#bbrae fact

[scorpioaqua]

i personally find it hilarious that the producers & writers for teen titans (2003) repeatedly denied rumors that bbrae was secretly canon, or intended to be canon at some point, no matter how popular the fan theories got. but greg cipes and tara strong just could not stop exuding ungodly levels of chemistry and tension in their scenes together.

i just picture them in the studio

“greg. tara. please, stop. these characters are not supposed to have romantic chemistry.”

“what? i read it normal. i acted it normal!”

“well obviously something that you’re doing is making large portions of the fanbase interpret this friendship romantically.”

“we can’t help it that we’re sexy.”

#i think this is a historical fact #no but fr they have said in interviews/panels that they think their own chemistry is what led to this ship's popularity to begin with LMAO #teen titans #bbrae #beast boy #raven #tara strong #greg cipes

[vivvi-viola]

Finally drew something of the duo I felt was worth posting

#I swear instagram doesn't appreciate me enough #they just want to see me draw gay wolves #which is fun cause I have amazing oc's but for god's sake #follow me because I also draw gay dragons from WoF #but also please appreciate my human art #illustration #sketch #teen titans #traditional drawing #superhero #bbrae #beast boy #raven #dc #garfield logan #rachel roth #it's bad centered and I took a bad photo of it but whatever I had fun #like I can fix it digitally #the fact that I started with lemonquake fanart and boom 4 years later I can draw humans

[bbraespam]

Cyborg: We got a piñata shaped like Beast Boy~! You know you want to smack it.

BBRae in Season 4: Birthmark

#teen titans #beast boy #raven #bbrae #cyborg #starfire #Season 4 #Birthmark #the fact that this was a prime feature of the party lmaoooo #did they make it? Does Jump City sell those? actually yeah probably

[fluffypotatey]

voted for teen titans cause those are my roots, would be very happy if its the same for you, but i only voted for it for loyalty not bc i really think theyre your roots

frankly, I admire your loyalty and past you had good taste 🫡

#that show definitely rewired my brain I can say that for sure #not confirming anything bc all of the options rewired my brain but still Teen Titans my beloved #had that intro down to a solid #absolutely butchered the Japanese version #but like….come ON!!!! #Cyborg’s whole arc in this show is was 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌 #Beast Boy’s special episode with his old team/family absolutely killed me #Starfire my queen my idol my aspiration when I was younger 😍 #Robin 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡 nuff said #RAVEN AND HER ARC TOO #TERRA T^T I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU #also: fun fact while robstar WAS my top as a kid bbrae is my current otp for this show #but yeah #love this show #to anyone who had this show be their first: how does it feel to win? #asks #anonymous

[crypt1dcorv1dae]

i cannot emphasize enough that i ship bbrae in a very trans, very gay, very QUEER way and i just simply cannot relate to the 90% cishet content out there... like have fun but the vibes arent doin it for me most of the time!!!

their vibes are SO specific to me... and ive only encountered a very small handful of people that have had the same view of them ksjdksn....

