Character Name: Terra (Markov) Canon: Teen Titans (animated) Canon Point: End of "Terra"; she has left the Tower but not yet reached Slade. Background/History:Terra on the Teen Titans wiki.
Personality: On the surface, Terra is a laid-back, easygoing drifter with an appreciation for the outdoors and a love of meeting new people. She jumps right into her first conversation with the Titans, taking the lead in introductions and overall exhibiting a great deal of confidence. She settles into the group quickly and immediately makes herself at home. The Titans waste almost no time in deciding she'd make a great addition to their team, both because of her powers and because of how well she fits within the team's dynamic.
But beneath this, Terra is actually incredibly insecure and frightened. She lacks control over her earth-based powers, and has caused numerous disasters in the past with them. Her fear that she will lose control of her powers is her deepest secret and the primary driving force behind her nomadic lifestyle. Thus, she keeps people at arm's length and doesn't let them get too close to her; she doesn't even plan to stick around the Titans too long. Letting people get close will only make things harder to deal with when she inevitably has to leave.
This is reinforced by Beast Boy's perceived betrayal of her. Beast Boy is the first of the Titans Terra really connects with; they build rapport rather quickly since he plays off her carefree mask much better than stick-in-the-mud Raven or super-serious-business Robin. She briefly loses control of her powers in front of him, and is forced to confess her problem, but makes him swear not to tell. Unfortunately, Robin figures it out on his own, but Terra's paranoia is so bad that she immediately assumes Beast Boy had broken his promise. As a result, Terra is now less inclined to trust in people more than ever. It would take an impressive display of sincerity to get her to open up again.
As evidenced by what happens to her later, Terra is someone who is easily influenced and persuaded by others and who has difficulty taking responsibility for her actions. These are not actually new traits to her, given her backstory explained in the Teen Titans Go! comics. Terra was a member of the royal family of Markovia, and so her childhood was one of royal protocols and high stress. She had other people take charge of her life, right up to the point where she was experimented on and given her earth-moving powers. Rather than have her more talented brother Geo-Force help her master powers she didn't even want, Terra chose to shirk not only royal duty but also personal responsibility and run away from Markovia.
Her childhood groomed her perfectly for a series of poor decisions later in life that she is incapable of acknowledging as her fault. She is won over by Slade shortly after leaving the Titans, then sent back to them as a spy. When the time comes to destroy the team from within, Beast Boy calls her out on letting it all happen. Terra shrugs it off with the excuse that Slade helped her and now she owes him. She continues to ignore her responsibility for all the damage she's caused as she eliminates the Titans and subjugates the city in Slade's name, resisting all appeals to her better nature with the idea that "it's too late" for her to change or take control of her situation. It isn't until the very end of her arc that she finally takes charge of herself, but at her current canon point, she is still a lost girl who prefers to drift on the winds of destiny and let other people control her, for better or for worse.
Abilities/Powers: As her name might imply, Terra has complete control over the earth, including even small particles of earth like mud and sand. She can move and levitate rocks, as well as change their forms (e.g. combine several rocks into one large one, harden mud into stone, etc.). Terra often uses her levitated boulders as platforms to help her fly as well.
Terra's application of her powers is very basic in comparison to her later appearances. She throws rocks at bad guys and flies around on a boulder, nothing too complicated. Some of what she does almost seems accidental or a reflex (a good example being in the mine fight with Slade, where she cowers from one of his attacks and a boulder pops up behind her, making him back off). But once Slade teaches her control, she finds many more uses for her powers, including the aforementioned mud control and the ability to actually move her body through the earth. These won't come up now because of her canon point, but they're worth noting if she ever starts refining her powers while in Haven.
At this point in the series, Terra has minimal control over her powers. Overuse of them can lead to her snapping and causing accidents ranging from collapsed cliffsides to full-on earthquakes. It's difficult to gauge what causes her to lose control, as we only see it happen thrice in the series -- once when Beast Boy refers directly to using her powers, once when Sladebots destroy a few rocks she's levitating at the time (seemingly causing a sort of power backlash), and later when she is fighting Slade and becomes overly emotional. Each subsequent incident is much more destructive than the last, so it's likely that the more stressed and scared Terra becomes, the more likely she is to lose control and the worse it is for everyone when it happens. This means she has a lot of potential to destroy parts of Haven, so if anything needs to be worked out with regards to a destruction cap, I'd be fine with that.
