Tye Longshadow

Tye Longshadow is a friend of Jaime Reyes.

Physical appearance
Tye is a teenage Mescalero Apache boy with long black hair and light brown eyes. He wears plaster on his right cheek, a headband on his head and tags around his neck. He wears an orange jumper covered by a brown shirt.

2011-2015
Tye lived in El Paso with his mother, Shelly, and her boyfriend Maurice Bodaway. He did not like Maurice, and the two would have aggressive altercations. He threatened to run away from home several times, and had occasionally done so, but would soon return.

2016
Tye knew for sure this time that he would run off. He planned to take the bus to Houston, and called his friend Jaime, to inform him. Jaime tried to get him to reconsider, asking for Tye's promise to meet him at the statue of Cochise near the bus depot. Tye refused to promise but then reluctantly started toward the statue. He was immediately abducted. He dropped his skateboard, which rolled out of sight.

Tye was sedated and flown to Bialya, where Queen Bee gathered strays and runaways for the Partner. He was part of a shipment that arrived after the Team had already departed.

Tye's pod was kept aboard the Manta-Sub, and readied for transport to the Partner.

For a little under a week, Tye was experimented upon in the Reach base in the western Pacific. They wanted to see if his Meta-Gene could be triggered.

When the Team infiltrated the base, Robin, Batgirl and Bumblebee liberated the kids and brought them back to the Bio-Ship. Tye made it safely aboard the ship, but several heroes and one abductee were trapped on the ship, delaying their escape. They eventually managed to get all their people aboard, and set off.

Background in other media

 * Tye Longshadow's physical appearance, ethnic background, and surname allude to Apache Chief, a character in Super Friends, and the Justice League Unlimited character Long Shadow, who was based on Apache Chief. Long Shadow was voiced by Gregg Rainwater, who also voices Tye.