Pumpkin.
It's not easy being green.
I mean sure there are perks
like never getting pinched on Saint Patrick's Day
and always having the best "The Hulk" costume on Halloween,
but it's not all sunshine and rainbows.
Because it's not sunshine when the sun shines green
and it's not a rainbow if each abr is just another shade of green.
Look at it this way,
Do you ever get tired of hearing the same song?
Watching the same movie over and over?
How about seeing the same color (or colour for you non-murricans)
over and over
every time you open your eyes
every time you look in the mirror.
Everything.
Is that. one. color.
He didn't know what he hated more,
the color
or the fact that everyone assumed he loved it.
Who in their right mind would love a color
so obnoxious, so hideously grotesque
so different, so mutant
Oh wait.
Of course they'd think he'd like the color.
This color and he were practically synonymous.
After all, he was Beast Boy.
Cyborg got to go back once
back to being human.
Beast boy wanted to too.
No.
Garfield Logan wanted to too.
He couldn't actually remember being human
but surely
as a human
he wasn't
green.
That's why he was here,
in Cyborg's room,
sifting through his drawers
for that ring.
His salvation.
Cold steel met his gloved fingertips,
a stiff circle with a gaping hole in the center.
Salvation.
The swift snatch of a fox
and he was gone.
Off to his safe haven,
not his room,
too green.
No, it was a small black slab of rock sitting in the middle of a blue ocean.
There was only enough room on the slab for one person,
him.
He sat alone
staring at the ring.
This small, seemingly insignificant
cheap-looking piece of metal
could change
everything.
Should he?
Everything would change.
He wouldn't be BB anymore.
He wouldn't be a Titan.
He'd be human.
He'd be normal.
What if he couldn't take it off?
What if he didn't want to take it off?
What would happen to Beast Boy
when Garfield Logan came back?
Would he cease to exist?
Would anyone even care?
Certainly not Raven.
And sometimes
it felt like that was all that mattered.
Raven wouldn't care if BB was gone.
So maybe it's time for BB to make an exit.
Stage Left.
With new found determination Beast Boy clutched the ring tightly
and transformed.
A lone green raven
sailed towards the city
a sterling silver ring clasped in it's talons.
Just a little something I had fun writing. I'll probably continue it whether it gets good reviews or not so meh.