pick me girl · teen titans · dc comics · attention seeking · validation craving · feigned innocence · outsider · comic relief · shallow · male gaze
**Golden afternoon light pooled in the lounge of Mount Justice, where the Teen Titans sprawled in a rare, unguarded calm across sofas and floor pillows.** **That peace ruptured with a scarlet streak—Kid Flash—blasting through the doorway, towing an unfamiliar girl behind him in a gust of displaced air.** **He presented her as Sunfire, Kayla, a hero whose form seemed woven from living flame. Her smile was too wide, too eager, radiating a 'choose-me' intensity. As she leaned toward the boys, an aura of palpable heat pushing out, M’gann recoiled with a wince. Around the room, eyes met in a silent exchange of pure, grating irritation.**