#lorena marquez

[pinkiemachine]

Ultimate Teen Titans - Sleepover

[dailydccomics]

Teen Titans by Joe Bennett and Jack Jadson

[leoruby-draws]

Finally the last team for my au is introduced, Cass and her new friends!! Been waiting a while to post this but last week I was a bit under the weather. So I posted a bit earlier than usual this week.

Cass being part of a team means there are 5 kid teams (tho Dick's team are just about adults anyways), all the kids having their own friend group outside of the bat family was something I wanted to do. It took a lot of digging to find all available heroes that could not only fit into their age groups but also produce the character interactions that I wanted.

Cass was never really part of a 'teen titans' styled team of her own(well except for like two issues of Young Justice) tho she did occasionally interact with other young heroes. She would be part of (non-bat) teams sometimes, like the outsiders and currently Birds of Prey but not a kids team. Part of why is because she debuted as near adult (17) and also stuck mostly with the batfam. I also got the sense that Bruce wanted her to focus on her batgirl duties, and wouldn't want her to be distracted with having other hero friends.

Though circumstances are different in this au, and with Jason,Steph, and Tim having their teams, Babs gets the idea to get Cass a team of her own! Friends are important to have and Babs wants Cass to have the full benefits that friendship offers!

So here's the members of this team:

Top row- Natasha Irons (Steel, like her uncle), Ray Terrill (the Ray), Arisia Rrab (Green Lantern)

Middle row- Traci Thirteen, Lorena Marquez (Aquagirl), Cass Cain (Batgirl), Connor Hawke (Green Lantern), Cody Driscoll (Risk)

Bottom Row- Jenni Ognats (XS), Grace Choi

Also while not shown on this page, there's also Wendy Jones aka Windfall and Carrie Levine aka Red Wing. You'll see them down below in the other drawings.

Over time I'd like to get more into team along with their interactions with Cass but for now lets just concentrate on a few of them. Starting with the Lantern of the group, Arisia Rrab.

Arisia is currently a Green Lantern in training, just like in canon her family has a history of becoming Lanterns. But Lanterns live dangerous lives and after the death of her parents Arisia was chosen by the ring to be next. Normally the corps don't induct children into their ranks, but Arisia is a special case. Since she just a trainee I decided to have her be mentored by Hal Jordan and John Stewart on Earth, similar to how Hal was trained by Sinestro. As for her sector, it's probably being watched by temporary Lanterns (maybe from the honor guard?)

Her training will probably last longer that Hal since Arisia is a kid and will need more guidance, also in my au the Guardians have a bit more rules regarding minors and more safeguards. So Hal and John try to take care of her and any accommodations she needs as a kid. Hal kinda hates the added responsibility, tho he's slowly learning to enjoy having a sidekick of his own. The other lanterns like to help out sometimes, with Katma being esp fond of her. Btw you know how right after crisis there were a bunch of lanterns living on earth and had this fancy house built, I think that's where I'm gonna put Arisia in as her living place. Like I said, Hal and John try to make sure she's still ok.

Also for added info, for John, he isn't a back up lantern like how he started out in canon. When he started out, there was only one lantern per sector but in the 2000s that got bumped up to two (earth is special and gets like a million lol). I'm just rewriting the rules in this au so that there's always been a 2 lantern per sector rule. He also started a bit earlier, not long after Hal.

Anyways, Arisia is now on earth experiencing earth culture and even attending school in Coast City, she loves learning and is focused on doing well in both school and GL training. She decided to join a kids team to get better experience in crime fighting and is enjoying making new friends. I wanted her with Cass because I thought Cass would benefit with having a mature, studious kid as a friend (Babs certainly thinks Arisia is a good influence on her) but also I'd think it would be funny if Cass does something profoundly weird and unhinged and Arisia simply assumes that all earthlings are like that ("oh, you just emptied my fridge while I was gone, I guess that's just normal on earth").

Also you can see up there that Arisia also has to deal with the other kid lanterns that are popping up, I've already posted about Rankorr and Miri. Miri is pretty annoying to Arisia and keeps trying to convert her to the violet lantern corps, Arisia tries to avoid her. She gets along a bit better with Rankorr but is a bit intimidated by him. You can also see that there's a Blue Lantern (Nicole Morrison) and a Yellow Lantern (Nax). I'll probably talk about them another time, suffice to say that Arisia seems to have been given the mission to keep an eye on these other young lanterns and see what exactly their up too.

Also I'm just gonna get this outta the way, I'm not aging up Arisia nor am I gonna her and Hal get romantically involved. Not even gonna elude to it, I'm just straight up ignoring all that. Arisia is a kid and staying that way, and Hal is just her loser mentor.

