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Kory in Titans outfits

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Dickkory coded

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twt redraw time

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I just realised something. Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman are just this…

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As anonymously requested 💜 💙

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Mamá y papá

Dick and Kory by Mike Deodato, Jr.

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Hi I can't believe we got dickkory canon but at what cost

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tough day at work

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azeroth smth mentos

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Have you ever thought of drawing Kory with her braids in a wedding dress? 👀👀👀

i drew it hehe

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very random raven take it or leave it

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revolutionary girl koriand’r! i have many thoughts for a revolutionary girl utena au of ntt. its the themes of adolescence and coming of age, babey!!!

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so sorry about all the starfire questions but!! has anything been mentioned about starfire's attitude/feelings towards her parents?? didn't they essentially sell her into slavery? im surprised there's not a lot of specific animosity towards them, but i guess maybe because she more so sees komandr as a direct cause?

I talked about this just a little bit a couple weeks ago and I actually talked about this with @bludhavenbird pretty recently. I think about Kory and her family too much and my feelings about her parents are pretty complicated and how Kory feels about them in-universe is even more complicated.

originally, Kory was the eldest child and Kom didn't exist at all (The New Teen Titans (1980) #3) which puts a different spin on this whole situation. in this original continuity we see Kory being forced into slavery under the Citadel via the Gordanians as this was the agreement they came to with King Myand'r who wanted to broker a peace--Kory points out that while this saved the Tamaranean people and their planet, it also crushed their spirit to see their future ruler taken by the people that had (we later find out) been tormenting them for at least 100 years.

so, in this context, her parents did give her up to slavers. however, even in this version of events, Kory doesn't blame her parents and, instead, blames the circumstances they were under. her father, as king, is a king first and a father second (he's not a great ruler but he is a ruler) meaning that when it comes to the preservation of his people he must act in their best interests. and, in this case, the best interest of the Tamaranean people was to survive rather than be callously destroyed by those that deigned to rule over them. while the Tamaraneans are a warrior people, it is made clear by Kory that their technology and their might is no match for the Citadel who have higher technologies and more people at the ready.

in the panels directly above this one in NTT (1980) #3, Wally is indignant and asks Kory why her father didn't fight and Kory, defeated, tells him that he did fight. he fought for four long years and, in the end, knew that he couldn't save his planet through warfare. and, so, he gave up his only daughter. Kory holds no animosity toward her parents, even here, and saves all of that animosity, rage, and hurt for the people that forced her father's hand and subsequently abused and enslaved her.

this is the last we hear of Kory's past for a while so let's move on to the later retcons of her story and specifically the retcon from The Tales of the New Teen Titans #4.

this isn't Kom's first (or last) appearance (her first appearance is NTT (1980) #22) but it is one of her juiciest appearances because it's when we get the first retcon of Kory's background that really lays it all out. this issue comes out in September 1982, while NTT #22 comes out in August 1982, so they had to do a little bit of background and character building (I assume to gaslight all of us <3 thanks marv). so, Komand'r is added into Kory's backstory in 1982 and we get to see just how fucked up Kom has Kory.

so, from day 1, Kom hates Kory. the answer is super simple: she hates Kory because she sees Kory as taking her birthright (the Tamaranean throne) from her and does everything she can to torment her. she even kills her pet at some point. she sees Kory as having everything she can never have and that includes: the ability of flight, the Tamaranean throne, and the love of their parents who just can't seem to relate to a child who can't fly. preeeeettty fucked up.

(for reasons of brevity I'm skipping the Warlords of Okaara bit, just know that at some point, Kom just deserts Tamaran and disappears after almost killing Kory)

so, as Kory and Kom grow older, Kom decides to turn on the Tamarean people as a whole and ally with the Citadel. this is where Kory's original backstory comes through a little and we see that the Citadel has been raiding Tamaran for about 100 years at this point. they've been raiding the planet for all kinds of resources: food, building materials, and, most importantly, people. Kom knows this. She also knows that Tamaran's defense system (this time around) is good enough to mostly fend of attacks and Kory says that at some point the defenses were so good that the Citadel couldn't get through anymore.

well, guess what! Kom gives the Citadel everything they need to break through those defenses and hold the planet for ransom. however, Myand'r says the same exact thing this time around that he does the first time:

"So soon? I had hoped it would be longer."

the implication being he had always known the Citadel would come for one of his children (and then later we find out the Citadel had been taking royal women for a while) as a tithe of sorts.

so, even in this instance, she places the blame almost totally on Kom. and, we ask, why? because, again, Kory sees her father as not only her father but her king. she's raised her entire life to not only never question his authority but to expect that she might one day be the one having to make impossible decisions like: fight back or let the planet and people I love become nothing but ash.

these are some complicated questions and feelings.

we see these questions come up again in the second Tamaran arc (the juiciest and most soapy of the Tamaran arcs) when Kory's father just decides that the daughter he only got back like, idk, yesterday is going to be a pawn in Tamaranean politics and marry into a newer royal family:

The New Teen Titans (1984) #15

so, Kory is essentially being sold off again to broker Tamaran's peace. the first time was indirectly his fault--he didn't treat Kom as well as Kory, he made her feel unwanted, and he let the people of Tamaran spit on her (metaphorically) and make her into a scapegoat which in turn led to her turning on Tamaran, a place she had no allegiance to because it had no allegiance to her, and forced her father's hand when it came to Kory being offered up on a platter to the Citadel.

this time, though? this was 100% her dad's fault. like all the way. he's a bastard for this.

Dick, rightfully, points his rage toward Myand'r:

he places the blame squarely on Myand'r's shoulders--something Kory won't do for a lot of reasons--and condemns him for trying to do it again because he got his 1 bargaining chip back (bc Ryand'r is also like in the wind at this point so he can't marry Karras' little sister to bring them together as a planet and also Karras' little sister suffered Kory's exact fate but then turned it into like a career as a space pirate, anyway...)

now, in our next issue, NTT (1984) #16, Kory still has no animosity for her father and feels only that she must obey him:

Dick is voicing what both he and Kory want but Kory's obligation not only to her father, her king, but to the Tamaranean people outweighs her own desires in her mind. I really don't like how Dick talks to Kory here because he's absolutely refusing to understand the situation both he and her father are putting her in. Kory has a little bit of eldest daughter syndrome in these issues (this is coming from an eldest daughter) because she's doing any and everything she can to keep her family and her planet together in one piece to the total detriment of herself.

so, ultimately, she doesn't hold anger toward her parents and, particularly, her father because they're not just her parents. they're her rulers and she sees them as having done what they needed to do in order to survive. however, it doesn't make that decision any less heinous.

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Vampires have never looked this good. By Bianca Milanez!

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And they never went back on land.

The End. 😌