titans Together', the penultimate episode of the final season.
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Could I please request to join Heropa 32? This has been cleared with the muns.

BACKGROUND: Here! While the wiki covers Gar's personal history fairly well, it fails to elaborate on his place in the larger plot, which I will cover here.

In Season One, BB does little to contribute to the overall plot. In the two part finale, like the other Titans, Beast Boy is infected with lethal nanoscopic probes, and is used by Slade to blackmail Robin into being his apprentice. He, along with the other Titans, cotton on to this trick, and they all fight Slade together. He escapes, but Cyborg insures they are free of the probes.

Season Two sees the appearance of Terra, perhaps the character who has the largest impact on Beast Boy throughout the series. The two of them grow close, while Beast Boy remains entirely unaware of her deal with Slade to gather info on the Titans in exchange for help controlling her powers. Gar becomes very attached to Terra, and it's on their first date that Slade shows up and reveals Terra's betrayal. Beast Boy is heartbroken, and while their relationship is shown to cause Terra a lot of conflict and sadness, she ultimately leaves with Slade. This is a huge kick in the gut to Beast Boy, who never stopped trusting her even when some of the other Titans showed doubts. The two part season finale shows Slade manipulating Terra into attacking the Teen Titans. Initially, they are unable to beat her. Beast Boy is the one to convince he friends that Terra has always been their friend, and that she deserves a second chance. Terra, however, separates the Titans and takes them out, ignoring Robin's attempts to assuage her to his side (because of Beast Boy's speech). Now, when the Titans recover and reunite, even Beast Boy shows her no mercy. He's desperately angry and hurt by her betrayal. Terra runs from the fight, overwhelmed.

As the others fight Slade's minions, Beast Boy slips away to go after Terra, unsure himself of exactly why. A tortured (figuratively and literally) Terra asks him to kill her, but Beast Boy insists she's strong enough to break free of Slade, even as he is forcing Terra to attack BB (via a suit integrated into her nervous system). Eventually, Terra pins Beast Boy, and is poised to finish him off. The other Titans arrive and beg her not to, and Beast Boy, even moments away from being killed, tells her it's not too late to change. His words finally reach Terra, who apologises to BB, and turns on Slade. She wins, but also awakens a previously dormant volcano in the process. Terra sacrifices herself to control it, and is turned to stone in the process. Her parting words to Beast Boy are, "You were the best friend I ever had". The events of this season leave a lasting impact on Beast Boy, who never forgets Terra and visits her petrified body - where the Titans have left a plaque - to leave flowers and presumably talk to her frequently. He never stopped and will never stop believing in the good in Terra.

Season 3 sees the first appearance of Beast Boy's Werebeast form. While extremely powerful in this form, S3E9 evidences that he is not entirely able to control himself. There is little else of plot significance related to Beast Boy in this season, aside from him helping Cyborg fight and ultimately defeat the season villain, Brother Blood.

The fourth season sees Beast Boy battle with his fellow Titans against Trigon, Raven's demonic father. Beast Boy, as well as the other Titans, makes it clear that Raven's parentage changes nothing about their friendship. He takes part in building a quarantine room to keep Raven safe, and when the day comes where she's fated to become an unwilling portal to the end of the world, BB gives her a penny for good luck. Despite their best efforts, Trigon turns the world to stone, and only the Titans are protected by Raven's powers. Beast Boy's role in the final fight against Trigon is largely as a distraction. He fights against a Nega clone of himself, until it begins to overpower him, and he then switches to fighting Nega Starfire instead and defeats her. The season ends with Raven defeating Trigon, and BB is glad to have his friend back.

The fifth and final season of Teen Titans focuses largely on Beast Boy. The first two episodes of the season are a study in Beast Boy's old team and family, the Doom Patrol. Summaries of them can be found here and here. These episodes reveal much about why Beast Boy left the Doom Patrol: he and Mento clash on a moral level, and he doesn't believe in sacrificing his team for the greater good in the same way Mento does. Eventually, though, he earns Mento's respect, and they agree to fight together again in the future against the Brotherhood of Evil.

These episodes kick off the overarching plot of the season, which revolves around The Brotherhood of Evil, a group of villains gathered together with the purpose of eliminating young superheroes across the globe. Beast Boy and his fellow Titans spend much of the season on various missions fighting the Brotherhood and attempting to gather young superheroes and keep them safe.

Robin eventually gives each of the Titans a bunch of communicators to deliver to the various other young superheroes, so that they can contact the Titans in lieu of an emergency. Beast Boy has his qualms about the plan, but follows Robin's orders. Robin tests the communicators, sending out a message to the heroes all around the world, but the Brotherhood taps the communicators, and uses them to locate every single member. The Brotherhood strategically attacks and takes out the majority of the heroes, with others (including Robin) being taken captive.

Beast Boy is one of the few heroes to escape, and he forms and leads a small resistance against Brother Blood. The group is comprised of BB, Más, Pantha, Herald and Jericho. They are disheartened and prepared to split up and give up, but it is Beast Boy who rallies them and convinces the rag tag team they can do this. They put up a valiant fight against the Brotherhood, and when they seem to finally be overpowered, the other Titans (sans Robin) show up with reinforcements. The Brotherhood is defeated- and frozen- and Beast Boy and Robin take out the leaders of the group. This season proves Beast Boy to be a competent leader who has grown up a lot and can handle himself in a crisis.

There is only one episode of the show left after this, but I'm taking Beast Boy prior to this episode.

