#the core four headcanon

[g3othermal3scapism]

DESCENDANTS 1 CORE FOUR REDESIGN WHO CHEERED

[sepia-stained-sunset]

The Core Four are each others' greatest weapons against parental/mentor figures' disapproval.

Clark is mad at Kon for getting more piercings? Bart gives him the puppy eyes and he melts.

Barry is ticked that Bart missed something important? Tim summons the waterworks and he's a goner.

Bruce is pissed because he found out about the stolen Batmobile? Cassie flies into the Cave and rambles for a few minutes about how they have so few good memories and Bruce begins to thaw.

Diana wants to know why Cassie hasn't been as focused lately? Kon is already there, talking Cassie up and regaling her with tales of their exploits.

No one- not even they- understand how or why this power works, but they take full advantage of it.

[infinite-orangepeel]

steve canonically wears a locket with a pic of eddie on one side and a pic of robin on the other 💌

[the-ninja-legacy-whip]

ok ok so... which headcanons from the fandom you plan on using for the Core 4?? power hcs etc?

Now why would I need to borrow from the fandom when I have so many of my own? HIYAH

Elemental Outbursts

Elemental/NRG Abilities

Derivative Abilities

Derivative Inheritance

Kai vs Zane's Emotional States

Elemental Attunement | Elemental Attunement 2

Intricacies

NRG Mode

Elemental Transfer

"Outlier Abilities"

General Stuff

Core Four Elements (in relation to Lloyd)

Outburst Cancelling

Elemental Ability Manifesting

Elemental Master Aging

How It Feels To Use Powers

Fighting Styles

Tornado of Creation (and other stuff)

Elemental Swaps

Elemental...Fusion?

Kai's Obscurity | Kai's Obscurity 2

Kai's Pyroportation | Kai's Pyroportation 2 | Kai's Pyroportation 3

Kai's Pyroportation 4

Jay's Thunder Scream

Jay's Teleportation

Jay's Circuit-Based Powers

Jay's Eye

Cole's Lethality (and some Kai stuff)

Cole's Superstrength

Cole's Vibration Tracing

Cole's Golem Form

Zane's Dreams/Visions

Zane's Robot Limitations

[violetc4ts]

the isle is pretty much just frozen in the time it was created. so when the vks get to auradon they have a very fixed expectations of certain things, like music. listening to music was a very rare thing on the isle, that could only be accessed if you were lucky enough to find an old music player. and all the music is over twenty years old. so the culture shock when they hear auradons kind of music?

[necrotic-nephilim]

in the tags of that one fab five poly post you mentioned that you are a core four enthusiast and I’d love to hear if you have any Kon headcanons or just any yj headcanons in general, I love those little guys

!!! i love Kon so much, he's one of my fave guys. i actually got into the 90s era of comics to read his solo run, YJ(98), and then i just spiralled from there. i've got lots of headcanons about both Kon and YJ

for Kon specifically, i'm really attached to the headcanon of him and Power Girl being friends. i think the idea of them bonding over imposter syndrome over feeling like Kryptonians who don't neatly fit into the Superfam would be very crunchy. it's my Kara Zor-L stan showing, but i've got a lot of fic ideas where they end up close. similarly: i also think a friendship between Kon and Bizarro could be fun, both being clones of Superman made by Lex.

for a YJ headcanon: i hold FIRMLY to the belief that Bart knew TIm's secret identity before YJ even formed he just. never mentioned it bc no one asked him. the way they meet in Robin Plus Impulse, i see no world where Bart doesn't figure it out. i think it makes for a hilarious concept that Tim's identity real is a big deal and he uses the whole fake name Alvin Draper and Bart just blurts out that he's Tim Drake. i know we all love TimKon, but I'm a bit of a TimBart truther and i think it could be a fun little moment for them.

back to Kon: this is less of a headcanon and more of just a thought: but i wish we had more content about the Ravers, Kon's team before YJ. i won't everytime i think about Superboy & the Ravers i have to look it up to convince myself i didn't hallucinate that entire comic. but it was so fun. there was a road trip arc. a canon queer character who's arc was handled shockingly well for the 90s. (and the homophobic character was the one who got the unhappy ending while the gay man got to be happy with a bf?? revolutionary.) i personally believe Hero Cruz was Kon's gay awakening. i won't elaborate on this. anyway i wish we saw more of Kon thinking about this team after YJ formed and maybe missing some of his old party friend losers.

also on the note of Kon, i love any exploration of his canon experiences with being groomed by just about every woman he "dated" in the 90s. i'm such a fan of when a character becomes hypersexual to cope with their trauma that they haven't realized even is trauma. and i think Kon fits that bar perfectly. the first real attention he got outside of being attached to Superman's legacy was sexual attention from women, so of course he would lean into that and not realize how fucked up it was until years later. i love when it shapes his relationships in fanfiction, especially if he doesn't realize it. whether it's Tana Moon or Knockout or just about any other woman, there's a lot of material to explore.