#raven is nonbinary as hell and likes everyone but tbh prolly unlabeled #she doesnt see a reason to find a specific word to deacribe her ... #but if prompted she would probably say nonbinary or genderqueer #gar is a bisexual trans man but not like 100% a dude either. hes got some special gender juice goin on #like hes every single creature in the animal kingdom.. he doesnt feel fully *HUMAN* let alone fully *male* #and he tbh takes a while to see/accept his sexuality but he does eventually #by the time hes like 19 hes probably accepted the fact that he likes men (and everyone else) #like he always liked guys but he figured it was just... admiration of his cool older teammates #also also gar knew he was trans super duper young so his birth parents knew/accepted him and let him name himself #he of course named himself after his favorite lasagna loving orange cat. bc he was like 4 #he kinda regretted it bc garfield is a super dorky name but he likes the nickname gar a lot so he kept it lol #also the doom patrol also knew and accepted him but he didnt actually start transitioning until the titans #galtry knew but did not accept him and usually refused to call him by his chosen name :/ #like gar passed well enough at that age so he had to refer to him accordingly to keep face but he didnt ever respect gar in any way #also about the bbraes specifically istg they need to be at least 21 and have know eachother since like 15 to be anywhere close to ready #like if they tried to date amy time before that it would absolutely not go well custheyre both too immature and young to be with eachother #like they could date someone else. someone easier. bc they are not easy to be with. theyre both difficult broken lil bastards #and they need years of maturity and built up trust and friendship and mutual understanding before taking that leap #or else the leap will lead to falling into a giant ravine and dying (metaphorically) #basically they need to be best friends before they make that move bc theyre both too messy for it to work out otherwise... #so theres years of pining and a while where each of them actually KNOWS the other feels the same... but they know neither of them is ready #so i imagine its less of a 'woah theyre together now!!!' and more just... the next logical step when the time arrives #they come together slowly and gently and without fanfair... (until kory finds out and screams so loud the entire tower hears it of course)

[ravensvirginity]

Low hanging fruit but: bbrae

hate it 😔 i hate bbrae and i hate every time it's made canon. and i hate how beast boy is treated like raven's default love interest. and i hate how in pop culture and to anyone only vaguely familiar with raven they'll probably go "oh yeah she's dating beast boy isn't she"

#even though embarrassing fact about me i used to ship bbrae when i was younger JFLDSKFJDS #i've grown as a person tho #raven ask #ask games

[wond-las]

i binge read 6 volumes of TT 03 yesterday and now im emotional and also and at the new 52 all over again

#always thinking about pre n52 bbrae........ they are so special to me #like ik the bbrae we have now are in fact the same characters but they dont ACT LIKE IT!!!! #most of the time #they have their moments though #anyways #screaming into the void

[0mysticjungle0]

Raven picking up Beast Boy when he can fly and leaving Cyborg to run for his life from a collapsing building is the only proof we need that BBRae was, in fact, canon on TT03

#lmao #bbrae #raven and her priorities #gotta guarantee bae makes it

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[ambelle]

Tom Taylor is such an asshole!! I H8 him and cannot wait for him to fail. And he will. He’s moving forward with BBRae in Titans because he’s got a hard on for DB but there are more people asking for DK. They’re the real “fan favorite” and he knows it.

Like it's one thing to force Babs into the Titans but a whole other hilarious take to pretend BBRAE was the most popular TT ship.

He doesn't have to write Dickkory and I don't trust him not to make it terrible if he did...but this kind of lying? LOL!

Like this is really amusing to me. Just write every other ship and cope with the fact no one cares about them. Dickkory is just #That Girl no matter what Batman editorial does.

You can't kill a bad bitch

#dickkory #anti tom taylor #anonymous

[thefaeriefeatherdark]

I am so glad to hear someone else honest enough to admit the "BBrae" relationship is just not good. While I completely agree with everything you said, I also feel like it keeps persisting because of how it can be shoehorned into one or more of 3 boring relationship dynamics: 1. dog-like man/cat-like woman (i.e.- the sitcom relationship) 2. Turning beast boy into an empty shell for the reader to project themselves into so they can imagine having a hot goth GF or 3. #wholesome girlfriend/boyfriend

I mean. The fact is that there is a larger element to this issue which is.

Raven isn't a goth.

She's not even close to a fucking Goth.

She's probably the least Goth of the Teen Titans. She's distinctly a spiritualist person, her actual clothing she wears is all wool and is made up of bright colors. Even her costume is pretty solidly white for large chunks of the NTT era.

The only place she's ever been Goth is in the Teen Titans 03 show and stuff drawing on it after.

Like, the relationship they want her to have with Gar flies in the face of her actual characterization. At the same time it's just... boring? Like Gar and Raven dating doesn't add anything to the team?

