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Here's a shorter one. Some will be like that, so just a heads up. Enjoy!
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Starfire loved stuffed animals.
Ever since she had seen the giant chicken Beast Boy had won for Raven, the alien had been hooked. Anytime she saw them while she was out, her attention was immediately stolen as she quickly zipped over to coo at the plush toys (unless it was during a battle, in which case she would return afterwards to make sure they were unharmed).
However, Starfire's own collection of stuffed animals was smaller than one would expect, given her borderline obsession with them. She did have a lot, that much was true, but she didn't buy every single one she saw. Though she found them all adorable, very few earned the honor of being bought by her and placed in the limited space reserved for stuffed animals in her room.
No, most of Starfire's stuffed animals were gifts.
Once the other Titans had discovered this affinity also, buying presents for her became much easier. This was the main reason why Starfire had so many animals, but she liked it that way. Not because she was cheap and didn't want to spend money, but because she treasured the animals her friends gave her.
There were four that were particularly special to her.
The first was a small purple bear, one of the first gifts she received on Earth. It had been the team's first visit to the carnival by the piers. Robin had demonstrated how the games worked, winning the bear in the process. Though it was made of the cheap material common to carnival prizes and not particularly appealing, Starfire had been so delighted when she saw the booth operator hand it to Robin that the Boy Wonder couldn't help but offer it to her. The hug she had given him afterwards had equally delighted Robin, though he would have vehemently denied it had anyone asked.
The second animal was a welcome-home present from all the Titans after Starfire's transformation mishap. They had picked out a white, very fluffy unicorn with a horn made out of a separate silver material. She had not yet seen a unicorn, so she had been amazed to see something so adorable with a horn similar to the one she had had so recently. It had warmed her heart to know that her friends cared for her and wanted her around, horn or not, and for that it was special to her.
The third animal was another gift from Robin (a pre-planned one this time). After some complicated math converting Tamaranian years to Earth years, the Titans had managed to figure out when Starfire's birthday was. They had thrown her a party, and when she had opened her present from Robin, a soft brown teddy bear with her name stitched on its stomach in purple cursive, she tackled him in a hug of gratitude that almost knocked the throknar off of her head.
The fourth animal Starfire was so fond of that she could often be found sleeping with it. Surprisingly, it was not from Robin. It was a Christmas gift from Cyborg after the Titanimal incident, who had thought it would be clever to give Starfire a brown stuffed monkey, complete with a red vest and domino mask.
Robin had glared at his friend, but Starfire had been overjoyed. She squealed happily and hugged it, then flew over to hug Cyborg tightly as well.
Cyborg hadn't forgotten his leader, however; Robin also received a stuffed orange tiger (how Cyborg had managed to find one with green eyes – or a mask for the monkey for that matter – Robin would never figure out). Though he had rolled his eyes at it and left it untouched for the rest of the day, the tiger could later be found in his room, sitting on his desk next to a framed photo of the Titans.
A/N:
Soo ya. A little shorter but that's what I'm going for, different moments and aspects of their relationship. Next time it's definitely going to be just Robin and Starfire with actual dialogue and stuff.
Also, thank you to everyone who's read and favorited/followed/reviewed so far! I'm not doing this for the follows or whatever, but I really appreciate them, it's really nice to see that people like and are interested in it. So really, thank you. (:
Also this is irrelevant but Star Wars weekend was awesome. There was a ridiculously handsome Luke Skywalker and I made a lightsaber and yeah lots of cool stuff there, 10/10 five stars would recommend. If anyone has any good Star Wars fics to recommend I would definitely be interested. But uh yeah this is the Teen Titans area so yeah Teen Titans stuff. That new Teen Titans Go! episode ("Hey Pizza") was pretty cute I think.
I'll stop now. Byeeeeeeeeeeee!
-Renee
