One Of My Absolute Favorite Things About Young Justice Is The Mind Link. Seriously, Just Imagine All

One of my absolute favorite things about Young Justice is the mind link. Seriously, just imagine all of the crazy stuff the team can do when they can actually read each other’s minds during a mission:  

- Infinite Rickrolls  - Wally making an obvious effort to not call Robin “Dick” when they’re linked and getting really frustrated    - Being spoiled about Christmas presents and surprise parties  - When one member gets hurt everyone feels it  - Dick and Wally trying to see how loud they can scream in their minds until Kaldur starts yelling at them   - Something blows up and everyone simultaneously goes “same"  - Everyone cringing when Conner and M'gann have really loud dirty thoughts about each other  - Hearing Kaldur mentally sigh at least fifteen times a mission  - When one person has a song stuck in their head, everyone gets the song in their head   - This of course leads to the entire team becoming a silent choir as they all mentally belt out Let It Go together while beating up bad guys  - When Raquel first joined, they learned that ”??????“ makes an actual sound in ones head  - Zatanna thinking backwards and giving everyone a headache  - They even linked up Wolf once just to see what it was like and they heard weird stuff like “Boy? Boy is bird?? He is puppy??? Need cuddles??? Must protect!!!” “Superboy!💗💗💗💗 Human! Best human! Best human in whole world!” “I good boy?? Treats????” “BANE BAD. KILL BANE. HE HURT BABIES?!?!?! BITE. BITE. BITE!!! I TREATS??? I DID GOOD??????” It was definitely a learning experience about how dogs work, and they also learned about how Wolf sees Robin as a small puppy in need of protection, so that was fun to tease him about.   - Conner screams even in his mind  - There is no privacy whatsoever, so that’s how the team learned things about each other that they will definitely regret knowing  - Artemis and Wally flirting all the time just to make everyone uncomfortable - Falling asleep on stakeouts leads to seeing each other’s dreams and even interacting in them - Once Wally had a nightmare about his father and everyone saw it, though Wally had no idea and was confused when they spent the rest of the week being really nice to him - On really traumatic missions, sometimes one member will get flashbacks and all of them see it too   - Dick singing Bohemian Rhapsody for five hours straight  - The team learning that M'gann curses like a sailor in her head   - Kaldur mentally goes “WTF” so many times they lost count  - Silently judging everyone together 

I just really love the mind link concept okay? 

THINGS RIC GRAYSON KNOWS:

- His parents are dead, and he woke up fifteen years too late to make it to their funeral.

- His doctors tell him he’s forgotten half his life even though he retains a lot of the knowledge from it, and he might never get his memories back or return to the person he was before he was - apparently - shot in the head.

- Everyone expects him to be totally on board with going back to a life where things like getting shot in the head happen to him. Twice.

- Everyone he’s met since he woke up tells him they’re his family and his friends and they love him. Every single one of them would most likely erase him from existence in a second if there was even a chance it would replace him with the him he used to be, the one they actually love.

- Everyone is too busy telling him who he is, to ever get around to asking him who he is.

- When you’re an acrobat, success or failure, safety or injury, all of it comes down to trusting your instincts, ones honed by hours and months and years of endless repetition, instilling in you a gut-level ability to just KNOW if you can make a leap or not. But instincts have to be reliable, and reliability has to be earned. He now has more new instincts than he can count, none of which he can remember earning, and he can’t rely on a single one. Too bad so many of these unreliable instincts revolve around whether or not he can trust his impressions of people.

- No matter what he does, he will always come in second best to….himself. He could save the damn world, but apparently he’s already done that, so cross that off the bucket list. Any attachments he forms to his old self’s old friends will always be the second time around as far as they’re concerned. The closer he comes to the person they remember, the more they’ll forget not to hold past grievances against him that he can’t remember committing, and apparently, the further he gets from being a knock-off of himself, the less people even want to get to know him at all.

- Making the choice to risk his life and body and mind for the sake of innocents, day after day after day isn’t an easy one. But apparently it should be, when a previous version of him already made that choice and now any other choice he makes will be the wrong one, a disappointment, a letdown. Much like he himself, designated runner-up from the very second he woke up from being shot in the head. His entire life and new sense of self the result of another man’s sacrifice - a man he’s expected to step into the shoes of, whether or not they’re shoes he’d ever want to wear. Shoes he can’t even remember the past him’s reason for putting on in the first place.

- It took him from the time he could walk to become the acrobat he was by the time his parents died. It took him from that moment on to become the man that everyone tells him Dick Grayson was. Its occurred to exactly nobody that fifteen plus years of growth as a person might not be possible to replicate in a mere fifteen days.

- Nobody wants him to grow as a person. Everyone wants him to just be someone else.

THINGS RIC GRAYSON DOESN’T KNOW:

- Where 95% of the scars on his body come from.

- How anyone whose life has been as full of tragedy and pain as his scar tissue and wikipedia page indicate his has been, can go through life smiling and laughing and cheerful, the way everybody seems to be expecting him to.

- Why everybody thinks he should be in a hurry to reconnect with alleged family and friends whose ranks are full of dead people that he, Ric Grayson, will never actually know as anything other than yet one more person for him to mourn.

- Why this Bruce guy, if he loves him so much, waited until he was twenty-three to adopt him.

- Why, if he’s the adopted son of a freaking billionaire, did the past him live in a shit part of a shit city and work as a gymnastics teacher? Dick Grayson might have had his reasons, but without a clue what they were, to Ric Grayson all it looks like is he was just the PR stunt the internet seems to think Wayne took him in as.

