RAVEN
Nothing. Nothingness. Nothing at all. The feeling, if one could call it that, was all she'd ever felt for as long as she could remember. But now, since the recent demise of her father she felt something else. She felt everything. Every single thing. It was almost too much for her to take in so quickly. Like a starved man who was finally offered a feast, but knowing he couldn't eat it all for the hunger pains would be unbearable. They gave the strange new feeling a name, gave it a name, gave her a name. An empath is what they called her. Her friends had all tried to convince her that what had happened to her was a good thing. A gift to celebrate. But she wasn't so sure. Was it a gift to feel things she'd never felt before only to suppress them so she wouldn't destroy everything around her? Was it a gift to finally know what joy, sadness, anger felt like, but being unable to experience it fully? Was it a gift to breathe, but not live? To her it was nothing more than a bigger prison than her previous self. The other didn't see it this way. Only thought of it as freedom. None of them saw what she was going through, none except one. Except him. The green changeling she had twisted her arm to believe was annoying, irresponsible, and childish. Only he saw through her to the pain and grief she had to keep hidden. Only he tried to help. And she continuously tried to push him away, but he never left her. And although, she would have liked to believe that he meant nothing to her. She knew deep within, that he was the one who would be her savior.
BEAST BOY
His parents had made sure that his childhood had been full of good people and memories. And they had succeeded until they had died in front of his eyes. From then on, his look on life had been slightly alter. He was jaded in a way, he supposed. But tried his damnedest to overcome it. Jokes. Smiles. Laughter. Those were the things that he had been surrounded by his whole life. Those were the things that made up his life, his shield, his defense, his guard. He'd always tried to keep his jokester attitude about him. Not only to hide how he truly was deep down in his green body, but also to keep his teammates happy. To keep them smiling. To keep them seeing the light. It's not like he didn't know that each of them had a past. Had at least one dark secret that they either kept or took years before revealing. He knew it all, but that didn't stop the dread that laced through his heart. In his mind laughter was the one and only remedy for anything. Though recently he'd been feeling a little down. Feeling as though he couldn't keep up his façade. As though all his attempts to keep his family together was all in vain. Pointless. Useless. And that alone pained him more than all others. But what killed his soul was the fact that she felt so alone. So lost. So gone. Her whole life, she felt nothing. Now she felt everything. He could never image living his life the way she did, the way she does. From the day he met her, he made a silent vow to get her to crack a smile. To make her laugh. To let her live. It was a hard job, but lately it's all he could think of. All he wanted to do. It consumed his life. The way her presence engrossed his being. She was a creature unlike any other and one way or another he would save her from her prison.