#mandy koriand'r

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the Titans celebrating like the family they are ♡ I Am Not Starfire (2021) art by Yoshi Yoshitani

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Some more unpopular opinions about "I am not Starfire":

Instead of a normal light ginger looking hair color, Mandy's hair should've actually been just as red as Starfire's instead or it should've just been some other kind of unnatural color instead of just normal looking ginger hair. It should've been unique just like how Mar'i's hair glows with purple at the bottom of hers or just like how Blackfire's whole hair is dark blue/dark purple for example, cause like she's supposed to be half Tamaranean! Why does her design look so normal in the book as if she's actually fully human???? So like at least give her an unnatural hair color to make it more believable that she is Tamaranean!!! It also would've gave much more of a better reason for why she dyed her hair full on black because her natural Tamaranean hair color easily shows that she's Starfire's daughter, cause if she has normal ginger hair, no one's gonna just look at her and think like "Yep! That's definitely Starfire's daughter because she has natural ginger hair." Cause it just looks too normal to even make that kind of connection! Especially with her very human appearance already!

One time while reading this book, as I was observing the artstyle throughout all of the pages (cause that's literally the only best thing about the dang book), I had noticed that Mandy's pupils actually had a darker green coloring in it instead of black and I thought to myself "Oh, wow, that's a really cool little detail that they gave to her, especially since her design already looks so much like a human instead of a Tamaranean. I really like that" ..... But then after looking at the other characters eye's, I soon found out that the same thing was done with them as a part of the artstyle and then I was just like "😑 Oh...okay, whatever than I guess." So after that, I feel like that's how her eye's should've actually naturally been as a part of her design instead, since she's Starfire's daughter, especially because it had looked like a really interesting little detail for her before I had found out that it was actually just a part of the artstyle

There's this brought up flashback moment in the book (that no one talks about at all for some reason) where Starfire gives Kid!Mandy a bag of wet soaked bread so that she could give it to Claire (who was still just a friend to her during that time) as a gift for her birthday when she goes over to her house, cause it's supposed to be a Tamaranean type of gift or something and I was just like "What???? What about an actual weird Tamaranean meal like the one's that she would used to make in the og Teen Titans animated show?? Cause that would've made much more sense as a Tamaranean meal that's supposed to be a friendly gift than just some wet bag of bread."

Cause that's earth food!! I don't remember earth food like bread being on Tamaran at all, so shouldn't it actually just be an original meal made from Tamaran that she could've given to her instead of that???? Especially since I remember hearing that this book is supposed to be inspired by the og animated Teen Titans universe, so an actual home cooked Tamaranean meal would've just made much more sense instead of just trying to do weird things to human food just to make it seem like a "Tamaranean meal"!!

Here's the panel for it btw

I also wanted to see more of her pet parrot Joannie!!!😭😭😭😭😭 They were such an adorable fun bird, they totally deserved more panel time!!!💕

(Just look at em'!! So adorable and happy about everything!!💗)

During the scene where Blackfire was threatening Starfire with Mandy, I really hated it when she backed down so fast from her Instead of being the protective warrior that she actually is, cause as nice as Starfire is as a character, she isn't actually a person who will just easily back down from standing up for herself, especially if it's her loved one's who are being endangered at that very moment, cause she will be the type to fight back when that happens, so I imagine that even especially as a Mother she would become very raged to ever see someone in front of her threatening to hurt her daughter, even if it is her evil sister Blackfire who is the one that's threatening her, cause she won't care at all, she's still gonna do what she has to do to protect her child, especially from her sister

I very much also didn't like when they made Starfire obsess so much over Mandy's powers showing up every year on each birthday of her's and waste the whole day in the back yard in front of the sun just to see if something happens, cause I honestly don't believe Starfire would've cared about it that much. I mean she obviously would be curious to know when her childs gonna develop her powers and would want to know if she can use them well and stuff so that she can give her proper training on how to control them better, but she wouldn't be so obsessed about it!! Starfire would've actually made a real birthday party for Mandy to enjoy instead with all of their loved ones there to celebrate it with them (like the Titans for example), instead of doing what she did in the book!

It also actually would've been nicer if they had made her friend Lincoln more interesting as a character instead of just making him be the ears that are just only there to always listen to all of Mandy's daily complaints about every single little thing all the time

I also don't like the scene that was happening while Mandy was at the playground trying to terrify her bullies while Claire was there, because the only reason that scene was made was just so that she can unintentionally foreshadow the battle that happens between her and Blackfire at the end of the book and it just felt a little annoying and unnecessary for it to even be there cause it actually does nothing useful or interesting for the story at all

Dick is obviously the Dad and he knows it too😑 (I know this one isn't really an unpopular opinion but I wanna talk about it anyways)

I mean just look at the way he worries about Mandy here!!!

