#they’re just both goofuses

[emotionalsupportsoccerball]

They have the same class clown energy and I love it

This friendship right here, one of the good things that came out of this trade lol🤡😂

[ohallows]

Can you tell me about the Core Four's friendship? I wanna know more about them.

of course! also, if you’re interested in reading about them, heres a link to the YJ comic, some other young justice tie-in comics, graduation day, and the 2003 TT comics (which is decent but not great re: characterization, thanks geoff johns) 

 this is gonna be p short (wrt how much history there is) bc im tired but basically:

kon, bart, and tim were all kinda tired of just being sidekicks to their superhero counterparts (clark was v distant with kon, wally and bart DID NOT get along, and tim was kinda frustrated w how batman kept sidelining him [understandable bc batman was coming off of jason being killed]) 

so tim and kon became friends first i think? and then there’s this whole special where tim works with bart on a mission together, and tl;dr they all become besties and talk shit together and hang out a lot bc its hard finding other superheroes ur age you know? so they hang out and one night they stop a criminal and the media shows up and asks what their team name is and start calling them young justice and bart is like “no, we’re YOUNG but JUST US” and imagines the reporter getting brained or something i love him so much

so these three goofuses form a team under red tornados watch, and it basically (like teen titans) becomes a place for younger superhero kids to go and hang out on the weekends. the teen titans had already grown up and were like 23-25 at that time and had actually become the titans, so instead of just forming a new teen titans they formed YJ. i think like one or two issues after the first the girls joined in (cassie, cissie, greta/suzie) and lo and behold TEAM

 they all become really good friends, and really value each other. obv they rag on each other a lot because they’re all like 15 at the time but they all (for the most part) respect each other and protect each other. 

re: relationships: 

tim and kon: they are really close and complain about things together (kon literally found tim in gotham once because he recognized his heartbeat). most people ship them bc they do gay fuckin shit (like kon looking softly at tim after tim talks about how no one believes him abt batman being alive and how he feels alone and like he;s losing it and kon quietly saying ‘i believe you’ ANYWAY i love adventure comics 3). they hang out the most out of the main four, if only because they spend the most time together on the team (cassie hangs out with cissie a lot too, and bart spends a lot of his time in manchester w preston and carol). regardless of if u ship it or not, they’re incredibly good friends and trust each other more than anyone. no spoilers but the way they each react to what happens to the other is really telling in how much they value the other person. also constantly referred to as bart’s parents bc for a majority of YJ bart still was kinda stuck in his ‘easily distractable child’ phase

tim and cassie: tim and cassie respect each other as leaders. there’s a great bit in YJ where like, tim, cassie, kon, and ray all run for leader of YJ and cassie wins and even tim is like “yeah actually you’re the better leader” and doesn’t resent cassie for it. they’re honestly an adorable brotp (wlw/mlm solidarity babey!) and consistently bitch together about how dumb kon is sometimes

tim and bart: they have a great relationship, honestly. bart keeps tim from being too serious and bart actually figures out tim’s identity first (he’s lip reading when tim lies and says his name is alvin draper and goes “what kind of a name is timmy drake??” god i love bart allen sm) you don’t see it as much in early YJ bc you see tim getting annoyed by how cavalier bart acts but once tim loosens up a bit they become really close. during one storyline in TT tim and bart bond over having to live in the shadows of their mentors and tim feels like its his fault bart got hurt etc anyway they both talk about how they’re going to grow up to be more than that and its so adorable i love them sm

cassie and kon: they date for a while and honestly its pretty cute even tho i want cassie to be dating cissie king jones instead. they genuinely do treat each other well though and kon does his best to treat cassie well and consistently supports her in everything she does. again, spoilers, but cassie’s reaction to stuff that happens to kon shows how much she really does love him and how strong she is as a person as well (tim basically has a breakdown and cassie has to step up and lead the team while tim takes a hiatus)

cassie and bart: they’re SO cute omg like they really are a super healthy sibling relationship imo. both bart and cassie have a LOT of empathy tbh and they bond over a lot of stuff that they don’t tell the other two (someone bart is really close to dies and i’m pretty sure the only person he opens up to about it is cassie because she understands the most)

bart and kon: these two interacting is literally every iteration of the ‘my last two brain cells’ meme bc its just so DUMB i love these two but their collective stupid knows no bounds. there’s a great bit in YJ where bart is bored and just keeps bothering kon and bothering kon and tl;dr kon ends up with rainbow paint all over him. they also both suffer from a depressive episode around the same time so i imagine that they talk through that a little bit together. 

anyway i love these four dumbasses so much i cant wait for yj to come back. this was longer than i thought but o well i love them so