#ch: kyle rayner

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Kyle Rayner in Green Lantern Vol. 3 (1990-2004), art by Darryl Banks, Paul Pelletier and Chris Batista.

[dc-marvel-crossovers]

Day 1: a magnificent slice of stardust by @bittercape. Roy Harper/Tony Stark, 857 words, rated T.

Day 2: An Adamantium Shovel by @notherdeadrobin. Jason Todd/Slade Wilson & Logan, 3496 words, rated T.

Day 3: The Stockings Were Hung by @betrayedbycinnamon. Bucky Barnes/Jason Todd/Clint Barton, 3945 words, explicit.

Day 4: Can’t Start A Fire Without A Spark by @mightymightygnomepriest. Frank Castle/Jason Todd, 1322 words, explicit.

Day 5: Winter Traditions by @carcrash429. Clint Barton/Ronon Dex (Stargate Atlantis), 1152 words, rated G.

Day 6: Barebow by @artaxlivs. Clint Barton/Jason Todd, 3421 words, rated M.

Day 7: Biggest Fan by @claraxbarton. Clint Barton/Roy Harper, art.

Day 8: Make It Up As We Go Along by @there-must-be-a-lock. Roy Harper/Clint Barton, 4922 words, rated T

Day 9: early next mornin’ (‘bout a half past nine) by @capriciouswrites. Karen Page & Jason Todd, 2212 words, rated M.

Day 10: Just Want You For My Own (More Than You Could Ever Know) by @there-must-be-a-lock. Dick Grayson/Jason Todd and Dick Grayson/Clint Barton, 4461 words, explicit

Day 11: Baby It's Hot Outside by @claraxbarton. Clint Barton/Jason Todd and Clint Barton/Diana Prince, art.

Day 12: Sit By The Fire by @darbydoo22. Steve Rogers/Dick Grayson, 746 words, rated G.

Day 13: On Target by @claraxbarton. Clint Barton/Roy Harper, art.

Day 14: Waiting For Something More by @wyxan. Peter Parker/Michelle Jones & Tim Drake, 2342 words, rated G.

Day 15: Nocking Point by @artaxlivs. Jason Todd/Clint Barton. 5042 words, explicit.

Day 16: any frontier, any hemisphere by @bittercape. Jason Todd/Steve Rogers, 719 words, rated T.

Day 17: Christmas Magic by TheologyDiscography. Clint Barton & Harry Potter, 1694 words, rated G.

Day 18: to hold saltwater in your mouth by @paprikadotmp4. Jason Todd/Bucky Barnes, 598 words, rated T.

Day 19: Wake Up by @claraxbarton. Clint Barton/Jason Todd, art.

Day 20: Birds of a Feather by @carcrash429. Clint Barton/Sam Wilson/Dick Grayson, 1291 words, rated G.

Day 21: all things nature’s given by @carcrash429. Clint Barton & Dick Grayson, 1327 words, rated G.

Day 22: I’ll Take The Dangerous One by @wyxan. Yelena Belova/Stephanie Brown, 2698 words, rated T.

Day 23: In Brightest Day by @claraxbarton. Clint Barton/Kyle Rayner, art.

Day 24: can’t start a fire without a spark, ch. 2 by @mightymightygnomepriest. Frank Castle/Jason Todd, 3468 words, explicit.

[spiritsglade]

18 for rust red, bruised purple, Lazarus green, 19 for redux and 20 for lies of omission+ 50 if you want

[questions for fic writers]

hi nightshadow!! thank you for the ask.

