#wip: the one where kon isn't the father

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Kon is not the father please? 🥺🥺🥺 I love your writing 💕💕💖💖💕💖

Kon laughs again, shaking his head, and then goes back to gently nuzzling Kyra and–very gently–bites her hair, then gives it an affectionate little tug with his teeth. Kyra makes a shrill melodic noise that makes Tim feel like his earwax is melting, and Kon looks besotted. 

Hm. Clark doesn’t do that. The hair-biting thing, Tim means–definitely he does the “looking besotted” thing. So is that . . . 

“You smell so cute, you know that?” Kon coos at Kyra, and laughs in delight when she headbutts him in the mouth with an audible “thwack” that sounds like a baseline human just got clocked with a haymaker. 

. . . or is Kon just weird, maybe. Maybe it could also just be Kon being weird.

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I am so weak for the one where Kon isn't the father. "I told myself you'd let me lie" "I would have, and I'm going to". Just. *Chefs kiss*

“Are you serious?” Kon asks, and laughs delightedly. “That’s so fucking cute, oh my god. What, did he just snatch her carseat or something?” 

“He tried to drag her bouncer out the back door,” Tim replies still more wryly. “I think he wanted her to meet the chickens. And the other time he tried to drag her crib out the back door.” 

“. . . do I even wanna know how he got it downstairs?” 

“If you figure it out, the rest of us would love to know.” 

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the one where kon isn't the father for wip wednesday?

“Oh, so it’s his to take back too?” Kon grumbles, tugging him in closer to tuck his head under his chin. Tim doesn’t bother reminding him that, again, he’d quit, and mostly is just getting an increasing suspicion that Kon is going to be taking advantage of their fake relationship to hug him way more often than Tim would normally let him get away with. But, well–it’s appropriate for the cover and supports the cover, so if he does then Tim can . . . allow it, he guesses. 

Allow them both that.

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Idk if I’m too late for WIP wednesday but I’d love to see more of the one where kon isn’t the father. Its so sweet and heartbreaking at the same time, which is such a good combo

“Aw, no, kiddo, you need better taste than that,” Kon teases Kyra gently, nuzzling her hair again. She chirps at him and–well, probably she’s trying to nuzzle him back, but mostly she’s headbutting him. Kon coos like she’s the cutest baby in the multiverse, which to be fair she is, and coos like she’s even cuter than that when she bites his face again. “Like, I dunno, Krypto. Krypto’s a good choice to like.” 

“Krypto’s already tried to steal her twice,” Tim says wryly. He wonders where Krypto is, actually, given Kon’s back and just . . . 

It’d been a long time before Krypto had started eating anything like normally and stopped only waiting on the porch for Kon to come back. 

Tim had empathized with the behavior, personally.

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some more kon isn't the father? i love how he's the dad who's stepping up <3

Tim would probably cry again if he weren’t so fucking exhausted. 

“She likes you,” he says, and doesn’t think about what that could mean if Match ever showed up. Doesn’t think about–

He doesn’t think about it.

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For WIP Wednesday, the one where Kon isn't the father please! I am loving Tim and Kon in that one 🥰

“Fucking Bats,” Kon mutters, squeezing the arm he has around him tighter. Tim doesn’t laugh, but he makes a sound that could pass for one, probably. 

Not to Kon, obviously. But to most people.

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Some assorted Smallville headcanons from some of my assorted WIPs for Plot Bunny. They did not specify which WIP they preferred, so I just picked a bunch of different ones and went from there! 

Smallville does not approve of Clark Kent’s parenting style: Smallville is a tight-knit, proud little community where everyone looks out for each other that is full of people who want to continue living in a tight-knit, proud little community where everyone looks out for each other. The population at large still considers Clark one of their temporarily-displaced own and were therefore very willing to pretend to believe the “cousin” story when “Conner” showed up–right up until they found out it was NOT a story meant to help Clark’s displaced kid he’d just found out about settle into the Kent family in a low-pressure environment while he got over whatever obvious trauma had happened to him. Now? Now there are pitchforks being sharpened and torches being lit. CLARK JOSEPH KENT, YOUR HOMETOWN IS NOT MAD, JUST DISAPPOINTED. 

Kara gets to Earth on time and the Kents get a two-for-one special on free kids: Smallville is pretty sure Jonathan and Martha did NOT get this emotionally-fraught teen mom and her weird but adorable little baby from any actual adoption agency, Norwegian or not, but what’s a little illegal immigration and identity fraud between neighbors? None of THEIR business, no sir. Especially not if any strangers ever show up in town asking QUESTIONS. 

Jon and Martha, professional soulparents: Oh Jon and Martha absolutely will be clearing out the attic to make Conner a bedroom the absolute SECOND they get back to Smallville. And also being heartbroken about Clark, obviously. Everyone in Smallville is going to cry on them when they hear about Conner and be both very sad and very happy for them. And then they’re all gonna be Weird About Conner, who isn’t gonna know how to talk to ANY of them. He’s gonna get his cheek pinched by so, so many old ladies and SO many manly back-claps and it’s gonna be a pain controlling his TTK enough to actually let people do it. Meanwhile, everyone in Smallville, internally: oh he’s exactly as weird as Clark was when he first showed up, noted. Jfc, Jon and Martha, AGAIN?? WHERE DO YOU EVEN FIND THESE KIDS. 

