#roy silver

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AGATHA RAISIN (2014 - PRESENT)  Mathew Horne as Roy Silver and Jason Barnett as Denzel Wilkes in Season 4, Episode 3:  Spoonful of Poison

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I desperately need non teen titans fans to know that we didn't come up with fab five. The Fabulous Foursome is what Dick, Donna, Wally, and Garth were called by the narrator when the team got properly started in The Brave and the Bold and Showcase. Roy was the fan pick to join the team through voting and thus the title "fab five" was born.

They're not just fabulous to the fans, they're fabulous canonically.

[eaglerayys]

I'm thinking a lot about the Olympian!Dick Grayson stuff floating around.

What if during their rebellious late teens/early 20s Dick and Roy just dared each other to go to the Olympics. And so they show up out of nowhere and qualify at the last minute for their respective sports (gymnastics/ archery) without anyone really knowing them.

So they go to the Olympics and it becomes a story, because what are the odds that TWO different orphans-turned-billionaire-heirs are competing. They get hounded by accusations of having bought their way in, and they both use it as an opportunity to rave about their pre-wealth lives and their tight-knit communities that taught them their sports while (not so) subtly landing digs at the media/government for all the harm they've done to their communities.

All the while the two of them post a ton of videos and pics together so it becomes a Thing, because even without the rest of the story the idea of childhood friends (and maybe more 👀) both making it is enough to drive the internet crazy.

It only gets more insane when they both win multiple gold medals. For once, no one can claim they bought their way in as they annihilate the competition.

But then they disappear from their sports again and people speculate, desperate to find out if they have any intention of returning. For years no one gets a straight answer out of either of them.

Then, just as qualifying begins for the next Olympics, they suddenly show up again.

And Dick Grayson qualifies in archery and Roy Harper makes the USMG team as a specialist.

[royboyfanpage]

Dorks

[the-antiapocalyptic-man]

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Minor lore notes:

Mal was briefly Private Hive before Karen rescued him

Garth can mask his Atlantean skin via natural social camouflage but hasn't yet developed as a magic user

Donna was raised as Diana's adopted sister but is acutally her biological daughter with [redacted]

Roy's got a prosthetic arm as a teenage bc the original Prometheus attacks happened during his childhood, perpetrated by Charles Odysseus Wilson, Slade's father

Wally's basically the same except for being relatively close in age to Barry (Iris is back to being his adopted aunt)

No notes on Karen bc she's perfect already.

[jadeazora]

I'll be covering today's episode when I get out of work, but here's the preview for the first of Dot/Iono's focus episodes!

Also, we have an announcement for A Golden Future event rerunning on Sunday:

[flintsdragon]

shoutout shows that rewire your brain chemistry to the point that you forget how to get invested in any other narrative. you get me every year!

[bringbackwendellvaughn]

[ultrameganicolaokay]

The Defenders #6 ‘The Dreams of Death!’ (1973) by Steve Englehart, Sal Buscema, Frank McLaughlin and Dave Hunt. Edited by Roy Thomas. Cover by Buscema.

[songweaver]

Lies. This is clearly a tiny Roy Mustang.

[kurapioca]

dickroy enjoying their time growing old together <3

[wanderingmind867]

The one fun thing about reading those old 60s Hawkman stories, I found Roy Thomas! Before he went off to Marvel and pretty much became stan lee's second in command writer later in the decade (working on the avengers, x-men, namor, captain mar-vell, doctor strange, daredevil, etc), he was sending letters to both DC and Marvel. It's clear he was always a fan of the Golden Age. And I have to say: I agres. DC should have revived Doctor Fate.

[thetrashthatsmilesback]

I love these panels because it makes it seem like dick is agreeing with Donna that roy is cute

Wally also said he wanted to team up with Roy again, but dick only responds to Donna's comment. Explanation? Hes big gay.

Speech Bubble pointed towards Dick/Robin: "... And I hope we can make the same anti-creep scene again soon!" Signed, Speedy!

