More recently, there was an episode that devoted itself to celebrating their friendship as though it was an anniversary or birthday. 'You think you're alone, Raven,' he declares, 'but you're not.' His occasional dips into harmful masculinity aside, such as when chemicals drastically altered his personality into more of an alpha male type, he's a sensitive soul with love for everyone in his heart.
You can see this most famously in the Teen Titans cartoon - his constant emotional appeals to Terra's humanity inspire her to turn on Slade, and Raven only really begins to open up emotionally because of him. With both women, he's wound up playing the role that women normally do in these stories: He's the one who has to appeal to their humanity while they're the ticking time bombs. Both Terra and Raven are proof of this, as they're the constant romantic interests each iteration of his character. Beast Boy is an incredibly romantic person at heart, someone who loves to love and yearns to be loved. It may seem incredibly random to say, but when you step back and think about Beast Boy across the various forms of media he's been in, it makes sense.
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