"okay but really? wonder boy?"
Request: Headcanons on Damian Wayne (Robin) and Jon Kent (Superboy) meeting Bobby Barnes (Wonder Boy)?
Note: Since @victoryfroststarlight requested it, I had to make it a priority - and even that was long. Also, I had to reread on Bobby and PLEASE love my new son, he's amazing.
Damian and Jon had finally become best friends - well, Damian called it trusted acquaintances but Jon knew better - and they'd gotten into the groove of working together due to their fathers.
They were even allowed out on missions together without supervision.
There were always some jokes of them finding a Wonder Girl to complete the generational trinity and sometimes the two felt like it was necessary that to be taken seriously as a duo, they had to become a trio like their family had done.
Dick and Donna didn't exactly have a Super but Jimmy Olsen was a trustee of the Supers and just as super as any Super that had ever well, super-ed. Jason had Artemis and Bizarro, Tim had Cassie and Conner, Bruce and Clark with Diana - Damian and Jon needed a Wonder if they were to be a proper group.
But when Diana arrived with a boy in tow, Damian and Jon didn't think that Bobby Barnes - a boy that looked way too fanboyish with his Wonder Woman themed skateboard - would ever be the key to it.
Not even when Diana named him as Wonder Boy.
"Seriously, Wonder Boy? Bit too 'distinctive'? Themyscira is women-only, you contradict everything they ever stood for."
"Damian! You can't say those kind of things!"
Jon always was the voice of reason out of the pair, a trait he'd seemingly inherited from Clark since Lois was often more chaotic.
Bobby himself didn't seem to fazed by Damian though, easily pairing him as the blunt type but he did often have an issue with Damian opening his mouth at the wrong times.
Jon and Bobby got on very well, both boys were easygoing and generally happy people, Jon fanboyed a lot over him being the first Wonder Boy unlike him and Damian who had predecessors while showing Bobby the ropes.
Jon also got excited for any shifts were Diana and Clark were covering the Watchtower or Hall of Justice as it meant for a chance to hang out with Bobby more - he even gave the tour of both after nagging Diana for ages to let him do it. It wasn't long at all before they became friends and went out on patrols together in Metropolis where Diana knew Clark would look out for Bobby and his rookie mistakes.
And by a lot, it meant insufferable.
Bobby had tried to be friendly with Damian at a more passive rate than he did Jon, recognising that Damian was a lot more guarded and closed-off but he didn't expect for Damian to blatantly ignore him whenever the two crossed paths.
He'd hoped it was just the way of the Bats as Batman himself was often very careful around what he said while Bobby - or anyone - was in the room. But Nightwing, Red Robin, Spoiler and Static were generally very friendly to him and even Orphan and Red Hood were known to give him a wave or a greeting when they saw each other.
But in reality it was because Damian was jealous, though the boy would never admit it. The son of Batman and grandson of Ra's Al Ghul could never be jealous of a Wonder.
Damian detested how easily Jon and Bobby had gotten along in comparison to him and Jon who argued and fought - he thought it was because it was both of them had ties to the trinity that they had fought but Bobby had Diana and the two still laughed and joked.
He was silently resentful when he saw or heard about the two on missions and it built up for a while before coming out in one huge speech after Superman and Wonder Woman had taken the two on a small space mission - nothing hard, it just allowed them a chance to take in the beauty.
Damian remembered Bobby looking surprised at the beginning before smiling, laughing about how he thought Damian hated him for nothing.
He remembered how Bobby apologised and asked for a chance to get to know Damian personally too on their own as he had done with Jon.
And Damian remembered his father telling him to make friends if he wanted to be sane in this world of heroism and he remembered how he simply told him to be at Gotham Clock Tower at midnight tommorrow and walked away.
And that was the start of a new trinity.
