#and later. he Realizes. and kon also Realizes. and then proceeds to laugh himself to tears

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YES ACCIDENTALLY POPULAR KON!! Such a good contrast from Clark who was nerdy and so not a social butterfly. Conner Kent has everyone in school in love with him, and he’s so oblivious to it, and it makes Tim both relieved and wanting to cry. He’s paints backgrounds for the theatre kids, and is the head of the Wendy the Werewolf Stalker club at the school. He’s the sweetest guy you’ll ever meet, and sometimes he has to leave early because his grandma got arrested for disrespecting an officer (<- This is canon btw. In Supergirl Volume Four, Martha and Fred Danvers do go at it), and his grandpa threatened to shoot said officer. It’s a regular occurrence.

Tim tries so hard to be impressive, and fails. He almost drowned in swimming, nearly had an asthma attack in rope and rock climbing, etc. When he tries to flirt, it comes out as threatening. Somehow, this is what endears Kon to him, and it makes everyone confused.

now TO BE FAIR a tim who is robin is quite fit and athletic. so i think it's more like "he skitters to the top of the rock climbing wall alarmingly fast and unsettlingly, like some kind of spider or creature" and so on. def can keep the near-drowning incident though and it's bc he's not watching where he's walking bc conner just took his shirt off, and oops tim just stepped into thin air and toppled into the deep end and banged his knee and scraped his shin open on the side of the pool real good on the way down. he's had worse he's robin he's fine but conner, who doesn't know that, still leaps in to save him and cradles him gently in his arms while asking if he's okay and if he swallowed water or anything. tim is mortified.

thinking on it more i kinda wanna make this a college au. they both have more free time and can more readily disappear when it's convenient, etc, plus they're a little older and more mature which i always enjoy, etc. they can still have some classes together too like gen eds and all. tim is an insane engineering kid and kon is maybe going into education (future high school biology teacher kon <3)...

that's not all really that relevant i was just thinking about it. anyway. kon telling hero tim (red robin? something else?) about his weird lil friend and tim is like wow this guy sounds pathetic. wow i mean im glad you like him and are having fun but he for real sounds like a weirdo. what a loser. lol