- Why - when he can’t actually remember even going to an R-rated movie in his life - its just assumed he’d be fine with being shown footage of his own brains being blown out on candid camera.

Etc, etc.

People keep acting like Ric Grayson doesn’t have a million and one reasons to act the way he does, when not a single character has tried giving him a reason to even WANT to go back to life as Dick Grayson.

Instead, they keep trying to just TELL him who he’s supposed to be and what he’s supposed to be doing with his life, as though the one fundamental, core character trait that’s so deeply woven into Dick Grayson’s entire being it probably could never be changed, isn’t that….

HE IS NEVER OKAY WITH OTHER PEOPLE DECIDING WHO HE IS OR WHAT CHOICES HE SHOULD BE MAKING.

Bombshells.ver GRAYSON

Thoughts on Ms. Dare, Mr. Jackson and Mr. Grace in a polyamorous relationship? I tried imagining Jercy with Annabeth but I couldn't vibe with that. But with Rachel? I see a lot of potential, like Zukki.

Listen I'm an avid jercabeth shipper (thanks @derpy-grackson) but I can 1000000% see jerachel? as a thing!

And I have headcanons because you didn't ask for them but I'm forward af (this is a mix of demigod and non-demigod ones since I can never decide):

Art. So much art. Just everywhere. Their apartment is covered in paint splotches, discarded charcoal drawings scattered on the floor and between cut up magazine pages.

There is always music playing. Sometimes they're playing it since Percy can play piano, Rachel took dreaded flute lessons as a child, and Jason learnt how to play the Reed pipes since his only friends in early childhood were stars and wolves. Also Percy is learning how to play the drums and Rachel and Jason just............. stare............. because their boyfriend is really hot and his curls bounce in his face and his eyes close in bliss and how can they not???? But sometimes it's just crackling through their little speakers around the lounge. Soft jazz and modern pop and rock and their playlist is a mess of genres that's absolutely perfect for them. They have a vinyl record player but it doesn't work because they bought it from a secondhand store and didn't bother to ask if it actually works because Rachel just really wanted to paint it. It's a pretty ornament in their living room now.

They spend many week nights huddled up on a single couch watching bad reality TV because Percy and Rachel thinks it's hilarious and jason just loves his humans. Also they judge people a lot..... what do you mean she chose H I M he has frosted tips there is nothing good about him???????? yea their neighbours hate them.

When Jason and/or Percy have to go on a quest Rachel will stress bake and stress paint (but that's mostly swirls of colour, usually in dark shades) that represent the absolute mess that is her anxiety while she waits for them to return. Bonus however is that they pretty much always come home to a house filled with baked delights.

They have a set alarm that goes off on all three of their phones when they have to take medication. It's the loudest most obnoxious tone but it works because it snaps them out of their focus (more like hyper focus) and it's hilarious to seem them all scrambling to the kitchen to take meds

Jason loves to cook and Percy loves to watch him and Rachel loves to interfere. There was an incident with pasta sauce on the roof and a wooden spoon stuck in the toaster. They don't talk about it.

They love doing nature things together. Like walks on the beach and picnics in the orchids and spending time outside with the sun on their face and the wind kissing their skin. It's just really peaceful and after the horrors they've all experienced they need it more than anything.

After Rachel delivers a prophecy she always feels sick to the core. Like her entire body is rebelling agaisnt the death sentence she inevitably gives her friends. Percy and jason wrap her up in blankets and give her hot chocolate and they watch old Pixar movies so she can appreciate the animation and "cute bois? Have you seeeen treasure planet???"

Forehead kisses, my friend. And nose kisses. When they wake up, before they got to sleep, on their way out the door, coming back home. So many soft kisses.

Percy likes to plait Rachel's hair because it's so long and so full of curls and she looks like a warrior princess if he does it just right.

Jason just has a lot of pictures of them on his photography account. He picked up the hobby in high school (the little of it that he had) and Percy and Rachel are rudely photogenic. With Percy's earth brown skin that soaks up the sun and Rachel's paleness that contrastd every other bright colourful thing about her, eyes and hair and smile. They look like royalty in his lens, they look like gods.

Rachel loves their dark side, because they do inevitably have one. And monsters tend to think Rachel is easy bait for the two demigods but truly that is the words mistake you can make. Because they will tear the world apart with a look alone before letting one inch of her freckled skin be harmed.

They hold hands a lot. Percy just really likes to be touching someone at all times, Rachel leeches of their warmth, and Jason needs them close. So it works.

Thank you for letting me be forward and I hope you like this because I'm obsesssseeedd!!!

You're right

When someone takes up the mantle of Robin they pretty much appropriate everything from Dick. They replicate his relationship with Batman, lead the Titans, become friends with people you'd associate with Dick and battle Deathstroke. That's a fine way to write comics because that person is essentially a place filler for Dick. He can't be Robin anymore so now there's new ones.

What's rotten is that just like someone taking up the mantle of Robin and essentially becoming the new Dick Grayson, Red Hood has essentially taken up the mantle of NIGHTWING. A strained relationship with Batman, friendships with Dicks friends, romances with Dicks love interests. Jason even adopting Dicks personally in canon and fanon.

Dick has become a template to copy even now that he's away from the Robin mantle and it's really disgusting and wrong.

Pretty much anything Dick has will be taken from him and replicated onto another character.

LUTHER, WATCH OUT!