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Alright, Lash, if we're going to write this, fill me on the characters we've got at our disposal. Let's figure out what makes 'em tick.

Yay!

Okay, the way I see it, we can pick up where TT # 53 ended.

As of that issue, the Titans consisted of:

ROBIN
KID FLASH
WONDER GIRL
SPEEDY
MAL DUNCAN (as the GAURDIAN)
BUMBLEBEE
DUELA DENT (as The Harlequin)
LILITH
HAWK
DOVE
BEAST BOY
GNARRK
GOLDEN EAGLE
BAT-GIRL (since retconned to Flamebird, a change I don't mind)

A sizable cast, lots to work with!

Whom do you know the least about?

Jeepers! I left off AQUALAD!

Let's just go through them in order. Even one's I "know", I'm not really all that knowledgeable about what they were like during that period.

What ages are we looking at the characters as being?

This is a Robin who hasn't yet emerged from Batman's shadow, I take it? Yet it's hardly one who is just Bats "junior partner".

Exactly.

I'm going to guesstimate their age ranges at 17-18 here, assuming that they were about 18-19 for Wolfman/Perez..

Basically, at this point, they were still seen as the kid sidekicks, but you have the definite sense that they are starting the process of growing up and "doing their own thing".

So Robin's like, the leader and stuff? Kind of the responsible one? But does he have the same kind of "laughing in the face of danger" jokester attitude of his early years, or has that mellowed?

He was definitely the leader and definitely still the jokester. He also was shown to have had a bit of a "thing" for Duela. Those 2 were boinking, for sure!

Okay, so Robin I think I get, then.

What about Kid Flash? I only know the angsty Wolfman-version, and the more recent having-taken-over-the-Flash-mantle version. What was he like before that?

Jillikers, I need to dig out those issues, but going from memory...

I can recall Kid Flash and Speedy nearly coming to blows over Wonder Girl at one point. I can't remember which of the 2 she was actually dating at this point, but I think it was Speedy.

Kid Flash is pretty much Mr. Dependable in this era.

When was Speedy's drug addiction?

Oh, this is after that. Of course, it could easily be retconned back in as an ongoing problem at the time. It wouldn't cause any continuity snafus if we did.

His drug addiction wasn't actually addressed in these issues, but being in a band called GREAT FROG... well, you just figure there was some drugs lying around with the groupies.

So Wally is like Mr. Dependable Nice Guy, and Roy is like Mr. Coked-up rock star, and Donna's caught in between them?

Wally was midwestern corn feed dependable and always had the hots for Donna;

Speedy and Donna had a thing going;

Flamebird had the hots for Robin:

Don't forget Lilith and Gnaark. They were an item;

Hank Hall (Hawk) was an obnoxious bore who also had the hots for Donna;

Aqualad & Tula were an item at the time;

Speedy's drug addiction was in the past;

Dick's the leader with a sense of humor

Wally's Mr. Middle-America.

Roy's the bad boy.

What about Donna? What drives her?

Donna? Very little development for her during this run. She was first alongside Robin to defend Duela to the others. Ever the den-mother?

I kind-of like the notion that she'd be, at this stage in her life, a little torn between Wally and Roy.

She could be trying to "reform" Roy, or some such silly nonsense like that! Attracted to his slightly bad boy image, while trying to dilute it.

Sounds good and gels with her portrayal during Devin Grayson's run.

So Mal is kind of the typical good guy from the ghetto, then? And are we going to use Karen as his girlfriend who's afraid of him becoming "too white"?

And Duella's just crazy.

What about Lilith? What's her deal?

Hawk and Dove are pretty obvious.

I'm not sure I want to dismiss Duela as "just" crazy. Crazy like a fox, maybe?

Karen actually fit in well with the Titans once she joined.

As for Lilith, at this point, her past was a complete unknown. Go-go dancing psychic hot chick who just happened to hook up with the Titans.

Oh, so Duela only pretends to be crazy to hide her mysterious motivations and intentions, or something like that?

And Lilith is mysterious as well? But what's her personality like?

Lilith's a bit bland here, but she was a hot go-go dancer previously. So let's make her a hot bland go-go dancer.

I'd like to see Karen as "sister with 'tude".

Duela is shown as quite sane once she joins the Titans, though some of them never really do learn to trust her (Speedy, for instance). I'd like to see Duela as a sane girl who uses her unsettling appearance and demeanor in her favor. And TONS of gimmick-gadgets.