#dickkoryweek2026

[lyckyf]

The language of love is touch

[maisy-woon]

‎Dickkory Week Day 2 - Good Morning

@dickkoryweek2026

Morning light shined across the room when Koriand'r finally opened her eyes.

‎She stretched, and her hair caught the sun. When she rolled over she realized every inch of her was being watched the whole time.

‎"Morning, Mrs. Grayson." Dick Grayson said with a loopsided grin. He was already up, propped on one elbow, watching her like he’d been doing it for a while.

‎Kory blinked at him. "Good morning, my love. You are staring again."

‎"Can you blame me?" He said grinning even more. "You literally glow every morning. I wake up and there’s a beautiful goddess right next to me. I'm the luckiest man in the world."

‎She could feel herself blushing.

‎"…Yes. That is accurate."

‎Dick snorted a quiet laugh. "Wow. Not even a little modest?"

‎"I do not see the purpose in denying the truth," she said, playing it cocky as she sat up and yawned. "Now I must bathe before I make us breakfast."

‎She’d barely moved before he reached out and caught her wrist. not hard, just enough to stop her.

‎"Hey," he said, voice dropping, still teasing but softer. "I’m not done admiring." He slid closer and wrapped his arms around her.

‎"You may continue after I return." She shrugged

‎Dick leaned in, right by her ear. "Or… I could come shower with you."

‎"Again? Must you always be this naughty every morning."

‎"Oh, I’m sorry. Am too weak to resist the hottest wife in the whole universe" he said, grinning again.

‎Kory laughed, blushing harder.

‎Then he stood and scooped her up, bridal carry and all, his grin getting even wider while she kept giggling.

‎"Best morning ever," he said, heading for the bathroom with her.

‎“You say that everyday.”

[dickkoryweek2026]

1 Month Until DickKory Week 2026

A reminder that there is only one month left before DickKory Week 2026 starts!

Our Prompts:

May 11 - Love Language/Gift

May 12 - Good Morning/Hobbies

May 13 - Injury/Angst

May 14 - Moonlight/Patrol

May 15 - Role Reversal/AU

May 16 - At the Beach/Vacation

May 17 - The End/Free Day

INFO/RULES

[rainbow-universe]

Love But Not In Love (Except Sometimes)

Dick loves Kory and Kory loves Dick. They're not in love with each other. Sometimes they kiss and hug and have sex, but they're not in love. Except when sometimes Dick is in love with Kory. It's fine if nobody else understands their relationship, because they do. DickKory Week 2026 Day 1 - Monday, May 11th Love Language || Gift (Non Ace) Aro Week 2026 - aro4aro friends with benefits

for @dickkoryweek2026 's event week this week!! and @nonacearo-week 's event!!

cross-posted on ao3

wc: <850

Dick's head was so far in the clouds as he moved around the kitchen, making dinner, singing and dancing to the music playing on his speaker, that he started (just slightly) when he caught sight of Kori leaning against the wall, smiling at him softly.

"Hi," he greeted.

"Hi," she repeated, smiling softly.

He took her in, in between stirring the pot on the stove and rhythmically chopping the food on the cutting board. She looked so… soft, domestic, in their apartment, wearing an old, thrifted band shirt and too short sweatpants that probably used to be his, curly hair a beautiful mess cascading down her back. She was relaxed and comfortable and he wanted to cuddle her, wrap around her like an octopus and fall asleep together. (He loved her.)

"Brought you something." She stepped forward to place a small object on the table.

He paused his movements to take a look. It was a short, round container with a familiar logo on the lid. He gasped and whipped his head up. "You didn't."

Kory was smiling at him. "Unscented."

"You know me so well. You're fantastic," he pouted at her. …Dick may have had a collection of candles. Just maybe. And sometimes he liked to light multiple and turn their apartment into a fire hazard (fire extinguisher always on standby), but too many scented ones gave him a headache, so his beloved friend and alien knew to get unscented ones. (She loved him.)

"Should I put it with the others?"

"Yes, please. Thank you!"

"Of course." She caressed his face before picking it up again and heading down the hallway.

"Love you!" he called after her.

"I love you, too!" she called back, he could hear the smile in her voice.

He continued his movements around the kitchen. Almost done.

When she returned she leaned her hip against the wall again. "Do you want help?" Kori asked.

He considered the question. "I'm good… but, we could have a movie night?"

Her pupil-less eyes brightened, glowing softly, understanding what he was suggesting. "I'd love to," she said. She floated over to the living room to gather all their blankets and pillows to create, for lack of a better word, a nest to cozy up in.

Dick soon finished with dinner and Koriand'r finished setting up the living room. They took their food, curled up in their nest and let a movie on the TV set the background noise, speaking quietly to each other and setting their dishes aside when they were done.

"I love you, Dick," Kori said and he leaned further into her.

He knew it like how warm he was from her skin and the blankets wrapped around them. He knew it like the bubbly, giddy feeling he got whenever she wore his ill-fitting clothes. He knew it from all their hugs and cuddles and affectionate words. Kori loved him and he loved Kori.

And he knew the way Kori loved him.

Through thick and thin, through blood and sweat and tears. Through hugs and sex and moving in together and not falling in love with each other. Through being strangers and teammates and friends and partners and partners. She loved him and he loved her. He was in love with Kori, but not in love with her.

It was his own expression of in love: an in love that didn't mean romantically, and wasn't solidly platonic. He'd looked up words and definitions once and alterous attraction had a nice ring to it. The nonbinary of romantic and sexual attraction. He didn't use the word much, but the feeling of knowing the word existed was nice.

Kori had similar feelings on the subject. She loved him deeply and had thought she was in love with him, a romantic kind, near the beginning of their relationship. But after learning more about how humans defined love and "falling in love" and "being in love" with someone… she'd come to the conclusion that that wasn't how she felt.

They'd gone through it together, figuring out their relationship, especially when everyone thought they were or expected them to be dating and in love with each other. But they weren't. Not the way people expected anyway.

But they loved each other anyways, it didn't matter what people thought, it was their relationship. Some days Dick was in love with Kori, while she was never in love with him. Sometimes they were dating, sometimes they weren't. Every once in a while they talked about the benefits of getting married. Occasionally they had sex, other times they didn't. They were roommates, they loved each other, they weren't in love with each other. (Most of the time.) It was their relationship and they understood what it meant to them, and what they meant to each other.

Dick loved his queer-platonic relationship and his queer-platonic partner. Sometimes he had a girlfriend, he always had a friend and right now he had a partner. He was happy.

"I love you, Kori," he replied.

thanks for reading!! feel free to rb and leave nice comments <3

[theknightofivanhoe]

Patrol for @dickkoryweek2026 or at least my own interpretation of the prompt

Whoever dealt poor Robin those nasty injuries and was about to finish him off obviously didn't expect to have to face some green-glowing righteous fury from an angry and protective bikini girl from outer space. Just one of many reasons the Boy Wonder loves his Starfire.

[spinnystick]

[maisy-woon]

Dickkory Week Day 4 - Moonlight

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[lyckyf]

love thinking that dickkory's LITERAL love language is french. my headcanon is that Dick knows french (idk maybe it's canon) and he would "teach" it to Kory. sometimes they sit and just start saying romantic things to each other in French. it makes me giggle a lot.