HOMESICK. YOUNG JUSTICE
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                            Children are born with so much promise; of lives yet to live and hope of a better future. Their first laugh is said to breathe life into a fairy, that could wisp them away in a fraction of a second. Stories like that become reality in their undeveloped minds, fiction bleeding from inked paper like a seeping open wound.

There is nothing to fear when a cut or graze can be cured by the lightest of kisses. A ghost touch that fades as quickly as a beating heart.

Except a child will never know when that promise finally snaps, when a parent's hope wains in the shadow of despair, of failure. Or a greater tragedy unfolds around you and threatens to swallow your universe whole.

Love turns to loss, pain into anger, fear into numbness.

Mi-rae Noe had grown numb to the dark. She'd let herself be enveloped into its awaiting arms and felt it tighten around her arms, constricting her throat. Becoming the puppet she was predetermined to be. Letting anything and anyone control her to spare her fragile mind from breaking anymore.

She hadn't felt it, her moulding. Absent minded to her own construction into a weapon. Her benefactor put a gun in her hand; she made sure the chamber was unloaded into an awaiting training target. He put a knife in her hand; she learnt to cut everything but herself. He put a flower in her hand and he grinned as he watched it fall to the ground when she crushed it.

Everyday, she told herself that what she endured was not suffering, it was destiny. Long awaited and ready to perfect her moth-eaten heart. It was all that she deserved.

So she became a ghost, fading away from the world as if she was never meant to exist in the first place. Wearing a mask hid her from prying eyes and any camera that she passed by mysteriously glitched, leaving nothing but an indistinguishable shape long gone.

It wasn't until the day a single mission, one simple investigation, went wrong on the strangest fourth day of July, that she discovered the inconsistencies with her estranged existence. Her life of solitude and obedience became suffocating, smothering inside her lungs like smoke from a cigarette.

All because of a single moment. The day she made a deal with Superman's clone to free a bunch of nosey sidekicks and a promise with a little girl forgotten by the sun. The day she discovered her hollow heart could be sewn closed with the right needle and thread.

She learnt how to be a hero, and she decided that it would be a nice life to live. Even if it did inevitably make her a little homesick.

Mi-rae Noe. ONYX  /  BLACKBIRD

I fall on my sword, praying for salvation,
yet all that awaits me is my own damnation.

I carve at my chest, praying to unearth a heart,
yet all that is left is my own bloodied carcass.

Conner Kent.   SUPERBOY

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with

Cassandra Astor / QUANTUM.  Dick Grayson /  ROBIN / NIGHTWING.  Wally West / KID FLASH.  Deianira Ahuanari / WONDER GIRL / AZULA.  Kaldur'ahm / AQUALAD.  M'gann M'orzz / MISS MARTIAN.  Dr. Genevieve Astor /  COSIMA.  Roy Harper / RED ARROW. Artemis Crock / ARTEMIS / TIGRESS. Jude Lawrett
/ SUPERNOVA. Allegra Romano / RIFT.  Lucas Vieira / STRATOSPHERE.  Lorelai Levine / LIBERTY.  Duri Noe / SHADOW / NEO.

as described.

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I got dreams, but I can't make myself believe them. Spend the rest of my life with what could have been, and I will die in the house that I grew up in.

━━   Homesick  //  Noah Kahan, Sam Fender

𖤍 DISCLAIMER / I don't own Young Justice, credit to the show goes to the showrunners, the animators, the voice actors, etc. However, I do claim a right over my own characters; Any character and deviations from canon plot not seen in the show, or anywhere else beyond my fics (present and future) are all mine and thus stealing will not be tolerated. I worked hard on these characters and their backstories and involvement in the dcu world, so don't be a dirty cheater.

𖤍 WARNINGS / Beware of the following themes: major character death, canon-typical violence, grooming, possible mentions of minor sexual content, themes of racism, sexism, ableism, psychological/physical/emotional abuse, manipulation, ptsd, attempted murder, mentions of familicide. Read at your own risk.

AUTHOR'S NOTES.

𖤍 This is my first DC fic I've ever published, and let me tell you I am obsessed. I have become a fully fledged DC loving maniac over the past few months and I am living for it. Me and my bestie binged s1 of YJ (because I just needed her to see why it is that good) in like twenty-four hours. Let's just say I was able to convert her just a little; she's still in love with Tom's Spiderman and the MCU so it's gonna take a while.

𖤍 I have such an attachment to Mi-rae and Cassie, it makes me ill, both of them are just adorable best friends who find comfort in each other, and the hold they have over their future respective boyfriends, breathes life into my cold loveless heart. Mi-rae is basically Jude Duarte for real, and Conner is a kinder Cardan, because of reasons...

𖤍 Mi-rae's love language is words of affirmation and quality time, she likes buying things for everyone instead of receiving them, and Conner is the same but loves physical touch. He's literally the only/first guy that will ever hug or kiss her in a romantic way and it makes her gushy. Mi-rae and Conner are just so perfect for each other, they're both grumpy and hard exteriored but soft and squishy when together. I like M'gann, I do, but her relationship with Conner seemed forced, like she was trying to make something out of nothing because she wanted to be loved (which isn't a bad thing) but I think them breaking up was the healthiest thing they ever did for each other.

𖤍 This is book one; I have two others in my mind as well (if I ever finish a fic that is) with Wally and Dick as love interests for those fics. Wally's will be a complete canon divergence, set between s2 and s3 and with an oc I haven't introduced into this universe yet, while Dick's is just s3 and s4 between him and Cassandra. So Mi-rae and Conner's story won't necessarily conclude after s2 but their time in the limelight will.

𖤍 Last one I promise. This'll be updated slowly as all my fics are, as I'm trying to find the motivation to write, which is typical as I've completely finished uni and am just waiting to graduate. So I want to dedicate this book to scottlvng for always hyping me up, and Winter326 for being someone to ramble to, I know I do it a lot. keupid for being super hyped for this thing even when I was losing faith in myself, wallowsinangst for just being so damn loveable and amazing no matter what. And for gryzons whose book reminded me why I love Conner Kent, as well as for anyone who will enjoy this chaotic book I'm gonna write; -trojanwar hazzawckd pelides tinuviels htsukoi targaryenphobic because I love you guys and think you're awesome. Plus a huge thank you to rieberly for the amazing art!! I love her and I love you! And thank you to maenadscult for the comic scene, mwah <3!!!

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Started.   18th June. 2024
Ended. To Be Determined
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