fic: Colors run prime (3/?)

[ayzilia]

Title: Colors run prime (3/?)
Author:ayzilia
Fandom: DCU
Paring: Tim/Kon
Rating: R, for language and themes
Word Count: 2,938
Summary: In the wake of the Wayne-Kryptonian Treaty, Tim and Kon struggle to adjust their dreams, prejudices, and expectations to fit into the scope of their new life together. A/N: This follows My kind is not your kind. Read that

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[ayzilia]

Squee! Thanks for reading and commenting!

1) Yah, Kara creeped me out a bit when I was writing this. Kara especially, but Kon too, have a bit of "Ivory Tower Syndrome" going on. They just don't understand the big scary monster they've been made out to be. Not when most people they interact with praise them and consider them heroes.

They're the royalty of Metropolis and they understand how they view the bats, but they don't see how the reverse can be applied to themselves. They've honestly never questioned that they are the good guys.

2) Ah! Shiva's influence on Tim is one of my favorite things Chuck Dixon gave to Tim's character. Love it!

Reply/Answer: Tim is scared of actually having to fight Kon. He has no weapons in the gym with him. His best shot is trying to project calm and prevent the situation from escalating. That doesn't mean he's not freaking out internally and running through what he should do were he forced to fight. Also Kon really sucks at reading Tim's facial expressions and body language. He hasn't had to learn to pay attention to subtlety. Everyone around him wears emotions on their sleeves and he himself is very straight forward about what he feels. Tim looks blank and calm to him a lot, even when he most definitely is not.

[kuonji14]

1) Yeah, I didn't mention it before b/c I was concentrating on Tim, but I can definitely see the Supers' pov. To them, the Bats are completely incomprehensible. Tim's joke about kryptonite is about as distasteful to them as Kon's accusation to Tim. After Kara's revelation about being hunted, I kept thinking of the Superman/Batman book Search for Kryptonite, where Superman feels this horrible 'shame' and anger about how this one element can render him so completely helpless. To the Supers, Tim is an unstable factor, very possibly a spy or assassin, and they know they aren't mentally/strategically equipped to handle that. (I wonder if Clark feels it is unethical to x-ray scan Tim's packages from home?)

2) I love how occasionally in the books, Tim starts to stray from The Code but always chooses not to. The first time he contemplated killing someone in cold blood, he consciously recalled Shiva and thought about what she would do in his situation. That part of his character fascinates me.

Re: Reply
Oh good! I hope we get to see Tim's pov of this (probably after the fact?), b/c although Tim knew what the Supers are capable of, this might have been the first time he saw it close at hand, and definitely the first time he was faced with Kon behaving this way. I would want to see how he reacts to/analyzes this in the context of his 'mission'.

I can definitely understand that Kon can't read Tim at all. It seems to be implied that in this universe Superman took Kon in soon after they met...? So Kon would have spent his whole life surrounded by people who are emotionally open like himself. Possibly, even though the mystery around Tim drives him crazy, it is also part of what draws him. :)