So, canonically, Bernard and Jason never met, and that's crazy, because it seems like Bernard knows Tim's entire family, except Jason. ((And I understand the whole "legally dead" thing and "not feeling like part of the family" and all that) but I keep thinking about what it would be like if Jason and Bernard met and interacted.
(part of me is a Jaybern shipper, I love rarepairs and Tim Drake dead or choking on his own drool, whatever)
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no no you don't understand i have thought about them EXTENSIVELY
(same anon as before, just as fanon-y as before)
sharpshooter bf x brawler bf
conversations dripping with sarcasm
Bernard finds out Jason attacked Tim when they first met and he's like "Oh fuck no" because anyone who hurts his friends is On Sight. Meanwhile, Jason finds out Bernard associates with Tim and is like "Ew." But then later Jason finds out about his hatred of the rich and his sheer audacity and decides he's not half bad actually. Bernard holds a grudge longer but begrudgedly comes to find that everything else he finds out about Jason isn't half bad actually
The general public doesn't know that Jason Todd is alive so one summer Bernard goes down the 'Jason Todd is Secretly Alive' conspiracy rabbit hole, decides to investigate, and comes through the other side with scars, more trauma and a boyfriend
Just. Conspiracy theorist x Conspiracy, y'know???
Bernard's constantly flirting with people and getting rejected but this is worse because Jason doesn't even realize he's being flirted with. He's on the side of the aroace spectrum (hc) where he sort of forgets romantic love is an option unless it's directly in his face. Cue Bernard trying every move he knows, Jason not getting any of it, him randomly mentioning to Tim one day that "Your friend is weird." and Tim having a meltdown at the thought of his best friend trying to date his brother
They both have Catholic guilt but in different directions
Bf who grins at strangers x Bf who glares and sticks up the middle finger
They're both gym bros
Bernard has been disowned is living in a low-rent apartment doing a minimum wage job but he is pulling himself up by the bootstraps and getting that culinary degree if it is the last thing he ever does. Jason obv goes on a kill spree at first but as the years go by he starts to heal and gain some semblance of the sweet, studious personality he used to have and decides he wants to go to uni. Cut to them lazing around in bed and doing their various assignments side by side. It's raining out. They're huddled amongst blankets. It's cozy
*Eats words* This. I love this. Also you need to post these more often and give us 50+ k word fics ToT
I'm a ride or die for timbern, like i LOVE them with my whole heart, if i had to choose only one DC ship to have a happily ever after, it will be them...
Do you ship jaybern? I found a random fic of them and saw that you gave it kudos lol. I've never thought of them as a ship but it could be interesting I guess?
Oh my goodness I completely forgot about that ship!! I saw the summary while perusing the Bernard tag on ao3 and always loved angst so I read it and really really liked it. I believe there's at most like three jaybern fics on ao3 and I read them all i adore them all.
Bernard's a consumer of information, he's always on the hunt to know more and to understand everything he lays his eyes on, and Jason's always seemed like a cryptid in his own right to me– a mystery all to himself, so there's that going for dynamics. Also, hello, this is Bernard? He would be so into the crime lord thing; that boy was raised on Wattpad and lives in Gotham. He had a crush on Darla Aquista. He's written self-insert function about it at the very least, I'm sure.
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My 2024 writing goal was to write one short fic a day for a whole year, so I bring you a tiny jaybern!
Bernard hadn’t realized how much he loved the scent of smoke and leather until it surrounded him. Filled every sense.
Jason was his home, he’d known that for a long time. He was the person he came home to every day, the man whose bed he curled up on every night. He was the one who pressed a key into his palm and let his eyes do the pleading, the one who’d gone to IKEA with him to pick out curtains for the room they shared despite all the fear beneath the surface.
He knew that, but he wasn’t aware of just how comforting his scent was. Not until he got kidnapped (again, and not Jason’s fault no matter how much he blamed himself), and felt cool leather settle on his shoulders the moment he was rescued.
His eyes were closed, and his ears were ringing, but when he breathed in the smell of Jason, the relief hit like a truck. As did the terrifying realization that he was completely and absurdly in love with that man. It wasn’t even the relief of getting rescued, it was the memories that played through his mind when his nose picked up Jason.
It was holding him tight as he fought the Pit, stealing his jacket on cold days, yelling at him because how dare he do something so reckless? He could’ve gotten killed.
The realization hit him at full force, but it settled quickly. Nestled itself into the portion of Bernard’s heart that belonged to Jason and was spreading like a wildfire. It made its home there like it had always been there, and Bernard thought it had. He’d been deeply, so deeply in love for a long time.
They’d said it before–out loud, even if it scared Jason sometimes–but that love ran much deeper than Bernard thought it did.
When Bernard finally felt Jason’s strong arms wrap around him and heard comforting words replacing the ringing in his ears, what was he supposed to do but clutch the jacket around him? What was he supposed to do but melt into the arms man he loved and believe him when he said they’d be home in no time and he would be fine?
Of course he would. Bernard had been through much worse, and this time, he even had someone to hold on to.
A Bernard pfp while being named "The-Jason-Todd-Impreganator" is wiiiild 💀💀💀
Damn Bernard, I knew you were freaky (anyone who dates Tim has to be at least a bit of a freak), didn't know you were "Getting My Brother-in-law Pregnant" kinds of freaky 💀💀💀
. . . Okay, look, I can't change both. My moots and I are autistic. (/j 'cause I'm not diagnosed.)
But also JayBern is my horrid... What's the word?
Cue searching: What's the word for liking something you shouldn't?
GUILTY PLEASURE!!! JayBern is a guilty pleasure of mine, personally. Mainly if it's: "Something horrible happens to Tim and Jason ends up being the one making sure Bernard stays alive and they fall in love on accident."
Or Bernard dating both of them at the same time, like, they all know and are cool with it. Bernard gets both brothers, no JayTim ofc, just. Yeah. I find that fun to...
no no you don't understand jaybern is THE guilty pleasure ship for me
(a lot of this is fanon-y be forewarned)
They're both chefs but have completely different methods. Bernard's been to culinary school and his dishes are methodical and precise and damn good. Jason picked up some skills from trial and error and from the people around him but he's convinced he could take on Gordon Ramsey and win (and he's right) ((in the kitchen or the ring))
And they're both constantly trying to one up eachother and making other people judge and said people can't pick because they know the other will kill them. And every time they try the other's dish they're like 'Fuck. That's actually great.'
I have this hc that Bernard trained in the medical field because he was so traumatized by Darla that he never wanted something like that to catch him off guard again, which perfectly aligns with Jason constantly running headfirst into danger
Also the fact that they both know what it's like to experience a tragedy and have the rest of the world move on without you. Feeling like a ghost in your own body, like you died and crawled through the other side a zombie and you didn't even walk into it. It just happened randomly one day and so now a part of you lives in fear of it happening again.
Bernard's also the yapper bf while Jason listens while doing his own thing bf
I agree with all of this and love every word.
JayBern shippers RISE!!! You guys also exist and I didn't even know it.