Question Meme

[roomforhope]

It's been quite awhile, so a question meme for Stephanie Brown, Annabeth Chase, and Mulan. Feel free to ask questions about Rose Lalonde (good ended; off in Aather) and Yeine Darr (Booked; reapped) as well. <3

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[detectivewonder]

relationship me!

[roomforhope]

SO COMPLICATED. Maybe in ways that he doesn't really recognize? Basically, Steph feels both that Tim is the best friend she could ask for and that she also really, really likes him. But then again, he's got Cass (and they are super cute, and she likes that Cass keeps him a little bit more down to earth), and probably more important to her is that she has Mako, so she's like.....is that okay?

Also a part of her is like "no just be friends we don't know enough yet to really be in a relationship especially considering you remember he's engaged" and another part just says "SHUT UP STEPH and kiss him!!!"

She mostly goes with the second one. It'll probably cause complications later, but she's hoping that everything works out smoothly. But yeah, best friend, cutie, she's happy he's here and really wants to hang out with him a lot :x

[roomforhope]

ALSO REVERSE

[detectivewonder]

I AM WORKING ON THIS

it was too many feels for me to summarize yesterday but today I think I got it

WATCH THIS SPACE

[detectivewonder]

So. Because Tim has to complicate everything, there's Tim & Steph, and there's Eclipse & Sunshine. (He really likes how their Aather names complement one another, too).

Tim & Steph is this relationship he has in his memory, which is both an idealized thing and something he sees as something he badly screwed up. His changed, more social Aather perspective hasn't really made him better at people, but it's made it easier for him to see when he's been unfair or a downright jackass, which is about 50% of his Steph memories - and the other half are awesome adventures and makeouts and really quite a lot of Steph totally saving him, even if he's sometimes ungrateful about it. He hasn't yet seen the reasons he & Batman were skeptical of Spoiler, so his image is a little idealized... but that's okay, because back then he almost never gave her the benefit of the doubt, so it's just that the tables have turned.

He really wants what they have or are developing now to be... the redemption of his screw-ups then. Eclipse & Sunshine have a chance to get things right. He can, he hopes, be a better boyfriend. He admires her, and he loves her, although that's sort of a mixed-up amalgamation of his positive feelings now being reinforced by memories of how much she meant to him back home... but he's nervous, kind of intimidated by all the things he remembers that he hasn't told her, and by all the memories of him acting like a jackass. He second-guesses himself a lot... when they're not around one another. When they are, his Steph-dere is just too strong and "shut up and kiss her" predominates.

He hasn't seen too much of Mako yet, but he's very much leaped head-first into embracing Aather's polygamous ways, without a lot of self-examination, because it solves problems for him. He doesn't have to worry about his memories of juggling multiple girls back in Gotham, doesn't have to worry about whether he wants to pursue Steph or Cass (or Annabeth, or how much he likes kissing games), doesn't have to worry about Cass and Naha... I mean, I think it's sort of all the right things but for somewhat wrong reasons? It's a shortcut, and socially, Tim & Eclipse have always loved taking shortcuts.

But for all that kind of sounds pessimistic, I think Aather also has him in a much better headspace to appreciate who Steph is. That relentless positivity, that determination, the way that so many people here (him included) are prone to 'Try, fail. try again, fail better.'

He's also a little torn. Due to a lot of factors - the relationship getting started first here, Cass being more experienced, memory shenanigans, Legacies having more free time than active knights... he's done a lot more boyfriend-girlfriend stuff with Cass than Steph, and he's torn between worry about rushing things and the desire to sweep Steph off her feet, because he doesn't want his girlfriends to feel they're not on equal footing with him.

SO COMPLICATED would also be a good summary. He very much runs hot & cold.

THERE HOW IS THAT DID THAT MAKE SENSE ANY QUESTIONS?