This choice: Large and in charge. Let's go see my adoring public • Go Back...Chapter #4I'm here. I've got a giant rear. Get used to it! by: Unknown Raven asked Robin to think up an excuse for them to appear in public and Robin did. The Mayor of Jump City was always looking for excuses to be seen in public with the incredibly popular and telegenic young heroes who guarded the City.
Raven watched from off screen as Robin, standing in front of the 6 foot wide screen in the communications center. He was very clever. Didn't you want to give us some sort of junior role models award Mr. Mayor? We've got a little down time now so maybe we could have the ceremony tomorrow morning?
Of course, Robin was making the whole thing up but the Mayor immediately claimed that he had been about to do just that. He said tomorrow at 10 at City Hall would be perfect.
At 10 am the next morning, the Teen Titans arrived to the cheers of a couple thousand fans at the front steps of City Hall. They lined up behind the Mayor at the podium. He grinned at them but then his jaw dropped at the sight of a nearly 500 pound Raven eating a jelly doughnut while she stood there. He rushed over to Robin.
"Is she okay? She's-she's . . huge!"
"That's the real her," said Robin never turning from his stare out toward the crowd.
"But . . she was always so . . um, cute looking?"
"She says that was a spell cast on her by an evil mage."
The Mayor sighed in frustration. They were all a bit freakish, except for Robin and the Kid Flash boy and he wore the tightest outfit not in a ballet. But this was too much. Raven wasn't cute or interesting now like the green boy or the girl who looked like she'd overdone the sprayed on tan. Oh, what the hell were their names?! She was just plain . . . fat!
The mayor spoke for a minute about what great role models the Titans were for Jump City's youth. Then he turned over the podium to Robin. Only, to his exasperation, Robin immediately turned it over to Raven. She waddled up to the micro, still eating her jelly doughnut.
"Hi, everybody. You may be wondering why I look like this. Well, this is the real me. That weird skinny version of me was the result of a spell cast on me. I was never comfortable in that skinny body. It always felt like the real me was trying to burst out. It wasn't even mentally comfortable. It included a element of amnesia so that I would forget what I really look like. And this is the real me," she said squeezing the sides of her massive, spherical body.
"But don't worry. I still have all my powers and I'll be just as good as superhero even though I'm no longer a skinny butt like him or him," she said gesturing to Kid Flash and Beast Boy to her side.
She took some questions and immediately divulged that she now weighed 487 pounds. She posed for pictures, letting photographers shoot her from the front, with her massive cow udder breasts and from the rear with her pachyderm-like butt. Then she flew off with the others, carried by a spell of black energy.
The press was merciless. For the next few days, every paper, tv station showed pictures captioned with things like "Ate the Raven, Ever More" and "Super Fat Super Hero".
Separately, all of her teammates offered support to her, worried that the scathing criticism would hurt her. But she was immensely strong about it. And true to her word, she was just as good a super hero as before.
Running speed and gymnastics had never been the strength she brought to the team anyway. She conjured up power from other dimensions using spells. And, if anything, she was more powerful now. It had nothing to do with her newly corpulent body but with the peace of mind it gave her that she was helping girls who couldn't live up to unrealistic standards of slenderness. Though it was hard to cross her legs the right way any more. She had to get help from Beast Boy once. Her thighs were so thick now. Her mediation improved as well.
Doctor Light thought he'd greatly improved his powers, some kind of photon ray supposedly. The Titans rushed out to stop him. He zapped Kid Flash and Beast Boy and was aiming for Starfire flying above. But, Azareth, Metrion, Zinthos! She projected enough black energy to wipe him out easily. She crushed cinder block like nothing a few days later.
It was true. The others could tell. She was even more powerful now than before.
And then a funny thing started in the press. Editors, writers and photographers who didn't look anything like models in Vogue or GQ but who'd always been embarrassed about it started to feel a little less defensive. An item or two in the Jump City Times actually made fun of what skinny asses Robin, Beast Boy and Kid Flash were. Another piece worried that Starfire was anorexic. And then there started to appear puff pieces, not many and not frequently, but they were definitely there, in newspapers and magazines, on Fox news and CNN. They started doing positive pieces about Raven.
The momentum swung so far around that the Teen Titans boys had all spent a time or two in front of a mirror not luxuriating in pride at their slenderness but wondering if they weren't too skinny.
At dinnner one night, they all told Raven how proud they were of the change she'd made in people's attitudes and what's more . . .  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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