Disclaimer: Don't own Teen Titans.
Hope you like the story!
(Diary entries will not be written out in detail until the finale, when all is finally revealed. :P)
A notebook is left lying open on the kitchen counter of the TE tower. What is scrawled and sketched between its lines is personal, offensive, and anonymous. The writer never dated his entries; the artist never signed her work. So to whom could the notebook belong? Accusations fly and tensions strain between the TE, TN, and KF as the Herald unravels the mystery.
Notebook of Intrigue!
THE SET-UP
Compared to the full-grown, highly functional Titans (West), the Titans East was an adolescent. It flew by the seat of its metaphorical pants, took crazy risks and always won the day.
Bumblebee was a capable leader with a ferocious spirit and an in-your-face attitude. She was feared by her enemies, and even a little by her friends.
Speedy had finally escaped the shadow of another heroic archer. By building a brand around his new image and "cool guy" personality, he hoped to stay in the limelight. With everything, it seemed, to prove, Speedy tackled even tiny problems with remarkable intensity.
Aqualad rarely smiled. Since a crisis beneath the ocean's surface finally met its end, the Atlantean hadn't been the same. His king swore him to secrecy concerning the matter. Though his heart felt ready to implode, Aqualad kept quiet. Speedy could occasionally draw some trademark sarcasm out of Aqualad.
Más and Menos grew as heroes day-by-day. They learned teamwork, perseverence, basic deductive reasoning, and the number of the pizza place.
The Titans North was in its infancy. The citizens of Coastal City didn't believe in their strength as heroes, and its thriving criminal underworld thought they and their Tower-Lighthouse hybrid were adorable. Its members acted like one-man shows.
What shows they were!
Hot Spot hurled fireballs at a teammate a week, at least, for whatever reason. His raging soap-box speeches about the Titans, his teammates, and why they were chosen to police Coastal City demoralized anyone within earshot. He never supported the Titans, and most likely resented them.
Kole tried too hard to be an essential part of the team, and consequently fell into enemy hands more often than any other Norther. Her powers were primarily defensive, and magnified anything with which her crystal version made contact. So she became the favorite weapon of the supervillains who sought "World domination, starting with Coastal City!" one death ray at a time.
Jericho distrusted his assigned friends. This pattern of distrust caused him to hesitate during battle, when he would have to rely on them most. He wasn't impressed by their combat experience or prowess, so he had signed to the Herald after one rather fast sparring match against Argent. Then there was his disability, which only the Herald could fully remedy.
Kole was trying harder than anyone else to learn ASL, and Jericho seemed grateful for that.
Argent expected greatness to come naturally to her and those in her circle. She carried herself like a celebrity whenever they went out on the town. She behaved like a childhood friend when they stayed in for the night. She was too familiar too fast, so her friendship felt superficial.
And the Herald was trying to balance two full-time jobs. At first, he had tried to excel at being a Titan leader and at being a Herald, but in retrospect that had been a comical dream. The multiverse and Coastal City both needed his undivided attention.
Though not a real member of the Titans North, Kilowatt proved himself to be invaluable to their team a couple of times. He was learned in subjects that weren't electrical, like criminal psychology ("chaos reasoning"), reading schematics, and achieving new high scores on the videogame station. While he "recharged his vessel" after a fight, he would namedrop his chaotic homeworld more often than one might expect, but never so much to a single person.
Kid Flash, who worked alone, traveled from Cairo, Egypt, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Steel City, USA.
But he wasn't as fast as the Herald.