And then this last panel in the book where he's literally the only one on the roof standing next to Starfire as they BOTH PROUDLY look at Mandy fly away into the sky as a new hero, like he's obviously the Dad, cause why else is he in this scene with Starfire happily enjoying this moment with her if Mandy's not his kid?! They don't even have a close relationship with eachother to explain this, so he is the Dad!!!

Just look at it!!

(That's freaking him right there!!)

Like I'm just so dissapointed in the fact that they made him abandon Starfire like that instead of making him actually be a caring Father like he canonly is with his other kids Mar'i and Jake, and actually be there to raise Mandy with her🤦, but it obviously wasn't done that way so that Mandy could have higher and easier free chances of being very disrespectful and rebellious towards her Mother in the whole story, since there's no other parent (which is Dick) to help Starfire out in stopping that kind of unnecessary and unkind behavior and teach her that's not the way for her to treat her Mom at all

[hotpinkstaples]

kory not celebrating her own bday but celebrating her daughter’s every year 😭😭😭 makes me wonder if mandy knows about her traumatic past at all. something something, thinking she’s saving her kid from having to hear about her tragic past when really, the kid just wants to know their mama 😭😭😭

[neogirlart]

I see what's going on internet, DC Latest comic book or graphic novels became controversial because Starfire Daughter design or being a new character. People been waiting for Nightfire to be in newest comic but they forgot that she isn’t canon for the shipping part. The problem is the character design that bother people. I made her more Tamaraneans than just a human. I just no one will complain about this.

[randumbteahouse]

On one hand, I love these characters dearly. On the other, I hate the company that owns them.

DC comics has become garbage and I am well beyond the point of ignoring “canon” and substituting it with my own headcanon, to where I don’t even want to give them the free advertisement that is fanart. But! I realized I have never drawn Match before!so I had to draw him at least once.. ..and then his "brothers" jumped into the picture....

Think about Kon, Chris, and Jon for a second. Three Superboys, separated by time and universes. Three men who would still be boys if they hadn't been robbed of their childhoods in three distinct ways. A brother who could have been a son, a son who could have been an enemy, and a son that came back a stranger.

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Title: I Am Not Starfire

Author: Mariko Tamaki, Yoshi Yoshitani

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2021

Genres: fiction, graphic novel, comics, LGBT+, fantasy, science fiction, romance

Blurb: 17-year-old Mandy Koriand'r is not her mother. Daughter of Starfire and high school outcast, Mandy is constantly trying to get out from under the shadow of her bright, bubbly, scantily-clad parent. Dyeing her bright orange hair black and sticking close to her best friend Lincoln, Mandy spends her days at school avoiding Teen Titans superfans and trying to hide her feelings for the gorgeous, popular, and perfect Claire. While Mandy usually avoids spending too much time with her alien mother, she's been particularly quiet lately, as she's keeping one major secret from her: Mandy walked out of her S.A.T. While Mandy continues to tell Lincoln her plans of moving to France to escape the family spotlight and not go to college, she hides a fear of not knowing her identity outside of just being the daughter of a superhero, unsure who she will become...but when she's partnered with Claire to work on a school project, their friendship develops into something more, and self-confidence begins to bloom. Claire seems to like Mandy for being Mandy, not the daughter of Starfire...but when someone from Starfire's past comes to disrupt Mandy's future, Mandy must finally make a choice: give up before the battle has even begun, or step into the unknown and risk everything.

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Blackfire's Lustful Revenge

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/hDurCZb by Anonymous Blackfire is back from an 8 year stint in a Tamaran prison after failing at her last grand evil scheme. She is stuck living with her sworn enemy and sister, Starfire, and her family once they take pity on her. Blackfire feels stuck in a rut after losing all dignity and sense of bad. After finding out what kind of kinky things Starfire's daughter, Mandy, is into, Blackfire begins her lustful revenge. Words: 2257, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: DCU (Comics), DCU, Teen Titans - All Media Types, I Am Not Starfire (Graphic Novel) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Underage Categories: F/F Characters: Mandy Anders, Komand'r (DCU), Koriand'r (DCU), Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne Mentioned, Damian Wayne mentioned Relationships: Komand'r/ Mandy Anders, Dick Grayson/Koriand'r Additional Tags: Underage Kissing, Underage Sex, Alternate Universe - Future, Alternate Universe, Adult Content, Predator/Prey, Age Difference, Aunt-Niece Relationship, Aunt-Niece Incest read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/hDurCZb

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Dickkory Week Day 3: Grandpa Bruce

dick&kory left the kids with bruce on datenight 

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So.... I was reading "I am not Starfire" and i just want to draw Mar'i Grayson dressed up like Mandy, the MC. 🙃

