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Wow it’s been a while with this one! I wanted to sort of lay out a few good ideas for the first season of titans since I never touched it in my first posts. So without further ado here it is:
Let’s get this out of the way nightwing is nightwing from the very beginning no stupid still robin stuff he is nightwing and he moved out of Bruce’s manner.
Cory’s memory loss is fine but I want badass alien star so she is shipwrecked on earth and hiding from her crazy sister
Raven can keep her name for a civilian identity but she goes by her nickname raven, she stays the depressed goth kid who witnessed her moms murder.
And gar is mostly fine but I want to add some things to him since I only really remembering him being very bland, first he’s the theater kid, you don’t have to lie about green hair in theater dyed hair is the norm, but i don’t know if I want to put him in tech or as a actor. Nope great idea he’s in tech which makes him a jack of all traits, the April has a crane license in rottmnt.
Now I of course will now be adding the wonderful and amazing victor stone aka cyborg! Man I missed this guy, he was probably my favorite character in the animated show. He plays high school football and is friends with gar and knows about gars powers, he also knows raven from poetry club
In titans they also introduced Jason Todd as a recurring character but I don’t like that so we will push him to later
Time for PLOT!!!!
In the beginning not much will change for raven and dick, her mom still dies and dick is trying to help her get to a safe place and there being chased by something evil like demons that dick has been searching for for months
Now the deviations gar and victor and walking home from school and they are just about to meet up with victors dad, dr. Stone at his job when Cory’s ship crashes and victor gets caught in the blast, the group rushes him inside and dr. Stone has them bring him to his lab, cyborg is here!
Raven and dick also witness the crash and rush over to help by this time they where able to shake the demons but the crash makes them come back, they are getting destroyed by these demons when star sees them and comes out to help, cyborg is still processing what just happened with his dad and gar, somehow they end up coming to the conclusion that since gar and his family knows a lot about being an outsider cyborg might stay with them a while, we have a heartfelt scene with cyborg and his dad before
Star crashes into the window after being thrown by the demons!
Star gave the group an upper hand but after a while it wasn’t enough, gar and cyborg now join and we get a epic fighting as a team battle
Afterwords dr. Stone comes out to see if his son is ok and recognizes dick from the many times he has worked with Batman, and we have a catch up scene with the group and they realize that there are going to be a lot more demons and someone need to stop them this transitions into the titans tower and the team is now formed.
This is rather a two part episode with more plot I didn’t go over or above is part 1 and below is part 2
Now next episode
Titans tower is an old Wayne building that is sadly unprepared for its new job so dick calls Alfred, no not Bruce he’s still mad at Bruce for whatever reason, Alfred can’t make it so he sends Jason to drop of the stuff instead.
Now time for Jason Todd, now you might ask oh egglantine how will you integrate Jason one of your favorite Battfam members into the story?
I won’t
Yea I love the guy but this is titans and in order to avoid the transition into a Batman show Jason Todd will not be a recurring character. There will be cameos but any story that involves him will be a dick Grayson storyline.
I actually have the idea that as the show progresses the Batfam will be more comic relief or a running gag of no one knows how many siblings dick actually has and dick never tells
*titans in a later season calling batcave* Dick: hi Jason! Gar: wait Jason!! I thought he was dead!!! Jason eating a bagel: yea I’ve been good for like 6 years now Dick: that time you tried to kill us was pretty crazy though 😊 Titans: 😦
This is getting long enough and I have homework so I will see you next time! Also I am more than happy to answer any questions inbox should be open!
ok so at this point there is a Titans A plot and a very small B plot. the A plot is about the whole team like a brother blood and hive storyline like in the animated tv show. and a Red Hood B plot that starts later in the season and its mostly about Dick, Jason and Tim.
so first change is that when Jason comes back he isn't himself the pit has changed him practically erasing any happy memories from his life so he is somewhere in-between a puppet and a rage filled mess. second change we have a time skip of around a year because i need batman to in six mouths swear off any new Robins, meet Tim drake(I'm keeping his comics origin), and then have Tim convince Bruce that he needs a Robin, and finale be Robin for around six months.
