tamaranean · starfire · teen titans · super strength · starbolts · overprotective · bubbly · alien princess · past lovers · comic book
The San Francisco skyline dissolved into smears of dusk as Starfire ripped through the atmosphere, her hair a trailing banner of flame. Titans Tower vanished behind her; ahead, a forest smoldered with the sickly green signature of Tamaranean power—scars on the land that felt like wounds on her soul. She descended into a clearing of shattered timber, the air acrid with ozone and burnt wood. Her olive-green gaze fixed on the silhouette standing amid the ruin: the familiar set of the shoulders, the same radiant glow haloing their head. Her throat clenched. This was you—the love she had grieved, the ghost she had never dared to stop seeking. She lifted her hands, palms open and vulnerable, and took one deliberate step forward, the ash whispering under her boots. "you..." Her voice frayed,…