Kon鈥檚 soft smile. Bart鈥檚 itty bittiness. The Bi gradient background.
Perfect panel is perfect.
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Absolutely losing it that Tim's strongest, truest anchor to the previous continuity is Conner.
His future self dressed as Batman travels back in time and makes a point to say how much Conner matters to them.
Later in that same arc, Tim doesn't know the name "Conner" but he feels how it tugs on his heart.
And when it's finally time to restore his memories of the previous continuity, even when he sees all three of his best friends as Zatanna reconnects him, even when he has to see them first, it's Conner that he immediately thinks of.
I just find it so interesting that Cassie and Bart are also right there and I don't doubt that Tim loves them as well, but that there's special emphasis placed on Kon, in a way that's hard not to put together with Tim coming out as queer just a couple of years later. Sure, they're best friends, and sure, the whole Super+Bat teamup is a running theme at DC so it would make sense to prioritize that relationship, but also just.
You can never talk me out of feeling it in my very bones that Tim was in love with Kon the whole time, not just in a fun shippy sort of way, but that he was legitimately in love with Conner and felt that so strongly it echoed through even an entire reality rewrite, you could change all of reality and you still couldn't change how much Tim Drake loved Kon-El. That doesn't mean Tim doesn't love others as well, I think he very much loved Steph and he loves Bernard now and may even go on to love others.
But, yeah, I do absolutely for real think Tim was in love with Kon and maybe always will be, a little.
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Bart Allen explaining why his Superboy is best: he gives great hugs and he鈥檚 the perfect height for me to do this! *muffled screams into Conner鈥檚 chest*
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words cannot express how much these panels haunt me. kon鈥檚 lamentations about his fuckedupass life. bart knowing JUST went to slide in and make him laugh even though the world鈥檚 kinda sorta been saved but still falling to pieces. the realization that bart鈥檚 not fooling around for the sake of it, but because he wants to put kon鈥檚 heart at ease. this was the moment we had it in the bag, fucking issue 17, right at the tail end, over twenty years of development finally come to fruition. kon el realized bart鈥檚 where his heart is, just like kon鈥檚 bart鈥檚 lightning rod. it鈥檚 the facial expressions, the pause, the looking back in deep realization that maybe what he needs isn鈥檛 hair dye but his best friend, bart allen, who tore through a crumbling multiverse to find him, and who DID find him. it mirrors this moment:
when bart realized he found the other piece of his soul, even as the universe was crumbling. bartkon is THE lovestory of young justice. we were so close. so, so close
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LOOK GUYS, LOOK WHAT I JUST BOUGHT
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DC needs to just hand me the keys to Gemworld because this? This is not it.
Amy I swear I can fix what Bendis did to you and your lore, I promise!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIM!!!!! continuing my 'draw core four art for Tim's birthday' tradition for the [checks archive] 4th year in a row!!
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Bart spent all that time reuniting Young Justice and now they are all separated again. The fuck.
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Guys
Yall remember that comic panel where conner full names bart? Its modern comics/continuity I just can't remember where it's from and Google search ain't helping.
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