Kon is one of the few characters i will venture out of pre-Flashpoint for because i think his complex over Jon Kent has the potential to be really complex and fun. i think everyone misunderstands Kon and Clark's relationship (i blame the Young Justice cartoon. i've had arguments you wouldn't believe over Kon on TikTok-) as father/son and that Clark is constantly pushing Kon away in favor of Jon, and that's just not true. the issue is that Kon was *forgotten* by the timeline shifting without him bc he was off on Gemworld. and to me, that's more interesting than making Clark some kind of absent father to him. it's an issue of the world he remembers not existing anymore and most of the world not remembering him either, and now there's a new Superboy replacing him. idk man that's fun. i have a lot of thoughts about the feelings Kon would have about Jon, wondering if the timeline shift was meant to "correct" Superboy to make a version of Superboy that was meant to exist and Kon wasn't. this very much ties into my thoughts on how he and Power Girl would have a lot to bond over, feeling displaced in a world that doesn't need them. that's where Kon's identity issues stem from. that said, i always prefer a Kon who actually gets along pretty well with the Superfam, including Clark and Jon. most of his conflict is internal, not external. it's what makes him crunchy.

more YJ headcanon: i think the shift from the Teen Titans to YJ from the perspective of the mentors is fascinating. YJ got a lot more freedom and less supervision, it's like how parents don't try as hard when they have more kids. so i love the headcanon that half the time the League has no damn clue what YJ is up to. they played baseball to save the universe? yeah they never mentioned it to their mentors. no one asked. the lack of supervision, sans a robot, makes them incredibly creative with how they solve problems. they don't approach anything traditionally because no one is properly guiding them. since they're a new generation of sidekicks, most of them holding a mantle that was passed down to them (or at the very least they're a new generation of a superhero family) it holds a bit of imposter syndrome. all of them are internally panicking 90% of the time while trying to appear collected around each other. they're actively a collective disaster because of it.

personally, i view the Core Four as more of a queerplatonic polycule than a romantic one? like i think it's fun to explore polycule dynamics where it's not actually everyone dating everyone, but far more complex of some people dating, some people are familial, some people are fucking, and we don't even know what those two have going on. it's complicated, you know? messy and codependent. i don't see them as a neat polycule whatsoever. it's like an on and off again relationship but with four people that also occasionally includes others. i'm personally a fan of the potential of the Young Justice (2019) team being a polycule except none of them have any clue who's dating who. every single one of them *will* give you a different answer. half of them aren't even aware of the other's sexualities. Jinny has come out as a lesbian like four times to her own polycule. i'm a big fan of this team and i wish there was more fan content for it.

random smaller headcanon: i do think Kon can cook and i think no one believes him when he tells them. bc the issue isn't he can't cook, it's that he never has food in his fridge or pantry to cook with. that boy was raised with Ma and Pa Kent, he can make a *mean* hotdish with whatever he finds. just don't expect him to ever repeat a recipe bc he will never have that exact combination of ingredients in his kitchen again. he is however, horrible at baking bc cooking is an art and baking is a science and you will never catch him following a recipe in his life.

i think Kon regularly uses his TTK to save his teammates during fights and just. never mentions it. like in small ways, such as slightly moving flying debris that's about to hit them, making a villain's punch have more resistance so it doesn't hit as hard, slightly pulling them out of the way. no one knows for like. *years*. i'm very obsessed with pushing TTK to the limits and exploring how it makes Kon hyperaware of his surroundings. it's a literal sixth sense and i think he's passively always aware of everything, even when he's relaxing. no one realizes just how much control he exerts over a fight. which means he's holding himself back most of the time, and in my opinion for the reasons of being afraid of himself, and afraid of the Luthor parts of him. so he just. balances a fight in little, unnoticeable ways.

it's one of my headcanons that if Kon started openly dating Tim Drake, Lex would immediately try to get closer to Kon bc not only would he approve of Kon dating someone from high society, but he'd want to try to use Tim's power within his family's company and Bruce's company as leverage. of course it wouldn't work, but it'd be a fun mind game if Lex vs Tim with Kon just stuck in the middle. i have a vague fanfic idea for this I'll probably never write.

this is a cursed headcanon: but i believe Kon has an incest kink. the number of times he's canonically expressed incestual feelings (both on purpose and on accident) is not on purpose in the text, but the fact it keeps happening means i'm personally just going to run with it. i think KonJayTim is fun bc even if Tim and Jason don't see each other as siblings, Kon would make it a kink anyway. i will leave you on that cursed note.

