Apprentice Terra

“I must never betray my friends again.”

**Apprentice Terra** is a Bad End Friend and is a version of Terra who, as Slade’s apprentice, followed through with actually destroying her old team in Aftershock Part I’s first few minutes. Being one of the more combat-oriented Bad End Friends both in terms of powers and fighting experience, she is the muscle of her group.

For her Good End Friend counterpart, see Titan Terra.[4]

## Backstory

At one point, the Teen Titans, consisting of Robin, Raven, Cyborg, Starfire, and Beast Boy, met a young and very troubled girl named Terra who could control earth. Her insecurities about her barely controllable powers were a secret from all of her new friends except Beast Boy, and one monster, Slade, took full advantage of her desperation and anxiety. When Terra accompanied her friends on a mission, Slade lured Terra away from the team and gave Terra an offer to be his apprentice. After an unfortunate misunderstanding, she eventually accepted the offer, resulting in Slade shaping her into a double agent that discovered her friends’ secrets and gave them to Slade. Eventually, a botched attempt to destroy her team, along with Slade showing up at her and Beast Boy’s date, exposed her true loyalties. As much as she tried to keep Beast Boy from rejecting her after the truth was revealed, he broke up with her anyway, leaving her with only Slade to turn to.

Terra eventually resurfaced, now with direct orders to kill the Teen Titans. Unlike in the original show, where the initial attack ended in failure, she managed to destroy the unprepared team the first time. When it came time to kill Beast Boy, however, she did so, but something Slade did not expect happened: she felt intense guilt over her decision. Now, realizing too late the horrible nature of her life choices, she stormed toward Slade and outright obliterated him. Realizing that revenge only made her feel worse, she hid away from the world until she encountered Father Widow, who took a large amount of pity on her. He led her to the other Bad End Friends, specifically Mother Widow. Agreeing to join them, Terra wanted to be called “Apprentice” Terra to both remind her of the awful choices that led her down that dark path that she now wished to atone for and as a way to show people that she wants to be a better person by learning from her new friends.

One day, Terra saw a version of herself from another timeline, one that was more cheerful and hopeful than the person Apprentice Terra became and was still a member of her old team. Intrigued, she assisted that version of herself in rescuing that Terra’s version of her old team. Inspiring that version of herself to make her own group, Terra was the first person in the Bad End Friends to encounter the leader of what would one day become the Good End Friends.

## Appearance

Apprentice Terra wears the armor she wore in the show minus the Slade insignia control device, as she managed to tear it off of her when she opposed her former boss.

## Personality

As a result of her terrible life choices, Apprentice Terra is much more serious than she was previously. Being reminded too heavily about her past upsets her, although her “Apprentice” title now simply serves as a reminder to keep moving forward and therefore serves to motivate her to do better rather than upset her. Being around the Mother Widow and Father Widow, who are her best friends in the Bad End Friends, makes her feel much happier, as they accepted her despite her bad past. Despite feeling like she doesn’t deserve friends, she is thankful that she has some again. Fiercely protective of her new friends, Apprentice Terra intends on never making the horrible mistakes that cost her the team she was once a part of ever again and is a loyal friend.

## Trivia

* Apprentice Terra is the second character from Teen Titans to be a Bad End Friend, the first being Red X.
	+ Furthermore, she is also the first Bad End Friend from Teen Titans to actually have been a Teen Titan.