18. If you wrote a sequel to rust red, bruised purple, lazarus green, what would it involve?

ideally i'd rewrite the fic in it's entirety lol. it's a concept i want to expand on someday but it feels very complete? if i were to write a sequel i think i'd do it from dick's perspective, and start it sort of concurrently with lazarus green--following him figuring out that jason is jason, and then catching up with the actual confrontation.

jason himself at this point is... not going to be very open to reconciliation. he just 'revived' his anger in a sense, and the anger itself is a funky little mixture of mostly self-loathing. but dick's the guy in front of him, so dick's the guy he's gonna lash out at.

dick's characterization is relatively fanony in this fic, so i think he'd probably keep trying to reach out, but jason's going to be very resistant about it. potential resolutions:

hurt no comfort, something that escalates to jason shooting dick and telling him to fuck off forever. things never resolve between them and it probably shatters jason's weird unspoken truce with bruce, too. misery all around.

dick manages to get through to him, somehow? forced teamup on an op gone south, something that jars jason into remembering that he actually cares about dick grayson the person (personally i think he does <3 jason views him as his cool infallible brother forever and ever)

something something another fic about the batarang scar. where dick finds out. 100% guaranteed to make things worse in this case, though

in general. lazarus green ends on a 'things are about to get worse/messier' note, so the sequel would reflect that, and i think it'd have to be fairly long to actually reach a more hopeful resolution.

19. If you wrote a spin-off of redux, what would it involve?

long multichapter fic focused on the batfam's grief for jason, their attempts to locate his body, navigating his second death, etc. crime alley's response to his disappearance. i think the penguin actually... did well enough hiding jason that the bats don't know who killed him.

redux is in a weird wfa-adjacent space in terms of what the batfam's relationships are like (as in, i painted them over with a happy everything is fine brush--at worst their disagreements last like, a week,) but i still think jason would operate fairly independently. and so there's guilt, they let him do that.

a couple of people have asked for a fluff comfort follow-up so that's also an option. a sequel of them navigating his apparent ability to spontaneously resurrect after multiple months also? and i think they'd be extremely overbearing/clingy in a way that grates on jason and that could be an interesting mess to explore as well.

many options. redux is one of those fics that make you Think.

(it's also the rare case where i think i'd go with the movie's ending for utrh instead of the comics. jason's overall... mindset is different from the usual. because we're in wfa-land.)

20. If you wrote a prequel to lies of omission, what would it involve?

that period of a year or so after robin #182 (where tim gives jason a jla override code to get out of prison). i think all of this worldbuilding is in the fic already but this is where we have:

jason, essence, isabel, & liam really developing that weird little friendship bond the four of them have going on. and associated untitled hunting.

kyle rayner in his stalking era. jason rebuilding bridges with donna post-'shooting her with bob's gun in a fakeout betrayal' just so they can laugh at him together

jason also returns to gotham intermittently here!! something of a reconciliation with dick. meeting damian. working together.

unfortunately i think it'd end with the suicide mentioned in ch 14 which is.... not a particularly cheery way to go out. alas.

for something shorter, i'd probably just focus on jason's initial return to gotham after the untitled hunting, and realizing dick is being crushed under the weight of the batman mantle and choosing to help out. the dick & jason reconciliation is important to me.

could be a fun little case fic while establishing what those character dynamics are like :] i do like lies of omission's au-verse a lot but i don't have any solid plans to write anything else for it at the moment... there's a half formed concept for a cass-centric sequel but i don't know where i'd actually want to go with that at the moment.

[pegasussomnus]

The lack of existence of, one-sidedness and toxicity of Tim and Steph's current "friendship"

So after Tim's UL thing many people are acting like he and Steph have now transitioned into "platonic besties" or something. Aside from the fact they have NEVER had this dynamic at all throughout their histoy, this write up will explain why the current 'friendship' of Tim and Steph after UL is pretty non-existant, one-sided and frankly kind of toxic.

The first thing to note which is what people use as "proof. Tim introducing Steph to Bernard.

People talk about how 'cute' or 'a sign of trust' it is, but they seem to be overlooking one crucial fact. Tim did it without even asking Steph first or telling her they would be meeting him.

Let's be honest introducing your ex to your new partner without telling your ex is a selfish move as while you may be over your ex, your ex may not be over you and it might be hard for them to see you with someone else so quickly, especially in this case as Tim just apologized for treating her badly via ghosting her and being a jerk to her. The fact the whole time Tim was planning to introduce her to Bernard even before he talked with Stephanie shows he was planning it without taking her into consideration at all and not giving her her own space to properly deal with things.