The Starfire and Nightwing dynamic is fairly clearly established by their differing moral codes and expectations.

Starfire is more violent and emotional, but she's also more carefree. Nightwing is tactical and withdrawn, he tends to be more morally rigid, and tends to get caught up in worrying about things. Those present as clear differences, there's conflict there as well as the romantic basis no matter what.

Raven and Changeling don't really have that? I guess Changeling could be argued to be more murderous? Or more lighthearted? But it also just feels wrong? Raven is pretty open about her emotions and lighthearted after the destruction of Trigon and being saved from Brother Blood. She's more certain of herself and more openly emotional both in her joy and sadness. Same deal with Changeling to some extent, but not enough for an actual parallel.

Like where is the conflict or narrative to these characters if they're being written correctly as a relationship? At the same time, where do they actually click?

It's not just empty, it's literally a ship aimed at two different characters.

I'll also just throw out there that I think that most characters are in better places across the board when they're aloud to have romances outside of other Superheroes. Or at least if you're doing two Superheroes in a romance on the team do something interesting with that... but I've never really seen anything interesting done with Raven and Changeling.

#raven teen titans #dc comics #dccomics #teen titans #garfield logan #Beast Boy #Changeling DC #Raven dc #raven roth

[arellian]

My BBRae fics on AO3

Covert (complete) She thought that perhaps the feelings had always been there, in a way, and they were all like a snowball rolling down a hill, getting bigger until it finally came to rest precariously on a steep hillside, waiting for the moment Starfire’s giggling comment set it off like an avalanche. However, just because she had accepted the fact that she had a crush on the changeling didn’t mean that she was going to act on it. Nope, she planned on keeping that little morsel of information to herself. But avalanches are kind of hard to ignore, she realized. Everywhere she turned were complete whiteout conditions, and she felt herself slowly becoming buried under the weight of it all. And so she sat, back pressed against the cold steel of her bedroom door in the middle of the night, wondering just what the ever-loving hell her emotions had gotten her into.

Insomnia (work in progress) "Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you." -John Irving After spending several years in hiding, a formidable enemy of the Titans has resurfaced with a master plan and a major new advantage. They set their sights on a specific Titan, hell-bent on revenge, creating chaos and sowing discord in their wake. With the team on edge and every passing day bringing them closer to the breaking point, it's a race against time to figure out what's happening and to find a possible solution. What Dick Grayson wasn't prepared for though, was uncovering just how deep the rabbit hole went.

#beast boy and raven #bbrae #bbrae fanfiction #teen titans 2003 #beast boy #raven teen titans #teen titans #dc titans #gar logan #starfire #victor stone #kory anders #dick grayson #richard grayson #nightwing #dc robin #jason todd #batfam #batfamily #garfield logan #rachel roth #garchel #cyborg #roy harper #speedy #wally west #robstar #dickory #jinx #aqualad

[bbraefairy]

BBRAE, halloween smutlet

18+, smut, kinks, profanity, erotica. vamp!gar hybrid!rae dom!gar sub!rae

“Please, any way you want me, take me,” Raven hissed as his fangs created a thin laceration on her numb lips. The thin stream of blood in Raven’s mouth made her stomach crease.

Raven’s breathing was impatient and low. Her eyes, deep scarlet and gold, were threads of yearning. Her insides were churning because of her urgent desire for him — and Raven found it anomalous because it was in that moment, right then, that she truly realized that the last fragments of her humanity were evaporating on the Beast’s lips, fingertips, fangs, and very fact of existing.

Raven was utterly exasperated. Her needs and emotions were spilling out of her temple like water easy to break from a dam. She was rushing, saturated, and drowning in a sea of vampirical appetite.

“Bite me, suck me, eat me, I don’t know, just do something to me.”

“You’re begging,” Lord Garfield sneered, tracing painstakingly slow and devilish patterns on Raven’s inner thigh. He noted the need rinsing through her face and manifesting in her body was impatient writhes.

