Beast Boy

Background
Garfield Logan was only two when things began to change for him. Born a typical, average baby boy to biologists Mark and Marie Logan, they brought him along on a trip to Upper Lamumba in Africa. They'd been working on research dealing with genetic codes and along the way Garfield was bitten by a green monkey. He contracted Sakutia, an uncommon disease it was believed only animals could survive and his parents were faced with a difficult choice. Perhaps it wasn't much of one to begin with, as his father attempted to treat him with an untested serum intended to tie together the genetic codes of humans and animals.

He survived but his skin turned green along with his hair and eyes. When he was six, another effect of the serum became apparent. His mother was about to be attacked by a black mamba and Garfield tried to save her. In doing so, he turned into a mongoose. From that point forward they knew he'd somehow developed an ability that allowed him to turn into different animals whenever he wanted.

When he was in his mid-teens, Garfield's parents both died in a boating accident he thought he could have rescued them from, but nothing could change what happened. King Tawaba, who was of a local tribe and a friend to the Logans, helped raise him after that. However, Mobu the witch doctor had a deep-seated hatred for the Logans and sought to have Garfield killed.

A couple Americans took him up on the offer in exchange for the location of a temple full of treasure, but the temple came down and killed Mobu. Garfield was kidnapped by the two Americans and they forced him to commit crimes for them before they killed each other in a squabble. At that point, the United States courts appointed him a legal guardian.

He ended up looked after by an attorney for the Logan estate, Nicholas Galtry. The man was not a very nice person and during a time when Garfield was missing in Africa, Galtry snuck out funds from his inheritance. Even after the courts made their decision, Galtry sought ways to have Garfield killed so there would be no other heirs to the estate.

Garfield would later come into contact with members of the Doom Patrol, who helped thwart the villains Galtry would hire to dispose of him. Over time they worked to expose Galtry's attempts to get the full estate for himself and the courts Rita Farr (Elasti-Girl) and Steve Dayton (Mento) to adopt Garfield after that. He'd spend another year or two with the Doom Patrol as one of their members but further tragedy struck when they were apparently killed in battle.

This led to him going to Hollywood and beginning an acting career in a TV show by the name of Space Trek, 2022. His character's name was Tork, an alien metamorph. The show, along with his acting, was a failure and he stayed with his high-school girlfriend for a time before she was kidnapped for ransom. The one responsible for it turned out to be Nicholas Galtry, trying to get the money back from the Logan estate guardianship. As Beast Boy, he defeated Galtry.

He joined Titans West and began to go through some changes to his shifting abilities, most notable being the forms he took were green. He renamed himself Changeling after a suggestion from his PR people, then joined Raven and the New Teen Titans to battle her father, Trigon. Over time, Steve Dayton vowed revenge against the ones who killed the Doom Patrol, Madame Rouge and General Zahl. He ended up captured and rescued by Changeling with the Titans and Robot Man, but the villains were killed in their defeat.

Garfield struck up a friendship with Cyborg and fell in love with Terra, faked the feelings toward him as she worked to sneak her way into the group. Soon enough, her treachery was revealed and it had the expected negative reactions from Changeling, who had already struggled with feelings of insecurity around the others. Terra's anger during a final battle against Deathstroke and H.I.V.E. led to her death, buried under debris. Believing Deathstroke was responsible for it, he flipped out and went after him only to learn that Terra herself had killed his foster-father in Africa, King Tawaba.

Gar worked to settle back into some normalcy as Jillian Jackson returned and their old relationship was rekindled again. By then, Steve Dayton had begun to suffer from mental issues as he tried to create a new Doom Patrol by the name of Hybrid. Blaming Gar for the original team's deaths, Hybrid was sent by Dayton to battle the Titans before Raven cured him. As a result of this, Dayton tried to become a better father and told Gar he could not be part of the Titans until he brought his grades up. This lead to a hiatus from the team as he started going to public school.

Further problems arose as the Wildebeest Society captured members of the Titans, leading to the ones left behind joining up with new additions to track them down. They were found in Azarath, where once-Titan Jericho was shown to be the leader, affected by Trigon's evil nature. Deathstroke appeared to kill him in a deeply personal moment, giving the Titans the way out. The bad news would keep coming as Titans Tower ended up destroyed soon after and various members were either killed or lost to them. Gar had fallen prey to the influence of the Mento helmet, his forms taking on more demonic appearances as a result. More than that, the darker side of him liked it.

Raven returned in a more evil form with the hope of bringing her dead siblings back. She planted Trigon seeds, or dead demonic souls, in Changeling and other members of the team, leading to him helping attack the Titans to aid Raven in adding to her ranks. Phantasm was instrumental in driving off the evil Raven and Changeling was cured of the Trigon seed at S.T.A.R. Labs. He was able to take his normal shapes again and help them finally be rid of Raven's evil side, leaving her spirit as a more pure, golden one.

Gar spent some time in space with Vic, now calling himself Cyberion, but went back to earth after Vic took too much of an interest in his technological side. Cyberion attempted to convert the moon to a new Technis world but was stopped, Vic's soul saved and installed into the Omegadrome, a shifting battlesuit. Changeling decided to take some time away from things and turned down joining a reformed team, staying in Los Angeles instead.

He attempted to get back into acting but since everyone knew him as Beast Boy instead, he went back to using that codename instead of Changeling. Gemini, the daughter of Madame Rouge, tried to blame him for a number of murders by shape-shifting into him but his innocence was proven with the help of Nightwing and Flamebird. He would soon join a group again, Titans L.A., but it was an overall failure and never got off the ground.

Before long, Indigo, an android from the future, was instrumental in initiating an attack on the Titans and Young Justice before a Superman robot was released and appeared to kill Omen and Troia. Nightwing ended his group of Titans at Troia's funeral as members of Young Justice started a new version of the Teen Titans, including Cyborg, Starfire and Beast Boy. Ending up as something of an intermediary between the older and younger members, Gar found the role comfortable enough for him. The team has expanded while based in San Francisco.

Personality
Garfield Logan is at his core a jokester. In many ways he provides comic relief, whether by telling jokes (good or bad, often the latter) or turning into an animal and acting silly. He's generally friendly and easy to get along with, maintaining a pretty positive outlook on the world around him.

Unfortunately, this is in ways a cover. Beneath the surface, he's very afraid of losing the people that are important to him because it's already happened a few times. His parents died. So did his friends in the Doom Patrol as far as he knows. On top of that, the man who was supposed to be handling the estate of his parents tried to have him killed. Most of what he's known has centered around hardship and tragedy, but he's grown to be good at hiding it.

He can be a bit too trusting in ways, especially when it comes to relationships because he hasn't had a whole lot of luck in that area so far. He wants to be everyone's friend and, just as important, for everyone to consider him theirs. He may accept something in a person that others would question, or just ignore something he ought to be paying more attention to.