[punkeropercyjackson]

Miles is strawberry,Margo is cookies 'n cream,Gwen is cotton candy and Hobie is blue raspberry

[rewrittenwrongs]

I feel like one day Cassie gets too fed up with her hair getting in her food and in her eyes, having to carry hair ties and pins everywhere, how long she has to spend washing and brushing it, so she just grabs the nearest pair of scissors and hacks off a huge chunk as the rest of young justice look on in shock. Cut to her kneeling in the bathroom as Tim, whose parents either weren’t around to or forgot to schedule him appointments, fixes the mess she made with Actual hairdressing scissors because he isn’t a heathen, while the others watch and eat snacks or something

[blackwolfstabs]

random core four thoughts with BLACKWOLFSTABS

the core four makes quick walmart runs in their pajamas together:

Sam: I feel like we're gonna get looked at the entire time we're here. Tara: Who cares? It's Walmart. Chad: Yeah, they're not any better than us. They're just jealous because they wasted their time getting dressed, when they could've been in and out of the store quicker than it took them to change clothes. Mindy: Eh, I don't care about wasting time. I'm just lazy, and when we get home, I'm going back to bed.

or something...

[queennai714]

Random hcs I have because I may be cringe but I'm free part 25 (Ninjago(another combo))

Random childhood/before they joined the team hcs gotta be one of my favorite flavors of core four content

Kai: Even before his powers manifested, Kai was the kinda guy who could strike a match on anything. Countertops, walls, between his fingertips, on his own temples, you name it, he's struck a match on it before. He didn't think it was that impressive until he met the others and they all kinda freaked out that he just lit a match with his teeth and now he uses it as a party trick.

Jay: He originally wanted to learn to skateboard cause "all the cool guys™️ ride skateboards" but he learned how to rollerskate with his mom anyway and he fell in love. He's very proud of that Mother-Son-Skate-Off W.

Cole: Played baseball with his whole neighborhood on weekends but never showed up to the football games just because everybody always told him he should try it and he wanted to spite them. Also had never even heard of a rutabaga until he met Zane (idk where that one came from it just came to me and I had to include it)

Zane: If he didn't have anything else to do, he would find ways to make mundane tasks as complex as possible, or even just break down a simple process or item to its most basic elements just to keep himself busy and stimulated (like how he was flipping the logs and stuff and getting them to land perfectly in the Master Wu flashback).

[tht0nesimp]

Yandere VK headcanons P1

The core four take over auradon! tw: kidnapping, obsessive behaviors, ddlg themes, the VKs taking over auradon, manipulation, abuse

im going through a fase leave me alone

Mal: Manipulative to the point where you don’t know yourself anymore, she convinces you that your evil, if you get second thoughts or if your a royal then she happily reminds you how terrible you are. Shes content with breaking you down and then building you up to her expectation, on the bright side, you wont even notice. And soon enough you'll be living whatever life Mal wants you to even if it never appealed to you before. She wont kidnap you because she doesn't have to, she can fit every piece of the puzzle in even if she has to replace some pieces; You wont have to worry about friends or family when she replaces them with the VKs.

Jay: He's a sadist in a playful way, holding things above your head, scaring you with fake(or real) bugs, he acts a lot like an older brother before he shows romantic interest. Eventually the mocking becomes a bit much, and maybe you even resent him but he doesn't mind all too much; the world goes on along with the bullying, until it becomes lesser and you find yourself missing the occasional comment. Soon you feel better about yourself, and it catches you off guard when Jay asks you out you know better than to say no to him so you accept with a shy smile, hoping he would reveal it was all a prank. But it doesn't happen, and the days roll on with more toxic traits of his showing, its much too late by the time coronation hits, and he decides his pretty little damsel is much too soft to deal with the hardships auradon will face. He wont lock you up in a tower, he makes sure he keeps you hidden away in some castle on campus, boredom will be your best friend as he grows more and more scared of your gentleness being exploited, but you get pretty much anything you ask for (except to see your old friends, he doesn't like them so neither should you).