Raven sharply replied, “Yes, I know, so do something about it.”

— son tang est mon rèmede

available on ao3 & ffnet @bbraefairy

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[captainshadowgirllostfan]

You know a while back I complained about Terra, but tbh I felt so betrayed along with the Titans...honestly, The Judas Contract was one of the best arcs if not THE BEST ARC of Teen Titans (I mean the show version, haven't yet gotten to the comics version).

Like the fact that I could be so attached to the character and then feel so hurt by what she did and also feel the hurt of the other characters too...

Ngl I clearly need to work a bit on my empathy. Generally I feel sympathy for characters like that but she's the first female character that is similar and yet... I wasn't automatically... I've never really encountered a female character like this...and she's just great with what she adds too all this

I just love the drama and the heartbreak. Like ugh. It really for a moment changed the children show Teen Titans was, and made it a bit more adult. Terra was very complicated and sympathetic and she made you feel so many things... and I've seen so much good metas about her... I feel like I need more!

I also love the drama she brought with shipping lmao, especially to the BBRae shippers' lmao I had no idea people were shipping BBRae even before Terra came in. LOL! Omg! Terra really must of rocked the boat for shippers! I love it!

It must have been terrible at the time what with how shipping wars can go but now it must be amusing to look back on. Because all these relationships are important, it's not really about who's endgame but what those relationships mean and what they brought.

And BBTerra was pretty wonderful but also heartbreaking.

#rant about Teen Titans #Am watching the ship it show #And how this artist was talking about her ship #I just love it #I generally look down on it but lol shipping can be fun when we don't take it personally #I never take ships personally #but some ships lol I just sorry but this is the only ship in my mind #Shenny #Penny x Sheldon #BBRae #Beast Boy x Raven #Garchel #dickkory #RobStar #But I also can never deny BBTerra #BBTerra #Terra is that first love #That broken girl #That girl that got away #Terra Markov #Terra #Tara Markov

[spider-jaysart]

BBRae

@paladin-of-nerd-fandom65

A very cute ship! I love their opposites attract dynamic and the sweet moments that they have together as well, especially whenever they're comforting eachother in sad or hard times!💗

Fun fact: They were also my very first ship and otp back then when I had began to rewatch the original Teen titans series before Robstar/Dickkory and many others! :)

Thanks for the ask, buddy!

#bbrae #beast boy #raven roth #rachel roth #raven dc #teen titans #teen titans animated

[the-lighthouse-lit]

BBRae Week Day 3: Formal

Summary:

“You want the truth? I was just trying to make it last until prom.”

“What?” And here he’d thought Raven was perfectly happy with her super-tall boyfriend.

“I knew it was doomed. I just wanted a proper prom night with a boyfriend. But he couldn’t even do that for me.”

If she was any other girl he’d be touching her shoulder right now. “You wouldn’t have enjoyed prom with a crappy guy anyway,” he said sensibly.

“Maybe,” she replied immediately. “Maybe memory would have smoothed everything over and looking back I would think I enjoyed the night.”

───

[Saturday, 11:32 am. 6 hours and 28 minutes to Prom.]

They were at Raven Roch’s house, and that pissed Gar off beyond words. She was his sworn enemy, and he’d almost made it through all of high school having no idea where she lived—and now he was in her territory.

No one else seemed to care. Dick and Victor were both avoiding his meaningful glances and potent sullenness—Vic was his ride, and Gar lived on the edge of town. He was trapped here until they decided to leave.

Kori, sweet Kori, his piece-of-sunshine friend who Gar would do anything for, was the reason they were here. A day before prom, she was still fretting over which hair accessory to submit to the hairdresser to complete her outfit. They had been hanging out at the mall when it had suddenly occurred to her she needed the opinion of her newest female friend. Hence, to Raven’s house they went. No matter Gar’s protests.

