Here's where I show my age. Back in the early 80s in California, my little brother started collecting baseball cards. My family had a Sunday ritual: we'd get dragged to church (where I surprisingly did not burst into flames), then we'd drive to Santa Maria to see a matinee at the mall. But there was always time to kill between arriving and the movie, so we'd hit up a store to shop for baseball cards. I was bored out of my mind, but lo and behold, the store sold comics, too, so I started checking them out. My first pick was exceptionally girly -- Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld, whom I've toyed with the idea of apping but I don't know how the age thing would work in Fandom. Then I stumbled across Teen Titans when I spotted the gothy half-demon empath who struggled with her dark side. *shifty eyes* No, that wasn't hitting my kinks even back during my early tween years. Then they killed her off, and I was pissed, but I kept reading in hopes she would come back, because this was comics, after all. And she did! And then a few years later they killed her again in a really ridiculous plotline. And I kept reading out of habit. And she came back! Except she was all evil and skanky and kinda gay. And then they killed her again and screwed with the team so much it was barely recognizable, so I stopped reading. And then once I apped Raven, I started following Titans again and found that she'd gotten better and the writers were still doing horrible things to her. Oh, canon.