"There's no rule that says you have to be a prodigy to be a hero," she insisted. "If people wanted to stand up for themselves or protect their loved ones or do what they believe in their hearts is the right thing to do, then they would do it. If they wanted to be heroic, they would find ways to be heroic, even without supernatural powers."

—Marissa Meyer, Renegades

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FIRST AND FOREMOST, Julien "JJ" Jones is not a team player. She is coldblooded and focused and insufferable (though nobody can quite say that to her face; it's just not something you say to a friendless orphan who can and will verbally rip your self-esteem to shreds). She is obsessive and arrogant and critical to the point of cruelty, but she is also Gotham Academy's fastest, most talented rock climber, an industrious gold-medallist athlete with a future. Not a team player. Rock climbing is pretty much a solo sport, anyway, and ever since she could remember those two words—climbing and solo—have been the backbone of her life's dedication.

A near death experience and an abrupt revelation that JJ isn't exactly normal brings Dinah Lance—AKA, Black Canary, AKA, JJ's older sister's girlfriend—to the conclusion that in order to control her powers, JJ must be exposed to people who're more like her.

Suddenly, instead of training camp—which, by the way, is absolutely crucial to her guaranteed success this season, since the competition's only getting fiercer, and JJ has set her sights on the #1 spot on the podium—she's running around with some half-baked junior Justice League club, wasting her time fighting crime when she could be rock climbing and figuring out a game plan to take this season by storm with her coach.

So, anyway, that's what she's been up to this summer. Learning the power of friendship and whatnot.

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JULIEN "JJ" JONES
"Codenames are stupid. Just call me JJ."

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SOUNDTRACK.
fuck second place

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                  TIMELINE:

                  PART i.      SEASON 1
                  PART ii.     SEASON 2: INVASION

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WARNINGS:
mental illness, mentions of suicide,
unhealthy coping mechanisms, drug abuse

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AUTHOR'S NOTE.

(aesthetic for JJ was made by bIoodbender !!! my best gorl ❤️)

ah. jj. my emotionally repressed baby....... queen of emotional unavailability..........

i've always wanted to write about a rock climber OC bc i'm a rock climber and i wanna project my interests onto aforementioned OC lol but i could never find the right fandom to integrate her interests in. until i rewatched YJ a few days ago and this Happened.

i've taken this fic down so many times bc i've just..... never been able to flesh jj out enough... if u catch my drift. but this time i have it. THIS TIME she is more real to me because this bitch Is Me.

(jj is 15/16 in s1, 20/21in s2)

anyway. I JUST WANNA TAKE A MOMENT TO SCREAM ABOUT HOW MANY OTP TROPES IM GONNA THROW IN HERE BETWEEN JJ AND THE TEAM!!!!!! BUT THEY'RE MOSTLY GONNA BE PLATONIC. ESPECIALLY DICK AND JJ. PLATONIC SOULMATES. LIKE..... Y'ALL KNOW ME. I LOOOOVE THE STUDY OF CHARACTER DYNAMICS AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT SO MUCH. IM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!

dick and JJ are gonna be a very special friendship to me. i wouldn't even classify them as a friendship. they're more than that. they are soulmates. but not in a romantic way. i invest myself in all my character dynamics but this platonic pairing is like my #1. i sold my SOUL to this pair. rio and sawyer from SKOD are already my blueprint for platonic soulmates but dick and JJ??? WHOLE OTHER LEVEL. i promise you.

AND ARTEMIS AND JJ????? snark queens. queens of shutting people down FAST and eviscerating them verbally as well as physically. badass duo. favourite gorls.

kaldur and JJ??? also a very very interesting pair. guy with ASTOUNDINGLY UPRIGHT moral compass and a soothing(?)/level/cool/respectful personality with a girl with a frosty/cutting personality who does not give a fuck about saving the world/does not give a fuck about anything outside of her self-interests because "there are better things to spend her time on like Rock Climbing" (literally Shut Up JJ).

AND WALLY AND JJ. sunshine boy who is actually so smart and yet such a chaotic dumbass!!!! and ice cold stuck-up bitch with 0 patience, 0 tolerance for bullshit. they're going to be so fucking fun to write. like.... this Encompasses their dynamic as a whole:

(yellow: wally + grey: JJ)

conner and JJ....... terrible combination. explosive little boy with prickly, intolerant girl...... until they reach a mutual understanding. I WOULD DIE FOR THIS DUO.

megan and JJ...... poor megan (at first)........ but VERY PRECIOUS IN THE END I WILL NOT STOP RAVING ON ABOUT MY GIRLS...... yall can already tell what otp tropes im throwing into this platonic pairing

anyway i made JJ on piccrew and.... i felt so unjustly judged by her even while making this