Raven being more or less in Gar’s group of friends was a relatively recent development. She had always been tangentially around them –Vic tutored her in Math and he said she was funny, which, fine, Gar had a low opinion of Vic’s sense of humor anyway; she was on AP Literature with Dick, and he said she was the kind of kid who looked intimidating but was just serious and actually pretty nice to talk to, which Gar would believe when he saw it- but her hanging out with them had only started when Kori had begun to work at that clothing store with her. Kori had attached to Raven fast, and one day Gar had turned around and suddenly Raven was there, among his friends. No one had asked him if he was fine with it.

And he wasn’t! He had good reason to hate her. She’d always been callous and careless—she stomped over people’s feelings like they weren’t real. He’d known her since preschool –not known known her, but she’d always there. They had grown up around each other, and she’d always been like that.

But the real feud had started two years before. They had been on a class trip to the fair. He’d declared he was getting Terra, his crush and almost-girlfriend at the time, the biggest plushy they had. A crowd had gathered as he managed it; it had been a glorious moment, and then Raven had said, as he gave Terra the prize, “A giant chicken. That must be the luckiest girl in the world.” Even Terra had laughed, and it had ruined whatever effect his achievement had had. That had been his first and last chance to impress Terra, who had since moved away. His first love, gone. He’d written two songs about it.

“In this one the colors match the dress better,” Kori was telling Raven. “But this one is so delicate, and a classic.”

Victor and Dick both scrolled through their phones on Raven’s bedroom floor. It was the same deliberation Kori had been stuck with all morning.

Raven sat on her vanity dresser with two fingers cupping her chin. “The teal one,” she stated, so certain Dick looked up to see how it would float with Kori. Raven had offered more certainty in a second than the three boys all morning.

“Really?” Kori returned, eyes wide. “But the silver one…”

“Is a safe choice. And it ages you.”

“It does!?”

Gar was appalled. The roughness of her tone pushed him over the edge. “God, why’d you have to be such a hater? She looks pretty either way.”

The outburst made everyone look at him, given the fact it was first time he spoke all afternoon.

“Excuse me?” returned Raven.

“I’m saying you don’t have to be mean.”

“I’m not,” Raven stated. “I’m trying to help her.”

Kori moved to agree. “Gar, I asked for her opinion, she’s helping me as a friend.”

“She didn’t have to be a jerk about it,” Gar sustained, crossing his arms.

Dick, closest to him, bumped him on the arm, wordlessly telling him to knock it off.

And there, proof the enmity was real and mutual, was how quickly Raven turned to big guns when she said, “I don’t know what your problem is with me, but no one’s forcing you to be here.”

Vic spoke up. “Raven, don’t listen to him, he speaks without thinking, ever.”

Gar was perhaps more offended by Vic’s dismissal than Raven’s affront. “I mean what I said. And I’d leave if I could,” he told Raven. “Vic’s my ride and he’s ignoring me.”

Raven set her questioning gaze on Victor.

Vic offered a tremulous smile. “I’ll just take him home.”

Dick saw them outside, and lingered by the porch door. “Guys, I’m gonna wait for Kori.”

“’Kay. I’m gonna put this baby down for a nap,” replied Vic, and gave Gar a strong hack in the back as they left the premises of the enemy.

Gar didn’t care. One way or another, he was out of Raven’s house, and he counted that as a win.

───

As Vic pulled up before Gar’s door, he said, “Last chance, you’re really not going to our prom?”

“Duh, I’m going to the prom my date’s at,” Gar replied, face brightening at the thought of tonight.

Vic snorted. “Some date,” he muttered, but Gar just closed the car door on him, pretending he hadn’t heard.

He refused to think badly about tonight. Sure, he hadn’t actually asked out his date, or she him; sure, it had been arranged by his new friends from Terrance High, who had finally let him into his group after months of effort in befriending their unofficial leader Terry while they both worked the cinema candy counter; sure, he hadn’t ever seen Angelica before, except once at a distance because she was angry at one of the boys and was keeping away from them where they could still see her.

