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This takes place after Querl wakes up from his healing tank after nearly dying from Sharn Nux's assassination attempt.
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"You look like hell," Lyle remarked as he watched Querl ease himself into a chair. "Are you sure you should be on duty now? No, wait. Stupid question. I know how you're going to respond."
"No," said Querl as he began typing.
Lyle's eyebrows rose and he strode over to be closer to him. "No? No what?"
"The answer to your question," Querl mumbled. "The answer is 'no'."
"You're not sure you should be on duty?"
"Affirmative." Click click click, his green fingers tapped on the keypad much slower than they normally did. "But, there is work that needs to be done, and I am the one to do it. Anyone else might mess it up."
Lyle frowned and released a long weight-filled sigh. "Querl, I uh, back then-"
"It wasn't your fault," Querl interrupted as he continued to stare at the screen, then he scoffed. "Hyper-dimensional physics? Rubbish. We have no time nor resources to entertain science fiction! These words mean nothing."
"What?" Lyle probed.
Querl still refused to take his eyes off his monitor. "Are you inquiring about your lack of blame, or the United Planets entertaining hyper-dimensional physics, whatever they mean by that because they cannot determine what the definition of hyper-dimensional even is-"
"Grife! Would you at least look at me?!" Lyle finally snapped as he seized his chair and spun it so that he was face to face with his friend. Lyle's deep brown eyes locked onto Querl's, they held their gaze only for a moment and then they both looked away. "Grife, you're such a sprocking pain."
"You want to talk about what happened," Querl stated flatly then he leaned his temple into his hand as he massaged it tiredly. He had only been awake from the healing tank for a few hours and he already felt exhausted. But not physically.
Lyle really didn't, but he knew if they were going to work, they had to talk. They had to face this. Together. No running into numbers and figures, and no vanishing. "I let Sharn Nux get loose. That's a failure on my end that almost resulted in something I would never forgive myself for if it went through."
"My death."
Lyle nodded. "Yes, your death, you pain in the sprocking ass."
"Don't carry that guilt, Lyle." Querl said his name, his first name, and it was so softly said Lyle felt something in his chest skitter. "I never blamed you, and I never will. But if it is forgiveness your human heart needs then I offer it. If it means anything."
"If it means anything?" Lyle scoffed disbelievingly, then he shook his head painfully as he knelt in front of the Coluan. "Querl, you mean to me. I'm not answering a bogus question with an equally bogus answer anymore with you, I'm-" he stalled as his words left him. He could face endless danger and uncertainty with more confidence than he could simply be his true self.
To be visible to Querl.
Be the true meaning of the word transparent, because when your abilities made you invisible, being seen sometimes was far far more difficult.
"I was scared for you," Lyle finally breathed. "I didn't want you to die before we figured this out. If this can work. And I didn't want to be the one responsible for blowing it."
They both went quiet, just the lull of the Legion Planet's biorhythms and their breaths between them, then finally Querl spoke. "I really am a pain in the ass."
Lyle cracked a small smile. "Yeah, yeah you are."
"Shall we perhaps continue this over dinner?" Querl suddenly asked, and it didn't sound awkward.
Lyle stood up eagerly and offered him his hand. "I've been meaning to try Tenzil's new menu."
Querl gladly took Lyle's hand, thankful for his help getting up, and once he was standing he continued to hold it. They moved slowly together, their hands joined and something in Querl's chest also skittered. Once they exited the lab, Querl turned his face so he could look at Lyle. "You mean to me too, Lyle."
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When Querl chooses Lyle over his own people, they get more than a little angry. Fortunately for him, he is very very loved.
Excerpt
When Querl came to his senses he was met with the apathetic boorish stares of three Coluan council members. Blinking against the bright lights that haloed his captors and his own hazy mind, Querl quickly assessed his situation starting from what he remembered last.
Right. He remembered.
That would do it.
"Querl Dox, Brainiac 5 of Colu," began one, her flat green eyes smoldered as she repressed a sneer. "Do you know why you are here?"
Querl couldn't remember her name, but he did recognize her face and how she always looked like she was just one badly perceived comment away from breaking. At her question he straightened up in his chair and found he was shackled to it, hands and ankles like a common criminal.
"Brainiac 5, do you know why you are here?" she pressed again and Querl saw a flash of her white upper teeth as she sneered his name.
"You would have to ask my mother that question to determine the reasoning behind her reproduction choices," he answered bluntly as he stared her down impassively.
"Sarcasm?!" she hissed as her expressionless facade cracked, spilling her tension everywhere. "On top of everything you have done, you now dare to face us with sarcasm?!"
Another council member, an older man Querl recognized as being called Phari Wex, silenced her with a touch to her shoulder but he never lifted his stern gaze from Querl. "I don't believe you understand the severity of the situation you are in, Brainiac 5. Your scurrilous jesting will not be tolerated in this court, do you understand?"
"It's hard not to jest when I'm starring at a circus of monkeys," Querl seethed and the third councilmen slapped him across his pale green face. It stung more than hurt, Coluans weren't known for physical prowess and the councilmen rubbed his hand, nursing it before he wiped it on his robes in disgust.
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“You don’t even know me.” or "I trust you, do you trust me?" with Brainylyle, your pick
I went with "I trust you, do you trust me."
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Summary
After Querl almost died at the hands of Sharn Nux, Lyle decided to train Querl in the art of combat where he proved to be a very competent and skilled student - but there is an intimacy that follows combat training and one that reveals how they have changed since they first met.
Or
How teaching pin holds accelerates things damn fast.
