Jaime Reyes

## Blue Beetle

**Jaime Reyes** or **Blue Beetle** is a superhero and a member of the Teen Titans.

## Personality

As Jaime is fully controlled by the Scarab, Blue Beetle has to try and pass for human. He is always looking for a mating partner.

## Physical appearance

As Blue Beetle, Jaime resembles an insect in a blue full-body suit, exactly like his namesake. He can extend two large wings behind his back and can transform his limbs into various tools and weapons.

## History

### Origins

While skateboarding outside Kord Industries, Jaime witnessed the building explode and was caught in the debris. An alien scarab bonded with him, taking over his body and transforming him into Blue Beetle, asking the boy how he could become a superhero.

### Teen Titans

Beetle joined Starfire's new group of Titans along with Raven, Beast Boy, and the new Robin. The Boy Wonder was unimpressed and annoyed at having to join the team, brushing them all off and keeping to himself. The Titans later trained against virtual enemies. Robin and Blue Beetle got into a fight, which gravely injured the former. Raven healed him at great cost to her own health. Starfire was pleasantly surprised to see that Robin learned some humility from the encounter, as he apologized to her, Blue Beetle, and Raven, the latter of which he began to grow close to.

Trying to get her fellow Teen Titans to bond, Starfire took them all to a carnival. Robin surprised everyone by facing off against Beast Boy in a dance competition. Raven was drawn away from the action to go meet with her father Trigon. Raven's father was still trapped in Hell, but he had sent his minions to bring her to him and urged her to help him cause an apocalypse. Blue Beetle and the other Titans came to her rescue. By embracing her demonic roots, Raven was able to defeat the minions. She informed her teammates of her backstory. Her mother had been a cultist who took part in a ritual to summon Hades, which ended up forcing her to have sex with Trigon, conceiving Rachel. Monks from the magical land of Azarath protected Raven and her mother in their peaceful dimension, but a bored Rachel accidentally summoned her father and allowed him to destroy everything. Now, Trigon wanted his daughter to open the gates to Earth and allow him to destroy it. The Titans swore to help her.

### The Judas Contract

Blue Beetle continued operating as a member of the Teen Titans. They gained a new addition to their ranks with Terra, a metahuman with geokinetic abilities. One night, the Titans raided a compound home to H.I.V.E., a cultist terrorist organization the team had fought many times. The leader of the cult was Brother Blood, who was constantly trying to take over his home country of Markovia. After completing the mission, the team's mentor, Nightwing, proposed to Starfire. She accepted, much to the joy of the rest of the team. Beetle was somewhat disheartened to learn that his ideal mate (Nightwing) was now off the market, but resigned himself to other mating prospects (like Traci Thirteen).

Terra suffered from nightmares of her troubled past, which caused her to accidentally use her abilities during her sleep, plunging Titans Tower into an earthquake. Raven was able to use her emotion-based powers to stop her teammate's tremors. Terra ended up betraying the team to her true masters, Deathstroke and Brother Blood. Ultimately, Terra was betrayed by Deathstroke and given to Blood with the rest of the Titans, as the terrorist leader wanted to sap the young heroes of their powers. Nightwing arrived and disabled the cultists' machine, freeing the Titans, but not before Blood was able to steal all of their powers. By working together, the team managed to defeat the villain. Furious at her mentor's betrayal, Terra activated the full scope of her powers to kill Deathstroke. She gave a tearful goodbye to Beast Boy and thanked him for being her friend, then brought the roof down on her and Slade as the other heroes escaped. The Titans paid their respects to Terra, with Beast Boy noting that she would always be a Titan.

### Future

A few years in the future, Blue Beetle had graduated to becoming a member of the Young Justice team.

## Resources

### Powers

Thanks to the Scarab:

* **Construction:** Beetle can form different tools and weapons out of his armor.
* **Durability:** Beetle's armor makes him extremely durable.
* **Energy blasts:** Beetle can shoot blasts of energy.
* **Flight:** Beetle can fly.
* **Holo-projection:** Beetle can project holographic images.
* **Sensors:** Beetle's suit has a variety of sensor systems.
* **Super strength:** Beetle has inhuman levels of strength.
* **Technology interface:** Beetle can interface with all manner of technology.
* **Translation:** Beetle can translate any language.

## Appearances

* *Young Justice Abridged*
	+ "Eyes of Fate" (flash-forward)
	+ "House of Cards" (flash-forward, no lines)
	+ "Identity Crisis"
	+ "Seeing Red"
	+ "Father's Day"
* *The Judas Contract Abridged* (unproduced)