#tim/kon

[polarspaz]

Drake AU

Before he got his bracelet, some of Tim's transformations could be a pit more painful than others.

[blackrubus]

A little sketches with TimCon X) Tim is half-elf (just general citys elf not something special) and Con… Half Elf too))(Well, you know, the normal human Wizzar + Powerfull Elven Wizzard = wtf are you little homunculus………) They studied magic together, they was a lover, now they just a friends… (Sorry I truly love this pairing, but with my gf we have something another))

[cactusspatz]

December recs

Whew, I read a lot of fic in December! My Yuletide recs are here and here, and I winnowed down the rest of them to a mere ten recs.

Click on for Batman, Murderbot, and Goblin Emperor fics!

BATMAN

The Time Before by @cdelphiki

One moment, Red Hood was fighting with Black Mask, listening to the idiot go on about how he'd murder Jason long before he'd become a problem. The next… Jason was ten years in the past, nine-years-old, and fending for himself on the streets of Gotham. Bruce might not know about Jason yet in the timeline, but Batman was the only one who could protect him against Black Mask. If only Jason didn't hate him so much…

Excellent time travel fic!

this kind of weather by r_astra / @heyy-its-skip

Jason’s at school when his mom dies, and that’s the only reason any of it happens. If he’d been home, if he’d been with her, he would’ve been in the wind before anyone else even knew. Even if they looked, no one ever would’ve found him. He’d have taken to the sewers if that’s what it took, man-eating crocodile guy and all.

I love Jason in this, and his friendship with Stephanie, and the identity secrets.

seventeen going under by @bonerot19

"Where's your pops?" Terry shouted down the sidewalk. "Dunno," Jason said. "Haven't seen him in a week. I stopped goin' lookin' for him a long time ago." Hell, Jason was happy with the man's absence. Maybe it would stick, this time. "He owes me fifty bucks." Terry, closer to Jason now, was still shouting. Jason spun around and started walking backwards. "What'a'ya know," he said. "Me too." AU where Jason is seventeen, his parents are alive, he works nights at a convenience store, and everything is about to go to shit.

Loosely inspired by this kind of weather (in that Jason's parents survived longer) but much heavier on the angst and h/c. I'm loving the WIP sequel as well!

coconut and aloe by merils (Tim/Kon)

Tim still doesn’t sit. “I washed it like three times, but my hair still smells like vinegar and death,” he says, and gazes intently into Kon’s eyes. …Ah. Now Kon gets it. “Tim, buddy,” he says, amusement bubbling up in his chest, because apparently Tim can’t just ask like a normal person. It’s stupidly endearing. “Do you want me to wash your hair?”

Soft and sensual and sweet.

MURDERBOT

An Unexpected Quarter by @ilovedthestars

Murderbot is captured by the company, with no one to come to its rescue. Help comes from somewhere it doesn’t expect.

Aimed directly at my id, and a great outsider POV. On a similar theme, I also enjoyed Salvage or Repair by the same author.

words left behind by torpidgilliver

"How do you stand it?" Dr. Gurathin's tone is slow and even when he asks, "Stand what?" SecUnit 3 shares its feelings with someone who might understand.

Beautiful exploration of Three's grief, and a lovely look at Gurathin's life.

Terrible Tactical Strategy by audreycritter

Three is behaving oddly. There's a surprisingly ordinary explanation, it's just that the explanation isn't fun for anyone.

In which Three has feelings about media in an entirely new direction, and a mini breakdown. Achy but kind.

Un/Safe by John_lzhc

Ayda Mensah was in her office cubby, reviewing the last of the council dispatches, when she received an urgent assistance request from Secunit. That… had never happened before. Murderbot has a close encounter of a 3-year-old kind. It is not impressed.

*cackles* Look, Murderbot is so competent that I just can't resist stories where it panics in social situations.

GOBLIN EMPEROR

The Search for Marneise Amalo by Sphragis

"Before we may attend to the truly important aims of our account, we must address a matter that we had rather not. Were it not for the prurient curiosity of the worst kind of people, we would not deign even to introduce the following subject. As we are obliged to speak, we shall keep the point brief: Pel-Thenhior was not marnis. The accusation was always and only vicious rumor." On the (in)ability of love to find expression in the historical record.

Gorgeous fic using historical research (letters, academic writing, and video/interview) to explore the edges of Thara and Iana's relationship and future. Creative and wonderful.