When Kyle Rayner met with Donna while with Jade after he and Donna's relationship ended on bad terms due to her ghosting him (it was because her son died BTW) and more or less ending the relationship in a way that hurt him a lot, he properly gave Donna a space to deal with it and didn't include Jade in it as he knew Donna as someone he loved a lot even if it was over needed his undivided attention here to deal with loose ends. He told Jade this before going to talk to Donna even.

So Tim comes off as incredibly selfish and unintentionally manipulative as he did this right after laying a lot on her with the apology, telling her why he ghosted her, and in public, doesn't give her really time to process things and puts pressure on her to just take it as a bad reaction in public would be bad but also after Tim laid this on her and they reconciled might alienate them even further which Stephanie didn't want as was shown by her attempts to mend things in UL and how much it hurt her.

And Tim not even bothering to even really ask her how she is doing or for her full perspective before doing this was also conceited as again he was ghosting her for a long time. All she did was just reiterate what we and the audience already know and he in the past has pushed Stephanie to express her feelings to him and be frank, so not even doing so and being satsified with her just saying what he already knew felt self-centered.

Not to mention Stephanie's entire reaction made her look like she has no self-respect as Tim:

A. dumped her without a reason

B. Acted like an asshole to her when she tried to help him

C, ghosted her

D. lied that she was ghosting him

E. Only apologized after he met her by accident (where he wished he wasn't there) and her life was in danger

F. Introduced her to his new BF after all this without asking her first while she is still getting over him as Batgirls annual showed

Like aside from clearly using her as a prop it is so bizarre. Introducing your ex to your new partner after all this and in the manner Tim did comes across as flaunting and Steph just taking it is so weird. Like knowing that she still isn't over him and combined with her normally low self-esteem (which Tim knows about) it makes it look like Steph feeling pressured (not necessarily by anyone in particular but by herself) to act supportive because she feels obligated to. Like the fact she hasn't even brought up she still isn't over him to Tim and just acted the way she does further makes it look like this, which again provides a pretty one sided dynamic that comes across as toxic.

This brings into how subsequent interactions again show Steph being this ultra supportive cheerleader but Tim not reciprocating anything really.

Like in issue 4 of Tim's solo, Steph ask's if things are okay with Bernard (of course she does will get to that later) and Tim doesn't even really reply and just moves things back to the case. In fact their interactions throughtout the issue are completely dry and strictly business related. Compared to when he interacted with Dick in issue 5 and opened up about his insecurities in branching out or Kate in issue 8 about the times they've bonded and other things, him being so dry with Steph feels odd. They have him say he "trust Steph and Cass" the most but everything is just business related and this "trust" is only vigilante wise it seems. Like he doesn't even ask Stephanie how she is doing or what's going on in her life. Given issue 2 Tim says he's worried about "ruining things like with Steph" or how in isuse 3 Tim claims he "loves that she's the most unpredictable person" (which was a pretty lackluster description/summation of her compared to how he summed up Dick as the "coolest person he knows" and Damian as his "brother" which fully captures what they mean to him. This description of Steph seems only like something vigilante related which is where her unpredictability comes from and again only an aspect of it) him treating her so drly and professional is just odd when he is more open with Kate than her and again like a friendly work acquaintance at best, which shows he is still keeping her at a distance.

Not to mention how in issue 8 we later see  Stephanie literally dancing over him and Bernard being together in the montage of him recounting he and Kate's bonding moments involving the Batfamily. it is implied this took place not too long after the whole introduction to Bernard which again was pretty bizarre for the reasons I said above. so her doing this after the whole thing again makes her look like she has no self-respect.

