Jason todd if his life didn't suck

well i am not black so i can only speak from the perspective of scholarship but i don’t think its a reach to say that a lot of kory is/can be black-coded (and subsequently whitewashed), but then also she is subject to antiblack stereotypes and misogynoir because of it. like yes she’s an alien, but writing off elements of her hypersexualization by the writers as parts of her alien culture is doing the ideological labor of justifying why a bronze skinned curly haired woman was hypersexualized, which isn’t terribly different from things like the jezebel stereotype that argued that this oversexuality (by european and american standards of course) was inherent to a race. notice how she wears more clothes the straighter her hair is! like i really hate the idiotic kory that exists post animated teen titans but noticed how that perceived naive innocent version of kory is so tied with her whitewashing. theyre all connected.

Kory darling 💋

We're not "celebrating dubcon." The reason people were so excited about the dickkory kiss is because DC barely allows them to act like friends. This was full acknowledgement that they loved each other at one point (where for the past 30 years there have been several comics which spread the misinformation that Kory was just a stepping stone or that their relationship didn't mean much).

It's not just the kiss. We see them actually behaving as friends. He pours her coffee while she smiles up at him, they seem to hang out together (how they even managed to kiss in the first place - they're sitting just the two of them), they bounce information off of each other (his mentioning that the moon never changes), etc.