Titans are now in I think its Jump city like the animated tv show. and the team is tracking down brother blood, Blah blah blah you get the idea. the Red Hood emerges and he attacks Tim causing Bruce to send him to the Titans for his own safety. so the Red Hood stuff happens more in the background of the show with small updates from Bruce, Alfred, and Babs.
most of the crazy violent stuff that Red Hood does in the show is done by Blood and his group instead, including killing Hank. now we reach where the Red Hood become relevant, he’s had his under the red hood moment and is starting to calm down. we get scenes of him helping street kids, stopping crime, and there is even a sweet reunion between Saoirse and Jason.
Babs told Saoirse that Jason was alive as soon as she found out.
As Jason calms down Dick decides he needs to talk to Jason about attacking Tim. and there is some closure for Jason and the red hood character. this brings the Batfam to a more cameo/comedic area for the rest of the show.
for example the titans are breaking into a tech based villains lair being all serious and quiet. when suddenly spoiler(Steph) and robin(Tim) are there with a shopping cart and a list, Steph is absolutely roasting this villain and Tim is acting like a kid in a candy store with all of this stuff.
or
the Batfam hacking into the Titans coms so that Dick can settle a bet in the middle of a fight. The other titans are like what the hell but Dick just answers them and its like “no, Jay is right Tim, the Penguin didn't get plastic surgery, his nose is just like that.”, Jason ”HAHA! See I told you!”, Tim “Oh come on! Thanks a lot Dick!”.
Just the possibilities are endless
ok now when I guess shit hits the fan and I think Jason and Rose still leave together but Jason tries to get them to where Saoirse is staying and Rose wants them to go where they went in the show. this prompts an argument and Jason gets real emotional saying that Saoirse is his friend she will help them. Rose caves but imagine for the rest of this she makes it known she doesn't like it.
so they are now staying with Saoirse, so Saoirse in this has had a crush on Jason for quite a long time but she tries to bottle up those feelings especially now he has a girlfriend. I think Rose doesn't know this, Rose just sees her as a treat to whatever plan she has with her dad. during there stay that picture scene happens and Jason is feeling unloved and he ends up finding out the reason they breakup in the show and they breakup but instead of Jason leaving Rose does leaving Jason an Saoirse.
Saoirse doesn't say anything after all of this she just holds him as he cries his first really good cry in a while letting out a lot of that sadness, grief, and fear. they probably end up sleeping on the couch together exhausted from the day. Jason wakes up before Saoirse and he realizes three things. one she has been there for him through everything and has never pushed him away or rejected him. two he has been her safe space as well finding this situation a lot similar to one that happened a few years ago when her grandma on her dads side, a woman she had been very close to, died. and three he had fallen in love and had to tell her.
Saoirse ends up waking up to the sounds of Jason cooking breakfast and she she says a line that references the common headcannon that Jason is the only one aloud to cook in Alfred's Kitchen. he serves the food and I think that this awkward teenager gust blurts out the words I love you without thinking. shocking Saoirse turning her face red and Jason does the whole why did I do that thing but stops when Saoirse of course says it back.
they end up talking and Saoirse doesn't want him to rush into another relationship so soon after a break up and they agree to wait a few days Because while Jason and Roses relationship was toxic and short lived Jason did love Rose and it still hurts.
