Requested by Anon - hi! i was wondering if you could do a yj wally west or dick grayson imagine where one of the readers powers is they can learn a language and extract information instantaneously via lip contact(kind of like starfire) and they use this during an interrogation or on a mission and that causes a rift in the relationship because the reader made it seem as if they didn’t have any powers?
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Wally rubbed warmth into your hand as you both sat on the couch at the cave. A movie played on the TV, but it was mostly background noise. “Your hands are freezing,” Wally chuckled, smiling at you.
You smiled back at him, leaning over to kiss his cheek. He blushed adorably. “I probably just have poor circulation.” You ran your free hand through Wally’s messy hair. He had chased Robin around the cave minutes before and his hair was still standing on end.
“How did training go? Did you knock Canary down?” Wally leaned forward to place a soft, fast kiss on the corner of your mouth.
“No, but I did well.” You turned your head to catch his lips. Wally opened his mouth, allowing you to deepen the kiss. He tasted like soda and chocolate. You pulled away to catch your breath when his tongue met yours. “She said I’m cleared for missions now. Only minor ones though.”
Wally grinned. “Babe, that’s awesome.” He wrapped his arms around you and kissed you again. You buried both hands in his hair, pulling lightly to make him moan. His body vibrated excitedly against you.
“Get a room,” Zatanna laughed as she walked into the room on her way to the kitchen. You and Wally jerked away from each other, blushing.
“Hey Z.” You waved at her. Wally waved too before hiding his face in his hands. His ears were as red as his hair. Your heart fluttered at how cute he was.
Robin jogged into the room. “Guys, we have a mission. Briefing in five.” He grinned at Wally. “Try to get whelmed, Walls.”
“Dude.” Wally glared at Robin. Robin just smirked at him knowingly. You blinked, realizing what Wally’s issue was.
“Go take a minute,” you whispered to him. “It’s okay.”
Wally gave you a thankful smile before zooming out of the room. “Batman said you could join us, (Y/N). He said Black Canary gave you the go-ahead on easy missions.” Robin leaned on the back of the couch and nudged your shoulder.
“She did.” You flicked his nose. “And you should be nicer to Wally.”
Robin’s creepy little laugh filled your ears. “He’d do it to me too.” Robin glanced at Zatanna who was watching him from the kitchen. He stiffened, blushing slightly himself. “Hey Z, want to come on the mission too? We can be as chalant as we like.”
Zatanna giggled. You got up and left the two of them alone. A breeze hit you. Wally appeared at your side, taking your hand again. “I’m sorry I got you too excited,” you whispered in his ear.
“You can’t help that you’re hot.” Wally grinned, kissing your cheek. “I’ll get better control. I promise.” The two of you entered the mission room where Batman was waiting. You dropped Wally’s hand when you caught Batman’s eyes lingering. Robin and Zatanna joined shortly later. You held down the excitement at your first mission briefing.
***
Your breath came out in gasps as you ran after Icicle Jr.. He threw ice shards at you from over his shoulder. You did a somersault to dodge them, hopping back to your feet with ease. Your heart skipped a beat with joy. The training had paid off.
However, you didn’t focus on your pride. Sprinting faster, you jumped at him and slammed into his back to knock him to the ground. Icicle Jr. grunted. His ice cold skin burned yours, but you still raised your fist for a well placed punch to his jaw to knock him unconscious.
“Babe.” Wally zoomed to your side, eyes wide. “You did it.”
You couldn’t stop the big smile that pulled onto your lips. “I know.” You hopped to your feet, leaving Icicle Jr. on the ground. “Did you get Killer Frost?” You glanced behind you to see Robin and Zatanna running to catch up to you.
“No, we lost her.” Wally knelt down next to Icicle Jr.
“We’ll question him before we turn him over to authorities.” Robin frowned down at Icicle Jr. as Zatanna cast a spell to tie him up in his own shirt. “Maybe he will tell us what they were doing at the Diamond Exchange?”
You tilted your head. “They were stealing, weren’t they?”
Robin narrowed his eyes. “No, they weren’t. That’s why we need to learn what they were doing.” Wally flipped Icicle Jr. over and drag him over to the wall. He leaned him up against it. You rubbed your arms nervously.
“You did good.” Zatanna stood beside you, bumping your arm before joining Robin. Wally moved back to stand with you. His hand reached down and took yours.
