#but with duke and steph its sorta an outsiders looking in dynamic where duke still has stuff to come to terms with

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Me: the point of this Stephanie fic should be Stephanie enjoying her time with her friends and genuinely enjoying the life she's been given while slowly discovering who she is

Also me: and kissing Jason Todd. Gotta kiss Jason Todd a bunch.

#cass and tim are her soulmates but in this different fragile ecosystem way where they'll always be her closest relationships #but like that doesn't necessarily mean she has to be romantic with cass or tim #and like with cass ive always headcanoned it as being this mutual attraction between her and steph #but like the two of them are so close to each other that like they would never want to risk it because what they have now is something more #and like to lose each other for cass and steph is like to lose a limb. #when tim was avoiding steph it felt like his lungs had been torn out of his chest and even if his relationship were to end #he would have to move slowly and tentatively because he knows what missing stephanie brown is like for him #because stephanie is just this ball of joy and even though shes seen some shit she keeps coming back #whereas i think i could explore the possibility of a relationship with harper and duke too in this fic #like im not set on the ships #but with duke and steph its sorta an outsiders looking in dynamic where duke still has stuff to come to terms with #and also like duke as a character just grounds stephanie and has an opportunity to make her slow down and breathe #like i kinda wanna explore their dynamic but i feel like it could be an underlying tension thing #and then like duke and steph kiss once just to try it and both spittake and realize theyre better off friends/family #harper i see as being an occasional thing where it never becomes serious but the two make out every once in a while and theyre CHAOS #whereas spiritually we all know that jaysteph is a trashcan fire of two people with something to prove trying to save the world #JAYSTEPH IS TWO OF THE SMARTEST HUMAN DISASTERS LOCKED IN A ROOM TOGETHER WITH ONLY A BOBBYPIN AND COLD PIZZA #I will throw in other weirdo dynamics i swear and like try love interests but im leaning towards jay #because my god it would be so fucking funny