by AshK » Thu Sep 17, 2009 7:31 pm
Name: Jacob Johnathon Stevens
Age: 18
Height: 6'2" Weight: 215 lbs Hair Color: Dark Brown Eyes: Hazel
Gender: Male(for now)
TG'ed into: Starfire from the Teen Titans.
Bio for Starfire: Starfire was born and raised on the distant planet Tamaran before arriving on Earth and joining the Teen Titans. Her race, the Tamaraneans, are an emotional race who see feelings as the force that drives their very livelihood. Their emotions fuel their natural abilities of flight and superhuman strength, as well as Starfire's energy blasts, called starbolts. Her race is also highly resilient to radiation [4]The animated Starfire also has the ability to travel faster-than-light without a ship, as well as the ability to breathe in outer space and survive in its vacuum for considerable periods of time, though extreme weather is still known to harm her, along with her inability to breathe water, as shown in Deep Six (first mentioned in Divide and Conquer, and used in Transformation).
Starfire's background also has some similarities with her comic version. In the flashback episode "Go!", which tells the founding of the Titans in their animated continuity, Starfire is held prisoner as a "prize" by a group of Gordanian slave masters, working for an interstellar power known as the Citadel. She manages to escape and flees to the closest planet, which happens to be Earth. Starfire runs into Robin and the other soon-to-be Titans who help her fight off the Gordanian forces pursuing her. After the battle, Starfire elects to stay on Earth with the Titans.
Starfire is inherently the most sensitive of the Titans.[5]This version of Starfire is naive, innocent, and somewhat insecure, but it is this trait that endears her to others, especially to Robin, who takes time out to explain the ways of Earth to her. An alien and an outsider, she is still new to Earth and its customs (she did not understand the slang term "digging" the very first time it was used and had never heard of the term "jig"), which serves as a recurring source of comic relief. This leads to much confusion for her and others, such as the awkwardness in casually drinking mustard as a soft drink, wanting a pizza with "pickles, bananas, and mint frosting" or sleeping with her head hanging off the foot of the bed and her feet on the pillow. Presumably because English is not her first language, Starfire speaks without contractions, and misuses idioms (e.g. "Kick the butt!" as opposed to "Kick butt!" or "The mall of shopping" instead of "shopping mall", "the machine of money" instead of ATM machine, as well as "lobstery" instead of "crabby"). Additionally, she uses several Tamaranean nouns, such as "bumgorf" (term of endearment), "K'norfka" (parent or guardian) when referring to Galfore, who she abdicated her throne to join her friends on Earth, "klorbag" (insulting term), and "shlorvak" (dream).
Tamaraneans have orange skin, and dark reddish hair, and Starfire's eyes are green. She can shoot star bolts from her hands and eyes, the latter after she underwent a metamorphosis all Tamaraneans must go through.
Starfire has a pet giant moth larva named "Silkie" in the series, given to her by Beast Boy, which she holds special affection and care for, developing a strong maternal bond with it almost instantly. Starfire takes friendship very seriously, and is easily distressed when others, especially her friends, argue or fight. Above all, she wishes to be friends with everyone she meets. Starfire will not, however, hold back on someone who threatens innocent bystanders or her teammates. Her usually optimistic and cheerful spirit also seem to be vital for the team's morale and coherence; in "How Long Is Forever?", Starfire is stranded in an alternate future twenty years later, where she finds the Titans disbanded and in deep depression following her disappearance.
Although her naive and slightly overly friendly yet kind nature can sometimes clash with Raven's more secretive one, she has shown a closeness to her. In "Switched" Raven unintentionally rejects Starfire's indirect offer of close friendship, due to her primarily distant nature (because of her past). However, later on because of the body switch between the two girls, Starfire says they should get to know everything about each other, to understand each others powers, needed to save the rest of their friends; it seems this is partially to get to know the distant Raven and become closer friends. After this, they later meditate together and plan to go to the mall together.
Starfire can also learn any language instantly by kissing someone. This is how she learned English from kissing Robin, and then she kissed a Japanese boy, much to Robin's chagrin, to learn Japanese to help locate Brushogun in "Trouble in Tokyo."
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AshK on Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:49 pm, edited 2 times in total.