But a date was a date. He’d rather go to a different school’s prom than show up to his own dateless. In his room, he beamed at the suit hanging on his wardrobe doorand did the check for the hundredth time: suit, shirt, tie, corsage. All ready. He wouldn’t let anything ruin tonight.

───

[Friday, 6pm. 1 hour to Prom.]

Right from the start Gar could tell something was wrong. The Terrance group pre-gamed at a weird sleazy bar-slash-gym called Dark Side Club Gar had never known existed in town before, where Angelica had taken one look at him and her mouth had twisted, and Gar had known she found him disappointing. Now she faced away from him as he awkwardly chatted along with the others, left to wonder what he’d done wrong. Was it his suit? He had gotten it on sale, but could people actually tell? Could girls? Or was it he was a head shorter than her? He also wished he could’ve fixed that, but there was nothing he could do if his promised growth spurt hadn’t happened by the end of high school. Had she changed her mind about him? Had she ever wanted to go to prom with him in the first place? Everyone else seemed to think it was funny, smirking when Gar would talk and Angelica would blank him or talk over him.

After an awkward hangout, destiny was sealed when they left the Club and Angelica suddenly turned to Gar and asked him to get her chips from the convenience store across the street. Gar, eager to please and elated she had acknowledged him, jumped at the request.

He probably did feel the foreboding as he chose the chips and stood in line; there had to be a reason he wouldn’t look out the window while he chatted with the cashier and paid.

When he left the store, the car was gone.

It didn’t surprise him as much as it should have. He had sensed the odd energy,seen the smirks, the runaway glances. He had thought it was odd his date had suddenly talked to him after a night of ignoring him. He wasn’t surprised. Or maybe the big gaping hollowness on his chest didn’t leave room for anything else, surprise included.

Had they planned it from the start? Had it been a spur of the moment cruelty of Angelica’s? It didn’t really matter. It still meant Gar would have a senior prom-shaped hole in his life.

───

He didn’t really mind where his feet took him. He really should have. Because the next time he looked up, his eyes fell on a girl sitting on a bench at the end of the sidewalk. The fact that she was dressed to the nines in a pretty flowy back dress caught his attention first. The fact that he recognized her came second.

Raven had been looking at her phone. If Gar hadn’t made a choked sound in surprise, she might not have seen him. But he did, and she did, and Gar saw her face freeze in a way that must mirror his.Of all people, he thought, it has to be you that sees this.

Raven’s face went through changes he didn’t understand: she looked away, then back at him, did a double take and looked him up and down, only then seeming to notice his suit. “Are you… walking to prom?”

Gar coughed. “I’m… my plans fell through.” He shoved hands in pockets, tried to look nonchalant. “I was going to the Terrance High prom with a group, but…” he shrugged vaguely, having no idea how she’d interpret that. Was he playing he’d lost interest in prom and walked away? He had no idea what his story was. This was too raw for him to pull an act over it.

“Oh? Did you pick a senseless fight with them too?”

And he was too raw to mask the effect of her jab on his face.

“What about you?” he said, to throw the onus on her. “Didn’t you have a boyfriend? Where is he? It’s past seven.”

Gar didn’t immediately understand when her eyes widened in a vulnerable expression he was unprepared to see in her; when she looked down, it hit him. Oh. Oh no. He hadn’t thought he was witnessing someone being actually stood up—he’d thought her date was late.

He had been so focused on her witnessing his embarrassment he hadn’t realized he’d walked into hers.And he thought she was callous.

He decided honesty was the best policy. “Sorry… I said it because I thought you were waiting to be picked up.”

“I am,” she said.

He didn’t know if she was trying to save face or she truly thought her boyfriend might still show up.