Carlos: Hes a softer guy, you wont even know he likes you until the day of the coronation. You wont have a chance to reject him once its over, but hes a little hurt at your hesitation, when you end up in a castle with all the other VKs darlings then youll understand why he just has to do this! You wouldnt last a day on the isle let alone in the new version of auradon, in all the panic nobody notices when Carlos slinks off with you in his arms, dropping you in a limo filled with the other darlings who are all handcuffed or tied with ropes on their legs and arms. The VKs pile in the limo with Carlos dropping them all off at the dorms in Auradon Prep, all of them being in the same room with all the exits locked and with corners of the room dedicated to each, eventually everyone loses hope and settles down in their corners while eating the food left for them. Soon enough the VKs enter and let everyone know that they succeeded in their plan with their parents wreaking havoc on innocent heroes outside, the cheerfulness they have won’t match the sobbing or fighting of the rest of the room, Some darlings who were likely picked for their feistier nature like Jays darling will fight and scratch at him while screaming all manners of insults. Carlos approaches you slowly with a smile on his face as you huddle in the corner trembling like a leaf in a storm even when he tries not to startle you, he grabs your arm and brings you over to a comfortable dorm which he quickly leaves in fear of making you become aggressive, he’s just so happy to have you and he knows one day you’ll be happy to have him too

Evie: She probably tugs on your heartstrings, making sure you want her even more than she wants you. But you really didn’t expect her to kiss you under the bleachers the day of the coronation let alone ask you to be her date to it, and it surprises you even more when chaos breaks out and she comes looking for you?! She's even more gentle than carlos, believing you are her true love, made just for her to enjoy after all she went through on the isle but her patience isnt an endless virtue even after all those years of seeming to wait for a prince to take advantage of, and when her patience does run out, there is nothing you will be able to do to calm the storm

[jazz020]

Headcannons I have about Young Justice Team dinners

They call team dinner “family dinner”

Everyone is invited, past or present teammates

No fights at dinner, there are people in place to stop them

Bart usually cooks because

A. It only makes sense for speedsters to know how to cook with how much food they have to eat, and

B. There’s a rule that whoever cooks doesn’t have to clean and, even though modern day appliances are soooo sloooow, Bart will avoid cleaning at all costs (the rest of the team hates this rule)

Tim and Kon have the best dessert hookups (aka Alfred Pennyworth and Martha Kent)

[sepia-stained-sunset]

New favourite headcanon; YJ becoming self aware and that's one of the two reasons for why they act the way they do (the other being their profound love for one another)

Like Cassie will thread her hands through Bart's hair whenever she gets the chance, will establish physical contact with all of them, because every now and then she's seized with the fear that they'll disappear the next day.

Tim is forever running plans in his head to revive them if they die, because maybe, just maybe, their creators will see the shock value in giving his friends back (maybe they won't let him fail again, maybe they'll let him win just this once)

[violetc4ts]

thinking about the vks settling into auradon only for them to discover that the auradon kids actively dress up as their parents & other villains when halloween rolls around

[ethan-nestor-owns-my-heart]

Tara Carpenter’s cute lil hand scar appreciation post ❤️

[captainkirkk]

Kon would be worried about that! Also he'd be ride or die - if Tim is a villain, we're villains now which makes me wonder what do the other core two say to it? Because Bart gives a very similar vibe of ride or die and Cassie would not let those dumbasses do that by themselves

Depends what shade of villainy tbh

If it's more vigilantism like fucking over billionaires, then they're jumping onboard without hesitation. Bart is already brainstorming new team names. Cassie wants matching jackets.

If it's more cut and dry villainy, Cassie is chewing him out and trying to make him see sense.... And then eventually joining him, but she's trying to sway him back to good the whole time and reminding them all that this is a bad idea. Meanwhile, Bart knows that Tim is a stubborn motherfucker and likely won't change his kind, so he goes along with it. But he DOES convince Tim to alter his plans so that they're SLIGHTLY less evil.

If it's FULL VILLAINY, like "take over the Justice League and kill the president" type evil, then Cassie is putting her foot down. She's joining the Bats to hold an intervention. Bart.... would at least hear him out first. But once he's heard the secret plan, he knows there's a slim chance Tim would let him leave, so he might as well stick around and make sure both Tim AND Kon don't do anything stupid. He stays in touch with Cassie the whole time and updates her on how many bad choices TimKon have made that day and brainstorm ways to help them