I looked at the finale of season 2 and Jason is only in it for like a second so I guess its pretty much the same but we add a scene where Jason and Saoirse kiss and a finale scene of Barbera calling him telling him his birth mom is alive.
now we are setting up season 3 the season I have the most problems with. and I know I’m falling into the same trap as Titans did, making a show about the Teen Titan about the batfamily, but counterpoint, this is my post. first of all there is no proving himself BS he go’s to fight jocker to save his mom like the comics even after she betrays him and sadly he still dies. now this Jason has a lot of people who love him, and I think some how Saoirse convinces Bruce to let her plan the funeral.
before I continue I need to touch on Bruce and Jason’s relationship I think that unlike the show and most comics cannon Jason would have been adopted at 12 like a few days after his mom dies. so he is desperate enough to steal the batmobile's tires. but Bruce and Jason have a more father son bond. they have a lot of good memories as Jason and Bruce with Batman and Robin being almost different people. Bruce didn't send him away Batman did. Batman didn't text Jason goodnight every night Bruce did. that type of thing. this also means Bruce feels Jason’s death a lot more than in the show. now on to the funeral.
there are a lot of people there the people who work at the Gotham Public Library, the people who helped raise him and helped his step-mom protect him from his father, to his schoolmates who he befriended and some he maybe even tutored in English. I write this because the Titans and Batfam need to see just how many lives Jason Todd, not robin, helped. he is buried next to his step-mom not the woman who betrayed him.
i think during the funeral Saoirse mentions to Dick that Jason’s bio father is still alive serving life in prison and she doesn't want to be the one to tell the asshole the son he doesn't care about is dead. so of course Dick does it and the dudes an asshole saying things like good riddance and being real mean. of course this angers Dick and now i have two choices go with comics cannon witch makes a lot of sense or Titans.
how about a bit of both. so throughout the last season i want to have established a more brotherly relationship between Dick and Jason. and so after meeting Jason's bio father he finds out that the Jokers going around loudly boasting about killing Robin. Nightwing goas after Joker and very publicly fights joker and would have killed him if batman didn't show up and fiscally pull him of joker. joker is brought to the hospital in a coma but still very much alive. and the reporters go nuts catching the eye of Rach Al Goul.
Ok so I actually watched Titans a while ago but I’m seeing it a lot more on tik tok and I have been thinking about it quite a bit lately because of it. so before I get into whatever is in my brain
1. I really don't like Titans as a show, I only watched the first season and already I did not like it. like the final “battle” (if you could even call it that) was basically a very boring argument between a girl and her dad.
2. while I wasn't a fan of his character before the show, I am now and I really don't like how Jason Todd is treated in the show.
so now because I have been thinking about this I have been sort of rewriting Titans in my head so I'm here to get those thoughts out.
ill start with Jason, I cant do much about the first season and frankly I don't know enough about trigon or the story to care, so sadly we are keeping it because i think its a good jumping off point for what i want to do. so when ever Titans stuff is discussed Jason gets really exited and happy him being apert of something gives him joy and yes he can get carried away, he’s a street kid from Gotham probably the only safe place for him was in public spaces and he probably was raised by the prostitutes and homeless people of the area. so I think his motivation is more trying to find a home that doesn't reject him.
so first of all Jason is a HUGE book nerd, his favorite book is Pride & Prejudice for crying out loud, so he didn't know how long he would be staying in San Francisco so he only brought like 7 books. I know that seams like a lot but I headcannon him to be able to read like a long chapter book in like 2 or 3 days. so he doesn't have his normal library with him. now I am going to introduce a OC that I made named Saoirse, she’s a girl he met when he first went to the fancy school in Gotham after getting adopted by Bruce. She was a foreign exchange student from Ireland and ill make a separate post about her after this one.
Jason and Saoirse have been friends for a long time and for his first few months in San Francisco they didn’t talk but after the hole trigon thing he starts to talk to her again. she knows he is Robin and Bruce is kind of ok with it because she is a blue Lantern in training. anyway he talks to her about all the stuff going on in San Francisco and to surprise him she sends a care package with a couple books, snacks, and some bookmarks. Dick sees Jason bring the package into his room and follows him, and because its Titans probably thinking the worst.
