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be me, confused: /well not that I don't appreciate the heads up but I DID already reblog the post, did they miss that I already--?/

“...Lex is here,” Kon mumbles, eyes cast to the side and his fists clenched. “He- it's an open auction. It's an open auction, and he's-”

He's Lex Luthor, a billionaire, Tim thinks, and he knows that Cassie and Bart have put the pieces together too, judging from the faint buzz behind him as the threat of lightning makes the hair on his arms stand up.

Kon can't back out, not since Superboy is one of the major draws of the auction, and the money that Lex could donate would fund the rural emergency services for years - and, even worse, if Kon tries to impose a limit on who can bid, people will want to know why.

And there's only one reason Lex would be at an auction that's hosting Superboy as a prize.

“I mean are you letting him flirt with you and follow you around on patrol because you think Robin would do that, or because you know Tim would?” Dick clarifies. “Just about everybody in the community’s got a secret name or face or both, baby bird. The important thing is if you’re honest about how you feel.”

newmom!Clark at some point, surprised: oh! his eyes are so PURPLE!

every single human being around him: oh yeah, they are kinda purple. guess he got that from Lois, huh?

newmom!Clark and his overwhelming levels of hormones and baby-brain: /technically aware that most Kryptonians are just a LITTLE more brightly-colored than most humans; very much NOT aware that baseline human eyes can't actually SEE that fact, because you don't know what you don't know, and unless you're colorBLIND, who even thinks about whether they're seeing the same shade of purple as everyone else or not, and therefore--correctly--assuming that Jon DID get Lois's eye color, but that his Kryptonian side affected how brightly it came out/ Guess so! 💜💜

everyone else: /oblivious to this miscommunication/

Maybe Thirteen talks more than Match does because he wants Kara to think he’s smarter and more cooperative than Match; maybe Match talks less than Thirteen does because he’s trying to avoid making it obvious when he doesn’t know things, so he’ll seem like the more intelligent one. Or Match just might be trying to come across as more measured and more deliberate and more properly Kryptonian than Thirteen, who’s more emotive and keeps asking questions and saying inappropriate things, or Thirteen might think–

It’s pointless to speculate too much, because there’s a lot of things it could’ve been. A lot of things it could all still be. Sibling rivalry or squad members with clashing personalities or just teenagers with skewed perspectives who don’t know how to socialize in civilian settings or any number of things. 

Tim doesn’t even know if the cat cares about getting looked at like that or if he even enjoys the attention, but intent matters either way, and he very much does not want to emulate any of the designer-dressed slime with the moral backbone of a wet box of cream puffs in this situation. At all. Ever. In any way. 

Yeah, he’s gonna resist the temptation to sneak a pic of the hot cat for Bernard. Unfortunately, having ethics has once again proven itself to be an annoying inconvenience in his life.