#romecon

I really wanna know more abt it cause of how many directions this could go. Like, does Connor still care for romeo abit even after he figures out that romeo is manipulating him, or is he just fighting tooth and nail to get away from him at that point??

And I know Romeo's first intention is to just experiment on things to make them "better" but did spending alot of time with Connor not have him form some kind of attachment towards him?

And are there times where they both genuinely enjoy each others presence and where romeo helps him, cuz it would be so interesting to see Connor going through something when their still friends where Connor hates and likes him at the same time in a way. Where he's like weighing out the pro's and con's of being his friend and questioning how bad romeo really is

(That's all, and thank u for reading!🙏)

LOVE THIS. Romeo and Connor probably bonded in the first place cause of some kind of act of kindness or something trauma related?? Maybe young Romeo (like 6-10 years old? I have no concept of child ages) was the one that rescued Connor from being in the pools/the showers they put him in to get him used to water. Probably did it genuinely as well. Romeo CAN be genuine. He was probably lonely as well, not being in school but instead having his mother bring him to the labs.

In the start he probably wasn’t even manipulating Connor consciously, just pressuring him into things like sneaking around the labs and whatnot.

But then Connor made better friends with Amaya and Greg, and Romeo felt threatened so he leaned into “Oh, so you like them better than me?” so Connor would feel guilty.

Romeo probably has times where he goes between, “I miss Connor, I shouldn’t have done all that” and “Screw Connor, he didn’t get it. I don’t need him,”

They probably do care for each other on some level. Like if Romeo got hurt, Connor would go and cradle him dude 😭. ‘Cause at some points in their childhood the friendship was good, and comforted them both.

Here’s a little sketch. Reason Greg’s not there/why the kids are the same age as in present day but in GunnTech outfits is ‘cause this is probably in season 4 or 5 when the other heroes + Gekko are being mind controlled? Idk, Romeo probably pushed Connor out the way to take a hit from something or general self sacrifice science stuff from him. Maybe he took some kind of star/light blast from Newton? Real Catradora vibes.

I couldn't stop thinking about it so I drew some doodles. They're not exactly good but I just wanted to share them

I'm not exactly lore accurate (I haven't been keeping up on the Tumblr posts about all the stuff so I don't really know everything that's going on)

Amaya turned out pretty cute in this one :)

Romeo my boy

I can't draw catboy for the life of me. I just can't do it. In the first pic he looks so goofy I can't 😭

Is it bad I kind of ship them??? Yes. Yes it is. I don't actually want them to end up together cuz Nori, and Romeo is like terrible for him but I'm obsessed with partial redemption arcs :((((

Plus their banter I feel would be really funny

Toxicity probably like 7 or 8 😭😭. He lovebombed Connor and then devalued him, did minor experiments on him which left him with scars and whatnot, isolated him from the others.

I think it's interesting that Romeo is VERY toxic to Connor but he still respects his gender identity (also he would kinda be a hypocrite for being homophobic).

"Like yeah I'm disappointed in his choices to abandon ME and also Gunntech but mostly me, but I still respect his pronouns. I'm a mad scientist not a monster. I have standards!" - Romeo probably at some point

Yes, it is! I find the bigotry to be unnecessary to the story, plus we have enough of it IRL. Everything in the AU would still be treated with care, though does that make sense? So the characters still had to come out as trans and have that conversation but it’s never in fear— so Connor would’ve been unsure about coming out to his mom and Mr. Gunn but not because he was worried about lack of acceptance, just because of general unsureness. They accepted him immediately.. but in character. So Mr. Gunn was just like “I see… Do you have a new name, do you want us to assign one— we’ll have to update the files…”

Or in Romeo’s case (mostly a joke here:

“Oh, you’re a boy? 🤨🤨 and?? 🤨 get in the chair, we don’t have all day—“