“Your hand is so cold.” Wally rubbed warmth into your hand. You smiled at him. “Are you okay?”
“Yeah.” You squeezed his hand back. Robin put some smelling salts under Icicle Jr.’s nose and he slowly came to.
Icicle Jr. blinked, swearing under his breath when he saw all of you. “You won’t get anything from me. Might as well just hand me over to the cops.” He eyed you. “I got to say, you’re beautiful, baby. You should jump me more often.” He smirked at you and winked.
You flinched. Wally glared at him, stepping in front of you protectively. “Enough,” Robin snapped, kneeling down in front of Icicle Jr. “Tell us what you were doing at the Diamond Exchange. Nothing was missing, so you weren’t stealing.”
Icicle Jr. hummed. “You’re going to get nothing out of me.”
“Egnahcxe dnomaid eht ta gniod erew uoy tahw su llet.” Zatanna smiled smugly. You bit your lip, remembering how they told you she used this spell before to get info out of Ivo. Wally squeezed your hand again, glancing back at you with a smile.
“Vi var där som en distraktion, förlorare. Du föll för det.“ Icicle Jr.’s smirk grew at everyone’s confused looks. You tensed. Your lips tingled, craving the absorption of a new language. It happened every time you heard one you didn’t know yet. It was your secret. Then again, you didn’t realize your power until you kissed that girl in Mexico and suddenly knew Spanish fluently.
Robin muttered under his breath. “I don’t even know what language that is.”
“Too bad M’gann isn’t here.” Zatanna shared a look with you and Wally. “She could read his mind or something. I don’t know any translation spells yet.”
You sighed, closing your eyes. “I can help.” You stepped out from behind Wally, letting your hand slip away from his. Zatanna and Robin blinked at you. Wally’s jaw dropped.
“(Y/N), you only speak English and Spanish.” Wally reached out to grab your hand again.
“For now.” You looked at Wally. “Just don’t be mad, okay?”
“Mad?” Wally frowned, shaking his head. You pulled away from him and moved to Icicle Jr.
“(Y/N), what are you doing?” Robin asked as you cupped Icicle Jr.’s icy cheeks. Icicle Jr. seemed to go into a state of shock. You gave him a timid smile before slowly moving to press your lips against his. He didn’t move, but you felt warmth flooding into him.
Your body hummed at the knowledge seeping into you. Suddenly, you knew exactly what he said like you had been speaking Swedish your whole life.
Wally grabbed your arm, jerking you away from Icicle Jr. “What the hell was that?!” Wally pushed you to face him.
“He said they were the distraction.” You licked your lips, glancing over at Zatanna and Robin who were staring at you with wide eyes. “And he was speaking Swedish. If you try your spell again, Z, I should be able to translate.”
“How?” Wally swallowed hard. His ears were red. You knew he was angry.
“Quiet, Kid.” Robin held up a hand before Wally could say more. “Z, do the spell. Let’s finish the mission first.” Zatanna cast the spell again and you translated. Your mind was exploding at the new knowledge, craving it like you were dying from hunger. However, your stomach sank when you caught the devastated look on Wally’s face.
***
“Why didn’t you tell me that you can do that?” Wally exclaimed, pacing in front of you. You were sitting on the couch in the living room of the cave. Robin and Zatanna were in the kitchen, watching from afar.
You pinched the bridge of your nose. “Walls, I don’t really know much about it. I don’t kiss too many people. Just you and that girl in Mexico.” You pursed your lips to hold back the time you got a lip kiss from one of your cousins and learned how to speak Pig Latin.
“But you just went and kissed him!” Wally threw his hands up in the air. “How would you like it if I just went up and kissed Artemis randomly?!”
You got to your feet, poking his chest as anger swelled up inside you. “One, it wasn’t random. Two, I was trying to help us complete the mission. Three, it didn’t mean anything. I’m sorry it hurt your feelings, but I wanted to help. This was my first mission and I wanted to do what I can.”
“Well, you didn’t have to kiss a supervillain!” Wally swatted your hand away. His eyes teared up, cheeks flushed. Your heart sank at the sight.
“Wally, I’m sorry.” You took his hands in yours, holding them tight. He closed his eyes. “I didn’t know how to bring it up.” You bit your lip hard. “How do you even go about it? I never told anyone, because I was sure no one would believe me.” You pulled away from him, hiding your face in your hands. “It’s so embarrassing.”