“Did you have a fight?” he asked. Why was he trying to comfort Raven Roch?

“No, Michael is…” She paused. Her tone was dry and detached when she completed, “You want the truth? I was just trying to make it last until prom.”

“What?” And here he’d thought Raven was perfectly happy with her super-tall boyfriend.

“I knew it was doomed. I just wanted a proper prom night with a boyfriend. But he couldn’t even do that for me.”

If she was any other girl he’d be touching her shoulder right now. “You wouldn’t have enjoyed prom with a crappy guy anyway,” he said sensibly.

“Maybe,” she replied immediately. “Maybe memory would have smoothed everything over and looking back I would think I enjoyed the night.”

She said that like she’d given it some thought, done the math and concluded a crappy date was better than nothing. Like Angelica was for him. Both of them were two unlucky kids who’d settled for the date they could find for senior prom. He sat next to her on the bench, where he deflated. “So are you gonna wait for him?”

She made a low grumble. “Probably gonna sneak back home. I don’t feel like explaining this to my mom.”

Gar kicked a rock with the point of his shoe for a moment, before he took a deep breath in preparation to say the obvious thing. “Raven. Fuck it. Let’s go to prom.” And he barreled over before her shocked face could deter him. “This is ridiculous, we’re all dressed up, what are we gonna do? Go to bed? Let’s go to prom.”

“With you?” she replied. “And you with me? We can’t stand each other, we’ll have a terrible time.”

“Maybe. Or maybe memory will make you think you were super into me.”

She looked insulted at the thought. He winked, just because. He was elated to see her blush.

She crossed her arms. “I’d rather go to bed.”

“Raven, we’re seniors. This is our last chance to do prom at our school, with our friends, with our classmates. They’re all already there.”

“Says the guy who was perfectly fine going to another school’s prom until recently,” she pointed out.

“Yeah, well, this event has humbled me and shown me the error of my ways, now come on, let’s go.” And he stressed his words by jumping to his feet and daring to pull on her arm. She shook him off immediately. “Look, my tie’s got little birds on it and your dress has those feathery things,” he said, holding up his tie and gesturing to the feather-shaped tulle accents on her dress’ cap sleeves. “It’s fucking fate, dude!”

She focused on his tie. She hadn’t noticed the tiny black birds on a dark green background before. “Why the hell does your tie have birds?”

“It was the cutest thing with animals on it my mom said was still elegant enough for the dress code.” He tucked the tie back in as if to shake her eyes off it. “Look, the tie’s not important, what I’m saying is if we go together, it’ll look right.”

“Great argument. You so convinced me.”

“If you don’t cool it with the sarcasm I’ll just take you at face value and drag you along.”

“How are we gonna get there, genius?” she posed. “We both lost our rides and the school is miles away. And prom started long ago.”

But he acted like she’d said what he wanted to hear. “Ride’s your problem? Cool, I’m calling a cab.”

Raven watched him pull out his phone, mark the number, and put the phone to his ear. He waited for the call to connect with a determined look on his face, and she finally realized he was serious. And, well, Raven had always been a path-of-least-resistance kind of girl. But he would not be getting a cab on prom night.

Gar started when she put her hand over his arm. “Wait. I can get us a ride.”

──���

[7:52 pm. Minus 52 minutes to prom.]

Raven’s available ride was her neighbor Azar, who was seventy years old and perfectly willing to help out, but warned the kids she wasn’t used to driving at night and would take it slow and safe. The frenzied teenagers assured her this was fine.

Azar drove so slowly it gave Raven time to regret things ten times over. She was about to say something –anything—something like “This is so dumb,” something that would cast Gar back down to Earth too, something that would make them look at each other and realize they should just go home-, but Gar was on an entirely different wavelength. When Raven looked over at him, he was hard at work trying the car lights in different combinations; the ceiling light, then the ones over each of the back seats, then both, the just the left one. She was about to ask what he was doing when he took out his phone, set it on frontal camera and scooted closer to her side.

