BartKon

BartKon is the slash ship between Bart Allen and Kon-El from the DC Comics and Young Justice fandoms.

A Day in the Life of Young Justice
Kon, Bart and Secret are at Young Justice HQ, where Bart pulls Secret aside. He explains that since Kon lost his powers, they're gonna use his comics to help him find some new ones. He says that Kon is their teammates, so it's the least they can do. Secret asks if it's a good idea, but Bart says that it's a fantastic idea, just as Kon walks in. He asks what they're doing, and they both say they're doing nothing. Kon offers them some leftover sushi, but Bart is grossed out by raw fish. Kon says to suit himself, and that he has to go back to working on paperwork, but tells Bart to stay out of trouble. Bart brushes him off and Kon leaves. Bart then points out to Secret how sad Kon seemed, and starts to tells her his plan.

Bart sneaks behind Kon and pours a "super soldier syrum" into his drink and puts a spider on his sushi. He explains to Secret that it's too try and give him super powers, but Secret points out all the flaws in Bart's flaws. He tries another idea, but Kon just ends up covered in paint. Kon grabs Bart and demands to know what he's doing, and Bart explains that he's trying to help Kon get powers again. Kon says that Cadmus has been working on his powers and tells him to stop. Bart agrees to, but asks if his powers made him stretchy. He attempts to stretch Kon, who proceeds to flip Bart. He then tries to force feed Bart sushi, who squirms and yells in protest. Kon asks if he has any other schemes, and Bart says that he doesn't. Kon then leaves and Secret asks what they'll do. Bart then looks around the room filled with his ideas of how to help Kon and tells her to throw out all the stuff they got.

Fanon
BartKon is smaller pairing among DC fans, but is pretty common among Young Justice comic fans. Many fans have pointed out that much of Kon's queer coding before the 2000's mostly stemmed from his relationship with Bart rather than Tim. As there are moments that hint that he may have had an attraction to him. Although the pairing has died out a bit, due to TimKon becoming more popular in the 2000's and the two's lack of shared page time since the Universe reset. Many fans of their relationship, regardless of if it was platonic or romantic, were disappointed with the Young Justice cartoon. As due to them being technically in different generations of the Team, they never end up hanging out and never become friends. Thus meaning that the Core 4 never gets formed.

On AO3, there are currently 130+ written works.

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