Wally sighed, gripping your wrist and pulling your hands away from your face. “It’s not embarrassing, babe.” You saw the rage drain out of him. That was why you loved him. He took a minute to understand, but he always came through. So kind. Your heart melted. “It’s kinda cool when you think about it.”
“Really?” You smiled meekly at him.
“Yeah, I mean it doesn’t make any sense at all.” Wally wrinkled his nose. “But it’s kinda cool.” He blushed. “Just run it by me next time, because you totally gave Jr. a hard-on.”
You choked. “Eww. Why did you have to tell me that?” Wally laughed, pulling you against him and kissing you sweetly.
“Well, they’re feeling the aster,” Robin shouted from the kitchen.
Wally jerked away from you. “Dude!”
You laughed, shaking your head. Zatanna dragged Robin away while he laughed his head off. “Don’t be mad at him.”
“I won’t.” Wally smirked at you, his ears red as his hair. “But I’m curious. What did you get when you kissed me?”
You blushed. “Well, love and affection for one thing.” You pecked his lips. “Maybe some science knowledge too? I can do chemical equations that I never did before.”
Wally blinked. “Babe, that’s so cool.” He buried his fingers in your hair and sealed his lips passionately to yours. Slowly, he picked you up in his arms and zoomed you back to your room where privacy was guaranteed.
A selection of final comic panels of Dick and Wally vs their original blocking sketches. Can you tell which are which? All are from a monstrous comic that’ll be colored by the illustrious @wingedrobins that I’m doing for the charity @nightwingzine. Preorders aren’t so far away ;)
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Me predicting that Bart would be thrown into subspace and ‘die’ before ultimately being revealed as alive and finding Wally last week: Haha, that’d be a sad few episodes before they reveal he’s fine. Good thing this is a far fetched theory and nothing bad will actually happen to Bart
Bart having an inhibitor collar on and being forced to do things is something he hasn’t had to deal with in four years. This new experience itself is traumatic, but considering the fact that he’s been through this before… It doesn’t even matter if he’s dealt with his experience with the Reach in sessions with Black Canary, Lor is going to bring all those memories to the front of Bart’s mind.
Kaldur already pointed out that he uses science to understand the world and that believing in magic would force him to give up his understanding of the world overall.
I guess they wanted more of why he’s so scientific? If I recall correctly though, Barry was a scientist, so that probably rubbed off on him. The same thing happened to me, my father and brother being really scientific people too.
Wally never stated that he hated Magic. In fact, he never stated that he didn’t believe in it. What he did was “give it a reason.” It’s not that he doesn’t believe in magic, it’s that he doesn’t think things happen because they do, they happen because of something. When people started theorizing that Zatanna and him would have arguments about magic I always thought that that wouldn’t really work because Zatanna’s magic is clearly something that he’d be able to explain. For one, it’s genetic. And two, it’s power is measurable. He’s not denying the existence of magic, he’s denying the half-assed explanation of “because it’s magic.” People should really give him a break for his “closed-minded-ness.”
sdhfkjsdgh I’m finally done with these!! they were actually a lot of fun to make. I hope no one hasn’t done YJ yet…and if they have, I’m sorry. I couldn’t help myself ahaha
honeyandpochi helped me come up with these! thank you my darlings UvU ♥
bruce hates his fucking life because robin, kid flash, and speedy are friends so now he is forced to interact with flash (tolerable) and green arrow (the fucking worst) and then its a decade later and he has to finally acknowledge that he has Parent Friends. They have a fucking Group Chat to discuss logistics. Sometimes green fucking lantern will drop off kid flash at bruces fucking house???? hal jordan????? at his HOME?!?! Ridiculous
@sqoiler they meet in the parking lot of a walmart like divorced parents and hal is like “WHATS UP” and bruce is like do not fucking talk to me and wally does not understand whats happening
#this is so fucking funny#meanwhile he will invite diana and donna over for dinner parties#and keeps asking why kid flash and speedy NEED to come over why cant it just be donna#since shes such a lovely young lady
Much as I adore Wally West as a character, I must say it’s immensely fun to write him in low-key antagonistic roles. He just lends himself so perfectly to snark and general verbal pettiness.
Like, a Wally who’s genuinely, sincerely hurt and angry? Bad, no good, volatile, self-destructive, will be mean, all my boys are sad.
But a Wally who just does not like that guy in particular for whatever reason and will not hesitate to communicate it at every possible opportunity? Delightful.
