"This is obviously a Starfire story, where we are creating a separate universe world where, for one thing, she has a daughter. "To be super clear, this is a version of Starfire, not in continuity Starfire," Tamaki says. "This is a chance to push that one step further, where you have somebody who is literally from another planet, who is looking at her kid like, 'I don't understand you.' It gets to this very human issue of being a teenager and not necessarily knowing how to ask for help and feeling like your parents don’t understand you and the deep frustration of two people wanting to connect and loving each other but not being able to figure out how to talk to each other."īut diehard fans trying to figure out who Mandy's father is (a Teen Titans hero himself, perhaps?) shouldn't take too from this new dynamic. "Generations evolve so quickly now and have such different experiences growing up," Tamaki says. The coming-of-age story features a sweet LGBTQ romance and leans hard into the metaphor that teenagers and their parents are basically aliens to each other. And when someone from Starfire’s past arrives, Mandy must make a choice: give up before the battle begins, or step into the unknown and risk everything to save her mom. But everything changes when she gets partnered with her crush Claire on a school project, and Mandy starts wondering how she's supposed to become who she's meant to be when the only thing she's sure of is what she's not - a.k.a. Mandy would rather move to France and figure things out from there. I Am Not Starfire begins soon after Mandy walked out of her SATs and decided that she wasn't going to college - a change in plans that her famous superhero mother still doesn't know about. "It just seemed like very fertile ground to do a family superhero story about a kid who is so close to that world, but is not part of that world at all because she herself is not a superhero." "I really wanted to do something that was family-oriented and I've always wanted to do a mother-daughter story, and I've always wanted to do a story about a fat character, and it just kind of evolved from there," Tamaki tells EW.
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