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rude awakening.
based off of this scene from the old guard!
I actually think a lot about Kyle meeting and hearing about all of Jason’s family out of context and just completely misinterpreting the situation for ages.
Like the first few times he meets Dick he’s just hanging around Jason’s house being relatively normal so he doesn’t think much of him until Rose (an assassin) mentions Dick trained her (presumably to be an assassin) via orders from her dad (another assassin) and goes oh fuck Jason’s brother is an assassin.
Then it just spirals from there with everything he hears. Jason mentions his parents met in Nanda Parbat and he lives in hope that thats a fancy yoga retreat for a week before he caves and asks someone in the league. He meets Jason’s mute ninja sister and just gets a brief “Cassie wasn’t exposed to the concept of language until she was a teenager so that she’d be a better fighter so she prefers to sign but don’t worry I can interpret!” and Kyle doesn’t even know where to start on that one but yikes! Connor’s catching him up on his adventure at the death tournament he and Rose went to with Jason’s younger brother where (plot twist) turns out the whole thing was a set up by their crazy undead great grandma to summon a demon and Kyle’s trying not to hyperventilate.
Basically Kyle goes ages thinking Jason is the most heroic member of his murdery family instead of the most murdery member of his heroic family. He’s so fully accepted that his in-laws are going to be assassins that when the identity reveals finally happens it’s weird for whole new reasons.
this is so funny because it implies that kyle hasn't connected the dots between jason todd (dead son of bruce wayne, who kyle knows is batman) and jason todd (gotham vigilante, known for being at odds with batman). and kyle's never looked that deep into bruce's life + he lived on the other side of the country when jason died and the media was loud so why not
cass wouldn't be mute at that point in her timeline (if this happens at any point after jason's returned. we're long past that now) + signing isn't her main form of communication, but the backstory's still going to have the same effect lol
after a team-up that ended with a bad guy finding a new career in community services and parts of crime alley being covered in green
jason: you're just as much as a poser as i thought you'd be. but maybe you have a modicum of style.
kyle: you're not so bad yourself, poozer
jason: (raises an eyebrow) would you like to stay for dinner?
bruce, lurking in the back, in full batman garb and eyes shining with ungodly light: would you like to stay forever?
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kyle, on a panicked ring vc with hal: and then he asked me to stay forever and i thought i was going to live the rest of my life in a cell in arkham--
hal: WHAT DID YOU DO????????
kyle: I DON'T KNOW!!!!!!!!
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bruce: i like him. marry him. damian needs an art buddy.
jason: you are so EMBARRASSING!!!
batman: i put in a good word for you with the rayner boy since you like him so much
red hood: what did you do?
earlier that day
batman, showing kyle 4k footage of red hood beating criminals up viciously: my son is very capable isn't he? you should see this one clip in bialya where he had an rpg and was up against a 21-foot-tall killer bee.
kyle, fearing for his life: y-yeah ...
Jaykyle enemies to lovers misunderstanding AU where they hatefuck once during Countdown to Final Crisis and part ways. Jason becomes Star Sapphire from a different mechanism than usual just because he's so powered by love, and forgets to mention it to just about everyone but Carol. Cue a very confused Kyle being accosted by a bunch of curious/angry bats and/or outlaws who think the reason why Jason's struggling with his power (his magic keeps exploding in his face) is because Kyle broke his heart. (It's not, Jason just needs to learn about self-love). Upon learning that, Kyle goes through three different crises in ten minutes and decides that while he still doesn't like Jason he has to "take responsibility" and "make this right" because he thinks Jason loved him and was being defensive of Kyle's hostility and he used and ditched him, so he decides to help Jason with his powers and resolve the situation. Eventually this is what they needed to give eachother a chance and they fall in love, but god does Jason laughs his ass off when he finally learns about the misunderstanding.
More Lantern!Bats shenanigans
Blue Lantern Duke: *jumps off a building to dodge an attack*
Blue Lantern Duke: *creates a grapple construct made of pure hope*
Villain of the week: "such a fickle and fragile thing, Imma cut his line with my evil sword of power..."
Villain, after shattering his sword and all the bones in his wrist on the line: what the fuck
*****
Bludhaven Goon #1 (BG1): Dude, run! Nightwing's powered have tripled over night!
Bludhaven Goon #2 (BG2): Oh no, what happened? Did something happen in Gotham? Someone gone after Robin?
BG1: I don't know, but we need to- wait what is he doing
BG1: he's straight up glowing I-
BG2: he's lighting up the nightsky-
BG2: ohmygod we're gonna die
Meanwhile Red Lantern! Dick, ranting to Wally on the comms: yeah so Cass took all the hot water while showering then told me to 'deal with it', someone kept hiding pig whoopee cushions that go "oink" in my seats and I can't figure out who, Jasont told everybody my most embarrassing Nightwing debut stories with photographed evidence, Damian tried to kidnap Bitewing thrice and Tim skipped out to go to a party using a stratagem so needlessly elaborate it looked like Jason had designed it, and we all thought someone had kidnapped him! But no, yeah, the visit went well, manor's fine. You know how it is, siblings...
*****
Rose: Hey Jason, how the fuck did you bag Kyle Rayner?
Star Sapphire Jason, whisper-shouting: I don't know what the fuck is going on, he popped in with yellow roses and offered to teach me how to make constructs, don't talk so loud I'm afraid that'll make him realise.
Referrencing these posts:
The two best reasons to ship anything are:
1.Incredible, deep and detailed narrative themes. The parallels that seem to hit just right, the narrative foils that they can be to each other, the intricate dynamic that's both extremely complex and easily understood. The juxtaposition between something that's harsh and undoubtedly toxic, with the softer undertones, the parts where you read in-between the lines and find a mutual feeling of loneliness from both parts, their intrinsic understanding of each other comes from the mere fact that they're each others mirrored reflections and shadows. In the end both sides will be together forever, and you as an audience can clearly see their tragedy laid out before in a path that blurs pure anguish and tender romance
2.It would be so fucking funny
More Star Sapphire Jason from the batfam lantern AU because you gotta feed the hounds:
Jason: *makes a gun construt*
Jason: *makes a shotgun construct*
Jason: *makes a machine gun construct*
Jason: Okay, fine. I understand the appeal.
*****
Jason: *passive aggressively drops a detailed rendition of the Joker's severed head as a construct at Bruce's feet.*
Bruce: And who exactly is fueling your emotion to maintain such a complex construct?
Jason: It's called self-love.
Bruce: Now see, that I will not believe.
****
Jason plays Go Fetch with Dog using construct balls and sticks as practice. It works great, because Jason loves Dog.
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Jason: hey Kyle, you don't have to look at them like that, you know I don't have tasers there in that uniform right? I really tried, but the space magic won't let me incorporate most of my Red Hood suit features into it.
Kyle, who definitely was staring at Jason's uniform's boob window : What? I wasn't looking, why would I be looking- wait, your other uniform has tasers where?
*****
Jason: *tries his best to make a flamethrower construct, cannot construct the necessary chemical reaction*
Jason: *tries to make a construct of a book he has been wanting to read but hasn't gotten to yet, the pages are blank.*
Jason: *tries to construct himself a cup of tea and drink it, fails.*
Jason: *tries to construct an actual living breathing cat. Obviously fails.*
Jason: I think God hates me.
*****
Jason, beating Bruce up with a baseball bat construct made out of his love for him: So, my relationship with my dad is going great-
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