justplainsomething:

fyeahdickandbabs:

kumeko:

Don’t look so disappointed, Dick.

This is the main thing I dislike with Dick, and it’s not really Dick’s problem but the people who write him.

If he’s with Krory, and the writer ships him with Babs, they will then make him cheat in some way. I haven’t seen too much of the other way around, but either way it’s disrespectful to both girls. D< It’s like the writer’s making a fanfic or something and ruining Dick’s character this way. He’s like Ollie when it comes to these two.

Dick, Alfred raised you better. Don’t do this.

I always found this scene (along with the scene in Nightwing Annual #2) so frustrating. Although I feel like this scene could have been saved if only Dick pulled back as much as Babs. Because they got caught up in the moment for a second, that’s fine, not the worst thing (although once again it’s kind of making them out to be ‘star crossed lovers’ which really they’re not) but they should NOT have made Dick so nonchalant (ha YJ reference) about the whole thing. He’s just like “Oh yeah Starfire, what about her?” I mean COME ON! That’s so not Dick Grayson and so not how he felt about Kory at the time.

I’ve been talking to my Kory-loving friend the last couple weeks about the whole dickbabskory dynamic and we’ve agreed that the comics have really messed up these characters too many times for the sake of love triangle drama. So many times they’ve made Dick out as this inconsiderate guy letting his hormones lead him (case in point above) and either Barbara or Kory as jealousy-stricken women coming in 2nd place to the other. It’s the reason we get shippers bashing one woman or the other. More than anything I want to see Kory treated as more than just a sex symbol and Barbara not treated as Dick’s “not as sexy” love interest and Dick treated with the thoughtfulness that defines his character.

Also, I want to see Kory and Barb as friends in comic canon.

OK, rant over.

Edit: Oh yeah, the one good thing about the new 52 and the girls not having any defined romantic history with Dick Grayson is that maybe they won’t be defined so much by their relationships with him … still would be nice if Kory remembered her relationship with Dick, but whatever.