Terra // Teen Titans // Technically-expired reserve
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Character Name: Terra (Markov)
Canon: Teen Titans (animated)
Canon Point: End of "Terra"; she has left the Tower but not yet reached Slade.
Background/History: Terra on the Teen Titans wiki.
Personality: On the surface, Terra is a laid-back, easygoing drifter with an appreciation for the outdoors and a love of meeting new people. She jumps right into her first conversation with the Titans, taking the lead in introductions and overall exhibiting a great deal of confidence. She settles into the group quickly and immediately makes herself at home. The Titans waste almost no time in deciding she'd make a great addition to their team, both because of her powers and because of how well she fits within the team's dynamic.
But beneath this, Terra is actually incredibly insecure and frightened. She lacks control over her earth-based powers, and has caused numerous disasters in the past with them. Her fear that she will lose control of her powers is her deepest secret and the primary driving force behind her nomadic lifestyle. Thus, she keeps people at arm's length and doesn't let them get too close to her; she doesn't even plan to stick around the Titans too long. Letting people get close will only make things harder to deal with when she inevitably has to leave.
This is reinforced by Beast Boy's perceived betrayal of her. Beast Boy is the first of the Titans Terra really connects with; they build rapport rather quickly since he plays off her carefree mask much better than stick-in-the-mud Raven or super-serious-business Robin. She briefly loses control of her powers in front of him, and is forced to confess her problem, but makes him swear not to tell. Unfortunately, Robin figures it out on his own, but Terra's paranoia is so bad that she immediately assumes Beast Boy had broken his promise. As a result, Terra is now less inclined to trust in people more than ever. It would take an impressive display of sincerity to get her to open up again.
As evidenced by what happens to her later, Terra is someone who is easily influenced and persuaded by others and who has difficulty taking responsibility for her actions. These are not actually new traits to her, given her backstory explained in the Teen Titans Go! comics. Terra was a member of the royal family of Markovia, and so her childhood was one of royal protocols and high stress. She had other people take charge of her life, right up to the point where she was experimented on and given her earth-moving powers. Rather than have her more talented brother Geo-Force help her master powers she didn't even want, Terra chose to shirk not only royal duty but also personal responsibility and run away from Markovia.
Her childhood groomed her perfectly for a series of poor decisions later in life that she is incapable of acknowledging as her fault. She is won over by Slade shortly after leaving the Titans, then sent back to them as a spy. When the time comes to destroy the team from within, Beast Boy calls her out on letting it all happen. Terra shrugs it off with the excuse that Slade helped her and now she owes him. She continues to ignore her responsibility for all the damage she's caused as she eliminates the Titans and subjugates the city in Slade's name, resisting all appeals to her better nature with the idea that "it's too late" for her to change or take control of her situation. It isn't until the very end of her arc that she finally takes charge of herself, but at her current canon point, she is still a lost girl who prefers to drift on the winds of destiny and let other people control her, for better or for worse.
Abilities/Powers: As her name might imply, Terra has complete control over the earth, including even small particles of earth like mud and sand. She can move and levitate rocks, as well as change their forms (e.g. combine several rocks into one large one, harden mud into stone, etc.). Terra often uses her levitated boulders as platforms to help her fly as well.
Terra's application of her powers is very basic in comparison to her later appearances. She throws rocks at bad guys and flies around on a boulder, nothing too complicated. Some of what she does almost seems accidental or a reflex (a good example being in the mine fight with Slade, where she cowers from one of his attacks and a boulder pops up behind her, making him back off). But once Slade teaches her control, she finds many more uses for her powers, including the aforementioned mud control and the ability to actually move her body through the earth. These won't come up now because of her canon point, but they're worth noting if she ever starts refining her powers while in Haven.
At this point in the series, Terra has minimal control over her powers. Overuse of them can lead to her snapping and causing accidents ranging from collapsed cliffsides to full-on earthquakes. It's difficult to gauge what causes her to lose control, as we only see it happen thrice in the series -- once when Beast Boy refers directly to using her powers, once when Sladebots destroy a few rocks she's levitating at the time (seemingly causing a sort of power backlash), and later when she is fighting Slade and becomes overly emotional. Each subsequent incident is much more destructive than the last, so it's likely that the more stressed and scared Terra becomes, the more likely she is to lose control and the worse it is for everyone when it happens. This means she has a lot of potential to destroy parts of Haven, so if anything needs to be worked out with regards to a destruction cap, I'd be fine with that.
Items/Weapons: Nothing!