[mouser26]

Gothamite

He can only see flashes of people’s faces in the eerie half-lighting, but a few fleeing shoppers are wearing their own gas masks and respirators. So he and Steph and Babs aren’t the only tourists here today. As he vaults over a bench he remembers a comic that ran in the New Yorker once: A lineup of illustrated kids in a classroom, one child wearing a gas mask. Caption: Spot the child from Gotham - Chapter 3 Buy Back The Secrets by Sundiscus

This was too funny not to draw. Bonus challenge coloring only in B&w Greyscale.

October Art #2

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Tim/Kon Soulmate AU where your soulmate’s name appears on your wrist when they’re born, but Kon (who hasn’t been given this name yet) comes out of the tube all ‘I’m Superman’  so Superman is written on Tim’s wrist and the two boys haven’t even met yet so everyone is like-

Clark, who definitely has Lois’s name on his wrist: 😬

Lois, who definitely has Clark’s name on her wrist:  👀

Bruce, looking at the man who is 20+ years older than his teenage son:  🙃

Tim, who did not sign up for this: 😐

Kon, fresh out of the tube and fuckin up Metropolis: 

I’m Superman

(later on, the Superman on Tim’s wrist turns to Superboy and eventually Kon-El, much to everybody’s relief)

[emperorsfoot]

Fic Idea: Tim/Kon, a/b/o, Dark!Tim, Alpha!Tim, Omega!Kon, but also past Alpha!Kon, clone!Kon, but he has no idea just HOW cloned he is

Tim said he made 99 failed cloning attempts. Tim didn't say he succeeded, once.

Kon is just happy to be alive again. Except some of his memories don't make sense.

"Tim, if I'm an Omega, why do I remember being an Alpha before?" "You don't need to worry about that, Kon. You're an Omega, you're my Omega."

In which Tim does successfully clone Kon-El and program it with all of Kon's memories. As far as the clone is aware, he is Kon-El, the Superboy. Tim just made one small change...

[cerddom]

I don’t know how I’ve never heard this, but apparently in Okinawan martial arts, the long staff (bō) is known as a kon.

[bewaretheboojum]

Fic: Living in a Grey Area - Tim/Kon

Title: Living in a Grey Area

Pairing: Tim Drake/Kon

Word Count: ~86,000

Rating: Matureish

Warnings: AU - Future Fic, AU - Kon Luthor, Canon-Typical Violence, Case Fic, Kidnapping, Slow Burn, Fluff, Angst, eventual smut

Notes: Thanks to @vellaphoria for all the beta help with this story!

Summary:   When Lex Luthor sends his sixteen-year-old son Kon off to rob a Kord Industries warehouse, he doesn’t realize it will be the start of a friendship between Kon and Tim Drake. A friendship that may prove critical to Luthor’s survival ten years later, when he finds himself kidnapped by a violent madman.

Chapter index here

Chapter 1 here

It's all posted now! I hope you all enjoyed it!

I'll start posting my next finished long-fic sometime next week. That one is a JayTim Urban Fantasyish casefic.

I just started drafting my new big project this week. It's a DickTim story that will probably be 80-100K words when it's done if I keep the current outline. I've been in the mood to write ANGRY Dick and Melancholy Tim and Self-Reflective Damian. So much angst. So much drama. So much hurt/comfort. Oh and also it's a casefic, so they solve crimes while being angst-monsters. As the Bats do.

[kittymaine]

Chapters: 9/9 Fandom: Superboy (Comics), DCU (Comics) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Bart Allen & Tim Drake & Kon-El | Conner Kent & Cassie Sandsmark, Bart Allen & Kon-El | Conner Kent, Dick Grayson & Kon-El | Conner Kent, Clark Kent & Kon-El | Conner Kent, Kon-El | Conner Kent & Krypto the Superdog, Jonathan Samuel Kent & Kon-El | Conner Kent, Tim Drake/Kon-El | Conner Kent, Kon-El | Conner Kent & Cassie Sandsmark Characters: Kon-El | Conner Kent, Bart Allen, Cassie Sandsmark, Tim Drake, Clark Kent, Krypto the Superdog (DCU), Dick Grayson, Jonathan Samuel Kent Additional Tags: Kon-El | Conner Kent-centric, Hurt/Comfort, Past Underage, Past Abuse, (i.e. tana and knockout), Family Issues, (i.e. kon & clark's baggage), Future Fic, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Friends to Lovers, Slow Romance, sort of. it's implicit. we're in the late stages of it, the kon&bart is kinda qp, Trans Tim Drake, Nonbinary Kon-El | Conner Kent Summary:

“All children, except one, grow up.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Kon hasn't been a kid in a long time - he's not stuck at sixteen anymore, and he hasn't been for years; he's twenty-three and living his best life. But the past has funny ways of coming back to haunt everyone when they least expect it, and there's no predicting the storm on the horizon for him.