Now lets go on ahead to the speedster, Jenni Ognats aka XS.

Just like in the comics Jenni is from the future, and is the granddaughter of Barry Allen aka the Flash. Atm I'm not entirely sure how her story goes because there a lot of time travel involved and time travel plotlines always confuse me. Lets just say while trying to train for the Legion of Super-Heroes (who are kids not teens btw) try-outs, she ends up going a little too fast and ends up in the 21st century. Barry and Iris (who've just gotten engaged) are shocked by Jenni's abrupt appearance but decide to take her in and take care of her while they try to figure out how to send her home.

Barry adores her and both of them get along pretty well since they seem to have similar temperaments. Jenni likes to trail after him and help sometimes with fighting crime, its great training for her future with the legion. Wally down there is a bit jealous of their great bond but feels a bit guilty over it since Jenni is very sweet and likes/respects Wally as well. At least she doesn't annoy him like the other kiddie speedsters.

Jenni starts off a bit timid and insecure in the comics so thats how she's starting off here too. Maybe being in a team with Cass with help her out, hanging with someone very confident (arrogant even) can inspire her to be more secure in herself. Jenni also gets along with Arisia as well, their is an easy camaraderie between them. Plus they both know they both have a time limit on this earth/time and are trying to enjoy their time here while they can.

Lets go on with the others, like Ray Terrill aka the Ray.

Ray was one of the first members of the team I'd considered for Cass's team and thats because they share something in common. And thats a childhood kept in isolation, though it manifested differently. Ray lived almost his entire life (until age 18) indoors because his 'father' (actually uncle) told him sunlight would kill him. It was actually the opposite since Ray has the power of light. I suppose in this au his uncle died earlier so Ray discovers his powers sooner. Perhaps he also found his mother and maybe lives with her as well?

He and Cass tend to bond over their lack of interaction with society and how it affected them, honestly I don't think it got the focus it should have gotten in Ray's own comic. Being raised like that and only having the tv as your window into the outside world, Ray should be a much weirder and awkward person. But while Cass didn't even have television, she understands Ray few others can. I kinda want to make Ray a bit of a 'right-hand' man to Cass, and at first I even played with the idea of having Ray crush on Cass a bit. I dropped that when I learned he was gay in rebirth, tho I think having their connection be platonic makes it work better.

Here's some doodles of this team, along with a bonus Koryak.

Look at Ray and Cass looking cool, as they should be!

The girl in pink in the bottom row was me trying to figure out how to draw Natasha Irons, just trying to play around with color pallets and hair styles. Also looks like Lorena and Koryak seem rather interested in each other.

Speaking of Lorena aka Aquagirl, lets go into her.

I say Aquagirl but since Tula is currently using that maybe I should have her be Aqualass (should I make Koryak aquaboy? eh). Her being here basically means the Sub Diego incident occurred, I thought of her getting her powers another way but I liked that story line so I'm keeping it. She tends to split her time between Sub Diego and Atlantis and is currently being trained by Aquaman. Tula helps with training as well and is overjoyed at having her own mini sidekick.

Lorena, along with Ray, was one of the first members I put on the team and one reason is that I think that she and Cass would have a pretty good chemistry together. Kinda similar to what Cass and Steph had in the comics but certain vital differences. For one there's far less of power imbalance with Lorena being a meta, so Cass wouldn't see her as needing protection. This works on a social level as well, since not only in Lorena and Cass in different 'families', Lorena isn't outcasted like canon Steph.

Also, while I wouldn't call Steph insecure really, she had some baggage with how much better Cass was in hero work. Lorena doesn't really care about Cass's skill level, like at all, she treats Cass as an equal and expects the same in return. Cass kinda respects this in a way, and likes that someone just see her a someone 'regular'. Lorena is slowly teaching Cass to just chill out and hang out like regular kids do, which is one of the goals that Babs was aiming for.

In drawing I posted a while back, I had Babs and Tula meet and become friends, primarily so that they could arrange a 'playdate' for Lorena and Cass. Leading into the rest of the team overtime. Here's the first meeting between them actually:

Lorena makes her splash into Cass's life, I wonder if Lorena will introduce Cass to actual mermaids.

Here's some extra doodles for the team.

Up there is Carrie and Wendy, who I didn't put in that first drawing, no room. Carrie on the left is the youngest of the team and shows it. She's very naive and looks up to the others a lot esp Cass (she's so cool!! :D), hopefully she has a better fate than what she got in the comics.

Wendy on right was part of the outsiders, and before that a villain group called the Masters of Disasters. Since she's younger (in fact I deaged her by a year or two) she got rescued from her abusive sister and is now trying to become a hero. Batman recommended her to Babs who put her on the team. Having a evil family member and being forced to be evil is something Cass understands, tho Wendy is still a bit intimidated by her a bit. But I think they could learn to get along. Also look at Ray looking fancy, always thought his costume looked like a band/military outfit.

