(A/N) I wanted to thank everyone who wrote a review for this story or even just read it. It's been fun writing it and I really was surprised to see other people liked it. Thank you for the words of support and encouragement. Just so you know, this is not part of the story. It is an addendum. The title of what FFN is calling chapter 27 should have been a good enough clue. If it wasn't, then you have to tell me who was kind enough to read the other chapters to you. ;-) quillmaster14, I didn't let Raven take Beast Boy into her room because I think should would respect his abstinence choice. It's just the way I believe she would be. However, I can't say I really know that Beast Boy would choose abstinence. Sex is never mentioned in the series, and I would also doubt it's mentioned in the comics, so I chose to interpret that as the characters were the type of people who waited for marriage rather than seeing it as a bunch of writers trying to keep the stories safe for all ages. ;-) Spawn, I chose to use the Scarecrow because of Adonis. I knew that I wanted them to have to fight Adonis after getting pulled back to the tower, but I needed to make him a deadlier foe so that the Titans don't just flatten him. He was portrayed as a less than intelligent surfer type, so I decided he would become more powerful through somebody else's help rather than being able to do it himself. Fear was enticing to me for a power, so the Scarecrow came to mind. Not from Batman Begins, but from Batman: The Animated Series. I haven't seen Batman Begins yet.
Disclaimer: I own everything I'm about to talk about since it's all about my story. I don't own Teen Titans, but I think I could handle the royalty checks if I did.
Tamed – Addendum – Where I explain things that you may or may not have been curious about. Might be a bit boring to those of you who just want more story.
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First off, I wanted to explain the chapter names. I like coming up with names that make you figure out what it's talking about. I'll decipher them here:
Chapter 1 – Yellow, White, and Green – This should have been pretty easy. Yellow for Robin, white for Raven, and green for Beast Boy. They're the chapter's, and the story's three main characters.
Chapter 2 – For Want of Plumbing – OK, nothing to figure out about this one. Raven just wants a bathroom.
Chapter 3 – Deep Green – This refers to how Beast Boy seems to have a lot more knowledge then he normally lets on about, portraying him as a deep thinker. This was also a funny title to me because it reminds me of IBM's chess playing computer Deep Blue.
Chapter 4 – Nine in One – Meant to be understood after the chapter was finished. It refers to how Raven has nine embodied emotions inside her head.
Chapter 5 – Technicolor Teens – Raven's cloak changing colors with her emotions and Beast Boy's green skin. Kind of pointing at the old black and white movies that were changed to color where the color just looked fake.
Chapter 6 – What Color is a Raven? – This and the first chapter are the only chapter titles with punctuation. The question was a hint at the black color Raven's cloak had taken previously, which I used to represent Raven when she wasn't feeling anything at all.
Chapter 7 – A Changed Man – Another one that you're meant to understand at the end. It of course refers to his changing into other people to try and tempt Raven.
Chapter 8 – For You – It's what Beast Boy does for most of the chapter. He gives her a present in his beast form, he changes back from his beast form, and he even tries to look at her side of things. He's a sweet heart.
Chapter 9 – Testy – I was trying to be clever. Name the chapter Testy so people will think Raven or Beast Boy is being a jerk or something, and instead it's about Raven giving Beast Boy a test to see if he's serious about wanting to date.
Chapter 10 – Two to One – Talking about a merger of course between Raven and Wisdom, the first one in the story.
Chapter 11 – Scary Thoughts – Refers to Raven's panic about the coming date and Beast Boy seeing all his worst fears when Raven does that thing to him. (I've never heard it given a name, and nobody else's stories have one made up, so I went with the idea that there wasn't one, and that Raven didn't really know she could do anything like that until it happened with Dr. Light.)
Chapter 12 – Of Moonlight – Their first date! Chapter title is a nod to how Beast Boy compliments Raven's looks.
Chapter 13 – In a Word – This title is so you try and think about what one word describes this chapter. For me it's either kiss or crass.
Chapter 14 – Through the Eyes of a Beast – A Beast Boy that is. It's referring to Cullen seeing everything through Beast Boy's eyes like Beast Boy had with him in an earlier chapter.