It starts simply, as do most things. Jon turns sixteen.

Jon turns sixteen, and Kon suddenly realizes that if anyone were to treat him the way he was treated at sixteen, he'd tear the world apart.

The revelations, unfortunately, don't stop there.

[mommy-mortis]

“I’m never gonna let you live down the fact that you thought Kon was straight,” Dick said. “That is not a straight guy. He has an earring.”

“That’s a stereotype,” Tim retorted.

“It’s a stereotype because it’s true! Earring aside, his whole wardrobe screams ‘bisexual.’” -

Worlds Collide by rotasha (Ao3)

[froldgapp]

Throws daemon au Tim/Kon fic at you. Based on the amazing art of Tim and his lovely daemon Hannah by @bid-art 

Alone in the tower with nothing to do, a rare occasion. Kon wanted to make the most of it, to catch up on a lifetime of sleepovers, shit-talk and too many snacks. He still wasn’t sure how he managed to rope Tim into hanging out. He was always busy these days. Always racing from one task to another. He always had a harried quality to him, but not he seemed to vibrate with the pressing need to be somewhere other than where he currently was.

But miracle of miracles: he'd agreed to stay behind and hang. Kon guessed it was a “push” from Gotham rather than a “pull” of his excellent company, but he didn’t mind. If there was trouble with the Bats then this was the best place for Tim: out of contact, far away and distracted .

Continue reading here.

[polarspaz]

DrakeAU

Found this old'ish doodle and decided to finish it.

[soleminisanction]

Ooh, for ship bingo, TimKon or Core 4?

[cactusspatz]

November recs

Between Thanksgiving and Yuletide canon review, I didn't do a ton of fic reading in November, so I've got a nice short batch of five superhero fics: mostly DCU, one BNHA.

Frame the halves (and call it a whole) by tucuxi (gen)

Jason gets it, gets the space between them, the way Red Robin keeps his distance. Of all the ways Jason fucked up when he first got back to Gotham, Pit-mad, green-tinted, and chock-full of Talia’s half-truths, breaking into the Tower and nearly killing a kid is the one he regrets the most. Dick or B probably would say something pointed about regretting committing multiple homicides and putting heads in duffel bags, but Jason doesn’t regret any of those deaths one bit. Maybe he’d choose a different duffel bag, but that’s about it.

OR: The one where Oracle calls Red Hood and Red Robin in to deal with a Crane-shaped incident at the docks, a brand new strain of fear toxin is released, and Jason is horrified to discover that he’s NOT Tim’s worst fear.

Tim and his abandonment issues, oh my heart. Also really nice work getting Tim and Jason over the hump into a better relationship without them really talking about things, which is hard to do well but the author nailed it.

To Eat Well by SilverSkiesAtMidnight (gen)

“Here,” Jason says, passing the tray over to Damian. “Go bring Dick this.”

Damian redirects his scowl, but the furrow in his brow looks more curious than angry now. “What is it?”

“Papanasi,” he answers. “It’s, uh. It’s something his family used to make.”

Damian accepts the tray, holding it as carefully as he would delicate electronics. “And this will…make him happy?”

He doesn’t laugh at him. “Nah, kid,” he says wearily. “He’s not going to be happy until he knows his family is safe. But it’ll help."

The ransom call comes the following morning.

In which Tim is kidnapped and Jason stress bakes because he was present but too injured during the kidnapping to go out looking. Lovely character work.

buy back the secrets by sundiscus (Tim/Kon)

He takes a long, slow breath. Ignores the glares from the other students. “Superboy,” he murmurs. “It’s me. If you’re listening, I could use some help.”

Or: 5 times Superboy saves Tim Drake, and one time Tim Drake saves Superboy.

I hardly ever rec WIPs, but this one is SO GREAT and the two chapters so far are standalone so it's easy to hop in. Definitely a loose relationship with canon/timelines, but creative and smart and feelsy, good with the classic problem of h/c vs Tim’s independent streak, with generally amazing voices for Tim and Kon.

Freefall by sage (Tim/Kon)

Kon is asleep, all of his homework finished for once and the farm quiet and peaceful around him, when Tim screams.

In which Kon catches Tim. Harrowing, and then sweet.

One Percent by redrobin1989 (BNHA, gen)

Midoriya Izuku is a boy who stands on the crossroads of many potential realities. In one percent of all realities, he meets All Might and accepts an impossible offer. In others, very different fates await him. A man with the ability to see those alternate lives catches a glimpse of Deku and sees what could have been.

A sharp collection of what-ifs from an outsider POV.

[randoparody]

[comics-centalx]

That's right. You better run.