[dailydccomics]

enter Blackfire I Am Not Starfire (2021) art by Yoshi Yoshitani

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Unpopular opinion:

Besides many of the other very obvious problems with the comic book "I am not Starfire", along with Mandy's character as well, they totally missed the opportunity to name her Mand'i instead as a Tamaranean name, just like the other Tamaranean names "Mar'i" and "Koriand'r' for example

It just would have been much more better if that's how it was actually spelled instead of the usual version of the name

And I say that because Starfire is supposed to be a single Mom in the book, so it's much more believable that she would have picked a Tamaranean name for her child instead of just a normal one from earth, since she's the parent that's naming her

[ben-the-hyena]

Spot the differences : very hard edition

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i know in my spirit that dick aint mandy’s father, and that her conception was likely during one of dick and kory’s off periods, and once kory was pregante….. well, can’t be canoodling with your on-and-off ex when u gotta whole ass baby comin. my headcanon is that kory slept with some human rando at some point, and when she found out she was pregunta, decided to keep it and move on with her life and from dick. personally thought kory would end up single and fabulous, but seeing that dickkory ending…. inshallah mar’i and jake will be conceived soon. need a sequel to this lil book where mandy’s nineteen, a superhero, and also a big sister to kory and dick’s twins 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[gelu-the-babosa-multiversal]

So I read the full story, and I hated it even more. Specifically, I hate even more the design of the characters.

So here some new redesigns of my redesigns including now jake. A true happy family.

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I Am Not Starfire, And That's Okay

I recently read I Am Not Starfire and I had lots of thoughts, which are under the cut. It is spoiler-heavy and an analysis of the main character, who I find to be a charming, flawed, and incredibly human character.

Mandy is a fascinating character and a great look at a teenage girl who feels ostracized by the people around her and who feels disconnected from her parent. Mandy is by no means flawless, and that's what makes her very interesting. It also makes her relatable.

Mandy starts by talking about how she's noticeably different from her mom, being the "Anti-Starfire". She's a regular kid, can't fly, and doesn't own a swimsuit, while her mom is a superhero, can fly, and always wears bikinis.

On page 11 she mentions "her mom hasn't liked how I looked since I was twelve. She wears less than a yard of fabric every day, yet somehow, I'm the one who's dressing weird". While I understand people who call this slut-shaming, and I'm inclined to agree, but I think it's a little more nuanced than that. The next page reads, "My friend Lincoln convinced me this is the cultural divide that happens between family generations born in different countries or universes. His parents were born in Vietnam." This tells me that the authors intended to point out the difference in dress more as another difference between Starfire and Mandy, and less as a reason to blatantly slut-shame Starfire. I think there's absolutely a conversation to be had about why the authors decided to use this language instead of conveying the point differently. I also think it speaks to how Starfire has more or less been sexualized from inception, and how people look down upon her character because of that. In the context of this book, though, it's one of Mandy's character flaws that I think fits her both as a character and reflects what I've seen from actual teenage girls. Our society coaches us to view women who dress a certain way as less than women who don't and unlearning that takes time and effort. I don't think this comment about her mom should have been put in there by the authors, but I do think it fits in with the values American society in particular teaches about women.

Page 15, 16, and 17 all point to a far more complicated state of existence than Mandy points out within the first few pages. For one thing, Mandy has to deal with people who love her mother and only want to use her to get information about her mom and the other teen titans. This is shown by the "Titan groupies" who ask her to tell Starfire what they say about her. Another thing she has to deal with is the expectation to be a superhero and have powers like her mom, and the questions about who her dad might be. She gains her first real friend, Lincoln, because he tells the people asking about her parentage that they are assholes.

It is revealed that Mandy has a crush on Claire after she gets assigned a group project with her. Mandy is in denial over the crush. She thinks about the fact she's meeting Mandy at the end of the day throughout the rest of the school day, causing her to explode something in Chemistry Class. I find this to be highly relatable and gives her character a softer side to the edginess she desperately tries to portray herself as.

While talking about the project with Claire, it is revealed that Mandy ran out of her SATs and didn't complete them. While Mandy tries to paint this as a cool badass moment, the way the comic artist portrays the scene makes me think Mandy had an anxiety attack. Mandy didn't run out of her SAT because she's some kind of alternative badass who doesn't need to take them. Mandy ran out because she got overwhelmed by the sounds of people chewing and the pressure of the test. While she frames it differently, it's clear to me that Mandy is avoiding taking the SAT again because she doesn't want that to happen again.