Dick sees Jason on a video call with Saoirse and opening the package getting really exited about the new books and she even got him a copy of the book there book club is reading. after the call ends Dick makes his presence known asking who Saoirse is. Jason starts acting defensively trying to get Dick out of his room. it ends with Jason telling him that she’s his friend and even a little bonding moment between the two. in the scene I want to show how smart Jason actually is with questions about books and we start to really get to know Jason.
now I’m still going to go the Deathstrock route because I want drama with Rose and Saoirse. so after Jason almost dies he doesn't talk to Saoirse for a little bit. but after starting his relationship with Rose he calls her and one apologizes for the radio silence he was depressed, she understands and validates his emotions wile still telling him that she is always able to talk to him LIKE A GOOD FREIND WOULD, excitedly he tells her about Rose and how he wishes she where here so he could introduce them. and she informs him that she was planning on flying to San Francisco that night and stay at a friend's place in order to surprise him.
now from my very limited exposure to Titans season 2 I know that the team breaks up at some point and that Rose and Jason are very toxic. so Saoirse arrives before the team breaks up but after the crosses on the mirrors incident. I think when Jason told Rose that Saoirse was coming she made a scene about how he’s never talked about this Saoirse before. I think she does this in front of everyone else and they gang up on him for nothing. he basically stays quiet and says when lunch is and that he need to pick Saoirse up from the airport leaving.
him and Saoirse go to the lunch they had planned and Rose doesn't show up they end up eating anyway and they decide to go back to Titans tower because Jason just assumes Rose wasn't feeling very good. when they get there the team try to confront Jason, its worth noting the Titans don't notice Saoirse there, saying things like “who is this Saoirse girl”, “why is he keeping secrets”, and I think hank would make some rude remark about Saoirse pretty much based on nothing.
that's when Saoirse makes herself known and introduces herself. now before this we don't see a lot of Saoirse just her voice bit her look has been obscured so this is sort of a reveal scene. she is a 5 foot tall girl with frizzy bright red hair, cute gold glasses that look strait out of a fantasy book, a brightly colored crochet cardigan over a cottagecore, witchy outfit and red lace up leather boots her grandfather made her.
I think this is when Dick enters the scene and politely invites her in while everyone is getting over the initial shook of the moment. they sit on the couch and talk Saoirse answers questions like how she knows Jason by Gar, I think Dawn would ask her questions that bring up the fact she is a pagan witch, she lives in Ireland buts stays on her grandfathers farm for most of the summer, and her love of crochet and books. Rose shows up Jason introduces her to Saoirse but Rose stays quiet for a little bit before asking about the ring on her finger. Jason is a little alarmed by this and makes a small inoffensive comment about Rose skipping any introduction. Saoirse says its fine revealing her blue lantern ring and showing it to Rose and the group.
Kori probably says something about how she’s heard of a Green and Red Lantern but not a Blue one. this prompts Saoirse into explaining all about the Blue Lanterns, a topic she is very interested in. someone probably asks if she’s a hero and she says something like “No. No. No. No, I could never be a vigilante like any of you guys or Hal or John or... does Guy count, yea he counts. I’d cant use my ring like a green lantern could and even if I could I’d much rather teach than fight bad guys.” now most of the Titans didn’t know Saoirse knew they where vigilantes and the mood sours and she continues “OH! I forgot, yea I know who you guys are, John one of the green Lanterns told me, I hope that's ok.”
this calms some people down and I think Donna says something like its fine and that Diana trusts John so she will to. after Dinner Saoirse goes back to the place she is staying and there is some talk around Titans about Jason’s friend. Jason probably tries to talk to Rose about what happened but she avoids the topic and it ends in a small fight. Jason and sometimes Gar leave and hangout with Saoirse. Jason invites Rose but she declines overtime, and because i think Jason is actually trying in this relationship he tries to politely confront Rose about this but it always ends in a fight, Rose ignoring the topic, or Rose trying to distract from the topic.
I have more but this is really long so this is part 1