“What the hell are you doing?” she asked.

“I’m scared you’re gonna push us past the photo booth when we get there, so I’m taking control of the situation.”

He took a picture. Raven had just enough time to see her own floored face staring back at her, next to Gar’s smile with the tooth sticking out. Gar checked the picture with a smile and put his phone back.

“You’re not gonna tell me to smile?” Raven asked.

“Nah. This is more true to life,” he declared.

For some reason, that was strangely heartwarming to her. No one easily accepted her resting bitch face in photos. It was nice to not have to fight someone on this. Raven felt some of her doubt slip away. Maybe this wouldn’t be so bad.

───

Never mind. It was bad.

Why was everyone staring at them? Was it that weird she’d showed up with the class clown? Was everyone wondering where her boyfriend was? Did everyone even know she used to have a boyfriend? Raven had personally made it through high school ignoring ninety percent of her classmates, but kids she’d never talked to were now staring at her like they had strong opinions about her. She wanted to crawl into a hole.

“They’ll stop staring in two minutes,” came Gar’s voice next to her. “Take it from the class clown. People’s attention doesn’t last.”

Maybe it was because they were among their classmates now, but having Gar next to her, whispering to her, made Raven feel… weird. It felt intimate in a way that… wasn’t entirely unwelcome. Maybe it was because she felt they were a team against the rest of them—and she’d never been in a team that included Gar Logan.

Their friends spotted them before Gar and Raven located them. The unlikely couple approached their puzzled friends, and on reaching them, Gar simply said “’Sup. We had a change of heart.”

Kori’s face hardened as she set a knowing gaze on Raven. “Michael?”

“Yep,” said Raven.

“Tell me you’re breaking up with him.”

“Oh yeah. Tomorrow, when he shows up with flowers all apologetic… I’m gonna dump him.”

In turn, Vic crossed his arms at Gar. “The Terrance High losers pulled something on you, didn’t they?”

Gar furrowed his brows at Vic. “Nope, I decided to blow them off.” And before Vic’s anger could reach him, he pulled Raven’s hand. “C’mon, Raven, let’s dance.”

───

Gar was right, people were long done staring as they danced, even though they were a bigger spectacle now: they had come just in time for the slow songs.

“You’re happy we came, right?” Gar asked her.

“Yeah, I am,” she replied sincerely.

His face brightened at the response. “See? Sometimes it’s better to do things than… not do them.”

“Couldn’t have said it better myself,” she stated, with an edge on her voice.

But her sarcasm didn’t rub him the wrong way anymore. He didn’t know why, but he felt he understood her better now. In fact, as she swayed before him with a relaxed look on her face, he struggled to remember why he had ever disliked her.

Gar looked past her head and only then saw the big sign on the wall and remembered the theme of the dance: ‘Date with destiny’.

Huh. He tried very hard not to take in the subtext.

But was it dumb to take this for the big movie ending? To think this might last and, come Monday, they would keep… getting along, at least? Was this just for tonight? Just because he was the only prom date alternative around? Could this keep going? Maybe… evolve?

Raven suddenly cast her eyes down, and Gar internally panicked—had some of what he’d been almost thinking translated into his face? Before he could even process it himself?

She had just shrugged off a bad boyfriend, he reminded himself. It wasn’t the time anyway.

He shouldn’t even be thinking of big what-ifs, but… friendship. Friendship was good enough for him. He didn’t have to know now where this was going. This morning, did he think he would be slow dancing with Raven Roch by the end of the day? Absolutely not. So he didn’t have to know now. He could be in the moment and wait for what the future held.

───

Notes:

*whispers* Enemies to last-minute prom dates 🤩

I know exactly what Gar and Rae are wearing in my mind I just didn't have the time to hunt down reference photos :(

My brain is fried, just enjoy! ❤️

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