When Claire invites her to hang out with her friends, Mandy gets treated like she isn't there, or as some kind of unwanted outsider. The topics they discuss seem to be specifically made to make Mandy uncomfortable, like mentioning how stretchy jeans are only made for fat people, and asking if aliens don't go to college. Jaded by this, Mandy makes up that aliens actually have to go through this huge blood right and battle to the death, but tells Claire's two friends she was joking before leaving. This tells me that Mandy deflects her pain by using humor to cope and has no issue clowning on people who are trying to belittle her for being an alien.

Starfire tries to bring up going to college after this, and Mandy just flees to her room. She hasn't told her mom she didn't take the SAT yet or that she isn't going to college. She feels distant from her mom, which is explained further through a montage of birthdays where she never got her powers. Her mom expects a lot from her, and Mandy thinks Starfire is disappointed about her lack of powers.

Later, Mandy invites Claire over to her house to complete the project they are working on. The Titans are still there when Claire arrives, but she seems to ignore them, as they leave shortly after. Mandy and Claire bond as they continue the project. Mandy reveals to the reader that she's never had a girlfriend, except for one time at sleep-away camp where she kind of dated a girl for four weeks. She didn't tell her who her mom was because she was tired of living in the shadow of a superhero. But the relationship ended because Mandy had lied about who her mom was, and the girl she was dating didn't understand why she would lie. I think this really shows just how much Mandy actually wants to be a normal girl like everyone else, to the extent that she'd lie about who her mom was. Her edgy demeanor at school and around town where her mom is known to be her mom is a defense mechanism to having lived under the shadow of a superhero her entire life.

When it's revealed that Claire took a photo with the Titans at Mandy's house, Mandy is understandable heartbroken, and furious. She thought she had been making a real connection with Claire, but this photo makes her think she's been used, again. Claire seems genuinely baffled by Mandy's reaction to this, thinking little of it. But to Mandy, it is a breach of trust from someone she thought cared about her. I think her angry reaction to Claire makes sense because of this, even if it might have been disproportionate to the offense.

On top of this, Starfire has discovered that Mandy walked out of the SAT and doesn't plan to go to college. After a heated conversation, she runs away, but her mom finds her. And then Blackfire finds her. Turns out the fake story she told Claire's friends earlier in the story was actually true, even though Mandy didn't know it.

Since Claire actually cares about Mandy, she tracks down Lincoln who explains to her why Mandy reacted badly, and that she should probably apologize for taking the photo. Claire also admits that one of the friends from earlier, Deb, actually dared her to take the photo. Claire is a good person at heart, but this action shows that she can still be influenced to do something that would hurt another person. And while she might not have known it would hurt Mandy, Deb probably did.

Starfire and Blackfire fight since Mandy has no powers, but Starfire gets injured causing Mandy to realize just how much she loves and cares about her mom, even though they don't see eye to eye on most things. This finally unlocks her powers, as she's let go of most of the resentment she's held against her mom. She even gets asked for an autograph by someone in the audience after the battle.

The story ends with Mandy training her powers, studying for the SAT, and reconciling with Claire, sharing a kiss, and becoming girlfriends.

I've seen a lot of discourse that frames Mandy as being "not like other girls". I don't believe this framing actually fits Mandy very well. The only girl Mandy ever says she is not like explicitly is her mom. She is the only woman she compares herself too, and the only person who she seems to have a lot of resentment for, aside from people who use her to get to Starfire. Additionally, Mandy falls for someone who is what a stereotypical, normal popular girl is often portrayed as. She's preppy, wears makeup, gets good grades, has friends, and runs a fairly popular Instagram account. If Mandy was extremely into the "Not like other girls" rhetoric, she would've made fun of Claire for all those things. Instead, she admires her for them. Mandy is fat, has acne/freckles, dresses goth, and wears a nose ring. If this is the reason people are identifying her as a "Not like other girls" girl, then they don't understand that trope. Simply dressing differently from your peers, being fat, and hating your mom does not make her the "not like other girls" trope. It actually makes her like other, real-life girls who dress and act similarly, because that's who they are, not because they somehow think they are better than other women.

I'd also make the argument that, fundamentally, Mandy IS different from other girls on the account of having a superhero mother and potentially a superhero father. Her life is completely altered by Starfire's existence as her mom and is likely only relatable to the children of other superheroes and celebrities. She is not like other girls because of her mom, and that still doesn't make her someone who falls in line with the conception of being "not like other girls".

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and hope others do too. I read Mandy as a flawed character who was trying to figure out how to exist outside the Shadow of her mom- and eventually succeeds, by learning to embrace her mom. I would've preferred if Mandy had a slightly darker skin tone, as her features seem black-coded to me and Starfire is also often black-coded. Otherwise, I do think this was one of the best DC Graphic Novels for Young Adults I've read, alongside Teen Titans: Beast Boy and Teen Titans: Raven.