Astronomy for Amateurs, 1904 / The Overview Effect: Awe and Self-Transcendant Experience in Space Flight, Yaden et. al. 2016 / Carl Sagan

STARSICK

kateprydes © 2023
started ━ may 30, 2021
published ━ december 29, 2023
status ━ ongoing

It's been over two and a half years, by now the homesickness should've subsided. By now Joyce should have gotten used to the way the elemental cocktail that Earth deigned to call an atmosphere stings her the inside of her nose, weighs down her lungs, and leaves a bitter taste on her tongue. It's not home, it will never be, but home isn't what it used to be either; no more sweet melodies of traditional music or the taste of the food she grew up with, even the dance of swirling color between the sky and the sea is a distant memory, several star systems away.

             It's for the best, Mama says, they're safe on Earth and she should be grateful, which she is... But for crying out loud she thinks she deserves a little leeway! Sure this planet hasn't been taken over by evil self-righteous conquers but it's really not far from it. Joyce is pretty sure it's cursed or something, every single day something is attacked or blown up or both! The people are confusing, some of them are good, some of them are bad, and some of them are straight-up evil, and they lie all the time. Now that she's become the Green Lanterns' protégé, it's partially her responsibility to keep these people from being attacked and blown up or keep them from doing it to other people!

            Whatever, it's all a lot, it's confusing and slightly infuriating, and Joyce is simply not about it. It's not like she even wanted to do this, it was the Lanterns and their stupid sparkly green costumes who convinced her mother that they could possibly free their planet. What else was she supposed to do with her stupid powers, not help? Not at least try to help get home to her friends and family? She abandoned them. Might as well have left them all for dead. It's the least she could do.

             It's been over two and a half years since Joyce Avila and her mother first sought refuge on Earth with the help of its Green Lanterns. Joy knows it could be a lot worse and it's not that horrible, not even being put on this silly little team thing, but she's entitled to at least a little anger. Apparently, it's like a totally normal Earth teenager thing.

Joyce Avila / CALIX

content warning: This story may contain mature themes such as explicit language, substance/alcohol use, death, violence, depictions of mental illnesses, and sexual references. I will be putting trigger warnings where necessary.

copyright: I only own any original characters and plotlines featured in this story. Cover by bayports !!!!

other: I formatted this using dark mode and times new roman at the smallest setting. I have no idea if this will affect your reading experience, but this is here just in case something looks weird.

author's note:
hello, first and foremost, i would like to say that i'm writing this fic for me!!! this is me healing my inner child or whatever!!! i fear i will be a preteen in my twenties forever if i don't do this!!! and i'm sharing this with yall as a treat.

for those of you who are new here, yes i did originally start this fic in 2021, i believe i've posted it twice, with two different titles, and two different iterations of the character, neither ever even getting the first chapter published, last being in april 2022. i'm very very excited to share this w yall (again :p) young justice & miss joyce are so so special to me. every version of her character has had different powers that just ended up not being the vibe, bc they didn't connect back to her story in the way that i wanted them to, but i believe i've gotten it right this time, think atom eve with a little taste of psylocke

i have made many an oc in my day and joy is probably my all time favorite, probably bc i'm very proud of the world building i did for her planet and it's lore. like i could probably write a whole ass original comic for her, separate universe and everything, but i can barely write on this silly app so you're stuck with this for now. so she's got her own rogues and a few bbegs and important allies and just so. much. lore. that i've created and i'm very excited to share!! season one will primarily follow the plot of the show with some sprinkles of lore and maybe an appearance or two of a rogue, but if/when i get to season two we'll start really digging deep.

also if you hadn't noticed, i did use green lanterns plural bc cool girls have two mentors! also bc hot writers are indecisive! i've rationalized it, it makes sense in context!

if you read yj fics bc of the team dynamics and the found family, like i do, just so many treats. no spoilers but i do enjoy me some platonic soulmates. i love these characters and i have spent countless hours thinking about joy's relationships with all of them and maybe i tear up from time to time.

that being said, joy's love interest will eventually be dick grayson 🙄 bc once a whore always a whore yk. but don't expect anything more than silly little crushes in season one because they're babies and i'll be focusing on the platonic stuff and team dynamics. it's ok though i totally dont have evil and devastating plans for post-season 1, joy and dick are so ... cute :)

anyway i could literally talk about this fic for hours so thanks for stopping by and hanging out i'm very excited to share this with yall and i hope u love this story as much i do mwah!

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