#Koriandr

[7weaslesinacoat]

y’all orgy starfire in the new 52 outlaws is absolutely foul work

it’s not like a profound thought or whatever but dc literally only uses her as a love interest or sex appeal 80% of the time, or a plot point for literally every other character around her and like- listen i haven’t read every starfire featuring comic (bc obv she doesn’t have her own comic. why would she? she’s only been a vital character since the 80s. which btw what’s up w that?? her story is fucking awesome??)

but like bro pops up sometimes for a main event, and then literally everything else she’s in features like twelve percent story and twenty bajillion percent tits and being romanced by literally everyone? and it’s like what the hell- like she is arguably more interesting then fifty percent of the dc lineup. bro i’m pretty sure snowflame is taken more seriously than her—

and yeah. sometimes she has her moments, or a story based on her… but even in those stories they’re mainly somewhat degrading of her, at least a little. it just seems that dc writers are allergic to genuinely respecting her

the most attention she gets is when put in a lineup with Dick or jason- which- like- what the holy freak is up with jason x kory? that’s weird.

and then it’s like polyamorous with roy???

like sort of canonically- what the hell? what sorta shitty fanfic is this???

((literally wrote all of this in the tone of the woke m&ms fox news guy))

though, though to be fair. i didn’t finish outlaws. at least not the new 52 ver. because it was insufferable IN MY OPINION ✋😬✋

and yeah. she gets some serious attention, but literally pages after she talks about how she wants to get with both roy and jason- like huh?and it’s like. roy is right there, if you wanna use anyone for sex appeal, use roy harper. we can incorporate female hero’s into comics without them being side characters mixed with badass sex appeal.

anyway

[hello-eden]

Fake love tringle

Phantom needs to work with the teen titans when they are a newer group.

Danny is a Starfire fan and fanboys a little when they meet. Robin (dick Grayson) does not Realize it is fanboying and thinks it's flirting. There's a little antagonism and a fight which is later resolved in private.

The three of them get along very well but it becomes an inside joke for Danny to say a pickup line to Starfire and Dick to pretend to be angry. the three of them forget to mention to the rest of the team that it is a joke. it becomes a rumor that the three of them are in a love triangle.

The three of them end up getting together and staying together for about a year before one Vlad's plot goes sideways, ending up with Danny taking the throne to the ghost Zone. Danny tells the two of them that he doesn't know when he's going to be back, as things are getting a little bit hectic and the three of them have a goodbye.

One of the side effects of Vlad's plot other than Danny taking the throne is to destabilized Dan and Dani. The two of them nor Danny realizes that they're goodbye is going to result in Dan and Dani being all three of theirs biologically.

Danny later comes back a few years later. Dick and Kori are still together And when they see each other again they do their inside joke. Everyone is now under the impression that the love triangle is going to start up again.

[dailydccomics]

Kory being the one to ACTUALLY save Dick instead of just standing around or imprisoning him >>> Titans #7 art by Travis Moore

[why-i-love-comics]

Primer: Clashing Colors #1 - "Color Me Impressed" (2024)

written by Jennifer Muro & Thomas Krajewski art by Gretel Lusky

[themuskrater]

I’ve always loved Picolo’s casual Teen Titans art, so I decided to try the concept myself. Here’s my first attempt at

STARFIRE

[disco-troy]

I don't feel like people have a nuanced enough view of Kory what she thinks about killing. She's not blindly wanting to murder criminals, nor is she delighted by the actions of murder. She sees murder as a necessity because of her upbringing in the middle of an existential war, and also as a way to regain autonomy on her life. Autonomy is a key theme in many of the people Kory chooses to kill.

The idea of autonomy over the body and her life is extremely important to Kory. This makes sense, Kory spends six years in slavery, her life not her own, and grew up knowing her planet could lose its own autonomy and freedom at any time.

When she was a slave, the few times that she was able to control her life in those times. Her first kill was her kill of what would become her last master, starting the chain of domino that would result in her freedom.

Note her words: "His very touch sickened me". It wasn't just about her imprisonment or her anger, but about her body, her autonomy. She couldn't handle being touched like that anymore, and killed knowing that it would solve nothing, knowing that it would lead to more punishment for her later down the line.

Her next kill allowed her to escape, securing her freedom and her own autonomy.

To escape she must pretend Kory has completely given in to her captors. That she is fine, even happy with the Gordonian touching her. But by doing this she is bringing him close, giving him the illusion of control over herself to secure her own freedom.

She is pretending to be a slave, while affirming to herself that she is still a soldier.

In this way we can see a dichotomy that has ruled Kory's life until now. On one side, you have succumbing to subjugation, which involved a loss of bodily autonomy. On the other side you had her claiming her freedom and her autonomy which comes with the need to kill or be destroyed.

In addition to this, you need to think of the context of Kory's upbringing. Of course Kory is used to killing her enemies. She grew up in a climate of fear in which there was a real possibility of total annihilation. Millions of her people died in the war that eventually lead her to being sold as a slave.

She grew up during a society that could have been destroyed in war, where everyday killing was not a questions but an existential threat. Killing and war was literally the only way for her people to conserve their autonomy.

This disconnect between Dick/Donna and Kory is not because Kory is an alien, but because the Titans are living in a world where they are superheroes and Kory is living in a world where she is a solider. Would a Kory that didn't kill even been able to come out alive from war? From her enslavement? To her its about her autonomy and her independence, she doesn't have the luxury of morals, of thought, of choice.

Later we see Kory not change, but shift. She realizes that killing will never be easier for her again.

This makes sense! her interpretation of killing has changed a lot because she's been exposed to a new environment. On earth she is not facing a literal war, she has real power, she has backup, she doesn't have to fight every second for her freedom and autonomy.

I think this is demonstrated in an incredibly narrative compelling way in Titans (1999) when Kory kills to give another character autonomy over her own body; Adaline Kane. Adaline is about to die, but her blood can still be harvested for Vandal Savage's experiments. She begs for death, instead of living that fate.

Kory gives it to her.

(much like Slade gave Joey in Titans Hunt but this post only has the space for one parallel right now)

When it comes to protecting the greater good, and especially when it comes to bodily autonomy Kory is not only willing to kill, but sees it as her duty.

She's never stopped being a soldier, she's never stopped being the Tamaranian who was forced to kill and see her people die to preserve her home, but more than that, she never stopped being the little girl for whom killing was her only way of reclaiming her autonomy.

[gjevre-artz]

My silly’s I love them so much <3

[vanhn]

[mikuhats]

Watever

[itsalbir]

Huevember - Day 10

I know it's november, but will you refuse to sunbathe with THEE Starfire?? THEE Koriand'r?

[cherih3]

twitter redraw no.whatever

[zukobeloved]

kory with big curly hair supremacy

[mikejbecker]

TITANS GO!

[dailydccomics]

Starfire by Joshua Swaby

[why-i-love-comics]

Titans #7 - "Royal Blood II" (2024)

written by Tom Taylor art by Travis Moore & Tamra Bonvillain

[lomakes]

my piece for @starfirecentral ! I had a lot of fun working on this 💖