Chapter 15 – Over Due – I really liked this title. It's talking about how long Raven waited to rejoin with Intelligence when she could have probably done it right after joining with Crass. It's also a bit of a pun since Intelligence is Raven's memory librarian complete with her library area.
Chapter 16 – Name Dropping – I dropped in the other Titans after not having them in the story for so long, and this chapter marks the end of using the name Cullen for Beast Boy's other form. Robin is right, it's not another person or anything, it's Beast Boy.
Chapter 17 – Pale Sea Green – This is the color that Raven's leotard changes to after her merger, kind of a hint at that happening, but by this point I expected most to be able to guess pretty well when the next fusing would happen.
Chapter 18 – Stuck in the Middle – Raven is kind of between emotions during the whole chapter. She gets a good scare from the rides, but doesn't really show it because she's also feeling so calm at the same time. She's also stuck in the middle of what she thinks she feels for Beast Boy. She doesn't know if it's love or not.
Chapter 19 – The Confessional – Raven decides to tell Beast Boy exactly how she feels about every aspect of him, which after she finishes helps her to realize she does love him.
Chapter 20 – Fused Together – This refers to Raven fusing with her next emotion, Affection, and how because of that emotion being back in full power she keeps trying to keep Beast Boy as close to her as possible.
Chapter 21 – Seeing Red – The title is about Raven having to go see Anger to get her to merge back again and how angry Anger is towards Raven.
Chapter 22 – Everybody Hurts – This one is about how Raven hurts Beast Boy by losing her temper and how sorry and pained she is for having done it.
Chapter 23 – A Strong Fear – It mostly means Adonis with his new powers, cause he's like strong and now everybody is afraid of him. ;-) But it also is talking about how worried Raven is that she didn't get to finish her training before being called back to the tower.
Chapter 24 – Facing Your Fears – Refers to the three boys seeing how badly they're affected by the chemicals and about Robin and Beast Boy going off to fight Adonis.
Chapter 25 – I Fear for You – Just means Beast Boy is worried about Raven. It's kind of a theme of the whole story. Beast Boy wants Raven to be happy, and she struggles.
Chapter 26 – Trick and Treat – A pretty obvious one. Cyborg gets tricked, and Raven gets treated to a nice date.
Chapter 27 – Addendum – It comes from Latin and means something added or to be added, especially a supplement to a book. that's what the chapter titles meant. The other thing I wanted to explain was about the colors.
What I did was use the straight color of each emotion. I didn't try and figure out the shade the show or comic uses, I just got the solid, normal, RGB code color. Then, when I wanted to mix colors, I would add up their RGB numbers and divide each by the number of colors.
For Raven's leotard it was a little different since I wanted it to end up turning white when the last color (pink) was added. I developed a mathematical formula for it. (Sad, isn't it?) In RGB white is Red – 255, Green – 255, and Blue – 255, as much as you can have of each color in equal amounts. If you lower the numbers equally it starts to turn grey. So, since mixing the nine colors of Raven's emotions together and dividing by nine doesn't get anywhere close to actual white, the formula was needed. Simply, whenever Raven joined an emotion, a color was added. At two colors, the formula kicks in. For every emotion beyond the first one eighth of the color mix is white. So, if brown is RGB 128-64-0 and orange is RBG 255-128-0 and I mixed them, I would normally get a kind of dark red-orange with an RGB number of 192-96-0, the two colors' average RGB. The formula makes it instead RGB 200-116-32 because the dark red-orange's numbers are divided by eight and however many colors beyond the first is how many parts are replaced by one eighth white's RGB number 32-32-32. This means that as I got closer to adding in the ninth color that I was using less and less of the actual color mixture and more and more of just white. This also means I really am a geek.
I did this for one purpose only, so I had a visual aid when I would need to describe a color that Raven had changed to. I didn't want to just say her leotard had gotten lighter. Too vague for the way I think and it would have gotten pretty stale after four fusions or so.
Anyway, that's everything I wanted to explain. Thank you all again for reading, and if you've read all of this and it bored you to tears…I did warn you.
Toodles,
Wind Lane