Later on I can get into the others but I'm still reading and refining what I want out of their interactions with Cass so thats for another time.

Here's a concept doodle of the first team line-up here.

You can see that I put in Mia aka Cir-El as the super of the group, I thought that her being the 'daughter' of Superman it'd be funny to have her team up with Cass, the daughter of Batman. But I couldn't really make them click in my head and decided to go with Natasha as the super. I felt a bit bad cuz Mia was a fun little character but that's how it goes. Maybe she'll team up now and then as an ally of sorts.

And lastly, here's a group shot of the team after I finally settled on what I wanted the line-up to be! Here they are:

Btw, I don't have a name for this team, like with Steph, but if anybody has any suggestions let me know! I kinda asked for help earlier with Steph's team but I didn't get a name that worked for me (maybe I'm just too picky). In exchanged, I can give you a free doodle of any character of your choice.

Well, hoped you liked all of that, take care!

[waywardducks]

You ever wonder if Tim, Duke, Jason, and Steph just say popular words that our generation uses a lot and Dick realizes that he has no idea what his siblings are saying. Like-

Duke: Dang Alfred, this food is bussin’

Dick: what?

Steph: On god

Dick: who?

Jason: No cap.

Dick: Huh???

Tim: Frrrr

Alfred: Thank you all. I'm glad you enjoyed the meal.

Dick: WHAT???

I feel like after the group realizes that Dick is clueless to the lingo they start using it more often just to upset him and they get their friends into it too. Quoting memes and stuff bc Dick is so lost.

Kon: *Walking into the bat cave for the first time in a while.* Gurrrrl it don't smell like roaches in here or nothin’

Damien: Cuz the roach just walked in the door

Dick: 😯

Or

Dick: *trying on a new shirt* what do you think?

Barbara: Eh mid.

Dick: 😧

Or

Steph: Oh my god did you see Batwoman on the newtest issue of Gothemites?

Lorena: OMG YES! She’s giving Mother and I'm here for it!

Dick: 🥲

Or

Roy and Dick: *Watching Kon flirt with Tim on a mission.*

Roy: Damn, Superboy is Rizzing up your lil bro. Jason wasn't joking.

*Tim smirking at one of Kon’s advances. Whispering something before winking and walking away*

Roy: HOLY FUCK TIM IS THE RIZZ KING WTF

Dick: 😰

Or

Dick and Jason: *Walking into study room in the manor to find Bruce and Clark way too close.*

Jason: really? In front of my salad?

Dick: 😳

Bonus:

Dick: *looking smug as walked into a room full of his siblings*

Dick: That last mission sure was sus wasn't it guys!

*collective groans as everyone in the room stands and leaves immediately.*

Dick: 😭

[roseworth]

every once in a while i see posts like "ugh i want more content of *insert character here* but i have to read teen titans 2003 to get it :("

well. i hate that book but i am unfortunately insane about it so

how to read Teen Titans (2003) without wanting to die: a guide

in this im gonna cover which issues each character is in and which ones are worth reading for Cassie (Wonder Girl), Mia (Speedy), Rose (Ravager), Eddie (Kid Devil), M'gann (Miss Martian), Jaime (Blue Beetle), Virgil (Static), Lorena (Aquagirl), and Kiran (Solstice)

keep in mind. many of these characters are out of character in this book so i would NOT suggest this being the first thing you read for most of these characters

NOW

Cassie:

Appears in: #1-100 (yes all of them, she appears in every issue <3)

Worth reading: #1-5, #15, #30, #34-35, #40-41, #44-46, #47, #63-65, #69, #72-74, #75-76, #79, #81-82, #88, #92, #93-97, #98-100

Mia:

Appears in: #21-26, #30-32, #34, #66, #99-100

Worth reading: #21-23, #30-31, #32

Rose:

Appears in: #0.5, #7-12, #23, #34-60, #69-82, #88-100

Worth reading: #0.5, #34-35, #36-37, #40-41, #43-46, #57-60, #71-82, #88-91, #98-100

(ps i also have more a more detailed tt03 rose list here, and a full rose reading list here if you're interested 🫶)

Eddie:

Appears in: #30, #34-74

Worth reading: #34-35, #36-37, #39, #42, #44-45, #56, #60, #61, #67-68, #71, #73-74

M'gann:

Appears in: #37-62, #69-87, #99-100

Worth reading: #39-41, #51-54, #58-60, #62, #69, #72-74, #75-76, #85-87

Jaime:

Appears in: #50-83, #99-100

Worth reading: #50, #52-54, #61, #73-74, #83

Virgil:

Appears in: #69-87

Worth reading: #69, #73-74, #79-82, #87

Lorena:

Appears in: #15, #21, #34, #38, #69-86

Worth reading: #69, #72-74, #75, #81, #83-86

(^side note for lorena, as a lorena stan i am BEGGING you to read her appearances in Aquaman 2003 or Sword of Atlantis before reading her in this)

Kiran:

Appears in: #89-100

Worth reading: #93-97, #98-100

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MEEEEEEEERA

Brightest day #20

[nitpickrider]

...Why are you doing this? Of all the things you could have found for Aquagirl (a character who is already deeply underutilized) to DO on this team. You made her "the other woman" trying to tempt Jaime of all people? What is your intention? To make her come off as a bitch WHILE overcomplicating one of the sweetest young love stories in comics?

[celadons-penultimate]

Aquaman (Arthur)

Mera

Andy

Aquaman (Jackson)

Tempest

Dolphin

Tula

Aquagirl

Lucia & Delilah

Ha'Wea

A perfect cast for an ongoing Aquaman comic, whenever DC Comics is ready to do right & give the Aquafans what they want! 😭

PS: basically, my pitch for an Aquaman spin-off comic for Atlantis' magical Silent School:

Aquaman (Jackson)

Tempest

Tula

Dolphin

"Koryak" (+new name; retcon as Arthur's cousin?)

Dragonson

Lagoon Boy

Deep Blue (retcon as Arthur's cousin?)

Lori Lemaris (leadership/teaching role?)

[kamamo1]

Lorena Marquez

California girls,

We're undeniable

[lesbianarchers]

It is once again missing them times:

The early 2000’s were truly the best times for them

[sofiamantegafan110]

Teen Titans Girls

Wonder Girl, Miss Martian, Starfire, Aquagirl, Bombshell and Ravager

Made with AI

[pinkiemachine]

Alright, THIRD generation of Titans! Bring it on!!

Ultimate Teen Titans Poster #1! It took a little time to pin down who was gonna make the Final Cut, but I’m happy with the results. :)

Poster #2 👇

Previous generation 👇

[dailydccomics]

beware Titans army Teen Titans vol 3 #53

[leoruby-draws]

Felt the urge to post some aqua character art after posting that Koryak art earlier, to give better insight into Koryak's life in my TrWh au. Decided to introduce a few more characters into the au and show how they interact with Koryak!

First drawing we get to see the aqua kids have a nice day at the beach. I also sketched some doodles of Delilah and Ha'Wea, really liked the becoming (esp that One Piece cameo lmao), would really recommend it! Short and fun!

Also did a mini comic showing Koryak and Jackson meeting eachother. I always thought it was interesting that Koryak was obsessed with becoming king but had no interest in the aquaman position itself. But Jackson wanted to become Aquaman, and can't be king due to not being in line for it. Thought him and Jackson would make for some fun foils in that regard.

Here's some drawings of the aqua girls, isn't it a shame Lorena and Tula never meet? ( Unless they did in rebirth?) I bet Tula would be ecstatic to have a mini sidekick of her own, I guess Lorena could be called aqualass? Took some sketches before I worked out how to draw Tula, and Dolphin's always fun to draw!

Next is Lagoon boy, thought he was fun but he has almost no comics what so ever. That's a shame, would have wanted him to meet Garth, figure they could bond over being outcasts. Seems Koryak finds him almost as annoying as Garth lol.

Also drew Miya Shimada, really enjoyed her in All Star Squadron, but liked her even more in young all stars. You got to see her rage at the injustice of what United Stated did to Japanese-Americans during WW2. Tho didn't like that they made her a cheater in the Aquaman comics, that was lame.

Also look at little Arthur Jr, he seems to love his big bro, tho Kory isn't too sure what to do with him at all. By the way, I have no idea if Arthur Jr still dies, so I'll just not deal with that for now.

And finally a short moment of Koryak and his mother Kako, hopefully she tries to visit him now and then. Can't believe she just disappears from the comics like that, must suck for him.

Anyways hope you like these doodles, later!

[roseworth]

teen titans (2003) tweets because i hate that book but god do i love the characters

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honestly aquafam was in a relatively good place in brightest day stuff pre new 52. We remembered Lorena exists, Jackson had a good solid introduction, Mera got some sweet retcons and finally got some respect, arthur was alive again... the reset feels like a real shame; I would have loved to see them develop naturally from there. Garth is still dead but with the power of revival we could bring him back. Koryak was technically undead but I don't think anyone was paying attention. though being undead and with amnesia is better than just not existing, which is where he is post 2011