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I've been thinking about how utterly unhinged the missions that the Young Just Us team go on end up. Like. They start normal and then get really crazy really fucking fast and none of them are professional about anything a few months in. Like, the mission where they meet Secret? It started off as "find and catch a monster" and spiraled into faking someone's death and hiding them from the government. That time when they got the super cycle, it started as them checking out a dig sight where someone got turned into a crystal and a couple pages later Tim was whistling at a bike and telling it to not be scared of its former owner. And that's before anyone else even joined the team.

So for your consideration. One of the older heroes tagging along with the team on some mission because they are worried about their kid. Maybe it's Dick, maybe it's Wally, maybe it's Bruce himself. Idk but the team has been together for at least two years and do not give a fuck that an adult is there and refuse to let said adult take the lead. Tim is flying the plane, Bart and Kon are fighting over which songs to play, the music is so loud it almost hurts, someone is flirting with someone else, Tim nearly bit Anita when she tried to touch the controls, Cassie just shot gunned an entire can of Monster Energy Drink, there have been at least three barrel rolls which resulted in All The Team screaming in excitement. It's chaos and they aren't even at the location of the mission yet.

The mission was supposed to be a simple checking out some science lab somewhere that's supposedly doing Fucked Up Experiments and it has spiraled so out of control. It was a trap laid by Harm and now they have 2 days to go on a globe trotting adventure to find four sacred stones or something to stop him from unsealing an ancient evil to destroy the world with. The team Refuses to let the mentor call in any back up at all and are like "nah this is a typical Tuesday for us". During the final fight against Harm it looks like Tim kills him and when the mentor Flips Out, Kon just shrugs, "eh, Harms immortal. He'll be back in like. 2..." He kicks the body, "3 weeks?"

The plane ride back home is just as Horrible And Hectic as the one to get there.

I've been staring at this for a few days and this is amazing. The Titans' mission collides with YJ's own and they decide to just do it together, but like, YJ's not about to act normal for them. They barely act normal for the Justice League! Anyway there's at least six make-out sessions and five promises of dates during the >3 day mission between YJ. The Titans THOUGHT they were chaotic but every day is so action-packed that it feels like a week with YJ and they collapse from exhaustion at the end of each day and wake up to find YJ somehow managed to become the foundation of ANOTHER planet's Geneva convention??? In the FOUR hours they were out?? And STILL managed to drop by to see/flirt with Cissie and Greta??

The Titans arrive back from the mission traumatized and shaking while YJ have moved on already and are chatting as if they didn't fight each other at least once each and have no less than four(4) group mental breakdowns

[DC] rough …veryyyy rough sketches for a whole ass Anime opening I have in my head and started in December 😭🙏 I still have a minute left to complete but I wanted to show the beginning…I hope I have time to clean it up

BASED ON THE YJ98 COMIC NOT THE 2011 SHOW OF THE SAME NAME

Random stills below

i have many thoughts about them

(this is the digital version of this doodle)

I LOVE LOVE LOVEEEE ANALYSES LIKE THESE

Y'know, it's so funny to me when people make out like Tim Drake would keep files on how to take down his friends when Tim has explicitly said he disagrees with Batman on this:

[Young Justice (1998) #36]

Like, yes, during his Red Robin tenure he does make a Hit List full of contingency plans for known heroes. But if you go and read that, you'll notice that, while the Justice League and Damian may be on there, Tim's own friends are decidedly absent:

[Red Robin (2009) #14]

In fact, a lot of these heroes are people that have either (a) attacked Tim specifically, (b) have a track record that includes turning evil/getting mind controlled, or (c) are on the JLA (meaning Batman probably already had those files compiled and Tim just stole them).

So yeah: Tim's not down with contingency-planning for his friends. You know which one of the YJ crew DID agree with Batman though? My favorite blorbina Anita Fite, aka Empress:

[Young Justice (1998) #36]

But yeah, this contrast is honestly fascinating to me. Because while both Anita and Tim have been shown to be incredibly loyal individuals, this exchange really highlights the fact that, between the two of them, Anita is far more likely to engage in this kind of pragmatism when she thinks it's necessary to get the job done

The whole Our Worlds at War arc actually does a really good job of illustrating how both of them react to betrayal from within. It's not just the Batman Files conflict either -- I'm thinking specifically about the hallucination-based torture Granny Goodness put them through, which showed them their worst fears. Most of the team ended up having to watch their loved ones die, but what's super interesting to me is that we really only see Anita and Tim hallucinate that their loved ones blame them for their deaths:

[Young Justice (1998) #37]

Like. It's not the same as a teammate turning evil at all. But it does give us a good idea of how they'd both react when faced with a friend or teammate doing harmful things, albeit on a smaller scale. Because where Tim kind of just accepts Superboy yelling at him and moves straight into bargaining for Kon's life, Anita actually flips the script, gets angry, and defends herself against her father:

[Young Justice (1998) #37]

(she actually gets so righteously pissed off that she manages to break out of the VR simulation Granny Goodness had her trapped in, but that's another point)

But yeah, it's super interesting, because by this point, both Anita and Tim have been set up to be very similar characters. They both can be a little bit obsessive, they both have some issues with boundaries and stalking (Tim with Nightwing and Batman, Anita with Cissie), and of the team, they're both portrayed as the "normal" members (Anita does technically have mind control powers but she barely ever uses them, and in a fight, she's basically just a very good, human-level fighter)

But at the end of the day, though Batman forces Robin to put on a cool front of objectivity, Tim (at least in his pre-grief-spiral era) ultimately wants to see the best in his team. When the people he cares about screw up, he wants to give them second chances. And when that trust gets broken, his first instinct is to try to use diplomacy, or, failing that, simply remove himself from the situation (as we see at the end of the Our Worlds at War arc when he quits the team)

Anita, on the other hand, while still incredibly loyal, does not hand out that loyalty unconditionally. We see this when she tries to keep her identity secret from the YJ squad, we see it when she gets pissed in Granny Goodness's hallucination when her father blames her for her mother's death, and we see it when she later blames Secret for her perceived role in Anita's father's death

Anita also happens to sit right smack dab in the middle of the YJ morality scale; while she's generally pretty chill and willing to abide by typical superhero codes of ethics (unlike Slobo and Secret), she's also been shown to bend those rules when she believes it's necessary (as seen here when she tortures and threatens to kill a man for trying to hurt Cissie). Ultimately, what this means is, between Tim and Anita, it's honestly Anita who'd probably be the most willing to put her personal qualms aside, buckle down, and go against her loved ones if it was the only reasonable option

Anyway. This is a really long-winded way of saying I think Gun Batman's biggest nemesis should be Empress

Inktober day 7- Empress