Tag: core 4

Fic idea: Tim, Kon, and Cassie

I guess this is probably a queerplatonic threesome, and sex is mentioned? Plus the strange gaps in Kon’s knowledge due to his upbringing? Reading shipping fic while being aro-ace sends my brain to weird places. 

 (Possibly squiky to aces who don’t work quite like me? Be careful?) 

 After getting random ‘I’m so grateful you’re back’ hugs from Red Robin!Tim and sort of freezing up that one time, Kon starts making an effort to casually be around him a lot. He keeps up conversations with Tim while moving around the Tower so that Tim follows him from room to room. He sits next to Tim on couches. He normalizes Tim having company. 

 Now, Kon sometimes misses some pretty basic things. Usually, Cassie has his back. Or Tim. But circumstances have left them with three overlapping blind spots:

  •  When Cassie first had sex with Kon at Titans Tower, she had to come to terms with the fact that her obsessively vigilant friend might see the footage.
  • Tim turned off any emotional response to other people’s sexy times early in his career. Surveillance of gross crime lords. ~shiver~
  • Cadmus Labs programmers were a little uncomfortable about programming sex stuff, and kind of glossed over sexual mores.

So when Kon sometimes casually makes out with Cassie while Tim is in their bedroom, nobody realizes how INCREDIBLY WEIRD AND INAPPROPRIATE this is.  

Which means that when she notices and hisses,
‘TIM IS HERE’
one time, Kon looks completely baffled. 

And her,
‘you do NOT have sex in front of people!’
is equally confusing. Which leads to dawning horror as she realizes that they HAVE been. 

 That’s bad. But it’s her panicked,
‘Have you been trying to seduce TIM?!’ that kind of messes everything up. 

(Tim is right there.)

 So Kon’s all,
‘What? NO! He is not in to me AT ALL.’ 

 Because Tim totally had to explain sexuality to Kon and Bart and this involved lots of invasive questions. Neither of them really got the idea of any gender being inherently more attractive, though for somewhat diametric reasons. It eventually led to Tim explaining platonic attraction using their relationships as examples. And being able to provide absolutely no satisfactory labels for himself at all. (I’m not getting in to where exactly I see him as NOT fitting completely on the aro or ace spectrums. It’s complicated.) 

 ‘I mean, I’d be fine if he was – would you have a problem with him having sex with us?!’

Like the idea had never even occurred to him. And she’s all,
‘Of course not!’
without thinking. And then realizes that it’s true. The idea seems completely natural? Not something either is LONGING for, exactly, but if that’s what he wanted?

 At this point, of course, Tim walks out of the room. He is not dealing with any of this. He is going to quietly freak out far away, which is the correct and logical response. 

 Kon and Cassie are also freaking out, because now Tim isn’t going to talk to them for weeks while he avoids emotions. And Kon still isn’t sure quite where he went wrong?

Tim doesn’t talk to them for weeks while he avoids emotions.

Then, some time later, he casually follows Kon and Cassie into their bedroom again. Sits down in a chair and gets out his laptop. ‘Is it okay if I DON’T join you?’ With this arched brow and almost smirk. (There’s no sex that time, because it’s awkward. And this thing with him isn’t about sex. But Tim is there.)

They don’t say dating, because they aren’t, really. Tim is just their best friend. As important to them as they are to each other.

He isn’t particularly interested in being around when they’re making out. But his heartbeat always slows and calms when Cassie and Kon are enjoying being together, no matter what they’re doing. And maybe he sleeps in the bed with them sometimes, because he never really gets over being touch starved. (Not after sex, because the bed is gross. Ew.)

It’s platonic, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t important. There are a lot of different types of love.

liviedoodles:

Tim and Cassie had such an amazing co-leadership and a really healthy friendship pre-N52. Even when they shared one kiss out of grief there was no unnecessary drama and they both came clean to Kon the moment he came back. I really miss this generation of titans.

Stars Unearth Your Fires (ch2/?)

angel-gidget:

Title:  Stars Unearth Your Fires (Ch 2/?)

Fandom: DCU, Teen Titans, Red Robin (preboot)     

Rating:  PG  | Words: 1200 approx | a03 link    

Summary: Tim Drake never thought of himself as a troublemaker as far as Robins go. But a passing accusation quickly escalates into a case of stolen memories, technologically backwards clues from his past self, interdimensional hijinks, reflections on the good old days, and possibly the rekindling of a foregone romance. Eventually Tim/??? Mystery ship!

A/N: I ask that any fashion nerds reading this forgive me for my fake fashion week plot device. Lets just say the DCU has extra fashion weeks bc magic and leave it at that. Thanks again to @kiragecko for the beta!

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The Young Justice comics don’t have a trio. They have a quartet. The Tumblr nickname is usually ‘the Core Four’ or similar. 

CASSIE IS A CORE MEMBER OF YOUNG JUSTICE. She gets equal focus, transfers with the 3 boys to the Teen Titans, LEADS BOTH OF THOSE TEAMS FOR YEARS, is close friends with all of them and acts as Tim’s emotional and moral anchor after Kon’s death – 

Please don’t erase her ‘cause she’s a lady, or because she’s dating half of TimKon.

Please.

batboyblog:

kiragecko:

batboyblog:

Timkon moments, also Depeche Mode Timbo? really?

I REALLY wish that he had gotten to hang out with people while he wasn’t Robin. I wish he had phoned Cissie every day for emotional support. I wish Kon had shown up at the front door the next day to take him up on his offer to hang. I wish Cassie, Bart, AND Kon had shown up the next weekend. And Cassie had glared at Jack the entire evening, because she’s lost ENOUGH friends through their retirements, thank you. I wish we’d had a scene where Jack starts to realize that all of Tim’s real friends are superheroes, and how that he has to figure out how to respond to that.

I’m so glad these 2 scenes exist, but I want SO MUCH more.

(Does anyone know why Kon is calling Steph Tim’s ex? I thought the were still dating at the time, just awkwardly putting off talking to each other?)

Would have been really funny to have them all show up in full costume because they don’t want Jack to know who they are so he’s just tripping costumed hero kids every 15 minutes

If he didn’t chase them out of the house, that would be great! Jack having to deal with infinitely more superhero stuff after forcing Tim to retire than he ever imagined possible. Food from Azerbaijan and the Phillippines showing up randomly in his fridge. Superpowered dogs licking him and shedding on his couch. Her Highness, the Princess Diana of Themyscira stopping by the house and having tea with Dana while Cassie finishes a game of Team Fortress 2 with her friends. Feeling GRATEFUL when Tim puts on the costume again, because all his friends will stay at the Tower where they belong.

But also consider the joy of Jack confronted by ‘civilian’ Bart and Kon at their LEAST subtle. Jack trying more and more ridiculous mental justifications about all their antics because he doesn’t want to face the fact that these kids who so obviously mean everything to Tim are ALSO part of the Conspiracy to Steal His Son From Him. DELIGHTED to meet Cassie, because she seems so normal, only to find out that Cassie doesn’t even HAVE a secret identity anymore. And she casually mentions fighting demigods with Wonder Woman ALL THE TIME.