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? 

Young Justice (season one)

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Editorial and writing reasons aside, I still think its hilarious how so many heroes want to be in the Justice League, but don’t get the chance, or are only in one roster for like a month and never come back. And then there is Nightwing, who has been canonically offered a JL membership multiple times and a spot on the active roster and he sort of is expected to lead it in the future. But he is like “nah I’m good” but still sometimes has to begrudgingly accept because Batman is missing or some other nonsense. 

My favorite thing: Thinking about how much fun Dick (the trolliest Robin) would have pranking the Young Justice team on April Fool’s Day: 

Conner gets out of the shower to discover that the clothes he’d left had mysteriously been replaced with a pink bunny suit

M'gann tries to watch tv but finds that every channel on the television has been replaced by either Bee Movie or Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up music video and she doesn’t know which is worse

Artemis wakes up from a nap and doesn’t notice someone shaved off part of her eyebrow 

Kaldur takes a swim but discovers that someone slipped dye in the pool and now his hair and skin is green

Raquel bites into an apple but realizes too late that it’s actually just a fake apple skin filled with ketchup

Roy goes into his apartment but is startled to find that every single surface has been covered completely in Shrek faces 

Zatanna tries doing her homework but each of her pens self destructs five seconds after she touches it and turns into a flower (Dick just didn’t have it in him to do a mean prank, but he couldn’t leave her out of the April Fool’s fun)  

Someone mysteriously tampered with Red Tornado’s programming and now he can only speak in rhymes 

But he saves the best for Wally, because every year they have a competition to see who can prank the other the most. Dick has won four years in a row, whereas Wally has never succeeded in pranking Dick once

Just a few of the many pranks Dick has pulled on Wally this April Fool’s Day:

- Replacing the lenses of his goggles with pictures of naked Aquaman - Paying everyone five bucks to call him Waldo and Speedy the entire day - Changing the ringer on his phone to a recording of Conner screaming - Convincing Zatanna to curse Wally to sing the entirety of Bohemian Rhapsody whenever someone says the word “whelmed”

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.

I want to see something where Dick clarifies that he is non-lethal by choice. Not because he was trained that way.

Because he was trained to kill people. And he was trained to be ruthlessly efficient. And yeah, Batman was always obsessed with them not killing, but Dick draws the line earlier than that.

It's not that he's against killing, per se. It's wrong, sure. But there are circumstances that necessitate it, and even then, there are worse crimes than murder. He's forgiven plenty of people for killing.

He's lived a life of violence and he's thrived in it.

But he hates it.

He'd rather be performing, using his body for art, not as a weapon.

No one else ever sees it that way though.

Since he was a child, they've only ever seen his potential. His potential for death and chaos and destruction. Not for love or joy or kindness.

It's why he worked so hard to make Nightwing gentle and approachable. It's why he's spent countless hours shaping his technique into something less terrifying and lethal than an owl's talons.

It's why he uses escima. Although he was trained to kill with it, it's easier to modify than any style that utilized a blade.

Dick Grayson does not want to be, has never wanted to be, a weapon.

Every person he's ever met, it feels, wants him to be one. It's weird, he thinks, how much other people care whether or not he kills, or tortures, or beats people into comas.

Diana, and Donna too, they came from the same culture after all, had had a saying about not using more force than necessary. He liked that. He understood it. It made the goal helping people, instead of merely gaining power.

People mocked Batman for the lack of extremes in his methods. But Nightwing used even less force. Even less violence.

That wasn't by accident.

It was a conscience decision on his part, just like how Superman refused to kill so that people would trust him, Nightwing refused to use more violence than necessary.

So yeah, I'd like to see him aknowledge that.