Kon is too trans for this pregnancy shit: No one in Smallville knew a thing about Kon’s physical sex, so they’re all gonna be VERY surprised very soon, but also Smallville in general is gonna take that whole reveal like CHAMPS and just roll with it, even if it might require some people having some Talks With Their Kids And/Or Slightly Bigoted Relatives. Like, there will be a few assholes and a few over-inquisitive weirdos around, because nowhere is a monolith, but overall Smallville is gonna roll with it and be chill about it while ALSO being incredibly out of touch with the up-to-date terminology/language and having very little grasp of the minutiae of queerness in general ( aside from a couple of very quiet people who are gonna feel a WAY about finding out that Conner Kent is trans and went completely unclocked all this time, and seeing how most of the town’s taking finding out really well, and does that maybe mean . . . ). 

the one where Kon isn’t the father: Smallville has politely not asked any questions about Tim aside from if he wanted a baby shower or not, but also ALL of Smallville knows Tim was Conner’s “boyfriend” and Kyra is “his” daughter. That’s just gossip-by-osmosis that all of Smallville knows. A lot of casseroles and crocheted things and quilts have happened to the Kent household since Tim showed up pregnant and traumatized. And baby stuff donations. And babysitting offers. And general helpfulness in general. People weren’t necessarily close to Kon, but a lot of people felt very bad about what HAPPENED to Kon, especially after finding out about Kyra. Not that any of them actually KNOW what actually happened to Kon or the truth about Kyra, but that’s a clone of a different gene donor, okay?? OKAY.

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Kon isn’t the father for wip Wednesday please!

“Batman needs a Robin,” he says, not looking up from Kyra. Not lifting his head from Kon’s shoulder. He can hear the rumbling clearer like this. Feel the gentle vibration of it in Kon’s body. It is sort of relaxing, honestly. “And it was that or Jason, who really wasn’t interested in working with any of us at all, so . . .”

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Can we have some "The one where Kon isn't the father" for WIP Wednesday? It brakes my heart every time it shows up

Kyra squeaks, then babbles happily for a few moments before making that musical little noise again and trying to climb up Kon. She can’t really climb yet–that’ll start somewhere around eight to twelve months, according to Tim’s research–but . . . she’s trying to, yeah. Trying to grip his shirt and wriggle up him, anyway, which seems like the same thing at this point. Kon obviously thinks that’s what she’s trying to do too, because he shifts his grip on her and visibly braces her with his TTK to scoot her up to his shoulder. She purrs louder, and he rumbles back lower.

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Kon isn't the father for WIP Wednesday, please!!! 😍

“. . . ‘Jason’? As in crime lord Jason? As in the fucking Red Hood? As in the fucking shithead who broke into the Tower, took out half the team, and then took his sweet time beating the shit out of you because he was mad at Batman?!” Kon demands incredulously. “How the fuck was Jason an option?!” 

“It’s been a very, very long year,” Tim tells him, and smiles with absolutely no humor in it at all.

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hi :0!! wip wednesday; mayhaps a kon is not the father :)?

But Tim inherited “Robin”, and it was inherited before him too. It’s not the same kind of mantle as “Superboy”, which started out as the only name Kon had at all. 

“I’d already quit,” he reminds him. “And Robin was Dick’s before it was anyone else’s. If anyone gets to give it to someone . . .”

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Can we get more of the one where Kon isn't the father

“He what?!” Kon demands, immediately bristling. Tim ducks his head. This smile’s a little pained, but he can’t repress it either. 

Of course Kon would react like that, though.

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ik this isn’t on the list but for wip wednesday do you think we could please get some more of that one where kon isn’t the father?

“. . . a little bit, but also no,” Tim says, and can’t repress a wry smile. “Bruce apparently has a kid with Talia al Ghul, and she finally saw fit to inform him after . . . ten years, give or take? He’s Robin now. And–well, Dick was Batman for a little while. He gave it to him.”

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happy wip wednesday!!! kon isnt the father please? 💕💕💕

And also–also he was heartbroken. He never had romantic feelings for Kon, much less that kind of relationship with him–he’s never been attracted to other guys at all, in fact–but . . . but he was heartbroken. His best friend was gone, and his dad, and his ex who’d been his best friend before they’d fallen out, and then another one of his closest friends, and all of them had been murdered, and he’d been lying to everyone he knew about something no one else could ever know, had been hurting Cassie and taking advantage of the Kents, and . . . 

And he hadn’t been able to stop thinking about contingency plans, and Kyra had been so, so small.

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i’ve got Mean It by K. Flay for Kon is not the father

I can’t wait to see everyone’s suggestions this time around!!

“. . . that is the weirdest thing I’ve ever heard,” Tim says, blinking at him in bemusement. “How has that never come up before?” 

“Uh–’cuz he was Robin because you were dead,” Kon says, wincing a little. “So it felt kinda weird to be like ‘spoiler alert, if you ever die I’m apparently gonna have a nervous breakdown, bully Batman into adopting me, and steal your job and costume’ in casual conversation?” 

“. . . that’s really ironic, after this past year,” Tim says, trying to picture Kon in any version of a Robin suit and just getting a mental bluescreen at the idea. He can’t even picture Kon in a cape, unless he counts the evil adult version or that one time they all got turned into non-evil adults. “Also probably the most authentic way to carry on my legacy, let’s be real.” 

“Right?” Kon says with a sheepish laugh, lifting Kyra over his head again as she squeals happily and kicks her feet. “Slightly less embarrassing to admit to now, too."

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Can I request more Kon is not the father for WIP Wednesday?

“How long have you been here, anyway?” Kon asks, glancing around the room with a puzzled little frown. “What, no room for a nursery in any of the seventeen billion rooms in Batman’s fancy-ass manor?” 

“I didn’t want to be there,” Tim says, looking down at Kyra where she’s cozied up happily in the crook of Kon’s arm, her ear pressed to his chest. Kon’s still rumbling a little, just very quietly. Even while he’s talking, there’s an undertone of it in his voice.