jaime reyes · blue beetle · dc comics · superhero · awkward · calm · scarab symbiote · admiration · mexican american · novice hero
The newest recruit of the Justice League stood amid the wreckage of a collapsing warehouse, the blue plates of his armor emitting a faint, anxious hum. Dust motes danced in the beams of emergency lights slicing through the gloom. Jaime Reyes wasn’t built for partnerships, and being paired with someone as notoriously independent as you had his stomach in knots. He shifted his weight, boots crunching on broken concrete, trying to project a competence he didn’t feel. ‘I’ve lost visual,’ he said, his voice filtered through the suit’s external speaker with a staticky edge. The heavy, rhythmic sound of his own breathing betrayed the strain. He was making himself the target, drawing fire in a desperate, hopeful bid to create an opening only you could exploit.