#Koriand’r

[mayjunenov]

yay!!!! half asian (and in damians case middle eastern) half white kids for the win!!!!

I’m cackling about the fact that Damian has his own race category in the 2024 Ao3 top pairings

Like YES. FUCK THE SYSTEM. MAKE THEM MAKE A NEW CATEGORY.

AND JOYFIRE IN THE POLY SHIPS??? GIGGLING AND KICKING MY FEET this year was a WIN for dc fans

Also congrats on y’all for only having one batcest ship this year y’all the fandom is healing 🫡

[starspilli]

dc cowboy doodles & wips !

[pinkiemachine]

No sleep. Only draw.

[heroesriseandfall]

Pre-teen Tim Drake as a hidden spectator to 80s New Teen Titans is so funny to me. That Dick Grayson-obsessed kid would absolutely be following all their exploits which makes it so much more amusing that their media presence is basically:

“Interview with model Starfire and Titans leader Nightwing!”

“Starfire kills a man.”

“Starfire is found innocent and declares her love for Nightwing on live TV!”

“Wonder Girl claims The Church of Brother Blood is evil and we’re all being brainwashed.”

“Nightwing invites you to join the Church of Brother Blood!”

Who needs to follow Batman when your entertainment during boarding school can be whatever the hell is going on in Titans Tower.

[swiftlark]

they mean everything to me just btw

[renesyce]

alien superstar

[mammutblog]

kori and her lil guy

[fishfission-dc]

I’m obsessed with them, actually. Original under the cut

[starfiretruther]

i'm late but Princess Koriand'r for day 2 of koryweek

[theartistonthemoon]

Nightwing cannot do better than her, but Kori on the other hand maybe should…

[thesummerstorms]

To quote my other reblog of my own post about this whole moment, it’s important to me that this means that Dick and Kory have discussed what happened to her in enough explicit detail that when Myand’r trots out this bullshit Dick feels both able to threaten him by telling him exactly what was done to Kory in name of his “peace treaty”.

And I 1000% understand Dick’s anger here. He is angry for her.

“This so called paradise was paid for with your flesh…your heart…your life.”

Yes absolutely. And I do think it’s a really salient point that Dick loves her and knows in detail what happened to her and that’s why he’s so furious. For someone who was raised by Bruce, watching the whole “everything for the mission” mentality, he still doesn’t find Kory’s suffering excusable.

Whereas Myand’r claims to love his daughter, but if we’re being honest, he doesn’t fucking know her.

He sold her away as a child.

The last time she was kidnapped and brought back by Blackfire, he sent her away into exile again without them ever actually discussing what had happened to her or what her life was like or him trying to explain to her or ask for forgiveness.

Now he’s sold her into an unwanted marriage, Dick calls him on the fact that it’s always Kory’s price to pay, Kory’s blood and suffering that paves the way for Myand’r’s decisions…and the king blows him off.

He doesn’t want to know what happened to his daughter. He wants to live in ignorance. Yes, she was his favorite compared to Blackfire when they were children… but at some point he stopped seeing her as a person, I think. Or stopped letting himself.

Look at Myand’r’s phrasing- “yes, I agreed to let the Citadel take my daughter in exchange for peace. And yes my family suffered. But not one drop of Tamaranean blood was lost.”

“My daughter was taken” / “my family suffered”.

Koriand’r was in fact the one who was tortured and enslaved, but it was “the family” generally who suffered. With the possessive “my” and everything. “Allowed them to take my daughter”- the taking was not the truly bad part here. They didn’t take her and put her under house arrest as a hostage. The enslaved, raped, tortured, and experimented on her. Dick knows this concretely. Myand’r doesn’t.

Dick is right- Myand’r is a coward who refuses to accept what he actually helped do to Kory.

And the “not a drop of Tamaranean blood was lost” just makes me laugh, because what. Have you just depersonalized your daughter so much her blood no longer counts to you?

So I 1000% understand why Dick is angry here. Especially because if I remember right, marriage between the two of them had been casually raised as a possibility right before this arc started. So on top of watching the woman he loves suffer at the hands of a family who are using her love for them to manipulate and hurt her again, there is an element of betrayal/loss for Dick as well in her being promised to Karras.

However.

No matter how justified Dick’s anger, the way he handled it ended up doing more harm than good here. He rushes away from her, tells her right before the middle set of panels that he doesn’t want to talk to her. Tells her in those panels “Don’t talk to me about that hypocrite.”

He’s angry and he blows up and he shuts her out because of it- but if he’s angry for her, then that’s the exact opposite of what he needs to be doing. Kory thinks it’s just about the marriage and that he just doesn’t understand her father- he needs to talk to her if he wants her to understand that she deserves better than how she’s being treated. He needs to be talking about “that hypocrite” so she understands that Myand’r is one.

No matter how much it might hurt that she’s considering marrying someone else or how angry it might make him to hear her defend her own mistreatment, if he wants to actually change those things, he has to show her that someone who loves her thinks she deserves better. She has grown up in this fucked up dynamic- it would take persistence and care to help her see her way out of it. A few angry one off sentences about her father won’t be enough on their own.

But instead Dick acts more like Bruce here- centers his anger on himself, shuts her out, lashes out. And so he fails to actually meaningfully address the causes of the problem.

This is not me complaining about the writers/writing btw. It’s just really interesting to me how Dick’s own learned responses from his dad/mentor get in the way of protecting the woman he loves from what he sees as the abuses of her own father.

And then of course poor Kory is left to deal with the emotional devastation after.

[ambafaerie]

We finally got Megan Thee Stallion as Starfire ❤️😭🔥🪐

[starspilli]

morning kori. she’s lovingly watching dick burn the shit out of her pancakes

[pinkiemachine]

Party at Wayne Manor ✨

Part 2 👇

[sarahreadstoomanycomics]

Tales of the Teen Titans #1-4 main covers by Nicola Scott.

[swiftlark]

mom and dad please come home, the kids miss you.