Image ID

Panel 1: Garth of Shayeris dressed as aqualad has water splashed on him as he sits in a white, round chair.

Panel 2: Dick Grayson dressed as Robin sits behind a desk, Wally West dressed as Kid Flash, Donna Troy dressed as Wonder Girl, and Garth dressed as Aqualad sit in round white chairs.

Speech Bubble pointed towards Wally/Kid Flash: Hey, the old Boy Bowman himself! It was really a gas -- working with him!

Speech Bubble pointed towards Donna/Wonder Girl: He's cute -- Cuter than any of you characters!

Panel 3: A close up of Dick Grayson/Robin's face.

Speech Bubble pointed towards Dick Grayson/Robin: You can bet your magic lasso, W.G., that we will hook up with Speedy again -- and maybe some other teen crime busters, too! Say... here's a letter from my friend Dr. Paul Turner, of Lacklock Camp!

[necrotic-nephilim]

What do you think about the fab five polycule

(Dick x donna x wally x garth x roy)

i'll be SO honest i wish i had like. insightful interesting opinions on them but i've always been a Young Justice kid and sort of. breezed past consuming Fab Five Teen Titans content-

but of what i *do* know, from the few comics i've read with these characters is this is one of the best ships for Dick, honestly. it always deeply annoys me when fanon content breezes past the Titans as if they're just some distant teammates and not some of Dick's closest friends, if not a second family. *especially* the Fab Five. for most, if not all of them, it's the first time getting to actually connect with other teen heroes. so there's something fun about how sort of terrible they are at it, at first. they all care about each other a lot. but they're kind of chucked into the deep figuring out how to work with each other and get along with *very* different personalities, so it's fun to see where the conflict comes.

as a ship, i do really love it. the Titans are a family. like we call a lot of teams found families, but for the Fab Five, that shit is the truest. they depend on each other and trust each other. when Dick and Bruce are on outs and Bruce fires him, he goes to the Titans.

i also enjoy how, to an extent, all of them are outsiders of some kind. Donna is alone in a new world she's never experienced, the same as Garth. Roy is still new and awkward to living the rich life with Oliver. Wally doesn't connect to his parents well. and of course, Dick has lost his parents and only has Bruce, who isn't the most emotionally available. of course they're going to cling to each other, as the first people they can really develop connections too. they're very clingy with each other and i think that's both cute and *fun* to explore like, codependency issues with them. how protective they can be of each other, how they default to trusting each other over their mentors, etc. it's all very interesting for a polycule, especially since for most of them, it's their first real relationship. i'm a big fan of "none of us know what dating looks like bc we've had such strange childhoods so we don't understand the Rules very well. we're all just going to date each other bc why would i date only one of you. do teamups count as dates now." vibes with teenage polycules. and the Fab Five just. have that on lock. they each fulfill a different "niche" in the group. Garth is the softer, more emotional one you can go to if you're upset. Donna is the one for planning bright fun trips and making sure you don't wallow. Roy is protective and can pretend to be suave, but he shows affection through gift giving and grand gestures where words fail him. Wally can cheer any of them up with jokes and distractions. and of course Dick is the logical one who makes sure they all keep their heads on and don't drown in the responsibility.

overall i think it's a really cute ship and i do wish i just. knew more about them to be able to write them/read fic of it because i do love their dynamic. and i'm just a firm believer in the Titans being Dick's family, just as important to him as the Batfam. they're a disaster and for that you gotta love them.

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Panels that hurt me

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Out of the silver age kids I've read so far, pre teen titansing, aqualad and wonder girl have the most distinct personalities

Robin and speedy read kind of like carbon copies of each other. It's not like they have *bad* personalities, just same-y.

I have not read flash yet so can't comment on kid flash

Still hold that if writers were using wonder girls character to inspire Donna in teen titans, rather than seeing her once and being like "shes a girl", she would've been way different