#Eddie Bloomber

[leoruby-draws]

Decided to add another member to the Training Wheels Outlaw team, Gillian Wahrman aka Wyldheart!

This spirited young girl is a very obscure character seen in Grant Emerson's 1994 book Damage! She's only ever seen in relation to Grant, and Grant's a bit obscure himself, so she has very little appearances in the comics.

From what little we saw of her, she seemed fairly nice and pretty naive, I'm guessing she was pretty sheltered in life. Her adoptive father, Abriam Wahrman , found her in a spacecraft as a baby, so she kinda has a superman style origin (in fact, I thought she could fit the team as the superman expy, but I ended up having other ideas...).

Her father is part of the organization that gave Grant his powers but are also trying to hunt him down. She and Grant ended up as friends, but are keeping their friendship a secret for now. For now it works, tho I doubt that'll stay the case. She and Grant get along very well, he helps ground her and tries to prevent people from taking advantage of her naivety. In turn she helps him lighten up a bit and have fun!

Anyways, when she learned about Grant hanging out with this strange group, she decided she wanted in! And so she did! Jason is amused if a bit overwhelmed by her positivity, he's not quite sure how to deal with her but at least he has fun with her. The rest of the team likes her cheerfulness, bit of a break from the more serious and 'edgy' members attitudes.

Here's a couple of extra doodles of Gillian meeting the others:

This last one is was a first draft of her, I'll be real her outfit is kinda strange, simultaneously both overly designed and yet super basic. I didn't really like it honestly, but I could see underneath all that there was a way to make it work. I'm not sure if I succeeded, might've oversimplified it but I tried.

Now I'm gonna stop right here and talk about something real quick. If you go over to the DC fandom wiki and go to Gillian's page, here's what you see in the sidebar:

Is this some sort of mistake? I don't know if I missed something, but in none of her appearances was she shown to be a New God or Genesisian. Was she planned to be one but the writers dropped that plot point? Or did they not get the chance since Grant's book got canceled? If not, why did the wiki put that in? I don't know man, but I really do like that idea, like a lot. In fact in my au, she is in fact a New God! Perhaps her parents got in trouble of sorts and maybe sent her away to protect her? I'm kinda wanna make up a story of the parents being on opposite sides and their Romeo/Juliet romance caused an uproar. I'm not too well versed in New God lore, so I don't if that would work but it's one idea at least.

Here's a page of Gillian finding out her heritage:

Everyone looks shocked! (btw that guy in the back is Iron Munro, who helps out Grant sometimes). If Gillian's a new god, what would she be the god of? Maybe something like Harmony or Joy.

Well I hope to draw Gillian some more, she's a pretty fun addition to the team, and I hoped you liked all this!

A correction! Gillian is a New God, it's explained in Damage #8!

This is what happens when you speed 'read' and completely look over the details. Sorry about that, I can be pretty spacey sometimes. Thanks to @isfjmel-phleg for the correction! Still isn't it cool and unique that Gillian's a new god? DC should bring her back!

[mollyannice]

8 characters I would love to see Jason Todd romantically date that aren't canon as of now

8. Roy Harper: Because of his time as working with him as outlaw and someone DC has made Jason's best friend. Somewhat because WFA having both Dick and Jason competing for Lian's favourite uncle role. It would be interesting to see him in the role of a step-father with his issues with the parental figures in his life. One big con about him is I know that a lot of Arrow fans would be against Jason and Roy being together because Roy's character changed to fit with Jason's and I get that. (although I made this canon I would drop this retroactively by having it come out they are now divorced and the time they lived together in the same apartment and sharing a bank account they were married and after did get a divorce that are now really good friends)

7. Stephanie Brown: the other dead robin. Stephanie is probably the closest family or should have been through the years as such. If there wasn't such a hatred from editorial to her prior to her death we had missed out on a lot of very interesting stories involving these two. Especially if you had a 19/20 year old Jason, 18 year old Stephanie and 17 year old Tim. But I also get that there would be people against this because Steph is Tim's ex and Jason has dated/showed interest in his siblings/bruce's people even the ones that they didn't actually date because People are objects that others can call maybe dibs on I guess.

6. Eddie Bloomber aka Red Devil. They were penpals and I think it would be cute if they met up years after Jason's death and their pinpal relationship and went "whoa he grew up hot." Bonus if it's a slow burn.

5. Duela Dent aka the Joker's possible daughter. The Drama that would bring in Jason's future maybe FIL being the man that killed him. Con: she is not sane and her father is possible the joker.

4.Kyle Rayner- going form rivals to lovers, that story just chef's kiss. I would get if Lantern fans would hate this

3. Rebecca Langstrom (man-bat's daughter) - There could be an interesting story there especially if you parallel the Man-batfamily to the batfamily Rebecca Langstrom, some what, especially if there is parallels to Rebecca and Jason . I thought of this would be a cool storyline because of the

2. Numbers- a boy Jason met at

1. Raven- this is a character that Jason gave some sleep pills so that he didn't have to fight her and so that she could have a good night sleep. So yeah I can see some potential stories about these two and them fighting their internal demons, metaphorical for Jason and literally for Raven.