A/N: Ah, Cyborg. I really do love the big guy. Can't understand why he's so underappreciated, though.
Disclaimer: These are just a cruel reminder of what I don't own.
20Truths: Cyborg
1. The computer in his head runs through numerous statistics and assessments every time the Titans go into a big fight, and the odds of success for the team are rarely good. He likes that he's proven himself wrong each and every time.
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2. His high school letterman's jacket is in his closet and the trophy from winning the all-state shot-put award is on his dresser. He doesn't know why either are there or why he's even kept them this long but he also knows neither will be going anywhere anytime soon.
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3. He's fully aware that he has a tendency to flirt and that that fact is going to someday get him into trouble. For instance, there was one night when he suddenly realized that he asked Bumblebee to go to a concert, Kole to dinner and a movie, and Sarah Sims to go ice skating, and had it not been for an uncharacteristically brilliant idea from Beast Boy that involved duct tape, coat hangers, and Robin's amazing forgery skills, he'd probably be in a bunch of pieces scattered across the city.
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4. Romantic movies make him cry. Don't get him started on the time the team watched Titanic…
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5. He isn't sure if his needs to eat food—his body would probably sustain him without it—but meat just tastes too good to give up.
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6. His father still writes him letters. He hasn't responded to them yet and he isn't sure if he ever will but he keeps them, mostly because they always end with the same line: I love you, son.
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7. It's no secret that he loves the T-Car. It was the first thing he ever built on his own, without consultation or help. Instead he used his own two hands and his own knowledge about the way a car works. He designed the blue prints himself, and he assembled the initial frame without any help from his internal computer. He spent weeks building the rest car, and he would have memorized every single detail down to the serial numbers of every single part even if he didn't have an internal memory drive. He's not exaggerating when he calls it his baby.
But sometimes he wonders…is this what STAR labs feels about me
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8. After that Fourth of July with Mad Mod, he decided it was not only his job as best friend but also his civic duty to make Beast Boy read a history book.
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9. He can do the entire dance to "Thriller". He's currently teaching it to Starfire.
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10. He still talks to Fixit every now and then. The guy's still got a long way to go but Cyborg doesn't mind being patient. It's part of being human.
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11. Beast Boy and Starfire scream while Raven and Robin simply wake up shivering but he still envies them that they can have nightmares—or any kind of dream at all.
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12. When he was in elementary school, he got into a fist fight with Charlie Burke over whose mom made the best waffles. He still thinks he was right.
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13. Machines have the potential to exist for many, many years. They can outlast humans. That knowledge absolutely terrifies him because he doesn't want to just keep existing until he's in a world his friends aren't.
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14. In his internal memory files, he's has about eighteen letters saved. All begin with "Dear Jinx" and none are finished.
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15. He misses having hair.
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16. He doesn't like the rain. He knows he's not going to rust but just the thought makes him extremely uncomfortable.
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17. Tofu's not really that bad, if you put enough A1 on it...
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18. He's an only child but sometimes when he looks at his friends and feels that sudden swell of love and pride, he believes he knows exactly what it's like to be a big brother.
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19. He can accept who he is now. It took a long, long time and there are still some issues he needs to work through but he is finally okay with knowing that he's never going to have the normal, suburbanite life he always figured he would end up with. He figured all that out around the time he faced Atlas when it took both his human heart and his machine-made strength to save his friends. He is Cyborg and Victor Stone, and he's made his peace with that.
But he doesn't like to think about any of that because he isn't sure if he should be okay with the fact that more that sixty percent of his body is made out of titanium body armor or that some people are always going to be a little bit scared when they look at him. Most people wouldn't be so what does that make him if he is?
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20. Even without the whole mind control thing, Cyborg knew he wouldn't have stayed at Titans East. Sure, he liked them all and wouldn't have minded working with them for a while but he never would have felt comfortable there. They didn't have an anal-retentive leader, a happy-go-lucky alien princess, a moody half-demon, and a goofball of a changeling, and Cyborg found he had a hard time doing his job without those factors.