PERSONALITY:

Beast Boy is a big 'ole goof.

From the moment one meets him, this is what's most apparent on the surface: he's quick to joke, has a penchant and talent for pranks, and will take every opportunity to make someone laugh. While this is certainly partly from simple immaturity, there's another layer at play here. His family history has left him with a slew of attachment issues, and making people like him via the use of bad humor is a good tactic to keep them around. Joking around about serious things as a way to deal with them in general is a sort of fall back for BB. This pattern of hard lessons learned young creating immature coping methods and character traits is something evident over and over again in Beast Boy.

When he was younger, Beast Boy was the type to desperately seek approval, and remnants of this part of his childhood are still evident in his personality. However, breaking free of the expectations Mento had for him instilled more confidence in Beast Boy. He is still quite weak to flattery, and canonically is shown to take quit a shining to anybody that could be a mother or father figure in his life, or that piles him with praise. (Or heck, that gives him a throwaway line of it!) That said, he is not going to go against his own beliefs and/or moral code just to receive approval from someone else. Beast Boy knows who he is and what he believes in. It's almost as though he's put on a confident front for so long, that he's ended up actually becoming fairly confident, and it'd take a lot for someone to shake that up. "Fake it till you make it", indeed.

As much as BB has a grounded sense of who he is, a lot of his identity is (somewhat problematically) tied up in his powers and status as a hero. A lot of his self worth stems from his powers, as they would when he's grown up surrounded by people who only valued their powers and nothing else about themselves. Beast Boy may be relearning to value his own life, but he hasn't even begun to consider his worth without regards to strength and battles and what he can do for the world because of his powers. Unlike many with strange powers that make them obviously different from other people, Beast Boy has no desire to be normal.

Something Beast Boy has never stopped searching for is a family. This isn't to say he doesn't consider the Teen Titans his family, because he definitely does. Found family has a lot of value for him, far more than blood, even if he can appreciate the importance of it to others, and the Titans are his. He is protective of them and their happiness, and honestly just wants to spend all of his time hanging out with his pals. But the Titans are dysfunctional at best, and it's likely more the concept of an 'ideal' family that still appeals to him. By no means would it be a realistic image he's cooked up in his imagination. It's a quiet little dream he's shelved, but an important footnote to his character.

Gar has a huge heart. Obviously, he wouldn't be a part of the Teen Titans if he didn't believe in justice and want to do good, but it goes beyond that. He always stands up for the little guy. He has good intuition when it comes to his friends, and wants to make sure they're happy and alright. He's an enormous sap, and even something of a romantic. Again, immaturity certainly comes into play here, but there's nothing insincere about Beast Boy, and that's not something that will change with age or experience. Despite everything that has happened to him, he has a lot of trust in the world and faith in people.

The biggest flaw in Beast Boy is likely his competitive streak. He has a bit of a Marty McFly complex, and doesn't ever want to back down from a challenge, even if it would be the smart idea. He's quick to realize and apologize for his mistakes, but that isn't going to stop him making them in the first place. It's also been shown that while Beast Boy isn't quick to anger and will rarely lose his temper, when he does, he allows it to control him, and can say things he doesn't mean.

He adores video games and loves TV, and if he wasn't so busy being a hero, he'd spend all his time just being a huge nerd.


POWER: Shapeshifting. If Beast Boy knows of a creature, he can become it. I say creature and not animal, because technically he stretches that bracket, with the ability to also transform into dinosaurs, micro-organisms, a Werebeast and, if he has encountered them firsthand, alien creatures. There is no limit on how quickly he can swap between forms, and he can transform at any time he chooses. Beast Boy is easily recognizable as himself however, as he remains his signature green. (So he could only potentially use shapeshifting as a disguise tactic if he became something naturally green, like a frog!) The wiki lists his commonly used forms and their uses, which can be found here. Beast Boy is capable of talking while transformed.

The comics and animated show both supply a slew of methods to lessen the range of Beast Boy's powers. If he is struck particularly hard in combat, or thrown against something, he will be knocked out of his animal form and need to recover. If he is trapped in a small space, it may impossible for him to transform into a larger creature. If he uses one of his particularly strong transformations, such as the T-Rex or Werebeast forms, he can only use them for a limited time before feeling exhausted and changing back. The Werebeast form in particular, while being likely his strongest transformation, subdues his control and makes him act somewhat feral. For this reason, he dislikes using it.

I would also like to use one of his power slots up by giving him the new ability to transform back into a regular looking human. No green skin, no pointed ears, nothing special at all.

〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:

[When Beast Boy flickers into view over the communicator, it quickly becomes apparent he's wandering the streets of Heropa as he talks.]

Heeeeee-ropa! Hey dudes and ladies! It's me, Beast Boy, your new resident wise-cracking, day-saving, mean, green machine!

[Gar shoots the camera a wink and thumbs up. This is honestly his idea of a good first impression.]

Anyway, I hear stories about real life heroes are a huge thing in this world. Does anyone have an agent? A contact? This face was born for the screen, right? And I have some great stories! Like that one time I helped save the world! And another time, too! Me and the Titans-

[His expression droops.]

Well. I just mean, if I'm stuck here, I might as well do something cool, right?

LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: Here on the TDM!

FINAL NOTES: It's also worth noting that in his regular old Beast Boy form, Gar appears to have slightly heightened senses, almost like a dog.

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[beastboi]

acceptance note for my own reference