Excerpt
If Lyle Norg had to describe Querl to someone else in the past the word 'jerk' would have most certainly come up. After all, Querl was exceedingly unapproachable and had the social skills of a rock tumbling down a cliff face. A few lessons in etiquette would have done wonders for him, Lyle considered on multiple occasions when witnessing Querl's blunt jabs.
But now, things were different.
They both had changed in drastic ways although Lyle kept his changes locked behind a mask he metaphorically welded to his face and dared not show them to anyone.
Querl was the opposite.
His changes were obvious ever since the Rift incident. He had changed before when he made contact with the Space Anomaly that scrambled his brain for a moment, but this was different.
Organic.
It was all Querl this time, and unlike Lyle he didn't seem afraid to show those changes and let people see him more closely than he ever would. Things were different now with Querl, and them, and Lyle wasn't entirely sure how he would describe him. The word 'jerk' would probably still come up but that word too held a slightly different meaning to Lyle, just like what Querl meant to him.
Changes also sometimes happened so quickly Lyle had a hard time seeing them coming.
6. Who would they ask if they ever had a threesome?
You know it's gonna be Condo.
8. What do they like in bed?
They're pretty vanilla and that's okay! But that doesn't mean their sex is uninteresting - the things the LAB has seen will never leave that lab.
They're romantic in their own ways, Querl likes to be held and praised, Lyle loves deep kisses and being in control of Querl's gasps and moans.
They do also sometimes play with Lyle's powers (there's a thrill to not knowing where your lover is as they are fucking you) and use toys that Querl creates, my oh my the toys.
They also have dabbled in some drug use to heighten the fun, it was a challenge for Lyle to make something that would also work for Coluans, but it was worth it.
9. What is the most embarrassing thing they have done in front of each other?
Querl: Wear a monkey on his head for a year, but honestly, not realizing that the "scrap metal" he paid no mind to could have been made to make their flight rings.
Lyle: his acrophobia, all the time, and denying it.
18. When they fight, how do they make up?
The words "I'm sorry" isn't often used but they both approach resolution fairly depending on what it is they were fighting about. Making up is pretty seamless as they go back to their regular routine as if nothing happened.
Sometimes the makeup sex really is mind blowing.
25. Why do they fight?
9/10 times it's going to be a disagreement on something scientific that the rest of the team just doesn't comprehend and doesn't even understand WHY they are fighting or what the fight even is. The other 1/10 time is when Lyle takes some incredibly stupid risk that Querl believes to be ill-thought out and poorly planned.
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Hello! Can you talk about the relationship between Querl and Lyle. I haven’t read the legion series yet but I saw a comic panel of Querl kissing Lyle on the cheek! WHAT IS GOING ON! :)
:) :) :) Querl thought bae was gonna die and was glad he din't
The Legion #27
Please meet the Post-Zero Hour Legion of Super-Heroes that stars a huge cast, including canonly gay (confirmed by writers) Lyle Norg and canonly queer Querl Dox.
Their first meetings began in 1994 where they at first had a bit of a rivalry (but both had deep respect for the other, it was never hostile) going on because they are both geniuses with some overlap in interests. Querl is Brainiac 5 with difficulty expressing his emotions and Lyle is a genius biochemist who is deeply repressed and also has difficulty showing his real self.
It took time but in the final issues of their run they find close "friendship" with each other that the writers (Abnett and Lanning) intended to be romantic but were told 'no' because it was the early 2000s.
Regardless, they got away with showing what they did.
The Legion #26
If you have the spoons I highly recommend reading the PZH run, it is long, over 200 issues including the closing series, but it is so worth it.
I'm just going to do Querl/Lyle because I love them and no one else sent me any for them which whyyyyyy??
22. Where does their first kiss happen?
In canon they kissed when Querl caught up with him during the Darkseid arc, but that was not their first kiss.
Their first shared kiss was after Sharn Nux almost killed Querl.
Before then, they had been flirting, old minor hostilities had been long since buried, and something better was growing between them and both were open to some... exploration. It was slow and cautious, a mutual experiment as they dated in their own way quietly. Both valued their privacy afterall and they both would rather not be at the center of any gossip, thank you very much!
But there was no kissing. Nothing that intimate. Hand holding, shoulder rubs, a friendly hug or a drape of an arm across shoulders when nights in the lab went on for longer than they both thought was their physical affection and that alone made Querl feel like he was drowning.
Then Querl was nearly assassinated by another Coluan and right when they got him stable and before he went in the damn tank Lyle went and fucking kissed him.
It was hardly fair. Particularly when Querl blacked out afterwards.
When Querl came out of the tank he insisted on a do-over.
23. Where is their favourite place to be together?
One of the shuttles actually. While both are brilliant and thrive in a lab, when they are in a shuttle, alone, a lot of things start to make sense to them because there's not much to do in a shuttle except talk. The thing is, neither would probably say the shuttle, each would probably say something else entirely.
Querl recognizes when Lyle is gone that it was the shuttle all along.
27. Why do their friends get annoyed with them?
They complete each other's sentences and use words that are beyond their vocabulary on a routine basis. Lyle typically tones it down, but when they are talking about ✨THE PLAN ✨then the text book speak comes out and most of everyone else's eyes just glaze over.
They also disobey orders and deviate from pre-established plans on the regular and only convey their new plans to each other until it's too late.
Whoever the leader is at the moment forgives them ultimately because damnitall the new plan worked but FUCK they should have said something earlier.
Send me a ship and some numbers and I'll talk about stuff.