In which a twist in time reverses the familiar roles. Now Jinx is the hero and Kid Flash the villain. Leave behind reality and all preconceived notions and journey...
Down the Rabbit Hole is a Teen Titans (2003) fanfic by lizzpercush. It ponders the question of what would it be like if Jinx was a Titan and Kid Flash was an agent of the HIVE. The story provides a lot of backstory to Jinx, following her from 10 years old and thus before the show begins and onward through the fifth season. It currently has 83 chapters of irregular length.
It can be read here.
Not to be confused with the Web Video series of the same name.
Tropes:
- Amazon Chaser: Kid likes Jinx because she's cunning, underhanded and manipulates situations to her advantage.
- And Your Little Dog, Too!: Both Brother Blood and See-More threaten Kid's ill mother to get Kid to comply with their orders.
- Apocalypse Maiden: Slade implies that Jinx could cause an event that would make the coming of Trigon look like a kiddie birthday party.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Besides the reasons listed under "Amazon Chaser," Kid also likes Jinx because rather than letting his bad luck from the Equivalent Exchange kill him, she chose to collect on it and put him out of his misery. No one would have known if she'd let something horrible happen to him. No one could blame her for it. But she chose to stop it anyway.
- Beware the Silly Ones:
- He may be charming, friendly and have an enormous crush on his so-called "arch-nemesis," but Kid also orchestrated a successful jailbreak of the Jump City prison fairly easily and was for the longest time the only member of the Hive 5 that the Teen Titans couldn't capture or track.
- Mumbo Jumbo manages to make freeze-tag, hide and seek and truth and dare frightening. Think about that.
- Birds of a Feather: Jinx and Raven bond over their mutual Dark Magical Girl-Apocalypse Maiden-ess.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Kid is actually a rather competent thief and speedster and rather intelligent... however he hates the HIVE Academy and Brother Blood and only participates in the former because he has to.
- Brought Down to Normal: Mumbo Jumbo captures Jinx and strips her of most of her powers. When she starts doing too well on one of his imposed challenges, he kidnaps Kid and does the same to him to slow her down. Also, See-More manages to slip a good luck amulet around Jinx's neck which cancels out her hex powers during one of her fights with the Hive 5.
- Brought Down to Badass: It doesn't stop her. Even with the amulet, Jinx beats the crap out of the 5 before they manage to catch her and that's only because they got lucky.
- Color-Coded Characters: See-More is all in white, to contrast Kid's Man in Black and Jinx in white.
- Cool Uncle: Jinx can count freakin' Batman and Superman as her cool uncles and Cassandra as her cool aunt.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Jinx's parents are dead and her older sister died in a car accident. Kid's father ran out on him and his mother is very ill. It's also the only reason Brother Blood and eventually See-More can exert any sort of control over him.
- Doom Magnet: Jinx... can't go anywhere without something going wrong or Kid showing up. Or something going wrong AND Kid showing up.
- Eccentric Mentor: Cassandra, who, when not speaking in riddles, doubles as Jinx's surrogate Cool Aunt.
- Equivalent Exchange: To get Kid to leave her alone when she first comes to Jump City, Jinx gives him her rose pendant so that he will pass him HIVE assignment and leave her alone and so that Jinx does NOT have to part with any of the incredibly powerful magical artifacts on her person and cause the end of the world. However because powerful artifacts were on the line, it supercharges the exchange of an already priceless if harmless memento for safe passage through the city. Unfortunately for Kid, safe passage isn't payment enough so he becomes a Cosmic Plaything until Jinx comes back to Jump to complete the exchange.
- Everyone Can See It: Robin, Cyborg AND See-More all knew Jinx liked Kid before she did.
- Happily Adopted: Zatanna Zatara is Jinx's mentor and guardian in the story and Jinx loves her to pieces.
- Hikikomori:Jinx until she's 15 and her friends and family try their best to make sure she's as well-adjusted as possible when she finally does go out and see the world.
- I Know Your True Name: In exchange for her rose pendant and her various charms protecting her on her one day out, Jinx takes Kid's name as payment and also to end his 2 year string of bad luck. He's impressed.
- Male Gaze: The first time Kid sees Jinx as a Titan and the first time he sees Jinx in her natural form where he has to re-hinge his jaw.
- No Name Given: Kid never ever gives out his name during the entire time he's at the HIVE though, including Jinx, there's at least 6 people who know it anyway. It's Wallace Rudolph West.
- Papa Wolf: Despite being a Badly Battered Babysitter, Kid develops this towards Irey and Jai.
- Peggy Sue: As it turns out, getting hit with Jinx's hex puts See-More in contact with canon!See-More's memories, allowing him some insight on what he can do to work the events to his advantage.
- Platonic Life-Partners: Robin and Jinx meet as children at the behest of Zatanna, and despite the bickering and Batman's apprehension, get on like a house on fire, with Jinx even calling Robin her best friend. Kid suspects Jinx may have had a crush on Robin but then he would.
- Power of Trust: Jinx realizes she's completely unafraid of Kid because even if he did catch her, he'd never let someone hurt her. She's proven right when he rescues her not once but three times.
- Running Gag: Jinx calling Robin "Shortpants," Kid stalking Jinx, Jinx drawing unicorns...
- Shipper on Deck: Mumbo and See-More ship Flinx. This is a bad idea.
- Something about a Rose: Roses feature prominently in the story with Jinx and Kid's interactions being kicked off by a rose.
- Villainous Rescue: Kid catching Jinx and mending her hands after her run-in with Slade and later setting her free when the Hive 5 succeeds in capturing her.
- Woman Scorned: This and ambition is See-More's reasoning for going after Jinx so doggedly: he wants vengeance for canon!See-More whom Jinx left behind when she became a Titan.