This ties into how Tim only seems to involve her in his life when it comes to Bernard/how the author only uses her as. Like the only non-vigilante thing she ask's about is Bernard in issue 4 and in that montage of issue 8 the ONLY time Stephanie shows up in his interactions with the Batfamily in this issue is with Bernard while, Dick who is the closest to Tim apart from Steph shows in two montages, but for Steph it's only this one. Like when moving on his boat in the montage with Dick, he asked Kate, Barbara, and Darcy over Steph for help despite it being a supposed important step in his life. Like he'll include her with Bernard related stuff but other important stuff he'll go to people who are less closer to him for? It makes Tim look like he's using her to validate his new relationship and Steph going along with it makes her just a pushover

It doesn't help how Tim in other instances says/thinks some questionable things about her and their history. Like in issue 1 he thinks about how he was 'settling' before Bernard and how Stephanie would hate his boat after thinking about how much he likes it there and what it represents to him in terms of branching. Like Stephanie was giving her own thought box and HATE was emphaszied while the other Batfamily were grouped together and no emphasis on their reaction and they seemed more like light hearted sentiments/commentary/jabs at their reactions especially with the use of the word hate which is pretty strong and how it was emphasized.

There was also how in DC YJ when "Batman" and "Wonder Girl" in the fake world said Tim should get back with Steph, in that stupid scene, they did so in a way that makes it look like Steph only likes Tim for his vigilante identity via saying she would want him back if he was Batman like she's hero equivalent of a girl who wants to date the most popular jock and painting her as shallow yet Tim doesn't defend her or even care about the slight against her.

Their is also way he talks about her to Connor in DC Pride 2023. Like in the Pride Special Tim claims says she was "everything he ever wanted and more" yet aside from saying he was settling before Bernard, here he says he was really avoiding her because she was a reminder of a past of letting other people define him and he was invested in the relationship on to avoid examining himslef on purpose......

only mentioning how she was a reminder of a past he wanted to avoid and only in a negative connotation and how hard it was for him to be around her and not the fact of how he hurt her in then process and not how she became supportive of him (really shows how Steph in supporting Tim being bi is just used to shill Timber) when he talked how supportive Bruce was when we haven't seen it and he wasn't to the extent Steph was (who he also didn't treat badly and also mentioned as part of letting people define him though weird how he didn't have trouble being around him, but it just shows how they are framing Steph as the 'closeted' past or a barrier to bi Tim....) makes Tim look unappreciative of her and incredibly self-centered.

And like the final point is how Tim again hasn't shown any kind of support for her at all or even tried to be there for her in any way. Like even his 'talk' with her in the Pride Special was all about him. So the lack of support and the way he is still keeping her at a distance makes him look really self-absorded. It makes their 'friendship' all give and no take.

TLD DR: Tim and Steph's current 'friendship' is basically non-existant, one-sided and comes off as kind of toxic due to Tim coming across as self-centered and Steph like a pushoever with no self-respect

[dcmultiverse]

Kyle Rayner in Green Lantern #2 (2021)

[whitelvntern]

Kyle and Donna in Green Lantern Vol 3 #62

art by Darryl Banks

[revans]

[grillsdontcry]

That's hilarious.

tragic

[lavampira]

among the reasons why kyle rayner is one of my fave characters

mixed mexican (like me!)

occasional moments of hilariously bitter snark

hopelessly in love with the idea of love

sentimental doofus

but also so attuned to his emotional range that he becomes the white lantern

capable of So Much

basically he’s half mexican space jesus

[whitelvntern]

Kyle Rayner and Hal Jordan || Green Lantern and Parallax

Green Lantern Vol 3 #63 (1995)

art by Darryl Banks

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Kyle Rayner & Connor Hawke

Green Lantern Vol. 3 #77, art by Paul Pelletier

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Mary Marvel beating up Donna using Kyle as a weapon in Countdown to Final Crisis 3

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Lanterns of Earth in Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #33 (2017)

art by Jack Herbet

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Kyle Rayner and Donna Troy || Green Lantern and Darkstar

Green Lantern Vol 3 #61

art by Andy Smith

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Kyle Rayner and Kon El in Green Lantern Vol 3 #94 & Superboy #47

[whitelvntern]

Look, I don’t know if this is the way you’re supposed to do this, but my name’s Kyle. Kyle Rayner.

Pleased to meet you, Kyle Rayner. I’m Connor Hawke.

Kyle Rayner and Connor Hawke in Green Lantern Vol. 3 #76

art by Paul Pelletier, don’t repost